Obstacles and Opportunities by Rebecca Kimbel

Author/Life Coach

Every obstacle brings with it an opportunity to grow and to make something better. Every obstacle presents contrast. Contrast high lights what we don’t want and there by clarifies what we do want. When we are confronted with a negative challenge we become more acutely aware of what it is that we really desire and value. All obstacles, both great and small, have within them an opportunity to study contrast If we face them as challenges and not as threats, if we face them with the best of our capacity, if we face them by dealing with them as they come, we are given opportunities to gain strength, self confidence and knowledge. We are given opportunities for our own personal growth and opportunities to assist and teach others by our actions. Our actions make a powerful statement.
Life is constant flow of opportunities to evaluate what we do or do not want. Some opportunities are painful, yet it is within the shadow of our darkest secrets, in the heart ache of our buried pain, in the challenges of the worst of times, we learned our strongest values, our deepest desires and our greatest strengths.
We hide our pain, fear and failure as if everyone hasn’t had them, but it is not important how often we fell down. What is important is how often we stood up.
It doesn’t matter where you are in life. What matters is that you acknowledge where you are. Compare it with where you want to be and then learn how to close the gap between your feelings of “lack” and your feelings of “fulfillment”. Learn what to do and how to react to constantly create a better emotional circumstance. How we react to a circumstance greatly affects the dynamics of it. Within everything we do or don’t do, we are expanding path we chose. The choice is always there. It will return through out life as challenges present us with opportunities to grow, to learn and to feel the evolution of the emotional decisions we have acted upon.
Those who face challenges soon experience the delicious emotion of over coming obstacles, the exhilaration of achievement and success...
No matter how small the obstacle, the feeling of achieving it is always good. When the obstacle is great, the feeling of over coming it is great. It doesn’t matter if we succeed in winning at sports, attaining a dream, or any personal or public fulfillment, the feeling of accomplishment is the best natural “high” on earth. Savoring those fulfilling moments are the continually offered aspects of really living a fulfilling, challenging and happy life.
Life is a challenge, not a threat – enjoy it.

Rebecca Kimbel
Motivational Speaker

 

 

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