Whether it is in business, love, or even life. There is no
failure except in no longer trying. As great works are accomplished, not
by strength, but by perseverance. History tells us that almost all great
leaders have been pushed to some point of insanity. This insanity
accompanies the ideology that death, and the anxiety we call fear, is no longer
an option. It is at this brink that man realizes the simple fact that it
is all or nothing. In military strategy, while cornered and under
heavy attack, there is only one option…..TO FIGHT!
"You might as well stand and
fight because if you run, you will only die tired" - Vern Jocque - Sei Shin Kan.
In a book written in 1960, by Eleanor Roosevelt, titled “You
Learn By Living” , she states the following on courage;
The encouraging thing is that
every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an
impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once
you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer
than you ever were before. If you can live through that you
can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the
next thing that comes along.' The anger lies in refusing to face
the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along
the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make
yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
In conclusion, through the days I have the pleasure to speak
to several friends, family members, clients, and colleagues whom all face the
constant dogma we call stress. As this anxiety compounds into all of our
daily agendas, we must learn to harness its energy and reflect it towards a
more productive state. Furthermore, “In the confrontation between the
stream and the rock, the stream always wins-not trough strength but by
perseverance.”-Jackson Brown
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