Building the Village Before You Need It

Most of us plough through life as if it’s something that we have ‘to do’.  And while we’re in the midst of all that we’re doing we forget how to 'be'.  We forget who we’re aspiring to be.I’ve always subscribed to the philosophy that hidden inside life’s hardships there are gems.  Precious little things that lie inside the hardest times and the hardest moments that we face as people…as humans.As I’m talking for this Podcast, I am recovering from cancer surgery just 4 days ago.  And while the days following the surgery have been painful, uncomfortable and incredibly humbling there have been gifts given to me that, until this diagnosis hadn’t quite hit me the way they have now.In this episode, I share some of these thoughts as it relates to living out our normal lives in the wake of a serious diagnosis and a perspective that I'd not been afforded before it was given to me.