Articles about adversity (0-50 of 1585)

  • Overcoming Adversity: A Skill To Be Learned
    By: Julie Olson | - As long as there is life, there will always be adversity. Some people despise being challenged, but the most successful people in the world embrace challenges. They have made overcoming adversity look effortless. Such grace comes after years and years of experience with adversity. Once you learn how to tame it, success is the natural consequence.

    You should learn to accept and adapt to adversity. Adversity gives you an opportunity to achieve. It pushes you to become a better person. ...

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  • When Things Aren't Going Your Way
    By: Susan Russo | - "For every adversity, every failure, every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit." -Napolean Hill

    Who has the perfect outcome in all situations? No one that I know. We all make plans or have hopes and dreams that don't always end up the way we wish them to. But, that doesn't mean that you aren't on the right path or that things won't ultimately work out in the end regardless of what you are going through.

    Many times when going through s ...

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  • Great Leaders Turn Adversity Into Advantage
    By: Joel Garfinkle | - One certainty in life is that the future holds unpredictable changes. We start every day not knowing exactly what to expect. Life brings lessons and opportunities that we don't always welcome. It forces us to take risks, become vulnerable, and open ourselves to the unknown.

    If you can rise above that fear, you might become the special individual we're all waiting for. View change as a good thing. Beyond every corner is a new opportunity waiting to be discovered.

    But how ...

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  • What Do You Keep Telling Yourself?
    By: Susan Russo | - "The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak." -Ralph Charell

    What I keep telling you is that it's all about what you keep telling yourself. No matter what the situation or circumstance that you are dealing with, the words and thoughts that you choose to describe it will determine how you feel.

    For instance: I'm coaching someone who has been dating a guy for about 8 w ...

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  • What Do You See?
    By: Susan Russo | - "If you do not raise your eyes, you will think that you are at the highest point."

    -Antonio Porchia

    No matter what is going on in your life, no matter what your circumstances, no matter who or what you think you can't live with or without and no matter who did what to you, depending on how you choose to view what happens to you in life will be how you will experience it.

    How you choose to see things regarding any situation, whether you choose to stay angry ...

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  • What Is Inner Strength?
    By: Susan Russo | - "Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."

    -Marcus Antonius

    Someone recently asked me to write about Inner Strength. I thought about my own personal experiences and those of the people I've talked to and noticed that when going through tough times some people have a resolve that even though they are struggling, they will get over it. Whereas, others seem to crumble and can't find the inner strengt ...

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  • Dealing With Adversity
    By: Austin Hatem | - Many people believe that you really can see a persons personality when he or she is faced with hardships,You may think you know a person all of your life but won't really see their true colors until you see them under difficult circumstances.

    When was the last time you had to worry about your family's safety? Life is a series of challenges that no human being can avoidI wouldn't be surprised if you had to cope with several inconveniences already today. We are all guilty of becoming ...

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  • Failing Forward To Improve Your Life, Achieve Your Goals, And Build A Successful Business Easily
    By: Connie Ragen Green | - I first heard the term 'failing forward' when I read a book about this by the great John C. Maxwell. This book continues to be on the bestseller's list years after it was written. The principles are sound, and the idea is one we can all use to improve our lives and our businesses. If you simply look at every experience you have, whether it is a positive or a negative one, as a learning experience you will be able to change your life for the better one day at a time.

    Take a look at t ...

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  • Your Setbacks And Cynics Don't Define You. Your Responses Do
    By: Margie Warrell | - In December, 1903, a New York Times editorial questioned the intelligence of the Wright Brothers who were trying to invent a machine, heavier than air, that would fly. "It simply defies the laws of physics," they wrote. One week later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their famous flight.

    If you study history, you will find that all stories of great success are also stories of great triumph over adversity. But often we overlook the setbacks and only see the end success. We ...

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  • Road Blocks Or Building Blocks?
    By: Susan Russo | - "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

    -Henry Ford

    When you come across road blocks in life do you let them stop you in your tracks or do you find a way around them so you can move on? Who hasn't been through their f ...

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  • 12 Essential Traits That Make You A Survivor
    By: Corynne Steindler | - The 12 Essential Survivor Traits

    We are all equipped with unique traits that make us survivors. We overcome the adversity in our lives by employing these tools, sometimes unknowingly. Whether it is a battle with cancer or a run in with a bully on the playground, we deal with crises in our own unique ways. The following 12 traits help each of us get through difficulties in our lives and make us part of The Survivors Club. Which one describes you?

