Life has been really crazy lately but what\u2019s crazy is that its not for any of the reasons I would have expected this time of year. I thought I would be spending the last few weeks doing Christmas shopping and preparing for the holidays and trying to wrap things up at work so I can take time off for the Christmas holiday break.<\/p>\n
But so far I haven\u2019t had time to do any Christmas shopping, I haven\u2019t gotten anything prepared for the holiday and I haven\u2019t been able to touch my normal stack of work emails or things to be done because I have been spending all of my time on something I never would have imagined I\u2019d be spending my time doing\u2026Just when I thought my life was becoming a little more predictable it has become anything but.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been spending all of my time trying to help fix something. It isn\u2019t my job to fix it and I\u2019m not at all responsible for fixing it, so then why the heck am I spending so much time trying to fix it?! Yeah, that\u2019s the question I have been asking myself\u2026<\/p>\n
And then I remember a quote that reads:<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Trust me when I say there are times that I really wish I didn\u2019t see things the way the quote expresses, but the fact is that whenever I see something that truly matters not working properly and I know I have the skills and ability to fix it, I simply can\u2019t help myself \u2026I can\u2019t walk away from it until I have first given it all I\u2019ve got to try and fix it and make it right again\u2026although sometimes I really wish I could just shrug my shoulders and walk away, but I can\u2019t\u2026it\u2019s just not in me to do that.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve also found that when you find yourself walking down a particular road in life that you never expected to and after you have worked your guys out to get to the end of that road where things are fixed you inevitably find yourself reaching the end of the road facing a fork ahead, and now you must decide whether you will now take the road to the left or the road to the right\u2026 because heaven knows you aren\u2019t capable of standing still.\u00a0 You have exhausted the road leading up to this fork and now it\u2019s time to choose.<\/p>\n It\u2019s usually when you get to that point where you are at the end of a long road and you are facing a fork you become keenly aware that:<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you least expect it something happens that makes you realize that God\u2019s up to something.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n God\u2019s definitely been up to something in my life lately because he\u2019s brought me down an unexpected road and I am ready to choose which way to go. I recognize that once I pick whether I will turn right or left that I will be leaving this road behind me, but as Socrates once said, \u201cThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t be afraid of leaving a road you’ve come down behind. Rest assured that you did all you could do there. It is now time to turn your attention to what lies ahead…there is a new road ahead with incredible beauty to be seen, and you just never know what exciting places this new road is going to take you to next!<\/p>\n Make your choice and start walking\u2026. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Life has been really crazy lately but what\u2019s crazy is that its not for any of the reasons I would have expected this time of year. 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