Friday, October 16, 2009

Are life's setbacks and challenges a blessing or a curse?

I got a copy of "50 Prosperity Classics", a collection of key messages and excerpts from the classic and best books on prosperity and abundance (a way to save time on reading! Haha...). 

By prosperity, it's not just about financial abundance but about well-being and giving back. Thus, the book is divided into 4 sections - Attracting Prosperity, Creating it, Managing it and Sharing it.

I just started reading a few pages and came across insightful messages from James Allen's Path to Prosperity. He knew of 2 men who lost their hard-earned savings while still young. The first fell into hopelessness and regret while the other said "worry won't bring it back, but hard work will". 

The first man continued to mourn his loss and bad luck which snowballed into even worse circumstances. The second one started anew, worked really hard and eventually regained his worth. To one, the loss was a curse. To the other, it was a blessing.

Allen says, "If circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they would bless and harm all men alike, but the fact that the same circumstances will be alike good and bad to different souls proves that good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it."

So when faced with life's challenges, just ask yourself - blessing or a curse? Move on or wallow in regret?