Good Morning,
As you have read in previous posts, I am gearing up for a complex leg surgery in the middle of next week. This surgery was originally planned for Tuesday of this week and had to be postponed. I had mentally geared myself up for the surgery, preparing myself for the fact that I would not be able to walk for several weeks or longer, and that I would have a lot of pain as part of my life.
When the surgery was postponed, the mental preparation sputtered, and collapsed. Ultimately I had to regroup. Now having to wait another week, I have to get my mind back into gear to re-prepare for this surgery and re-calibrate my life around the aftermath.
I have spoken to many people, and kept my Facebook updated with what has been going on, all complications, and other side tracks included. Today I was talking to my Dad about getting myself ready again for the surgery. I told him that I was positive that I could get my mind back on track and get everything in order. He laughed and said “You better be, you wrote a book on being positive”. We both laughed.
While I am a positive person for the most part, there are still mountains to climb and challenges to overcome. Success can come at a high cost, and occasionally we get dirt kicked in our faces for our efforts. If we remain positive, and focused, even the tough jobs can be accomplished. Getting a fire started in a downpour is possible, but it is difficult. It takes knowledge and skill and often a persistence to overcome the adversities.
Getting my mind unwound from being out on disability and back at work for a week, just to be out again next week, and all the other mental preparation is not easy. It takes resilience and focus. Something we all have within us, if we only look and focus on it.
We can get ourselves pumped and prepared for whatever faces us over and over if we needed to. The secret is to look within ourselves and see what makes us tick. If we are pessimists and try to get our engines primed and ready, we will have a harder time as we will be looking at reasons why we can’t, shouldn’t, etc. The good news is that it is our decision whether we want to be positive or not. We can turn our frowns upside down. We can mentally gear ourselves up the next challenge.
It may not be easy, but we can do it if we believe in ourselves and don’t give up. Over time, we will find this task is easier and easier, even when we don’t always succeed, or if like what happened to me earlier this week, the winds are taken out of our sails.
We can re-ignite the flames in our lives. So long as we believe that we can, and we put our mind and body into doing it.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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