The Morning Ascent

Realize that happiness lies within you.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master this principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. You will learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that Mother Nature intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

~ Og Mandino

Make today your day to shine!