Nailed To The Cross!

Have you ever felt like you were jinxed? That somehow you were just born on wrong side of tracks? Have you ever felt like when bird of paradise flew over it wasn't snow balls he was dropping?

Join club; club of life that is. You know, I have heard it said before, and I may have said it sometime in past myself, that trials and troubles are here to teach us something. I sure they probably can if we pay attention.

But, you know something? There is another side of that coin. If troubles and problems and pain are here to teach us something, why don't we give all of our kids a hammer to take to school and tell them to hit themselves in head with it because they will learn better if hurt all day?.

I realize that is a preposterous idea, but you get my point. There is probably truth on each side of coin, but I prefer to examine other side and see if there might be something we can learn from that.

An Ace Up Our Sleeve!

Suppose we say there is no reason for PDT. suppose we say we had nothing at all to do with them coming our way. Suppose we say, we were not born on wrong side of tracks, we are not jinxed, and it has nothing to do with bad luck.

Ok, so if we say PDT is not just to teach us something, and make us fit for next battle, why are they here? How about a very simple answer? That's just way that life works. And, every one of us is included in design. So, universe has a job to do and we do too.

Just A Good Ole Boy!

This kind of article always brings up subject of Job and his troubles. The Bible says Job was a righteous man. So, it wasn't Job who brought problems on himself. He said he didn't do anything to deserve them. He wasn't jinxed and did not have perpetual bad luck.

In fact, historians tell us whole ordeal with Job only lasted around nine months. And, then Job got everything back he had lost. Job did say something interesting though. He said, "The thing I' have always feared has come upon me". Umm. Interesting.

The thing I have feared. That could lead us right back to what's going on inside our head. So, it's not your inherited bad luck, it's not some hex that some witchdoctor has put on you, and it's not I always end up with short end of stick kind of deal.

The end of stick we end up with does have a lot to do with what is going on inside our head, If we believe that we always get short end, then life does it's job by helping us get short end. If we believe that we win a few and lose a few, universe goes into motion to help us win a few and lose a few.

Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag!

He suggested that value of an hour was priceless. This confused me some, so this is what he said to me.

"If you invest one hour each day in understanding yourself and your environment better, you will accumulate nine 40-hour weeks over course of a year!"

Yikes!

As you can imagine I was blown away when he put it to me that way.

Nine 40- hour weeks? This seemed impossible until I did math.

365 days, times one hour each is...yup, nine 40-hour weeks!

He went on to ask me how good I could get at something if I did it all day, every day for just over 2 months. Well, you already know answer to that.

I thought I could be awesome!

He went on to tell me that over course of just five years, I would have invested equivalent of 1,825 hours of focus on whatever I desired to accomplish my life.