Editorial April 26, 1982 Issue

Overcoming shortcomings

NATHAN A. TALBOT

Most of us try to do something about deficiencies that crop up in our lives. And we're often successful in surmounting them. But what about those areas where we've exhibited some significant shortcoming, and with all the mountainous efforts put forward, we seem not to have made much headway?

Maybe you love athletics but just haven't had what it takes to break through some major performance barrier. Perhaps your line of work is in sales, and no matter how hard you try, a pattern of strong sales ability hasn't developed. Or possibly you're an ordinary person like most of the rest of us, and your house and yard just never look the way Better Homes and Gardens says they should.

Well, whatever the challenge, we may think that the need is to keep pressing ahead—keep praying and listening until our work finally brings the particular breakthrough we desire. That could be exactly what is called for. There certainly are those times when we simply have to push forward, undeterred by the limitations that seem to surround us. Yet in other instances, our answer is found in quite a different approach. A much more fundamental solution may be required.

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