Growing up,I have always had the mentality that challenges is a sign of the devil trying to spoil your shine. This might sound dumb to you but I beg you to forgive my thought as I gave room for my mind to accept every information, weather good or bad
The truth is, everyone on earth is presently going through one challenge or the other and we all have different approach in dealing with them. The weak-minded might consider the presence of a challenge a bad luck for him, forgetting that winners go through alot before they become an actual winner.
Personally,I have come to a point in my live where I know things will not always turn out the way I want it to but instead of trying to change what I can't change,I live in the present. For example, trying to beat yourself over spilled milk won't bring back the milk you lost. All that is needed is that you tactically look for ways to get things sorted out.
Living in a world where you meet different folks from different backgrounds is a challenge on it own. Folks who see things different from you, folks whose thought pattern can be really annoying and irritating,folks whose values sucks like shit and folks who just enjoys making life unbearable for you. All of these still points out to why we need to embrace the fact that we can't always change everything.
Perfectly knowing how to manage and overcome challenges has been one of the things I deliberately worked on over the years. How you naturally see things differently and give great solutions to difficult circumstances. Some challenges made me understand the beauty of living. You let somethings live through you and you find strength in those things.
I learnt that acceptance is one way to overcome challenges. That you are aware of the situation helps you stay vigilant to making sure that situation doesn't hit you down. Acceptance in the sense that you acknowledge that the problem is already there and all you need to do is not sit and watch it overwhelm you but that you take charge of it. Acceptance to an obvious situation at the moment gives a man a reason to stay put, hence he gets eaten up by his enemies.
Another way is that you consciously see through the NOW. Seeing through the now means that you don't let that situation gets a greater part of you. You are allow to feel bad about the challenges you are going through but don't be a loser and make it get a greater part of you. Challenges comes and go and when it looks like they will never go, that is the time you need to stay positive the more.
Staying positive everytime you go through one challenge or the other,shows how much of a winner you are. Winners don't bow to circumstances, it is expected to be the other way. You are expected to take charge and be the mini god that you are.
Lastly, I made sure I never looked like what I went through. People will oftentimes want to seek pity from other people. They want to appear as though the world is on their heads but this is not the mindset of a winner.
One who is committed to winning will not seek pity from others, he makes sure he keeps standing no matter what. Challenges have a way of changing good countenance, making one look depressed,angry, bad and the likes but you should make your mind stay guarded of whatever challenge the world brings to you.
Challenges are building blocks to who we are going to become and where we are going to. You can't just live life without facing one challenge or the other but the greater strength lies in the refusal of letting it overwhelm you.