what has kept me going

I sat down one day and was taking my memory back to all that has happened in the past. The past had been filled with lots of challenging and difficult times that almost got my focus blinded.

I have come to understand that the more you get out of a challenge, the more it keeps coming and the more you keep fighting it, the stronger you become.

Life seems not to be fair these days and am sure you have experienced how tough it is. Am sure you have had some set-backs, family issues hanging on your neck, disappointment and even rejection from families and friends. But if I may ask, in all of these challenges, how strong were you able to keep going? What was your mind made up to do? What was your back-bone? And what has kept you going since then?

Like I said, life is not fair and it is not fair to those who fail to understand it.Life is a battle field and “for a gallant spirit there can never be defeat” Wallis Simpson

I know very well that right now you might be facing one of these life challenges but I want you to know that those challenges comes to blindfold your eyes and mind from focusing on a greater future ahead.  Though the vision might be there, but challenges come to take it away leaving you empty.

I want to ask again, ‘in all of these challenges, how strong are you? The battle ground is filled with great armies and if you are not strong enough, your enemy which is called challenge defeats you.

Along the line, these challenges keep on coming creating obstacles on my way but you know what? My greatest motivation is determination and not just it but strong determination.

Without it, you cannot move on. Without it, you will get discouraged on the way. Without it, the temptation to sit and hope for what life has to offer will come.

Without strong determination in my life, I would have gone in the same direction with the crowd that won’t profit me anything.

If you are not determined to face your challenge, your challenge will determine to face you strongly. Face it! And you would be a master controlling it.

Whenever am pressed with problems and challenges in front of me, I ask myself ‘what has your mind made up to do?’

The challenges keeps on coming real but my mind has made up not to relent.

Are you the type that just gives up easily? Or the type that has not made any decision yet?

If you are, take a clue from your own life experience and tell me, ‘those times you gave upon yourself because of challenges, who won the battle?’

Your challenges did, and as a winner, it will never quit coming. But if you have taken a bold step, with your mind made up. You would have won and as you keep on winning, there wouldn’t be any thought of you giving up.

My back-bone indeed has always been my sweet and lovely mother. You need someone to give you all the necessary support and backing if not; you would lose heart along the way. Your back-bone would lift you up whenever you fall.

Your back-bone would always encourage you and above all, your back-bone will always pray for you.

Your challenges might not be same with mine and in all challenges I have encountered and will still encounter; it is faith that has kept me going since then, till now.

Faith in God has been the most formidable force that is driving me on.

Now, to you my dear reader, how do you stand in the face of challenge?

Don’t let your challenges get over you, get over it and become a master of it.