When Bad Things Happen

… your work is to make your life BETTER because of it.

End of story.

In life you always have a choice. A choice to either fall into the victimhood of the “bad” situation or you can muster up the energy to pick yourself up and transform the “bad” into something even better.

The choice to either let the situation destroy you or strengthen you is always yours. How you look at a situation determines its power over you. And how you respond to a situation determines the quality of your next life experience.

All bad experiences only happen to bring you to a better and higher place. The difficult situations are the real gifts – that’s where the real learning/growing takes place. The happier situations are just the rewards, there is no real growth during those periods.

When you can learn to pick yourself up after every fall, dust yourself off and keep going – the best way you know how – the universe always responds in kind and the rewards are tenfold. When you work towards your highest outcome, the universe will work with you to help you achieve that outcome. But when you slump into the lower outcome, it will let you sit there alone in your misery.

Do you want to rise up and live your best life? Keep searching for the higher place. Reframe all situations so that your life can be on the up-and-up. You will be given every assistance along the way as long as you are walking the higher side of your path.

When bad things happen, it is your job to make things better for yourself – any way possible. When you can get into the habit of becoming better for having had those experiences, the universe will bring you everything you desire. The choice is always yours.

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Bad Things Happen to Good People

… and they happen everyday.

Does it seem as if you are always getting the “short end of the stick?” Does it seem that the harder you work, the more you are tortured? If you are feeling this way, it is important to see that, yes, bad things do happen to good people. But more often than not, they happen for a specific reason – to bring you to a better place. 

You can spend your life lamenting situations and feeling bad for yourself as if you are being unfairly punished, but what does that afford you? It only spirals you downward in a negative frenzy where you continue to attract more “bad things” into your life.

Remember life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you. Life happens for you to learn. The wisest amongst us learn that we are not being victimized, but that there is a lesson here and once we grasp the lesson, the sun begins to come out again.

It’s not that bad things happen to good people, it is that good people know how to respond to bad things and subsequently know how to turn those situations around for the better.

Ultimately, it is not what happens to you in life, but how you react to what is happening to you. If a bad thing is happening to you, instead of falling into a victim pattern, choose to see the lesson. Know that you deserve better and are worthy of it – trust in that. That is all that is required of you. Know that goodness is always rewarded because good is its own reward. You cannot control what happens but again, you can control the way you react to it. Good people are conscious, they know how to “change their luck.” It is the nature of duality and karma – everything has its own equal and opposite affect.  When you learn to turn around the bad situations, you will inherently bring about the opposite – the good situations. 

Read more inspiration in Donnalynn’s new Book, “Life Lessons,” click here.

If you would like more information on Emotional Wellbeing and Life Coaching Sessions with Donnalynn, click here.

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