When life puts you in tough situations, don’t say ‘why me,’ say ‘try me.’

How often does your life put you into difficult or trying circumstances?

When you are experiencing them, do you feel as if you are a victim or do you see yourself more as a contestant?

The opportunity to visualize your way through the most difficult of circumstances rests entirely upon your shoulders, and no one else’s.

It is only through the power of our own minds that we are capable of ultimately delivering our very best game to whatever variables we find ourselves caught within.

In this continuum of circumstantial experiences, we are a perpetual work in progress, with every one of our best resources at our disposal at a moment’s notice.

Often times when things are turning for the worst, we might fall into the ‘why am I a victim?’ mindset, which is both normal and understandable, yet it is not the solution to resolving the issues at hand.

Almost inevitably, every single one of us at one point, or another, will feel victim to something that has caught us by surprise and left us substantially in the throes of the tumult and agony left in its wake.

The ones who ultimately prevail are the ones who can still pull further back and see the reality of the situation for what it is, and enable themselves to formulate the proper strategy, and necessary perspective required to prevail over whatever has just transpired, regardless of how difficult or horrific the circumstances.

We truly only have our own being upon which to rely in a moment like that. All of the support from all of the kind and loving people in our world is tremendously helpful and beneficial, but the ultimate litmus test for whether or not we will emerge triumphant, rests entirely within our own mind, and our own determination, to accelerate beyond the confining boundaries of our present circumstance, and deliver ourselves to a new equilibrium worthy of our existence.

Viktor Frankl summarized this best, while captive in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

The choice is yours.

Happy Friday!