Howtobefit.com<\/a> website to an ecommerce site selling Polar heart rate monitors. \u00a0 That went well and I became one of the top Internet dealers in the country within a couple of years. \u00a0 But then a management decision at Polar \u00a0 to start selling retail meant that my future as an independent dealer started to look really bleak.<\/p>\nAlong came the Team Beachbody opportunity 3 years ago and it has been an incredible blessing but the last two years have seen my marriage be battered twice by two near divorces. \u00a0 Even this summer, I was sick for two months with a bacterial infection in my blood from an abscessed root tip that was actually left in my mouth from the car accident over 20 years before. \u00a0 How absurd is that?<\/p>\n
And did I finish the year on a high note? \u00a0 No, I got the swine flu just after Thanksgiving \u00a0 and as I mentioned, I am still feeling the after effects.<\/p>\n
Do I have a right to be discouraged? \u00a0 Yes. \u00a0 But instead, I am pissed off and defiant. \u00a0 No amount of discouragement and woe is going to make anything better.<\/p>\n
If you are discouraged, now is not the time to hang your head down in despair because the only thing that you will see is down. \u00a0 Hold your head high and start seeing over the horizon to what lies ahead. \u00a0 Get mad and get even with life and use your challenges and your failures to make you stronger and smarter.<\/p>\n
If you are looking down while you are running the race of life, you are probably going to trip over your own feet or run into more obstacles.<\/p>\n
I still keep thinking about the Bible verse, Ephesians 2: 8-10, that Tim Tebow had under his eye during the Sugar Bowl this year. \u00a0 It says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God – not because of the works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”<\/em><\/p>\nWe are all given the gifts that we need to succeed and we need to use them. \u00a0 No challenge that we face is ever greater than our ability to overcome it.<\/p>\n