Sometimes it kind of sucks to have goals…..and things to accomplish.
What if all I ever cared about was dirty dishes, laundry, going to work, and what’s for dinner? I suppose my life might be a bit simpler.

However, that kind of simplicity is just not me.
I want (and HAVE) a lot of things.
Family. Career. Home. PERSONAL GOALS.

That last one…errr umm….the GOALS part….that’s the part that screws me up.
I’m rather complicated that way.

I want my GOALS so badly….but out of default and desire, those first three win out everytime. And then I maybe….sometimes…start to get…bitter.
I WANT IT ALL!!
Yet, lately I feel like I’ve been getting handed a few lemons.

“When you get lemons, make lemonade” — you say??

Not so easy, I would offer.
But what if….you got handed lemonade but all you actually chose to see was mushed up lemons?

This is my story going into 2012.
A bunch of stuff that really looks like sour lemons at first glance…BUT is actually a sweet gift if I can get over the sour part.

In what has become my crazy life of work, family, and a definite passion for my personal goals — I’ve felt lost in the goals area. I’ve known what it is I want, but felt that the structure and obligations of my life won’t allow for that. LEMONS.

However, I have begun to see how some of those “lemons” are actually a gift and allow me to pursue some of the things I really really want to accomplish.

Lesson of the day:
Sometimes it’s not about simply having been handed lemons and choosing to go to work in order to make sweet lemonade. It’s about realizing that lemonade had to start somewhere. And all that matters is you drink the lemonade handed to you…and recognize that it wouldn’t be so sweet if not for the sour.

For a while, all I could see was negatives. I thank God that those sour lemons might just serve His purpose for my life.  
Now I see that, along with everything else in my life that is a “priority”, there has been room made for some of my GOALS. What looked like a raw deal is actually a gift — a pipeline– to be able to fulfill those things.

I kinda think it would be a waste not to make the most of it. A loss of a precious gift if I continue to wallow in the parts that suck about it.

I WANTED it. Now I have the opportunity to go GET it.

GAME ON.