Meet the Challenge
Lindon's Keyboard - Meet the Challenge
Throughout our lives we are faced with new or overwhelming situations and in response we can feel stressed or exhausted. As we learn and adapt to the conditions we will find ourselves dealing with the very same situation with ease and little notice. We then are able to go on in life with relief from the stress and often times benefiting from the experience. However, if we do not successfully deal with the situation that brought on the stress then we will continue to be adversely affected by that type of situation whenever we come across it in our lives. We are faced with countless challenges as a child and with most of them we rise up and meet the challenge and consequently evolve as a person. When we cannot or will not rise to face a challenge, then we will have to retreat. Eventually, whatever we have retreated from will catch up to us and we will have the choice to face it again or repeat the process all over.
By the time we reach our adult life, we will all have had some challenges that we have yet to master. Over the years I have found that instead of mastering those challenges (like a toddler learning to walk or talk) people instead take a different approach. Most common of these approaches are: learning to "cope with it" and constructing a life to avoid it. If you take the approach of coping, then your life will be frequented by periods of suffering or enduring. If you construct your life to avoid it you will have to give up most or all that can be had in life if you were to master it instead. Either way there are consequences to be paid.
If, however, you choose to meet each challenge and rise above it, learning and growing along the way, then you can lessen the enduring you’ll have in your life. You will also open yourself up to all the possibilities denied those who avoid the challenge. This doesn’t mean you must seek out challenges throughout your life in order to feel a sense of harmony and fulfillment. On the contrary, for most people life will serve up enough challenges that you can just take on the ones that continually reappear.
If you feel you have a lot of pressure or stress in your life or from time to time specific issues come up and cause you to feel overwhelmed and unable to respond well, then you might want to pick some courses that would help you meet that challenge. You didn’t do it alone when you were growing up and you don’t need to do it alone now. While the performance is still yours, you can receive tremendous help from others.
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