“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
When things don’t go your way, do you see this as an obstacle or an opportunity? Default your reactions to be positive. If you have a positive mental attitude, you will see this as an opportunity to grow and improve. If you see this as an obstacle, you will complain that life isn’t fair. You won’t take action. You won’t learn from the situation despite things like this “always happening to you.” Change your attitude…life is happening for you, not to you.
Make sure to see challenges for what they are. Challenges are an opportunity to get better. Nothing in life will go perfectly, or if it does, just know that it doesn’t last forever. We can’t change what happens to us – we have no control over that. But we do have control over how we respond to difficulties.
French philosopher Jean de la Bruyere said, “out of difficulties grow miracles.” We should take that to heart next time we encounter a less than ideal situation and try to turn that difficulty into a miracle.