So imagine that you’re an acorn that fell off the tree and you’re just minding your own business lying in the grass being… an acorn. Along comes an 8-year-old with big shoes and you just pray that he doesn’t have the mind to crush you. After all, you’re just trying to do your job being a good acorn and you never did anything to that kid… It’s like that in life sometimes. You’re minding your own business, trying to do your job—being a wife, a mother, an IT analyst, a professor, a buyer, whatever you strive to do… and all of a sudden someone comes along and thinks they’re bigger and better than you, or their kids are better than yours, or their career is more amazing and important than yours, and before you can blink it seems like their life mission is to crush you. Stomp you. Smash your dreams and put you down and put obstacles in your way just because “they can.” Or “they don’t like you.” Or maybe you are starting to believe the whispers of your imagination that say “you aren’t good enough.” Really? Not so fast. Let’s get this straight: There are people all over the world who push and shove, but that doesn’t mean you have to become victim of pushers and shovers. Rock stars are not victims. There are people who will do anything to climb their way up whatever their personal ladder of success may be, including bury you in the process. But being buried isn’t always such a bad thing.
Go back to the acorn analogy. Have you ever thought about what can happen when an acorn gets buried? If you find yourself in a circumstance where you’re “buried” in obstacles (including people who seem to create obstacles for you), do what the acorn does in (more…)
