With all the focus on success it’s easy to overlook the valuable lessons we can learn from the more difficult parts of our journey. Below, you’ll find some very interesting insights from some of the most fascinating members of the community.
Shamii Dieuveille
Suffering has been my greatest teacher, offering lessons that success alone could never provide. It instilled resilience, humility, and the ability to trust God in the midst of challenges. I believe that in order to be a testimony to others, you first have to go through a test and those experiences refined my character and deepened my capacity to lead and serve with purpose. Read more >>>
Tori Rey
“I tell you the truth, it is very hard for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” —Matthew 19:23-24 (NLT) My third year of college, I was injured by a pharmaceutical medication that sent my body into an adverse autoimmune reaction where I was hospital-bound for weeks. Read more >>>
Tracy Penokie
Suffering has taught me lessons that success never could. I I’ve been at the bottom.. Pushing my two young children an hour to Walmart in a shopping cart on a blazing August day cuz I didn’t have the extra for bus fare. Read more >>>
Taylor Givan
Suffering builds resilience. When you do find success you’re able to track back to the suffering and see how far you’ve come. It puts things in perspective and makes success sweeter. Read more >>>
Dean Johanesen
I think any suffering we go through can teach us a bit about our ability to overcome and persevere. It is not always easy to see when we are going through something, but I think every time we suffer, we have an opportunity to find the lesson in that suffering and grow from it. Read more >>>
Robyn Pratt
Suffering taught me how to survive when there was no applause, no validation, and no certainty. Suffering taught me what success never could, that I can sit in the dark and not die. That I can be betrayed, abandoned, forgotten, and STILL wake up the next day with a heart that works. Read more >>>
Wil Seabrook
I have hit ‘rock bottom’ several times over the course of my professional life. I’ve learned much more in those instances than any amount of success has taught me. Read more >>>
