<p><img decoding="async" title="Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/zig-ziglar-hs.jpg" alt="Zig Ziglar motivational speaker" class="alignleft" />Many times I use the phrase, &#8220;It&#8217;s not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you, that&#8217;s going to make the difference.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Initially, the ball appeared not to have bounced Celeste Baker&#8217;s way, but that was just initially.  She has a disease in her left leg called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy which causes her a considerable amount of pain.  </p>
<p>The way Celeste handled her challenge was such an encouragement to her classmates at Baldwin Jr./Sr. High School in Baldwin, Florida, that she was given the &#8220;I CAN&#8221; Award one school year.  The next example helps explain why. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/10/making-the-ball-bounce-your-way-by-zig-ziglar/" title="Permanent Link: Making the Ball Bounce Your Way By Zig Ziglar" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":870,"date":"2011-10-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/10\/making-the-ball-bounce-your-way-by-zig-ziglar\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T03:41:38","slug":"making-the-ball-bounce-your-way-by-zig-ziglar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/10\/making-the-ball-bounce-your-way-by-zig-ziglar\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Ball Bounce Your Way By Zig Ziglar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/zig-ziglar-hs.jpg\" alt=\"Zig Ziglar motivational speaker\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Many times I use the phrase, &#8220;It&#8217;s not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you, that&#8217;s going to make the difference.&#8221;\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>Initially, the ball appeared not to have bounced Celeste Baker&#8217;s way, but that was just initially.  She has a disease in her left leg called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy which causes her a considerable amount of pain.  <\/p>\n<p>The way Celeste handled her challenge was such an encouragement to her classmates at Baldwin Jr.\/Sr. High School in Baldwin, Florida, that she was given the &#8220;I CAN&#8221;\u009d Award one school year.  The next example helps explain why. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/10\/making-the-ball-bounce-your-way-by-zig-ziglar\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Making the Ball Bounce Your Way By Zig Ziglar\" 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\/870"}],"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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}