The following book review of Embrace the Struggle
Zig Ziglar has always said that “Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up, starting from where you are and moving forward, is a choice.” On March 7, 2007 Zig Ziglar fell down the stairwell at his home and sustained a head injury that has changed the course of his life. Nevertheless, Zig has always said, “Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t do.” This book deals with not only Zig’s challenge to embrace his struggle with his injury but also documents the struggles that many people have in dealing with physical, financial, drug addition, marriage stress, illness and grief, spiritual and just struggles with struggles themselves.
The unexpected head injury at age eighty years old has taken a man with the energy of twenty year old to a man struggling to overcome the effects of a brain injury and to be a continuing motivating voice that has inspired millions throughout his life.
Zig and Julie review the lives of many people who have struggled with the many hardships of life. Zig continues to encourage people to accept their circumstances and to start living right where they are to have that fulfilling life. His thesis is to complain less about your problems and to express gratitude for what you do have. These stories give a motivation in dealing with the various setbacks that life often throws at us. They show us the need for our reliance on Jesus Christ as we deal with the fears of our circumstances and our own selfish desires of life.
Zig is set on living life on life’s terms and encouraging us to do also. He also reminds us that the future is in God’s hands. A friend of Zig had said, “the difference between a problem and a fact of life is that a problem is something you can do something about and if you can’t, then it’s a fact of life.” Zig continuity expresses his love for his wife “the Redhead” throughout the book as she was a faithful partner both in their good and bad times of their 62 years together.
Zig encourages us all about being prepared in advance to embrace our struggles as they come. He says that “when we have our spiritual life in focus, your family life will thrive; and when you have your family life in order, your mind is freed up to apply yourself to thee work God has called you to.” His final advice is to embrace the struggles, accept the facts of life, to solve the problems that you can solve and to know that where there is struggle, there is life!
I would recommend Embrace the Struggle
