3 Signs You Will Be Fine regardless of challenges

You start your day, and you are immediately worried about all the things you have to do, anxious about what other people might think of you, worry about your responsibilities at work and all the obligations you have in your personal life etc. and so on. What you need to realize is that, regardless of what’s going on in your life, there’s a good chance you will be just fine.

We are always obsessing over things that might go wrong and focused on the negative possibilities only. But those negative possibilities are just a few small possibilities out of a pool of many.  So the chances of them becoming a reality are slim.

If you simply make a positive ritual of telling yourself that you will be fine, you can gradually let go of your worries the moment you notice them arising. You can start your day with a sense of peace in your mind, a genuine smile on your face, and then you can put your best foot forward.

Here are some clear signs that you will be just fine, even if you don’t feel like it now

1. Right now everything is changing again, nothing is certain, and you are free.

Everything in life is temporary. Nothing lasts. Every moment gives us a new beginning and a new ending.  We literally get a second chance every second. Everything that goes up comes down. After darkness there is always light, we are reminded of this every morning, but somehow we don’t see it.

People all over the world are constantly telling their one heartbreaking story, about how their entire life has turned into an exercise in coping with one particular unfair event from the past. Every present opportunity they have is then burned at the stake to fuel a fiery obsession with something that can’t be changed.  The key is to realize that YOU don’t have to be one of these people.

You have to let go and accept the feeling of not knowing exactly where you’re going next, and train yourself to love and appreciate this freedom.  Because it is only when you are suspended in the air, with no destination in sight, that you force your wings to open fully so you can fly.  What’s rather important now is the opening of your wings, you may not know where you are headed, but you know that so long as your wings are spread, the winds will carry you forward.

2. You have some incredible choices to make.

Oftentimes we yearn for just a tiny range of life experiences, the good times and the experiences that make us happy.  And yet, the reality we are faced with every day is quite different.  Life gives us a broad range of very different experiences that gradually wrap our emotions up in anger and love and heartbreak and joy and frustration and excitement and loneliness and confusion, one after another.

You have the power to choose how to respond. You can be angry at the world for the pain and struggle you’re faced with. You can attempt to resist and deny the experiences of sadness, frustration, confusion, and so forth. A more effective choice, perhaps, is to fully embrace reality and the broad range of life experiences you encounter, taking the good with the bad and the entirety of everything in between.

Fully embracing life in this way means opening yourself to unimaginable possibilities, being vulnerable to unexpected changes, being compassionate with yourself when times are tough, giving yourself some extra love and kindness no matter what happens, and being grateful for the opportunity to experience it all.

3. There is at least one tiny, positive step you can take right now.

Don’t build mountains in your mind.  Don’t try to conquer the world all at once.  When you seek instant gratification, you make life unnecessarily painful and frustrating.  When you choose instead to treat each moment as an opportunity to make a tiny, positive investment in yourself, the rewards come naturally.

Times of great adversity are also times of great opportunity. When there are problems in every direction, there is also great value waiting to be created.  When everything is going well, it’s easy to get lulled into a routine of complacency.  It’s easy to forget how incredibly capable and resourceful you can be.  Resolve to persevere one small step at a time. The bottom line is that every moment of your life builds upon the next.  This moment is the bridge between the reality of where you are and the vision of where you want to be.

How were you able to scale through some challenges life threw at you? Please share with us in the comments section.