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I often find that every time I've given someone advice on something, the very next day I'm needing that exact advice myself. This happened the other day when I found myself thinking about the past, and when I came back around to the present, I remembered the advice I had given that person, which was radical acceptance. Radical acceptance by definition means the ability to accept situations without judging them . Accept that it is what it is and, if it happened in the past, there's probably nothing, or very little that can be done  about it.  Time to let it go and move on. However, if it's something that's happening in the present, there may be something that can be done depending on how much control we have over the situation. Where radical acceptance comes in handy is when you have no control over the situation, but you do have control over how you respond to it. Acknowledging reality sometimes isn't fun but ultimately we end up with choices that we wouldn...

I think almost all of us know what it's like to have our life planned out, and then watch as most of it, if not all of it falls apart right before our eyes. Or even if our life has gone mostly as planned, there's always at least a few things that haven't panned out leaving us putting "Plan B" into action. Either way, for most people life doesn't always go the way we think it will even when we put all our energy into plans for the future and expect it to play out exactly the way we intend. Even then, sometimes life likes to take us in a different direction. This can be frustrating at best... we want to make the plans, we want to know they'll work out, and we want them to be in our control. And why shouldn't we? After all this is our life. Although... if you're like me, and have lived long enough, you've probably noticed as you look back that some of your decisions, or plans for the future, might not have been the wisest choices. So perhaps life...