Challenges

This is very good! I got it off a community I belong to called morningcoach.com. They have a podcast available free on iTunes, as well as their online presence. This is absolutely awesome! Enjoy!!

Life is full challenges, and if we see those challenges as merely a fork in the road, you will understand that they represent either a "Breakthrough" or a "Breakdown". How you choose to interpret each of these forks, will determine your success in life.

Here is what we all need to understand, that you should expect to experience 3-9 critical turning points, or significant changes in your life. These translations can be happy experiences. Or unhappy times, such as job loss, divorce, financial setbacks, health problems, and the death of loves ones. It is during these times in your life that you make the conscious decision to focus on the positive, or the negative. These times are crucial for developing your character. Depending on how you handle these times, will determine your future success in life. You can either decide to look at your challenges and let yourself breakdown, or you can use the challenge and have a major breakthrough. One will give you victory, and the other will give you defeat. Let's look at it from another viewpoint.

I've found that there are really only two types of people in this world when it comes to dealing with discouragement: splatters and bouncers. When splatters hit rock bottom, they fall apart, and they stick to the bottom like glue. On the other hand, when bouncers hit bottom, they pull together and bounce back. Statistics have proven that 90% of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. That is what discouragement can do to you if you don't handle it the right way-it can cause you to quit. Since you will become discouraged at some point in life, the question is, Are you going to give up or get up? Make the decision to get up and bounce back today.