#GrowingPains

**NEWSFLASH**

Here's a startling fact: If you aren't growing - you're dying.

I mean, there's just no way around it.

The fish that go with the flow, are the dead ones!

I think for the most part, we all understand this simple truth - but in everyday life, we seem to forget it. We let those day-to-day struggles get the best of us, lose our cool and act entitled to a day without any obstacles. But obstacles breed growth.

Either way, you simply cannot GROW without those growing pains....

Now here's the thing. I'm just a regular ole girl. There's nothing extraordinary about me. I'm not an heir to a fortune, or born with any kind of extraordinary privilege. I wasn't an academic prodigy, or an athletic great. I'm not supermodel status, or born with networking connections that gave me any advantages over others. But there's one thing that has always given me an advantage in life - I'm one adaptable B!

I recognize those moments of growth, otherwise known as struggles/obstacles/

set backs/trial/tribulations/failures and I let the lessons they bring ABSORB!

I have bad stuff happen, I'm not immune to it. No one is. But I see the lesson in the struggle and I let it do what it's supposed to. Humble me, steer my focus, guide me to where I'm supposed to be, motivate me to push harder towards a goal or adjust my sails to a better suited goal.

That's life!

A constant and consistent set of growing pains. And here's the beautiful thing: You come out of every single one of them better. Stronger. More resolute and determined.

Just like muscles have to tear to grow back stronger, you will too!

xoxo

C.Mo