Here’s what I said: Experience gives you the test first and then the lessons afterward. You see, when you and I are taking the test, we’re working through all the questions of life and experiences, and we’re asking ourselves the questions: Can I make it? Can I just get through the test? I mean, can I live to see another day? After the test, we’ve got to breathe a sigh of relief and just say, I made it!

J.K. Rowling has been more successful writing fiction books than any person that’s ever lived. But her life hasn’t always been successful. I was reading her life story, and she made a statement that on Minute with Maxwell today, I want to give you because it’s a strength statement.

Margaret Thatcher, you talk about a true warrior. You talk about a great leader. She was the prime minister of Great Britain and Margaret Thatcher said, ‘You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.’ She was a wise leader, and she understood that when we go to war against crisis and adversity, we don’t get this victory easy.

Chuck said, ‘we are all faced with a series of great opportunities’. Now, if I just stop there, that’s a real positive statement: we’re all faced with a series of great opportunities. It’s kind of like: Yes! But then Chuck goes on and says, ‘brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.’ In other words, we don’t see these incredible opportunities first, because every opportunity that you and I have is surrounded by a problem.

Welcome to Minute with Maxwell. I have a strength statement for you today. I hope it uplifts you. And if it does, share it with a friend. Let them know about it and encourage and lift someone else.

Yasmin Mogahed wrote these words: ‘Resilience is very different than being numb.

Welcome to Minute with Maxwell! I have a wonderful strength statement for you today from Steve Maraboli.

Steve said, “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient.”

Like my friend, Art Williams who said, “I don’t promise you that it will be easy, but I do promise you this journey of life will be worthwhile.”

Maya Angelou gives us a great strength statement that I want to pass on to you today.

Here’s what she said, “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

You see, Maya understood that difficult times change us. We change, and we have to adjust. We are seeing things that we’ve never seen before. We’re getting blindsided.

Welcome to Minute with Maxwell. Today is another strength statement that will hopefully encourage you through this day, and I would also encourage you that if it lifts you, share it with others and let it lift them.

Also, our desire during this difficult time is to lift one another up, and that’s why I do these Statements of Strength every day.

Now this happens to be one of my statements, but I have said often: “Just because you’re struggling, doesn’t mean that you’re failing.”

During the coronavirus, [as you are facing] difficult times, I’m giving you what I call, Statements of Strength – Statements that will lift you up.

Usually I take one word and I talk about it, but this week I’m going to read you some statements from people that really have overcome.

Here’s one that’s from Gregory Williams. Here’s what he said: “On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from navigating through it. Raise your sail and begin.”