3 STRATEGIES TO FIND STRENGTH TO CONTINUE AGAINST ODDS

CULTIVATING GROWTH MINDSET

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When life happens, it happens in 360 degrees. It is unapologetic. And sometimes ruthless. You get to see different things as you experience life. The sweet and sour. Positives and negatives, all happening at the same time. And when life brings all these faces, you are supposed to be equipped. You are supposed to have strength. You are supposed to beat odds. Even when all odds are against you. Life expects you to do something. It does not really care whether you are equipped or not. It will happen anyway. And when life happens, it comes with curve balls. And it does not prepare you for those twists. So you plan your life this way. But you get something else. Something else that requires extra strength. You have to find strength to continue. You have to beat odds. Your plans are at risk. You need to do something.

Believe in What You Do

When you find yourself in these awkward situations that life throws at you. You need to believe in what you do. The only way to make progress is to find strength to continue against odds. When you set up your operations to achieve a specific target. You normally have a plan. A plan of how you would achieve the target. You envision everything. You anticipate and make future plans. You see possible obstacles and develop mechanisms. You fully set up for success. You are confident that your plans and strategies will deliver. You are excited. You are in good mood. You have figured out how a problem will be solved. And you launch your operations. You follow through with everything you laid down. And cracks start coming. You begin to see an ugly face. A face that you did not anticipate. You had a foolproof strategy. Everything was supposed to work.

The cracks however, are presenting serious risks. They are creating a threat to your desire. You wanted gold. And now, based on these realities, you might not find the gold. All your strength was invested in finding gold. You had identified the right spot. A bedrock. And based on your investigations, you were confident that the bedrock has gold. But now you have challenges. Challenges that require you to think harder and do more. What you did was not enough. You have to start over again. But you are exhausted. And you need gold. Your life depends on this gold. You cannot just give up. So you are really upset right now. But that is what life does sometimes. It challenges your competence and knowledge. It challenges you. It calls you to do more. It calls you to think better. It wants you to be more careful.

Life wants you to fight for your survival. And if, your life really depends on this gold, you have no option. If, mining is your business, you have no choice. You must get to work. You have been in this game for a long time. You know this trade inside out. you just can’t give up. You will need to force yourself to find new strength to continue. You need to beat the odds that are pushing you out of business. You must find a way. That way is to believe in what you do. To believe in your business. Believe in your skills. Believe in your guts. Find strength to continue when life challenges you. When unexpected ugly faces show up in a highly focused operation, you don’t stop. You keep pushing forward. You fight your way out of problems and obstacles. You don’t allow curve balls to assault you. You believe in your craft and you dream again. You strategize better. And see what you did not see.

Keep Exploring

Keep exploring. There is no going back after an objective has been defined. You must continue with the journey. You must find new strength to continue. You don’t allow your emotions to take over. You feel sad a little. You get disappointed a little. But get over these emotions. And refocus your energy. You start establishing another way to make progress. You it down with what you have and learn from it. Learn how the cracks happened. See what you did not see before. Look over your plans again. You have done this before. You have been mining for a long time. You know how to find gold. You know where the bedrock is situated. Study the obstacle. And keep exploring. Keep digging. Buffer your tools against the setbacks. Watch the currents. If, your operations have produced before, they can produce again. They can only produce if, you find strength to continue. You will only have gold, if, you remain in the game. 

You will only win over your challenges if, you keep exploring. By now you should know life. It is not straight. Life does not travel straight. It travels in zigzag. And you need to know how to keep your head up during these turns and twists. Life creates an adventure for you. It wants you to summon your inner strength. It wants you to utilize your every fiber. It wants you at work. Life wants you to remain a thinker. You cannot sleep over your last success. New things keep coming up. You got to keep up. You need to keep exploring. You need to face your obstacles in the business. You need to come to terms with the risks that stand in the way of your progress. You need to find solutions. You need to find better strategies. You need to strengthen your plans. You need to know that you got work ahead of you.

You are not done. The mere fact that you set up yourself for success is not enough. Reality has shown that your efforts are not enough. Something extra is needed. You need to become a strategic thinker. You need to mastermind. You need to open up all your eyes. You need a new approach. You need better tools of trade. When you come across these setbacks, it does not necessarily mean that you are a bad leader or planner. Setbacks only show that life sometimes, is not what we think it is. We mostly think that life begins from point A and ends at point Z. But that is not the truth. Life is a whole experience. An experience that you need to decipher one by one. You need to be bold. You need to be prepared. You have to think about the ugly when you are thinking about glory. You need to think about when your plans are not enough. And find strength to continue when you actually encounter odds on your journey.

Maintain a Positive Attitude

If, you must find strength to continue against odds, you need to maintain a positive attitude. Not finding gold as you intended, gets you in a bad mood. Your attitude quickly transitions to negative. You need to guard against this deterioration. You cannot allow yourself to become negative when you have a project to complete. You cannot lose your positive posture if, you have goals. You need to maintain a positive attitude. You need to get up. You need to move forward. The strength to continue. Remain in the game and keep playing. You will only learn another way to get to the bedrock by maintaining a positive attitude. You choose to learn from your mistakes instead of becoming emotional. You learn to get up and dust off when you fall. You cannot stop. Your life depends on your trade. Your family depends on it.

You just can’t quit. You cannot be thrown out of balance by cracks. You pull up yourself. You get to work. You think better. You keep fighting for gold. Your objective is not met if, you leave halfway. You must complete the journey. You must fight things that want you to leave early. Get your mind out of bad mood. Get yourself out of negativity. You know there is gold in the area you identified. You anticipated well. You just haven’t gotten to it. And the fact that obstacles have shown up means you will have a long day. Or even long months. Get that reality in mind and work on your attitude. You got to eat. You got to find money. Life must continue. People who depend on you must get what they want. You don’t show up in the marketplace empty-handed. You find the product. Maintain a positive attitude. Find strength to continue. overcome your challenges. Force yourself to overcome. You got the strength. Find it. Get some gold now.