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Share via E-mailLife can be downright challenging sometimes! I’m sure you can relate. 
A candid chat on facing challenges, big and small, and why we should embrace them instead of avoid them…
About Lynn Terry
I'm best known online for my Internet Marketing Blog and my Low Carb Diet blog (where I also talk about my fun travel adventures). But there is SO much more to me than work, food & travel. Which is why we're here. ;-) So let your hair down and let's have some REAL fun! *cheers*7 Responses to “Facing Life’s Challenges”
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Lynn
This is so true.
As someone who has had their fair share of challenges too this year I know exactly where you’re coming from and I totally agree.
Although it may not be comfortable to be in the situation, there is often a purpose or reason for it, and its only by embracing it and moving with the issue instead of struggling against the current that we begin to see the bigger picture.
Someone once said to me – The universe will never give you more than you are able to cope with.
Just saying those words gives me a little extra strength and feel like somewhere some little angle has my back and won’t let my head go underwater for too long
angel…not angle…though someone night have an angle….sheeeshhh!
Can’t recall where it’s at but in the Bible it says that the rain falls on the just and the unjust and that is so true!
You’re right, if the story of Job doesn’t give someone perspective, nothing will. It’s hard to understand the expression “the patience of Job” if you’ve never read that book of the Bible.
I’m glad to see how determined you are with the low carb diet. I’m encouraged because I am losing weight (7 pounds already!) and can’t imagine how frustrated you must be but it is encouraging as I know I’ll likely hit that plateau at some point.
P.S. Can you send me an invite to the facebook group? I tried re-joining the other day after I finished my big project and it didn’t go through.
{{{HUGS}}}
Glennette
Hey Lynn,
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
Although our basic beliefs may differ slightly, I loved that you referenced Job’s challenges. Did you recall the source of his challenges?
A story within the story of Job is the lesson of Job’s comforters. As you pointed out it doesn’t necessarily follow that you have to be a bad person in order to have bad things happen to you. (Read Ecl 9:11)
I also love what you said about looking at challenges as learning opportunities. I like to ask not only what is the lesson that I can learn but also how can I use this experience to help others as well. (which you do)
Fighting back is key! I look at it as an attitude thingy, As Wayne Gretzky once said in a Ford commercial, “change your attitude and you change everything”. (I love that quote)
Life IS amazing! Life is also SHORT. Be thankful for every day. Enjoy each and every day to it’s full. NOTICE the simple things.
Next year you begin a new decade. One you have been planning for some time now. I wish you the very best of life during each and every one of the 3,652 days of that decade. I hope that during that time you dream even greater dreams and visualize even more wonderful decades ahead.
Then step outside of YOUR comfort zone. Think about the rest of YOUR life AND beyond. Life’s ultimate challenge will occur at some point in our lives. A simple question like “what is the purpose of life” can yield amazing answers when we accept the challenge to learn more.
I hope you are having an AWESOME and challenging day!
smiles,
p.s. Did I mention that your video was awesome and thank you for sharing…
Lynn, this is such a GOOD topic and I especially love the idea of ‘when life pushes you, push back’.
Even if we don’t feel up to ‘pushing back’ when Life throws us a big gust of wine, we should at least hunker down a tad and brace our feet so we can still keep our balance.
Gary said it best – “Life IS amazing! Life is also SHORT. Be thankful for every day. Enjoy each and every day to it’s full. NOTICE the simple things.”
Thanks for a really great video of encouragement and inspiration.
Oops! Should have been “big gust of wind”, not big gust of wine!!! (Although that helps too! LOL
Sherie – I rather like the ‘big gust of wine’
Lynn – I remember reading that * it’s not that challenges happen to people, it’s how people respond to challenges that is the key*.
It might have been Napoleon Hill, but it has stayed with me. that’s pretty much what you are saying, I think.