Grand Obstacles

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference or folly, and is now called upon to summon up all his energy and intelligence in order to extricate himself, and to find a better way; that the powers within him are crying out for greater freedom, for enlarged exercise and scope."... James Allen

Viewing any trouble as treasure is such a difficult task. Even with practice it never becomes a totally automatic response… easier yes… but auto pilot is just too much to expect. Adjusting to whatever is seen from a distance comes closest to being made up of programmable responses.

Tracking its progress gives set boundaries to work within, allowing us to foam the runway to soften its landing. It’s the shit we don’t see coming that tests our real aptitude as well as stretching our fortitude to its outer limits.

Aptitude is defined as an inherent ability. We all have built in power that even the most enlightened often underestimate, and the clueless totally ignore its reality. Aptitude has a lot to do with attitude. I certainly don’t think any of us should search out grief just to prove who is master and who is slave.

I simply know that it isn’t what we carry… but how we balance it that matters most. The right mind set eases even the worst aches and makes some kind of sense out of any suffering. I’ve had plenty in my life to make me bitter, yet I refuse to put that kind of garbage into my system.

I may panic for a time when I get blindsided, but I never stay on wobble for long. I just take my own advice and think about it, let it ride, then decide… and I always choose to keep the price as low as possible and the profit as steep as I can possibly manage.