"Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better." Jim Rohn
Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh captured the hearts of Americans with their amazing feats. Forever immortalized in newsreels, newspapers, books and movies, these people took unimaginable risks.
We love the person who pushes the envelope, but we don't want to be that person. We'll line up to watch, getting a vicarious thrill from their adventures. But when life invites us to take a risk, to live on the edge, we say no thanks. Convinced something is beyond our limitations, we shrink from the challenge. When the truth is, we have no clue what our limits are because we refuse to allow them to be tested.
It seems to me if I'm up against a difficulty, it wouldn't even be there in the first place if I didn't have what it takes to meet it and eventually overcome it. Of course I may fail, but so what? Sometimes in failing we learn things we could learn no other way.
We whine, "This is too hard," when we should be reaching deep down within ourselves. It's there we would find we are more than equal to the task at hand.
Susan
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