Feeling discouraged? Mentally and physically exhausted? Like you just want to throw in the towel on your business (or on life) and give up?
 
Don’t. Don’t give up. Rather let me see if I can help you think of your challenges in terms of opportunities:
 
1.) Realize that you’ll be able to use your difficult experiences to help others. In fact, the only way we can fully understand the challenges others are facing and therefore also help them find their way through it all, is if we know those challenges first hand!
 
I love the way the Bible addresses this issue, “…so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2. Cor. 1:4)
 
2.) When success comes (whatever “success” means to you), the only way you’ll be able to fully appreciate it, is if you also know what it’s like on the other side of the fence.
 
If all we know is abundance and happiness, then abundance and happiness becomes meaningless, right? You can’t know “good” without also knowing “bad”, or “happy” without knowing “sad”…
 
3.) Our characters are better molded when times are hard than they are in times of prosperity. If you’re anything like me, you want to develop character so that you can truly influence the people in your life in a positive way.
 
You’re not here just to “take up space”, you’re here to leave your mark on the world – right? Well, in that case, there’s no getting around the trials…
 
Finally – and at the risk of sounding a bit cynical – let me speak strictly from a business perspective:
 
4.) Even with your trials you’re creating your story. Marketing is all about story-telling, and your story is what is going to help your prospects relate to you. A story without “failure” prior to “success” is not a real story that others can relate to – it’s a feel-good fantasy.
 
If you look at it this way, “failure” is actually good for business! It makes you real, relatable and believable in the eyes of your business contacts and future customers.
 
And remember, everyone loves a ‘come-back’ or a ‘rag-to-riches’ story: The fact that you were down in the dumps only makes your rise to the top – or back to the top – all that more compelling.
 
Hope that helped put some back in your heart! Whatever you do, never, ever, ever give up…because you were created for greatness!
 
 
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By now I’m sure you’ve heard the story of Ted Williams, the 53 year old homeless man who within 72 hours went from panhandling and living on the streets of Ohio to becoming a media sensation.
 
A former radio announcer who had lost everything to a drug and alcohol addiction – but now clean and with a new-found faith in God – he had been praying relentlessly that his 90 year old mother would live to see his comeback.
 
And just the other day, while wandering the streets of Ohio begging for spare change, he was discovered by a reporter. This reporter shot a video of “the Man with the Golden Voice”, a video that soon went viral online and catapulted Ted into the spotlight.
 
Ted has now been reunited with his mother, whom he hadn’t seen in 20 years (!)…and the job offers are pouring in.
 
It’s an amazing story… I haven’t been able to get it off my mind since I first heard it earlier this week.
 
It’s a story that gives you hope. And that’s why I wanted to briefly comment on it here on my blog.
 
Three things I take away from it:
 
1. Anything can happen when you just choose to stay positive, prayerful and continue to believe…yes, even in the worst of circumstances.
 
2. God is a God of second chances: You can never mess up too bad.
 
3. The Internet is an incredible tool…a youtube video that goes viral can change a person’s life. As a online marketer, you need never doubt that you are in the right place at the right time.
 
Let 2011 be the year that you make an impact on someone, and use your business as the vehicle to accomplish it…
 
 
Here is the famous video.
 
 
 
 

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