Defining Moments

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The Fortitude to Face Any Adversity
Guest Post By: Nicole @ Moments That Define Life

I was watching One Tree Hill last night…..

What?

Don’t judge…it’s a good show….

{Ahem}

One of the characters made a comment that really resonated with me. He said that his Dad told him he had:

“The fortitude to face any adversity”

That truly hit at the core of how I try to live my life – to have the fortitude to face any adversity.

Challenges and adversity are a part of life. Some of us encounter adversity on a more frequent basis or we are dealing with it on a daily basis. It’s the cards we are sometimes dealt and with that, we get to choose how it defines us.

We can choose.

When I first came across Priscilla’s blog, I was in awe of her whole approach to life. I felt a connection to her because she lives life as I always strive to live it. She faces her challenges head on and chooses to live her life with positivity, grace and no nonsense honesty.

That to me is awe-inspiring.

I firmly believe it’s how we handle the simplest of moments to the most daunting of life’s challenges that ultimately define our happiness. But we have to choose the positive. We have to choose to cope with our challenges in a healthy way and not let it derail our ultimate goals in life. Perhaps those goals will be tweaked and adapted based on circumstance, but we should not be derailed altogether by those challenges. Perhaps certain aspects of our life will be delayed a bit, but the personal goals should always remain.

I also think it’s important that when faced with adversity, we allow ourselves the proper emotions that it brings, because it may warrant frustration, sadness or anger – but then I challenge you as I challenge myself to choose the positive over the negative when you feel the negative taking over. I challenge you to see that tomorrow is an opportunity to start anew with a fresh perspective on your day, and if you fail today at maintaining that perspective – then try again tomorrow until you get yourself there. Sometimes we have to take life one day at a time and even one minute at a time on those really rough days – but believe me when I tell you that …

You have the fortitude to face any adversity.