It’s Not About What Happens To You – It’s How You Deal With

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Our world is filled with difficulties, but it is also filled with opportunities. Things happen sometimes that you have no control over. You see, it’s not what happens to you in life that matters the most, it’s how you deal with what happens.

Life is all about opportunities mixed with difficulties!

It was Winston Churchill who said: “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won!”

Life suck sometimes. We all go through our ups and downs. Sometimes we have more downs than ups and vice versa, but we learn to accept them. My Dad use to have a saying that goes: “Life is a fart and everyday it gets stinker and stinker!”

That is how some people see life…

But in reality, that statement does not tell the whole story. Many people love life. Many people are enjoying their lives because they have learned to choose how to react the situations and circumstances that come their way.

There’s no doubt that we are living in a crazy world right now. It’s like everyday we’re faced with more drama, more unnecessary crap that tend to keep us bogged down.

So much confusion is happening all around that we sometimes lose faith in our quest for a better life. We sometimes get caught up in the trivial matters so much that we forget the important things.

That’s life!

You don’t need all that stress and all that drama in your life right now. You can choose how you relate to your circumstances, how you respond to what is going on around you.

It was Jim Rohn who said: “It’s not what happens to you that matters most it is how you deal with what happens to you.”

Your attitude is the most critical part of this equation. You can choose to be happy in spite of… or, you can choose to worry.

You have a choice!

Don’t allow the circumstances that you have no control over to get to you. Life is too short to spend time worrying about things that you have no control over. Give yourself a break.

You have the power within to do ALL things – you just need to recognize that fact.

It all starts from within!

Let’s make a difference!