In life, you are not defeated until you give up. If you have watched boxing championships match, you will understand that someone can be knocked down and still go ahead to win the match. This is because, that he was knocked down does not automatically translate to being knocked out. It does not matter how many times you have failed at something, there is still a possibility that you can succeed at it. As a matter of fact, that you failed should give you the assurance that you are making attempts and that means you will succeed.
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More often than not, when the going seems tough and when it looks like life itself is toughened, just know that you are approaching the edge of your breakthrough point, so keep going. The point you feel like giving up is the point that requires you to put in everything in you to keep going because that may determine what becomes of you. It is often darkest at the point that precedes dawn. If you give up at that point just before dawn, you will miss out of the beautiful morning. In the same way, the presence of challenges should not take away your hope of a better tomorrow.
In life, you are bound to be faced by challenges and oppositions but they are also necessary tools for success. In football for example, there will not be a winner of any trophy without going through oppositions. Just like the just concluded Champions league, the winning team was faced with strong opposition right from the qualification stage to the group stage, to the knockout stage, then to the finals and they finally won it. That was what made the victory massive. The same way in life, it is when you have faced the oppositions and challenges of life that success will be attained.
If you exclude yourself from the challenges of life and from taking risks, you will also exclude yourself from success. Each time you stay long without facing any strong opposition or any challenge, then the most logical explanation is that you may not be on the right track towards success. But when oppositions come, you can ride on them to achieve success by facing them. Imagine going through school and not writing any exams, you will remain in the same class for longer than required. It is when you face the exams and pass them that you are qualified to gain access to the next class. Opposition and challenges are like the exams of life that grant you access to your next level success.
As success comes, it is worthy to note that it should be worked on and improved for it to be sustained. This is because some successes have time frames of which they are valid and if they are not improved or worked on, they may become obsolete or rendered invalid. For example, if you take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and you did excellently well but you did not use it to pursue your desired admission and you do not do the necessary (like going through Post-UTME, etc), after a while, maybe 1 year or so, the exam result will become invalid and you may need to write again. This goes to prove that success should be dynamic, that is, it should be ever improved upon.
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You may not be able to determine how the challenges of life will come or when it will come but you can get yourself ready to take on them. You need to build yourself and stay ready for challenges because they may come at anytime. More so, it is worth noting that the people that fail in the times of challenges are not because the challenges were fierce but because they were not prepared enough for it. So it is good to get yourself ready in every aspect (mentally - through getting more knowledge, physically, etc) and refuse to quit at the sight of the challenges. Success will definitely come.
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