today I’d like to share with you a story
of a single event which yielded three
very unexpected lessons when the
universe calls will you answer this is
what happened to my husband and me last
year when a woman driving 45 miles an
hour through a red light crashed into
our car going 45 miles an hour through a
green light and four airbags went off in
our car our brains were jumbled and I
couldn’t see my husband at first I
reached out to him and I said oh oh oh
honey are you okay he weakly said yes
the gas is in dust from the air bags
filled the car and made my husband think
that the car was on fire he tried to get
me out of the car repeatedly I would not
get out of the car
my chest and my neck hurt so badly I was
afraid to do more harm so I quickly
dialed 9-1-1 as onlookers and witnesses
came into the intersection to see if we
were okay and the woman who hit us was
standing there as well but I didn’t know
it at the time as the passenger I saw
this coming and there is a metaphor in
there my husband didn’t this incident it
wasn’t an accident as you’ll see
resulted in three enormous lessons and
led to one of the biggest decisions of
my life when I had been putting off for
years
the universe was calling me big-time
and I was soon to learn more about
accepting what is brought to me not
procrastinating and the power of
forgiveness my first lesson was that
there are signs around each of us every
day we can choose to be open to them
to explore them to find opportunities in
them and to follow through on them or
not and once you begin to see the signs
your life path and journey will become
clearer too for example you’ve been
thinking about taking action on
something for some time now but you keep
putting it off and all of a sudden you
get a sign that makes you realize you
should go ahead and do this don’t
procrastinate anymore this is the
universe calling or do you spend almost
as much time on your job as you do in
your career maybe this is the universe
offering you a different way of making
money and being fulfilled explore that
or you’ve been counting on something
you’ve been planning on it for some time
you’re so excited and then it gets
cancelled you’re very disappointed but
is there a sign there is there a message
was this meant to be for some reason
possibly intuition is a sign from the
universe to be aware because all it
takes is a slight shift in your energy a
little voice in your head or a niggling
in your gut you know that feeling we all
have it but how often do we push it down
we don’t want to hear what it has to say
scientists and psychologists have
actually studied intuition and found
that it’s almost always correct listen
to it this is the universe calling and
it is a trustworthy sign it’ll be easier
to deal with now than down the road too
often we see signs and we say they’re
minor or meaningless or we call them
coincidences I personally don’t believe
in coincidences and as I was soon to
find out ignoring some signs can have
life-threatening consequences the day
after our car incident the hospital
where we were taken by ambulance called
me and said they found a spot on my lung
in the x-ray they had taken the night
before and I needed to call my primary
care physician right away I felt like a
train hit me this time I put down the
phone and my mind was in a fog what
could they possibly be referring to I’ve
never smoked I don’t drink I eat healthy
in fact I’m really healthy so in the
next week
I got a cat-scan my specialist found a
15 millimeter nodule in my left lung
which was considered suspicious well
then the waiting began I had to wait
over three months before the next cat
scan to see if the nodule grew got
smaller stayed the same or disappeared
that’s one of the toughest times in my
life and my mind often went to the
negative however during this time the
universe also brought me positive signs
to calm my overactive mind one day in
early December where I live in the
Northeast too bluebirds came on to our
patio we have a table and four chairs
there one Bluebird landed on my
husband’s chair one Bluebird landed on
my chair crazy right and in December and
I’ve never seen bluebirds ever before
this and I haven’t since
well this sign was not lost on me I
immediately looked up the spiritual
meaning of bluebirds and its joy peace
happiness and good health
this brought tears to my eyes and to
this day bluebirds are very special to
me another day I was in our local
bookstore and they had these little
post-it notes placed around various
shelves with encouraging sayings and
they said such things as everything’s
going to be alright
and you’re stronger than you think I was
walking around the store reading all
these sayings I couldn’t believe they
were there of course I thought they were
all put there for me and again the
universe was trying to relax me during a
very challenging time these really
helped me and I still think about those
little post-it notes so just over three
months later I went and had my next cat
scan it showed the nodule to be about
the same size sounds good right not
necessarily my specialist was still very
concerned because of the size of it and
then it hadn’t gotten it’s gotten
smaller and it hadn’t disappeared so he
said he’d be happy to refer me to a
surgeon or I could research on my own
but I needed to get it out of there
sooner versus later his words exactly as
I was leaving his office so I’m very
happy to say that I’m grateful eight
days later I got in to see the chief of
thoracic surgery of her very well-known
highly regarded hospital in Philadelphia
and he scheduled my lung surgery to my
surprise eight days after that well see
he felt that this nodule was likely not
benign and now time was of the essence
but the great ending to this message is
that this car incident saved my life
this was no accident the nodule was
stage one and I went through a quite
painful three and a half month recovery
