This is a Test

 



Everything is a test of sorts. You and I get tested all the time…

  • Work

  • Relationships

  • Kids

  • Family

  • Friends

  • Things we want to get ‘good’ at

  • Life… Oh, my word LIFE!

It’s endless really!

But this is a GOOD thing!

Really?!

Yes!

These tests are what help us grow and make us strong.

With every test we get the opportunity to explore, express and expand our capacity.

Without it we become soft, weak and fragile.

Now…

We have to find balance within all of this ‘testing’. We don’t want to become too battle hardened so to speak.

This is why we have to learn to ride the waves not fight them.

I’m still learning…

Like most, some days I’m enjoying my ride more than others.

Some times I’m carving and hanging ten…

Other times I’m going over the falls and picking sand out of my trunks from having my a** handed to me.

But, remember what some old Japanese or Okinawan sage once said,

“Get knocked down seven times, get up eight!”

This is why your training is so important!

Your training should help you to be more resilient. It should help you to be more clear, calm and joyful…

It should help you to be less reactionary and rebound faster to those conflicts you can avoid… And the ones that need to be addressed.


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Keep going,

~Craig

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