imageWhen was the last time life gave you a bitter jolt? If I may call it…a wake up call!

Everyone wants their life to move smoothly. Everything has to go as planned. Especially for those of us who love surprises…but hey! The nice ones!
No one likes or wants unpleasant events in their life when they least expect it!

Losing a job, getting a health scare, getting ditched by someone we completely trusted, getting robbed or cheated. The first question that arises in the mind is…why? Where did I go wrong? Why is this happening to me? Just when I thought life was on track….BANG!! A big brick falls out of nowhere and knocks the S**** out of me!!

Ever had such things happenining in your life?

“LOL! Are you kidding me Seema? Of course I’ve had these big and small setbacks…so many times in my life” you may say…and I will heartily agree. Because I know, if we are alive, if we have aspirations, if we are trying to grow, it will never be a smooth elevator ride, but more like a snakes and ladders game where you are going up and down, till you get to where you really want to go.

So why the h*** does life have to be this unpredictable?

Well, look at it this way. How amaizing a snakes and ladders game would be without the snakes and ladders ( oh! I don’t mind the ladders, you may say, LOL) right? How interesting and stimulating would any game be with no hurdles, no challenges and no surprises!! Right?

I would hate such a game!!

Then why do we expect a life without challenges? That’s because the way we look at our life and the way we look at a game is different. We take our lives too seriously! If we were to look at life also as a fun filled challenging game, we would slowly learn to enjoy and laugh at every setback. Once we look at our problems as if they were “challenges” set in front of us to prove our intelligence, capability and will power, we would be in an empowered position to learn from these setbacks and elevate our lives to a higher level.

Life is all about growth, progressing, being better today than we were yesterday, in any way that we choose. If God was not kind enough to throw these challenges at us, we would stay where we are , not feeling the need to breakthrough to the next level!

Rescently, a friend of mine had a terrible health threat!! That thankfully turned out to be a false alarm! But hey, a few days of uncertainty and she seems to have turned into a new leaf!

When I asked her about what she learnt from this experience, she told me that she realised that she still had so much to do! That her life had not even begun!! and it became clear to her about who are those people who really matter to her! That she needs to make the best of every moment she has and and last but not the least, that she has to take care of her health and take it to the next level.
One health scare and she realised that she has to now breakthrough to the best of health!!

So thank God for these setbacks! They are not here to knock us down but to eventually help us rise to levels we never knew we were capable of reaching!!

Happy journey my friends!! Enjoy every moment of this bumpy ride! Life is an exciting present! Happy surprises or a nasty ones…every surprise is worth it’s weight in gold!

Bon voyage!!

~Seems~

(C) Seems Shenoy. Life & success coach. Bangalore, India.

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