The beauty of disappointment

Not only is life too short for you to ignore your heart’s desires and your intuition, but doing so will rob you of your joy and therefore your willingness to contribute at your highest level. And to receive your blessings and be of service is your job in this human incarnation.

This is why courage is an essential part of joy and contribution. If it were easy to trust your inner wisdom and you could always please everyone, it wouldn’t require any effort, and we would all be doing it all the time. However, for many of us, moving through the intensity of saying no to someone else or saying yes to ourselves or a vision that disrupts the status quo of others takes a lot of energy and focus. When you say yes to your intuition and your heart’s desires, it often unravels others’ agendas, or throws a wrench in their plans for the role you play in their life or the role they want life to play for them.

Our responsibility is to remember that we can disappoint others and still love them. We can have compassion and understanding for the part of humanity that wants to control, stay the same, and be right. When we can choose love for others as we make our individual choices, life becomes beautiful as we discover we can simultaneously love ourselves and love others, no matter what. Sometimes we can even love people better from further away.

You deserve a life full of courageous and joyful action, contribution, fun, and freedom. Not only do you deserve it, but it is your responsibility.

Where is it time for you to embrace the beauty of disappointment? Either in your willingness to disappoint someone else, or to be disappointed by someone, so that you can support them?