The Recipe for Life's Lemonade by Mickell Daniels

The Recipe for Life's Lemonade

8/22/2022

We often hear the term “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” But not often are we told the recipe for the lemonade. Your lemonade can be made with whatever ingredients you choose to add. But what if you don't know the type of ingredients, to begin with? Here are a few steps for identifying components needed to produce the best Lemonade out of the lemons life gives you.

The Recipe

Writing your response to steps 1-5 may add an extra flavor to your lemonade.

Identify the lemon (What is the issue?)
What emotion do you have as a result of the issue?
Take a moment to acknowledge your current feeling and accept it. What did you accept about it?
Ask, “How does this situation impact me?” Please write it down or think it through.
List two alternative positive ways to view the impact.
Think of the lemon again (But this time, think of the two positive alternatives while thinking of the issue).
Say the positive alternatives out loud until you “feel” it.
Take a deep breath and smile as you slowly exhale. (repeat two more times).
Tell yourself aloud, “I just made a batch of lemonade out of a lemon.”

Moral of the story: The secret ingredient for Lemonade is Mindset. You can begin to create the other components by following these suggested steps.

I challenge you to make the perfect lemonade batch for YOU by starting today.