What Do You See II

Wisdom Nugget: "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

                                                                                                              -  Helen Keller

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them" and Duke Ellington said that a problem is a chance for you to do your best." I couldn't have agreed any better with Duke Ellington, if I wasn't acquainted already with the story of Thomas Edison, who after failing about ten thousand times in a particular venture, used his failures as stepping stones to achieving his very desire. What do you see, when you experience difficulties and unpleasant experiences, disappointments, and so on? Do you see with the eyes of faith or you see with the eyes of fear and resentment? It's important to understand that there's no successful man without a groaning story, because its experiences such as that that lead to them to their glorious stories.

Hear this. Everyone on top today didn't get there with success after success. More often than not, those who history best remembers were faced with numerous obstacles that forced them to work harder and show more determination than others. Next time you're feeling down about your failures in college or in a career, keep these famous people in mind and remind yourself that sometimes failure is just the first step towards success. You may not have heard of Akio Morita, but you've undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sony's first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn't cook rice so much as burns it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company. Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn't last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked. Less Brown, the renowned motivational speaker, was turned down for a job severally but he, in the midst of all that rejection took his stumbling blocks as stepping stones. You too can do the same if you can see the good in every bad situation you encounter.

Malcolm S. Forbes said that when things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit.

Whatever you believe or think in your heart (about your circumstances), comes to pass, and so it's required that we see and confess positively, even in difficult times, for life and death are in the power of the tongue.