Three of Swords Rx: Playing the Hand You’ve Got
Sometimes, you have no choice about the specifics of a loss. Instead, your choices are about how you frame it and what you focus on. Make good use of that choice this coming week. It will help.
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Sometimes, you have no choice about the specifics of a loss. Instead, your choices are about how you frame it and what you focus on. Make good use of that choice this coming week. It will help.
We cannot tell what’s coming. Only that SOMETHING is coming. Take this time to recover, heal, and get stronger. That’s how you get ready to move forward.
Acknowledge your burdens certainly, but also acknowledge your areas of contentment. Let those areas that don’t measure up serve to highlight the possibilities for where you could go. That high-level perspective can help you see more clearly better outcomes and make moves in the desired direction.
Sometimes, when life becomes difficult and demanding people show up in a way you may not have imagined beforehand.
These folks can serve as lighthouses, helping to orient, leaving you feel less lost and alone. Look for those lighthouses next week.
Don’t fight all the fights. Only fight those battles that really matter to you. whatever battle you may consciously choose, keep your behavior firmly rooted in your own principles, ethics, and sense of rightness. Save your energy for what counts.
Handle the present moment, what’s in front of your right now (because that’s all you can clearly see anyway), and let the Universe sort the rest. (The Universe always does a much better job of sorting than our anxious brains do, after all. Have faith, Grasshopper.)
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