Embrace Possibility When the world is unfair to you …

When the world is unfair to you …

Green bus broken down on the road... remember that the world has also been generous to you.

If you can read and understand these words, that means you:

  • have access to electricity, a computer or phone, and the internet
  • have free time to peruse articles
  • can read and speak one of the most useful languages in the world

Take time to appreciate how lucky you are to be in your situation - this should make you feel better.

Remember: We can't choose what happens to us but we can choose our reaction to what happens to us. 

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust Survivor and Author of Man's Search for Meaning

 

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About the Author:

Robert Chen is the founder of Embrace Possibility, where he writes about the practical skills behind reaching your full potential — getting clear on what you want, and following through on it. He's a lecturer at the Wharton School, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Selling Your Expertise, and the founder of Vana Lab, where he now teaches teenagers the same skills the executives he coaches wish they'd learned sooner. If something here resonated, join his free 52-Week Success Habits series — one short, practical email a week, with The Dreams to Reality Fieldbook as a welcome gift. Or explore more of his work at robertchen.com and read more of his posts here.

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