Deep Breaths

I had someone say to me a couple of weeks ago to take a deep breath, it will all work out the way it supposed to.

Problem is I’m a control freak, fully admit it, fully embrace it. So when I have no idea how something is going to work out, I start planning, I want to plan for every possible outcome that there could be. Problem is that the outcomes are never what I have planned for.

I spend so much time and energy into planning outcomes that never happen, you think I would have figured out by now that no matter how much I want to control the outcome of something, the outcome has already been set in motion.

Yes, how we react to the outcome, how we handle what is put in front us is up to us. I learned over the years that sometimes, a lot of times, you just have to take that deep breath and let it roll out.

It is not easy – especially for a self proclaimed control freak, I want to jump in fix what I can, plan the outcomes, and avoid the hurt if possible. See that is always the end game for me.

Avoid the hurt, I hate seeing anyone hurting and I hate not being able to fix it for them. So I will do everything in power to make sure that they are not hurt, even if that means that I take on more than I should, I will do it so that we can avoid the hurt.

So how do you fix this? you don’t. You take those deep breaths and try to let go of the control and let things fall into place and work from there. Sometimes it is so much harder to do than other times. But it is all we can do.

Until Next Time,

Juli