“Learn to view your problems as temporary stumbling blocks.”
There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes their problem big. New counselors often discover that many of their patients don’t have big problems, they are just problem conscious. As the counselors try to fix their problems, these patients tend to go out and find other problems.
A study of three hundred highly successful people reveals that 25% had handicaps (blindness, deafness, etc.). 75% of them were born in poverty, came from broken homes or at least came from exceedingly tense situations.
They became successful because they refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized they could determine their choice of attitude toward every circumstance.
Problems can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently.