Making It Through The Rain – Moving Beyond Struggle – written because I said goodbye to the old me… many times throughout the years. I was pulled towards ‘something’ that I still can’t articulate. I kept following the inner guidance and direction with complete blind faith and reckless abandon, leaving behind perfectly good situations, relationships, careers, and friends. All to experience this feeling inside me that I knew would manifest. I knew it.. but
Leaving situations that did not support my vision were not nearly as difficult as leaving the very thing that I thought was IT. Several years ago I took a hard look at my life knowing I was going in the wrong. So, once again I tore down the foundation of me and began to inquire, discover, resist, and discover again. I pushed and pulled and asked questions. I damned my circumstances and welcomed the opportunity all at the same time. I trusted the process as I knew there was a rightness but judged the situations I found myself in. Why did I have to take THIS path? Why did I have to give that up and feel this way?
Basically, I finally realized that resistance was my worst enemy and probably cost me more time than the process itself. With that awareness, I began to accept and allow more and resist less. I checked in with my thoughts to make sure they were heading in the right direction. They weren’t. As one of the most positive and optimistic people I know, I was blown away to find that my thoughts were NOT supporting my desired outcome.
I knew where I wanted to go, but I spent way too much time on cursing my moment and seeing my goal as way out there. Both of those thoughts are extremely detrimental to the direction of thought philosophy that I live by and teach. How did this happen to ME? How could I not notice until I was knee-deep into the muck and stuckness type thinking that I created?
Slowly, I began to uncover the thoughts that were holding me back and the nonsupporting posture that accompanied them. I know that affirmations must partner with compatible posture and vibrational alignment. It’s the recipe for manifestation. It’s the missing link for a lot of people who fall short of their vision. That’s when I thought ‘If this is what I truly believe, study and live by, and I have all of this information and still failed, how many people out there are going through the same thing, and not knowing what’s happening or what to do about it?’ I realized I wanted to be there to mentor them through.
I got a universal message not to document my experience. That if I did, I would not be shortening the path of others, I would be bringing them through my long path. So I have no gory war story to tell. If I want to help others work through this, then I need to give up my story and put forth my formula ONLY.
So, today I was listening to music and stumbled upon a Barry Manilow song. ‘I made it through the rain’. I cried. I really cried. It was a cry of celebration and joy. It was a release of the experience. It was an affirmation that I did in fact make it through the rain. Something that seemed unclear and undoable for so long.
Now I am in the building phase. The phase of more self-discovery, creating, and giving back. Bringing purpose to the entire journey and sharing it with those who need it. Those who need to know there is someone who walked this crazy path before them. One that made absolutely no sense to others and sometimes not even to themselves, but they took the journey anyway.
If you are someone who’s going through the rain, my advice to you is that you trust the process. The simplest encouragement is to Keep going. I had to say that a million times to myself. Since there was absolutely no turning back for me, lost and afraid, the one thing I kept telling myself was to keep going. Just trust and move. So to you my friend. KEEP GOING. This will most likely be the journey that redefines you; the one you speak about for years to come and feel privileged to have gone through.
As for me, I am here to stand behind you to encourage you to keep going, to stand beside you so that you are not alone and I stand at your finish line, cheering you on and welcoming you to the other side!
Fran Asaro is the founder of Thrive Anyway – Helping entrepreneurs with work/life balance and moving beyond current circumstances. As a lifelong entrepreneur and peaceful warrior, she brings ‘everything’ from her journey to support you in yours.
I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN By Barry Manilow …
I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN Lyrics
We dreamers have our ways
Of facing rainy days,
And somehow we survive.
We keep our feelings warm,
Protect them from the storm,
Until our time arrives.
Then one day the sun appears,
And we come shining through
Those lonely years
I made it through the rain,
I kept my world protected,
I made it through the rain,
I kept my point of view,
I made it through the rain
And found myself respected
By the others who,
Got rained on too,
And made it through.
When friends are hard to find,
And life seems so unkind,
Sometimes you feel afraid.
Just aim beyond the clouds
And rise above the crowds,
And start your own parade.
‘Cause when I chased my fears away,
That’s when I knew
I could finally say…
I made it through the rain,
I kept my world protected,
I made it through the rain,
I kept my point of view,
I made it through the rain
And found myself respected,
By the others who,
Got rained on too,
And made it through.
A true musician plays,
Through all the rainy days,
And every song survives.
He takes the stage by storm,
And keeps the music warm,
Until his luck arrives.
And then a melody appears,
Taking him past
Those weather-beaten years…
I made it through the rain,
I kept my world protected,
I made it through the rain,
I kept my point of view,
I made it through the rain
And found myself respected,
By the others who,
Got rained on too,
And made it through.
No matter how it rains,
A singer entertains,
And music must be made.
Before you draw the crowd,
Your pour your heart out loud,
And start your own parade.
Then you play the clouds away,
Waiting until you hear
Your music say…
(Piano Solo)
Then you play the clouds away,
Waiting until you hear
Your music say…
I made it through the rain,
I kept my world protected,
I made it through the rain,
I kept my point of view,
I made it through the rain
And found myself respected,
By the others who,
Got rained on too,
And made it through.
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