Challenge Yourself Daily

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?“If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” -Fred Devito

We have been challenging our enemies and even friends or relatives during almost every arguments. Whether we are capable or not we never miss the chance to challenge the people. Sometimes we are wrong and then also we are bold enough to challenge the opponent. Have you ever thought to challenge your own self? Spend more time alone and think about the challenges you can give to yourself. Make a list of things that hamper your progress on the way to your success. Spend at least one hour for next 30 days to make a list of your thoughts and make a journal. If you find it difficult I am going to share you some of the most common challenges you can give to yourself. Here are those battles for your fighting. I am sure, your can conquer every fight and win the war.

1. Build good habits

List out your bad habits or you can take help of your good friend to make a list. There are four possibilities of things occurring with you.

a, Some of the facts you only know about yourself (For example your bad nightmares)

b, Some of the facts you do not know about but people know ( For example your walking style)

c, Some of the facts you know and people also know (For example your education)

d, Some of the facts you do not know and people also do not know ( For example Your hidden potential)

You have to scrutinize each categories and work on them separately.

2. Face your fears inch by inch

Fear is generally said to be ‘False Events Appearing Real’. Do not make it ‘Forget Everything And Run’ rather make as ‘Face Everything And Recover. ‘ If you are ready to face fear, well began and be sure, half gone. Be aware of your fears and work with them. Observe the fear with an external entity. Suppose your are in a river and forcefully taken away by current, you can not do anything.

Dr.Dawson Church [1]has given a technique called EFT i.e. Emotional Freedom Technique. He says, “Acupoint tapping sends signals directly to the stress centers of the mid-brain, not mediated by the frontal lobes (the thinking part, active in talk therapy).” Because EFT simultaneously accesses stress on physical and emotional levels, he adds, “EFT gives you the best of both worlds, body, and mind, like getting a massage during a psychotherapy session. ”EFT has ability to access the amygdala, an almond-shaped part of your brain that initiates your body’s negative reaction to fear, a process we often refer to as the “fight or flight” response, that makes it so powerful. It’s estimated that 10 million people worldwide have used tapping. What’s so exciting is how incredibly quick it alleviates issues like depression, anxiety, and insomnia, as well as severe PTSD, physical pain, even illness.

NLP i.e. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is one of the good techniques. You learn how your mind works. NLP has helped thousands in eliminating phobias, fears, and other emotional problems, so it has its place, but only if it feels magnetic to you.

3. Fight with your situation

Never hate the situation. Accept the situation whatever worse may be the condition. It is the bad reaction that makes things worsen. Our mind has always a nature of focusing on negative things. Shifts your focus from most negative to worst positive things. There is a great opportunity to learn from the negative situation. Ask yourself how gracefully you can deal with the situation. It depends upon your mental strength how strong you are against the situation. Suppose you are in corporate job and your immediate senior shouted on to get the work done in predetermined time frame. He may feel in his position and act accordingly. You can also retaliate but think what an ideal role model should have done and you follow the steps. You may momentarily have bad feelings but your results will be amazing.

4. Manage your weaknesses.

Nobody is perfect and almost everybody have some sort of weaknesses. List out all possible weakness in you and deal with them one by one. For instance you have stage fear or you do not have good oratory, you can practice when you are alone. Listen your own voice, record the video and analyze it. Some of the great cricketers watch their videos and improve their weaknesses and become great over a period of few months. You can seek the advise of expert and master the skill.

5. Exercise challenge

Exercise is an important part for getting in shape and living a healthy lifestyle. We know that there are numerous benefits of exercise however, work out on daily basis is a demanding challenge. Persistent daily pain of exercise may lead to a better happy life without illness. It is a matter of training the mind for self discipline. Once or twice a week when you do not like to work out, you should adapt some of the activities that may be substitute of exercise. For instance, if you have not worked out for the day, you should prefer stairs in stead of lift while living your home or returning to home from outside. In fact it is the diversity of exercises you should adapt when you have deprived yourself from morning workouts or yoga.

6. Fight neck to neck against time

Every minute or second counts. Think your life just like foot ball game. You relax on the field and you lost. Time is fourth dimension. If you respect time you conquer. If you lost time, there is no you lost every thing. “Time is Money” denotes a relationship between time and money i.e. to earn money you have to properly utilize the time you have. It is only when you spend your time in fruitful activities that you will prosper and wasting time, doing nothing may drain every thing to ditch. You may regain or earn money again but you can never recover your time lost.

7. Control your subconscious mind

The conscious mind is processes your activities when you are active or aware but on the other hand, the subconscious mind processes every thing even you are not aware or active. It is spiritually believed that the subconscious mind is the place where true self lives. Total awareness of your unconscious can lead to develop behaviors and thoughts that are healthy for you, rather than hindering. You have to be very careful with your words as subconscious mind does not recognize the positive or negative influence. As it works on the commands, you have to feed only positive things to subconscious mind for better results.

8. Welcome changes

Your ability and intentions are responsible for the change you undergo. Changes never come automatically. Nobody like changes, one wants to be in one’s existing stage and comfort zone. Therapists, physicians, and teachers are adopting the techniques of behavioral change as and when there is some change. Whereas at the other end when one executes the exact steps one usually involves a substantial commitment of time, effort, and emotion.

9. Declutter and detox

It is always advisable to get rid of the physical clutter piled up in your bedroom and kitchen. You feel lighter and more energized when your dispose off unnecessary things. One of the biggest time waster is social media. Social media network when not used adequately it is your worst enemy for mental health and overall wellbeing, making the you feel anxious and depressed. Turn of your all notifications. Instead of scrolling through social media, find some useful activities. In spite of constantly engaging your mind over trivial matters, organize your specific time for social media.

10. Strengthen your relations

Strong and healthy relationship can be your best pillar in life. An intimate relationship makes you feel connected. Relationship is best investment, the more you invest the better the return. Sometime we break the relations on trivial things. Spend time together and have fun and celebrate occasions to strengthen your bonds. Forgive and forget and never keep grudges. Always communicate in a friendly manner as the communication is the fundamental part of a healthy relationship.

11. Pursue your life long dream

Think yourself as a gift to the society. There are things the world expects to see, hear, and feel from you. Those who are pursuing their dreams are special people. There is no particular formulae to achieve your dream. There are individual difference with regard to dreams. Sometimes you have to move tons of soil to get grams of gold. There is no short cut. In your journey towards your dream or goal, the person you become or the inner growth you develop is much more important than achieving your goal. Arthur Ashe, has rightly said,

“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

Take away

1. The toughest part of dealing is dealing with self.

2. Fight with your challenges, you will ultimately win.

[1] Source: wakeupcloud.com