Overcoming adversity: what you manage to overcome defines you as a person

Sometimes we tend to fall into the false belief that in life, you have to accumulate achievements. People set short and long-term goals almost every day, and that, without a doubt, is good. How positive is waking up every morning with motivation and enthusiasm, no doubt.

We love achieve purposes and show ourselves what we are capable of doing: get that job, that promotion, buy that house, that car, conquer the woman or man you want. We are weaving and building our lives based on small and large achievements. Now, does everything that we have achieved throughout life really define us?

Many of us will say that indeed, that is the case. However, there is an even better value than the ability to achieve. Can you guess which one it is? The ability to overcome. What you assume no matter how painful it is, and that you finally manage to overcome, making you even stronger.

Let’s talk about it today, let’s understand this interesting and fundamental ability a little better.

The difference between achieving and exceeding

Let’s differentiate first the ability to achieve personal improvement. To understand it, let’s define through some simple statements what generally builds the will to achieve, that dimension that today is often valued so much in this highly competitive society:

-The ability to achieve is the effort and what a person is willing to invest to achieve a goal.

-It is generally a personality that is clear about its desires and needs, and that fights for them while maintaining certain high expectations of achievement.

-Is required perseverance and tenacity.

-They set their daily lives through objectives to meet, where a great self-demand.

-People with a high capacity for achievement generally tend to have Professional success.

These are undoubtedly very positive dimensions, they promote our self-esteem and significantly strengthen the perception we have of ourselves. Now, could we say that it is precisely our capacity for achievement that best defines a person? Is it a truly enriching trait?

Sometimes it is often said that the true strength, the best courage of a person, It is your ability to overcome adversity. And even more so, overcoming our own fears, our own limitations, those that only we know. That personal effort is sometimes much more satisfying than achieving a goal.

The pillars of personal improvement

“You are not what you achieve, but what you overcome”. and now tell us What have you overcome throughout your life? We are sure that many things, that you have faced numerous difficulties with fortitude, those that now define you as you are, as you now see yourself in the mirror. With all those internal scars that only you notice.

Let’s now see what dimensions usually build that instinctive capacity that many of us have to overcome those everyday “walls”, that life gives us sometimes:

1. Positive attitude

Having a positive attitude is essential to overcome any difficulty. Maintaining integrity and hope gives us strength to be brave. To trust ourselves.

2. Coping

Those voids, those threats, problems or losses that we have to battle at times, are enemies to deal with, but never avoid. Gain strength, trust yourself and face them, never escape or avoid problems.

3. Resilience

We talk to you about resilience on numerous occasions in our space. So much so that we already know that you apply it in your daily life. No matter how traumatic an event is, how complicated or devastating… From every difficult condition we can obtain learning and emerge stronger from the process. There is nothing more enriching than overcoming any stressful or threatening situation with resilience.

4. Self-esteem

How would we define self-esteem in a simple and practical way? Self-esteem is a scale where confidence, self-respect, the desire to live and be happy with what one has and deserves are found.
We are sure you agree.

5. Positive emotions

Positive emotions make us flourish, while “rooting” us to our reality through empathy, love, balance, well-being and Emotional Intelligence.

All these dimensions are those seeds with which to germinate our capacity for self-improvement, one of the most enriching dimensions of the human being. Put them into practice!