war

I would be sorely remiss if I did not point out that all hell will break loose when you choose to reach for something better. Whenever we try to move forward and break new ground, negative forces will come out of the woodwork to see we don’t get very far. You will be inundated with opposition from the most unlikely places. People who you thought were on your side will try to convince you to give up, and don’t be surprised if even those closest to you start to turn against you. Misery loves company and it will do everything in its power to see that it has plenty.

Keep going! This is war.

When you find yourself being bombarded from all sides and those negative voices are calling you back to a life of defeat and mediocrity, take heart and take my advice – you are about to have a breakthrough, and the bigger the breakthrough the bigger the opposition.

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you refuse to turn back and refuse to be defeated, little by little and one by one you will defeat everything that is standing in your way. One day you will look back and see that not only were you able to do what you once thought was impossible, but you have used what was meant to stop you and turned it into wings.