There will be ups and
downs, ebbs and flows, fits and starts. There will be incidents you will label
failures, setbacks, and misfortunes, but that are really just lessons and
needed preparation for whatever success will bring. Life is a hurdle race, a
steeplechase, an Olympic pole vault event. As you clear each obstacle and meet
each challenge, you must summon your courage, faith, trust, hope, and belief. ‘
We explored a little game
of struggle:
The goal was to get as
many small beads as possible on a very frayed piece of rope in 30 seconds –
pretending the frayed rope is life and the little beads are our dreams and
goals.