| This week has provided me with a few | | | | incomplete projects I had not appreciated how |
| challenges. | | | | this had been holding me back. |
| I lost months of work in one fell swoop when my | | | | By losing all this work I freed up my energy. |
| computer crashed. Having not backed up my | | | | Now I am able to assimilate the lessons of this |
| system this meant that I lost all of my music, | | | | episode and focus on one task at a time. It is a |
| videos, photos, products, e-books and documents. | | | | core learning and has enabled me to have more |
| This constituted several thousand hours of work | | | | focus, flow and certainty in all that I do. Every |
| and memories saved onto my hard drive. | | | | challenge in life bears gifts that can be uncovered |
| Apart from the loss of my work came the added | | | | when we look for them. |
| expense of replacing my computer. This served | | | | What gifts are you ready to uncover? |
| as a hard hit initially. It is fair to say that it took a | | | | Whatever challenge that you face at the moment |
| few days to fully process the learnings of this. | | | | there is a gift waiting for you. By asking the |
| Then I had my epiphany.... | | | | question "What gift does this situation bear that I |
| All of my life I have had great ideas and been | | | | haven't yet discovered?" regularly, you will start |
| good at carrying them out to about 80% of | | | | to see every challenge as a gift. |
| completion before a much better idea comes | | | | This may not occur instantly but it will occur by |
| along and shifts my attention in another direction. | | | | holding the faith and asking the question |
| Although I had completed some projects, many | | | | continually. |
| were left incomplete. | | | | I may have lost many things in the past few |
| Incomplete things drain energy and with so many | | | | weeks, yet I have gained so much more. |