Life is full of challenges. If it wasn’t, there wouldn’t be much point to living it, would there? Challenges are important. They have the potential to help us become even more than the highest ideal of ourselves we can currently comprehend. It’s our job to see them as such. Though, that isn’t always easy. I remember when I was about sixteen. I’d worked ridiculously hard at a job I didn’t particularly like so I could pay for riding lessons. For a girl who’d been dreaming of horses her entire life, this was a HUGE reward for me. No matter how much it hurt my little teenager budget, I scheduled at least two lessons a week, hating to miss a single one. One lesson sticks out, however. I was tacking up the Hanoverian mare I rode and something spooked her while she was tied up. Hundreds of pounds of muscle came crashing down on my foot as she pulled against her tie. I finally got her to calm down and finished putting on her tack while hiding a limp from my instructors because gosh darn it, I was going to ride that day if it killed me. I gave the lesson my all, took the saddle and bridle off, brushed her down, gave her a kiss, and turned her out all before heading home to finally ice my sore foot. Nothing was going to keep me from the thing I loved most. Winners don’t give excuses." Think about it. All those athletes in the Special Olympics have challenges most of us balk at. And yet they’re known the world over for overcoming those obstacles and achieving a greatness very few people can claim. Yet, when my little boy throws a fit or when my husband has the car for the day, I have this tendency to think to myself “This is why I can’t get anything done.” And guess what? Nothing gets done that day. Thought-awareness will require you to pay some serious attention to your thought-process, picking out every excuse that comes up and replacing it to change the habit. When we make excuses, we voluntarily shut a door to opportunity. The key is to look for what you CAN do." So you can’t use the car today, what CAN you do? So you can’t use your foot as much as you’d like, what CAN you do? Authors write when they’re sick. Nurses work when they’re exhausted. Mothers comfort their children when they’re also scared. You will know your life’s purpose when you care enough to move past the excuses and ride anyway. You don’t care that you don’t have a saddle, you’ll go bareback. You don’t care that you don’t have reins, you’ll learn Liberty. You don’t care that you don’t have the money right now, you trust that it will come to you. Your life’s purpose isn’t running away from you unless you’re running away from it. Think of a mirror. The farther you walk away from it, the farther your reflection (dream) walks away, too. The closer you walk to the mirror, the closer it comes to you. You decide the distance between yourself and your dream by moving towards it. You don’t wonder about how each muscle in one foot is going to get it to go in front of the other or worry about breathing on your journey, you will yourself to move forward and you do. If you doubt your ability, you stop Do this daily while keeping in mind that the bigger the order, the longer it will take to cook. See what happens because gosh darn it, you’re going to reach your goal if it kills you.
Love to you all,
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AuthorRegan Guerra is a Personality Geek. As an ENFJ 4w3, she dreams big, wanting to build a ranch where others can rediscover themselves and learn to reimagine life the way it's supposed to be. Archives
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