![FB_IMG_15226059111006185.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXve4EQbxkafk4FTWiUGUv51HG317T2njiokzoTgjaw1L/FB_IMG_15226059111006185.jpg)“There is no one without troubles, without personal challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don’t advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars”- Richelle E. Goodrich

 If you agree with me Life has never been perfect for anyone. Both the rich and the poor battle their own challenges in life but these challenges come in various form. When you come across a person who confidently say he or she doesn’t have any challenges, believe me such person is dreamless and a dreamless man is a dead man. 

There is this funny religious story. A man was having the challenge of paying his house rent of three thousand naira monthly. On this fateful day he went to a mountain to pray to God for help ,getting there he knelt down beside a man who came to pray to God for favor over a contract he knew he will be the least person that could get the contract due to the rank of people is competing with for the contract. He is wealthy but was facing a challenge because he was dreaming big, the man with the issue of house rent starting crying and shouting while praying. The noise got to a stage and started disturbing the rich man and surprisingly he told the man shouting that what was the problem that brought him there. The man with the house rent problem explained, immediately the rich man went to his car and gave him a cheque of 100k so can leave the mountain because the rich man wants to pray quietly. Some average person will tell you that what do the rich need to worry about? They do have their own problem; your financial status doesn’t separate you from challenges. The funny part is that as a rich person the bigger your dream the more your challenges so no matter how rich or influential we are, there are always challenges we must face in life. 

Even in the bible, God said we will face trails, but that we should not lose hope! Be encouraged, God has called you an over comer. The bible has established it that there will be some challenges in our LIFE but becoming an overcomer is not by just looking at the challenges. 

Having a challenge is not the end of life, they are made to be overcome by us but that depends how we tackle it. Something we fail to know about challenges is that:
Firstly it makes us stronger and experienced Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” C― Seneca

Secondly it prepares for the future and more difficult tasks that are ahead of us later in life.  “If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.” ― Jim Stovall. 

There are two ways of handling challenges in life.

 TACKLING THE CHALLENGES: This is the best way of handling challenges in life.  Many see challenges as the end of life, like something that can’t be defeated but know these challenges are here for us to test our stand in life but when we fail to tackle it, it tackles us and drag us down. 

Let me share a short story during a time in my life, I had no job.  My joblessness was a challenge for me but I allowed it took over me then, I was deep in thought always , I fell sick constantly because I was living in real sadness until a time I thought I was wasting my life. I decided to tackle the joblessness by acquiring knowledge; I learnt a bit of catering and also learnt blogging. After sometime I got a job not to big but I have able to sustain myself with what I have learnt when I had no job.

What is my point, as human we are meant to have feelings. We panic; we overreact to situation but not letting the challenge drag us down is the main target. During time of challenge we learn a lot which makes us more experience about life.

BOWING TO THE CHALLENGES: This is the easiest to do but believe me the results can render someone useless or probably make someone stagnant in life. When we bow to challenges means we embrace failure. I have met people who share their stories of how life became so difficult and they had involve in dirty activities to survive but today they regret not tackling the challenges initially because bowing down to the challenges brought doom on their life. 

I hope you found this helpful, follow @captain-tom for more post. Happy weekend steemians 
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