(From John Maxwell’s book, Developing the Leader Within You)

Don’t Try To Avoid Problems

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big. For several years I would do between 20 and 30 hours of counseling each week. I soon discovered that the people who came to see me were not necessarily the ones who had the most problems. They were the ones who were problem conscious and found their difficulties stressful.

A study of 300 highly successful people, people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Ghandi, and Albert Einstein, reveals that one-fourth had handicaps, such as blindness, deafness, or crippled limbs. Three-fourths had either been born into poverty, come from broken homes, or at least come from exceedingly tense or disturbed situations.

Why did the achievers overcome problems, while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping-stones. They realized they could not determine every circumstance in life, but they could determine their choice of attitude toward every circumstance.

Problems can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently.

~Evolution of Self
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