Have you ever wanted something so bad that you kept getting up, even though no one would blame you for quitting?
The detours, road blocks, tragedies that stepped in the way of your vision could’ve made you quit, but you kept going. Knowing that breakthrough was just around the corner.
Often, our greatest victories are packaged in failures.
Failure will always want to overtake you, to lead you back to the comfortable places that keep you with the victim mentality.
We are not victims of our circumstances, and we have a choice to sit in our misery or make beauty from the pain.
The writer of The Greatest Salesman, Og Mandino, lost his family and was a wandering derelict. A hopeless alcoholic who nearly spent his last few dollars on a suicide gun. If he would’ve ended his life, he wouldn’t have inspired millions of people through his writings.
He wrote:
“So long as there is breath in me,
that long will I persist
For now I know one of the greatest
principles of success;
if I persist long enough I will win…
I will persist. I will win.”
What will you do with the breath you have?