Over time most of us get to know ourselves fairly well.
Experience usually teaches us that we will, sooner or later, move beyond
whatever, obstacles we find in our paths.
Change is perhaps the only thing all of us agree that
we can count on. I am encouraged by this. Realizing that each of us learns that
just as the best experiences will pass, so also mercifully will those we
consider the worst.
Nevertheless, there are times when we all feel quite discouraged.
Most of us know, by now, that life is not all sunshine and light. I suspect
that each and every one of us has felt that we’ve been knocked down or, at the
very least experienced some setbacks.
I am convinced, that our continuing success and also
our happiness may depend on how quickly we move beyond what we feel are
obstacles in our paths. More importantly, I believe that almost everything depends
on how we decide to approach, interpret and translate whatever new things we
are experiencing.
In fact, I feel that we can, and actually must, turn
almost anything life throws at us into a positive before we can build upon and incorporate
it into our lives and move forward.
To give ourselves a chance to see life as a series of
opportunities and experiences, rather than as a series of monumental challenges
and obstacles we must struggle to overcome, I truly believe we need to keep both
an open mind and open heart.
In most things in life, I am convinced the key to
moving forward and having a happy and successful life depends more than
anything in how we interpret and act upon what we have coming into our lives,
rather than whatever the actual experience itself might be.
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