Finding the strength, determination and focus to face new challenges can be far from easy. The alternative is deliberate ignorance and refusal. One is to fly, the other to falter.
The problem is that every-day existence brings with it new challenges and a response is demanded. We can anticipate but preparation can be sketchy, unreliable and time consuming.
It’s by embracing the new that we continue to grow and, in that growth, discover fresh things about our strength and potential.
We are sometimes surprised when we discover that the who we thought we knew has greater depth and perception than we had thought possible.
A key to mental stability is confronting and resolving whatever it is that comes with the day we are in. The here and now demand a response. Avoidance simply means adding extra weight to the griefcase that burdens us…the personal load that we carry.
Out of sight is most definitely not out of mind…but it can leave us suspecting that we are running that risk.
We can look back to where we have been. We can look forward to where we expect to be. But is only by looking to where we are that we can gain a true perspective of the space we are occupying.
Everything we have experienced – good, bad and indifferent – has brought us to this point in time.
Just as that makes us unique, it also makes today special.
We are enough. Today is enough.
We are here and the time is now.
Gary Bentley Counselling 