Cassie Mendoza-Jones - Its All Good: How to Trust and Surrender to the Bigger Plan

Copyright 2017 by Cassie Medoza-Jones

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ISBN: 978-1-4019-5078-1

Digital ISBN: 978-1-4019-3388-3

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1st edition, October 2017

Printed in the United States of America

To you, my reader, for being brave enough to pick yourself up, to try again, and to trust its all worth it.

Heres to the bitter sweetness of failure, the delightfulness of clarity, the rush of new beginnings and the gratitude of rebirths.

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CONTENTS

Theres a riddle I used to love when I was younger: a man is in a room with no doors and no windows. All he has are two halves of a table, an apple, a piece of string, a chair, some nails and a hammer (or some such random combination).

Okay that makes no logical (or grammatical) sense. And yes, hole should be wholehence the resolution of this conundrum. But, see what he did there? He shifted his mindset. He got out of his own way. He didnt call himself a failure. He didnt spend time wondering about how he got there. He created a solution out of a problem. He ignored the things he didnt need (the apple, the chair, the string) and used the tools that would make all the difference.

And he got out. (So basically, hes MacGyver.)

If youve picked up this book, perhaps theres an element of your life thats making you feel as though you are trapped in a room too, with just an assortment of random tools and no clear doorway out. Maybe things in your life are feeling stuck and stagnant, so dark that you cant even see your hand when you hold it out in front of your face. Maybe you think youve failed. Maybe its feeling increasingly harder and harder to get back into your flow, to find your momentum again, to feel like youre on the right track.

Maybe things are feeling so dire, so uncomfortable and so heavy that you feel youre at your wits end, and you just need a break. Have you been searching for the answer, for the solution, for a way out of this confusion? Or perhaps youre near the end of what has felt like an impossible and difficult journey, and youre finding it hard to let go of what youve been through, so that you can move on and move up.

I know how you feel, because Ive been on this journey too. This journey of wading through muck and confusion, wondering why things werent going the way I wanted them to. Ive been through the challenge of finding it so hard to maintain the balance between setting beautiful and flowing intentions and goals, yet realising I had high and rigid expectations of their outcomes. Ive also at times felt stuck in that place between setting your goals and seeing your dreams turn into reality (or something better), wanting to rush the process along, feeling impatient and ungrounded, all the while knowing that if I just allowed myself to be happy with where I was, I would actually enjoy the process of growth and change (instead of fighting against it).

Andperhaps most importantlyIve been through the journey of learning how to stay open, ready and able to receive the shift I needed. Ive learnt to recognise when the time became right for me to acknowledge and make use of the inner resilience and resourcefulness that was already mine, and to forgive myself for my perceived failures and for all the things I thought I was lacking, in order to get back up, dust myself off and, as the saying goes: Try, try again.

Ive been there. Oh gosh, how Ive been there! And I know this: no matter where you are on your journey, the next step you must take is to trust that everything will be okay. If life has felt a little harsh lately, believe that what youre going through will not last forever. Trust that youre learning lessons youll use again and again later on, and trust that when all is said and done, its all good and everything will be okay.

When I was midway through this journey for myself, I remember wondering if one of the many books on my bookshelf could shed some light on what I was feeling, and how to move forwards. So I searched for a book that would soothe my soul, show me how to surrender, and say to me: Its all good. Everything is going to be okay. This searching didnt come from a desire to seek external validationthis came from a desire for someone else to be a witness to my pain and my journey, and for me to be a witness to someone elses, so that I could know I wasnt alone in what I was feeling.