*** Sometimes You Feel Like Giving Upby Keith A. Shaw, President, Mind Body Spirit Central.com and SelfGrowth.com Official Guide To Motivation

No matter who you are, or what your current situation in life is, there are going to be those times when you feel that nothing is going in your favor. Just like you, I certainly have had my fair share of them.

It may be just one bad day. Perhaps you had a flat tire on the way to work that made you late for a very important presentation that you had to present. You then were reprimanded by your boss. You then took it out on your subordinates or loved ones later when you arrived back home.

Or it may be a string of many, many bad days and events that make you feel that the entire world and everyone in it is out to get you. Perhaps you lost your job. And, then a close, loved one passes away. Next, something that you have spent long hours working hard to achieve has not turned out like you planned. In fact, you may feel that the bad times are never going to end!

When faced with these types of circumstances, many people simply give up. They let the disappointment and discouragement from the experience(s) take over and resign themselves to failure. Instead of looking ahead, they wallow in an endless sea of negative thought and emotions. They end up swimming against the tide instead of going with the flow and looking for a solution.

However, it is the person who has a strong “will to do” that does not allow these negative situations to have any long-term effect on them. In fact, the person with a strong, developed “will” uses these situations to their advantage – learning, growing and building a new foundation and direction from them. They know that from time to time they will have bad days. However, unlike the people in the example above, they are persistent. They take action. They realize that their attitude affects their future. They never let the negative thinking that may result from bad days to become a long-standing habit.

It is said that “What does not kill us, makes us stronger”. Look within yourself and use the lessons you learn from bad days and events to your advantage.

Copyright 2007 by Keith A. Shaw and Mind Body Spirit Central.com, LLC. All rights reserved. No portion of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, audio or video recording or otherwise – without the written permission of the author and publisher.


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