What are you fighting for?

I broke my hand just over 5 weeks ago. 24 days before I was set to compete in the Alberta Weightlifting Association's Senior Weightlifting Provincial Championships. This competition was intended to be my trial run at qualifying for the Senior National Championships. If I didn't qualify then, the plan was to make it happen at Hakkaido cup in January 2015. Instead, I’ll be sitting out the season. No Provincials, no Hakkaido and, sadly, no Nationals.

Since the injury, I've declared, time and time again, that I’m a fighter. While I have no doubt in my mind that I am determined, motivated, and goal driven, does it need to be a “fight"? Perhaps I need to reframe it in my mind.  Approaching life, and its associated peaks and valleys, as a struggle is surely giving it the wrong energy. When things go “wrong”, why am I seeing it as the Universe against me? Further, why am I seeing it as things going “wrong” in the first place? Why can’t they be going right? They might not be going the way I wanted or the way I THOUGHT they would but who am I to say they’re going wrong?

What if, instead of reacting with anger and frustration, I embraced these scenarios with an open mind and a grateful heart? 
What if I had so much confidence in the Universe, and its plan for me, that my only response was gratitude?

Thank you, Universe, for ensuring my path is FULL of love, light and LEARNING.

Because, when it’s all said and done, that’s what I truly believe we’re all here for.