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You Either Laugh Or You Scream

The choice is all yours.

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You Either Laugh Or You Scream
Noah Johnson

You either laugh or you scream, a funny yet accurate way of looking at how to deal with the many curve balls that life throws at you. You laugh and keep fighting, or you scream and quit–nothing in between because life will always have something tough to throw your way.

This "saying" came about on an average evening when some friends and I were telling each other random stories. All of a sudden some story had a huge problem that a friend of mine had to deal with and immediately I blurted out, "well, I guess you either laugh or you scream." That saying stuck with us and to this day we use it. You should too.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen, you either laugh or you scream. The choice is completely in your hands. All of us have been dealt trials and tribulations that we have had to go through because there was no other way around it. We have all been knocked down. We have all been pushed out of the way. We have all been targeted through life's many obstacles. The one good thing in common with all of our many hardships, though, is how we deal with each of these obstacles that come our way. We have the choice. The choice to either get back up, push back and even harder, and fight any and every obstacle that comes our way or we have the choice to stay down on the ground, allow ourselves to be pushed left and right, and allow the obstacles to control what we do. We have the choice to either laugh or scream.

Which will you choose?

The key to accomplishment, achievement and success lies within the walls of this very idea. You and I both know that nothing comes easy. Success sure doesn't. Success takes long-term commitment. It takes a great deal of perseverance. Success takes grit and a mentality that shows you will not give up no matter what. It takes one to laugh at the problems thrown there way and to know that no matter what happens now, in the end, everything will be okay.

Let me share with you a quote from Robbie Lawler. The quote goes like this, "It's all about being able to be able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be." I could have inserted hundreds of motivational quotes up there that have the same impact of that quote but you get the point by now... you either laugh or you scream.

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