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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement—along with a good cup of coffee!—to start the day. Today we discuss "determined."

Hopefully, the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter along to others who you think would benefit from the content.

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Determined

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There are a lot of keys to fighting through the tough things in life. One of the biggest is being determined.

Being determined is easy to comprehend and difficult to execute. But it is absolutely critical when you run into roadblocks.

From what I’ve seen, people who are determined possess several key traits that give them this huge advantage. These include:

• Faith – Determined individuals believe that things will work out. Often, they do not know how; they simply know. To many, this is incomprehensible.
• Tolerance – When you’re pushing through a barrier, it is often not pleasant. Determined individuals are able to tolerate the short-term pain for the long term gain.
• Confidence – Unlike faith that is built on the external, confidence is that internal belief in self. Determined individuals KNOW that they can do their part and, in so doing, have faith that the external pieces will fall into place.
• Resilience – Even with faith, tolerance, and confidence, the first attempt often fails. Determined individuals do NOT allow that to deter them. They are resilient—they give it another shot!

Interestingly, the skeptics of the world often believe the determined individuals to be naïve. That’s because they (the skeptics) can easily point out how the determined individual has NOT yet achieved their goal. Furthermore, even after they (the determined) achieve their goals, the skeptic often has all kinds of reasons on why it was “obvious” that things were going to work out, as they discuss the factors that came together to yield the positive result.

What the skeptics fail to acknowledge is that these factors RARELY just come together. As they say, “fortune favors the prepared.” And the determined are normally the most prepared!

That brings us to this week’s question:

• What are you determined to do today? This week? This month? This year? This life?

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning.  

Have a great week!

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Blog post from this past week:

Monday Morning Motivation - Thoughtful