Navigating Life's Storms: Why Giving Up Is Not the Answer

While I would love to be telling you all about my fabulous trip to Provence in France, that will have to wait another week.

While I would love to be telling you all about my fabulous trip to Provence in France, that will have to wait another week.

Unfortunately, I caught Covid on the trip home and have spent the better part of the last week in bed, hoping to feel better each day. Finally, the fever has past, the body aches and headache seem to be gone and I’m hoping to return to my regularly scheduled life very shortly.

While scrolling on Facebook, I saw a post with a woman with her head in her hands, thinking to herself, ‘I just can’t do this anymore’. We can relate, can’t we?

After that momentary pause, she gets up and does what needs to be done. We can all relate to that as well, can’t we?

While struggling with Covid, I still had to get up and feed my father and administer his pills, which meant dragging myself out of bed, descending two flights of stairs and doing what was necessary. Giving up was simply not an option. This is what we do. This is our work.

Cheers to keeping on going!

Try this ONE thing

When it feels too difficult to keep going (we all have those moments), remember that you won’t always feel like this. And remember that you have accomplished great things and you will again.

Want to experience coaching? I like to start with a deep, get-to-know-you conversation to see if we are right for each other. Sometimes we talk for one or two hours at no charge. I have no goal except to bring about transformation. Together we work on the lies, the self-deception, the fears of the power you perceive to be outside yourself. We work on your on your difficulties in making decisions and your inability thus far to make bold choices in life and to follow through and trust yourself completely to do so.

The irony for some people is that the very thing that they want the coaching for (an indecisive, half-hearted life) is what’s keeping them from deciding whether to get coaching.

When you’re ready, reach out @ karen.laidlaw.theONEthing@outlook.com. Meanwhile, enjoy the blog!