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It’s too easy to let our “stuff” get in the way and believe or decide that we can’t have it all or that there’s always a price to pay for having what we want. One thing we can pretty much count on is that life will provide distractions. There are so many wonderful or annoying things happening all the time. The question becomes how are you going to interact with them, or how will they impact you? In other words, how are you going to do your life?

How we behold and interact with our daily occurrences determines how we live and feel about our life. A successful speaker friend told me that when her phone rings and she is “in demand” for speaking, she feels good. She feels needed and important and liked. On quiet days she often feels lousy. She noticed how easily her circumstances were dictating how she felt. This did not feel like a powerful way to live life, and in recognizing this behavior she began to change it.

Christine was in a car accident and had to have part of her leg and foot amputated. Remarkably, her attitude on life was unchanged by this incident. As a professional photographer, she is still completely full of energy, bouncing around taking action photos and portraits. Until she had her prosthesis made, she used the handle on her crutch to support and bal- ance her body during photo shoots.

I told her what an inspiration she was to me, how I admired her courage and strength. Her response was, “Things happen. What can you do?”

Keep Christine in mind next time you’re having a “bad hair day” and think it is somehow significant. Recognizing how we react to daily life is the first step towards not being so impacted by it.

Life comes and goes, and we don’t have to be fully at its mercy. Some days the phone rings like crazy and some days it doesn’t. Some days you might be filled with energy or you might be exhausted. Some days you have a date and some days you’re all alone. Some days you feel happy and some days sad. It does not change who you are.

More important, it no longer needs to affect how you feel about yourself or your life. When we realize that life is not ini- tially or primarily about having or doing, but much more about being, we begin to know peace in simply being who we are.