Ways to overcome setback and achieve your goals during tough times. How to pick yourself up from failure and maintaining positive attitude for success.

1. YOU’RE BETTER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE
Kayiba Mpoyi

2. HOW IMPORTANT IS SELF ESTEEM WHEN REACHING YOUR GOALS?

3. THE POWER OF THE MIND
“Courageisnotsomethingthatyoualreadyhavethatmakesyoubravewhenthetoughtimesstart.Courageiswhatyouearnwhenyou’vebeenthroughthetoughtimesandyoudiscovertheyaren’tsotoughafterall”–Gladwell.M(DavidandGoliath2013)

4. YOU’RE BETTER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE

5. YOU WERE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME
Remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?
-Neuroscientist
-Doctor
-Astronaut
-Lawyer
Why was that?

6. Because you believed that you could!
You saw it somewhere maybe in a book, maybe on TV and you thought, wow I can do that!
And you didn’t wait for anyone’s approval and you certainly didn’t care about haters

7. Giving up??
What colour is that?

8. EXPERIENCE
Somewhere along the road, you were met with company, particularly failure and mistake.
And you had such a bad experience with them…but you took it TOO personally.
You had no idea that they were just hitchhikers and a lot of other people were l meeting them on the way too

9. People like these guys who were also on that road in fifth avenue

10. And for a while you kept on meeting them over and over again, and you just had no energy left in you.
They wore you out.
Now you’re tired and drained and you don’t believe you can do the things you dreamt of doing because a couple of standardized exams and tests and selection processes and bosses told you, you weren’t good enough
And they said “don’t call me, we’ll call you”
Now you’ve just thrown in the towel

11. YOU ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE

12. BECAUSE YOU’VE FORGOTTEN
That you’ve been here before
That you’ve probably been through worse
That you have been made stronger when you met them the first couple of times and they didn’t kill you

13. Surely this is not the first time you’ve felt
-unsure
-anxious
-scared
-like a total loser
Surely it cannot possibly be the very first time

14. Maybetwoyearsagosomethingsimilarhappenedoryouwerepulledoutofyourcomfortzone.
Youhadsleeplessnightsandlostappetite
Ifyoucan,canyourememberdetailfordetailwhatitwas?
Canyourememberhowittooksomuchfromyou
Canyourememberfeelinglikeitwasjusttheendoftheworld
Canyourememberwishingyouwereneverborn

15. You’vetakenforgrantedthatyou’veovercome
You’vetakenforgrantedthatinthemidstofitallyou’restillstanding
You’vetakenforgrantedthatthereisaspiritinyouthatnevergaveup

16. Because even when you were under resourced
And under paid
And mistreated
And incapable
And lacked experience
You went for it anyway

17. So you think you just got lucky
That you caught a big break
That somewhere somehow life sorta kinda made a plan for you
That’s because you didn’t know

18. Inside you is that spirit although fragile, impossible to break
That warrior that just wouldn’t give in
That voice that said one more try after many rejections
The spirit to still be a joy to others even though there wasn’t much in your life
That smile when you really wanted to cry
That spring in your DNA that bounced back up when beat down
And you carried on with grace and the courage only heroes are made of

19. JUST KEEP GOING FORWARD
Because had it not been for failure you would never had known what success felt like
Had it not been for darkness, you never would know when the light shone on you
Had it not been for mistakes, you never would’ve been any wiser
Had it not been for those moments of weakness, you never would’ve learned strength
But you’ve been to war and back

20. And when you were in war you were younger
More naïve
Less experienced
Foolish
Weak
YET you survived, now you’re SO MUCH MORE than that

21. YOU WILL OVERCOME
YOU WLL MAKE IT
YOU WILL SUCCEED
YOU WILL ACHIEVE
YOU WILL, YOU CAN, SO YOU MUST

22. And life threw all these challenges at you because it knew, you were better than you thought you were
It was just waking a sleeping giant
And deep down you’ve never settled, you always knew
YOU CAN DO BETTER!! Because you are better than you’ve ever been