Friday, May 7, 2010

Setbacks and Persistence

Road blocks are a part of life. Every day deal with little things that crop up that take focus away from our goals, and every day we swat them away and get on with the task at hand. No big deal, right? What about those major setbacks that really put a kink in your plans?

There are always things that are out of our control, that really throw a monkey wrench into our well laid plans. Hell, sometimes they're IN our control, we just didn't factor them in or give them due consideration.

The important thing is how we deal with the setbacks. I mean, some of them can be pretty devastating. We can let it ride us, driving us into the ground, or we can pick ourselves up and look for alternatives. What kind of person we are will shape how we react to these situations. Are you a positive, persistent kind of person, or are you a negative, "the whole world is conspiring against me" kind of person? Are you going to let setbacks ruin you or shape you? The simple fact is that this part is ALWAYS totally in our own hands.

Persistence pays off. Taking the negative route just makes you look like a whiner.

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