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From Struggle to Strength. Learning & Growing Through Life’s Challenges

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By Bonnie McDonald

Life’s challenges are not mere hurdles but pivotal moments that shape our character and direction. Each hardship carries the potential to catalyze profound personal transformation. Confronting and overcoming these trials can fortify resilience, enhance empathy, and inspire significant life shifts. Embracing adversity refines our abilities to handle future problems with increased skill and confidence, setting a foundation for success in various aspects of life.

Cultivating Resilience in the Face of Adversity

When you face difficulties head-on, it doesn’t just test your mettle—it strengthens it. Each challenge you surmount reinforces your ability to cope with future stresses. This process lays a robust foundation for enduring resilience. It equips you with the grit necessary to tackle the unpredictable paths of both personal and professional life, enhancing your capability to manage and rise above future challenges. As resilience builds, so does your assurance in your capacity to navigate life’s unpredictable storms.

Expanding Empathy Through Personal Hardships

Navigating through periods of hardship expands your understanding and sensitivity toward the struggles of others. This enhanced empathy makes you a more compassionate and supportive community member. You start to relate deeply to the pains and challenges others face, which in turn, enriches your interactions and relationships, providing a deeper connection to those around you. Empathy cultivated through personal trials is a profound tool that enriches interpersonal relationships and fosters a supportive network.

Reflection and Realignment During Trials

Challenges often compel you to reflect on your values and priorities. This introspection leads to clearer insights about what is truly significant, guiding more purposeful decisions. By reassessing what matters most, you can realign your life’s goals and actions toward more fulfilling endeavors that resonate with your core values. Such clarity is essential when making decisions that influence both personal growth and professional development, ensuring that your paths align with your deepest convictions.

Inspiring Creativity and Flexibility

When initial plans falter, the necessity to adapt fosters creativity and flexibility. These skills are invaluable in a rapidly evolving professional landscape, helping you to thrive in various circumstances. Learning to pivot and innovate in the face of obstacles not only keeps your projects afloat but also drives you toward finding unique solutions that might have otherwise gone undiscovered. Creativity thus becomes a critical asset, enabling you to navigate through complex challenges with innovative strategies.

Stepping Into Entrepreneurship with Confidence

Overcoming challenges not only prepares you for the uncertainties of starting a new business but also instills the resilience and adaptability necessary for entrepreneurial success. To start a business, you should identify a viable market need, develop a business plan, secure funding, choose a legal structure, register the business, set up financial systems, and market your products or services to attract customers. Establishing a limited liability company (LLC) can be a strategic move, offering benefits like limited liability, tax perks, and operational flexibility. Opting to self-file or using a reputable formation service can ensure your business is set up correctly without incurring excessive legal fees.

Expanding Your Comfort Zone

Being thrust out of familiar confines by adverse events often leads to unexpected personal growth and self-awareness. You discover latent potentials and new passions that may redefine your life’s trajectory. Getting outside of your comfort zone is essential for personal evolution, allowing you to uncover strengths and interests that were previously hidden. Such discoveries can be transformative, opening up new avenues for personal satisfaction and professional opportunities.

Motivation to Act from Adversity

Sometimes, it takes a significant upheaval to disrupt detrimental habits or complacency. Adversity can be a powerful motivator for pursuing new ambitions or making pivotal life alterations. It provides the push needed to explore new avenues and take actions that can lead to substantial changes in both personal and professional domains. This motivation from adversity is a compelling force, driving significant life changes that align with your renewed perspectives and goals.

The journey through life’s challenges is inherently transformative. Embracing these experiences as opportunities for growth prepares you not just for personal advancement but also for entrepreneurial success. As you learn to navigate through trials with grace and resilience, you set the stage for future achievements and new beginnings. The transformative power of adversity should not be underestimated—it is often the catalyst for the most significant changes in our lives.

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Top 10 Reasons Every Child Should Learn Leadership Skills

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Category : Children's Education Educational Leadership for Children Life Skills Motivation Public Speaking self-development

It’s so extremely important to develop leadership skills at an early age. The benefits of having leadership skills are crucial for each child. Why? Here is why.

