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A thought by John C Maxwell,. (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (p. 141). Center Street. Kindle Edition. Some may be saying, “Bill, why are you spending so much time of adversity?”   It is because it is a reality for all of us.  And we need to be problem-solvers because problems and adversity are a part of life.   So I want you to start this New Year with some challenging thoughts that will make this year the best year you have ever lived.   I want you to make your adversity a stepping-stone not a tombstone. John continues this thought about people’s approach to adversity by saying, “The difference in the way they approach it depends on how they see it. Performance psychologist Jim Loehr says, ‘Champions have taught us how to take an experience and essentially write the story of its effect. If you see a failure as an opportunity to learn and get better, it will be. If you perceive it a

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (p. 138). Center Street. Kindle Edition. Adversity.   Some make the most of it and use it but others let it get them down and discourage them. John quotes James Allen who wrote, “Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference or folly, and is now called upon to summon up all his energy and intelligence in order to extricate himself, and to find a better way; that the powers within him are crying out for greater freedom, for enlarged exercise and scope.” I know we say that is a special kind of person and that is true but you also have within you the potential to be that kind of person. A few years back I was going through a very difficult situation and I couldn’t seem to make any headway, to make things work.   I finally saw

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn: Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained fromOur Losses (p. 136). Center Street. Kindle Edition. When I got my tests back from the professor when I was in college I would see what I got wrong and then look those up and find the right answer.   I never looked up what I got right so by looking up what I got wrong I reinforced those and remembered those answers.   I remembered the right answers of the mistakes better than what I got right the first time. And life is like that.   I learn from my mistakes.   Mistakes can be your friend so don’t be afraid of making them.   Now of course the key is to not make the same mistake over and over.   But keep trying until you find the right way to do it. That's how you grow Mistakes mean at least you are trying.   So what did you learn from your last mistake?