{"id":5519,"date":"2015-04-12T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2015-04-12T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:58:28","slug":"when-something-goes-wrong-in-your-life-just-yell-plot-twist-and-move-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/when-something-goes-wrong-in-your-life-just-yell-plot-twist-and-move-on\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen something goes wrong in your life, just yell \u201cPlot Twist\u201d and move on.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen something goes wrong in your life, just yell \u201cPlot Twist\u201d and move on.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all experienced times when our best laid plans are interrupted with some unexpected twist that completely changes everything. It can happen with major life situations like losing a job or having a relationship unexpectedly end, or it can happen with the smallest of situations like rain on a day you had a picnic planned. So when that happens what can you do?<\/p>\n

Well first let\u2019s acknowledge the fact that falling apart over it won\u2019t change anything. And stewing about it won\u2019t either. Although it can be seriously tempted to do both. But you have to resist the urge to go down that track. Instead you have to acknowledge to yourself the fact that \u201cThis just happened.\u201d Recognize is it not what you wanted and not what you planned, but it is definitely happening and so you now need to face that a new reality has replaced your old one. Resist the urge to look back. That doesn\u2019t exist anymore. Acknowledge that this new reality is what you must accept and deal with so we are going to start our thought process from this point forward.<\/p>\n

Next try and look at things with the proper perspective. Don\u2019t become overwhelmed thinking the world is ending\u2026it\u2019s not nearly that bad. This is one moment in time, not your entire life, and as big as it may seem right now there will come a point when you look back and be surprised you didn\u2019t see that in the moment.<\/p>\n

Look for the good in this new situation. There is a positive spin to every bad thing in life. A lesson to be learned. A take-away that improves us. Could this be opening the way for an even better option that you just didn\u2019t realize was available before? Could this be teaching you something that is going to make you even smarter and more successful in the future? Could this be pushing you out of your comfort zone to try something you would have been too fearful to attempt if not forced? Find the good \u2013 it is always there if you look hard enough.<\/p>\n

Find the humor in every \u201cPlot Twist\u201d that happens. When you can learn to laugh about things it can make everything seem better and it can make every burden feel lighter. Laughter and a hug can make every situation a heck of a lot easier to handle\u2026always.<\/p>\n

It was my darling daughter Ashley who shared the quote shared in today\u2019s blog with me. She is someone who lives exactly what the quote suggests. When life throws her a curve ball she always find the positive in the new situation and charges ahead as if it the best thing that ever happened to her. I am grateful for her example in my life.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is the start of a brand new week, and most likely our best laid plans will be subject to one or more \u201cPlot Twists\u201d that we don\u2019t expect, but this week let\u2019s start the week thinking of our plans as loose guidelines with the expectation that any changes that come are simply taking us in a much better direction than we could ever have planned ourselves\u2026.have faith \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen something goes wrong in your life, just yell \u201cPlot Twist\u201d and move on.\u201d We\u2019ve all experienced times when our best laid plans are interrupted with some unexpected twist that completely changes everything. It can happen with major life situations like losing a job or having a relationship unexpectedly end, or it can happen with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[839,168,174,500,101,46,6247,1677,63,2579,91,3098,3078,224,163,6243,96,6246,1066,1312,6244,178,665,6242,454,285,378,181,296,1709,77,6245,1745,1746,875,407,134,1039,6241,153,1050,27,112,81,6248,149,78,1507],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acknowledge","tag-adversity","tag-anxiety","tag-appreciation","tag-ashley","tag-attitude","tag-backward","tag-bad","tag-blessings","tag-burden","tag-change","tag-changes","tag-comfort-zone","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-course","tag-culture","tag-deal-with","tag-expectations","tag-expected","tag-face-reality","tag-faith","tag-forward","tag-guidelines","tag-hug","tag-humor","tag-improve","tag-laugh","tag-lesson","tag-look-back","tag-moment","tag-new-reality","tag-optimism","tag-optimistic","tag-options","tag-overwhelmed","tag-perspective","tag-plans","tag-plot-twist","tag-positive","tag-recognize","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-smile","tag-spin","tag-success","tag-time","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}