How do you react when faced with a challenge?  Every day, there can be different challenges that enter your world.  They may be as small as controlling yourself when an aggressive driver honks their horn, or how you deal with an irate customer.  When faced with a challenge, is when we can see how well we are doing on this life’s journey.

Challenges in life can create great opportunities.  When faced with a difficult time we can “get back to the basics.”  When things are going well, we sometimes forget what’s really important in our lives.  We can focus on the “small stuff” because there is no “big stuff” that needs our attention.  However, we sometimes drift off course from the priorities in our lives.

When we get back to the basics, we may need to relearn some fundamental things that we once took for granted.  For example, when recovering from a surgery or an injury, we may need to learn how to walk again.  We might need to relearn other once simple movements, such as how to eat, how to talk, and the like.  These “set backs” can be embraced as an opportunity to grow.

Other areas of your life might also be opportunities to get back to the basics.  Maybe you and your partner begin to date again, like when you first met.  Think about the excitement you once had that might have dwindled over the years.  In your career, you might need to think about going back to the basics with your sales strategies.

When we go back to the basics, we are creating an opportunity to perfect different aspects of our lives.  We are not looking at things as a “set back” but rather an opportunity for mastery.   Life is never perfected.  We are always practicing!

Today is a great day to identify different areas of your life where you need to get back to the basics.  Look are your relationships, your physical surroundings, the physical and mental aspects of your body, etc.  Find one or two areas where you will embrace the opportunity for becoming more perfected.

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Every day is an opportunity for growth.  Even re-learning things that were once second nature is an opportunity.  Embrace those opportunities and let yourself become a master of this lifetime!

Written, Fri, Sep 2, 2016, 7:34 – 7:43 AM MDT