    Adaptability


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  • Payday Loan Is For Inevitable Financial Adversity
    By: Princess Lee | - Whenever we face financial crunch we have the tendency to panic by which is not a good thing to do. If ever the situation arises and we need sources for instant cash to satisfy our needs, the best thing we can do I guess, is to think of the best solution.

    Usually, we run to a relative to lend some amount. We also take our pride to ask a friend to lend something and worst, we sometimes opt to long approval for bank loans.

    These are some of the most common solutions. ...

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  • Encouraging Bible Verses To Bring Hope The Downtrodden
    By: Garth Wheeler | - Surely most of the people that we know pass through a phase when they feel that they are completely discouraged and also dejected. During these harrowing times, most of these people would turn to some of the encouraging Bible verses for hope as well as for encouragement.

    One of the best examples of hope within the Holy Bible is the story about a man named Job. God tested Job in a lot of ways and took away all of his possessions but until the end Job did not lose any hope and he rem ...

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  • Inspirational Bible Verses For Daily Living
    By: Garth Wheeler | - There are a majority of people that do not seem to understand what Gods intention is for mankind as a whole. There are some that assume that life is just all about going to heaven, without having any further understanding beyond this concept.

    To be able to discover Gods purpose for anything, we would need to go to the wonderful counselor instruction manual, and that is none other than the Bible. Gods words and inspirational bible verses would reveal the answers to each one of us of ...

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  • Instant Payday Loans: A Response To Financial Adversity
    By: Princess Lee | -
    One of the toughest phases in the lives of the salaried individual is when they encounter unexpected financial emergencies and do not have any adequate funds in hands.

    Their incapability to meet the demand of emergency on time delivers them under severe and extreme upsetting stage. Thus, in order to manage financial shortfall we can trust on Instant Payday Loans.

    These loans are short-term loans that help us to avail instant cash until our next payday comes. ...

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  • How Your Clients Conquer Adversity As A Personal Trainer
    By: Bill Yeager | - All too often I meet and speak to people who think they are ready to Transform their body and they are ready to begin a new fitness program. The first thing I ask them is, Are you ready? Of course they say YES, I sure am this time. So I wonder what happened last time that prevented them so my next question is, What happens when you get knocked down? Usually I get a nasty look or Ill be asked what the heck Im talking about. Sure enough they were struck with adversity in th ...
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  • Getting Past Six Sigma Barriers
    By: Craig Calvin | - Even though there are numerous individuals who distrust the success of Six Sigma Projects, the actual usefulness of the endeavors will certainly be based on the business utilizing them, and how well they are employed. One of the largest pieces of the Six Sigma Process is conquering obstructions and challenges, which assumes various distinct shapes.

    The Six Sigma Process is one of the best process improvement a company can use. While it started in manufacturing, it has branched out t ...

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  • Become The Next Success Story
    By: Pat Esposito | - Everyone loves a good success story. We love it if we know the person. We love it if we know a person who knows the person. We love it if the person is from our home town, or state, or country. We love it if the person is involved in an industry we are familiar with. We love it if they started with nothing and became a huge success. We love it if they had to overcome adversity, and paid their dues along the way. We love it if they are clean cut and portray good, clean values that everyone ...
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  • Adversity Doesn't Have To Eat You Alive
    By: Art Gib | - Recently in the news we have heard several reports about people who have gone through different types of abuse years ago and have suffered for so many years. They have never found a way to heal from these things. Then there are those that are on talk shows that talk about how their parents were doing drugs throughout their whole life and they got caught up in the same drug scene and couldn't figure out how to escape it. For others they have come from parents that are big stars and they have s ...
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  • Ru Update: Dear Ru Nation
    By: Steven B. Curington | - Dear RU Nation

    MANUFACTURE RECALL: Here at Adversity University, we have come to EXPECT bad things to happen for the good reason of glorifying God in all we do and say. It has become our expectation that whatever could go wrongshould go wrong! And for that we glorify Him. So it came as no surprise when our new awards vendor called and RECALLED our recently received name badges that had been on backorder for so long. The claim was faulty glue on the first 1,000 of 5,000 ...

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  • How To Gain Confidence - Overcoming Obstacles
    By: Eednak Nagum | - Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid adversity. We sensibly try to make sure that nothing goes wrong with our lives. What's more, when things go wrong, we get very unhappy. "How could this happen to me?" we ask ourselves. A lot of people spend a large amount of their lives trying to prevent things going wrong.

    This is not an unusual thing to do. After all it makes sense to dislike adversity. And it is perfectly understandable to be unhappy when things go wrong.

    Bu ...

