【別把自己想弱了】出差過境台灣和家人團聚，趁著時差到操場跑步，不巧社區運動場因為世大運封場。於是到了畢業的國小操場跑，望著操場，我一驚：「怎麼這麼小？！」記得小時候每次要上體育課我就望著操場，覺得好巨大、好遙遠，感覺跑一圈都是不可能的任務。
人生不也是這樣？
想起過去覺得艱難到不行的挑戰，跟家人吵架、考試、青少年的友誼、轉系、戀愛、創社團、實習、第一份工作、當記者第一次當狗仔揭發舞弊、留學申請、學貸、第一次開車、第一次撞車、第一次在美國找工作、第一個數位行銷活動、MBA學財管、第一次做App、第一次在美國當主管、和同事理念不同、學習跟CEO簡報、一個人到非洲出差、第一次上電視接受採訪、第一堂程式語言課⋯。關關難過關關過。
曾經覺得不可能的任務現在看起來雖仍是刻苦銘心，但沒有當下感覺那麼困難。下次遇到困難的時候，不妨想想「這挑戰幾年後回頭看應該也沒什麼！」You can do it!
【You are Stronger than You Thought】Stopping by Taiwan on my way to a biz trip and had a run this morning. Arrived at my go-to running place and realized that it's closed due to Universiade sport competition, so I went to the elementary school where I graduated from for the run.
Looked at the playground, I was shocked - it's so small! In my childhoood memory, the playground was giant and I thought I could never finish a round of running ever on it!
I guess is like life event - sometimes at the moment where you had a challenge and you thought you can never overcome the challenge. However, you did end up overcame it. Also, after few years when you looked back at the challenge, you realized that it was not that hard!
I can easily think of my experience in the scenarios of school exams, family arguments, teenager friendships, intern, discovering scandals when I was a reporter, graduate school admission, student loan, love, first marketing campaign, first job in the US, first time being a people manager, first time leading an app, traveling to Africa along, debating with coworkers, first time on press due to award, first presentation to CEO, and first Java class....end of day, I passed all of them.
I thought they were mission-impossible at the time, but now look back, it was not as hard as I thought at that time.
Next time when you face a challenge, remind yourselves that it will not be as hard as you thought later on, and you know you can do it!
#OvercomeChallenge #度過難關 #迎戰挑戰 #其實沒有你想得那麽難 #YouAreStrongerThanYouThougt
