THE ART OF SURVIVING
CHALLENGES
A challenge is a word and we all have our definition of
it but the rule of dealing with it is simple to understand but hard to
conquer. Many a times we listen to
people either being interviewed or in motivational speeches or just small talk
i heard conversations of people being told of using crisis to create
opportunities, a few will manage to do it, the rest will either flop back to a
more victimized situation or use a short-cut to avoid the situation.
I really want to thank God as it came to a point where i
learnt to appreciate the challenges that i had faced all through the years, it
opened my eyes and sharpened my understanding and made me bold enough to wish
for more challenges. The part to accepting and making your challenge an
oportunity either to grow as an individual or as a skill to use in the
individuality prospect of the well-being of others is a life-time process
depending on how old one is and from the time one started facing real
challenges.
Challenges are meant to work on us, they dont destroy us
but sometimes unless we become wise to understand why we face a certain
challenge at a certain point of life, we will keep doing the same wrong thing
and yet more with a rebellion. The word failure in itself is the optimum
challenge and many people hate associating with it. Honestly as a person i have
this fear of failure, i fear never having
a chance to honour my dreams, not taking more responsibility that i
should have taken, never being in the right place with the right
''circumstances'' and mostly i fear when i try out things and they dont
work. but on time i learnt the goodness
of challenges and here are few tips to help one rise above their challenges.
(i) Take control
takng full responsibility to a situation that comes in as
an individual makes things a whole lot better because it gives you the power to
access your possibilities. when we learn to take control rather than using the
shadow of other people to avoid what is at stake, we reciprocate our wholeness
into action.
(ii)Be equipped
Challenges should always find us ready with our
identities, who we are in the long run, our visions, dreams and the greatest of
all the pressure of determination and zeal. i read an interesting article of
this model who went to audition and was told her legs were too long, the next
time she was told to hide her legs in a maxi dress, the third time she was
asked for a contract. when asked why she never gave up, she said that everytime
she was rejected, she learnt that her best features were her legs
(iii) let it flow
it is simple as that, let water flow in glass of juice
and it makes it perfect, our challenges will always come at the time when a
part of us needs improvement or when we are blind to taking responsibility of
what is required of us.
(iv) Position yourself to victory
This is the most important step after the first three
steps we need to ensure that we are better than who we are, if it was a failed
relationship, rejected proposals, failed auditions, unresponded mails. this is
the time to do the donts and donts the do. this is a time to signal out the
lessons and embrace them and at the same time making a few steps. I came to
learn that most of us when we are faced with a challenge/crisis/failure, we try
to come out but forgetting to take a few steps outside the challenge. we are so
into the challenge and so onto the challenge that we remain stagnant and lack
the endorsements of doing something else. when you inspire to be a model and
fail, work on what creates a barrier for you not to be accepted and at the same
time try t.v or radio or even counselling, with such an agenda one is able to
maximize the full potential and to create vacuum for opportunities to be
dragged in.
I am whom am i today because of a challenge that
challenge it gave me and still gives me the potential to become more mature, to
learn from my mistakes
''use your challenge to train the change of failure'
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