When A U-Turn Is A Good Thing

The tougher economy has particularly hit retail with the smaller clothing stores and some consumer electronics stores. More often than not lately we are seeing those "going out of business" signs. Sad, yet true. But businesses have births and deaths and nothing is guaranteed to last forever. Many Realtors and Mortgage professionals have packed it in this past year in a difficult climate. But all is not lost. The going out of business sign could be a symbol for

  When A U-Turn Is A Good Thing.

Corporate jobs could be lost. Changes can take place in our relationships with parents passing on, significant relationships dissolving for one reason or another, people moving to a new empty nester or senior time of life. This is "not necessarily" all bad. Is there sting with change? Sure. But there are lessons at each point and stage of change to learn as well.

If you can basically believe that life is good you have to see "beyond" the going out of business sign in your life. You have to "look forward" to the next stage. They say sometimes we look backward so long at the closed door we don't even look forward to see the new door opening.

Despite some of us that might tell others that we are leading hum drum lives and that we are the same this year as last, do you realize five years from now you could be living a completely different life? Now that might scare you, but think of it as leading an even better life. Better physical shape, more happiness, more growth for yourself. It is possible with your working smart and hard and goals you set for yourself in many areas of your life.

Don't look at U-turns as going backward to whence you came, but "new" directions. Like little "wrong way" signs, or that you were done with that part of your journey. God is OK with U-turns. Are you? Granted, change is not comfortable.

Life can only be understood looking backward but MUST be lived going forward. Come to a point of acceptance with U-Turns you make in your life. Be confident you are on the next "right way" path and that more happiness is in store for you over that next hill.