I will NEVER be able to do that !

I have thought the statement above so many times. Heard it from others as well. In the nursing world we hear that a LOT.  Either a person is amazed at the tasks we perform daily in the course of our work and tell us, or it is some kind of challenge we as individual nurses face.
Challenges , what I always used to consider problems continue to meet me every day,like all of us. I really am less inclined to accept not meeting these challenges these days. It is really funny how you can change your outlook on things. Do you avoid what is difficult for you, or do you seek it out ? Really what is the point in continuing to do something that you find easy ?
My work life is filled with difficult moments. People that are angry,frustrated and even scared. Very often they want someone to be mad at. That is sometimes me. Being a nurse, but also having also been a mother and a patient I try to keep perspective on this. There are times the day a person meets me is the worst day of their life. It is a day that they never forget, and somehow I remain part of that. And it remains part of me also.
But enough about that ...

My life away from work has been also filled with challenges. I have met many of them successfully the last year or so . Every success seems to make me stronger to face the next. It sounds very dramatic, but it is so rewarding to be able to do something you were certain you never could do because of weight, age, injury, or lets face it just lack of skill or the ever present lack of talent, LOL.
I often think of these as "physical" victories  and the work related as "mental" victories, but it all really comes down to strength and conviction .So they are not very different really.
One of my favorite quotations that I found is :

Strength is a matter of a madeup mind.   -----That is SO awesome !!!

So on the topic of challenges that I struggle to succeed at , one of my biggest has been one at the gym. I tried and failed continually for so long. I tried hard to remain faithful that someday,somehow I would be able to do it at least a little. Well I have recently gotten at least that far :) I don't think anyone knew just how much I have wanted to do it.
Some of you will know it as "elbows and toes" ,others will know it as a "plank". Whatever you call it,let me just say,it is very exciting to do it if you thought never could. I have a lot of those things lately ...

Strength : Mental or physical power,courage to achieve .