What is Life Challenges?
Life is a challenge. Sometimes, we have no control over life challenges. There’s not a
single person in the world that hasn’t had to struggle with something or overcome
difficulties. All of us experience major and minor life challenges. Whether they’re related
to money, careers, health, children, relationships, lovers or family, it’s all part of life. Obstacles can sometimes paralyze us.
How we handle these struggles on a daily basis determines our physical, as well as our mental well-being. It takes only a single event to convince us, we have no control over
our circumstances. Sometimes these challenges consume us with chronic fatigue, panic attacks and even guilt. Our problems pressure us from every side, threatening to crush or break us.
Surprisingly, all life challenges have a direct relationship in defining our purpose in life. If only we could find assurance that there was a plan or reason for the difficulties we face.
We search for meaning in tragedy, questioning our reason for hope or a future. The main question that drag in our mind is “Why me”? How can I ever forgive? How do I stop the pain?” I hate my life!
Life challenges enable us to see ourselves at our best and our worst. We may attempt to temporarily escape our circumstances, falling into drug addiction or alcohol addiction. Others find themselves overwhelmed, careening out of control and even contemplating
how to commit suicide.
We face our greatest life challenges when we struggle to find love, security and assurance that life truly has meaning. Our fears, unhealthy behaviours and excessive emotional struggles result from our inability to interpret and cope with our circumstances and feelings. To us, it seems impossible to move beyond that place of hopelessness. The truth of the
matter is there’s always hope.
What can allow us to be most effective in our life is a willingness to identify and transform our core life challenges. Most of us have one or more core issues or life challenges which
surface repeatedly over the course of our lives. There are abandonment, inferiority, rejection, guilt, failure and shame. These life challenges often originate from childhood family scenarios. They can be a result of negative messages that were repeated many
times to us by our parents or other significant people in our lives. Or one of these beliefs may have been driven deep into us during one or more traumatic experiences.
Some people overcompensate. It is known that someone with inferiority as a core life challenge might outwardly appear very macho or domineering. Yet deep inside, this is covering up a fear of being inferior. These issues are usually rooted in deep unexpressed fears. These core life challenges is a lack of acceptance and a deep feeling of being
disconnected, whether it be from ourselves or from others. Whether you are an over compensator or not, by exploring the deep, underlying fears of your core life challenges,
you can transform your life for the better. I know the feeling, as I have been there before.
You need to let go of resentment, anger and fear. Resentment is like a parasite. It feeds
on you and leaves you weakened by its presence. Its only purpose is to take from you and leave you miserable as hell. There’s simply no room in your life for this negative energy.
You have so much to do and so many places to go. If you let resentment get in the way you’ll never reach your potential.
You need to see obstacles as milestones; they both measure your progress and increase your strength. Remember with every challenge passed you’re a little stronger, a little wiser and a whole lot more experienced. No one said, life would be easy, but we could help make it better.
Start by focusing on what you do have, not on what is lacking or loss. Stop fretting about what should have been and concentrate on what could be. Let go of resentment and you’ll be amazed by all the space it leaves in your life for better things. The best way to confront life’s challenges is to have a clear mind in order to ease, resolve and deal with it. A martial arts instructor will tell you that you need to get relaxed in order to be an effective combatant to be alert and safe.
By reminding ourselves that the most powerful change starts inside each one of us, we can develop more balance and strength in our work towards positive change. You need to start believing in yourself and re-establish your self-worth. Only you can determine your destiny. You just need to make the right choices.
Life-Changing Decisions by Author Julia G. Smith
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