Going Through Adversity and Coming Out the Other Side

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Life can be hard at times.  It can seem completely cruel and unforgiving.

Adversity is indiscriminate meaning that it doesn’t zero in on any one person for any particular reason.  It just strikes when you least expect it.

Learning to cope with the adversities that life throws your way is paramount to living a great life.  Troubles are inevitable.  You can’t avoid them completely, but …

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Rise Out of Adversity: Every Birth Is Painful

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Every new beginning involves a struggle.  When we are born, it is an amazing thing, but it is also a fight.

If you are going through a hard time right now, then I want to offer you some encouragement to help you get through it.

Remember the proverb that says, “This too shall pass.”  And when it does, you will be stronger.  You will have a new chance …

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An Inspirational Story of Positive Choices and Radical Change

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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a true story of one person’s choice to change his life for the better.  …

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5 Ways To Calm Your Thinking And Deal With Adversity

Life is going to throw us some curve balls.  There is no question about it.  We are going to have to face some tough times.  If you have lived more than a few years, then you have probably had to deal with some adversity in your life.  How you handle adverse situations will determine a lot about how your life turns out. …

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Grade School Still Holding You Back? – Part Two

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Learning to cope with the hand that life deals us isn’t always easy.  Sometimes we can go through some pretty tough ordeals very early in life.  These experiences can affect our attitudes and beliefs well into adulthood.  Yesterday, in Part One, I told the story of how a series of events occurred in my life and the impact they had on me.  Is something that happened to you in …

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Grade School Still Holding You Back? – Part One

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It is amazing that a series of negative events that happened so long ago can still have such an impact on our lives.  When I was in middle school, I had a series of what I would call incidents happen to me that I believe still have a profound impact on my level of confidence to this day.  I think that as a result, I developed certain habits of behavior …

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