Some things are always going to be out of our control.

Struggling to dictate every event and every moment adds undue stress and disappointment if our expectations are not met.

Being stuck in traffic shouldn't be a life altering event. Will you arrive at your destination 10 minutes later? Maybe. It's 10 minutes. The world is not about to drastically change in that time. Relax. Turn up the radio.

(If you're late for work, try giving yourself more wiggle room next time. I'll cover this another time, but trust me)

My Mom has always believed that life is not about where you're going, but about how you get there, and the best way to travel is without a destination (and lots of friends).

Ask her where she'll be in five or ten years and she'll tell you 'Who knows, but I hope it's fun!'

That's not to say she's whimsy, or lacks ambition, she is neither.

My mother started at the bottom of her company 25 years ago, and worked her way to the top, but it wasn't something she planned.

She tends the road she travels and when opportunities arise, she takes them.

Little things don't faze her either. If a store doesn't have the product she wants, she will try something else. Maybe that new thing will be just the thing she needs, and she would have never known if they had carried what she originally wanted.

Leave a little flex room in your life, and you never know where it will carry you.

Life is going to happen, whether you are looking at it or not, so you might as well learn to roll with the punches.