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Pushing Passed Setbacks: How My Cancer Scare Gave Me New Perspective

NANCY A. RUFFIN
6 min readJun 26, 2019

If you’re anything like me, you may have started off the year eager and ready to demolish every goal you set for yourself. You may have even created a vision board filled with beautiful images of the healthy body you planned to have by now, the financial freedom you were sure you’d be manifesting, and that much needed vacation you without a doubt knew you would be taking. You carefully planned out your goals, created the action plan, and visualized all the things you were going to manifest this year. Yet, here we are, 4 days before we end the first half of the year and you’re no farther along with your goals than you were on January 1st.

The beginning of the year is always a great time to start fresh and commit to all the things we want to accomplish, but even those with the best intentions and great plans can still fall short from achieving the goals they’ve set. Sometimes this happens because we set way too many goals for ourselves and in an attempt to accomplish them all, we fail to accomplish any. Other times, life throws us a curve ball that jolts us in unexpected ways and all our carefully mapped out plans seem to go flying out the window.

Lately, I have been feeling uninspired, unmotivated, and tired. Which is unusual for me. As I looked at my vision board and action plan the other day I realized…

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NANCY A. RUFFIN
NANCY A. RUFFIN

Written by NANCY A. RUFFIN

I write stories centered on healing, self-development & growth. “To thine own self be true.”

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