Episode #149 Blessing In Disguise

Three Problems

• Many of life’s blessings disguise themselves as curses, so we fail to appreciate them in the moment they take place.
• We often choose to allow others’ criticism to hurt us rather than help us.
• If we call it quits too soon, we will never know what joys were awaiting us just around the corner.

Three Principles

• A bump in the road that leads us to change lanes often brings us closer to where we are meant to be.
• As we persist through challenges, we gain the perspective to help others persevere through their own challenges as well.
• Our calling in life is often found in the place of our greatest pain.

Three Practices

• Create a list of those difficult moments in your life that later turned out to be blessings.
• Encourage the stuck and struggling people in your life to keep pressing forward.
• When you find yourself grappling with failure, consider the question, “Where do I find my identity?”