Less is most definately more where options are concerned

Having a good life I believe is about making sure you have options for you and your family. That way if you don't like something you can change it. Even the worst position in the world can be changed if you look at things differently and see what can be done differently. Too many times do I hear people complain that they can't do this or they can't do that. Me included!

The blocker to change and creating options is our inability to be open to new ideas or alternatives. A while back when I was pregnant and it was probably the pregnancy that wasn't helping, I felt very trapped in a certain situation. I couldn't see how for the life of me I was going to get out of it and I couldn't stand it.

Getting trapped in one train of thought starts to rule your thought processes. You put up walls around this idea and hang onto it for dear life. What changed for me and gave me more clarity was firstly I stopped worrying. After all I was pregnant and I didn't want to harm my baby. I then stopped waiting and hoping for this one thing to happen that I felt would be the change I needed, we needed. Then I started to think and feel differently. I started to look at things that were not necessarily alternatives but completely different ideas. It was like someone had turned on a light in my mind, or opened the windows and knocked down the partition wall. That was the impetuous I needed. After that everything started to fall into place. It seemed like my luck had changed. Some people call this luck I now call it creating your own options. Forgive me for being a little fuzzy on the context but I am trying to explain the feeling and thought rather than the event.

So what I think you need to do to create more options is be able to let go of what you have now, the thoughts, ideas and even the material stuff to some extent. You also have to think more long term than short term. This was my real problem. What you have now isn't necessarily what you will have in the future, you might have more you might have less. When you don't care so much about the things then you give yourself many more options for the future. It truly is a case of less is more. Go knock down them walls!