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You must learn how to handle frustration. If you want to become all you can become, do all you can do, hear all you can hear, see all you can see, you have got to learn how to handle frustration. Frustration can kill dreams. It happens all the time. Frustration can change a positive attitude into a negative one, an empowering state into a crippling one. The worst thing a negative attitude does is wipe or self discipline. And when that discipline is gone, the results you desire are gone.
So, to endure long term success, you must learn how to discipline your frustration. Let me tell you something. The key to success is massive frustration. Look at almost any great success and you will find there have been massive frustration along the way. Anybody who tells you otherwise do not know anything about achieving. There are two kinds of people, those who have handled frustration and those who wish they had.
There is company called Federal Express. A guy need Fred Smith started the company and he built a multimillion dollar business out of mounds of frustration. When he started the company, after financing it with every dime he had, he hoped to deliver approximately 150 packages. Instead, he delivered sixteen, five of which the business sent to the home of one of its employees. Things got worse from there. Periodically, employees cashed their payroll checks at convene store because funds were not available to cover the check. Many times their planes were in the process of being reposed and sometimes they had to ring in a certain amount in sale during a day to keep operating. Federal Express is now a billion dollar company. The only reason it is still there is that Fred Smith was able to handle frustration upon frustration.
People get paid every well to handle frustration. If you are broke, it is probably because you are not handling very much frustration. You say, well, I am broke and that is why I am frustrated. Y0u have got it backward. If you handled more frustration, you would be rich. A major difference between people who are financially secure and people who are no tis how they handle frustration. I am not callous enough to suggest that poverty does not have huge frustration. I am saying the way not to be poor is to take on more and more frustration until you succeed. People say, well, people with money do not have any problem, if they take on enough, they, probably have more problems. They just know how to deal with them, to come up with new strategies, new alternatives. Remember, being rich is not just a matter of having money. A superb relationship provides problems and challenges. If you do not want problems, you should not have a relationship at all. There is great frustration on the roads to any great success, in a business, in a relationship in life.
All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people do not get to the other side. People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this road block by pointing through frustrating, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from and pushing ahead. I doubt you will find many successful people who have not experienced this. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with rejection, learn how to strip that rejection of all its power.
So when you learn to run your brain, you can learn to handle rejection. You can even anchor yourself so the word no turns you on. You can take any rejection and turn it into an opportunity.
There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you have leaned, the closer you are to your outcome. If you can handle rejection, you will learn to get everything you want.
You must learn to handle financial pressure. The only way to have financial pressure is not to have any finances. There are many kinds of financial pressure and they have destroyed many people. They can create greed, envy, deceit or paranoia. They can rob you of your sensitivity. Handling financial pressure means knowing how to get and knowing how to give, knowing how to earn and knowing how to save.
