Finding the Oppurtunity in Opposition

Your Opposition is your Opportunity!

T.D. Jakes

We all go through those hard times. The times when we just want the situation to go away, or the problem to stop. Times when we feel as if we just can not bear anymore. Looking back over my life I have faced challenges that I felt at the time I was not going to make it out of. There were times when I was at my lowest and no one could help me but me. By the grace of God I aways made it to the other side of those challenges.  As I picked myself up and brushed off my knees I realized that there was a point behind the madness and mayhem.

More often than not challenge is looked at as a negative thing. Everyone wants to escape it  or be saved from its grips, but challenge is placed in your path for a reason. Here are three reasons to take hold of challenge.

Makes you stronger, diversity, challenge, problems are all meant to make you stronger or better than you were before. Notice each time you face a problem or complete a challenge that fear or worry that you had before is no longer there. You could go through it again with out even blinking an eye.

You learn, have you every know someone who keeps going through the same thing. For example every week right after they get paid they are broke or living paycheck to paycheck. They keep facing this challenge because they have not learned the implied lesson of budgeting. During and after a difficult period in your life you must ask yourself what was the lesson. Instead of being bitter with your ex about the bad break up, look at what you gained from the experience to take with you into the next phase of your life. You may have learned what love was, or wasn't. You may have learned who you were in love or what you need from your partner.

You grow, after  opposition you are no longer the same person you were before. The challenge could have potentially pushed you to your limit. You may be able to take more risks or change things about yourself that you did not have the courage to change in the past.

As your moving and shacking challenge is bound to find you. Instead of running away from problems, embrace them, be thankful for them because they make you, better, stronger, and a little bit more fierce a  la Tasha Mack from the Game.

Let me know how challenge changed your life for the better......

Shameka

<3 2012