Hal Elrod reflects on how to embrace adversity by practicing acceptance, recognizing temporary nature of losses, and maintaining faith that positive actions lead to future rewards. He draws on personal experiences (his car accident and cancer) and frames adversity as an opportunity to learn lessons that can help oneself and others.
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Acceptance, Right? And it's those three words, can't change it. That's the first thing that reminds me. If I can't change it, it's my choice to feel emotional pain. I don't have feel emotional pain. Another thing that I think helps me is the. It's just a reminder that everything is temporary and reminding myself that, you know, even though I wanted this really bad, the loss, or that we're missing out on it or not working out, they wanted, that's temporary. There'll be something else that's probably even better. So I think faith comes into play too. Just having faith that if you always. If you can't, if you consistently move in a positive direction and you do good things and put good out into the world, that life will reward you. And also part of it is looking to. Anytime we hit adversity, like with my cancer, I had the belief from my car accident that what can I. Or the question, what can I learn from this that I can use to help other people? Because if we overcome adversity, we're always learning how to overcome adversity, and that can always serve us in the future, and it can serve other people in the future as well.
