by KC Kelly, Ph.D., LMHC

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What is Truly Important for Today? As an addendum to the previous article I wrote, Hope for a Bright Future During These Economically Hard Times, I write this article in an attempt to look at the whole suggestion of keeping hope, staying positive, and looking towards a brighter future in a different light. Instead of just staying up about a bright FUTURE, let’s take a look at what we have in the HERE and NOW and be thankful for that. Let’s realize what our priorities are or probably should be TODAY. If you’d like to do that, please continue reading.

These are indeed some hard times our country is going through; however, we’ve seen hard times before. In fact we have seen must worse times than what we are going through now, economically, and most of us came out alright. Most of us have been through a stock market crash and have lost everything. We’ve been through war and lost more. We’ve been through 911 and…well…you know what we lost. That gives me hope that we will all come out alright during this time of economic hardship. But let’s reframe this whole idea.

Perhaps if we look at our economic crisis as a “challenging” time instead of a “hard” time, we may gain a different perspective. Every challenge, obstacle, hurdle, or impediment that is put in front of us may be a test to find out what we truly want in life, what is truly important to us, and what our priorities truly are. If you follow my lead here, I am suggesting that we NEED to know what is truly important to us. What are our values? What are our priorities?

Are they the people in our lives who give us unconditional love and support, perhaps? Our inner strength, perhaps? Our good health, perhaps? Our ability to reach a place of peace within ourselves, perhaps? Everything else will come after that. If we can be strong internally for ourselves, we can be strong for others in our lives and all the situations that act as blockages to a great future. Life CAN be about the future, and realistically, it should be partly about planning intelligently for what is to come in life; however, let’s not take our eye off of today and what is important NOW.

Every challenging time should be viewed as a learning and growing experience brought to us to help us be more prepared for what’s to come “tomorrow,” not as a deterrent from our life’s plan or vision of what we truly want in life. Now, as you’ve been reading article after article that I have written, you know by now how positive I am of a GREAT tomorrow for all of us, but I couldn’t resist this quote. It’s a song by the wonderful Garth Brooks, “If Tomorrow Never Comes”…let’s make sure we enjoy today!

Thank you for reading and please, if you desire one on one help to get you through the hard times…or you need just a little push to hope…write to us here…at DOCintheBiz.

Dr. KC
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