It is so funny how most of my articles come up at a time where
I am hitting rock bottom and right after I am done writing them, I feel a boost
of energy and go tackle whatever I had neither the strength nor the energy to do. It’s probably the reason why most
artists and bloggers can easily reach a bigger audience: they share their
personal experience and give their audience something to relate to. Today is the perfect day for
another inspirational (hopefully) article as I’m back into “The 7 Rules of Life”
mini-series, after a short break which, indeed, did well to my thinking process
and my creativity. In this article, I will be sharing with you some of the tips I personally find helpful
when it comes to overcoming challenges in Life and finding motivation to move
forward in life. They are not ranked in a particular order but rather listed in
the order in which they come up to my mind. So with no further delay, let’s get
right into the heart of the subject.
#1-
Find and Understand your purpose
Moving forward in life with no purpose is the
perfect way set yourself up for giving up as soon as a challenge arises. When
you know your purpose in life you are unstoppable. Challenges may come your way
and slow you down but never stop you. It is important for you to find your
purpose in life, to find who and where you are meant to be. Why is it
important? Because it times were you will be tempted to give up, you will remember
it and find the strength to overcome challenges and move forward.
#2-
Don’ let your situation define you
Whenever I am having not such a great day
and/or a great week or when things get really hard in life, I try to stay
motivated by reminding myself that it is only temporary. A bad day, week, month
or year (yes sometimes it can be a long time) doesn’t mean that you have a bad
life. A bad chapter in a book doesn’t make the book a bad one. It is just a sucky
chapter in the midst of a great book. As a matter of fact it might be the
suckiest chapter ever seen in the history of the sucky chapters in a great book. Nonetheless, it remains nothing else but a bad, sucky chapter in what might be the
greatest book that ever existed: your life. So keep that in mind and keep moving forward because things will get better.
#3-
Every challenge is meant to bring out the best in you
Let’s be honest challenges,
especially the hardest ones suck… but think about it that way: consider the
number of students entering med school and the number of them who actually make
it to the end. It is ridiculous the amount of people that give up after a few
years in the system. Those who stay in are the ones who have understood the
first two concepts listed above as well as the fact that the challenges they
face on their journey to become a doctor is meant to bring out the best in them. Those challenges are meant to turn them into the best, top quality
doctors their program has ever formed. It is the same things in life:
challenges are meant to bring you best out of you. A wise man a.k.a Mike Pellegrino
(who happens to be my Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructor by the way) once told me: “Don’t give
up when life throws challenges at you. Don’t say it’s too hard or you can’t
make it. When life throws challenges at you, you adapt, you change, you evolve”.
And that’s what we have to do, keeping in mind that it’s for the sole purpose
of turning us into a better version of ourselves, ready to handle the greatness
laying ahead of us. Challenges are about pushing you do be so good that people
can’t ignore you. That’s what challenges are all about.
#4-
Believe in yourself and in your dreams
To be able to overcome challenging
situations in life, you must have faith in yourself. Familiar with the saying “fake it
until you make it”? yeah well there is a better one which goes by “fake it until
you become it”. Believe in yourself and in your dreams, believe that you are
capable of becoming whoever you want to be and of making your dreams come
through. I like that quote saying “the only limits we have are the one we
impose to ourselves in our mind”. The minute you believe you are capable of doing anything
and being whoever you decided you wanted to be, amazing start happening.
Believe in yourself, invest in yourself when no one else will and amazing
things will happen.
#5-
Believe that eventually something will work out
I think out of everything I have talked
about, this one is the most difficult I have ever had to practice on a daily
basis. It’s hard because sometimes you can’t seem to see the light at the end
of the tunnel. It is hard because the more you try to hold onto things, the
more they start falling apart. It is hard because sometimes you are just too
exhausted to inject some optimism and positivity in the midst of chaos. But believe me, in the few times that I have tried doing it, it
made a HUGE difference in the way I handle challenges and in the way I
perceived them. Staying positive and believing that things will work out can turn situations around for the best and I know because I have
experienced it. So no matter how hard it can be, keep repeating yourself that
someway, somehow, something will eventually work out for you. And it will J
Briefly, these are the tips I wanted to share with you
about overcoming challenges in life and finding motivation to keep moving. I
hope you will try some of them and if you know some more that can be added to
the list feel free to share them J
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