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  • Adversity The Road To Advantage
    By: kenbrown | - Life is an adventure, a journey, a roller coaster ride of ups and downs, twists and turns. It has moments of pure elation and times of despair. Sometimes the despair we suffer is due to the decisions that weve made and at times situations are simply out of our control. A failing economy, loss of employment, problems in a marriage. Its all apart of life. No one promised that it would be easy, but without a doubt this is a journey worth taking. The quality of our lives is directly ...
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  • Discover Surprising Reasons How Anyone Can Embrace Adversity In Minutes!
    By: Miyoshi Grant | -
    If you are experiencing an adverse situation, you may be embarking upon the greatest opportunity to have a breakthrough in your life! Surprisingly you're going to see how adversity is shaping you into being the person, happy and fulfilled, that you want to be. It happens through your perspective and outlook. It's how you look at yourself, and see yourself in relations to others, situations, and your surroundings; in alignment to what you want to do and who you want to be. And I'm going t ...

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  • Uncertain Times Herald Motivational Book For The New Year-the 99th Match
    By: Alberto Stellpflug | - (1888PressRelease) Celestine Publishing announced the release of its newest publication, The 99th Match. It is a fictional account based on a true story meant to inspire anyone facing challenging times and brings with it a message of hope, determination and endurance.

    Raleigh, NC. - The 99th Match, by Author Vinny DiGirolamo, is packed with simple but powerful, life changing perspectives for everyone facing personal trials or adversity of any kind. It is a quick read and intended fo ...

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  • Buying A Job Or Getting A Life? How Vulnerable Are You?
    By: Ann Andrews | - How vulnerable are you, as an employee, in these challenging times?

    We are facing business and social challenges across the globe which will test the very survival of businesses, large and small. Predictions are that there will be job losses in every country as businesses retrench and downsize to cope with the economic fallout.

    In some way we will ALL be affected by the global meltdown. And so if you are an employee whose job is in danger of vanishing in the rest ...

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  • It's Your Life! Create Your Own Success!
    By: Maria Rattray | - You are the Michelangelo of your life. The David you are sculpting is you. Dr. Joe Vitale

    What if each of us could live our lives, defiant of barriers, determinedly seeking only solutions to our problems? Would that change our word significantly? Would hatred still exist? Would our world be a more peaceful one? Could we be a nation of dreamers, intent on painting our optimal picture?

    You see, in life, each of us is dealt a pack of cards. The way we see our pack, ...

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  • Face Adversity With An Optimistic Attitude!
    By: Maria Rattray | - "You have no friends. You have no enemies. You have only teachers." Ancient saying

    The question about whether people perceive their glass to be half-full or half-empty is a perennial one. Even the most optimistic of us will have days when we can't see clearly and nothing in life appears to be going right. At those times it is difficult to see any kind of silver lining among the clouds. However that is exactly when it is vital to focus on the positives in our lives. It is a ti ...

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  • Six-figure Income School - Be Strong And Triumph
    By: Maria Rattray | - Today I cut some roses from my garden and brought them inside to put in vases. As I was trimming the leaves from the stems, I noticed a little spider in the sink. Clearly I had disturbed whatever it had been doing in the garden.

    Now I am not particularly concerned about spiders if I know they are not harmful. I think we should learn to be a little more accomodating of the few bugs that find their way into our homes. Often they disappear as quicky as they came. Also perhaps they ...

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  • Responding Positively To Adversity
    By: Maria Rattray | - In dealing with adversity, it is important to try to be proactive and not waste energies on what went wrong.

    The above quote reminds us that life is not a bed of roses. It's a reality that things can go wrong for us on occasions. Setbacks, obstacles in life, are an inescapable part of living, be they health, financial or spiritual issues. They make and shape our beings. They are the determiners of who we are. They are our greatest teacher if we are open to learning.

    Now ...

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  • Every Adversity Brings With It The Seed Of An Equivalent Advantage
    By: Ted Ciuba | - Napoleon Hill wrote the words, and it was a statement that he frequently said-that "every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage."

    Every adversity brings with it the seeds of an equivalent advantage.

    And this is a thing that we do need to keep in mind, because setbacks do come in the lives of all of us. The more we reach, the more chances we take, the more setbacks. And by the way, it's all the way up and down the board-whether it's love, war, ...

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  • Think You Know What It Takes To Succeed? You Don't Know Jack!
    By: Daniel Herzner | - How committed are you to your own success?

    Ask that question of a hundred different people and I'm sure each one of them will tell you they're completely committed to living a successful, more fulfilled life. I mean, after all, who doesn't want more out of life, right?