To develop control of their lives.
Learning leadership skills allows a child to see opportunities where other children wouldn’t see them because they develop different mindsets with the habit to think critically and act effectively.

To build self-confidence.
The time it takes to develop self-confidence is different in each child because it depends on their childhood experiences, parenting habits, communication with other kids, and relationship with teachers at the pre-school or child care. And for each child it takes a different amount of time to build, or to be more exact, to reestablish the natural self-confidence that each child initially born with.

To solve problems creatively.
The ability to solve problems creatively doesn’t come immediately although it can be developed with time, proper exercises, and training. The earlier your child starts training, the earlier it will come.

To withstand bullies.
If your child comes to school with a good amount of self-confidence and self-defense and leadership skills, bullies will leave your child alone because they will not offend a child who knows how to deal with bullies and defend themselves.

To lead the team.
It takes time to learn how to lead others with the right tasks and ideas. The earlier your child gets involved in such activities, the better they become as they get older.

To learn how to lead the conversation with difficult children and adults.
This is an important skill for every person. And the best time to start learning about it, while in childhood. These exercises help your child to feel in control while dealing with difficult individuals.

To learn how to make decisions in difficult situations.
These are also trainable skills that can be developed in any child with the use of proper training.

To learn public speaking skills.
The more your child speaks in front of others, the better and more comfortable he or she will be at public speaking. Your child will learn to manage different types of audiences and what to say to rude individuals.

To learn how to negotiate and delegate things to others.
This is a fun skill, that develops during the practice inside to the family or at the leadership classes for children.

Leadership skills give many opportunities in life to your child that are not available to those who don’t have developed their leadership skills. With this being said, sign up for leadership classes and see your child growing into a confident and positive leader.

How Unmade Decisions Can Ruin Your Life

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Category : Communication Educational Life Skills Motivation self development

Your life consists of small & big decisions.

When you cross a street you make a decision.

Getting your coffee at your favorite coffee shop you make a decision.

You probably make 15 to 20 small decisions every single day.

You could be in a completely different place-making right decisions in your life.

How are you do that?

According to the Pew Research Center, 81% of  Americans struggle to make a big decision and rely mainly on research on the Internet.

Should you?

“Siri, can you, please tell me, should I marry this man?”

Siri replies: “Reroute!”

Nope, Siri and the entire Internet is not the best solution to your problem.

José N. Harris once said: “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful…” 

Does it sound familiar to you?

One of the major reasons we lose out life energy is our unmade decisions.

Unmade decisions over a while can affect your mind, mood, your performance at work, your personal life, and can lead to different health complications that are common in our modern society.

Some people are good at making decisions and some are not. Some people listen to their intuition and some are not.

I always will remember the story of a woman, who married a wrong man who very soon became an alcoholic and a violent man. As a result of continuous stress, she got terminally ill and died at the age of 37, leaving 2 little girls behind her. If she divorced her alcoholic and a violent husband, she might be still alive…

Sometimes it’s hard for us to make a big decision,  and we are trying to delay it, and as a result, we lose our life energy, our immune system goes down, and we feel constantly fatigued and unhappy.

Unmade decision becomes like a black hole that will invisibly suck out your life energy.

Unmade decision like a crab digs into your brain and causes you condition that in psychiatry called rumination. Where our brain like a cow constantly jewing on a particular unmade decision.

Scientists have proven that rumination is a precursor of a Depression. 

What should we do? How can you help yourself to make an important decision?

  1. You can choose to leave the situation you don’t like! Simply saying, you are running away from the situation that causing you harm.
  1. You can choose to accept, adapt to the current situation after evaluating it and weighing it on scales. What pros & cons. Only if you realize that to survive,  you have to temporarily adapt to the situation you are in, you can choose to accept it.
  1. Delayed Decision. It’s a good option if you put action toward the situation you are in. And at the present moment,  you are not able to make an immediate and firm decision. However, you recognize that you don’t like the situation you are in and you do put actions toward your upcoming escape. For example, if you don’t like your job but it pays well. You start to look for a better job that you like and have the same or even better pay.

