day 79 PIVOTING

If you want to make a fresh start then you have got to start from where you are, no matter where you are.

That's easier said than done. Because the mind-environs of these two places don't match.

But unless you find a way to make them conducive the fresh start will be a non-starter.

And one will always find oneself wallowing in a place that they don't want to be, wishing that they could be somewhere else, but unable to take that first step that will jumpstart their journey to a new beginning.

This applies to all aspects of life -emotional, physical and spiritual.

Someone taught me a little trick that can be used to pivot me from the unhappy place to a happy place; from the place that I don't want to be to the place that I want to be; from a hopeless place to a place of hope.

It goes something like this: When you are in a storm look for the eye of the storm where it is calm. Translated into layman's language (my language) it would mean, no matter how bad the place is where you are, try and look for one thing to appreciate and focus on that. That is your pivoting point. Once you find it latch on to it and within no time you will be on your way to where you want to be.

My day couldn't have gotten any worse. After a long and bad day at work I got back to my lonely, gloomy hotel room. I was this close to losing it. It was definitely not a place that I wanted to be -physically, emotionally and spiritually. It was a complete disconnect from my self.

As I sat there on my queen size bed in a lovely hotel room, with the TV running on mute, and room filled with silence and the flashes of fluorescent light from the television screen, I began looking for my pivoting point.

And I found it in this fork sitting on my dinner plate. There was something beautiful about it -the clean lines, the minimalistic feel to the image, the reflection - it was beautiful. Out came my camera and I began clicking the pics. The more I appreciated what I saw the more I saw what I could appreciate.

And within five minutes, I found more things to appreciate in the room -more and more things that made me happy. The problems still remained, but now I was in a better frame of mind to find solutions.

I realized, no matter how bad a situation you are in, you can find an escape route by finding something even as small as a button to appreciate.