Don't Believe Everything

I’m going to make two bold statements now.  Are you ready?

Don’t believe everything they say to you or about you.

Don’t believe everything that happens to you and accept it as your destiny.

Oprah Winfrey was raped at age nine.  She is a fundamentally good person and has chosen to use her wealth for good in our world.

Bill Gates didn’t complete his university education.  Today he is changing lives for the better of children in impoverished parts of our world.

Steve Jobs used to sleep on the floor in a friend’s room, and he returned soft drink bottles for food money.  He started Apple Computers.

Tony Blair once had it said to him that he was a failure.  He became a world leader as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Now deceased Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison.  And now we consider the legacy he left behind.

It’s not what happens to us that matters.  It’s how we use what’s happened that matters most.

Are you an over-comer or a succumber?

Do you give up and give in to the inevitable, or do you rise above the circumstances you’ve been handed and survive, even thrive?

This is what is on my mind today.

There are no three-step formulas for this scenario.  There is not any one book that will help you overcome adversity.  You do have a mind, and a will, and a sense of “can do”, even in the face of adversity. 

Will you dare to “stick your courage to the sticking place” and rise up, overcome and conquer whatever has happened to you or has been said about you?

I believe you can.

P Michael Biggs

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