Comments on: What To Do About Change You Don’t Want, And Can’t Control

By: Michele Connolly

Michele Connolly — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:48:39 +0000

@Karen: Thank you for your lovely comment! You’ve totally made my day.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:30:27 +0000

Michele-
This is “off topic”, I know…but I signed up for your Spring Organization- thon, and in the process, signed up for your newsletter from the Organizing Wizard blog. I wasn’t aware of the existence of this “Happiness” blog of yours but am so very glad I found it! Thanks for all of your advice, words of wisdom, exciting methods to Jumpstart and improve organization, not to mention the many fabulous products you have available on the Organizing Wizard Site. Love the Organizing Missions app! You have the most comprehensive and detailed of products that I have seen in the market place….and now I have found another site where I can read your “words of wisdom”! You have been responsible, many times, in ignighting the spark of enthusiasm and motivation in me. If that is not a huge part of happiness, then what is?
Thank you again so very much!

By: Paulina

Paulina — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:23:07 +0000

Hi Michele,
Thanks for sharing this alternative and more positive cycle on dealing with change. The five stage Kubler Ross theory of grief is of late being suggested as a useful way to think about how a person feels when they have a child who has additional needs – in my case a child with trisomy 21. It seems reasonable enough – after all a child with additional needs is unexpected, not something you plan or ask for. However the suggestion did not sit easy with me – no matter how I tried to reconcile it – thinking of the grief cycle as I look into the loving eyes of my child or feel the warmth of his cuddly body is … well it’s just not how I feel. Thanks for proposing a more positive and helpful model for unexpected events, change and the like.