We all go through difficult periods in life for a whole range of reasons.

If a door is open and it’s the right thing to do, of course, walk through it now.

Do you want to be successful? Work hard. Although life is rarely simple and straightforward, that’s the answer.

We’ve heard – and maybe used ourselves – the expression that ‘time heals’.

It hasn’t always been like that though and the reality is that we still need to be patient regarding many things. That’s why the saying that, ‘patience is a virtue’, is as real today as it’s ever been. In many ways, even more so.

The first one, as you can see from the heading, is an encouragement for those of us who are no longer ‘spring chickens’, as they say. To enforce the practicality of the message, I recorded it yesterday evening just before I went to play football.

While Storm Chandra manifested itself with 40 mph+ winds and driving rain, the birds were singing as if it were the height of summer. Whatever was going on around them them was of no concern. They just carried on doing their thing.

Life isn’t always plain sailing. What seems like a simple day ahead can often become a long-winded and complicated one. It may even stretch beyond the period of twenty-four hours and seem to go on forever. Eventually though, we get there. That’s the gist of today’s Wednesday Words of Wisdom. We always get there in…

It’s the same as when we are trying to shake something off in our life but it still stubbornly hangs on. It just doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. That’s when we need perseverance to run the race successfully.

We’ve all heard the saying that something bad which happened was ‘a blessing in disguise’. There are probably numerous examples from our own life that we could use to illustrate the point.