Keep Opening Doors

A few days ago I was speaking with a friend who is trying to move forward in a few areas in her life. We have been LifeWalking these changes for a couple of months and while there has been great forward progress, she has failed to reach the level of success that she would like to achieve. She ask me the other day, "Ellen, what more should I be doing that I am not doing now?" I could hear the frustration in her voice and the near desperation. My answer to her was "just keep opening doors."

It seems like a simplistic response but sometimes in life all we can do is keep trying. It isn't that we are necessarily doing something wrong, it is only that we need to be more patient or possibly try something else. I was reminded of the movie Julie and Julia while I was talking with her. In the movie, we are brought into the worlds of two women who are desperately trying to make it work. It is mostly about making their careers work but there is a more subtle way in which they are trying to make their lives work. What impressed me about these two real life characters is their tenacity; they never gave up. In the end, they both found success personally and professionally.

You too can find the success that you desire in your life. We all need to keep moving forward. It is important that we keep open minds and a willingness to try new things when we find that we are not getting the results that we desire.

Just keep opening doors; if it takes 3 or 300 tries to get it right, all that really matters is that we get it right in the end.