“If you are not stronger after this quarantine. You don’t lack the time. You lack the discipline.”—Anonymous
I have to credit my son’s high school wrestling coach, Doug Samarron. It is one of the many positive and inspiring statements he has shared and continues (even in the off-season) to share with the wrestlers.
We are in challenging and confusing times. It is April 4th, and, already, people seem ready for the year to be over. Sadly, we are laser-focused on the negatives and are failing to see the many positives—the many opportunities. Yes, things are bad, but there is so much good that is coming from all of this. We should be able to look back on 2020 as stronger, more confident, and more other-centered. Whether this will be the case, is our choice.
The year 2020 should be the year that we go from “have” to “get” (to borrow, again, from Andy Lausier). We should be focused on our grattitude and our Purpose. There is some foreshadowing in the fact that the year is 2020—the year of perfect vision, perhaps?
These are times of great opportunity. Opportunity, however, has to be taken. The choices we make today will not only affect who we are tomorrow but those around us. As we seek to flatten the curve of a pandemic virus, let us not flatten the curve of our capacity to do good and to see good. We submit to the circumstances of 2020 or we can conquer them. We can be defeated or we can grow.
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!