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“Although I’ve never gotten used to rejection, I do know how to get through it successfully.”

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2017-03-07) from his book, No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity (p. 246). Center Street. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

So, how do you do it?  John says, “Practice.”

He goes on, “Dean Smith, the great North Carolina basketball coach, had a great perspective on setbacks. He said, ‘If you make every game a life-or-death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.’ I love that, because I recognize that resilient people have a positive outlook. They know that the difficulties they’re facing are only temporary. They reflect on the fact that they’ve overcome problems and setbacks before and survived. And they can do it again. Resilient people don’t focus on the negative experience. They focus on what they can learn from the experience.”

John, says, “Johnny Majors, a highly successful college football coach, said, “Eighty percent of the college football games are won in the fourth quarter.” By his reckoning, four games out of five are close enough to come down to what is done in the last fifteen minutes of play. How do you stay in the game until then? Resilience. Resilience gives us a chance to win.

“People say that starting is half the battle. I disagree. Have you ever attended a game where one minute after it started, the buzzer sounded and the players lined up to receive their trophies? Of course not! Anyone can start. Not everyone stays in the game.”


Is that what you needed to hear today? So, are you going to keep in the game?
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