All of us are faced with Challenges on a daily basis. We have challenges at work or in our businesses, at home, in our relationships, with our health, with our finances and with our self. I ask you, how are you mastering those challenges and are you finding the Gifts in that Garbage? What I would like you
to see is that we have gifts in all of this garbage and when we embrace what we are learning in these challenges, we move through them faster, we appreciate it more and we find ways to learn from the lesson and have phenomenal growth. You can “Master Your Challenges in Business and Life!”
In this picture I am pulling around my “garbage” in a wagon. All of us know people like this. They come into a room constantly complaining and getting all of their negativity and excuses all over us. They do it all the time. They have problems with everything and have to get it all over us all the time, right? Do we like it? NO, we hate it, in fact, we try to avoid this person at all cost!
We all have challenges in our lives. I call this our garbage. It is the things that we would love to not have to deal with, like the trials and perhaps painful things. As you can see in this picture I am holding a McDonalds bag representing one of the biggest challenges ever in my life. No, not McDonalds, but I use this garbage to represent the Suicide death of my twin brother. Yes, perhaps the most difficult challenge I have ever faced in my life! In the video I explain the gifts that I have found from this and how I have become a stronger, more influential person by having gone through this horrific challenge. Could I stop this from happening? No. Was it even my choice? No. But I can choose how I deal with it every day and in every way to benefit my life for good.
“Challenges will come to all of us. How we choose to see and handle them will determine how we go through them and learn or just endure them”. –Kris Barney
I love this quote; “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes it meaningful.” Having gone through many of life’s most difficult challenges myself with my family and in business, I have had a “Most Interesting & Meaningful Life! One that most people cannot believe the challenges we have had to face or the amount of challenges we almost always have going on at
any given time. For me, it makes sense as why I do what I do now! It is definitely interesting and above all, meaningful!
You have heard, “The way we handle anything is the way we handle everything!” Guess what, it’s true! To have our lives become what we want them to become, we must start doing things differently. That starts with how we see our challenges, our trials and our hardships. Our lives are abundantly blessed. But for most of us we are so focused on the “baggage or garbage” that we start to not even see or recognize the gifts. We do not learn the lesson and then we are faced with that same lesson in a different challenge. Our purpose in this life is not to be miserable….it is to be happy and joyous, to gain knowledge and learn and to be extremely successful! The only way to do that is to have things that challenge us and push our buttons to create the best YOU possible!
When we choose to see what we are learning and learn it quicker, the challenge becomes easier or in many cases, goes away. When we choose to find the joy, the lesson and the benefit in what we are going through, it blesses others and our self. We are all given challenges in order to learn and grow. The way I see it, let’s do it as fast as possible and move on, Onward and Upward, right?
In the video of this training, I brought up a volunteer and we had the entire audience assist us in finding the “garbage or challenges” that we are dealing with in our work environment or in our businesses. As they came up and gave our volunteer their garbage it showed up quickly in how that is all he had time to manage and when opportunities arose that would move his business forward in a huge way, he was too buried with the day to day challenges of the job to even accept the new possibility. Watch our episode to see just how this plays out. It is like this in all businesses! We miss so many opportunities because we are too busy putting out the fires rather than managing the challenges and finding ways to improve and move forward.
As we worked through the template that I have designed, you can easily see how to assess what is happening, define whether it is a challenge or the effects of the challenge, identify the garbage and find solutions to resolve the issues! I love doing trainings with Corporations, individuals and Entrepreneurs to show them how to work through this template and get the results they want. It sounds simple, yet I promise you it is powerful. When we can learn from what is affecting us, we can raise productivity, raise revenue and sales and we become powerful at getting through the rough spots and creating ways to be more successful.
Watch today to see how you can recognize the gifts that are in your challenges. They will assist you to become a better you! When we honestly take a look inside of ourselves, we can evaluate, make a few consistent adjustments and create positive change. It does not have to be a major overhaul to make important shifts in who we are and how we are viewing our own lives. Watch this week’s episode to see how to really find the Gifts in Your Garbage. It is possible to see things differently and to actually treasure the challenge that taught you the lesson. This video shows you how to, “Master Your Challenges in Business and Life!” Watch it now!