Mike Carruthers:
How
well do you handle the day-to-day setbacks and disappointments?
Roger Crawford:
I believe it is our ability to rebound from daily stresses and
setbacks that will ultimately determine our level of happiness
and our level of achievement.
Roger Crawford,
author of the book
How High Can You Bounce?…
What I share
with people is to separate fear from anxiety. Anxiety is defined
as the anticipation of a negative event whether it occurs or
not, fear's tied to something real, anxiety's tied to imagination.
Mark Twain said, "I've had a lot of troubles in my life
and very few of them came true."
Roger says resilient
people think and speak differently than those of us who feel
hit hard by daily disappointments.
Resilient people
may look at a situation and say "Well that's a setback,
a learning experience" and a non-resilient person may look
at the same situation and say, "That's a tragedy".
What I'm suggesting is we not misrepresent our situation, Mike,
but I'm suggesting that we shouldn't catastrophize, if you will.
And it helps,
says Roger, to keep your eye on the big picture.
I was watching
recently about a young man who ran across America. And they
asked him, "Did your feet ever hurt, you must have been
in pain and agony" and he said, "Only when I took
my eye off the finish line". What I find about people most
often is that they don't have clarity; they don't have that
finish line in their life.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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