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Challenges

Life is full of challenges.

I have had so many challenges in my life that they are impossible to count. The biggest challenges, of course, stand out more so than the everyday challenges, but I do not think that anyone gets through even one day without having a challenge to overcome.

It matters how we react to these challenges that appear. Do we face them head-on and defeat the challenge and overcome or do we get upset and claim to be the victim of our situation--blaming others and even society for the personal challenges we face?

In today's narcissistic culture, I have witnessed a lot more of the latter of that question than the former. I think that is why those who are able to overcome challenges are such heroes in society. Many of these heroes are heroic only to the small audience of people that they interact with, but audience size does not matter. The world is changed one person at a time.

Challenges teach us. Without challenges in life and in business, there is no growth. If there is no growth, what is the point?

Growth also does not happen alone. Personal challenges can be overcome, but it is rarely that even those are done alone.

From my own experience, even though no one (except Christ) has experienced exactly what I have experienced, I have relied on others for their advice, support, and love in every challenge I have overcome. Nothing except cancer has shown me how many people love me and want to help me. We are all in this together, and when we all have the right mindset about life and look to the things we are grateful for in our challenges, we will find that those challenges actually turn us into the people that we were meant to become.


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