Weathering The Storm

Resilience is one key value you need to have to thrive and continue your life journey, despite the many hurdles you'll face as you continue to move forward with your daily grind. 

As you climb the success ladder, you'll notice that everything becomes difficult. Most people you'll hear about bracing yourself in facing the challenges would tell you, “It's not going to be easy!” 

It is what it is. The discomfort individuals experience when they venture beyond their comfort zones indicates that something greater is awaiting them on the other side. 

Remember the times you were learning to ride your bike? You were bruising yourself so many times, the feeling of finding yourself riding it without anyone holding you is priceless. 

And looking back, you could only smile and pat yourself, “It's all worth it”. Because it surely does!

Finding the courage to stay on track

When things get all messy, it's easy to get lost and meander. I stumbled across an article by Psych Central that you'll find helpful if you're overwhelmed with things in life.

Finding out your why can help you refocus and give clarity on things you need to restart your journey. Finding yourself wandering because so many things pile up on your plate can be confusing and scary.  

And just like that, you'll have a handful of things that need your attention. When stress catches up with you. Stress builds up from the many things you need to do. But you could not do so.

Have you wondered why people succumb to thoughts of quitting when things get tough? Because quitting in itself brings pleasure. When you feel your back is against the wall, tapping out is a convenient way to stop everything. 

Did you experience, after your firm decision to quit and let everything go, the thought of “what ifs” reverberates in your mind?

The pleasure you once felt is now overshadowed by regret. And you are now haunted by the thought that everything could have been different if you pushed harder and stayed on course.

Stop crying over spilled milk

It sucks, period. 

When you're on the verge of getting something right, and bail out cold, you know you messed up. So what would you do? According to Herald-Advocate, clean up your mess, pick yourself up, and move forward. 

Learn from it! Because no matter how hard you slip the punches, the stinging blows you didn't see can get to you and knock all the sense out of you. 

But the show has to go on. That's why you convince yourself to get up, weather the storm, and punch back at life's challenges even harder. Because that's the only way to move forward and get on with everything. Stop crying over spilled milk. 

Picking yourself up after a hard fall

We become stronger after each fall. The struggle you're in right now is part of your success story. In baseball, they have something they call the batting average. It means that every home run that the fans jeer so wildly is a product of several missed swings a batter performs. 

The lesson is, that you won't hit anything significant if you don't try hitting it.

And it's true with life. To find out if you could do it is to simply “just do it”. Just like the tagline of a popular footwear says.

You don't have to fear doing the uncomfortable. Most successful people in our time did not go with the flow. They trusted their grit and their unlimited supply of courage. 

Life can be like the weather. You may see sunshine and butterflies today. The next day, a category 5 storm is pounding you into submission. There's no way of stopping it, but you can brace yourself so you won't fall hard. 

And weathering the storm is all you need to do so you can fight back when things don't come your way. 

Hope you got something valuable from reading a piece of my mind. Got to sip some coffee. Ciao!