(MM): Hardship is relative (2023 reflection)

Happy Monday!🙌

As 2023 winds down..

I wanted to share some perspectives that I received from a thought leader I follow.✨

I believe it’s important that you create time for reflection as often as possible.

This creates growth and perspective.📈

It also helps you be a better person.

So I hope you get value from the below, and it allows you to enjoy the holidays a bit more which will also set the tone for 2024.

That’s my goal for you!🥰

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For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. 

When you are 14, World War I starts and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. 

Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. 

50 million people died from it in those two years. 

Yes, 50 million!

When you’re 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, and global GDP drops 27%. 

That runs until you are 33. 

The country nearly collapsed along with the world economy.

When you turn 39, World War II starts. 

You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you’re 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. 

Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills 12 million. 

At 52, the Korean War started and 5 million perished.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years.

4 million people died in that conflict. 

Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban missile crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War…

Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended.

Thankfully, great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. 

Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. 

How do you survive all of that? 

A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85-year-old grandparent understood how hard school was. 

Yet those grandparents (and now great-grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art.🌟

As 2023 ends, let’s try and keep things in perspective as all hardship is relative. 

Let’s be smart and take care of ourselves.👊 

This way, we can help each other which is my message today. 

Make it a GREAT Monday!🔥

-Coach Bryce

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