All we can do in these circumstances is pick up the pieces and make ourselves a new dream.
Often our dreams are based around expectations and how things will be.
When those expectations aren't fulfilled that dream is shattered.
A friend's husband left her after they'd been married for eighteen years, leaving her feeling shattered and shocked.
Her expectations had come crashing down around her, but she said she'd learned to deal with it.
She eventually made the best of it and created a new dream for herself.
Coaching Things do happen that are out of control.
Natural disasters are one of those things that nobody can predict.
I saw a news report on a town that had suffered an earthquake.
A woman was filmed looking at the ruins of her house and business saying "All my dreams have been destroyed.
I guess it is time to build a new dream.
" Life doesn't always happen the way we plan, but we shouldn't give up our dreams.
One dream may not come true but many others will.
When we have a dream shattered, we shouldn't give up, we need to create a new dream.
Coaching Question: Can you create a new dream? Daily Action Has one of your cherished dreams been shattered recently? You probably felt disappointed, perhaps devastated.
Try looking at it not as the end, but as a chance for a new beginning.
Don't let a shattered dream stop you from moving forward in life.
Just take the opportunity of exploring a new direction.
Quotes "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
" Lao Tsu "No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
" Hal Borland