May you be resistant

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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas Edison

The story is told of a man who failed 10000 times. Put better, the story is told of a man who found 10000 ways of not doing things, till he found one way that worked.

Despite dancing with failure on numerous occasions, he kept on improving his dance steps well enough to dance with success.

This is not an unfamiliar story. It’s just not that easy in real life.

‘Don’t think about it, just move on’.  Maybe it’s not that extreme, maybe it’s ‘I know how you feel’ or Wow, ‘You’re really strong.’ Either ways, sometimes words just don’t sound right.

They don’t seem good enough to explain what it is we’ve gone through or are going through.

People too often see in terms of the result, rather than the process, so we do not acknowledge that it’s a series of little battles won and not the total war that make it all up.

We do not stop to consider the process, so we do not recognize and give ourselves enough credit.

Only at the end when we are privileged to look back on many of our experiences do we marvel at the things we survived!

At the end, we need to concede that what we went through was valid, and we didn’t overcome it by chance.  We took certain decisions that optimized our strengths.  We sought counsel, we developed a support system and at the end of adversity, we grow.

Resistance is more than just bouncing back, it’s about staring the storm in the eye, and even though you’re forced to shut your eyelids, you keep on moving and standing till the storm passes over. It surely will.

In this month, MAY you be Resistant.

Remember Freedom is Peace; Optimism is Nature; Action is always within reach. BE MORE!

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Yetunde Bankole-Bernard is ‘The identity Coach™”

Certified as an Image Consultant, Human connection and Personality type practitioner and Work place psychologist.