Get tough
Tough means that you
are willing to stand tall and persevere. Even when your mind and body signal
perfectly good reason for giving up, you go on. This tough is obvious. But
tough can be seen every day if we choose to look. Tough maybe a patient
undergoing cancer treatments or a single mother struggling to raise children.
Tough can be alcoholic ready to face rehab or an athlete living in a
wheelchair. Tough can be rejecting false praise and honestly accepting you and
your children for who and what you are. Tough is an ability to make the best
from what you are given. Tough is making the decision to replace self-pity,
complaints and dependence with self-reliance, independence and action.
You’ve got to be tough to do the big things in life like
taking risks, admitting mistakes, and changing bad habits. You’ve to be tough
to do the little things like biting your tongue, waiting your turn and putting
up with fools. Self-reliance and self-confidence will demand your toughness.
Then, you must temper toughness with kindness, realizing that many times it
will be tough to be kind. Be kind anyway.
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