Wake Up Call! – Responding to Surprises
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RESPONDING TO SURPRISES
A surprise that upends my plans reveals what grounds my life and choices.
I recently flew to a speaking engagement and emailed the organizer to say I was in town and inquired if there were in any further details I needed for the event. The response was a curt email telling me the event had been cancelled! I was annoyed and disappointed.
I could have chosen to allow my annoyance to fester but instead wondered what was presenting itself to me through this surprise.
A dear friend was available for dinner that evening and our catch-up time was a feast. I left that city with the annoying surprise making was for a surprise of delight.
The experience has resulted in my reflecting on how different my response was from what it might have been at one point in my life. I was reminded of the gift of choosing not to give power to the annoying upending surprises and instead be mindfully awake to the gift revealed in the circumstance.
Call-to-Action:
Respond to upending surprises:
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Acknowledge and express your reactions
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Be awake to the veiled gift in the surprise
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Choose to embrace the gift
Notice how your compass shifts when you diminish the power of the annoying surprise and become present to the gift.
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©2013 Robert V. Taylor
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