What to do if your day is not going according to plan.

It is great to be organized and to have a list of things that need to be done each day. However, how do you react when something happens to throw your well intentioned plans out the window?

For most people the initial response is to feel stressed. This builds as the feeling of being outside of control takes place. Fears are then sparked. Fear of not enough time perhaps or bills might not be paid. It doesn't matter what the fear, they begin to seep through your system like a virus slowly taking over. Stress and anxiety grow like a creeper beginning to cover a wall.

Many things in life can be controled. Occasionally a spanner is thrown in the works and it is at that time a choice needs to be made. The choice is to let go and accept!

If your day has become disrupted from how you wanted it to be or how you had planned it to be, then the first thing to do is recognize it is out of your control. What is in your control is how you choose to think and ultimately how you choose to respond. Next find a way to express your frustration by either sharing it with someone or writing it down or simply saying your frustration out loud. This action taken enables you to acknowledge the truth of how you are feeling, rather than pretending and denying. It starts the process of taking it out of your system.

The next thing you need to do is recognize that you cannot control what is unfolding so simply embrace that fact! If you keep complainging, all you are doing is denying the fact that you cannot change what is taking place. This is the moment of surrender. Ultimately everything happens for a reason and sometimes you cannot see that reason at the time.

With each step taken you are bringing yourself back in to the present. The now moment. Accept that what needs to be done, will be done in another now moment. Face what is taking place now and move through it quicker by being present with it.

If you have a very clear vision of your ultimate outcome and you have the faith, not fear, that the ultimate outcome will take place, then why stress?

Every moment is an opportunity to learn, to grow, to relax. Relax the grip of expectation!

As you do this, you will begin to re-align with your flow and open up your vision to what opportunities or gifts might be on offer. What you wanted to do or what you wanted to achieve will still be there for you regardless of what is taking place now.

The thing you can control, is letting go of always having to be in control.

Fear belongs in the past. Faith is for the future. The greatest gift of all is being in the present. After all, things are not always as they might seem!