Double and Triple Trouble
When the unexpected happens, does disappointment bring you down?
I really prefer that my challenges come in very small sizes rather than as great big ones. It doesn’t hurt as much and I won’t have so far to fall!
We all have disappointments and challenges from time to time. There is practically no way to anticipate when we will have to face some unexpected frustration, and usually no way to avoid an uncomfortable encounter with some incompetency.
When the unexpected happens, disappointment has the power to totally bring us down. Or really reveal what we’re really made of and maybe even develop our character in ways that we hadn’t expected. Whether or not it turns out for the best, all depends on the conscious choices that we make in every single moment.
I have found that talking about a problem or rehashing it with friends seldom makes it better. Doing that actually increases the stress.
For me, writing it down, using Emotional Freedom Techniques or Access Consciousness, and then releasing it usually brings more peace of mind and much more clarity about the situation.
For your amusement, I’m sharing a story below about a challenge I faced. I bet you can relate.
Do you have a story about disappointment, persistence and surrender? I’d love to hear from you. I invite you to LIKE my Your Pathway to Empowerment Facebook page with a click HERE and share your story with me there.
A Blender and a Blend of Disappointment, Persistence and Surrender
In this true story, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent parties in this blender family who suffered from ‘blender trauma.’
What would morning be without a smoothie from the trusty old blender? Many, many years ago, my husband, Bill, and I discovered the greatest anti-aging secret of all is a smoothie made with super foods like blueberries and bananas plus Dr. Richard Schulze’s health vitalizing green foods.
For years and years, each day I dutifully beat our old blender to a pulp, adding the magic ingredients with abandon as I made our super duper smoothies. Never mind that the blender was so loud that my husband ran from the room whenever I turned it on, or that it was a miserable “blankety blank expletive” to clean! I never coddled our old blender, it never complained, nor did it ever stop mid-smoothie.
Unfortunately, its rubberized gears finally wore out and we were forced to acquiesce to the grueling chore of hunting for a new member of our kitchen family. We had our eyes on the king of blenders with an Australian accent, whose name will not be mentioned! And, fortunately, the great king of blenders arrived just as the “rubber” on our trusty old blender wore down to the nub.
I opened the box and there it was—a thing of beauty! It was sleek. It was shiny. And, it was SOLID! Then and there I fell in love! I filled the container with the magic ingredients and turned it on.
My husband didn’t run out of the room! The king of blenders was QUIET and it made such a beautiful smoothie! And even better, it was EASY to clean! What more could a girl want from a blender?
I was in blender heaven for three whole days, and then the unthinkable occurred. I turned on the sleek and shiny king of blenders and NOTHING happened! It simply would not work. Not at all. Horror of horrors! It simply sat on the counter and looked at me, filled with all those yummy magic ingredients.
Well, a blender family HAS to have a blender and I’m persistent. I figured this sleek and shiny thing of beauty must have somehow been damaged during shipping or maybe it endured some sort of problem at the assembly plant. So, back to the store it went.
After packing, carrying and exchanging because a blender family must have a blender, I arrived home with another beautiful blender, and once again, fell in love with sleek and shiny No. 2. This blender worked fine the first day, and the next morning I was optimistic that our blender troubles were behind us. I filled the container with all the magic ingredients and plugged her in. I turned her on and NOTHING! Blender No. 2 simply did not respond.
Now, I’m a very patient person and I’m VERY persistent. I WANTED THAT blender! So, back to the store I went once again for the THIRD ‘brand shall not be named’ blender. I was certain that ‘the third time will be the charm!’
Two days later, after making a beautiful smoothie, I decided it needed just a little more blending to top it off and I pushed the smoothie feature and . . . NOTHING! Absolutely nothing happened!
I beat the you know what out of the old blender for at least a dozen years and it never complained and it never, ever, just quit on me!
But now that I know what I’ve been missing all my life—a real blender with a big motor—I have no choice but to go back to the store yet again. Yes, the sales staff is now calling me by my first name and they’re aware that I refuse to coddle a blender!
When I show up at the store for the fourth try, both “Lindas” encourage me to get the “bigger” blender of the same brand. I balked. It didn’t have the glass pitcher. It’s too tall to fit under my kitchen counter. It’s louder than the other one. I’m just not in love with this model.
Nonetheless, the bigger blender came home with me and yes, that one failed as well!
Three days later I was still trying to wake up from this blender nightmare. I even dreamt that the blender company hired me to test all of their blenders! I experienced Post Traumatic Blender Stress (PTBS). Will it work tomorrow? Will it work the next day? Will it work at all?
At this point, I did the only reasonable thing that could be done in a situation such as this: I surrendered to ‘blender hell.’ I let go. I went ‘all Zen.’
Now, guess what sits on my kitchen counter in the place of that string of ‘bad’ blenders, along side the most handsome Omega juicer? Our very own Ninja, of course!
This blender family is very pleased that now, once again, the making of our daily smoothie is a quiet, very well-blended, trouble-free start to our each and every day! (Click HERE or on the Ninja image for access to NinjaKitchen.com.)
Do you have a story about disappointment, persistence and surrender? I’d love to hear from you. I invite you to LIKE my Your Pathway To Empowerment Facebook page with a click on the link below and share your story with me there.
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