How Do You Grow Through Adversity?

Call back to a time where you were going through a rough time in your business or personal life. Lessons dictate our actions into the future. How do you learn from these experiences?

One way or another we have all faced adversity and hardships in our life. We must remember that adversity shapes us and is the reason we are who we are today.

We hold the power to take on hard times and try our hardest to get through it. People change emotionally, mentally and even physically too. Life tends to throw you curveballs when you least expect it and it is important that you know how you deal with hard times.

Here’s our take from one of our favorite analogies: and helps you learn how you deal with adversity:

A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee are all added to a boiling pot of water, what happens to these three things?

The carrot goes from hard to soft

The egg goes from soft to hard

The coffee beans change the water

All three of these food items enter boiling water in one state but after some time their contents drastically change. In the same way the water transforms these three objects, adversity calls for a similar transformation in each of us.

“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?”

You may have been each of these at one point, or even felt like all three simultaneously.?

Either way, all three states of being serve a different purpose for different reasons. Making them all equally important and valuable because the biggest take away is who you became because of adversity.