They are so much life will throw at you, on your journey here on this earth.
So much life will throw at your business, your health, relationships, career, and other areas that matter to your life.
Some of these things we face make us think life isn’t fair or that the universe is against us.
It’s not always so. It is just the cards we are dealt with.
While we all are on the same journey, we are all running a different race.
Yours could be a race to financial freedom, your close friend could be to a spiritual call, or a race to finding purpose, and meaning but no one has the full script on how to live his/her life, we are all just trying to figure that out.
This we must understand that life will throw challenges, a curve ball right at that moment of breakthrough.
An obstacle right at that moment we thought we had it all.
Life doesn’t hate you. life is just being life with its ups and downs, good and bad, beauty and it’s ugliness.
With all this in mind here are 3 challenges in life you must overcome this year
The First Challenge [Overcome Your Mind]
Most of our problems in life can be solved with just our mind.
The human mind is one of the most powerful tools in the universe.
That’s why everything out there is after your mind.
For if they get your mind, they get your attention, and if they get your attention they get your money, your time, a piece of your life
Social media is designed to capture your mind, why do you think you spend more time than you need scrolling endlessly on their platform, or the news hell-bent on feeding your mind with junks.
And if we keep feeding our minds with these junks, soon we will start seeing these junks in our lives.
I don’t want to talk about what we are capable of or how many percentages of our mind we are limited to using because we don’t even stretch our minds beyond it’s limits. That is even if there is a limit to the human mind.
There are several places in the scripture where great authors of the bible wrote about our minds.
Proverbs 4:23 says we should guard our heart with all diligence because from out of it flows the issues of life.
But we fail most time to harness this tool in the issues we face in life.
If you really want to change your life and the issues affecting you.
You need to stand guard the door of your heart.
One of the things that can really change your life this new year is changing our minds.
If you look at your life and the fruits you have been producing is a result of the seeds, you have planted in your mind. We are each capable of so many beautiful things,
In every garden, it’s the seeds we nurture that eventually grows
So, what seeds have been planted in the garden of your mind?
There are 3 things I want you to do specifically to overcome your mind.
- Clear Out The Old Junks By Brainwashing Yourself.
- Take Control Of Your Mind And What You Feed It.
- Continually Renew Your Mind
Clear Out The Old Junks By Brainwashing Yourself.
We can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.
just like not all food is good for your body not all content out there is good for your mind.
Go on a news fast, social media absence for however long you need you need to refresh your mind.
Take Control Of Your Mind And What You Feed It.
Go on a mind fast at least for a month, and stop watching the news, movies, or your favourite shows.
stop social media if you can, limit it if you must go on it, and filter if you must be on it.
Filter what you allow into your mind, for everything is like a seed and when it gets to a fertile soil it will start geminating, and soon enough, we will see it fruit in our character or habits.
Continually Renew Your Mind
Running in the background of our subconsciousness, are programs some outdated others perhaps corrupted.
Millions of lines of codes, [routine, characters, and habits] bugged with doubt, limiting beliefs, and negative self-talk. Programming design to keep you where you are. Junk from our false identity.
But this can be fixed by constantly renewing your mind.
here are 3 ways you renew your mind.
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Exercising
There is so much exercising does to the mind we can’t start talking at length about these things but to name a few, exercising does improve sleep, energy, and mental stamina.
It is scientifically proven that exercising sharpens the mind.
So, add it to your daily routine a 10 to 20-minute exercise.
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Learning
Simply learning every day to rewrite your mind’s programming and beliefs.
When we change the way, we look at things, the things we look at change.
He who has control over his mind has control over his life.
Learning is like food and nourishments your mind just like how good fruit and vegetables are nourishment to your body.
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Pray, Reflect, And Meditate.
Prayer other than a way of communication with God or the universe, helps make you aware of so many things.
reflection other than helping us see what we might have missed, helps guide and to clearly see the road ahead.
And lastly meditation, my sure and reliable way to calm my mind, process my thoughts, and find peace,
There is so much meditation would help you uncover if this time you would give it a trial and do it the right way.
The Second Challenge [Overcome Your Flesh]
Your body is the vehicle that carries your mind, and your body is as important as your mind.
Take the world’s fastest car engine and put it in a car whose wheels cannot run that fast.
It will be like driving on a highway on gear one.
So even if you have the world’s sharpest minds it can be limited by their own body.
There are 3 things to do to overcome your flesh.
- Exercise
- Watching What You Eat
- Taking Care Of Your Health.
Exercising here is like killing 2 birds with one stone. Exercising doesn’t only help your mind but also your body.
Secondly, you need To Watch What You Fuel Your Body With. We are what we eat like they say.
Lastly Taking Care Of Your Health includes your lifestyle, not just watching what you eat but when you eat, taking your dieting seriously, getting enough sleep, alcohol, smoking, and substance abuse all of this can be detrimental to your health.
Take your exercising seriously, nutrifying your body with the right things, and taking good care of your health. These will help condition your body for your mind.
If your mind is fired up and you don’t fuel your body with substance it will crash
You need your body to be able to carry your mind.
The Third Challenge [ Overcome Your Demons]
No one knows you better than you can know yourself.
You know the battle that you must fight, you know the demons that you must face.
And these battles are ever-changing right now someone is battling addiction.
Pornography and masturbation, another is facing the addition of smoking, and alcoholism.
You know your battles. And it’s important that you fight those battles and that you win.
For a lot of people, destiny is attached to yours, and if you fail to win these battles
You won’t just be failing yourself but also those whose destiny is attached to yours
It will be you failing your kids, failing your marriage,
There is so much resting on your shoulders.
There is so much you can do with your life
There is so much this year can produce for you that will take others a decade to achieve
Face your demons, go accomplish all you can accomplish.
And watched this year transform your life and change the course of your destiny.
Final Thoughts
Everyone must face their own set of challenges.
To ignore this is to ignore what’s important to your life.
Take control of your life by controlling your mind.
Recondition your body this time healthier and lastly face your demons.
‘Your Life Is Yours Till It’s Not.’
