Motivational Monday - The Struggle is Real
So many quotes came to mind this past week to feature for today’s post. Life happens, struggles happen. Ah-ha, that's it! Let's talk about life's struggles and their outcomes. I’m a firm believer that the manner in which we approach these struggles has a lot to do with the outcome. Some of just this week's struggles come to mind...
This past week we had more political divisiveness - this struggle is real and is first and foremost in many American’s minds. We want to be ‘united’ but, our approach to our differences (struggles) seems to be impacting, fairly severely, the outcome.
Our REALTOR® organization is leading us down challenging paths - policing our every move. Now, that’s going to be a struggle! I want to know how many employees we will need to pay salaries to police all 1.5 million or so agents during their personal time. Perhaps Alexa can help?
Buyers are struggling to find homes in their price range and then when they do, struggling to find the perfect recipe to win the ensuing bidding war. Again, I think the approach to the struggle has a lot to do with the progress/outcome.
Personally, I have been majorly challenged, getting my husband from the house to our dock. Who knew that it would even BE a challenge at all? The issue is that the angle from the yard to the dock requires a very long walkway/ramp to meet the angle issue (and make the ramp ADA compliant). Also, piers have to be installed in our riprap and then it’s a challenge building anything on top of those piers in the riprap!
We got quotes from several dock builders whose pricing was over-the-top. It was obvious that the job was too challenging for them, they didn’t want to take it on so, they made sure (with pricing) that they wouldn’t get the job!
We decided to get a structural engineer to give us direction and a plan, thinking that would help a contractor see that it could be done. Sure enough, one took it on and it’s been a lot of fun, watching the walkway come to fruition.
I was, however, reminded on Saturday that once I realized this wasn’t going to happen in a day, I began to appreciate the process. Our contractor, also a dear friend of ours, knows me well so, he set me straight! I had been a little disappointed that the ramp wasn’t complete and I must have shown it.
I decided I was going to make it my mission to get out there, dig in and help every minute that I could. Now, talk about struggle - it’s REAL! We are seeing progress now and it is so exciting. I know now why Rome wasn’t built in a day!
Will any of these issues be an issue in 5 years? That’s one question that I always ask myself - if it is going to matter to me in 5 years. 99% of the time, it is NOT!
Do you leave the struggles behind that you don’t have control over? Or, do you attack all struggles head-on, making them your own?
Without the struggle, there is no progress.
Have a great week ahead, full of great progress!
© Debe Maxwell | The Maxwell House Group | RE/MAX Executive | CharlotteBroker@icloud.com | Motivational Monday - The Struggle is Real
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