Day 66: Be Grateful For Your Struggles

You know what I am grateful for? Life’s challenges and struggles. I know that sounds odd and you must be thinking that I am crazy, but I assure you that I am perfectly sane. Here is my take on why.

It is so easy to live life blissfully ignorant of our choices, and then deny them when they don’t work out. Well actually I lie, it is much harder; turning a blind eye is easy, the consequences are hard. So when my financial circumstances that I currently face became so blatantly obvious that I could not keep travelling down the road I am on, life MADE me do something about it. I don’t recommend this route however; it is very hard, scary, and unnecessary. Yet despite the fear I feel, I am still grateful for all that is occurring in my life right now. Why? Because I can actually see the big picture and why everything is unfolding the way it is. It is perfect actually. I got myself in a pickle and now it is time to take responsibility for it and take action.

And so I find that it is through the struggle that you dig deep and find within the resources and inner strength you never knew you had. You think different and you act different. There is more urgency and sense of purpose as everything is more a matter of survival. There is strong intent and focus to every task because there has to be. Things get done because there is no room for messing around or mucking up. It is as if in those moments there is a tunnel vision straight to the goal line, and nothing is impossible because you don’t just want it, you NEED it. And it appears to me that when the NEED is strong enough, you will move hell or high water to achieve it. It is the struggle that moves us forward, not the complacency.

With that, I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes:

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” –Sir Winston Churchill

Goodnight!