“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances”- Viktor Frankl, from Man’s Search for Meaning
If you haven’t read the above mentioned book by Viktor Frankl, I highly recommend that you do.
It is a wonderful book. Viktor Frankl was a doctor/psychologist who was also Jewish and because of that second fact, he was placed in a concentration camp by the Nazis. His family was murdered while he was in captivity.
His stance is that a human being’s number one motivation is not to seek pleasure (as Freud and many others postulated), but to seek MEANING.
When we can find meaning in any situation, we will overcome any obstacle.
The good news is almost 100% of the time, if we look hard enough, there is meaning to be found either within the struggle or on the other side of it.
So today, when facing a hurdle, large or small, look for meaning within and you will overcome.
Happy Thursday!
-Dr Lindeman
Dissemination of Inspiration 