Adversity to Benefit - Even a child can "get it"...

"Adversity to Benefit" - it's a phrase that I first came across in Napoleon Hill's famous 1937 book titled "Think & Grow Rich".

It truly means that for every adversity in the world, there is, by the law of Nature, a corresponding benefit. The trick is, you have to be willing and able to look for the benefit. This takes a bit of training for the mind.

For some reason, we are raised in a culture that tends to sensationalize and see only the bad - the adversities. But, today, I was reminded at just how easy it is to look at life through the lens of hope for something better to come. My six year old daughter came home from school and told us about her busy day in first grade.

The back drop for this story is that the past week for her has been one let down after another with various "clubs" on the playground being formed and dismantled faster than an investment bank can go out of business these days. She experienced one disappointment after another as she tried her turn at starting a club just to be let down by no takers.Then flip the scene to today.

Apparently, there were three girls that she just met on the playground and they all seemed to get along as if it was meant to be. And so a new club was started - without effort, I might add. But, the real happy ending came at the end of the story when our daughter said "I'm glad those other girls didn't want to be my friend....because I never would have met my new friends today".

Adversity to benefit - if we start to train our minds that something good will always come from something bad - then we will seek to find the good whenever something bad does happen. So go find yourself a new club today - a club of good things that you deserve in your life.

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