Turning Struggle into Wisdom

I recently had an amazing vacation time was so fun, a time of carefree adventures, amazing new experiences, and letting myself be fully in the moment, enjoying and indulging too.

And then coming home, I saw the contrast of my day to day. Little moments of life’s frustrations, and the small struggles of the day to day. Small frustrations, but they are there, like sand in my shoes. Why can’t I just go back to vacation?

But then I had the thought, what if there is actually a deeper wisdom forming from the “struggle”?

Nature has some amazing metaphors and this is well illustrated through a poem I found on the oyster and the pearl:

There once was an oyster, whose story I tell,
Who found that some sand had got into his shell.

It was only a grain, but it gave him great pain.
For oysters have feelings, although they’re so plain.

Now, did he berate the harsh workings of fate
That had brought him to such a deplorable state?

Did he curse at the government, cry for election,
And claim that the sea should have given him protection?

‘No,’ he said to himself as he lay on a shell,
Since I cannot remove it, I shall try to improve it.

Now the years have rolled around, as the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate destiny stew.

And the small grain of sand that had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.

Now the tale has a moral, for isn’t it grand

What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?

What couldn’t we do If we’d only begin
With some of the things That get under our skin.

–Author Unknown

Sometimes the things we think are working against us are actually building us up to greater wisdom, preparing us for what’s next.

What is the sand in your shoe that is really forming a deeper wisdom?

If you are ready to transform more of your struggles into pearls 9f wisdom that help you move forward, then I hope you’ll join me in the Powerful Intuition Masterclass series

When we ask better questions, we can transform the struggle from stuck into greater awareness and greater ease.

Ask instead:

What am I learning in this situation?

How is this workin for me?