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Have you ever seen or heard of a turtle that is stranded on their back? They will flail and squirm until they are able to turn themselves over or someone comes along ad turns them over. This is literally a life or death situation. I can imagine there is a lot of “turtle emotion” going on in their little turtle head.

However, something very interesting happens once the turtle is moved over onto the correct side. It walks off and goes on it’s merry way. Just moving forward with it’s life and getting on with the business of living. Never does the turtle turn back to the place where it was stuck and try to figure out why or how come or what it means that it was stuck or what it says about him, it’s friends or the people in their life. It gets away from the moment as fast as possible without ever looking back.

This is one of the biggest challenges I see within marriages and really life in general. Too many people will struggle with a particular area of their life. Then someone comes along and helps them with finding the answer. They will take the answer and implement it. Then instead of moving forward with their life they turn back to the situation, area or issue and want to analyze why it happened, get caught up in the how it happened or what it means about them. They deliberately stop the forward momentum gifted to them by focusing on the past. Typically causing more of the same vs a new mindset for the future.

Why is it that a turtle, who is supposed to be a lower thinking creature than a human, is able to move forward faster in it’s life than most people?

Where can you be more of a turtle in your life? Recognize where you are stuck, find the answer, implement the answer and move forward.