tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906394429294666027.post7965106192868458622..comments2023-06-06T07:17:05.680-05:00Comments on Life with the Kid(s): One of life's big questionsLizzy Qhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422111357244136889noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6906394429294666027.post-123131555608758212010-12-12T14:29:50.031-06:002010-12-12T14:29:50.031-06:00Hi Liz - Found your blog today and caught up with ...Hi Liz - Found your blog today and caught up with you and your fun family. Just wanted to comment on this particular entry, which is about advance planning while not knowing what might happen in the future. Tricky, I know! This is what I learned by the time I was 40 (sure wish I had known it earlier):<br /><br />You can do anything you want.<br />You can be anything you want.<br />You can live anywhere you want.<br />You can have anything you want.<br /><br />How? imagine, explore, learn, create a flexible plan, start implementing the plan with your eye on the changes that occur, alter plan as needed to reach the goal. <br /><br />I used this method to get from living in a perfectly fine house in a subdivision (but with a demoralizing view of the gray wall of my neighbor's garage 8 feet from my bedroom window) to an amazing house in the country that is wonderful in too many ways to count. My initial goal was simple: live someplace where I could see for miles when I looked out the window. It took a year of looking, but eventually, the HOUSE found ME. Like it was meant to be all along. <br /><br />Also...Meditate on the issue at hand. Think about all the aspects. While mediating, open your heart to God so He can see right in it. Ask for assistance, and give it up to Him. Help will come to you in the most unexpected ways. <br /><br />True story: Recently, I was in such an unhappy work situation, I didn't know what to do. I felt like I had tried everything I could think of to make it better. But, it was still awful, and getting awfuller by the day. I dreaded going to work, and when I came home, sometimes I cried about it. Very unlike me! One morning I was getting ready for work and feeling miserable about having to go there. I finished brushing my teeth and looked in the mirror, saw my miserable face and said this in my mind - Please God, You know what's in my heart. I don't know what to do. HELP ME PLEASE. I remember feeling like my soul was an open wound and I was asking for cool water to be poured into it.<br /><br />The next day, this is what happened:<br />1. Morning: I went to work and found out that the funding for my job was not going to be renewed. My job would end in 2 weeks.<br />2. I had lunch with a friend, who said she heard there was a research professor on campus who had money to hire someone for a year. I knew who that professor was, and he knew me.<br />3. I went to the Professor right after lunch, and asked him if the story was true, and he said, "Yes. Do you want a job in my lab for a year?"<br /><br />Long story short - I ended up there, and I am so happy you can't even imagine.<br /><br />Liz, I already think you are amazing, so it will not surprise me a bit when someday I find out that you got everything you ever wanted for you and your family. I hope you enjoy the journey and have lots of good stories to share along the way. I loved reading your blog today!<br /><br />JanieJanienoreply@blogger.com