Pleasing Everyone

No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to please everyone around you.  As a parent you want the best for your children, while you are also juggling all sorts of other responsibilities.  There are times where it all just doesn’t seem to want to come together, times when you feel like you don’t have the answers and you don’t know what to do.  When you feel stuck like this maybe the following steps will help:

1. Take three deep cleansing breaths.

2. Know it is OK not to have all the answers.  Give yourself permission to not know!

3. Ask for help from your Spiritual Support System (God, Angels, Saints…).  Deliver the issue into their hands. 

4. Consciously give yourself the rest of the day off from this conflict.  Revisit it again the next day, when you’ve had a chance to sleep and put some space between you and the situation.

5. Do something grounding, like walking barefoot in the grass.
6. Focus on YOU.  What is going on for you.  What do you need to face?  What are you not doing?  What do you need to do to get back on YOUR path?  Often when you are lost you have stepped off your path and you have stopped being true to yourself.

7. Always remember:  This too shall pass!

8. Trust that the answers will come.  They always do.