Mistakes, challenges and problems can lead to success!

Most of us are familiar with the truth that some of the most difficult challenges people have ever faced have ultimately led to their success.  It is a fact that we often learn the secret to certain situations as we go through them ourselves.  It is usually out of our own personal experience that our eyes are opened to some new truth or a whole new angle on a situation.  We must simply be on the lookout for new opportunities.

Perhaps you have heard of Dr. Charles Stanley and In-Touch Ministries.  Very few people know how this world-wide ministry began.  When Dr. Stanley first became the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, he had no television ministry.  Each month he drove to a local television station to record four messages that would be played on the four consecutive weekends of each month.  On one such occasion, Dr. Stanley had preached four entire messages and was about to leave the studio when the technician realized there had been no film in the camera while the four sessions were being recorded!  There was nothing to do but load the camera with film and for Dr. Stanley to preach the same four messages all over again.  On his way home, Dr. Stanley made the decision to hire his own cameraman.  And, that was the beginning of In-Touch Ministries.  Millions of people around the world are blessed each week by that ministry and it all began because of a "mistake."

Personality Insights came about because of a personal challenge of mine.  In 1985, our oldest daughter, Rachael, was twelve years old.  She is our first-born daughter and from the beginning I knew there was something different about her.  I could not put my finger on the challenge but through a series of events, I began to understand personality information and my daughter. 

A friend of mine shared with me about the DISC Model of Human Behavior and helped me to understand that Rachael was a High-D type personality.  From that, I not only began to understand personalities, but to teach the information to other people as well.  That was twenty-two years ago and now Personality Insights information has been taught on six different continents.  We have over one thousand consultants who have been through our training and we reach over a million people every year.  Who would have ever thought that all of that would have been a direct result of not knowing how to deal with one of my daughters?  I am incredibly grateful for my High-D daughter because it was through her that my life's vocation became known to me.

In each of the above situations, there is one key factor.  If your mistakes, challenges and problems are to lead to success, you must first be on the lookout for a new opportunity.  If your eyes are open and you are looking for new ways to do things, you will certainly see them.   However, they will not lead you to anything but frustration if you are not looking for some solutions. 

I have the sneaking suspicion that some of you are very close to a goldmine opportunity if you will just begin to focus on the solution to the situation you are now facing.  Be creative.  Ask yourself what could be different or better about things that would ultimately bring more enjoyment and happiness to others.  I firmly believe that life sends us difficult situations in order for us to find the solutions and be a blessing to other people because of them.

As we come to the end of this year and are very close to the start of a new one, why not begin looking for the opportunity of a lifetime that may be just around the next corner?  You will not only benefit from it but many others will as well!

This information is provided in congruence with Personality Insights USA.