Words Of Encouragement
A message to anyone looking for direction
The tide of the sea has heaved and bore you to this difficult place. Yet the person who stands before me is fully formed. You love life — in moments — and in those flashes I see a brilliant light.
What I really want to say can be arrived at in just a few words: your abilities are no less than anyone else’s. I know this sounds impossible to you, but it is true. And all those people who appear to glide through life, like ice-skaters with years of practice, have no more ability than you do.
Perhaps you will believe me if I say that all successes are hard-won, and that nobody arrives at them without immense effort and a raft of false starts. What I am trying to say is that nobody has ever found achievement easy.
You may wonder where such people get their perseverance from; I wonder that sometimes too. But with a little thought it is possible to see what perseverance really is: it is a belief in a positive outcome in the end. Before that end-point, all of the great success stories run on the fuel of optimism. Hard work is easier when you believe it will amount to something.
For you, I know, to see things in this light is difficult. Your optimism is suppressed because you expect never to arrive. You must believe me: your hard work will bear…
