Still on the mindset, We have a charge by Tegah Adedipe for the week and probably the rest of your life. Don’t quit. Just keep going. Enjoy!
It is a fact of life that despite all your best efforts at planning, strategizing and being careful not to make mistakes some things will go wrong sometimes. One of my favorite quote, “Don’t Quit,” makes the statement more eloquently by saying:
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Things will go wrong at times, but you determine what happens after a setback. There are in essence two basic mindsets when it comes to dealing with setbacks. One is the mindset of a pessimist and the other is one of an optimist. The optimist will see a setback as being temporary, whereas the pessimist will view it as permanent. The saying goes “never make a permanent decision based on temporary circumstances.” The pessimist will do just that. The optimist will see the event as being limited in time with little or no real impact on the future. The pessimist tends to regard a bad event or outcome as being pervasive and affecting everything around them. Just because they failed a quiz in a certain course they will feel that their entire semester in that course is over. The optimist is able to isolate a bad event and its effects and to treat it as just a bad event that does not affect everything else in their life. The optimist knows that, although they had no control over what happened, they have the power to influence or determine the outcome. This is what determines whether you rise again after you fall or stay down and mourn endlessly until you are a shadow of yourself. Your attitude when things go wrong is ultimately more important than the event itself and is what will determine if the outcome will be positive or negative. It is often said that “every adversity has within it the seeds of an equivalent or greater benefit.” Whenever you are faced with a setback ask yourself what you could do to turn it around. Better still, ask yourself how you can benefit from the setback. It may sound ridiculous, but you can benefit from a setback if you change your perspective. You will realize that there is nothing so bad you cannot use it for some good and that there is no situation that is totally hopeless. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you but by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you but by the way your mind looks at what happens. It’s a matter of attitude. Be an optimist
“Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you can never tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit, It’s when things seem worst That you must not quit.”
You are all you can be. Go on and be it.
Craft by
Tegah. A
