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[…]","datePublished":"2022-11-28","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/overcome\/","about":["Overcome More"],"wordCount":832,"articleBody":"The StruggleYou will grow through what you go through.Being flexible is hard.The journey is the destination.The obstacle is the way.As Martin Luther King Jr. said, if you can’t fly, run, if you can’t run walk.\u00a0 If you can’t walk crawl but by all means keep moving forward.When you’re going through hell, keep going!Opportunity comes in the hard times.Luck is about preparationFreedom lies on the other side of fear.Everyone wishes life was easy.\u00a0 Everything handed to them on a silver platter.\u00a0 Sure, that sounds nice, but your true strength, your true value, who you are is defined by the struggles you’ve gone through.\u00a0 There’s a saying, ‘you will grow through what you go through.’ The most successful people I know are driven by something that happened to them at some point in their past.\u00a0 They have something to prove.\u00a0 Something to overcome.\u00a0 Something that was taken from them early on, and they are fighting tooth and nail to get back on track.\u00a0 Or have what they were deprived of.\u00a0 Or change the circumstances they are in for themselves and their loved ones.\u00a0 They are working for a purpose that is higher than themselves.\u00a0 And those people are the great ones.\u00a0 The people who’s names you will remember.\u00a0 Not the person with the silver spoon. When you set a goal, make a plan, and execute on that plan to achieve whatever it is you’re looking to achieve, you have to stop once and a while and look around.\u00a0 Smell the roses.\u00a0 As Ferris Bueller said, ‘Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.’ What you have to realize is the journey is the destination.\u00a0 The struggles and obstacles you face, are the way.\u00a0 There is no straight line, smooth path, or highway to get you to where you are going.\u00a0 You’re going to struggle, be beaten down, and have to fight your way through life in all its glory to wrestle from its grasp all that you want.\u00a0 But it’s worth the fight. There will be some times when you think it’s too much to overcome.\u00a0 When I lost my dad, and my mother shut down, all of a sudden I was forced into becoming someone I wasn’t quite ready to be.\u00a0 I felt unprepared, and I didn’t have a plan to deal with the loss, and move forward in my life while helping support those around me.\u00a0 I felt as though I had been knocked to the ground, and was laying there dazed and confused.\u00a0 But eventually, I did get up, and start moving forward.\u00a0 Just as you can.\u00a0 Just start moving forward.\u00a0 As Martin Luther King Jr. said, if you can’t fly, run.\u00a0 If you can’t run, walk.\u00a0 If you can’t walk, crawl but by all means keep moving forward. Now during this journey, there are going to be moments of hell.\u00a0 I personally lived through several of them.\u00a0 And I can tell you, the bias is to think that now I’ve come through all that, it’s going to be smooth sailing from here on out.\u00a0 But there’s just no way. Opportunity comes in the hard times.In 2007, 2008, and 2009 the world entered a financial crisis, and the great recession.\u00a0 This directly impacted me and my business, where I went from making money, to losing $70,000 a month.\u00a0 I had to let everyone go except for a woman who was expecting, and I was paying her salary on my credit card just to get her to the government subsidized maternity leave. Letting everyone go was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in my business life.\u00a0 I felt like a failure, I felt terrible for the impact losing their job would have on their lives, and I didn’t know what to do. I realized I had to learn how to do business in a new way, and so I did.\u00a0 I went out and registered 3000 domain names, put up 500 websites, and learned how to get good at online marketing.\u00a0 That became my new business, and over time the old business came back.\u00a0 So now I had two businesses generating more income than the first did.\u00a0 That opportunity would never have happened if I didn’t go through the challenge of the recession.\u00a0 That opportunity was presented to me, and I took it. Everything changes.\u00a0 The seasons, the economy, the world, and as such you’re going to have to change and adapt too.\u00a0 That’s just life.\u00a0 And if you have every been on vacation, sitting on a beach, every need taken care of, that’s good for a little while.\u00a0 But then boredom sets in.\u00a0 Routine.\u00a0 And before long, you’re looking for a little adventure. That’s the best thing about life.\u00a0 It’s a little adventure."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Overcome More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Overcome","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/overcome\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]