I recently watched a video of a speech by Duke University Ladies Basketball Coach Kara Lawson in which she said, too often we wait until “things get easier.” We say things like, when I get to be a senior things will get easier, or when I get accepted to college things will get easier.  When we get to be seniors in high school or get accepted to college, we find that things never get easier.  We just get better at handling more difficult things.  And when we do, guess what?  We are confronted with more difficult things.

I love the idea that things don’t actually get easier, we are just better equipped to handle hard things.  We can’t sit around thinking “Woe is me.  Life is too hard.”  We need to recognize that the people we looked at and thought they had it so easy, likely have what they want in life because they were better equipped to deal with the challenges it took to get them.  So I suppose the lesson here is not to worry about how hard or easy something is, but to prepare ourselves to be able to handle more difficult things.

Today, no every day, I encourage you to teach your students they cannot go through life thinking “things will get easier.”  They won’t.  We ALL confront challenges in our lives and must recognize that our ability to overcome the challenges is based on how equipped we are to face them.  Just sayin’!

Make Today a Magnificent Day!

Gary L Rupert

Lead Mentor/COO

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