Life is filled with hurdles, obstacles and barriers. No doubt there are days, weeks, months and years that feel like one giant uphill. The uphill will fatigue you, steal your breath, drain your energy, break your confidence and close your mind, if you let it. I have learned that life will always have uphills, but i have also learned that it has downhills. Sometimes the ride down isn't nearly long enough before the next hill, but it is always enough to catch my breath, shake off the last hill, clear my mind and begin to envision my approach to the next hill. The approach starts with reflection of the journey of the last hill. Was there a time that my confidence waned? Could I have done anything differently? What did I learn from it and what did I gain from it. Yes we feel tired, sometimes broken after a climb, but there must be something to take from it. Did it make me stronger, smarter, more resilient? After the reflection I try to move into a place of gratitude and grace. Coming down from a hill or making it over hill after hill, hurdle after hurdle, through one barrier and the next I always come back to the same place, I was not given more than I could handle- and for that I am grateful!
Even when I feel I am on the biggest hill of my life and there are a 1000 hurdles right in front of me and my legs are tired I think about someone I know who has it worse. There are bigger hills and heavier burdens. This not only centers me, but enables me to continue moving forward. Life could be worse, so lets make the best of what we have, ourselves. Lets move forward with grace and gratitude.
" No one ever climbed a mountain, got to the top and wished they had stayed at the bottom"
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