“The best way out is always through.” ~Robert Frost
What do you do when life pushes and slaps, crashes and burns and you find yourself scraped, bruised and buried under the weight of disaster and heartache? Do you run and hide? Do you curl into the fetal position and wait for life to stop hitting so hard?
Or do you get up and fight back with all that’s inside you, tenaciously pushing through to the other end of the challenge?
Standing up when life knocks us around a bit as we climb life’s mountains builds something inside of us that intensifies and focuses our resolve and makes us more able to deal with life’s most difficult trials. The hot fire of pain and difficulty polishes us.
We begin to drown in a sea of self-pity, sorrow and resentment when we stop in the middle, when we throw in the towel and go home before we’ve gone all the way. Continuing through to the other side makes the next disaster that much easier to bear and happiness that much easier to keep.
So the next time you feel bullied by life and everything seems to be falling apart, stay the course. See it through to the end and keep your mind trained on the end-product, an improved, more resilient you. Because in the end, you will be a stronger person for having endured.
When I have stayed the course I always found a great deal of freedom and relief on the other side.
There was a time I actually learned to run toward fear because it allowed me to let go of my old, limiting thinking. The sun is always shinning on the other side of even the darkest clouds.
Thanks Ken for your blog and for being you
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I love that attitude, Susan! Run toward fear! So often, what we fear shrinks to unimpressive dimensions when we walk right up to it, pick it up and embrace the thing. And what great imagery of the sun still shining beyond the clouds that currently (and only for a time) are covering it.
Great comment, Susan! Thanks so much for sharing it.
“Standing up when life knocks us around a bit as we climb life’s mountains builds something inside of us that intensifies and focuses our resolve and makes us more able to deal with life’s most difficult trials. The hot fire of pain and difficulty polishes us.”
Very well put Ken.
…and these challenges introduce us to the new part of us that emerges as a result of that hot fire. This new part of us creates new self confidence, which in turn makes us more creative people.
Thanks, Larry. I love what you added here, that our challenges “introduce us to the new part of us that emerges as a result of that hot fire.” I like the thought that we have more than potential strengths waiting to be developed, but current strengths waiting to be revealed. Great insight!
Hi that was really very inspiring. I’ll keep your words in mind “in the end, you will be a stronger person for having endured” , we all have to face different trials in life, going through this trials, provides lessons we need to stay strong, focused and to persevere more on what we really want to achieve. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much, Lynne. I’ve always believed that we usually know what to do in life and need a reminder or the motivation or inspiration to take that step we’ve put off for far too long. So you’ve offer me a deeply meaningful compliment by suggesting the article was inspiring. Thank you so much for saying so.
You’re so right about life lessons embedded in the trials we experience. So much can be learned about ourselves and life and human nature when we look closely and honestly at the challenges in our lives.
Great article, Ken!
Sometimes our initial reaction is to run from our problems because we’re so afraid that we won’t be able to get through to the other side. We undermine our own strength and our ability to endure hardships.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Cheers
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