Finding Hope In Desperate Times A Roadmap To Guide You Out of Rock Bottom I t’s not easy to overcome life’s challenges and achieve our dreams. Life is not a level playing field. We aren’t all born with the same degree of resources, and our talents and abilities differ from person to person. But there’s also not a single successful person who ever achieved great things by pointing out everything going against them. The only way to deal with the difficulties of our lives and succeed anyway is by dealing with the reality of what is — not what we’d prefer it to be. Oprah Winfrey, JK Rowling, Howard Schultz, and Ralph Lauren all grew up in poverty, and they overcame terrific odds to achieve billion-dollar success. You may not be striving to reach that level of financial infamy; I certainly am not. But nonetheless, there is a valuable lesson in observing these individuals and how they’ve conducted their lives. One thing certainly holds true. They all had a fundamental trait in common. ...