The best word ever made... Serendipity

A Hawaiian friend of mine, an old woman named Mama Loa was once talking to me about a very serious matter early one morning when I was in college. As the bright Oahu sun moved across the window, it suddenly shined directly into her eye, blinding her for a second. She stopped, paused, and looked up at the sun. Then she smiled, and said, "Oh, look, God just gave me a kiss!"

Now most people would have gotten annoyed at the sun shining in their eyes while they were saying something important. They would have missed that kiss from God. But she stopped and savored that sweet sun for a startling second. And then her whole day changed. I never forgot that moment -- It changed my outlook on life. What could have been looked at as a problem, was looked at in an entirely different way. It was then that I realized if we change our perception, we can change how we experience life.

It's up to us to choose how life's "happenings" effect us. In Chinese the same symbol for crisis - also means opportunity. Changing your perception changes everything, and problems can become wonderful opportunities to go in new directions.

My Workshop: How To Recreate Your Life And Transform Change and Adversity (see below) teaches techniques in changing your perception. We can all learn how to view crisis as opportunity and how to turn disasters into blessings!

And that brings me to my favorite word in the English Language:

serendipity -- the faculty of finding wonderful things by accident.

WOW!!!! Can you believe there is a word like that? It's an exquisite word! It's a delicious word.

Sweet serendipity like the sun on Mama Loa's face happens everyday. Do we recognize it?

Think about it. Do you leave room for serendipity in your life? Do you recognize when you are being kissed by God? Are you too busy working out the day-to-day grind, working your problems, that you can't see serendipity in your life?

So today, throw open the shutters and make room for kisses from God... and serendipity!