    So where's the disconnect? If most everyone wants more out of life, why do so few actually get it?

    The answer lies in one's ability to handle adversity. How to succeed in life is lost o ...

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  • Transmute Adversity Into Challenge
    By: Ted Ciuba | - I promised to connect with you again on Csikszentmihalyi. In the book, The NEW Think and Grow Rich, his quotes is on page 175. And from his idea, we fashion the affirmation we present today.

    I do recommend, of course, that when you yourself go to the trouble to craft a statement that affirms the world as you are creating it, that you write it down and memorize it so that you can repeat it at any moment. That's the purpose, programming, autosuggestion Which is principle number 3 o ...

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  • Want To Feel Really Good About Yourself? Learn How To Resolve Relationship Conflicts
    By: Loy Combs | - Learning to successfully resolve relationship conflicts is an essential life skill that is missing in our formal education. Conflicts can range from simple to complex but they all have a basic underlying premise. Once understood, you can successfully resolve even the most complex issues.

    George Elliot said it best, It Is Never Too Late To Become What You Might Have Been. Let me show you how to begin anew. First you need to understand the basic relationship plot and its progr ...

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  • Turning Adversity Into Opportunity
    By: Aditi Walsh | - Have you noticed how the current economic situation has created its own momentum of fear? Stimulus efforts (from individuals, communities or nations) seem virtually ineffective in this sea of constant, negative news feeds. As a result, the doubts and fears people may already be entertaining tend to get reinforced.

    So, what is adversity to the entrepreneur? Once understood, it can be used to inform our goals and visions. Misunderstood, it will feed our excuses and lingering doubts a ...

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  • Where Do You Underestimate What You Are Capable Of?
    By: Margie Warrell | - No doubt you have your own share of challenges to deal with. Perhaps it's uncertainty about the future of your job, maybe you are battling an illness, struggling to pay your mortgage, ensuring your kids don't go off the rails, resolving conflict in your marriage or workplace, dealing with aging parents, or just maintaining some semblance of balance in your overscheduled life...whatever your challenges are, how might the way you are handling things differ if you were to trust in yourself more fu ...
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  • Do You Have The Courage To Keep Faith?
    By: Margie Warrell | - A month ago my brother Frank was in a terrible motor bike accident in the sand dunes outside Doha, Qatar, where he has lived for the last 3 years. He broke many ribs, collapsed part of his lung, damaged his kidney, broke his femur but worst of all, badly injured his spinal cord at T12 (waist level). The neuro-surgeon looking after him told me that the probability was that Frank, 41 and incredibly active, will not walk again.

    As an adventure-loving guy who regularly dives, sails, ...

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  • The Power Of Words To Inspire Success
    By: Celia Ann Rooney | - When times get tough and you think your dreams of success are far away, you need some special tools to keep you motivated. I find that posting inspirational quotations on the refrigerator and computer monitor reminds me that no matter what happens, I can keep working toward my dreams. My favorite one is this:

    *Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. (Goethe)

    This quote has been with me all my life. It has often ...

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  • Every Failure Is An Opportunity In Disguise
    By: Richard Saldan | - As much as we would all love to live an easy life with endless resources and finances, most people might admit that life would be pretty monotonous if there were no obstacles or failures. Evidence of this might be seen by watching the celebrity gossip television programs, where the rich and famous of Hollywood seem to bounce from one crisis to another, seemingly bored of living the good life. How many times have you watch such stories in the news, and thought what you would do to benefit humanit ...
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  • Discover How To Inspire Yourself And Overcome Adversity
    By: Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope | - \"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.\" - Zig Ziglar. Great adversity can include overcoming impossible tasks, losing the loved ones, facing financial difficulties and running a challenging business. In such challenging times, there will be times of fatigue and tiredness especially mental capacity. But most of the time, one must realize that it is at this period that the individuals or team must never give up. How does one inspire, overcome adversity and a ...
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  • How You Can Learn From Ordinary People Doing Extra Ordinary Things
    By: Mohamed Abdul Rauf Bin Mohamed Yusope | - It is just amazing to watch ordinary people doing and achieving extra ordinary things. Once, I really wondered and pondered. What really separates these people from us? A big factor I felt is their mindset. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility - Oprah Winfrey.

    Their belief to succeed through obstacles is one that many can admire. One has to realize that achieving extraordinary things could be one of the most challen ...

