When I was still fresh graduate and started out on my first job with Siemens, I was excited and was grateful that I got pretty good pay at that time compared to my fellow friends also fresh graduates.
But then, as a couple of years goes by and nothing much happened, my young blood was really dissatisfied with the situation. I kept fighting off demotivations everyday… having to fight it off cos it’s coming up almost everyday… But I continued to work and to give my very best everyday… I made sure that no mater what, I should never sacrifice the quality of my work and remains professionally motivated at all times, even when everybody around me seems to be losing it.
Finally, on my 3rd year, my big boss called me out of the blue and offered me a very challenging position. One that didn’t exist before. I set the way things were done and the standards. I enjoyed a new way of doing business, travelling abroad and mingling with high level management. It was an experience I trully enjoyed and be grateful for… even though it also meant leaving office at 2AM at night and having to be back in office by 10 AM days in and days out… working on weekends…. having no life… for months… But it was FUN indeed 
well maybe I was young and ambitious so I did enjoy it tremendeously.
That was my first evidence of how persevering through hardships turns out to be rewarding at the end… it helped me grow much faster than if I’d led a breezy life… surrendering to bad mood, whinning, not performing because of not enough salary or annoying boss or annoying colleagues… losing patience to other people’s ignorance, narrowmindedness, rudeness, and so on…
Life is about choices… why choose the bad ones when we can simply choose the good ones?
oh and PS: I prayed every morning and night through the storms… and God trully helped me with it…
I can tell you for sure… when you surrender your life to HIM, you can really fly as all your burdens become so light and as perspectives are in order…
Love and Cheers!
