I’ve got problems. You’ve got problems. Everybody has got problems. The difference between the winners and losers is how they handle those problems. The losers tend to be consumed by their problems. They think about their financial shortages, their rocky marriage, their friend’s illness, their ballistic boss, and all their other problems… almost constantly. And they often use those problems as an excuse of their lack of motivation or performance. Not the winners, however. They suck it up. For example, if you were flying to Rome on a Boeing 767, you would expect the pilot to suck it up and do the job he was trained to do…even if he was going through a rough patch in life. You wouldn’t want him to be consumed in worry…forgetting about his flying responsibilities. Oh sure, he can go back and think about his problems and work on his problems later…but not when he’s on the job. It’s what self-directed, self-motivated winners do. They compartmentalize. Self-motivated winners also know how to tuck their problems away away…temporarily. They put them on hold until they can deal with them efficiently and effectively…rather than have their problems color every part of every waking moment. They know they can hang their problems on an imaginary “Trouble Tree’ and come back to them at a more convenient time.
The difficulties in life are put on our path – not to OBSTRUCT – but to INSTRUCT.
– Dr. Alan Zimmerman
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Good.
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