Don’t Give Up

Greater Benefit

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.  – Napoleon Hill

No matter how hard circumstances may seem to you, they will always make you stronger and smarter.

“Tough times don’t last, but tough people do. And I’ve been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don’t last.” — Alonzo Mourning

Getting Through The Tough Times In Life

Pushing past difficulties and surmounting adversities, especially in the face of very trying times, is a monumental undertaking. To add to that, when you have the regular stresses of everyday life that include things like your finances, children, spouses or significant others, and the fact that you have to deal with life’s random crises, it can be too much to handle.

However, getting through the tough times in life can be just a little bit easier when you can rely on certain methods. When you can fall back on strategies that have worked throughout the ages, the tough times might not seem so tough. That’s not to say that life’s difficulties will immediately disappear. No, they won’t. You’ll simply realize the importance of the beauty, simplicity and miracle of life.

While this might sound Utopian in nature, it isn’t. Life is beautiful. Life is a gift. It’s been given to us by our Creator, whomever you believe that to be. If you don’t believe in a higher power, then revert to that spiritual oneness that binds us all, the energy that flows through the very fabric of life. I won’t get into an existential discussion or focus too much on religion, but rather on the simple beauty of life.

The thing that we need to understand is that our existence here on earth is an infinitesimal blip on the annals of history as we know it. Humans, in our current form as descendants of the Hominins, have only really been around for approximately 200,000 years. But the creation of the universe itself spans something closer to 13.8 billion years.

The point? Whatever we’re going through today, someone else has gone through. Over the course of the centuries and millenniums, human beings, and our descendants, have had to suffer through tough times. While only a short span of that time is actually available in recorded history, one can only imagine what our ancestors went through, things that will likely never see the light of day.

So regardless of how much difficulty you’re facing, or how much strife you’re in at the moment, tough times don’t last.