Stay motivated so you can soar like an eagle!

By Rhonda Campbell
What is it about the eagle that inspires us so deeply? Its sharp beak can give off the appearance that its intentions are set, cannot under any circumstances be altered. Its clear eyes and its spread wings depict a wealth of inner courage and focus.

It’s hard to doubt that a soaring eagle will miss its target.


Then, there’s the eagle’s experience, the years it’s spent coursing the skies, living at a mountain’s high peaks, resting at the tops of the tallest trees. Like a courageous traveler, the eagle has spent a lifetime in training,     without seemingly meaning to.

When you think about it, it almost seems by accident that the eagle has become a soaring giant of the skies. According to eyewitness accounts, its childhood isn’t filled with comfort, the larger of the siblings at times killing the smaller sibling and neither parent stopping it.

Eagles that do survive are fed by their parents. It is at this time, during infancy, that an eagle’s appetite is most ravenous. How easy it is to depend on these feedings, allowing another eagle to get what the baby hungers for in the baby eagle’s stead.

Then, one day the feedings stop coming. Parent eagles stop hovering over the nest, leaving the younger eagle completely alone. The eagle, now older, must think quick. It can either continue to wait for once happened to start happening again or it can learn how to soar, catching its own food. If it doesn’t choose to learn to take risks, stirring up its in-born courage, and soar, it won’t make it.  It won’t survive.

The wild can appear “mean” this way, but is it really much different from our everyday lives?

There are situations that occur in our lives that appear “mean”. However, could these situations be amazing opportunities for us to become what we really are? Could these seemingly “mean, setbacks” be pushes to go forward?

And what if we simply stay where we are, begging for someone else, something else to take care of us, when we always had it in us to do it ourselves?

Perhaps you’ve soared before in your life, but it’s time to go higher. Are you up for the challenge? Are you ready to become more of what you really are?