Me, Personally, I've been knocked down hard, many times. As
a matter of fact, I've been knocked down recently. So what!
It's all about how you react to it. Getting up and not
giving up was always my only option. I never whine. Nobody
wants to listen to it anyway. Nobody wants to hang with
whiners except other whiners. Whiners attract other whiners
but they never listen to each other. Whining is a one-way
communication.
If your life has become reduced to a series of insignificant
incidents, which are constantly blown out of proportion,
then you'll never really get the big picture. If you're ever
going to have all of those things you say you really want
out of life, then it's important to get your thought
processes in order. Wealthy prosperous people think
differently. They see situations from alternative
perspectives. Affluent people tend to be realists.
People who are not totally winning in life have their
priorities out of order. They waste valuable productive
energy on nonproductive things, spending countless hours
obsessing about unimportant molehills until they become
mountains and kill their spirits.
Let me ask you to stop and think about something for a
moment. If what you were extremely upset about yesterday
cannot even be remembered today, then it was probably never
important in the first place and it drained away your time
and energy needlessly. Can you recall a recent major crisis
that took you totally out of your game and caused you to
lose a lot of productivity? The question is did it really
have a major ongoing effect on the rest of your life? Or,
most probably, did it actually have very little lasting
consequence on what's happening now? The key is realizing
the insignificance of the event as part of the big picture
as its happening.
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