Stepping Off The Rug

How many times have we heard the phrase: “I got the rug pulled out from under me.” How many times have we said it ourselves, or something similar? It’s a common phrase because it’s a common feeling—that feeling of being out of control of our own circumstances, a victim of someone or something else’s decision-making or behaviors. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We never have to have that feeling again. How? We step off the rug.

Stepping off the rug is easier than it sounds, and yet for something so simple, it can be extremely difficult to actually do. The first step, of course, is realizing that 1) there is a rug, 2) we are standing on it, and 3) somewhere along the way, we turned over the power to manipulate and move the rug to someone or something else. Once we realize that truth, how silly would it be for us to remain in the same place, a victim of someone else’s whims?