"Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most
resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always
tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today."
~Maxwell Maltz
"Yesterday ended last night." ~John Maxwell
"Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill
Discouragement can get the best of all of us at times, the
feeling that you cannot go forward another step. In John Maxwell's new book Sometimes
You Win, Sometimes You Learn, we gain understanding that: Even though
losses and setbacks really hurt and are not pleasant, they actually become our
opportunities to gain some of our most valuable insight and the necessary
direction to move forward even stronger.
When you get bumped around by someone else either on
purpose or by accident, do you act or react? Robert Rohm states the following:
"I see people every day, especially in traffic, who just do not let
anybody get away with anything. They are ready for offenses to come so
they can react in a way that lets other people know that they won’t tolerate
being treated that way." There really are
multiple opportunities to get offended on a daily basis. Maybe the real
questions are: Do we give people the benefit of the doubt? Do we remember that
even though they may say or do the wrong thing, they really meant to both say
and do the right thing? Do we act or do we react? Easy concept to grasp and
more difficult to apply.
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