Thought of the week. We are completely and solely responsible for being ready for our adversities and opportunities. It's our job to build enough strength to face the bad and enough capability to grasp the good.
Build
When you face adversity weakly, you build weakness. When you face adversity with strength, you build strength. Both are a simple choice that contributes to your foundations. Build wisely. "We don't always get to choose the adversity we face.We do always get to choose how we respond to it."Anthony Dyson
Space to struggle
Your job is not to save your children from struggle, it's to give them a space to struggle in relative safety. By trying to protect them you inadvertently have the opposite effect. Struggle, hurt, and failure don't belong solely in the bad category - they exist in the good as well. They are necessary for... Continue Reading →
Without hardship, there is no strength.
As a tree needs the wind, so to does a human need hardship. A controlled and comfortable environment does nothing for the strength of a tree's trunk. In the absence of the natural stressor, wind, the trunk grows weak and without stress wood. Without stress wood, the trees would grow quickly but fall over before... Continue Reading →
Character by repetition
"Our character won't stand strong in the storm if we haven't sat in the rain." Character needs to be developed to be available at the time of need and we get the opportunity to do this hundreds of times per day, every time we pick the right thing over the easy thing. You know it,... Continue Reading →
Pay the Price
"It's all achievable, we just have to be willing to pay the price." I wrote "Pay the Price" on the blackboard in our gym a few years ago to serve as a reminder of the price of success, a re-calibration of sorts. I stumbled upon a poem today that rekindled my thoughts of this motto... Continue Reading →
New Adventure
And some nights, my thoughts don't flow out as a blog or an article. Some nights, poetry is all that's in there. These strange times when we're forced in, still finding ways to fight and win. It all seems tough but that's good you see, we grow more in adversity. So hoist the black flag... Continue Reading →
We control half the equation
E (Event) + R (Response) = O (Outcome) This is a simple equation that can help develop what we like to call "The Lion Mind" Simple is a deceiving word because simple doesn't mean easy, just simple. The good thing about the above is that once we realise that no matter what, we control our... Continue Reading →
See the good
Keep seeing it. Keep sharing it. Keep focusing on it. Don't ignore the bad, use it for guidance and knowledge but see the good. It's everywhere and one thing is for sure, give humans adversity and we fight, we create, we band together and we do good. We light the proverbial fire of hope. As... Continue Reading →
Parenting in tough times
How can I help Amy more in this tough time? What extra support and help can I give her when she asks for advice? It's no surprise that the already super tough parenting gig got that little bit tougher in the Pandemic. Our youngest, Hazel, has been a handful for these first few months and... Continue Reading →
Inspired Lion 