Ways to Handle Adversity

Life will always place obstacles in your way, there two choices be stalled by it or get over it!

Adversity 

Just this week America elected a new President to lead the most powerful country in the world and it has brought plenty of adversity. Donald Trump will become the Forty-fifth President of the United States of America on January 20, 2017. Just like any other election contest their has to be a winner and there has to be a loser. 

However, this Presidential election is no different from any other where it has always brought joy to some and discomfort along with concerned to others. Where there is concern, discomfort there lies adversity and fear everytime.  Fear for some reason continues to surface and survive in the world today thus creating adversity. It has been once said before that fear’s survival is one hundred-percent depending on the individual(s) who are often keeping it alive, which means you will always have adversity until you kill it over and over again!

Here are 7 ways to deal with adversity:

1. Developed a “Championship Attitude”, Starting with a I can, I will and a I must make it attitude!
2. Think about it: most of the time the average person reacts to adversity with fear and discouragement. You must know that trouble will last as long as you allow it to exist. Strategize ways to overcome adversity.
3. Surround yourself with positive people: you cannot make it through adversity alone. All successful people surround themselves with others who are positive and encouraging during tough times. 
4. Seek advice from others who have overcome the same situation you are in.  Remember, you are not the only person a particular situation has happened to. We all will face some form of misfortune; true Champions in life find away to deal with it and you can too!
5. Have a “Pity Party”  and get over it: It’s perfectly okay to be emotional, sad or even cry. As kid I hated to lose at anything and I would be sad or even cry simply because I couldn’t accept losing. I didn’t allow myself to process it all and learn that it was going to be part of life I would have learn to deal with and learn from it.
6. Process it and think about your options: when you are looking in the face of adversity we all must remember that our minds can and will play tricks on us if we get caught up in our emotions too long. We have to think and breathe during our controversial times. If we could just take a moment to think that our live is ninety-percent good and only ten-percent of the time filled with misfortune. So we must know that we can get over all our life obstacles if we would just believe!

   

   Believing you can overcome obstacles, is a BIG step in overcoming life’s challenges!

7. Be Still and Quiet: The greatest things you do for yourself during misfortunes is get alone and be quiet, sitting still. I truly believe this is the quickest way to process adversity and a new beginning to recovering from your adversity.

We all have to remember that that single most important ingredient is recovering from adversity is our attitude. We can choose to be positive about adversity and get over it or be negative about adversity and remain stuck in the mud of adversity. The choice is yours.

Be Great 

Roger 

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Things to do With Your Extra Hour During The End of Daylight Savings Time.

What will you do with your extra hour tomorrow?
Tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM we will set our clocks back one hour. What does this mean for us and how do we take advantage of it?

Yes, we have all heard it multiple times that time is precious to us and we should use it wisely. 

Well tonight when go to bed on November 5, 2016 we will wake up gaining one hour more in the Morning. This began many years ago 1908 in Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada and soon spread to Germany in 1916, where they became the first county to implement it entirely. Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea to save candle wax burning and encouraging people to get up earlier to take advantage of the Daylight as he wrote an article in the Journal of Paris titled “Reducing The Cost of Light.” The whole idea was to get people up to take advantage of daylight. 

The United States tossed the idea around starting with President Woodrow Wilson signing it in law during World War I and of course we did not fully adopt into the United States until 1981. Today the last adaptation to Daylight Savings Time was done By President George W. Bush in 2005 which extended it another month, thus bringing us to where we are today. So, what will you do with your extra hour? I have few suggestions for you as to how you can take advantage of your extended time.

1. Get up and read a book you would like read but just didn’t have time.
2. Praying and Meditating: helps to get your mind prepared for your day.
3. Planning out your future projects
4. Completing an unfinished project.
5. Hit the gym again; working out is always a great thing.
6. Spend time with family and loved ones; there is nothing more important.
7. Writing your goals for 2017
8. Recommitment to goals your started this year.
9. Planning your next vacation.
10. Eating the breakfast that you often rush through or miss out on.

Time is truly precious and we must value it especially when we only get time back once a year!

* Time falling back is used to get us prepared for the start of Winter, which also gives us time to prepare, repair things in our lives or just some time to catch our breath and reflect on our lives. 

How will you use your time tomorrow? 

Think about this, tomorrow November 6,2016  is the only day this year we get time back!

Be Great,

Roger

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