As I go from day to day and talk with people and hear their challenges and “problems,” a familiar ring hits me from each one.  See, I was the kind of guy who didn’t easily let go of things.  I held on to anger and frustration sometimes over things people did wrong to me.  I would often “swim” in my “bad moods” for a while and really “nurture” them.  “I’m in a bad mood and I am going to stay right here because I WANT to!”  I would sometimes even let it all build up until I would almost get physically ill.

But, one day someone told me something, rather, gave me some advice that has been something I’ve held on to for YEARS.  It’s been some of the BEST advice I could have ever received and near every time I start feeling down, depressed, discouraged, or just plain negative, after a short moment of misery, these words come back to me.  But first, let me tell you how this particular even and phrase came to happen.

Years ago I worked at Wal-Mart in the Electronics department, now called Home Entertainment.  I started off the day BAD.  I was in a ROUGH mood and as soon as I walked into my area to start work, I made it known by announcing, “MAN, I am in a BAD mood today!”  Well, as many of you know, the photo department is located right next to Home Entertainment and so we were able to get to know the people who worked in it quite well as we worked closely with them all the time.  On this particular morning, a young lady who was busy going about her duties, whom I’d befriended, looked up from what she was doing and without skipping a beat or stopping what she was doing, looked up at me in an almost expressionless face and told me THE single best thing she would have ever told me…

Now at this point I’m guessing you’re thinking it was some PROFOUND word of advice, some “ancient proverb” or teaching, some of that nature.  No, it was only 3 words.  These three words have been HUGE in my life ever since then.  Want to know what it was she said?  Scroll down to the bottom of this page for what may be for you, as it was for me, a life-changing PROFOUND moment in your life… this phrase, when applied and taken to heart, will change SO MUCH of your thinking that it will guide you straight into a better life almost immediately…  check it out!

Now I’m giving you the SAME advice.  

 

CRAP happens!  It SUCKS!

 

 

People can OFTEN suck!  

 

But, YOU be DIFFERENT!

 

 

 

YOU have goals you want to accomplish!  YOU have IMPORTANT things to get done!  YOU are so much stronger than you may realize!  But YOU have to begin to

BELIEVE in yourself!

YES, we all have things in life that stress us, that discourage us, that make us want to give up.  Giving up is EASY.  Getting back up is HARD.  That is why so many people do not enjoy any kind of success with anything in life.

YOU BE DIFFERENT!!

Determine now that you WILL push through and make it happen!

GET UP!  STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF!  START DOING SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE ABOUT IT!!

Now this may sound harsh.  “You don’t know my problems!!”  You’re right, I don’t.  But, would you rather live a life empowered through struggles or destroyed by them?

The choice is YOURS!  I may not know you, but, I don’t have to know you to CARE about you.  This thought of taking PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for my life as best I could, following my God the best I can and then leaving the results to Him…

IT CHANGED MY LIFE!

I want the same for you!  Now go and give yourself permission to let go of what is holding you back, that comfortable thing you’re holding on to… and

GET OVER IT!

 

YOU’VE GOT THIS!!