How Strong is Your Desire to Move Forward When You Have Tasted Defeat?
Legacy signals
Legacy popularity: 1,280 legacy views
Legacy rating: 3.3/5 from 3 archived votes
The drive of a human being is truly unbeatable. Look how far we have come over the course of history. If you went back to the early 1800's and told them about some of the things we have accomplished today, they would look at you funny and have you committed to a crazy hospital.
Looking forward, what do you think the technology and medical advances of the year 2100 will be like? If I was to take a guess, I would say they would be truly amazing. Do you think that the people who achieve these advances will have tasted defeat? Absolutely, defeat comes with any journey to success. It is those individuals who keep pushing forward who get to experience the thrill of victory.
Where are you in your life today? Are you chasing your dreams? Or having you given up because you have experienced some setbacks?
When you are chasing success, you are going to have setbacks. What determines what happens from there is how you deal with these setbacks. Are you going to use them as stumbling blocks? Or are you going to use them as stepping stones?
When you have a setback in your life, it is only a test. It is up to you on how bad you want to achieve your desired outcomes. Do you have the will to succeed? Do you have the will to win?
If you believe in your abilities to achieve and stay committed to your desired outcomes, you will find a way. It is hard to keep a person who is infected with persistence down. You have to decide that no matter what happens along the way, failure is not an option. You are going to succeed because you believe in your abilities to achieve. Nothing is going to stop you.
Get your passion burning hotter than ever. Get excited about your desired outcomes. Get excited about your dreams and make them come true. You hold the key to your future, go out there and make your future happen now.
Article author
About the Author
Further reading
Further Reading
Article
testing1
April 4, 2026
Article
Time to be Positive
This is the time to be positive and avoid negative thinking at all costs. Negative thoughts will ruin your life. Instead, fill your mind with positive thoughts. Today and everyday think of all the great things that are taking place in your life. I'm not saying this just because it's the start of a new work week.
Related piece
Article
Discover the Power of Believing
The key to your success is your ability to change your belief system. Your beliefs create your reality - change your beliefs and you change your life. What beliefs do you currently have that keep you from attaining goals that you want to achieve in life? Is it fear? Or the feeling that you need to have something before
Related piece
Article
Stretch Rules of Happiness
Here are some rules that I live by. I call them my Stretch Rules if you will. No matter what happens in my life, I don’t let anything violate my core essence which is based upon these rules. That is what Stretch Yourself is all about. Asking yourself a simple honest question, “What do you truly believe? When you un
Related piece