Flexing with changes is hard and often frustrating for most people. So how do we respond to changes in our schedules? Some people get angry because they feel that the changes in their schedules were made to make their lives harder. This is rarely true, and being angry hurts the person who is angry as well as those around him/her. Others accept the changes and adjust things to make the changes work. On Saturday, I was planning on working in the garden, doing laundry, changing my bed sheets, making bread, and working on my book, but my niece came over. Then her brothers came a few hours later, and they ended up spending the night.
I give them my time and attention when they are here, so I was only able to wash and change my sheets. I was a little frustrated and tired, but I'm choosing to make the best of it because it isn't fair or right for me to make them or others feel badly because I didn't get to do what I wanted to do. It turned out all right in the end, and it often does if we allow it to. So, flexing with schedule changes is most often a good way we can help others. Also, the next time we change a schedule we have with someone else, it would be good to find out how it affects them and work to make it as not frustrating as possible.
