Dealing With Adversity – How to Overcome the Storms of Life By Michelle Prince
When I was a child, I loved rainbows. Like most young girls, I drew them on just about anything I could find. I loved having all the bright colors reaching through the sky, with the sun glowing down on them. My drawings always had a big pot of gold at the end of the arch. I imagined those rainbows would bring me to that pot of gold.
My pot of gold is also your pot of gold. It’s our happiness, our success, our joy, our prosperity. It’s the compilation of all our dreams, goals, and desires becoming real.
In today’s fast-paced life, the wins usually go to those with exceptional skills and abilities. The old quote is true, “The race is not always won by the swift and the strong, but that is the way to bet.”
If you want to really excel in business, school and life, go the extra mile. Give the people around you – your customers, your team, your family — more than they expect, and you’ll be handsomely rewarded with loyalty, referrals, opportunity and money.
You deserve to live the kind of life you’ve always dreamed about. You can have everything you want in life, if, you are willing to do what it takes. 
If the name Edward R. Murrow is not familiar to you, you need to talk with your parents or grandparents, and they will likely tell you that he was among the first, and certainly most significant, television news reporters of all time. 
The first two and a half years I was in sales, I lived in the world of peaks and valleys — with very few peaks. 
“If you don’t really know where you want to go, it makes no difference which road you take.”