Challenges - what have they been and how did you deal with them?

The question posed by Prue the other night was about challenges – what challenges had you overcome and how you dealt with them in a positive way. Our responses were: “So much of life is challenging at the moment in that things change constantly and there is a morass of communication technology that must be fought through and you dare not give up because you will lose contact with the present and become a Luddite, people often don’t know what they’re doing and make it up, getting over being homeless for a few years, walking away and laughing rather than getting upset by someone, getting out of bed when you’ve got nothing to do, focus on what you want and you’ll get over the challenges, if you see it as a challenge rather than a crisis you’re in a better place, I’m optimistic and see it as something to achieve, the whole year has been a challenge with injuries and fines, get a new direction as life gets complex, when younger qualified as a carpenter and put up with the bullying and misogyny but now as evidenced with Michelle Payne’s win at the Melbourne Cup feminist aims have become mainstream, decide that you don’t want to be shy and decide to change”.