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I’m betting you have had a similar experience once or twice in the past. You are cruising down the road of life and you have a good clip going. You are moving along quickly and smoothly. Then without seeing it coming, you hit this big pothole and it almost rips the steering wheel from your hand. You hear this loud thump as the force compresses the spring all the way up and then hits the frame sending the force throughout the vehicle. You cringe wondering what damage was done. You wonder how you missed seeing the hole. You then look more carefully trying to see if there are any more holes coming up. It shakes you up. For the next few miles you are no longer on auto pilot. Now you are extra attentive.
Now, unless your life is different than mine these things will happen to you. Just like they happen to me and even though I have beefed up the suspension on my life because of that it takes a bigger hole and the suspension recovers faster and easier. But those holes still appear. I keep being taught similar lessons until I overcome them. Each time I level up so does the game. I am meant to push forward and face the bumps and trials. It is okay to be knocked down. Thursday I got knocked down. I’m sure you get knocked down many people ask why. But most of the time asking why keeps us down. Rather than staying down asking why get up, accept that you got knocked down. Give permission to feel the sense of loss that comes with the knock down and realize that you are not out. I felt the knock down the rest of Thursday. It started to come back Friday. But I choose to not let it. Instead I allowed it to be. I accepted that I was not in control of this situation. I thought back on the other times that I had hit these holes and what the outcome was. Each time I was okay. Each time I made it through. Each time my life got better. Yours can also! It doesn’t matter what the hole in the road was caused by. You can accept and experience, Feel it and then move past it. You can learn and grow from it. The bumps in the road do not have to define you or me.
It is the potholes of life that are calling for your attention. The pothole is saying “hey we have trouble here” or “we need attention over there”. When we ignore them they get bigger and deeper. We can use things to numb ourselves from the experience but the holes will still be there and will eventually derail us. We have talked about some of my potholes. Things like being busy lacking boundaries. Having an unbalanced life. Fear of being seen. Some of you might fear procrastination, or being alone, or board. The great thing about potholes is they let us know where we need work. Give them the attention they need and they will then be filled and not hamper your progress in the future.
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