Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - Positive Outlook

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Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - " Positive Outlook "

It is a great gift to be able to find the good in bad situations, and it is

a gift you can give yourself, if you choose to.

Many people, when they come upon a stumbling block or an obstacle in their

path, become discouraged and quit. But highly successful people know how to

turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

In December 1914, Edison's laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey

were almost entirely destroyed by fire. In one night, Edison lost two

million dollars worth of equipment and the records of most of his life's

work. The next morning, as he walked around the charred embers of so many of

his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven year old Edison said, " There is great

value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God, we can start

anew. "

The ability to see the benefits in bad situations will stand you in good

stead in every type of endeavor, whether it is sales or manufacturing, art

or aerospace, your personal or professional life. Sometimes, this is a

difficult thing to do.

Now I don't mean you should pretend things are wonderful when, in fact, they

are bad. But, if you can accept pain and disappointment as a part of life,

if you can see it for what it is and then move past it, if you can look

disaster in the face and call it what it is, and then find a blessing in it,

you'll be making the best of bad times.

Lou Tice

The Pacific Institute

Blessings,

Charlene

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