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OvercomingAdversity Monday, June 20, 2011 Overcoming Adversity Stephen R. Covey 0

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Adaptability
Rising Above................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ... 2 Silver Linings ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ .. 3 Problem Solving ................................ ................................ ................................ ............................. 5 Bring it down to size ................................ ................................ ................................ ....................... 6 Working from the Inside-Out................................ ................................ ................................ .......... 7 Humor................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ............ 8

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Adaptability
Rising Above
When encountering opposition, successful people find ways to rise above and make the best of circumstances

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it Helen Keller

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. William Arthur Ward

Most people think the Holocaust camps were like snake pits that people stepped on each other for survival. It wasn t like that at all. There was kindness, support, understanding. A childhood friend of mine, Ilse, once found a raspberry in the camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Those are the moments I want to remember. People behaved nobly under unspeakable circumstances. GerdaWeissmann Klein

In many instances we can t control what happens to us, but we can control our reactions to what happens to us. We can stay down for the count and be carried out of the ring, or we can pull ourselves back to our feet. Ann Landers

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Silver Linings
Adversity often brings out the true spirit and character within people and leads them to make the noblest of choices.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding

At 83 Thomas Edison was still as intensely active as ever, and when it was proposed to relieve him of deafness, he declined, saying that his infirmity helped him to think, and, I want to do a lot more thinking before I die. -GamalielBradform

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. -B. C. Forbes

Everybody at some point is going to have adversity. I think if we don t learn from that, then it was just a penalty. But if you use it, then it becomes tuition. -Dr. Phil McGraw

The gem cannot be polished without friction -Chinese Proverb

One early spring day I met an old farmer. It had been a rainy spring, and I commented about how good it must be for the crops to have so much rain early in the season. He replied, No, if the weather is too easy on the crops now, the plants may only grow roots on the surface. If that happens, then a storm could easily destroy the crops. However, if things are not so easy in the beginning, then the plants will have to grow the strong and deep roots they need to get at the water and nourishment down below. If a storm or a drought comes, they are more likely to survive. Now I look at rough times as an opportunity to put down some roots to help me weather future storms that may come my way. -Jerry Stemkoski

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-Rebecca Gregory

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn t we? -Rose Kennedy

Whenever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. -Nelson A. Rockefeller

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Problem Solving

When problems arise, we do well if we act quickly to drain their momentum and move forward ourselves.

I never varied from the managerial rule that the worst possible thing we could do would be to lie dead in the water with any problem. Doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without immediate risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business. -Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve. -Mike Leavitt

One day in the Grand Central Station, I watched the man behind the information desk. People crowded around him, clamoring, demanding, but he never became flustered. He would pick out one person, look directly at him and answer his question slowly and deliberately. He never shifted his eyes, never pain the slightest attention to anyone else until he was finished and had singled out his next questioner. When my turn came, I complimented him on his poise and concentration. He smiled. I ve learned, he said, to focus on one person at a time and to stick with his problems until it s settled. Otherwise, I d go mad. -Norman Vincent Peale

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. -Charles F. Kettering

There are a thousand hacking at branches of evil to one who is striking at the room. -Henry David Thoreau

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Bring it down to size

One way to find relief from stress is to bring challenges down to size by taking them one at a time.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, when asked if he had been frightened by the jungle that had daunted previous explorers: I did not see the whole. I only saw this rock ahead of me; I only say this poisonous snake which I had to kill in order to take the next step. I only saw the problem directly in front of me. If I had seen the whole thing I would have been too overwhelmed to have attempted this. -John Mack Carter and Joan Feeny

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward Everett Hale

Army doctor to a GI faced with combat fatigue: Think of your life as an hourglass. The thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow next on the middle, one grain of sand at a time. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure. -Dale Carnegie

The real key to relieving stress is gaining control over irritants you have the power to change and accepting those you don t. There s a lot of truth to the Serenity Prayer recited at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings: God grant me the courage to change what I can, the strength to accept what I can t and the wisdom to know the difference. -Dr. Paul J. Rosch

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Working from the Inside-Out

People who encounter opposition often look externally for causes or blame. But the best way to initiate change and to make progress it to first look inside- to start with yourself.

Often we change jobs, friends, and spouses instead of ourselves. -Akbarali H. Hetha

A Chinese general put it this way: If the world is to be brought to order, my nation must first be changed. If my nation is to be changed, my hometown must be made over. If my hometown is to be reordered, my family must first be set right. If my family is to be regenerated, I myself must first be. -A. Purnell Bailey

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. -Anwar El-Sadat

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. -Goethe

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Humor

Sometimes when we are down the best solution is to laugh and move on, for some aspec of life just ts cannot be taken too seriously.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter -Gordon W. Allport, PhD.

If you re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. -Marie Osmond

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. -Bob Newhart

On why she started making comedy out of minor adversities at an early age: Comedy is a tragedy revisited. For example, I backed a custard pie, set it to cool and it developed a puddle of water on top. I took if over to the sink and tilted it very slightly to get the water off. But the whole inside went down the drain. Two hour s work was shot. -Phyllis Diller

A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs. He is jolted disagreeably by every pebble in the road. -Henry Ward Beecher