Learning and Growth: The silver lining.

If you have had a crappy day (or crappy year), but you have learnt something, is it really a bad day (or year)?

I ask myself this a lot. In terms of personal development and moving forward in life… learning is one of the absolute greatest things…one of the absolute greatest blessings.

If you look back on a year gone, and you reflect on everything you have learnt and the ways that you have grown, it is difficult to bypass. And you shouldn’t.

In terms of spiritual development and spiritual growth, again…. If you’re learning, you’re ahead of the game.

Sometimes… these learnings and lessons are really, really hard. Sometimes they are excruciatingly hard. But again, these lessons are still incredibly valuable.

Sometimes… I turn what could be perceived as a terrible day into an incredible blessing, as learning is taking place, which in turn makes life easier and/or richer or more palatable in your future ahead.

In fact, I have penned two books, all of which are about my (somewhat potent) learnings in life.

39 years of learnings to be precise.

You might wonder, how could someone with these particular types of (very consistent) learnings and lessons, even stand to live another day?

The answer to this is simple. I feel incredibly rich. I feel incredibly lucky. I feel incredibly blessed. Because I have turned incredible pain into learnings and lessons, and as I move forward in life, I have so much intrinsic knowledge that grounds me and makes me wiser and more resilient, every day.

So, do your best to thank the universe for all your hard lessons and difficult challenges, because they all make you wiser and 100x stronger. And at the end of the day, this is what matters.

Rise to the challenge/s, acknowledge the lessons and see all the silver linings.

Of which there are always plenty.

Love Kate xxx

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Author: Kate.Purcell

I am a passionate survivor of mental illness and I strive to help others on their own personal journeys of recovery. I also am passionately driven to reduce stigma in society through writing and speaking.

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