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:
Shift your focus
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.
Reduce your exposure to the negativity of the news media
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.
Write them down
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.
In conclusion, not all challenges can be surmounted as some can be beyond your control. Therefore, focus less on such problems and turn your attention to the challenges that you can overcome. You will be surprised at how you will quickly transform those challenges into power and success.
i like all above topic but the most i like is media .im also thinking the same that how much we stay away from media that much we can stay away from negativity .thanks man .thumbs up for your effort of writing .
This one is so important.. especially in the crypto world... ridiculous how they try to influence you..
I alsways say there are no problems, but there are challenges.. and those can be fixed..
It's like everybody has been reading and doing similar things these days! @things recently discovered this guy who also spoke about something like this - Simon Sinek or something?
I guess we all need an extra push in the beginning of 2018!
I am focusing on #steemit success! @jwolf
Yes!! We all got challenges in our life but those who over come them are most successful person in the world!!!! And very motivating post!!
its a nice post..i impressed to see your life style..best of luck brother..i waiting for your next post
great explain bro you have a power to undestand pepole mentality nice writing man keep it up .....wish you best of luck
For me one of the key "Reduce your exposure to the negativity of the news media" we have to read positive watch positive and eat positive. Regards
Being focused is one of my toughest challenges , I feel like there’s a million tasks that I have to accomplish and there’s never enough time
very awesome piece of info...keep it up
As you said, as long as you are alive,you will have problems!
Life would be boring if we did not have problems hehehehe.
For me i have not reduced,but have cut off that crap!
It has biased a lot of people,mainstream media is a mess.
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That's a great post very motivating on indeed thanks for sharing :)
Great post for motivation. Glad I started to follow your blog. Keep them coming!
I loved the positive attitude!