What if your circumstances didn’t have to define your outcome? This week we hosted our National Believe Leadership Inspiration Fair (think science fair of inspirational projects) and when we were wrapping up the event, I shared a story that I read in a book by Jon Gordan and Damond West called, the Coffee bean. It walks through the tale of a student having a conversation with his professor about the student feeling overwhelmed and stressed and not knowing what to do. The professor gives the student some homework to boil a carrot and report back what happens. As you might have predicted, the student comes back and says when he put the carrot in hot water for a long time it wilted. The professor says that’s right, when we are feeling a lot of pressure sometimes the “hot water” we’re in makes us just want to give up and wilt. The professor gives the student another homework assignment and asks him to go boil an egg, and report back. The next day the student says, “the egg got hard...