A Catalyst to Grow or Beating Myself Up?

6. Will I use this situation as a catalyst to grow and evolve OR will I use it to beat myself up?
This is another good one! Things happen in our lives, not always the way we would want them to happen... And sometimes we don't even want some things to happen. But, guess what... they do happen! That is often beyond our control. What is within our control is what we do with it! Can we accept that right now, whatever is happening, is exactly what is supposed to be happening, and that somewhere in all of that mess and suffering, there is an opportunity for us to grow and evolve and transform? It's all in our perspective... We can look at things as if they are being done to us and we have no control and we should have made different choices and we should have... and we should have... Or we can shift our perception, shift our lenses and look to see what this experience can teach us today.

This is a challenge!! At least for me... But I'm beginning to recognize that I have a choice in each and every situation and encounter and interaction... I am the one who can decide how I am going to react, how I am going to hold things... how I will interpret things... I can interpret things as being "crappy" or I can look for something else in there... a learning... a deeper meaning...