Tag: struggle

We are Better known by our Choices!

From breakfast till dinner, we have to make a lot of choices. Our day depends on these decisions. Similarly, our life is the outcome of our choices and decisions. Life is a four -letter word simple to spell but difficult to know well. It’s quite unpredictable and full of difficulties, struggles, and choices. Everyone has difficulty in their life. No one on this earth has a perfect life, in fact, we all are creators of our own life. A wise person once said, “when something bad happens, you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or let it strengthen you”. And our life is the outcome of our choice.

Let’s see the outcome of our choices, how we respond to the difficulties of our life:

  1. Let it define you: If you are opting to let the difficulties define you; then no one can help you unless you wish to help yourself. It’s not going to define you but shape and change your life. It will change your thinking, your personality, and perspective of life. Next time, when you encounter the same difficulty, you will try to lessen its effect but the previous scars takes a lot of time to heal.
  2. Let it destroy you: if this is your choice, then you are opting an irreversible and painful process. It’s just like burning your bridges with the real you. Sometimes, the hard time has such a massive effect that you can’t recover from that. This makes you weaker, vulnerable, and more susceptible resulting in losing your identity.
  3. Let it strengthen you: this is the best way to overcome the difficulties with a positive attitude. You will focus on every single positive aspect of the whole negative scenario. It will increase your fighting spirit and inner strength. By facing difficulties, we evolve with a better, effective, and immune version of ourselves. Diamond and coal have the same origin but a Diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. So, you decide what you want to be – Diamond or Coal? Remember “what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger”. Embrace the struggle so that your inner strength shines like Diamond.

The impression of life on me is that ‘let it strengthen you’ is the best option to tackle the difficulties. Sometimes, you have to step back to gain the potential to jump across the barriers. So, when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great. Do your best and prepare for the worst. This is the only way to explore your life to the fullest.

15 Most Enlightening Quotes on Gratitude

Quotes are the nuggets of wisdom which are passed on to the generations to make us enlightened. These are the words full of wisdom and experience that are capable enough to push you forward when you get stuck in your life. These are the life lessons which teach us how to explore your life to get maximum output.

One of the most important life lessons we should learn is the attitude of Thanksgiving that is gratitude (comes from the Latin word gratus which means ‘pleasing, thankful’). It is ‘the great attitude ‘ that is capable enough to boost happiness which is the ultimate goal of our lives. Here are 15 most enlightening quotes on gratitude:

1.“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” — Confucius

2.“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” —William Arthur Ward

3. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein

4.“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘Thank you’ that would suffice.” —Meister Eckhart

5.“When you are grateful – when you can see what you have – You unlock blessings to flow in your life.”–Suze Orman

6.“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”–John F. Kennedy

7. “Gratitude opens the door to…the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.”–Deepak Chopra

8.“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”–Neale Donald Walsch

9. “If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.” —Steve Maraboli

10.“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” —Confucius

11.  “Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” —Rhonda Byrne

12. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ––Oprah Winfrey

13. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” —Robert Brault

14. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —William Arthur Ward

15. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” —Steve Maraboli

What Doesn’t Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger!

What struggle contributes to our lives? Does it make us or break us? What do you think?

Have you ever seen a small child struggling to take her first steps? No matter how many times she fails, she rises up again and again. And before you know it, the child starts taking 6-7 steps at a time and completes her journey to be a toddler. She takes the challenge head-on, and the curiosity to explore more is what makes this whole process fun.

Is life even possible without a shade of struggle? Imagine your life without any setbacks, will power, hard work, learning, or growth! Do you like what you see? Surely not! What kind of life is that? From where you’ll draw the joy of victory, happiness, and satisfaction? Don’t you think it will be a tad bit mundane? Right? Isn’t these all aspects make our life meaningful? If you minus all these things from life, you’ll be left with nothing. Exactly! You are getting me right, life is nothing without a struggle. No struggle, no life.

Not all of us are born with a silver spoon. In fact, many of us have to struggle for almost everything in our life. The struggle is the most important part of learning life lessons. It strengthens our inner core. After that, we always get an improved, immune, and effective version of ourselves.

Let me tell you a story – the story of a butterfly! Can’t picture it? Yeah! It’s not a famous one, but it will definitely force you to think a while. Here it goes –

Once a man found a cocoon of a butterfly. A few days later, he noticed the cocoon hatched and a tiny butterfly trying to come out of it. Despite struggling for hours, she remained stuck there. And then she stopped. The man watched her for hours, and then, he decided to help her. He took a scissor and enlarged the opening of the cocoon. The butterfly forced her way out of that hole, but her body was swollen and wings wriggled. The man wondered when her wings will grow, but she remained as such for the rest of her days. He had no clue that he interfered with the process of metamorphosis. Nature made the process of the butterfly coming out of the cocoon difficult for a reason! It was supposed to make her stronger, rushing her blood towards her wings and enlarge them.

The hidden message of this story is- “the struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow”.

There is no harm in seeking nuggets of wisdom from an experienced person. After all, we are humans, not Google! But if you wish to get things done by doing not as much as even lifting a finger, this attitude never got anyone far!

Better take it as an opportunity to learn hard work, nourish will power, deal with setbacks, and tackle failures. And again, set new goals with a better version of you.

Come, challenge yourself! The world is full of real-life examples of struggle resulting in something extraordinary, whether it is Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Alva Edison, and many more! If they can do it, then why can’t you?

Of course, yes! No one has got any copyright on it, yet! You don’t need to be gifted, just a positive outlook towards difficulties can make all the difference. Take them as a challenge – an opportunity to grow out of your shell – and just enjoy the process. We should always be ready to learn, adapt, and implement new things in our life.

{“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”—- Napoleon Hill}

{“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”—–Rikki Rogers}