You Are Strong Enough

Though you're tired and it's been a long week and you just don't see where you'll get the strength, remember this:

You Are Strong Enough.

The other day, I went to work feeling exhausted. I had done too much, had tried to meet too many obligations, and just felt like I had just over-extended myself.

So I went in to work to tackle what absolutely HAD to be done before I could go home, get some rest and restore my energy.

One of those tasks was to retrieve a 500 copy duplicating project I had sent to our duplicating center. For some reason, I had decided to wait until the very last minute to go and get it and now I was paying the price.

So I grabbed my cart, made the trek to the duplicating center, and after making an outside trip to a separate building, catching an elevator and then another long trek to the place, I finally arrived.

I got my copies and packed the three boxes they gave me on top of my cart. I looked at those boxes, thought about the long trek, elevator ride and outside trip I was going to have to make to get them back and then felt completely overwhelmed.

So I stopped and rested for a while. And while I was resting, I started plotting a new route back which would only involve going down one set of steps and then an outside trip and then I'd be back at my office. And as I studied the boxes, I realized there was a far more efficient way of stacking them, and so I proceeded to do just that.

And, before I realized it, I was re-stacking and moving boxes and making my return trip and having such a good time of it that I FORGOT how tired I was. It didn't occur to me until I had gotten down the steps, made the outside trip humming, and gotten back to my offices that, as a matter of fact, I was feeling GREAT!

So what had changed? Not my physical state. I was still exhausted and desperately needed to get some sleep.

But what had changed was my MIND.

It made me realize that we are unconvinced of our strength simply because we do not BELIEVE we have it in us. We believe we are too tired, too weak and too overtaxed to do the things which need to be done.

Well, I'm here to tell you today: You ARE strong enough.

You are strong enough to do all the things you need to do.

You are strong enough to problem-solve and advance your way out of that situation.

You are strong enough to be on top of the world.

You are strong enough to survive another day.

And you are strong enough to get through this challenge just like you did the last five challenges before this.

You ARE strong enough.

Now you must simply BELIEVE.