Overcoming Challenges

 I was super grateful to have this lesson this week. It was an answer to some challenges that I have been having this week at work. 

Lesson 1 that I have learned this week is that even when we have challenges to overcome we cannot overcome those challenges by lowering our ethics. As business owners and entrepreneurs we need to remain ethical even when the competition is not. If we lower our standards we will begin to lower our standards in other areas of our life. By remaining ethical your customers will appreciate you and they will want to continue doing business with you. 

Lesson 2 I learned this week is to get to the root cause of the issue, problem or challenge. By getting to the root cause we can begin to correct the overall issue and then we can also make plans to prevent those issues from reoccurring in the future. At my current employment we utilize root cause analysis such as the 5 whys to correct the current issue and prevent future issues. Even though I have a little bit of experience with the 5 whys already, I was still able to glean some very helpful information. For example with each of the 5 whys I can find one thing to correct at each level of questioning. By doing this I am able to improve more than just the root cause issue. 

Lesson 3 is probably the most important thing I learned this week and that is that even after all I do, whether through finding the root cause through the 5 whys or maintaining our ethics, we still need to know that we are only human and that we can only do so much. We need to include the Lord in overcoming our challenges. Jesus Christ overcame the most difficult challenge known that is overcoming both physical and spiritual death. Of all the examples of overcoming challenges we can turn to the One who has overcome the greatest challenge and we can ask Him for His help.