Don't Fight the Current

When you live in Florida, you grow up with rip currents.  Times when the water flow off the beach becomes particularly strong and can easily sweep swimmers away.  Strong, experienced swimmers have lost their lives to rip currents because they try to swim against them.  The fight like a salmon to forge ahead and eventually succumb to exhaustion. 

So you're taught from a young age that if you get caught in a rip current, don't try to swim against it.  Instead, you take an angle and let it move you along while you work your way back to shore.  You may end up many miles from where you started and have to walk back, but your chances of survival are better.

Change can be much the same way.  Sometimes we don't see it coming and we are quickly swept up in a fast moving current.  One that we often cannot control or stop.  And if you try to fight that change head on, you may just exhaust yourself and be done.

Instead, when the change you're facing is too powerful to stop, lean into it and look for way to change course just enough to get back to safety.  Even if you eventually have to walk your way back, it's important to realize when you can't fight the tide.  Don't fight the current.  But don't think you're stuck wherever it leaves you either.