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  • 7 Essential Steps To Overcoming Adversity
    By: Dawn Hills | - I might never have found happiness and success. Why? For starters, I am the child of rape, born to an unwed teenage mother on welfare. Instead, I overcame life's obstacles of poverty, abuse and neglect. Now I'm a successful entrepreneur, author and media personality who has achieved financial freedom and independence. There are even plans to make a movie about my rags-to-riches life! Clients and audiences everyday have dubbed me "The Girl Next Door Who Made It Big! (Blessings In God).
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  • Do You Want To Build Your Emotional Strength?
    By: Maurine Patten | - Frequently, I hear people say this or that isn't "fair." Unfortunately, life is not always fair. It can be hard to know who and what to trust. We live in an imperfect world. If there is a need of proof of living in an imperfect world, you can look at corporate and institutional scandals as well as fabricated stories by politicians, editors and journalists.

    According to the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center, 53 percent of Americans believed most people coul ...

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  • Overcoming Procrastination: Pressing Past Your Fears
    By: Colleen Kettenhofen | - "Learn to see failure as a stepping stone to your personal progress." Colleen Kettenhofen

    Many of us procrastinate doing something for many reasons. Sometimes it's a result of perfectionism. We reason that if we can't do it perfectly, maybe we shouldn't do it at all. Or, we procrastinate because something is unpleasant. We just don't want to do it.

    We also procrastinate because of deep seated fears. Unfounded fears mind you, but fears nonetheless. For example, what ...

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  • What 2 Words Turned Me From 'sick And Scared" To "healthy, Wealthy, Happy And Successful"?
    By: Daniel Klatt | - Back in my school days I was a wreck. Actually most of my childhood.

    I was really shy and I remember even being self-conscious walking to school when the school bus went by because I was afraid people would laugh at me.

    In school, I was the one the teacher knew had the answer, yet was afraid to raise my hand and volunteer it because I might screw up and be teased - so when no one else offered the answer and I was called on, most of the time my voice crackled or I st ...

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  • Miracles Happen: A Miracle Story About Adversity, Fate And Joy
    By: Colleen Kettenhofen | - Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen

    Miracles happen. This is a miracle story about what happens when we look for the lesson in every situation. After all, business and personal success is about attitude, overcoming adversity, and successfully managing change as well.

    It was Easter, March 31, 2002 and I was on a hiking vacation with my husband in a California desert near where we lived. Our baby daughter, Caroline, was supposed to have been born on this date, but ther ...

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  • How To Turn Adversity Into Opportunity
    By: Tristan Loo | - There was a point in my life when it seemed like everything was going wrong and it seemed like one bad thing lead to another bad thing in a never-ending cascade of bad karma. I kept punishing myself with the question: Why me? Or Why does this always happen to me and not anyone else? I tortured myself by reliving past mistakes and I spent countless hours dwelling on what I should have done and I constantly beat myself up daily over these questions and self-criticisms. I eventually hit rock ...
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  • Leading Through Change
    By: Kimberly King | - Being a strong change catalyst is critical to being an effective mentor. In order to inspire others to continually strive for higher levels of performance through creative and strategic methods that are always focused to achieving your goals you must move through the personal emotions that change creates so that you can effectively lead others. Here are some critical suggestions for assisting you in developing strong change management skills in order to assist the organization through tr ...
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  • Dragging Mental Bricks - The Pity Sack
    By: Victor Gonzalez | - The majority of things we worry about never come to pass. The majority of bad things that have happened to us are in the past, so why worry about them? The majority of bad things that have happened to us seldom repeat themselves. Suffice it to say, most of our worries and anxieties come from the past and have no bearing on our current state of mind.

    Yet, Im constantly amazed at the type of issues people carry with them day-to-day, month-to-month and year-to-year. Its com ...

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  • The Tears Of Courage
    By: Pastor Dee | - You keep track of all my sorrows.
    You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
    You have recorded each one in your book.
    -Psalm 56:8 (NLT)

    Imagine a mighty warrior-king admitting to shedding tears in the face of adversity. It could have been a cause for derision from his followers, who were equally mighty warriors. Yet, King David wasn't ashamed to admit it. Lesser men would instead seek to hide their feelings from others on the pretext of looking tough. ...

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  • Facing Adversity
    By: cdmohatta | - Is there any person on this earth who has not faced adversity? Life can be good, but adversities are also part of life. How does one face them with equanimity? It is difficult if the extent of adversity is very high. But one has to live through adversities and come back in life to succeed again. A sudden accident can make one lose limbs. A man who makes his living with his hands, will surely feel very bad and devastated if he loses his working hand. How about the effect of the announcement by th ...
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