It’s All Good

Like so many kids, I was teased throughout childhood and even into adulthood. Not for being too fat or too skinny…I was teased for always being too nice, too giving, and the one most likely to be taken home to mom. A childhood friend once said I needed “b****” lessons.  A college friend once said “no one is ever that happy.”

The comments bothered me because it mocked what I liked to do and be in life. My mother always said things like “just kill them with kindness” and, at times, “you will do it and you will like it.” The latter quote was often given in a more stern voice but it resonates beyond childhood. Because there have been plenty of moments in my life that were not “happy.” No one likes to move away from friends. It’s not easy losing a parent or discovering your child has a medical condition. These are moments which have tested my philosophy but I still say I’m lucky and let’s pass around the lemonade.

If you choose to do what fits your interests and values, everything will fall into place.  Once your heart and your work are in alignment, all the adjustments within your home, finances or other areas of your life will start to fall into place and eventually will seem like they were always meant to be.

This value is not lost on my two girls. My oldest daughter fine tunes her revolutionary Pet Hospital Hotel business plan in an effort to keep families and ill pets together. She is growing up with a sense of empowerment to do something she loves because it has always been what she’s seen. And if my mom were here today she would say “Bravo! …That is a life well done.”