Life is like the changing seasons

We like our life is constant and predictable patterns. But life is like the changing seasons—you cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

So the first major lesson in life to learn is how to handle the winters.

They come regularly, right after autumn. Some are long, some are short, some are difficult, some are easy, but they always come right after autumn.

That is never going to change. There are all kinds of winters:

The “winter” when you can’t figure it out, the “winter” when everything seems to go awry.

There are economic winters, social winters and personal winters.

Wintertime can bring disappointment, and disappointment is common to all of us.

So you must learn how to handle the winters.

You must learn how to handle difficulty; it always comes after opportunity.

The big question is what to do about winters.

Here is what you can do: You can get stronger; you can get wiser; you can get better.

Remember that trio of words: stronger, wiser, better.

The winters won’t change, but you can.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills.

Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.