We all go through trials and tribulations in life. It's easy when bad things happen to get down and defeated. It's easy to play the victim and act as if others are out to get you. However, when bad things happen, we need to have a victor mentality instead of a victim mentality. We need to be looking for ways to rise above the hard times and find our best place. This takes a constant willingness to reach this state. In our natural, it is very hard to perservere in the storms of life, but we must fight the good fight. We must run the race knowing that in the end we will win. It takes this never die attitude to come out strong from the hardships. Another thing we need to remember when we are having hard times is that there is always someone else in the world who has gone through the same thing you have. There are always people in this world who are by far worse off than you. This is especially true in America where we have become so used to our comfort zones that any little inconveniences can through us into a funk. Realize that there are people in third world countries who would love to have our lives!

Steps to Perservering:

• Be a Victor, not a victim

• Realize that there is always someone else who has gone through what you did and came out on top.

• Realize that there is always someone else in this world who has it worse than you do