Happy Monday !
I hope your week is off to a great start.
In my goal of encouraging you and finding ways to build you up in all your varied pursuits, I often see successful people run into times of discouragement. For most people, it doesn't last very long, usually because we get
over ourselves and we plug back into our lives.
This leads me to my point. Discouragement is not depression, and it isn't about FEELING BAD. Yes, it feels bad but the feeling is not itself discouragement!
Discouragement is the moment when we are no longer tethered to the future we desire. It's the moment we move from active to passive, from driver to passenger. It is a loss of bearing. A temporary sense of being lost. A
moment when our GPS signal is "roaming."
It feels really bad because discouragement touches our core being, it is a moment where we feel like we will never get to be the self we want. It's the pain of living in a false or unrealized self.
There is a guaranteed path out of discouragement, and it works every time: HOPE.
- One phone call from a person of influence can change everything.
- One opportunity can
re-route your course and immediately give you options that were not there a minute before.
- One bit of good news, can validate our long struggle.
In one moment all the pain of discouragement can turn to vapor, when not a single thing has actually changed. The only variable is that a new path has come into view. A new coordinate is locked. That's called Hope.
Once we learn this lesson, we learn the skill of tethering ourselves to "Good
News." It is always finding a way toward our best life. It's a muscle that makes us keep on kicking. Remember discouragement cannot last unless we lack the courage to keep going.
