“Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – MARILYN VOS SAVANT – Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame for the highest recorded IQ.
Do you ever wake up and just feel “defeated?”
We all have days that are “bad” days; we lose a deal, an employee or friend doesn’t make a crucial phone call, the bid goes to someone else, the news station says we will “never” recover, your phone is on the fritz, you feel sick, find out bad news, or get chewed out by the boss. Etc. etc.
This is the crucial moment where we have to make the decision to accept things the way they are at this moment and be “defeated.” Or we take the other option which is to accept the responsibility to change our circumstances.
In High School people would always tell me that I would never play in the NBA. I accepted that as truth and just let that dream die. As it turned out, 4 of the 5 of my High School starting team went on to play Division 1 college hoops and some went to the NBA.
I learned a valuable lesson, “don’t ever let someone, anyone, tell you what you can’t do.” Sure the odds can be stacked against you, sure it may not seem possible, and it doesn’t matter. You decide what you will accept as truth, you decide what you can and can’t do, you decide to accept responsibility for your life and circumstances and let everyone else “accept the way things are.”
You see, life is not made up out of whether bad things will happen or if bad days will come, because they will. Life is made out of those situations when someone decides to either be temporarily defeated or permanently destroyed. We kill our own dreams, nobody else can do that for us.
As for me, I will guard and protect my dreams and own the responsibility for making them happen. How about you?
-Jon Bohm
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