Most of us are suffering from something. We’re suffering something in a relationship somewhere. Some of us are suffering physically. Some of us are suffering emotionally. There’s a lot of suffering in the world and people often ask me, “How do you deal with it?”
I call it my war and peace model. My war and peace model is if you have a challenge or a problem, including suffering in your life, you have to go to war at it and you have to have peace about it.
They try one thing to solve it and that’s why they fail. Major challenges, major frustrations, and major problems in our lives, demand multiple areas of attack.
It’s like when you go to war, you send in the planes, the ground troops, and people from the flank and the front. You go at it from all sides trying to win. So if you have a major challenge, problem, or struggle in your life, you need to attack from all sides.
I think that’s what we have to do. We have to overwhelm the very obstacles we have in our lives in order to obliterate them.
We also have to learn to be at peace with the struggles. We have to learn to be patient with them as well. We have to allow the struggle in our life.
If you have struggle in your life, honor it.
Know that thing has been put before you by divine hand, in order to challenge you, in order to make you a better person, in order to make you more loving, in order to make you pay attention, in order to make you to honor and find the zest in life.
There’s a presence to being a warrior. You’ve heard the Peaceful Warrior concept. It’s like, you can have a presence and a peace to it. While you’re fighting, to know that maybe you can’t change the outcome. But you’re going to work your best towards it, and as you’re working your best towards it, you’re going to be okay with yourself, and you’re going to honor that the struggle is okay.
* Source: Brendon Burchard – How to Attack Life’s Challenges with Grace