due to major invasive surgery where they
cut out a segment of my lung and lymph
nodes the good news is the nodule was
self contained it had not spread I
didn’t need any treatments I am so
blessed seeing these signs and accepting
what was brought to me was my first
unexpected lesson it also taught me not
to procrastinate about a week after the
car incident
I knew the universe had called me and I
needed to answer not just about my
medical situation but about selling my
education business that I had burst 33
years ago see I had been dabbling with
the idea of selling and I had been
getting my company ready for years but
honestly I just never had that courage
to let it go and to put it on the market
well three weeks after this incident I
signed on with an amazing business
broker to start the process of selling
my business my baby
it was time apparently I needed this big
sign from the universe that life can
change in an instant
this was no longer about my fear of
change and my emotional and egotistical
ties to the business which kept me there
this was about moving on it was about my
next chapter in life which I was more
than ready for the universe called and I
was finally answering I didn’t need to
be hit twice heeding this sign allowed
me to successfully sell my company six
months after it was put on the market
two incredible new owners who overlaid
all of my unwarranted fears and exceeded
my expectations now I can continue to
change lives through speaking from the
big stage I am so grateful for this car
incident it allowed me to release and to
have a fresh start now for the third and
final lesson the forgiveness piece which
is a part of this journey the night of
the car crash in the hospital the woman
who hit us walked by me as I was lying
on a gurney in the hallway with a big
neck brace on she was very distraught
she was remorseful apologetic nearly in
tears she kept saying over and over
again how sorry she was and she hope she
hadn’t hurt me I asked her to come over
to the bed I put my hand in hers and I
said I forgive you you didn’t mean to do
this I just want you to learn from it to
slow down in life in general see at the
car crash I had gotten her message
immediately if not mine right away wide
since called her so that we could meet
face to face and I could give her a
bouquet of flowers for my gratitude and
to tell her she saved my life and
changed my life and to see if she had
changed her life in any from this
incident in any way well we had a
wonderful dinner together we spent quite
a bit of time getting to know each other
we have a lot in common actually she
said yes she too saw this as a sign
and she has slowed down I was so happy
to hear this now my three lessons were
complete accepting what is brought to me
not procrastinating and the power of
forgiveness I wish you all many signs
that you see hear and feel which change
your lives for the better remember the
universe is calling will you answer this time
of a single event which yielded three
very unexpected lessons when the
universe calls will you answer this is
what happened to my husband and me last
year when a woman driving 45 miles an
hour through a red light crashed into
our car going 45 miles an hour through a
green light and four airbags went off in
our car our brains were jumbled and I
couldn’t see my husband at first I
reached out to him and I said oh oh oh
honey are you okay he weakly said yes
the gas is in dust from the air bags
filled the car and made my husband think
that the car was on fire he tried to get
me out of the car repeatedly I would not
get out of the car
my chest and my neck hurt so badly I was
afraid to do more harm so I quickly
dialed 9-1-1 as onlookers and witnesses
came into the intersection to see if we
were okay and the woman who hit us was
standing there as well but I didn’t know
it at the time as the passenger I saw
this coming and there is a metaphor in
there my husband didn’t this incident it
wasn’t an accident as you’ll see
resulted in three enormous lessons and
led to one of the biggest decisions of
my life when I had been putting off for
years
the universe was calling me big-time
and I was soon to learn more about
accepting what is brought to me not
procrastinating and the power of
forgiveness my first lesson was that
there are signs around each of us every
day we can choose to be open to them
to explore them to find opportunities in
them and to follow through on them or
not and once you begin to see the signs
your life path and journey will become
clearer too for example you’ve been
thinking about taking action on
something for some time now but you keep
putting it off and all of a sudden you
get a sign that makes you realize you
should go ahead and do this don’t
procrastinate anymore this is the
universe calling or do you spend almost
as much time on your job as you do in
your career maybe this is the universe
offering you a different way of making
money and being fulfilled explore that
or you’ve been counting on something
you’ve been planning on it for some time
you’re so excited and then it gets
cancelled you’re very disappointed but
is there a sign there is there a message
was this meant to be for some reason
possibly intuition is a sign from the
universe to be aware because all it
takes is a slight shift in your energy a
little voice in your head or a niggling
in your gut you know that feeling we all
have it but how often do we push it down
we don’t want to hear what it has to say
scientists and psychologists have
actually studied intuition and found
that it’s almost always correct listen
to it this is the universe calling and
it is a trustworthy sign it’ll be easier
to deal with now than down the road too
often we see signs and we say they’re
minor or meaningless or we call them
coincidences I personally don’t believe
in coincidences and as I was soon to
find out ignoring some signs can have
life-threatening consequences the day
