Perhaps you have heard the cliché, “you win some, you lose some.” When I look back over my life at what I had determined to be losses, I now see as wins. Another cliché says, “hindsight is 20/20 vision, but when I see my losses as wins, my hindsight gives me a winning way to look at the present and the future. Through my former lens, I saw losses and wins, but through my new lens I can only see wins. When I think of losing my mind, going through divorce twice, struggling to raise and guide my son, being overwhelmed by debt, being shamed and ashamed, losing family members to death, losing a job, and the list goes on, I can honestly say that in each of those instances I see wins and not losses.
Some things can only be seen by a trained or disciplined eye. Soldiers trained to see camouflage, crime scene investigators looking for clues, pathologists looking for cancer, birds looking for worms, all have eyes trained to see what other eyes cannot see. When we discipline ourselves to see victories in what we thought were losses, we can only win.
Imagine that, no more win/lose scenarios. The eye disciplined in this way now begins to see possibilities in perils and triumphs in tragedies. Now I can see that in losing what I thought was my right mind, I discovered the mind I never knew I had. Take another look at the landscape of your life, you may discover some hidden strengths and treasures with a new pair of glasses.
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