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HARD TIMES GO TO YOUR HEART

AND INTO YOUR SOUL

Inspiration to get back up when life knocks you down

Reknowned author and speaker Les Brown is committed to motivating and training today’s generation to be
achievers and leaders as he introduces new audiences every day to It’s Not Over Until You Win, Up Thoughts for
Down Times and Fight For Your Dream. https://lesbrown.com
For most of us, life offers abundant opportunities for When someone you love is taken away
both laughter and tears. The good times you savor. When a catastrophic illness strikes you or a family member
The hard times go to your heart and into your soul. When your “lifetime” job is suddenly downsized
Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our When the relationship that has kept you going falls apart
strength of character. And yet, where do we learn how to deal When you go through the emotional torment of a divorce
with those challenges, hard times and difficulties? In school, When your grown children refuse to grow up
we are taught how to read and write. When your teenagers decide they are adults
There are times when you want to say to life: “Please give me
But what about the keys to living? Where do we enroll in Life a break. Just give me a chance to catch my breath.” But life
101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the doesn’t listen. Sometimes, as soon as we raise our heads, it
death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortu- knocks us back down. Such is life.
nately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire
and the school of hard knocks. No matter how difficult your BELIEVING IS POWERFUL
life may become, no matter how hard it gets, there is always Believing in yourself requires knowing that your life has value
reason to keep on going and fighting because you can survive and there is hope. You don’t have to be on top of the world
and thrive. already to look up. No matter what your circumstances are,
there is a reason for you being here.
My suggestion is that, after you have been knocked down or
pushed back by life, you should acknowledge the setback, How can you begin to believe in yourself more? One way
understand why it happened, and then make a leap ahead of is through internal encouragement. Concentrate on doing
where you were when you were hit. That’s how to become the volunteer work, working out, taking a class—anything that
person you always wanted to be. makes you feel good about yourself. Find positive expressions
that work for you, and put them on cards where you can see
SOMETIMES THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING them during the day. One of my favorites was given to me by
a friend: “Good things are going to happen to me.” Say it re-
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the peatedly, but each time put the emphasis on a different word
workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to or phrase.
make sense of their lives. How do you keep on going when life
knocks you down? It’s one thing to be positive when things are GOOD things are going to happen to me.
going well, but it is something altogether different when life Good THINGS are going to happen to me.
catches you on the blind side: Good things ARE going to happen to me.
Good things are GOING to happen to me.
Good things are going TO HAPPEN to me.
Good things are going to happen TO me.
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