Look for the Gift

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Normal Vincent Peale used to say,

“When God wants to send you a gift, he wraps it up in a problem. The bigger the gift that God wants to send you, the bigger the problem he wraps it up in”.

Instead of concentrating on the problem, look for the gift.

Wonderfully enough, you will always find it. What’s more, sometimes the gift, or valuable lesson, can be of far greater value than the cost of the problem itself.

Sometimes, one lesson that you learn in dealing with a problem can be the key to your long-term success.

As Napoleon Hill wrote,

“Within every problem or obstacle lays the seed of an equal or greater opportunity or benefit.

Your job is to find it”.

Continually think of yourself as a strong, powerful, resolute person in the face of diversity.

In World War I, a British general was described by his superiors:

“There he stands, like an iron peg, driven into the frozen ground, immovable”.

Let this be an accurate description of you whenever you face difficulty or problems of any kind.

Resolve to stand like an iron peg driven into the frozen ground.