Challenges Birth a New Perspective

Gaining perspective in your life is sometimes best achieved during the most difficult challenges you encounter. Perspective gives us the opportunity to re-adjust our compass setting (life’s direction) or create a compass setting for that matter. It gives you the opportunity to re-visit your dreams and where you are headed in your life and which direction you’d like to go or take time to think about what your dreams and desires are. In hindsight, I am sure that you will find that some of the most trying times you’ve been through have produced some of the most positive results in your life. Experiences where you had an illness, excruciating pain, the loss of a loved one… as time goes by and the suffering and grief lifts, you naturally and most of the time unconsciously chart a course for your greater good.
I don’t know of one individual or family that has not felt the effects of the economy this year on some level. I don’t know of one individual that has not had the benefit of experiencing a tough time in their life in whatever realm it may have been. But I do know – everyone is a better person because of it. So it’s time to celebrate the “tough times!”
Now don’t go looking for “tough times,” in hopes for something better. Instead work on re-evaluating where you are at in your life and what direction you are heading. Ask yourself the question: “Am what I am doing today, going to lead me to a more fruitful future?” Know that what you sow, you reap – and know that in knowing all of this, it will allow you to forge through the “tough times,” with a little more grace and perseverance!