“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a […]
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Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing an amoeba into a perfectly stress-free environment: ideal temperature, optimal concentration of moisture, constant food supply. The amoeba had an environment to which it had to make no adjustment whatsoever. So you […]
Tags: adversity, challenge, change, comfort, James 1:2-4, laziness, perseverance, persistence, Proverbs 6:6-11, risk, Romans 5:3-5, stress, suffering
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley Also – it’s not what happens to you that matters as much as what you do with what happens to you. It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. […]