If you've had the opportunity to go on a shopping trip with your wife, you will agree that the experience can sometimes be painfully cumbersome.

We are all born with a set of gifts and talents. Hopefully, we use these gifts and talents and other resources to achieve our goals and fulfill our purpose in life. 

To reach our goals, we need to be willing to overcome all obstacles coming our way. This is often easier said than done. We sometimes become so overwhelmed by our obstacles, or shall I say, we find ourselves so deep in the middle of the swamp, with crocodiles popping up everwhere, that we become oblivious to dry land!

If this is where you are right now, then you may find these words encouraging:

How is it that there are some people living a life of success and fulfillment while others are anchored to one of mediocrity? President Theodore Roosevelt once said the following that may shed some light on this dilemma:

“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”