Respond with determination
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When life slams you down, respond with determination rather than dejection. Respond with self-empowerment rather than self-pity.
Self-pity wastes your effort and time. Being outraged that the world has hurt you, or someone else, won’t ease the hurt in the least.
Transform that outrage, that pity, into positive action. There is something you can do in response that will improve the situation, and the sooner you do it, the better.
Injustice is awful. Yet being paralyzed by your own outrage just makes the injustice that much worse.
Summon the strength, do the work, to come up with a better response. Challenge yourself to create a positive way forward that will change conditions for the better.
Difficulties will make you stronger, give you great opportunity, if you let them. Point your energy in a positive direction, and actively do what’s best for the life you love.
— Ralph Marston