Facing Challenges in Every Day Life

Facing challenges in every day life is a reality. Do we enjoy challenges? Are they always fun? No, we don't always enjoy the challenges life brings nor are they always fun. However, we must come to the place in our lives where we decide how we are going to face the day. Consciously or unconsciously we choose what attitude to start the day with and consciously or unconsciously we also choose what attitude we will keep throughout the day.

From childhood we have developed attitudes and ways which are expressed through our every day behavior. Some of these behavior patterns we were taught and others we caught. Often we consider those behaviors to simply express who we are. This not so. We can develop our thinking in such a way that old ways of mopping, complaining, arguing, and quitting in the midst of life's challenges can be replaced with resourcefulness, positive speaking, getting along with others and persevering. Have you ever said to others, well you know that's the way I am. Or have you told yourself, this is who I am. You may have accepted things about yourself that are not positive. You may say, I am grumpy. I am sensitive and easily upset. I can't help it if I get angry easily. Well, you can choose to develop the winning attitude that you have not even dared to dream of having. How? By daily choosing to display a positive attitude and by developing a "new" you.

Take the time today to write a list of the traits that you would like to display. Spend time talking to yourself about those traits, encourage yourself daily, and believe in yourself. It may take time to believe in yourself. You may have been your own worst enemy. If this is true in your life than ask yourself for forgiveness and determine to be nicer to yourself. Take the time to tell yourself that you can do it, that you can accomplish your new goals. Take time out daily just to spend with YOU. Who better to develop than yourself? It can only get better. Counsel yourself, look up articles to better yourself. Ask others how they would handle your daily challenges with a positive attitude and begin to develop a pattern of positive thinking and healthy behavior patterns. BE NICE TO YOURELF.

The genuine you is not the person living life with unconsciously developed habits and patterns instead the real you is the person that is purposely developed over time. The real you is the person that learns through the challenges to overcome and become. The world is waiting to meet the real you. Perhaps you have accepted living with yourself as is...and you have found that you are annoying, easily upset, stressed out and tense. You cannot get away from you...so why not change you? Why not spend time getting to know the you that you've always desired to be? Have you ever watched a movie and at the end of the movie you felt a sense of completion...you enjoyed watching and participating in the characters life. You fell in love with the character. Its time to enjoy participating in your life, its time to love yourself, and to get to know yourself. Change the things you don't like. Its not to late to change. Its not to late to developer the traits you have admired in others. How? By spending time with yourself. Talking to yourself. Asking yourself why you behave certain ways and then asking yourself to change. Give yourself goals and rewards. Treat yourself special. Take the time to know who you are and to become a person that you admire and as a result you will find that others admire you and are drawn to you. You will even find that others will learn from you and will enjoy being with you. This is a process that can only be accomplished by utilizing one day at a time in our favor. Rather than living troubled by yesterday and concerned about tomorrow you will begin to look back and see the successes and joys of every day life even in the midst of challenges. Make those lemons into lemonade, turn that frown upside down.