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Your Challenges:What have you faced?
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
OLD IDEA:
A → X
• A = Event
• X = Stress
NEW IDEA:Reuben Hill’s
Model of Stress
ABC → X
• A = Event
• B = Resources
• C = Meaning
• X = Stress
Your Resources: What tools do you have?
Helpful friendsHobbiesCreativityReligious faithPersonal journalA family petSavingsMentors or counselors
Your Meaning:How do you make sense of
challenges?
“Men are disturbed not by things, but the views which they take of them.”
- Epictetus
We can turn lump of coal experiences into diamonds by the way we think
about them.
1. Can you think of people who have been refined by their challenges, who overcame them and accomplished amazing things? What inspires you about their stories?
2. Are you willing to share an example from your own life story that commemorates a blessing you have received as you have dealt with a challenge?
Challenges:Your opportunity for growth?
Challenges can help us draw closer to other
people, develop greater compassion, and learn to value the simple things in
life.
Inspiring
Your Story
Challenges help us grow.
