Laying the puzzle of life

TODAY IS MY FAVOURITE DAY!

Look upon your life as a puzzle! You are standing in the middle of the puzzle. There is a constant stream/flood of pieces come flying your way. They represent all opportunities that appear every single moment - far more than you can handle! You constantly make choices - select only a few of all the flying pieces.

You build the puzzle as you go, catching a few of all the pieces from the stream to build the puzzle.

Sometimes you catch a piece that does not fit where you planned to build the puzzle; you have to either dispose of the piece or build in another direction.

Sometimes you lack only a certain piece to complete a part of the puzzle... should you wait for the right piece to come flying or grab another piece and start building somewhere else?

Sometimes you put a piece somewhere in your puzzle only to find later that it did not really fit there.

Anyway this is a fun way of looking upon life!

Carpe Diem,
/Tomas

Pieces of the puzzle

TODAY IS MY FAVOURITE DAY!

A simple and fun little metaphor I use in order to understand myself and others is to look upon people as pieces of a puzzle.

We are all connected - right? And every single piece is important to make up the complete picture. All pieces are unique. Each piece is perfect just the way it is. But all pieces do not fit together well. There are many resemblences between a puzzle and people ;o)

Try it! I have lots of fun when I use it, and it honestly makes it easier for me to understand when I run into someone that I don't go along well with: It is nobody's "fault" - it simply that we are pieces from different corners of the puzzle!

Carpe Diem,
/Tomas