So what’s the toughest thing I have ever done?
It wasn’t swimming in the piranha-infested waters of the Amazon river in 1985.
It wasn’t fighting in a war in Africa. A war I didn’t believe in.
It also wasn’t burying my parents after watching them suffer through terrible pain and debilitating illnesses.
Nor was it getting a phone call on a cold, wet day in London telling me my best friend had just been killed by a runaway truck.
The toughest thing, has been part of a team that had a biiiiiig vision to launch a product that could change an entire generation. Someday’s it felt like we were trying to give birth to a hedgehog – man was it painful! But when we launched it on Thursday March 4, 2010 boy oh boy what a sense of fulfillment, achievement and success.
The lesson for me? Big dreams need big sacrifices. And sometimes pain, with maybe long days and short nights.
What a humbling privilege it is to be asked by God to use the gifts he has given me to do something that can change culture, communities and kids.
Tough things show us that with God all things are possible.
The toughest 2 years of my life. Sure! But also the most fulfilling.
My next mission – to birth hedgehog triplets! Haven’t told the wife yet though …
PS – Please go and check out my hedgehog on http://www.yahero.com
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