Upland, CA — Many of you know early in my life I experienced parental abuse and abandonment. I also have had to overcome
health issues, failed marriages and professional uncertainties. People have often asked me how I overcame
these challenges and changes while maintaining a positive mental outlook and an optimistic approach to life. I
tell them it has not always been easy, and I attribute it to the power of prayer and the belief in the power of
possibility. Once I stopped believing I was a victim of my history, and started believing that I could control my
future my life changed. In my mind I was unstoppable and could achieve any and everything I wanted to pursue.
A change in perspective is the first step toward a change in reality. Life has been good to me; I was fortunate as
a young divorced mother to raise two beautiful human beings that have made me both happy and proud. I have
had a successful business for thirty years that has afforded me an opportunity to create financial independence
and the ability to support and help others. I also was fortunate and blessed to have eventually marry the man
God had for me. My grandmother taught me that there are different seasons we go through in life, she would
say, “we all have a season that we will strive, survive and thrive”. She was so right, and I have been in all three
seasons at different times in my life. She would also tell me there was more waiting for me, and she was right
once again.
Have you ever thought about the power you would have if you understood the possibilities life holds for you?
Many of us limit ourselves because we never embrace the power of possibility and envision what we can be.
We limit ourselves and we limit what we are capable of achieving. Too many of us have become prisoners to our
comfort zone. The feeling of comfort signifies our most basic needs are being met, why should we seek to
abandon it? Comfort zones can create routines that are devoid of risk, often causing progress to be put on hold.
If you refuse to step outside your comfort zone you may fail to become what you are highly capable of
becoming. Too often we become complacent with our comfort instead of reaching our potential. Where our
comfort zone ends, our authentic, abundant life begins. Transitioning from where we are to where we want to
be, and transforming who we are, to who we want to be is possible, but we must have a vision of who and what
we are capable of becoming. Sometimes this takes a shift in our mindset. How we think has been influenced by
our teachers, preachers, parents, friends, and society and very often what they thought of us determined what
we thought of ourselves. The power of possibility is unlimited. If you see it and believe it, you can achieve it. Do
not let anything or anyone limit your possibilities.
Who we listen to and who we surround ourselves often determines what we believe and the altitude in which
we will climb. We must not let others limit what we think of ourselves and the possibilities life holds. I believe
the best is yet to come for me and how I can help others find their “season of greatness”.
Healing Without Hate: It’s a choice. It’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.
Visit www.WendyGladney.com and www.forgivingforliving.org to learn more. Wendy is a life strategist, coach,
consultant, author, and speaker.
