Winning Against the Odds
But I was just taking my dog out and thinking back to when we bought this house….
We bought it about six years ago with the intention to flip it, and literally the day
we closed on it, was when the market fell out of real estate, so that was a SUPER AWESOME DAY (hahaha)! We decided to keep it (obviously) and, you know, we did the landscaping, and we did most of this stuff ourselves which was an experience in and of itself!
I went and bought flowers for the FIRST time at Home Depot and I remember knowing nothing about flowers. I was just buying things that I thought LOOKED cool. I wasn’t paying attention to whether they needed shade, or watering, or fertilizer! Apparently, I had no idea there were things called perennials, or certain flowers that only have a six month life, or a one season life, so pretty much EVERYTHING I bought was the one season life flower which was not good because I had not planned on keeping up this garden aaand I didn’t 🙂
Literally in my flower garden, out of all of these six month plants that all died there is ONE six years later that is STILL THERE, and I just thought that was a REALLY cool lesson!
Against the odds,
despite what it was supposed to do,
it’s STILL GOING!!
How often does our life dictate that we should give up or not succeed?
or not overcome because of our circumstance?
Maybe you didnt go to college,
maybe you’re born into a less fortunate family,
maybe you’re on food stamps,
maybe you have overwhelming circumstances in your life
that directly point towards the fact that you should not succeed,
maybe someone’s told you your entire life that you’re not good enough,
that you’re not worth it and that you can’t do it.
Whatever that thing may be in your life that keeps telling you that you can’t,
BE THAT FLOWER IN MY FLOWER BED!
You CAN make it despite your circumstances!
Succeeding Against the Odds
I don’t know what your circumstances may be, but I gaurentee someone has gone before you and has done it and SO CAN YOU. That’s why I LOVE hearing stories from Oprah Winfrey who was told she would never make it on public television… or Michael Jordan, who was cut from his high school basketball team. Their circumstances DEFINITELY dictated that Michael Jordan should NOT go on to be one of the BEST basketball players of all time… He couldn’t even make the team. Or Oprah Winfrey… was she gonna go on to become the BIGGEST TELEVISION GURU THAT EVER LIVED when the news channel told her she woulnd’t cut it?
NO MATTER what your circumstances, I want you to succeed despite.
I know you can do it.
Be the flower.
I don’t know how the flowers living,
but it succeeded despite it’s circumstances, against the odds, and I know you can do the same.
If you need help in your health and fitness, or if you want to start a part time job helping other people like I have shoot me a message at Jessica@jessicabowsernelson.com!
I would LOVE to hear from you, to help you, to learn your dreams and to help you achieve them, to help YOU succeed against the odds!
Talk to you guys later!
Digging Deeper,
Jessica Bowser Nelson
