043: What to do when there's No Good Solution • Passion Design Project

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I WAS DEFINITELY NOT WHERE I WANTED TO BE!

The bus stop was locking its doors in 10 minutes and every taxi in the tiny Japanese town was booked for an hour. And that wasn’t even the worst of it.

It was dumping snow outside in the pitch black, my boots were already soaked through because of bad planning on my part, and my adorable hotel was sitting on a hill, 2 miles away, beckoning to me with its warmly lit windows that I would’ve seen had I not been pelted by xxl snowflakes.

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The bf and I had just finished an incredible meal. One where you sit on the floor and don’t really know what you’re ordering but everything tastes like magic. We walked out of that quaint place almost skipping, and totally appreciating the beauty of those large flakes falling from the sky. Hello Japan, you’re SO awesome.

Oh, how things can change so quickly.

Like, one minute you’re rejoicing because you got a new client. Only to find out halfway through the project, they are worse than your nightmares (the ones where you can’t run fast enough from the bad guy because your legs have somehow turned to 100 lb. weights). Ugh, why are they weighing you down!

Or like when you are supposed to have a killer night out with friends, but then all of your friends because lamer versions of themselves and you begin to wonder if these are even the friends you should have. What if you’re totally in the wrong friend group and they’re holding you back from shining like a star?! What if *actually* no one wants to be your friend. The horror is becoming real.

What’s a person to do when there’s no good solutions?!!!

No, we aren’t gonna stay paralyzed with fear. We walk it out. Now walk it out…(…*song playing).

Don’t step away, step into it. Don’t put it off, start right now. Things are almost always easier than we make them out to be.

Which should be GREAT news, but actually it’s annoying news.

I know this because I’m a freaker outter. I try to act all calm and whatevs when my plans crumble and I don’t know which step to take next because maybe this was the last straw and my life as I know it is over. (My bf can’t ever figure out why I let myself get so worked up, I wonder why…) But usually, I realize that what I was dreading, isn’t really so bad after all, and I spent more time fretting than it took to accomplish the task.

But back to the story, so that’s what we did. Japan happened to be looking out for us because they had heated sidewalks in this tiny mountain town (have you ever….?!) and that makes a wheelchair user’s gf very happy.

That’s what happens when you take action, isn’t it?

The road is almost always a little less rough than expected. Yes, the snow was still pelting us in the face, and the snowy hill leading up to the hotel was NOT heated, or a walk in the park. but a lighthearted attitude, lots of lols, and knowing some steamy green tea was only moments away was enough to get us sprinting up that final hill.

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Is there an unclear, uncomfortable path holding you back?

Have you been wondering what to do, what to do, what to do?

Take one step into it. Feel it out. Probably it will feel like a deep tissue massage…painful but oh so beneficial, you know it’s gonna be goooood in the long run to just get going through this.

On that note, do you know you can get 1-hour massages for under $5 in Thailand (did it in September.) Maybe plan to do that as celebration after you blast through some barriers you’re facing;)

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043: What to do when there’s No Good Solution