How Difficulties Can Make Us Better People

Life is hard. This is no secret. At times, life can become so difficult that we feel like giving up. However, those are the moments that we need to dig deeper and stay the course. These are the moments where true character is being built. The most challenging situations are the most rewarding. Tough situations build our internal strength and prepare us for other hard situation. However, we are able to go through tough times with much more confidence and calm after we have overcome previous difficulties.

Difficulties Build Mental Strength

Hard times have the ability to make us mentally stronger if we stay the course and don’t give up. When we are pushed out of our comfort zone many of us feel scared. However, if we can learn to bear the fear and persevere we can overcome that fear. Our comfort levels emerge stretched and we have one less fear to struggle with.

Difficulties Force Us to Face Our Fears

Many of us are comfortable running from our fears. We’d rather not face the dragon. As a result, we hide until we are backed against a wall and forced to deal with whatever we are running from. We may be afraid to start our own lawn care business utilizing air sentry breathers. However, the loss of a job may require that we face that fear and start the business anyway. Although this can be very uncomfortable, we gain a lot by facing our fears and finally getting them out of the way. It’s like realizing that there is no monster under the bed, only the dirty clothes that cast funny shadows on the walls at night.

Difficulties Humble Us

Difficult situations also have the ability to make us more grateful and humble us as a result. When we go through something extremely hard and survive it, we are filled with gratitude. This humble spirit changes the way we look a the world. We are far less likely to take things for granted after we have overcome something significant.

Don’t give up. If you can endure to the end you will reap many benefits. No matter how difficult a situation may be, staying the course will build you from the inside out. This strength is yours forever once it’s built. Face your fears. The dragon you’re afraid of may just be a toy dinosaur. However, you will never know unless you face your fears.