Not Giving up
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.- Michael Jordan
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had smooth sailing for every task that we had to undertake. No roadblocks, no challenges and no difficulties? It would be great, but that world exists only in my fantasies, and we live in real life. In real life, things go wrong, we hit speed bumps and challenges along the
way. I see it happen a lot in school. Kids who have sailed through elementary and middle school hit high school and a subject that they start to struggle with. It totally throws them for a loop. Many of them have no idea how to cope and end up just dropping that class or dropping down to a lower level. It kills me to see them do that. The same thing happens in life, we get stuck, or we hit dead ends on projects or what seem like insurmountable barriers. Don’t give up. Keep pushing through. Maybe take a break, enlist reinforcements or whatever else you have to do. But don’t give up. There is usually a solution to almost every difficulty. Even if you just break through one small aspect of your obstacle, it’s still a start. And who knows, that one small break make cause another break, and another until you have powered your way through.
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