How To Overcome Obstacles.
Have you ever experienced times when you go through just one bad thing after another? When it seem like the world is out to get you? When things go wrong no matter what you do? You are not alone. Bad things happen to all of us, too.
Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn -we wouldn't be who we are without them.
The thing is, as long as you live in this world, you are subjected to the same chaos, the ups and downs, the good and bad, the positives and the negatives of life. You are not the only person facing this. However, every situation is a good opportunity to create something good out of it.
The more we fight difficulties on its own violent terms, the more we become the very challenge we attempt to defeat because violence can no longer defeat violence. Difficult challenges come in many forms with various disguises that are vital to understand before engaging that perennial adversary. The way we solve them is what makes us different.
Whenever something bad happens to us, it᧙s easy for us to slip into depression, dejection, Self-victimization,and self blame. We ask ourselves Why is this happening to me? Why am I so unlucky? Why doesn᧙t this happen to anyone else? It᧙s not fair. Reacting in anger. We lash back at the situation, or even people around us, for what᧙s happening. We make self-depreciating comments like Why am I so stupid to have done that?. We lose hope, or worse still, we give up. We decide it᧙s not worth it, that life is out to get us, and we should just stop trying altogether.
Know you always have a choice. Realize that no matter what happens, you always have a choice in how you react. While you may not be able to control what happens to you, you can most certainly control your behaviors. You can face the worst things in the world, but if you make the choice not to let yourself be affected by them, you won᧙t be. Being frustrated isn᧙t going to solve anything. The problem will still remain whether you go crazy at it or whether you think about it calmly.Focus on what you can do. Action creates empowerment. It brings possibilities. It creates results. By taking action, you are no longer a passive recipient. You are a conscious creator.
Obstacles make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.
Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant,and to face the challenge of change. Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself. You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.
