This is 5 Minute Friday!

You make the meaning.

Tony Robbins said, the quality of your life is the quality of the meaning you give to

everything in your life.

Anything in life is neither good or bad, but our meaning makes it so.

That being the case, we get to decide what meaning we give our tough times.

Are they challenges?

Are they going to destroy us?

Or are they opportunities?

Were they sent to make us stronger?

Or is the world always against us no matter what?

Will we succeed despite the challenge and create an amazing story of perseverance?

Or will this moment be used as an excuse as to why we never made it?

Many people use the painful events of their life as excuses.

Some of them use it as their motivation, and it's their reason why they must succeed.

Now there were many times in my life where I said, man, this isn't fair, this sucks, everyone's

against me, no one understands me.

I don't have the opportunity, people don't get it because I'm not set up the way they

are.

They had different parents who didn't get divorced.

They didn't have as many bullies as I had.

They had friends.

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