Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in the movie trailer "The Founder" started: How the heck does a 52 year old, over the hill, milkshake machine salesman build a fast food empire with 1,600 restaurants and an annual revenue of $700million? One word: Persistence!
We all go through hard times. Pressured in the workplace, stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. Sometimes the hits just keeps on coming. Sometimes as soon as we raise our heads, it knocks us back down. Such is life.
The only reality is how we respond to it, whether it makes us better or bitter.
I have noticed that people who do well in life carry the ability to find the positive message in negative experiences. The biggest challenge is to stay focused on our goal in life, keep our energy positive and to keep going.
I have a great respect for toxic people. The same sort of respect I have for cockroaches and snakes. They suck the joy out of every situation. Often they are not actively seeking to destroy us, it's just that they weigh us down. We can't change people but we can distance ourselves from them. When we clear our lives of toxic people, we add years to our lives.
How many times have you lay awake at night imagining the aggravation someone put you through during the day? That person is sleeping peacefully without any idea that you are awake, thinking about him/her!
This much I know: we may feel very justified in our anger, but as long as spend our energies being angry at people, our rage isn't hurting them, it's crippling us. The answer for you and me is the same as it is when we deal with someone else who has offended us...let go and move on.
We all go through hard times. Pressured in the workplace, stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. Sometimes the hits just keeps on coming. Sometimes as soon as we raise our heads, it knocks us back down. Such is life.
The only reality is how we respond to it, whether it makes us better or bitter.
I have noticed that people who do well in life carry the ability to find the positive message in negative experiences. The biggest challenge is to stay focused on our goal in life, keep our energy positive and to keep going.
I have a great respect for toxic people. The same sort of respect I have for cockroaches and snakes. They suck the joy out of every situation. Often they are not actively seeking to destroy us, it's just that they weigh us down. We can't change people but we can distance ourselves from them. When we clear our lives of toxic people, we add years to our lives.
How many times have you lay awake at night imagining the aggravation someone put you through during the day? That person is sleeping peacefully without any idea that you are awake, thinking about him/her!
This much I know: we may feel very justified in our anger, but as long as spend our energies being angry at people, our rage isn't hurting them, it's crippling us. The answer for you and me is the same as it is when we deal with someone else who has offended us...let go and move on.
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