Finding Serenity in Every Day Mistakes

Okay, so I know that it's been quite a while since I last posted to the blog but I haven't lost my search for every day serenity - it just got a little caught up in the every day issues of life.

For this I am very sorry.  As some of you may know I have made a choice to begin a new chapter in my life.  I have started to work on the concept of a new nonprofit - we are calling it - First Light Project.   Most of my career has been spent in helping already established nonprofits find funds, do an event, run walks/runs, etc, now I am taking all of that knowledge along with lessons learned to format this new enterprise.

I am very very lucky because I already had colleagues, friends and some family who believe in what can be accomplished in this new endeavor.  I am also a little frightened and exceptionally honored to have people believe in me, it helps me to believe in myself and probably for the first time in my life I truly believe that I can accomplish this feat to head up an enterprise from the start.

As I begin the new year (yes I am Jewish), I look forward to many new challenges, new projects, new journeys and continuing to move only in a forward direction.

Each step forward should offer insight, be filled with questions, look for answers and the opportunity to breath deeply and savior each moment of each day.

The title of of this blog - Finding Serenity in Every Day Mistakes has a purpose.  Mistakes we make should never be overlooked we should keep them in mind and keep them the reason to go onto our new challenges.  If we never made a mistake then we would never learn and never move forward.  This past week that this brought home by a very insightful local small business owner, who had made a mistake in an invoice which he rectified by giving a refund that was more than the mistake.  When I tried to give him back some of the money he replied:  "If by paying you this refund I keep in mind that mistake I originally made then I will learn from that mistake and not make it again."  I left that place of business not only feeling incredibly happy with the world, but also thinking about his comment.  In our every day life we make mistakes but how we react to them is what this time of year is all about - forgiveness, finding serenity and peace in our every day lives and in our mistakes.

Learn from the mistakes, live each day to fullest, ask for forgiveness whenever it's necessary and each and every day of your life you will locate your serenity.