🥩 Mid-week Lesson 3.1i: Challenges
A unprepared mind invites suffering during the challenging times of life, but a battle ready attitude leads to composure and poise in turbulent conditions. By and large life is difficult and requires an effort of work. But we do have a choice in our work, resenting the days of struggle or mastering your attitude. A key to keep is embracing dilemmas and difficult circumstances. It isn't the problems in of themselves that present, its the lack of being prepared that causes loss and suffering. The one that expects things to not goes as planned will not become overwhelmed. Suffice it to say that challenges are good for you. 🔎 A useful life inevitably brings many problems with it, while the desire for ease ultimately brings insufficient discomfort. In wasting several naive years, thinking I'd be happy only once I've eliminated problems all together. The idea of doing what you love and the money will follow creates a false expectation. Convincing us that job stress and personal struggle were abnormal and unnecessary, ie the phrase follow your bliss or the expression follow your passion. The trouble I see too often is that ideal leads to an unreasonable expectation that work equates pleasurable and blissful duties. And when everyday common challenges seem to become mountains I became increasingly frustrated. Contrary to that ill-advice, I find it better to expect those difficult circumstances as a normality, day to day trials, and maintain a problem-solver attitude. Difficulties are meant to spur growth not discourage your aims. We must get to a point of understanding that human spirit is designed to grow by conflict and problem solving. At the summit of our most productive years each day's battle is overcoming challenges. What is your capacity to deal with those stresses? With constant exposure of growth expansion and scaling income ones ability also increases. We strengthen to handle the challenges that once defeated us. We expand our boundaries, limitations, and capabilities through pressure and being out of our comfort zone.