Consider the following phenomenal achievements of famous people who experienced severe adversity:

• When Bob Dylan performed at his high school talent show, classmates booed him off the stage.
• Walt Disney experienced both bankruptcy and a tragic nervous breakdown and still made it to the top of the mountain.
• President Harry S. Truman went broke in the men's clothing store he started.
• Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the "History of the World" during a 13-year imprisonment.
• Martin Luther translated the Bible while enduring confinement in the Castle of Wartburg.
• Dante wrote the "Divine Comedy" while under a sentence of death and during 20 years in exile.
• Handicapped at birth, Helen Keller was not able to speak, hear or see during her long life, yet she became a famous author and worldwide celebrity for her charm and wisdom.

From Harvey Mackay