Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Don't miss your opportunity...

If you work in education and most likely any other profession, you are faced with new challenges on a daily basis. The beauty of these new challenges is that we are continually forced to push ourselves through the decision making process.

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The decision making process helps us to define and to develop who we are. The inability to make decisions that result in action are really challenges that we've missed to capitalize on.

Sometimes these challenges we are faced with seem insurmountable...

Sometimes they seem like they aren't our job or aren't our responsibility...

Sometimes we feel like the whole world may be working against us...

One approach and mindset that was coined by someone much smarter than I changed the way I look at these professional and life challenges.

Don't look at the challenge as something that someone did to you...

Don't look at the challenge as something that you 'have' to do... 

Instead, look at the challenge as something you 'get' to do... 

Remember, opportunity comes in all shapes and sizes, and in my experience opportunity never comes all neatly wrapped with a pretty bow on top.

Life doesn't present us with challenges we aren't able to overcome. It's time to start living...