How Challenging Times Pay Off

If approached with a childlike curiosity and wonder, you can enter into challenging times and come out of them with maximum growth and learning.

When you go through a challenging time, you are poised to awaken a bit more to the truth of who you authentically are. In other words, you gain insight that leads to a fuller understanding of true nature that can foster enlightenment of aspects you didn’t fully realize were there. With due reflection, you awaken from the inside out.

“When the inner light of soul awakens us from within, something also comes alive in the world around us. That is how things change, from the inside out; from the soul to the world as the individual soul helps creation to continue.” – Michael Meade

With your new enlightenment, get ready to enjoy these payoffs from your challenging times:

See and experience new possibilities as a pay off of challenging times

If you’re open to what challenging times have to teach you, you’ll be excited by the potential of the future, and look forward to the unknown with courage.

The payoff of showing up more consciously with increased clarity and creativity

Challenges have a way of allowing you to see things differently. With greater awareness, you gain greater clarity, which opens you up to more options and ideas that come from your creativity.

Able to accept change as continual after challenging times

Instead of dreading change in the future, challenging times set you up to see change as a part of life, not an exception to it. When you expect change, you’re ready for it and more likely to embrace it for the positives it can bring to you.

Reclaim more of your authenticity and personal agency

When you have managed your way through a challenge, you uncover aspects of yourself you didn’t realize you had. You also realize more of your capacity to withstand difficulties because you know you can make your own choices for how you respond. In effect, the challenge allows you to let go of aspects of yourself that aren’t working for you anymore, so you can grow into a more authentic version of yourself.

It seems to me that most challenges in our lives feel like they are uniquely designed to help us evolve. The person at work who irks you, the difficulty into working within a particular corporate culture, a rough patch in a relationship or marriage, a serious illness … these types of circumstances ask you to dig deep within yourself. And when you get through that circumstance, you find you’ve grown a little bit by expanding your ability to show up more productively going forward.

Tough times crack you open and allow you to shed some skin, so you can grow into a bigger life.