Blog #659: Three Thoughts to Get You Through

Who among us doesn’t know struggle?

I certainly do.

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Struggle is a part of being human.

When we create, when we choose to change, when we’re faced with challenges, when we want to move past comfort zones…struggle will always be waiting.

Even in writing this weekly blog.

Some weeks…

I’m hit by an instant idea that inspires a first draft in twenty minutes.

But other weeks…

I’m smashed for six days in a row by an iceberg of giant brain freeze.

In the weeks I struggle writing…

I often develop two, three, and even five different ideas before finding the “write” ONE to send.

I work through it because I KNOW struggle is just a given part of the process.

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In little ways, in big ways…

Struggle is always around.

But how bad our struggle gets is up to us.

When we start pouring bottomless buckets of painful emotions into our situation (panic, worry, despair), we turn struggle into suffering.

And when we do that, life becomes no fun.

If you’re at that point in your struggle now…

I have three difference-making thoughts.

#1. Quit freaking out.

#2. Work through a fix-it process.

#3. Don’t stop chipping away.

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I believe…

If we keep “struggle” an emotional process, we are dooming ourselves to keep struggling.

BUT…

If we turn struggle into a mental challenge to be solved…we can navigate through it more easily.

First…to survive.

Second…to succeed.

May fortitude be your best friend when Struggle tries to make you his.

S.