“Life requires no particular genius or courage or faith when it is going well. Any idiot is capable of standing in the warmth of the winner’s circle and soaking up the applause of an adoring crowd (and many of them do.) But life often does not go well. Life is often frustrating, frequently unfair and sometimes downright scary. Happy moments are easy for us all, and can’t be used to predict who will win and who will lose. It is the quiet moments of exhaustion, pain, boredom, fear, uncertainty, THESE are the moments that sort us into the groups of failure and success. Some of us will start out with more money, more advantages, more intelligence even, but all of us will have to deal with tough moments. Few people are willing to work hard enough to handle the bad times moments. Fewer still will do the work to learn to handle them well. But all of us can. Greatness is not learned in the winners circle. Greatness is developed in the storm, by learning to navigate around the tough times that will sink the ships of lesser men. If greatness is what you’re looking for, deal well with the storms that find you and seek storms worthy of the person you wish to become.”

Copywright © 2009 Alecia Huck

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