Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Make failure your TEACHER, NOT your undertaker.:)

Sometimes little irritations, mistakes and failures come our way that are not earth-shattering or life-changing, but they cause a momentary stop in our progress. Sometimes we permit the little incidents to linger entirely TOO LONG and give us problems far beyond their significance. Let's say that you are caught in one of these situations, and at that moment you're not depressed, but you're not exactly on cloud nine either. As a result, you know that you are not as friendly or as productive as you were before, so you want to snap out of it. What do you do?
STEP NO.1: Acknowledge that you're in a funky mood; you've got the "blahs".
STEP NO.2: Recognize that you're momentary switch from positive thinking to "stinkin'' thinkin'" is neither permanent nor even life-threatening, so it won't be fatal. It's eventually going to END, so instead of waiting for a change in circumstances to bring an end to the "blahs", make a CONSCIOUS DECISION to end them YOURSELF! Which means you have once again accepted responsibility for improving your circumstances. When you take that responsibility, your circumstances will change and you will have turned a SMALL TRAGEDY iinto a BIG TRIUMPH. :D
("You Can Reach the Top" by Zig Ziglar"

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