In life, everyone goes through one form of challenge or the other. As long as you are alive on planet earth, there are periods in your life that you will come across problems or trials that shake your faith. Male and female of all races across the world face troubles or challenges that need to be surmounted.
Some people succeed in rising above the difficulties while a majority allows the problems to stop them in their tracks, thus preventing them from achieving their goals and dreams. How you perceive challenges go a long way in shaping your future: whether you will breakthrough or be hindered.
Every challenge that comes to any individual has an inherent lesson that is hidden in it. They are mostly blessings in disguise, but because our focuses are on the enormity of the problem confronting us, we don’t get to see the opportunities embedded in the problems.
Therefore, follow the steps outlined below to transform your challenges into power and success:
The way you respond to crisis or problems determines – to a large extent – how you will perceive the world around you. If you are a pessimist – always seeing the world through a lens of doom and gloom, your reactions will always border on feelings of anxiety, fear and powerlessness.
You will continuously operate under a sense of despair. At times, this may even happen subconsciously as a result of your reaction to a barrage of negative messages from the media.
What you should do is to deliberately shift your focus to uncover as well as explore the prospects or opportunities that are the basic parts of every challenge in life. Once you do this, you will be able to transition from a state of powerlessness, insecurity or fear into a state of inspiration, empowerment, and action.
The news media always have one story of gloom or the other. It may be true that there is no news like bad news, but you are under no obligation to listen to them. Minimize your exposure to the harmful messages spewed by the news media every day. Just obtain any relevant information and tune off.
There is power in writing things down. It shows how committed you are to whatever you took the time to pen down. List all the challenges or crisis you are currently facing and their impact on your life. Then look at each one critically to find how you can turn each one into a success story.
For instance, if you have just lost your job, it means you can use that period to update yourself by learning one or two skills that will enhance your value the next time to apply for a job. It may also mean the time has come for you to pursue that dream of yours that you have been nursing for a long time.
If the next meal to eat is the challenge, you can go online to search for recipes for tasty meals that you can prepare at home without having to visit a restaurant to eat.
