My friend serves as a constant reminder and source of inspiration. She has a boat load of children and her husband was recently diagnosed with a debilitating illness. Spending all of her time raising the children and caring for her husband is incredible. Waking up one day and finding her whole world changed in an instant.
She spends the majority of each day driving back and forth to the office, which is normally just a 30 minute ride. He is now in a wheel chair and requires her almost full attention. Meanwhile, she is dealing with the needs of her family and deciding what's for dinner tonight. All the while she would like to just sit, cry, and wake up from this little trick that life is playing on her. She is the very definition of selfless.
How does she do it?
I am amazed, humbled, and in awe. Anyone that thinks that men are stronger than women are fools. Yes, we may be able to lift more weight, but how many of us have her kind of strength. Incredible. I have no room to complain about my simple ordinary challenges.
Look around you. Are your challenges really the big obstacles that we make them out to be, or have we blown them out of proportion as we focus on our own little worlds. When we step outside ourselves, we gain a new perspective and help us realize that our own challenges are really just little hurdles that we can easily surmount.
Life provides us teachers or Masters on a daily basis. We just need to be good students and look for the lesson. When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Thank you Master.
With Love,
Tom Kaufmann
Coach K
tkaufmanncoaching.com
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