Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.

HELEN KELLER

What trials and tribulations have you gone through while building your character?

As you have weathered the continuous onslaught of variables which directly conflict with the path that you believe that you are on, what methodologies have you employed in your process of overcoming and defeating them?

As we work our way through life, it becomes painfully obvious that there is no end to them in sight, nor will there ever be… so, given the reality that they are never going to fully disappear, what is it that we are best served utilizing in order to ensure our success in the face of continuous adversity?

There are so many methodologies to deploy, predicated upon the type of obstacle that you are engaging with.

Some obstacles solely require tenacity and persistence, and eventually they, too, will diminish in favor of your success.

Whereas others are never going to dissipate on their own and require stronger or more specific approaches in order that we might ultimately hit that stage of certainty that the obstacle will ultimately be defeated.

As we work through the respective options at our disposal, we are all the more clear as to the potential permutations that may be available for that situation, versus those that are wholly immaterial and ineffectual in resolving anything in our favor.

Ultimately, there are the other obstacles that absolutely must be defeated, decimated, destroyed, or at least eliminated from our path in order that we will be capable of moving forward in the direction of our choosing.

In those situations, we might opt for diplomacy, charm, utilization of a magnanimous personality, or any other kind of positive metaphorical crowbar, which puts the leverage, in our side of the fulcrum.

Failing the positive opportunities, we are left solely with those that require the elimination of the variable.

In civilized societies that is done through diplomacy and legislation. In uncivilized circumstances, it will require some sort of a definitive conflict in which the prevailing party will be capable of continuing in the direction they have predetermined.

Whichever the permutations you are facing, and the outcomes that you are desiring, you are left with very little other than a personal degree of tenacity and determination, that must be awakened at such moments in your life, and leveraged to your greatest capability and benefit.

Only in these situations, will you ultimately uncover the greater truths of who you are turning out to be and what your overall strengths and capabilities will tolerate.

As a direct result, we are that much more capable of recognizing how, when and why we must return once again to our internal arsenal of resources, in order to prevail and succeed.

Learning these could not be more important.

Happy Thursday!