This is NOT what I planned! Benefits from the unexpected….

Hi, I was just stepping out to go and get some lunch, managed a few steps and then suddenly the sky went all grey. A huge crack of thunder and lightning, like it was almost immediately overhead and I went rushing back indoors drenched in rain, as you can see. The monsoon rains arrived.

Well today’s one in Bali, and how often does this happen to us in life, is what I started thinking about. We have a plan, we have an idea, something maybe we want to do, some way we want something to happen in our life and then life happens, different from our plan, it changes, everything not exactly what we think it should be.

We have two choices in this moment – we can either react, or we can respond. Now react is as the word sounds, we re-act; we do what we’ve done before, the same as the past. This unfortunately usually comes from, it’s a fixed mind, it’s not an open mind, it’s repeating, we’re redoing something before, it’s not looking open to new potentials. Or the other option is, we can respond to it, which is immediate – we’re there, we’re in the moment, we’re looking at the situation, we’re evaluating from what it is, rather from the past, from our previous thought and plans, and then taking the best opportunity we can from that moment.

So for me, I came back indoors from the streaming rain and then nothing else was going to happen for a little while, while this passed, so I sat down, and I’ve done some more writing on my book and I’ve filmed this video for you. Which may not have happened otherwise if I hadn’t got caught in the cloudburst.

So when you look at your day, when you look at the situations that happen, look at how you meet them.

Do you respond to them, or are you reacting from the past? And as much as possible this is the journey, to try and respond and see what amazing opportunities can come to you in your day that are not what you planned, and not what you expected.