"Timing is everything." It is a concept that they have written songs about, more movies than I can count revolve around and a sentence that I grew up hearing way too often. Just this morning as I was sitting in a coffee shop, someone at the table next to me said: "Sometimes we just have to let time take its course."

That's when I started pondering the idea of time and the idea that everything has its own time. I've always known the importance of the man-made construct. I've also always known that a lot of times when things don't go as planned, we automatically believe that we should just give up. The truth is, sometimes things don't go as planned because it isn't their time yet.

There is a time for everything, and when the time is right, things will come around. That goes for anything.

Maybe there was a job that you thought you were destined for but didn't get. Don't give up on the job just because you didn't get it that first go around. Get more experience, work hard and try again. When the time is right, you will fill your dream position.

Maybe that just wasn't the job for you to begin with. Again, when the time is right, the job that you are truly destined for will be waiting.

It is up to us to be patient.

Perhaps you met someone that you thought was "the one." You became best friends and you did everything together. You thought maybe, just maybe you guys were meant to exceed the label of "friends." Perhaps things unexpectedly began to change and you didn't understand why. The friendship you once had became distant. Maybe it wasn't your time. Maybe it never will be. If it isn't, I can promise you it is because there is a much bigger plan for you and as you grow and as time moves forward, you will find it.

Maybe that person still is in your plan, but just wasn't meant to be there at that time. When the time is right, you will know.

This concept goes for everything; friendships, relationships, jobs, the future and so much more. Life can be a never-ending cycle of "right person, wrong time," and you can fill that in with any other word. "Right job, wrong time," "Right dream, wrong time," and the list goes on.

The important thing to realize is, it's okay for things not to work out the first go around.

We don't always know what is best for us. Believe me, I know that we think we do but we just don't. Again, it all revolves around time and when that time is actually right.

We aren't always ready for things when we think we are, and that's okay. When the thing that is actually best for us is ready, and more importantly when we are ready, we will take hold of it and we will realize why it was so important for us to be patient.

Maybe we will never get that one thing that we thought we wanted most, but if we give up we will never find the greater thing that has been waiting for us.