07/06/2023
A FEW TRUTHS ABOUT TOUGH TIMES
1. If you accept tough times are part of the seasons of life, it will keep you from sinking into depression
2. Maintain a healthy perspective. Going through tough times doesn't mean you are not blessed, you are actually being prepared for something great. Preparation is often not easy but it is the foundation of better things to come
3. Tough times will reveal to you your true friends and expose the fake ones
4. Tough times will introduce to you real friends who are attracted to your purpose
5. The best ideas tend to be conceptualized in tough times
6. Sometimes we go through tough times which can wake us up and help us focus your attention, especially when you have become too familiar/ disconnected or complacent.
7. Sometimes you have to reach a dead end where no one can help you, so that you are forced to realise you are your strongest advocate
8. Great people have learnt the art of converting tough times into a path to being a master of something
9. There are some lessons that tough times will teach you that good times can't
10. Tough times will open your eyes to see opportunities and doors that complacent you did not
11. Some of us lack the courage to move past our current level and lack the initiative to take the next step on our own, tough times will catapult you to the next stage of your life that you are afraid to take
12. Tough times will make you naked so that you see yourself for who you truly are. Tough times will force you to be real with yourself, what are you really made of? Because when you are going through tough times, there is no one to impress, you have to be you
13. We are given the opportunity after tough times to enter our best season after being or reaching rock bottom. That is when true love is tested and we emerge stronger
14. Instead of complaining about tough times, ask yourself "What am I being taught and how can I ride this wave to be better?"
15. Read biographies of the great. No story of greatness has ever been written without a season of tough times
16. We don’t have to ride the tough season alone we learn about the gift of being vulnerable and how this can bring people closer to us
17. Tough times might take you a step back so that you restrategize or change route but you will soon charge forward with more power than ever before
18. There is a better, wiser you waiting after you have conquered the tough times
19. Once you conquer tough times, mentor others with the lessons learnt. please spread the knowledge and care and this will allow you to grow in more joy in the gift in giving.