Lets make a Change!!

February has been a month of self discovery that I not only needed but didn't even expect. It seems with each passing day another rock was overturned forcing me to take a new look into an area of my life I hadn't planned or felt was adequate right where I was. To say I have been pushed to new limits may be an understatement.

I can tell you many of the discoveries have been for the better. I have figured out so much about myself over several conversations with friends and tears about what lead up figuring out what choices I need to make next. I can tell you have I examined my role not only in my family but how that relates to my life professionally and in the community.

I can tell you that these new life lessons have both been personal and professional. I would love to share more on some of them, but many are still in the works at his point of time would be inappropriate to share the details at this point in time.

I think a key to living a happy life is learning from our failures. Some of these are evident and easily detected. Others are deeper and require a more in depth look. I know in my case some of the choices I have made revealed a pattern of behaviors that I was unaware I was consistently doing that was sabotaging certain areas of my life. On top of that, I tried "filling" a void in some areas of my life by "overflowing" other areas. Do you do the same? I think we all do to a point focus on what we do well, and down play what our weakness' are. But is this a healthy way to look at life? If we don't face these areas head on, will we ever improve on them and find a proper balance of happiness in all ares's of our life?

I challenge you to take a look into your own lives. Take a close look, is there a pattern of one area in your life that seems to be unfulfilled? Career? personal? family? finance? Be realistic and honest with yourself. It's easy to blame others for our problems or things that have went wrong in our lives, yet sometimes its harder to take a look at the choices we made leading up to each of the failures that have plagued our lives.

If something pops out at you as it did in my life, look at setting realistic small goals in changing the behavior. Think baby steps in repairing it. Do not set yourself up for more failure.

I've heard time and time again that acknowledging and admitting the problem is the first step in changing the habit. Lets make a change in bettering ourselves and in return this big old world we live in.. It all starts with you and Me!!