Do You Have What It Takes to Take It?

Without strength to deal with stresses in life: pain, sickness, disappointment, missed opportunities, bad business decisions, and more, you can easily be discouraged.

Whenever something hits you and you don't have what it takes to overcome it, your means of coping will be undermined.

To overcome minor or major setbacks, recharge yourself spiritually. Give yourself a God-like power to react and reverse any mental picture you may be holding of weakness. With God's help you know you can take anything that comes your way.

Are you a Positive Person?

Always in life there are times when going is rough, tough, and downright too much. Coming out of it on top takes a positive attitude.

To maintain a positive attitude when everything around you is crumbling takes an inner power beyond anything you can imagine. To do so depends on how and what you are thinking at time it is happening to you.

How do you handle failure?

"I refuse to accept it," you say. "That word has no place in my vocabulary!"

Then you'll have to call it something else.

For failure is common to all. Especially most successful of us!

Look at life-stories of great and famous, and you will find that each one faced tremendous discouragements and setbacks, yet overcame them.

And that's secret -- Learn to Handle Failure.

1. Affirm your worth. 2. Review situation. 3. Go at it again with all your worth.

"That's too simplistic!" you snort.

If you know of a better way, please let me know!

1. Affrim Your Worth.

The first step is to realise that failure - making a mistake - does not mean you are useless. Any more than falling off a bicycle means you cannot ride. You get up, learn from your mistake, and try again.

"What does this have to do with affirming?" you ask.

We are, most often, our own worst enemies.

"I blew it -- I'm useless -- "I should be doing something else . . . "

"You've been reading my mail," you mutter.

This is where you need a mentor - a really good friend (I've got one!) - with whom you can chat, and share your heart-ache!

You certainly don't want to talk to those who will say "I told you so - I told you you were wasting your time" !!

Because your friend has been through mill, suffered same (or similar) setbacks, they will be able to reassure you that what you are facing is nothing new.

And just as they came through it (by hard work, good planning and application) so, too, will you be able to rise above this, and become a success.

2. Review Situation.

This is a critical part of exercise.