Obstacles Are Gifts

When life isn't going your way you have two choices: 1. Try to make it go the way you want it to by using force and stragegies, or 2. Accept that it is the way it is and use it as leverage to get what you want.

It isn't what happens to you that matters but how you respond to it.

When Philippe Petit was spying on the twin towers in the summer of 1974 preparing to sneak in with a team, rig a wire between the world trade centers, and do a high-wire act (which you can see in the movie "Man On Wire" I highly recommend it) he was scoping out the area when he stepped on a nail. He was on crutches and because of his crutches he realized that he could get into more areas than previously thought possible. People had compassion on him with crutches and he looked less suspicious.

What could have been an obstacle, a negative, became a plus. It because the best thing that happened at the time in order for him to gather intel on the area!

So when something happens that you think is an obstacle shift your mind towards it by asking the question "How is this the BEST thing to ever happen to me?!"