Instead of complaining about what you can’t change, change what you can. When you can’t change a situation, you can change your attitude towards it.
How?
By reprogramming your mind.
Instead of grumbling about the pain, grow through it. At the peak of her career, when photographer Linda Montgomery learned that she was going blind, an inner voice said, ‘This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning’. She began writing poetry, became a motivational speaker and created the True Vision Institute, teaching children to tap into their inner resources.
Finding purpose in your pain isn’t a new idea. Survivors of life-threatening illnesses and natural disasters, and parents of chronically ill children, continually demonstrate how overcomers find the proverbial silver lining by reinventing themselves. Meeting challenges helps you develop a can-do attitude that says, ‘Been there, done that and I will survive’.
Basketball star Micheal Jordan said “I missed over 9,000 shots in my career……lost over 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”.
Over the course of 42 years, I’ve had the absolute privilege of being able to talk with and to interview hundreds of Club Physical members. What I can promise you is that almost ‘every’ member has a story of trials, challenges, defeats and triumphs. Often just completing a workout in your current situation can be considered a personal triumph.
I urge you, don’t sit in a corner with your head in your hands. Look up. Tomorrow is a new day. Press-on. And if the obstacle in your life won’t move, move around it. Pivot. Try another route. Look for what’s good.
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Some of the information above was courtesy of ‘The Word for Today’.
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