Move Through The Chaos & Walk Through The Rain

Sometimes the most difficult, or what we perceive as difficult, situations ends up being the last little challenge before there is relief. It’s weird and almost comical.

While you’re holding on for dear life, pressure increases around you, things get difficult and your mind slips into overdrive. Almost like it’s bucking down for one last spurt of survival. It’s as if you somehow need to come up with a solution to solve 15 different problems all at once, all in the shortest amount of time as possible.

Your mind is capable of incredible things. Some wonderful, some devastating and very confusing. Once you embrace the idea that your mind is in control of the way you experience life, everything changes.

You begin training yourself to hold on for just a little bit longer, to buckle down just a little bit longer, to find peace in the chaos for just a little longer, because you know that it’s almost over. It’s as if it’s a pattern. One discovered by going through challenges, through difficulties.

Soon you embrace the chaos, you welcome it with open arms because you know you can handle it. You know that you are capable of just about anything that has come your way and the likelihood that you’ll face something similar is giving you the opportunity to improve your abilities.

Soon you find yourself surrounded by struggle and difficulty. Not because you are misfortunate, but because you have shown yourself that you want to be surrounded by challenges, by struggle. You have conditioned yourself to stay in survival mode.

It’s a weird realization, one that’s confusing and frustrating. Mainly because you don’t know how to stop. You don’t know how to be normal and just live or exist without constantly throwing yourself into the most difficult situations or applying pressure to yourself.

One way to get out of this weird loop is to identify the habits that keep feeding the chaos. Finding where you slip, and looking for what you do after you slip. Do you miss up a little then completely throw in the towel or go overboard at the slightest mishap. Do you undo all your hard work over on day or on instance of difficulty?

Because the sooner you realize what it is that you’re doing and how you see the world, the sooner you’ll be able to remove yourself from this extremely exhausting circus you find yourself in.

Instead of being all in, all the time, you must stay locked in on the goal and realize that there will be setbacks. There isn’t a true pattern of progress without a pullback, without a retest, a confirmation that the progress you made was one that’s sustainable.

So, the next time you find yourself doing really well, and all of a sudden you slip shortly after, don’t see it as the end of the world and that all your hard work has been undone. You didn’t lose everything all at once. You might have not lost anything at all. Instead, pause and breathe. Take stock in what you’ve done, how far you’ve come and give yourself the rest of the day to process the setback.

Embrace it like you would as part of the plan and not something that is to be avoided at all costs. You want to take 4 steps forward and only 1 step back, not 3 or 5. You want to push in the direction you want to go in, and stay at the new level you find yourself at.

Don’t destroy the progress and knock your legs out from under you. By doing so all you are telling yourself is that you can’t handle the setbacks, you can’t handle the storm and the rain.

And on the other hand you can’t be looking forward to the rain more than the progress itself. Because if you do, then you’ll be searching for confirmation that success is temporary and that you are only meant to struggle, when in reality you are meant to thrive and enjoy life. You’re meant to live, climb and progress continually.

To overcome all that comes your way and move through the difficulties, not hold onto them and surround yourself with misfortune and chaos just to prove you can handle it.

Move through the chaos, move past the pain and onward with purpose.