We have all seen someone overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their life to achieve greatness.
Even with so many resources stripped from them, they have one remaining power. The power of choice.
It’s not our circumstances that determine our lives. It’s our choices.
It’s not our circumstances that determine our ability to lead — whether that’s in our family, career or relationships.
It’s our choices.
Our past does not have equal our future. It’s our choices in the present moment that we are making with mindful awareness.
Every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year we are making choices. Consciously or subsconscioulsy and these all add up to who we become and what we accomplish.
The choice that she taught me is to stop asking “Why is this happening to me and wishing things were different,” and start asking “What can I learn and how can I grow?”.
Because the more you become the more we can give.
This is why we are here. To be challenged, to evolve and to serve. So the next time a major obstacle shows up in your life I’m challenging you to find gratitude for it, to lean into it with a growth mindset, because what you learn from it and therefore what you can teach, what you can build or what you can create, may become your greatest gift to your company, may become the greatest gift to your family or might even become your greatest gift to the world.
