Sometimes when you stop and you look at your life, all you see is a big mess. You see the mistakes, the problems, the catastrophe! It can be overwhelming to try to dig yourself out of things that life has thrown our way. And yes, it can be worse when we cause the issues ourselves. So, bottom line is.. Forgive yourself and move on.
I don’t know about you but anytime that I have started a big project around the house, whether it was cleaning or reorganizing a room, I seemed to make a bigger mess in the beginning of the project than when I started. Then I turn around and look and think that maybe I shouldn’t have started this.
One of the things that I have found in talking to most women is that when we look at the whole picture it can be overwhelming. When this happens, we don’t feel like making one small change will change anything with our situation, so we just stop and don’t do anything.
Life is kind of like this camper. After you live in it for a while you notice that things are not as bright and shiny as they used to be. Things have gotten worn down and beat up. So then the question becomes are you ready to start working on it a little bit at a time or are you just going to sit in it the way it is?
Life is a process. Everything that you do takes one step at a time, even if you don’t realize it. The steps have just become so natural that you think that it just happened.
Taking pieces apart to work on them can be daunting. You know that at least it worked before. Now you are taking apart and messing with it (even though it is to make it better). Sometimes, you think that you might make it worse than it was. Pretty soon, you realize that you are making progress and the changes are for the better.
As you sit back and you look at the few small things that you accomplish, you realize that you can make changes. You can make things better for yourself. That you are valuable and can do more than you ever thought. Things aren’t perfect, but they are better because you chose to make changes. To fix one thing at a time. It hasn’t been as bad as you thought because you had people step up and help and what seemed too big to handle is getting done one step at a time.
Then one day, you look around and all the broken pieces are fixed. You are surrounded by a community that supports you and what you thought was trash and ready to be thrown out was actually a beautiful piece of functional art that has a purpose. Then you get to go out and help others do the same. This is Just Breathe 365. Helping women take all the broken pieces and put them back together to make something beautiful.