There are some times along our journey when the outcome that we worked so hard to achieve does not happen as we would have expected or desired. With a moment of reflection, we realize that it is not unexpected to miss expectations from time to time. The work then for us is to take the “lemon” and add it to water and sugar and make it taste better than it would have otherwise. So much of what we need to challenge ourselves to do is to re-frame – to think differently – to make that lemon be something that we can live with, that we can do better with, that we can look at fondly. The lemon becomes, then, the catalyst to be the best that we can be, working through the challenges of life and making them into what it is that we want to be.

Loving life when I add a slice of lemon

Joe