Life itself is filled with so many things.  Joyous times, great successes, goals met, lost things finally found, promotions, and yes…frustrations and dreaded failures.  

Adversity, times when things go south, crash and burn, take a turn for the worst…regardless of how you prefer to say it.  Whatever it is, it just isn’t working anymore.   

So, what will you do?  

The good news is, we have options.  

Lets start with an example.  You are working hard on something important to you.  Things are going along well, and all of a sudden for whatever reason….things just head down the crapper.  You get upset and frustrated.  You call your best friend and go on and on about it saying how much you try to do the right thing and it just never seems to work out.  She jumps on your band wagon and says stuff like “I know, you poor thing, you try to do all the good things and for what…a big fat headache!”  Now you are feeling validated for your feelings of frustration and you call your other friends and they too, jump on your wagon complaining of how things they do in their life just don’t seem to work out.  Pretty soon there is a big band wagon making a bunch of noise about how negative and horrible it all is.  You all keep feeding each other’s woes and soon the whole wagon ends up in a heap at the bottom of dung hill.  This is not very productive for anyone.  In the end, nothing is resolved and everyone is swirling around in a bath of bad attitude, resentment and frustration.  

The other side of this is to try and figure out what to do about the problem.  Do you need to make a change?  Can you change anything?  Can you control it?  Does it affect you?  After considering those things, make an educated decision to call someone who can help you!  Someone who knows more than you do or could suggest a few things to help your situation in a positive way.  Sometimes you just need a new idea!  Then you have to be willing to experiment with your new information so you can climb the ladder to your success. This is much more positive, you are handling your adversity in a mature, successful way by surrounding yourself with people who can help you move forward, up and onward.  Not enable you to sit and spin your wheels in the muddy murk of disappointment.  

Again I ask you, In the face of adversity, what will you do?