Your Flight Plan Has Been Rerouted

A good few years ago, my wife and I decided it was time to pack up and see what there was in the rest of the world. It wasn't because we had had any traumatic violent crime experience in South Africa, nor were we expecting the imminent outbreak of civil war, we purely desired change in our lives. Incredibly, change was provided, not in the format we were anticipating, but change nonetheless. After a long 24hr trip we found ourselves back in South Africa, feeling a bit like naughty children who had been caught out by our parents and had been sent to our rooms.

Why am I sharing this with you? Well, I believe at some point or other we all desire and even need change in our lives. The change we desire isn't always the change we receive. What you do in that circumstance is purely up to you. You can be miserable about your outcome, fight it and try and force the change you so desired to come about or accept where you have landed and make the best of your circumstances. I am not for a moment implying that we be complacent and accepting in all that happens to us, but just to recognise those situations that are beyond our control and work within them to extract the best possible outcome. Our relocation journey, took me out of a comfort zone and enabled me to enter the consulting world, where I have been for 13 years now. Do I regret what happened to us back then? Not for an instant. Do I wonder how different our lives would be now? Of course, but then I also wonder if  yesterday I had toast rather than muesli for breakfast, how different my day could have been...

Change is inevitable. Sometimes we initiate it and sometimes it is imposed on us. We are fortunate enough to be so versatile that we can adapt to our environment. It is the attitude with which we adopt that can determine the level of happiness through that change. Look for the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, it is always there, you just have to keep on moving forward and looking. You may be only a few steps from the turning point, if you give-up now all the effort would have been in vain.

My journey is far from over and I am still expecting so much still to change. No matter how much I plan and map out this journey, there will still be those unexpected changes that have to be dealt with. I hope I am always able to see the positive in all the changes.