Success Is a Choice
All of us ought to be able to prepare for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life won't be perfect, we'll be able to avoid an impelling force to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist through the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an harmful event that will completely knock you on your back.
Whether it's a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic event in your life these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.
Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time. Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it's lying in wait just around the corner. To ignore adversity is to yield to the ultimate self-delusion.
But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing difficulties so steep that they easily could have crushed their spirit and left them lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God. Abraham Lincoln over-
came a difficult childhood, depression, the death of two sons,and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably our greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. Franklin Roosevelt had polio.
There are endless examples. These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.
成功是一種選擇
我們每個人都應做好準備迎接每天的挫折和挑戰。如果我們相信生活並非十全十美，我們就能避免一時沖動放棄追求。但即使你意志堅強，能夠挺過生活、工作中的困難，有時你也會遇到逆境，它會讓你大吃一驚。
無論你出現了經濟損失，還是失去同輩及親人的尊敬，或是遭受生命重創，這些大挫折都會使你對自己產生懷疑，並懷疑情況是否會再好轉。
每個人都會遇到困境，且困境時常發生。有些大災難不是立即發生就是待在角落等待時機。忽視逆境就是自我欺騙。
但你必須認識到歷史上有許多例子講述在克服重重困難之後才獲得成功的人，那些困難之大足以使他們變得意志消沉，浮于塵世。摩西有口吃，但他後來卻成為上帝的福音使者。阿伯拉罕·林肯克服了童年的困難、情緒低落時期，也克服了喪失兩個兒子的痛苦及內戰中接踵而來的嘲笑，最終成為美國歷史上無可置疑的最偉大的總統。盡管海倫·凱勒早年雙目失明，雙耳失聰，又是個啞巴，但她還是對世界產生了影響。而富蘭克林·羅斯福則患過小兒麻痹症。
這樣的例子不勝枚舉。這些人不僅大膽地面對困難，而且學到了克服困難的寶貴經驗，然後勇往直前