“You say, “The country is messed up.” That’s like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you’ve got. Don’t curse all you’ve got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you’ve got to take like it comes.”—Jim Rohn—And, you have a choice. Either you get bigger than your challenges or the challenges remain bigger than you.
Learn how to be an overcomer of challenges. That is the path to the good life. How do you do it? Develop new skills and disciplines. If we bring the same old skills and disciplines to new problems, our progress will stop. It’s like using a hammer that drives nails to cut down a tree. You may eventually get the tree down with the hammer but when you are finished you will be exhausted and have missed out on many other opportunities in the forest of business and life. Learn how to be an overcomer of challenges. Develop new skills and disciplines. That is the path to the good life. It’s not about overcoming everything. That happens for no one. It’s about your willingness to become more in your present circumstance. In the process of becoming more you enlarge yourself and will have the opportunity to receive more of the good things life has to offer.
