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Rising Above Adversity – Become A Better You


We all face challenges in life. There are times that each of us will face adversity in its many forms. The important distinction between those who adversity will defeat, and those who will defeat adversity, is how they deal with adversity as it happens.

Adversity, potential failure, and opposition are unavoidable facts of life. The way that you can deal with this when it happens though, is determined by your mental strength and internal fortitude. This is something that can be developed and enhanced, regardless of where you are currently at.

By strengthening your ability to handle adversity, you can learn to overcome it and realize your goals. You can even use adversity to your advantage, further adding energy and focus to getting the job done.

Let’s take a look at how adversity can appear in our lives, and how it can attempt to sway us from achieving the things we want to achieve.

Adversarial Examples

Adversity can take many different forms. Always though, it will attempt to hold you back, push you down, keep you limited, and stop you from reaching your destination. You can overcome it though, and to do this it can be good to understand exactly how adversity can approach you.

Some ways in which adversity can strike are as follows:

  1. Your own internal thoughts – a lot of the time adversity will come from your own thoughts. Whether you doubt yourself and your capabilities, you are simply afraid to push on, or maybe you just haven’t thought enough about what you need to do, all of these can give adversity a good foothold in your life. If you don’t develop the mental strength and wisdom to approach your life from the point of view that covers all your angles, adversity is sure to overcome you.

Make sure that your thoughts are aligned with your intent, you think through every possible pitfall, and understand exactly what you must do to achieve your goals, and even if adversity rears its ugly head, you will triumph.

2. Other people – sometimes it’s not us who cause us the problems. Maybe it’s someone else in your life making things difficult for you. Perhaps the people you talk to about your goals doubt you or try to convince you that you won’t succeed. Or, maybe someone else is trying to do the exact same thing you are, and now you have competition. Other people can even purposely attempt to sabotage you.

You have to make sure that if this happens, you don’t fall victim to the negativity and lack of support. Your own determination must be strong enough to carry you through.

3. Resources – a lot of the things we want to do require resources. These could be in the form of material resources, other people, wealth, or even access to specific kinds of knowledge. If you don’t ensure that you have the right resources for the entire length of your journey, adversity will arise at some point and overcome you.

Plan and figure out exactly what you are going need in terms of resources for every step of the way. This will ensure that no matter what happens, or what you are required to have, you will have access to everything you need to succeed.

Overcoming adversity is always required on the road to true success. Speak to anyone you know who you would consider to be a success and I can guarantee there will be at least three times when they faced adversity.

They key though, is to not give up, and do everything you can to overcome it, and realize your goals.

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