I'm not happy about it.
I'm not happy about it.
Just a minute here..I need a smile.
It’s happens to everyone at least once in their lifetime, possibly more. I know it’s happened to me more times than I care to admit. That old disappointment.
I was hoping for that job promotion. I wanted to get the lead part in the community drama program. I needed to make those sales.
When we face disappointment for what doesn’t happen, what do we do with this? Because in truth, I’m not happy about it and neither are you. Everyone has two choices when we don’t get what get we’ve hoped for, prayed for, worked for. DREAMED for.
Choice one-become bitter and angry and stomp around like a spoiled child throwing a temper tantrum, taking it out on everyone around us.
Or………..we can be grateful this could be the building block for something else. If I didn’t get the job or promotion I wanted, what else could I do instead? Change careers, apply someplace else, work harder or smarter for that promotion, even acknowledge that maybe the promotion would’ve been bad for me and my family by taking me away from them even more. Or cause me ill health due to the extra stress it would’ve put me under. Not good if I had gotten it (what I wanted).
Instead, I can be satisfied (or even grateful) that I didn’t get that job, or that promotion, or the lead in the community drama program. Because although I felt I really needed it or wanted it, maybe it wasn’t right for me. I can’t see that right now as disappointment tends to cloud our vision and judgement. But in a little while, I’ll look back and see the truth. I’ll see how it would’ve hurt me instead of helped. And I’ll be satisfied then, that it went the way it did. When we’re disappointed, we can’t wallow in it. But we CAN stand up and find something good to do, think, and be. We can be better than the disappointment!
There is a reason you have your mind and your life. Those are both incredible gifts. Find a way to use them for good, and you’ll SMILE from all the good. Guaranteed!
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