Flexibility as an Asset

 Happy people know how to adapt. They are nimble, they learn new things, and they adjust. For instance, few of us have the sort of life we initially thought we wanted. And thank God we don’t. Some people make themselves miserable by being so stubborn about their plans for the future. When they have to take new directions, they resist and rebel. “Things are not the way they used to be,” they complain, or “This is not the way things were supposed to work out.”

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               The happiest and most successful people are those who are fleet-footed, who are eager to learn new ways, who adapt to new systems when the old ones do not work. When one career path fails, they cheerfully learn a new way of earning a living. When their marriage ends, they’re able to adjust to being alone or to a new marriage. When people frustrate them and they see that these people are never going to change, they accept them the way they are and relax.

  As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous: “Change what you can and accept what you can’t.”