In storms, beauty can be found.

In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. Albert Einstein.

But one has to persevere and search for the opportunities.

At times it depends on change. A change about our mindsets, and the way that we do things. Let me tell you a little story.
I have a diploma from a university for a project management course that I attended, and I thought that it was the absolute correct way to write and implement charity projects. Not so, as it worked for some projects, and in other projects it was a disaster. Why? What happened?
Well, life happened, and whenever this occurs it catches one totally offside. The unexpected took place, and that taught me to be open to change.
They say that variety is the spice of life, and this is a great truth, as even nature teaches us that.

So, amid the grey and wet storms, beauty can be found.

I was prepared for a brief break in the rain, and this was the result.

Now, who would expect that something like this would happen, especially as the sky was grey and rain was falling.

The photos above were taken towards the east of the mountain range, and this one below is what the view to the south looked like.

So, if you sit indoors during storms, you will never see this, and it is the same in life. As if one is not prepared to change the way of doing things then one cannot expect any improvements to appear. I have planned and wrote two new projects that I wanted to launch in January of this new year, and both had to be cancelled for several reasons that I could not control. That's when life happens. In the meantime, the answer was right under my nose as I changed my approach, and we launched a pilot of a new charity project with great success. I could have saved myself many heartaches with the other two projects, but it was not to be. Negativity is slow poison, and apparent setbacks are actually opportunities for something better to take place. One just has to be open to new possibilities.
Such is life.

Note: I will show you tomorrow what a real storm looks like.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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