Close your eyes and picture a frozen body of water. Perhaps it is part of the Arctic. It is vast and it is covered with a wintry blanket of snow. A novice would look at this frozen landscape and conclude there is no way for a ship to cross it. But, that is not true. Large vessels are designed for cutting through ice. They do it all the time (those vessels know their "Why" in life). They just have to be built with structural integrity and strength and have the equipment to grind and cut away at ice.

Some individuals look at obstacles and quickly conclude that it just cannot be done. Individuals folks use the word impossible far too frequently. "It's impossible" becomes permission to stay in bed, avoid making sales calls, and just letting everyday living roll over them. YOU - a born Champion - were created for far better points than that! After all, you started your life competing against millions of others, and you won that contest. So, what is really a tiny ice in to you? What am I saying? I'm saying for you being an icebreaker. Set the bow of your ship toward the challenges and bear into it. Little by little. Inch by inch. Make your way across whatever obstacles are blocking your path. You could have to stay on track by forging up and over the speed bumps of everyday living.

Big battles are almost never won in a sudden and dramatic way. Most are won incrementally. It's almost like everyday living is constructed to reward the diligent, the focused, and also the determined. Football games are a fantastic reflection of existence. Yes, you have your high and dazzling "Hail Mary" passes. But, individuals are typically lucky moments. You can't construct a whole game on them. Rather, the ground game is important. Taking the 100 yard field inch by inch. Grinding it out. Blood, mud, sweat, and severe pain.

Set your face to be like that. I don't care what you have to go via - bankruptcy, divorce, illness, losing a job, whatever. As Winston Churchill told the British individuals during the darkest hours of World War II, "Never, by no means, never, in no way give up!"

The struggle is so much a part of attaining success. While others are sleeping, goofing off, or horsing around, you be the one who keeps slogging and chipping away right on through the ice. Always remember that mountains are built one pebble at a time and climbed one step at a time. Frozen lakes are crossed the same way. Chip. Chip. Chip.