Giving up too soon

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  • October 13, 2011 - 9:34am
The journey through life is beset with obstacles and 99.9% of these obstacles are meant to bring you down to the grave. The remaining 1% will come to you as struggles and hard work which will make you a success.Of a fact 99.9% works against you. This will cause you much pain and hardship whether you like it or not. It rings a constant tune in your head making you want to give up too soon. Negative imaginations of failure, death and complex floods the mind, it makes a man grey before his time while a woman looks dejected and forlorn. Giving up too soon cuts the life expectancy of people, it gives a feeling that everything around you is failing and you are the head of the failure unit, it gives you a feeling of hopelessness, of neglect and rejection. Giving up too soon casts a shadow of doubt over your ability to do things for yourself. It undermines your capabilities and underestimate your worth, your circle of friends becomes a group you avoid, it goes down to having an effect on your emotional and spiritual life. Abraham Lincoln had the honors of living a life that had 99.9% en mashed in failure but strives hard, remained focused on his objective and eventually moved from the 99.9% group to the 1% group. Today Abe Lincoln name crops up on most motivational speakers lips, even the good book has its own fair share of people that moved from the 99.9% group to the 1% group (2 Chronicles 4:9).  taking into account all that the good book says about not giving up on any problem that may come our way, many still find themselves hopelessly useless.No matter what you are passing through never ever contemplate giving up too soon for the next big thing to happen may be you
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kikibird hinlo
October 13, 2011
kikibird hinlo
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You sure hit on a topic that I think a lot of people suffer from in this day and age!  We are blasted by negative messages in the media all the time, ranging from the state of our economy, wars abroad, babies and children and women disappearing, murder rampages, on and on.  I found after I got rid of cable tv, my state of well being increased!

 I think it boils down to the fact life is a struggle for everyone, so it is not what happens to us, but it is how we react to it that makes or breaks us.  We simply must focus on what is going right, and show thankfulness and gratitude for who and what we have today.  I read alot on negative vs. positive thinking, and I am really convinced we have to put on rose colored glasses each day, expect the best, and understand if we get less than that, that someone else has it much worse.  Not that we should take comfort in another's misfortune!)  But become aware of the gifts we have as individuals, and force ourself to count the good things, not the bad things.

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Gail Phelps
October 13, 2011
Gail Phelps
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Good point.  The one percent - How many ways did Edison learn not to make a light bulb?

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Wdzzz
October 14, 2011
Wdzzz
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The secret for me is that no matter if everything is going well or everything is going to hell, that I know that I am loved. I am loved by wife, I am loved by most of my family, and I am loved by God, whether I succeed or fail, whether in sickness of health, in riches of poverty, till love do us merge... :)

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