| Have you ever known someone like this? "A | | | | efforts to stop the failure will not succeed. |
| person who knows how to start well, but finds it | | | | Succeeding at any task in life is hard enough |
| difficult to keep going"? A person whose | | | | without allowing discouragement to hamper our |
| successes are dependent on the quality of | | | | efforts. A mind filled with discouragement will |
| someone else's encouragement and motivation? | | | | never have the motivation to keep going.A Force |
| Someone who consistently let's discouragement | | | | To Be Reckoned With!It will cause the person |
| get the better of him? Ever found yourself like | | | | affected by it to become jealous and resentful of |
| that? There's hope, read on.Don't Worry, Be | | | | others success. It can cause a woe-is-me attitude |
| Happy! &^%$%^Yeah right! How many times | | | | that will hang around like stink on a skunk. |
| have you wished you could bit**-slap somebody | | | | Discouragement will paralyze the strongest of |
| for saying that at the moment you least needed | | | | dreams, which is the reason many people |
| it? I know I have a bunch. The problem is, most | | | | affected by it start well but can't keep going.Many |
| of the time you're in a moment of | | | | people try to cover it up. Some are able to do it |
| discouragement when that is said. So, those | | | | pretty effectively. But, underneath there is an |
| words come across as being insensitive and cold | | | | undeniable and unmistaken pain and hurt that saps |
| blooded.Our first reaction is to lash out at the | | | | the person's motivation and causes depression to |
| person who said it, to give them a piece of our | | | | set in many cases.With such a wide spread |
| mind. And, sometimes we even tell them to stay | | | | problem is there anything that we can easily do |
| out of our life and mind their own business. Of | | | | to combat discouragement? Remember, |
| course, we really don't mean it; we're just | | | | discouragement needs fuel to spread and grow. |
| reacting to the discouragement that has pounced | | | | The fuel is our thoughts but, just telling ourselves |
| upon us.But, have you ever considered this? The | | | | to, "don't worry, be happy," does no more good |
| other person doesn't really feel your | | | | than it did when our friend said it to us.Do This |
| discouragement. Oh! Really, you say: Yeah, big | | | | Bright And Early!Just as soon as you tell yourself |
| revelation. Be nice to me now. Seriously, if they | | | | not to worry the pressure will become a storm. |
| did, and especially if it was a loved one, they | | | | It's almost like waving a red flag in front of a bull. |
| would never say words that would rattle your | | | | He is going charge it and discouragement is going |
| cage. But, the discouragement at hand makes us | | | | pound your thoughts till you "forcibly" take action |
| want to take out our saber and cut off their right | | | | to run them out. Once discouragement has set in |
| ear.Then what happens is, the other person, who | | | | the situation calls for serious action. It's time to sit |
| at the moment was probably feeling pretty | | | | down with a good book.At this point in time you |
| chipper and happy, suddenly feels the fury of | | | | need some help so don't try to be the honcho |
| your wrath so they take out their boxing gloves | | | | moncho and go it by yourself. You need for your |
| and then we got a full scale war on our hands. It | | | | eyes to feed on words that will help. I'm a firm |
| all started because one person felt discouraged | | | | believer in self-suggestion and auto-suggestion; |
| and now we got two people pi**ed off worse | | | | these techniques have helped me immensely |
| than a couple of fire breathing dragons.Makes | | | | through the years. But discouragement is |
| Your Hair Stand On End!At a moment when you | | | | dangerous and you don't want to play footsy with |
| are really in your groove those words just roll off | | | | it.Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover!Whatever |
| like water off a duck's back. But, discouragement | | | | book you read, do it quickly. I keep a handy Bible |
| can change the whole face of the situation. It can | | | | around me for moments like these. I get into the |
| cause us to even sabotage our own best efforts. | | | | Psalms and Proverbs. My favorite is the ninety |
| It can take the best laid plans of mice and men | | | | first Psalm. And, it is amazing how quickly |
| and turn them into mush.Do not underestimate | | | | discouragement takes a hike. I'm just as human |
| the potential effects of discouragement. It is like a | | | | as any one else and discouragement tests me like |
| virus; it spreads and can become so contagious | | | | everyone. But, one thing I do is run for the Book |
| that it acts like a permanent personality trait. | | | | when it comes. The Book anecdote never fails.If |
| Make no bones about it; it can make your dream | | | | you don't read the Bible then I would suggest you |
| not worth the powder to blow it up. When the | | | | find some good motivational book to feed your |
| roots get that deep, it takes military strength | | | | eyes on. There are a lot of them. And, don't |
| anecdotes to rid it.A Thief In The | | | | leave that book till you feel the pressure subsiding. |
| Night!Discouragement has probably caused as | | | | It will, sometimes ten minutes, sometimes thirty |
| many business failures as lack of capital, because | | | | minutes. But, that is a small price to pay for |
| it is first to show up. The discouragement shows | | | | peace and calmness of mind.This is the only |
| up long before the money runs out. Then the day | | | | method I have ever tried that works one |
| by day emotional warfare begins and the potential | | | | hundred percent of the time combating |
| to self-sabotage everything we are trying to | | | | discouragement. As many of you know I'm a big |
| accomplish. At that point; the money runs out!At | | | | believer in, "you possess what you confess". The |
| the end, we blame it on the lack of money, our | | | | art of affirmation has brought me through in |
| spouse, our next door neighbor, our cat, or | | | | more cases than I can count. It's not "hocus |
| anything that makes us look not at fault and out | | | | pocus", it's not "blab it and grab it;" but it is a |
| of our control. After all, if we could have stopped | | | | universal and spiritual truth that all can take |
| it, we would have. But, what we really did was | | | | advantage of and will greatly help anyone.Don't |
| try to stop the effects of the failure before | | | | Cut Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face!So, don't |
| trying to stop the discouragement that was | | | | try to re-invent the wheel and spend possibly |
| fueling it.Consider this: take a forest fire out of | | | | years trying to discover some hot dog brand new |
| control; it is much easier to cut off the fuel than | | | | strategy that no one has ever heard of and test |
| to drown it. Just clear areas outside the fire and | | | | it against your most dangerous enemy. Go to the |
| it'll burn itself out. If the fuel line to the engine is | | | | Book, it'll never fail you. |
| not cut off, then it's pretty safe to bet our | | | | |