Experience: A Hard Teacher
"Experience: That most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
- C.S. Lewis
(1898-1963)
Author/Educator
Have you
ever been through a difficult time in life and once you have passed it looked
back and wondered, “What was that all about?”
Several years ago I went through a big change in my life and
career. I did all that I knew I was to
do and felt great about my decision at the time. Not long after I made my needed changes, the
bottom seem to fall out of my life. It
was more emotional than experiencing bad things happening to me, however, if
you have been through a difficult emotional time, you know how bad it can
be. This experience lasted for about a
year and then things improved. Soon, I
was my old self, feeling positive and moving in a good direction.
I look back on that difficult
time, even today, and for the life of me I cannot see why I had to experience
it. There was nothing I can see that I
could not have learned in a different way.
But I can say this, I learned (to use the thoughts of C.S. Lewis) my God
how I learned. Where I may not
understand why, I do understand that the lessons during that time are burned
into me forever.
No one likes to be taught hard
lessons. Success-minded people believe
they are constant learners and look at every experience as a lesson. So why are some lessons harder to learn than
others? I will be very honest with you:
I do not know. But I do know this, once
these hard lessons are learned, we never need to repeat them. They not only make us better, they make us
wiser and less likely to need to go down that road again.
Remember that the lessons of
life’s experiences are there for a reason.
You will never experience anything needlessly. You may not always understand at the time,
and you may not always like it. However,
if you learn the lessons life has to offer, you will always accept it, even
welcome it. Our main goal as success-minded
people is not to achieve dreams, money or a better life, however all are
important and good. Our main goal is to
become better people. To be the best
that you can be. To develop character,
integrity and be honorable. Life will
teach us many things on our journey to achievement. The greatest is to be the best person you
were created to be. That my friend, is a
hard lesson indeed.
To discover how you can achieve the dream you have believed was
impossible for too long, read On The
Journey To Achievement by John Patrick Hickey. You can get a signed copy for yourself and
get one for a friend, by going to http://www.johnpatrickhickey.com/it-is-good-to-set-goals-better-to-achieve-then/.
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