<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Donovan" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-donovan-11.jpg" border="0" alt="Jim Donovan" class="alignleft" />Listening to the reports about what&#8217;s presently going on in the economy I&#8217;m reminded of a time, a number of years ago, when we were going through what many people are going through now.</p>
<p>The end of the month was approaching and we were experiencing a cash flow challenge. It was, in all honesty, one of the greatest tests of faith I had experienced in a very long time.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, I stayed positive throughout, knowing somehow that it would all work out for the best. </p>
<p>During the last week or two of the month my resolve was tested several times. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/09/you-succeed-by-ignoring-reality-by-jim-donovan/" title="Permanent Link: You Succeed By Ignoring Reality By Jim Donovan" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":846,"date":"2011-09-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:01:58","slug":"you-succeed-by-ignoring-reality-by-jim-donovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/09\/you-succeed-by-ignoring-reality-by-jim-donovan\/","title":{"rendered":"You Succeed By Ignoring Reality By Jim Donovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Donovan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-donovan-11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jim Donovan\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Listening to the reports about what&#8217;s presently going on in the economy I&#8217;m reminded of a time, a number of years ago, when we were going through what many people are going through now.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the month was approaching and we were experiencing a cash flow challenge. It was, in all honesty, one of the greatest tests of faith I had experienced in a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, I stayed positive throughout, knowing somehow that it would all work out for the best. <\/p>\n<p>During the last week or two of the month my resolve was tested several times. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/09\/you-succeed-by-ignoring-reality-by-jim-donovan\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: You Succeed By Ignoring Reality By Jim Donovan\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}