Life constantly presents us with challenges. Being challenged in life is inevitable, but being defeated is optional.

Every person in this world has their own low point and struggles. When life keeps pilling up with problems one to another, it definitely shakes us off our seats. In the face of massive problems, it’s natural for anyone to feel defeated, frustrated, and desperate for a way out.

But we all know well that we don’t grow when things are easy, but we grow when we face challenges. I always believe, that life does not happen to you, but it happens for you and for a reason.

Through years of life struggles, I learned that acknowledging our disappointment is important to build our way forward, even though it sounds silly and feels impossible at the time. But believe me, it works.

Acknowledging the problems will bring our state of mind to awareness, and addressing the feelings will helps us ground ourselves to refocus on finding the solutions. When we can do that, we are asking our brain to see through the lens of learning or growth opportunity rather than the situation itself.

No doubt many will say, of course, it is easy for someone to say that when you are not in my shoe. But I do believe that everything is Solvable.

I learned over the years is when things go wrong, and out of our control, the only thing we can do is to face it, contextualize what actually happened, and then choose to respond to that experience.  I learned to create a powerful mantra, practical and actionable mantra as a reminder to myself. The life preserver approach helps me recognize I and I alone are in charge of assigning meaning to any event.

The secret to powerful reminders is they hold the hidden gift of growth. If you’re ready to train yourself to find the gift of growth in any and every challenge, embrace these mantras next time when you need to overcome challenges.

Hold on to these mantras and experiment around them. They will help you to lower your stress, regain your superpower and call forth the strengths that you need to move forward:

• Life happens for me and not to me: Life will not always go as planned; there is always something we can learn, become stronger, and gain wisdom and perspective from, by just knowing everything happens for a good reason. Every challenge, obstacle, and unfortunate situation contains the potential for positive growth if we’re willing to look for it.
  
  
• Everything is Solvable: This is a positive phrase I live it, breathe it, and use it daily. Having the growth mindset is adopting the core belief that nothing is unsolvable. It allows you the sense that everything is figureoutable. It is a practical, actionable mantra that reminds you that you can trust yourself enough to know that you have what it takes to find your way forward.
  
  
• Every dream ahead lies challenges and growth: Life challenges are never predictable and will always be unfamiliar. Step out from your comfort zone, face the fear and get comfortable being uncomfortable. It is the only way to learn new skills, develop new perspectives, and acquire new capabilities (our growth). Over some time, mastering our place in the uncomfortable zone will become our new comfort zone. And we become stronger and wiser and capable of achieving desirable results.
  
  
• Clarity born through insights:  Overthinking and dwelling in analysis and paralysis syndrome will only make us indecisive and will only put us in a frozen mode and end up freezing us. The longer we hardwire on the hell of indecision, the strong our neural pathway gets. To stop the surge, the best way around is to come face-to-face and engage the situation with an actionable plan (either talk to someone or re-wire your thoughts through a journal, or even get expert help). A little small action daily will gain you in to your next steps of action, which could be your long-term solutions.
  

Keep these mantras close at heart, and I believe they will definitely help you to unleash your strengths during difficult times.