What is your greatest challenge?

Human potential is beyond words. It multiplies magnificently between your first and your last breath. It is nothing but the driving force behind one’s existence. The purpose of your life is like a blossoming flower and your potential is the stalk which supports it. Only sky is the limit if both rejoice each other’s company.

If potential and purpose of life are imagined as one side of the coin, then challenges occupy the other side. These challenges raise us, break us and polish our personalities to create a spark, the one which we are carrying today. They sometimes take us for a drive to drop us beside our goals whereas sometimes they carry the masks of unfriendly strangers. They never die, determined to indulge in new shapes at every walk of our lives.

Challenges are analyzed as exterior objects. A hot-tempered boss, hectic entrance test, recession, giving a presentation in front of large audience, break-up and so on are its varied forms. Some people manage to pass through such foggy areas but many halt out of fear and dejection. Why can’t they pass through the foggy areas?

Ans: They are not yet aware of their main challenge.

Criticizing is an important threat that every human being possesses. If any stimulus crosses their path which they don’t consider as desirable, they start criticizing it. So even challenges are criticized by us some time or the other. I have read in Dale Carnegie’s books that criticism is like a poison that kills any relationship. (That’s not exactly his words butthe underlying meaning is the same). So if you got to materialize a beautiful relation with yourself then is criticizing going to help you at all? You know the answer.

The people who are able to pass through the foggy areas are the ones who consider themselves as their first main challenges. Their relationship with themselves is beautiful with an inner depth of understanding. Criticism blocks you from looking into your inner self. That is how one comes over with brilliant ideas and solutions for their upcoming hurdles.

YOU are your greatest challenge and no one can change this fact. If your mind can make you dream about your goals, then why can’t it give you solutions for the obstacles?

Imagine your mind is a bird. The bird is with other birds in the nest, waiting for the food toarrive and fighting with the other ones. Then one day, it flies and sits on a higher branch. From there it can see the entire scenario more vividly that takes place every day in the nest. Similarly if we are too much engrossed in our fights and criticism, then how can we get a crystal clear picture of the challenge in front of us?

Take a moment and fly higher from where you are. That one flight may take you to the glories of the sky.