Move past yourself and your circumstances, Adapt and grow

We all have doubts, fears, and obstacles in our way. Everyday, we can make excuses about not being able to lose weight, finish school, be a better parent, child, student, spouse, or friend. We say its too hard or too time consuming and settle for the status quo and move on.

Well, that's is not the truth, and I have been guilty in the past of this type of thinking and excuse making. I told myself that I didn't have the time or it was beyond my control.

I have changed that thinking by being more intentional in ever aspect in my life. I am doing a better at planning my time ahead of time and planning to be successful in every aspect of my life.

Zig Ziglar has said that their are 7 different aspects of your life and each one affects the others. It's like a wheel and if one spoke is broken of missing, the wheel runs flat. The 7 areas are family, career, mental, social, spiritual, financial, and physical.

I would like to let you know about a man who has inspired me and for everything he accomplished in his life, despite his situation, then I have no excuse for not accomplishing more with my life and abilities. The man I'm talking about is A. Bentley Wright.

Bentley was born just like you and me and grow up like an average boy would do in the US. Now when Bentley was 19, he was in an accident that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Now, Bentley could have taken his chair and stayed at home and never done anything, and no one would have thought less of him, but he couldn't do it. He finished college, moved to California, finished law school, joined the California and Missouri bar exams and while doing all that, continued to help others learn and grow, and find the faith that their life was missing

He moved back to Missouri and built a house for a children's home, Coyote Hill. While he was unable to have kids, he shared the love he had for kids who needed help, all the cousins in our family, and most importantly, his niece and nephew.

Now if he could do all this, live longer than medical science said he would, and touch so many lives, while unable to get out of a wheelchair, what excuse can you have that is stopping you from making your life better and the lives of others?


Bentley went home this January and while we miss him, he is free from his physical limitations and by allowing his mind and spirit to move beyond his physical self, he is able to now be his whole self now. While those who knew him, we miss him, but he is not lost. We know where he is and will see him again.

Humans have been blessed with the ability to adapt. It's the ability that the dinosaurs didn't have and they died because of their lack of adaption. Don't be a dead dinosaur, live like a human.