If we know things don’t always go according to our plan, why do we get upset when that is exactly what happens?
You might suspect ‘things not going according to plan’ has been my experience this week. I had a plan. A good plan. A well thought out plan. It wasn’t an aggressive or unmanageable plan. It was reasonable…from my perspective. And it involved the participation of other people.
Well, full stop. Other people. There it is. The fly in the ointment, the wild card, the coup de grace…other people. How easy it is for MY plans to be ruined by other people. Why should that be a surprise…that life happens? People have other places to be or they get sick or there is a last minute something that creates a conflict or somebody dies or they decide to sit this one out or maybe they just forget.
That’s what happens in life…in my life and in the life of everybody else, too.
So I took a deep breath. Well, the first few were actually deep sighs. Kind of like ‘poor me’ sighs. But after that, I took a few more cleansing kind of breaths and I set aside my plan for today, and maybe tomorrow, too. I’ll pick it back up when we can get it done together.
Getting it done together is always a good plan.
Paula
