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If I'm not already up, then I'm getting up - Rich DeVos

Life has a very good sense of humor. It has its own way of being entertained. I often feel that entertainment comes at some cost -
This amusement is a way of testing me. Every time I think everything is going soooooo smoothly.... its scary. Well, it really is scary, because a bend or a twist & a turn is usually just around the corner. But here is what I found out - a lesson learnt hard way - more stupid I'm, harder it is for me to get myself back up on my feet. More stupid I'm, life throws the same challenge again and again, until i learn from it and learn NOT to do same stupid mistake. Once I learn from it and move on, life is getting ready to test me with a new challenge. Hard part of it is, its hard to appreciate the valuable lesson life is teaching me when I'm in a pit. I can laugh a bit in hindsight once I'm out of it. But how can I laugh at myself being in a dumpster?
I'm in a period of life right now where I'm testing to see what I'm made of. Can I get myself back on my two little feet? I bet I can. How do I know? I have done it a few dozen times. Here is an interesting way to counter ANY challenge. More I moan, more time I'm wasting in the pit. That's the time i rather spend in getting back on the ground. If life gave me this challenge, i'll give a small challenge within that challenge - to see if I got what it takes to see glory!

Like Rich DeVos said, you will not see me falling. You will only see me getting up. but how many times? Does it matter?

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison.

I can come up with at least a hundred nice quotes like the one above about persistence. But why in the world didn't I remember any of them when I quit my last task half way? That tells me - Persistence is not something that you can "remember" from a book. Its part of your character. Molding one's character requires a LOT of effort, discipline, and dedication. We are who we are because of the way we have programmed ourselves for decades. We cant change ourselves overnight.

How do we change this? How do we learn persistence? By changing the attitude. What do we think of our own words? I mean our attitude needs a major surgery if we can't respect our own words. For example, If I promised my wife i would do something, I am bound by my own words. She may forgive me if I didn't do it because i had a problem finishing the task or something else came up. But its my duty to not get derailed. A friend of mine, who is an extremely successful, and a very rich individual once said - Never give up, go around it, go below it, go above it, or go through it..... but don't let something stop you there".




This is a very inspirational video. Obviously, John had a great attitude. He didn't pity himself. Instead, he was thinking of his "Purpose" of being at the Olympics. One definition of character is Remembering your own words long after the spirit in whih you gave those words has left you. When that is right, we will never have the problem in completing the task.