A combination of recent events and a conversation with friends has had me thinking consistently thinking about adversity, and how we each decide to deal with our personal struggles.\xa0 Bottom line, some of us deal with them better than others.\xa0 Some dig their feet in, some throw in the towel.\xa0
I have been fortunate in my life to be surrounded by mentors.\xa0 They took the raw material I was born with, and enhanced it in many areas.\xa0 As a society, I think we would be far better served to embrace this mentality, than the "everyone for themselves" approach that most seem to live by.\xa0
You can teach mental toughness.\xa0\xa0
You can teach people to face and work through adversity, arriving on the other side improved, not destroyed.\xa0\xa0
Adversity is essential, it is not the enemy