after our car incident the hospital
where we were taken by ambulance called
me and said they found a spot on my lung
in the x-ray they had taken the night
before and I needed to call my primary
care physician right away I felt like a
train hit me this time I put down the
phone and my mind was in a fog what
could they possibly be referring to I’ve
never smoked I don’t drink I eat healthy
in fact I’m really healthy so in the
next week
I got a cat-scan my specialist found a
15 millimeter nodule in my left lung
which was considered suspicious well
then the waiting began I had to wait
over three months before the next cat
scan to see if the nodule grew got
smaller stayed the same or disappeared
that’s one of the toughest times in my
life and my mind often went to the
negative however during this time the
universe also brought me positive signs
to calm my overactive mind one day in
early December where I live in the
Northeast too bluebirds came on to our
patio we have a table and four chairs
there one Bluebird landed on my
husband’s chair one Bluebird landed on
my chair crazy right and in December and
I’ve never seen bluebirds ever before
this and I haven’t since
well this sign was not lost on me I
immediately looked up the spiritual
meaning of bluebirds and its joy peace
happiness and good health
this brought tears to my eyes and to
this day bluebirds are very special to
me another day I was in our local
bookstore and they had these little
post-it notes placed around various
shelves with encouraging sayings and
they said such things as everything’s
going to be alright
and you’re stronger than you think I was
walking around the store reading all
these sayings I couldn’t believe they
were there of course I thought they were
all put there for me and again the
universe was trying to relax me during a
very challenging time these really
helped me and I still think about those
little post-it notes so just over three
months later I went and had my next cat
scan it showed the nodule to be about
the same size sounds good right not
necessarily my specialist was still very
concerned because of the size of it and
then it hadn’t gotten it’s gotten
smaller and it hadn’t disappeared so he
said he’d be happy to refer me to a
surgeon or I could research on my own
but I needed to get it out of there
sooner versus later his words exactly as
I was leaving his office so I’m very
happy to say that I’m grateful eight
days later I got in to see the chief of
thoracic surgery of her very well-known
highly regarded hospital in Philadelphia
and he scheduled my lung surgery to my
surprise eight days after that well see
he felt that this nodule was likely not
benign and now time was of the essence
but the great ending to this message is
that this car incident saved my life
this was no accident the nodule was
stage one and I went through a quite
painful three and a half month recovery
due to major invasive surgery where they
cut out a segment of my lung and lymph
nodes the good news is the nodule was
self contained it had not spread I
didn’t need any treatments I am so
blessed seeing these signs and accepting
what was brought to me was my first
unexpected lesson it also taught me not
to procrastinate about a week after the
car incident
I knew the universe had called me and I
needed to answer not just about my
medical situation but about selling my
education business that I had burst 33
years ago see I had been dabbling with
the idea of selling and I had been
getting my company ready for years but
honestly I just never had that courage
to let it go and to put it on the market
well three weeks after this incident I
signed on with an amazing business
broker to start the process of selling
my business my baby
it was time apparently I needed this big
sign from the universe that life can
change in an instant
this was no longer about my fear of
change and my emotional and egotistical
ties to the business which kept me there
this was about moving on it was about my
next chapter in life which I was more
than ready for the universe called and I
was finally answering I didn’t need to
be hit twice heeding this sign allowed
me to successfully sell my company six
months after it was put on the market
two incredible new owners who overlaid
all of my unwarranted fears and exceeded
my expectations now I can continue to
change lives through speaking from the
big stage I am so grateful for this car
incident it allowed me to release and to
have a fresh start now for the third and
final lesson the forgiveness piece which
is a part of this journey the night of
the car crash in the hospital the woman
who hit us walked by me as I was lying
on a gurney in the hallway with a big
neck brace on she was very distraught
she was remorseful apologetic nearly in
tears she kept saying over and over
again how sorry she was and she hope she
hadn’t hurt me I asked her to come over
to the bed I put my hand in hers and I
said I forgive you you didn’t mean to do
this I just want you to learn from it to
slow down in life in general see at the
car crash I had gotten her message
immediately if not mine right away wide
since called her so that we could meet
face to face and I could give her a
bouquet of flowers for my gratitude and
to tell her she saved my life and
changed my life and to see if she had
changed her life in any from this
incident in any way well we had a
wonderful dinner together we spent quite
a bit of time getting to know each other
we have a lot in common actually she
said yes she too saw this as a sign
and she has slowed down I was so happy
to hear this now my three lessons were
complete accepting what is brought to me
not procrastinating and the power of
forgiveness I wish you all many signs
that you see hear and feel which change
your lives for the better remember the
universe is calling will you answer this time
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