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“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
~ Charles “Tremendous” Jones
How to transform adversity into an advantage:
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Take ACTION to improve your ENERGY level… both physically and mentally. If your body gives out, you have few alternatives for a happy ending.
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Take ACTION to PRIORITIZE your life around your personal MISSION. Improving your sense of purpose and mission will give you the strength to see through the dark to the light.
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Take ACTION to improve your ATTITUDE… because if you permit the negatives to gang up on you, you not only lose heart, you lose hope.
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Take ACTION to create a specific GOAL for moving beyond the trouble to the treasure. Take out your 1, 5 and 15 year Timelines and pen a “new ending” to your “plot complications!”
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Take ACTION to develop a clear, realistic and time-specific PLAN. Call it a disaster plan… or a plan for overcoming disaster… call it anything you like, but put it in writing so you can see it, feel it and ORGANIZE your life around it. Remember, a goal without a plan is merely a wish without a hope!
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Take ACTION to find others to help you… to create SYNERGISTIC interdependence and powerful team-building leverage. It is simply impossible to “go it alone” and hope for a happy outcome.
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Take ACTION to improve your use of TIME… to live as if each minute matters… because it does.
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Take ACTION to get things started… and to keep them moving in the direction of your dreams and goals—especially when things appear hopeless.
The Message is Clear.
When you become action-oriented, you overcome adversity by stealing power away from fear… and using that power to conquer your circumstances. Fear kills. Action kills fear.
There are endless possibilities available to help you overcome adversity—both perceived and actual. You must simply take action to find them.
Do this, and you will find yourself moving in the direction of your dreams. Don’t, and you won’t. — E.R. Haas