What To Do When the Hits Keep Coming
I was recently reminded that when the hits keep coming that’s exactly when you double down on trust!
A few weeks ago I was driving down a busy street in my neighborhood on the way to a medical procedure when a mural on the side of a building jumped out at me…
“Grow through what you go through.”
Message received.
Rewind to the start of the new year when I was a few days into a 20-plus day hospital stay with my daughter after a major surgery for her chronic medical condition when I had to get to work switching all of my medical specialists for my chronic health condition due to an insurance change.
After 25 years with one transplant center, I had to switch to the one across town. All I could keep thinking was,” Really?!? Now?!? In the midst of everything else I have to deal with this – I feel completely fine!” But I pressed on in order to have my care team “all set” should I need them…but I KNEW I wouldn’t.
I still felt like a victim of the system. I felt put out and I complained. Alot.
You would think after all these years helping clients see how life happens for them
and not to them I would remember that trust makes life better.
It took awhile but I eventually came to the conclusion that maybe having a second set of eyes on this second gift of life was exactly what I needed.
And it was! Although I felt fine and all my “numbers” looked good, the protocol my new transplant center follows detected an active rejection of my eight-years out kidney transplant.
Life happens for me.
After an extra procedure and test to determine the best course of treatment my new care team and I are on the path to help this transplant have a long, healthy life! If I hadn’t been kicked in the butt to make the switch the rejection could have gone undetected for a long time and potentially damaged the kidney and shortened its life span.
So what can you do when the hits keep coming in life?
Remember that:
* Intentional growth requires deliberate practice (I may have saved myself some bellyaching if I had kept this front of mind!)
* Life is happening for you not to you (and this doesn’t always negate the suck in the moment).
* Trust makes life better because you are able to catch the hit and respond in your personal power to whatever is thrown your way.
Playing with the Author
Now I am no good at catching softballs…or throwing them…but I am great at helping clients discover how they want to respond to what comes their way in life. Ready to play catch?