Nothing defines a man or woman/leader than the word challenge, as a matter of fact; every leader who desires to fulfil an assignment in life loves the word challenge. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going because the difference between those who get going as against those who do not is in one’s ability to challenge or overcome challenges.
Every day we are challenged because we try to help people other than ourselves. The ability to not only challenge but allow people to see that challenges are considerable and solvable are key ingredients in the life of a man or leader on purpose.
Nothing is more fulfilling in a leader’s life than fulfilling and overcoming a challenge where others refuse to solve or overcome. If you desire to fulfil your purpose to the world, you do not give up or give in to the problems or challenges life brings. This is why I often say and believe that your assignment in life does not lie in your appointments but disappointments.
Challenges may come in every form just to disappoint you as a leader, but behind it is the opportunity to become what you are meant to be and make a difference in other peoples lives, work or organisation. B Reagan was right when he said,
life challenges are not supposed to paralyse you; they are supposed to help you discover who you are.
Do you know that challenges only become problems when we see them as barriers instead of opportunities? It all starts with the way you think. How you think matters even more than you act; because it is by your thoughts you act and we are all a product of our thoughts.
All challenges or temptations are not meant to overtake us; even the Bible makes it clear that they are common to all men that even God will not allow you to be challenged beyond what you could bear. 2 Corinthians 10:13 (emphasis added).
As I speak of the mind, it is a very important determining factor because most people going through one crisis or the other right now tend to think that they are the only people experiencing that right now. You need to stop thinking like this from today because everybody under the surface of this world has challenges.
See it this way, life is a problem-solving machine. The more you live, the more problems you will have and the more you solve, the more successful you will become, and the more successful you become, the more challenges that will come for you to solve. This is the cycle of life. Life is not a straight path. It is rough and full of ups and downs.
A life without challenges only means that you are dead. A wise man in the field of medicine once said,
If you are not without a symptom at any given time in your life, you are dead. Good health is the ability to adjust, fight, and defend continues the flow of challenges the body faces continuously; temperature, stress, deterioration, reproduction and more.
This, therefore, means that a life with challenges, crisis, and problems only signifies that you are alive and it, therefore, possesses the opportunity to do something with it.
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