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Struggling with life's difficulties can be those frightful things, which can keep you away from your life's goals. Regardless of having fame, skills, fortune, or even happiness, your life is full of obstacles. It won't be a lie to say that life is not a bed of roses, but rather a bed of thorns. However, it depends on how you choose to react to the difficulties or obstacles facing you. You can use two approaches. You can either treat them in a healthy and productive style ensuring your personal growth and peace of mind, or be drawn down by them.
There are some effective ways to overcome obstacles in life and find meaning and learning from your experiences.
It is important that you don't overthink. You must take time out for yourself, to clear your mind of negative thoughts, take care of yourself and make sense of your situation. You can learn from your experience by eliminating overthinking. It is only a natural human tendency to think and find solutions to our problem, and relieve yourself from the discomfort. However, if you simply cling to thought and not let go of it, you will soon begin to feel unhappy and stressed out which is more likely to allow your mind from coming closer to the solution.
As a result, overthinking interferes with your ability of problem-solving, saps your motivation, and sustain feelings of sadness and disappointment. There are many ways to stop overthinking about a problem and free yourself. However, giving up overthinking is easier said than done. You can allow yourself distraction from overthinking too much about a problem by doing something fun and safe to divert your attention.
Pulling yourself out on the jogging track, or just a brisk walk on the gravel path, drinking your favorite coffee, watching a movie, or even hanging out with friends may prove to be some good distraction for your mind. You can even switch your thinking towards the positive aspects of finding a solution instead of fearing what will happen if you cannot find any solution. You can also think, say or shout 'STOP' if you find it difficult to detach yourself from overthinking about an issue. Freeing yourself from overthinking may take some time and practice, but you need to be patient with yourself.
Find and Work on Your Strength
With just a little effort, you can easily list your weaknesses and shortcomings. It will help you focus on using your strengths more frequently and help in eliminating your weaknesses. Identifying and knowing your strengths enables you to use them in appropriate situations, and make you feel good about yourself. Acting on your strengths at the right time can increase happiness and eliminate depression.
When you face challenges in life, especially in situations when there are other people involved, then taking care of yourself can be pushed aside in favour of what seems to be more urgent and important than your time, energy, and even yourself at the moment. With close friends and family, when they need help, then you might focus on them more rather than yourself. It may sound selfish to take out time for yourself, but actually, it isn't. You will be able to take care of others better and be able to face those challenges if you make it a priority to take care of yourself and your needs.
Nicole Odom Hardnett explains it very well, in her book, 'Blended to Perfection', on how there are challenging moments in lives and how we perceive and react to them using our experiences. Still, we need to overcome difficulties in life by seeing everything in a positive light and believing in ourselves to achieve greatness.
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