Never confuse a single defeat to a final defeat...
Life might have battered you and knocked you down. When life knocks you down, try and land on your back, because if you could look up, you could get up...
Thomas Carlyle wrote the history of French revolution. A work that he was offered by his friend, John Stuart Mill who offered the job to him due to his inability to fulfill the promise he made to his publisher to produce history of French.
Carlyle who was at that time broke and stranded with no dime to sustain his family, and was unwilling to stoop to mere journalism.
After he finished writing the first volume... a work which he buried himself in its research and took him a whole year to complete.
He gave the manuscript to Mr Mill for proofreading, only for the disastrous news to come few days later that Mr Mill had left the manuscript at the house of his friend, Mrs Taylor where someone who could not read started fire in the fire place with the manuscript.
The sad, dejected and devastated Carlyle told his wife later in the night, on that day, that he could not go back to writing the history again. He said he had forgotten almost everything he wrote and had dismissed all that he used for his research.
See how sometimes someone's goofs and blunders would cost you a very huge price to pay...
Sometimes, life will deal a deadly blow at your dream and every fantastic edifice you've built in your head will start crumbling. In those times you will be destituted and the universe will seem to be against you. You'll feel your whole world has crashed down. You'll be left battered and shattered.
In those moments it is easy to give in and give up. One will tend to accept misfortunes as one's fate. Negative thoughts will be flowing through your head like current in a circuit.
Your self confidence will drop and you'll almost loose yourself.
But if you can just take courage to get back up again, learn from misfortune and let the pains and disappointments push you to a point where you'll be willing to give it whatever it takes to achieve your dream. To develop the attitude of giving yourself self motivation, self encouragement and keep telling yourself everyday that no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets you're going to achieve that dream you hold in your head...
Carlyle resorted into not writing again until one day while watching everything going on outside his house through the window. He saw something that caught his attention.
A stone mason reconstructing a collapsed building. He could notice that the process was slow and tedious but, the building, after completion, was stunning, far better than the first one. He was thrilled and the scenario resonated with him.
He went back into recreating another volume one of his manuscript with other two volumes. Carlyle wrote the entire manuscript from memory, direct and flamingly from the heart.
The three-volume work -- an exceptional phenomenal book which charts the history of French revolution from 1789 to 1795 -- was completed and published. It has never been out of print and it still in print nearly 200years later.
This is the beginning of a new month. Yes, you failed to achieve your goal last month!
Yes, your business crashed down because of your goof or someone else's!
Yes, you lost someone that has been the supporting pillar of your life, the water for your fish!
Yes, you've been rejected by alot of companies you submitted your application to!
Yeah, God himself knows you've done alot of business and you've failed and you plunged into debt!
In fact your own surname, first name and last name has been completely changed, by your family and folks, to "FAILURE, FAILCIOUS, etc"!
"You're the King of Failure community, Prince Loser and the ambassador of Losers Ltd Company.
Yeah, that's fine..
Life has a way of dealing with everyone us. Believe it or not, life happens to everyone of us..
What makes the difference is what you do about it. Either you choose to keep wallowing in complain and reminiscing your predicaments or you choose to move on and step up to challenge life with full force...
Shakespeare once wrote, " Let us not burden our remembrance with the heaviness that is gone"...
You can begin again folks!
Here comes another month, set your goal like mad! act on it like crazy! and earn yourself a medal.
#BeginAgain
