Discouraged

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball

Are you discouraged? Most of us have felt at one time or another that nothing we do seems to make much of a difference to anything. We feel powerless to change the world. Perhaps we have come up against a roadblock and we can't see a way around it. Perhaps we have seen other people fail at something similar to what we want to do. Perhaps we feel that we don't have the resources we need to accomplish what we want to do. But, when we get discouraged we quit, and then we are guaranteed to not change anything.

The decision to take action is essential if we are ever going to get the results we want. We can't change anything if we don't do anything. Taking action, too, is the only way that we can ever gain the confidence we need to get rid of our fears. It is not enough to just get started however. We must continue to take action doing what we planned on until either we have succeeded or until we decide that we have gone down the wrong path and that we will now take action on some other path.

It is also very important to make optimism a way of life. You can't succeed unless you beleive that you can succeed, and expect good results. You have to beleive that God is on your side, and that everything will turn out well. If you focus on failure, either yours or that of other people, then you'll just get more failures. You must focus on a vision of everything turning out just the way you want it too. You must be optimistic.

Nobody can be successful without faith in themselves. They must beleive that they are capable of being successful before they can take the consistent action they need to take in order to get the job done. Being discouraged is the same as admitting failure. It prevents you from even getting started, or from taking all the action you need to take to succeed.

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