This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

Working on yourself is one of the greatest gifts, if not the greatest gift you can give yourself and the people around you.

I’ve been thirsty for personal expansion my whole life.

I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t curious about learning, my capabilities, and what could be possible.

As an adult in the last, let’s say 20 years, I’ve done the really important digging into things that were out of date and didn’t serve me anymore after I would find myself in repeating scenarios that weren’t what I wanted.

Some of the coaching I have experienced or situations that created this learning weren’t fun.

They weren’t extremely comfortable.

The contrast there produced powerful learning for me.

Yesterday, on the way to my parents’ house, I had baked a cake and picked up some things for brunch and was doing a routine call to my mom en route to let her know where I was, when I would be there, and that I forgot the pickles!

When she picked up, she told me my dad had fallen.

He was bleeding profusely.

“Should she call 911?”

I talked with her, kept her on the phone, and when I got there, yeah, he had his head back, lots of blood.

He had fallen on the ice outside, dutifully salting this treacherous icy side of the house.

It has always been a problem with water and ice dropping off of the gutters from above.

He went out to salt to make sure guests wouldn’t fall, and when he was done, he picked up the containers from the salt, was walking back, and slipt.

He caught himself the best he could.

He is pretty strong, but his face hit the ground on the ice and he ended up breaking ten bones in his face, his nose, his cheeks, his sinuses, and the palate, the roof of his mouth.

It was pretty serious, but not as serious as it could have been.

He doesn’t have any other problems, no brain hemorrhaging or skull fracture.

Years ago, this would have been a different scenario for me in my ability to support, help, communicate, and stay calm.

Because I have been working on myself and my understanding of the world and the universe for decades, I was able to go in there and be a source of support and help.

As often happens for me, my extended family is often gone when an emergency happens.

Two of my siblings who are normally around are on vacation.

Luckily another one is here, but typically that’s how it goes.

If you look in your life, you will notice.

One of the scenarios that has been repeating for a while, that I have been working on is that I’m the one that needs to be there.

I’m the one who is the hero.

I hate to admit that that is(was) the story.

It is better because I have two siblings in the area right now and support from others.

You could be saying, “Well, that just happens.”

Nothing just happens.

Everything is connected in this universe.

When you are going to the next level or in your life, when you could step back or when you are just about to step forward, just the perfect pressures arise, the pressures that can derail you.

For me, it used to be my family needed me, so I would pass or “have to” pass on something that was my next level. because my priority was my family.

Over time as those things have occurred, I made a conscious choice that “these” areas are my priorities.

I have room for all of them.

Now when they happen, my life doesn’t unravel.

I serve and still execute the other things in my life that are important because they are all important.

My dad is resting comfortably.

I am visiting him this morning.

Things are stabilized.

My sister was able to take my mom home with her last night and she is going to do that for a couple of nights.

It is a big situation, but it’s better than it could have been.

Because I have an ability through self-development and leadership training and caring about how I respond to things, I now am really good at being available and still able to take care of myself and my other commitments.

I’m using this today as a teachable moment.

My dad is is going to have a challenging time, but he’s got a really powerful mindset.

Mom is gonna be challenged because my dad is being challenged.

That’s will call on extra alertness and resourcefulness from me.

And I have it.

When you look at your life right now, what would you like more of?

What ways of being or characteristics could help you more, would make your life even better?

When you get under pressure, what stories or challenges have you noticed reveal themselves and have repeated themselves?

Inside that information is where we can take you further, where I can move you further if you are interested in getting some support. so when challenging things happen, they are part of life and you are able to navigate through without huge dramas or being in a place where you feel like you have to drop something important completely and take your foot off the pedal because you don’t have the bandwidth to to tend to all of it.

As you grow older, you have a capacity to keep increasing your bandwidth instead of making it smaller.

Sending you love.

Have a beautiful day.