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Strength Comes From Struggle
Struggle is a clever devise through which nature compels us to develop, expand, and progress. It is either a terrible ordeal, or a magnificent experience depending upon one’s attitude toward it. Success is impossible—unthinkable even—without it.
Life, from birth to death, is literally an unbroken chain of ever-increasing, unavoidable struggle. The education we receive from the struggles we face is cumulative—we get it a little at a time from every experience along life’s journey. Someone once said, “That, which does not kill us, makes us strong.”
A favorite poem from my youth is titled Good Timber. Its author is anonymous, but its message is clear. It illustrates the point I wish to make—through surviving struggles and trials that we can become stronger, better, more prepared to succeed.
Good Timber
The tree that does not have to fight,
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king,
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil,
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees,
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and man, good timber grows.
Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold council with the stars,
Who’s broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.
Struggle similarly toughens the human spirit. Most people try to go through life following the path of least resistance. They often fail to understand that this philosophy is what makes rivers crooked—and sometimes does the same for humans. Much like trees, the strongest people aren’t those that are most protected; they are those that have struggled against the elements—and survived. Without the strength of character that grows out of struggle, we might be sorely tempted to flow through life without plan or purpose.
As we understand the broad purpose of life, we accept the struggle for what it is—opportunity. Obstacles force us to move when we might otherwise stand still. And it leads us eventually to success that only comes through struggle. Every one of us knows someone who has failed at something—whether it was a test, a diet, a relationship, or a job. Failing is a part of winning.
Whenever you find a successful person, you find a person who has struggled in their live, who has met difficulty, faced it, over came it and moved on to the next challenge.
(Written by Cynthia Stewart. Excerpt from Chapter 10, Overcoming Obstacles, in her best-selling book, Dream Big! A Woman’s Book of Network Marketing. )
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DREAM BIG!
© Cynthia Stewart founder of Dream Big is an international speaker and the author of several books, which include “Dream Big! A Woman’s Book of Marketing” and “Creating Wealth on The Web”. Through many challenges that she has fought and won, Cynthia knows first-hand how to dream big and has dedicated her life to empower other’s to stand-up, step-out, and reach their dreams. She can be reached at www.cynthiastewart.com
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