Embracing challenges: The pathway to personal growth, success
Accepting challenges that life throws upon you, makes you stronger in the end. Even if you fail, you have learned something at the end of it
Published: 03:05 PM,May 01,2023 | EDITED : 07:05 PM,May 01,2023
Like it or not, problems, or challenges are a recurring part of everyday life.
Whether you choose to call them challenges, as I do, or problems, certainly doesn’t change the fact that they happen.
However, it does change the way we respond to them and that little shift can make a huge difference in our outlook. The word ‘crisis’ is from the Greek, meaning ‘a moment to decide.’ This answers the word crisis.
According to Wikipedia, ‘A challenge is a general term referring to things that are imbued with a sense of difficulty and victory.’
Challenges require courage, skill, presence of mind, the ability to think on the spot, and many more such qualities.
Are people running away because they don’t have them? Are people scared to face challenges? Do people want to always take the easy path?
It is easy to get bothered or upset by the fact that a challenge has come your way. “Everything was going so well. Why me?” “Can’t this issue just go away?”
These are just some of the things that may come to mind when you haven’t really accepted a challenge. However, the first thing you want to do when you realise a challenge has come your way is to accept for what it is.
Life is full of challenges. They are not supposed to affect you but are supposed to help you discover the inner you.
Most people are afraid to take them. I have learned one thing over time - Accepting challenges that life throws upon you, only makes you stronger in the end. Even if you fail, you have learned something at the end of it.
It’s highly likely that when a challenge comes our way, we may have an initial negative reaction to it. Hey, we are human.
However, the best thing about negative reactions is that if you can recognise them, you can acknowledge their presence, manage them by stepping back and looking at things from a different perspective.
Be realistic when facing challenges. It really helps if you decide from the very beginning of a challenge that you are going to face the challenge and overcome it. No hiding from it or pretending it doesn’t exist.
What’s the solution? What’s the best way through? Challenges help shape our character, round out any rough edges, give us lessons we need for our future success, and most importantly allow us to realise that we absolutely can manage through anything that comes our way.
Like everything in life, if you want to get something you need to have the determination that will keep you going. If you are not committed, you will never do what is needed to achieve the goals you want.
Try pursuing a challenge. The taste of victory is really sweet. You got to feel it to believe it. It will certainly lead you to live today better than yesterday.
Whether you choose to call them challenges, as I do, or problems, certainly doesn’t change the fact that they happen.
However, it does change the way we respond to them and that little shift can make a huge difference in our outlook. The word ‘crisis’ is from the Greek, meaning ‘a moment to decide.’ This answers the word crisis.
According to Wikipedia, ‘A challenge is a general term referring to things that are imbued with a sense of difficulty and victory.’
Challenges require courage, skill, presence of mind, the ability to think on the spot, and many more such qualities.
Are people running away because they don’t have them? Are people scared to face challenges? Do people want to always take the easy path?
It is easy to get bothered or upset by the fact that a challenge has come your way. “Everything was going so well. Why me?” “Can’t this issue just go away?”
These are just some of the things that may come to mind when you haven’t really accepted a challenge. However, the first thing you want to do when you realise a challenge has come your way is to accept for what it is.
Life is full of challenges. They are not supposed to affect you but are supposed to help you discover the inner you.
Most people are afraid to take them. I have learned one thing over time - Accepting challenges that life throws upon you, only makes you stronger in the end. Even if you fail, you have learned something at the end of it.
It’s highly likely that when a challenge comes our way, we may have an initial negative reaction to it. Hey, we are human.
However, the best thing about negative reactions is that if you can recognise them, you can acknowledge their presence, manage them by stepping back and looking at things from a different perspective.
Be realistic when facing challenges. It really helps if you decide from the very beginning of a challenge that you are going to face the challenge and overcome it. No hiding from it or pretending it doesn’t exist.
What’s the solution? What’s the best way through? Challenges help shape our character, round out any rough edges, give us lessons we need for our future success, and most importantly allow us to realise that we absolutely can manage through anything that comes our way.
Like everything in life, if you want to get something you need to have the determination that will keep you going. If you are not committed, you will never do what is needed to achieve the goals you want.
Try pursuing a challenge. The taste of victory is really sweet. You got to feel it to believe it. It will certainly lead you to live today better than yesterday.