Unstoppable by Nick Vujicic Read Free Book Online Page B

won’t change that, and responding with negative emotions will probably only make you feel worse and drive people away from you.
    My suggestion is that you embrace your newfound humility. Some batters react angrily to striking out. They break their bats over their knees, throw their helmets at the water boy, and kick dents into the dugout wall. Other batters humbly accept that striking out is part of the game, and they remember not to swing at the same pitches next time. So being humbled isn’t such a bad thing if you learn from the experience. In fact, there are those who believe that the truest path to enlightenment is through humility.
    When I was younger, I developed a strong aversion to asking anyone for help. It’s a very humbling thing to have to ask those around you to help you eat or to lift you into a chair or to take you into the rest room. I didn’t like being humbled. There were certain benefits and rewards to becoming more independent by finding ways to do things for myself. I’m not saying it’s all bad, but my willful self-reliance sometimes led me to manipulate and even bully people into helping me. Instead of just asking for help, I’d wrangle favors from people, like my poor brother, Aaron, whom I often treated like a caregiver instead of a brother. Sorry, Aaron!
    From time to time God would have to restore my humility. It had not dawned on me that sometimes I was very selfish, impatient, and proud. At times I felt like I deserved special treatment. But I have asked Aaron for forgiveness, and even though we don’t see each other a lot because of distance, he is my best friend, whom I admire and respect a great deal. I amso surprised that when he was big enough to do so, he didn’t just put me in a cabinet and lock me in. I deserved it sometimes.
    I came to see this dark period as another of those humbling reminders meant to put me back on course. I had been acting as though I had to carry the entire burden of all our operations on my shoulders. That was an arrogant and impossible approach, and it showed that my faith in God and those around me was not shining through.
    Moses, the great prophet and leader, was the most humble man on the face of the earth. He knew that you cannot be a leader if no one is willing to follow and work alongside you. An arrogant person does not ask for help and thus is helpless. An arrogant person claims to know everything and thus is clueless. A humble person attracts helpers
and
teachers.
    I once heard a father tell his son, a recent college graduate, that he should approach the first day of his job with a proper attitude: “Don’t try to show them what you know. Instead, show them how much you want to learn.”
    If you find yourself overwhelmed by a crisis in your life, you may have to humble yourself and ask for help, and that is a good thing. None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?
    Humility also fosters gratitude and appreciation, which are forces for healing and happiness. No single human being is more valuable than another. Somewhere I forgot that fact. The pride that led to my downfall clouded my memory and my vision. I had to remind myself that God doesn’t love me because my business shows a profit or because I speak two hundred seventy times a year around the world. He loves me because He created me. He loves me for me, and He loves you for you.
    I still believe that those projects and dreams that I had to abandon during that difficult time were put in my heart for a reason. I believe that God gave me a clear vision and all I needed to plant them, but I should have prayed more to determine what His timing was instead of going ahead on my own. It’s not important who does the planting or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
    While we may not always be faithful to God,