But what if you don’t like any of these choices? What’s then? Then, my best advise to you is to work on developing the following decision-making skills:

4 essential life skills that will help you to make a big decision:  

  • 1. Critical Thinking
  • 2. The non-emotional approach to your problem.
  • 3. Listen to your intuition.
  • 4. Consider a long term solution.

With this set of skills, you will have no problem making big & important decisions in your life. And I sincerely hope that these suggestions will help you to make a big decision in your life, and ultimately will help you regain that precious life energy and happiness that you were missing for so long. 

11 Things That Actually Will Change Your Life

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Category : Life Skills Motivation self development

In order to achieve in life what you want, you need to create the right mindset. And this is the main Keyword! With the right mindset, you will be able to see opportunities that never seen before and to meet with people you thought you will never be able to meet.

These are the 12 simple things that if you do it consistently, will change your life.
1. Always  Learn Something

Never stop learning. When you learning something new, the new neuron connections are forming in your brain and you are able to see new opportunities are coming from unexpected places in unexpected ways.

The Key phrase is: Always Learn

2. Take Action 

There’s no point in consuming knowledge if you’re not going to practice it.
And that’s what the most successful people understand, they ‘earn while they learn’.
They’re not afraid to execute a task just because they’re still learning how to ‘do it right’. They dive right in and welcome the results – good or bad.

The Keywords are: Result & Action.

3. Always Sell Your Product or Service In Your Mind

There are no day-offs to sell something. The more you are trying to sell, the more times you see what works for you. It’s very important to figure it out, what is YOUR selling style. In order to find your selling style you have to learn to sell whenever you go, whosoever you meet. Read the famous book written by the best salesperson in the world Joe Gerard “How to Sell Anything To Anyone”.

The Key phrase is: Learn How To Sell Yourself and Your Services

4. Don’t Fear Failure                                                                                                     Successful people understand that failures are their defining moments. They know that if they fail at something they’re able to learn from it and move forward. Once they overcome whatever obstacles are thrown their way, they’ll add another skill under their arsenal.

The Keyword is: Face Your Fear and Bit It!

5. Learn How To Say ‘No’

There are many “suckers” around that will always want from you something. You have to learn to say “No” to them. Don’t feel bad. You have to learn how to say “no”  tactfully but firmly.  At first, people will be upset with you, but later they will respect you for your decisions. Remember, you can make all the money but you can’t buy extra time!  So, Don’t Cater to everyone’s needs! The Keyword is Value Your time!

The Key phrase is: Learn To Say No and Value Your Time

6. Have Courage 

Successful people have a lot of courage! You must learn how to develop this essential quality in your character in order to be successful. Get rid of doubt and have courage instead.

The Keyword is: Courage

7. Find a Mentor

Successful people understand that in order to be successful they need to learn from successful people. Learn more about mentors in Robert Kiyosaki ” Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. And contact the best organization in the world SCORE MENTORS

The Key phrase is: Mentor, Score Mentor

8. Master Law of Attraction

The way you think determines what kind of person you are and what kind of life you have. If you want to be successful and achieve your goals, you have to materialize it in your head first, in your daily thoughts, and then start acting and working toward it. You can’t imagine, how from unexpected ways you will get people and situations that will help you to achieve your goals in the best possible way. And remember even the Bible says that first was a word and then was an action.

The Key phrase is: Create Good Thoughts In Your Mind and Good Things Will Come to You.

9. Be in Control of your Life

Yes, God is in control of all our lives and you should learn from God how to be in control of your own life.
Successful people understand, that after our Creator, they have full control of their lives.
They know that their fate is fully dependent on how they approach the issue at hand.

The Key phrase is: Be In Control Of Your Life

10. Value Your Money 

Trust your guts and learn all you can about finances while you are young. From each of your earning put aside at least 10%. Never spend all of your money.
Successful people invest in assets and work toward passive income and investments that will make them more money in the long run.

The Key phrase is: Don’t Spend All Your Money!

11. You Want To Be Successful — Be It!

A successful person never gets discouraged when faces an obstacle.
Keep your mind positive and calm, and all of the above, and step by step (not overnight) you will change your life and become successful.

The Keywords are: Think, Create, Act

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