How to make your life easier and make opportunities flow more

How to feel life is easy and make opportunities flow more

How can you make your life easier and stop the struggle at (almost) every step you make?

Start considering every problem as an opportunity.

Today, I had lots of important professional plans. My morning was full of projects.

But just as I came back home from taking my girl to school, which is 20 minutes away by foot, I saw the homemade muffins I had prepared for her morning snack on the kitchen countertop. She had nothing to eat at school.

I felt so much frustrated. It had been a victory for me to bake those muffins the night before, with my husband temporarily paralyzed in bed and a hectic weekend with special meetings for the girls, laundries, and home, all by myself.

But I remembered that every problem has an opportunity behind it. So I decided to park my professional plans -fortunately, I have no meetings on Mondays- and go back to school.

From the moment I decided to flow, things turned easy. On my way to school, I visualized finding the right custodian at the door -the one who could sneak a forgotten snack in. And now, here she was. The lady who opened the door was one who loves my daughter -as my kid is so sweet to her and to everybody!-. Before taking the snack in and closing the door, she said many beautiful things about my darling. I left uplifted.

Then I decided I would -finally, for the first time in months- enter my very favorite shop to buy a much-needed bag, and... Can you believe it? They have a special promotion these days, so I came out with a trendy, affordable handbag, plus 2 beautiful presents for my kids for free.

On my way back home, the morning had yet another gift for me. On the bridge over the river, the traffic lights turned red and obliged me to have quite a long break on the bridge. I turned this into another opportunity- I let the sun caress my face; I admired the seagull’s acrobatics, and lost myself in the shine of the rapid river waters.

That was the instant I could came back to myself. After having lived in trauma my childhood years and beyond, it is not natural for me to feel my body, as it was not safe for me. But here I was on the bridge, feeling alive in this body that now I’ve learned to love again. That’s what some people call living in the moment, mindfulness, embodying joy. These words that had no meaning to me, as I had practically never experienced them.

But now that I’ve decided to turn every problem into an opportunity, even a morning that began so badly ended up with a handful of gifts. One of these is finding inspiration to write this first article for the blog that I am just inaugurating now. I hope it will connect with any beautiful soul who, like me, has decided to focus on the good in life, feel happier, and give a joyful contribution to the world.