But Despite this, "There is Still Hope."

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and WAIT for the winds to come.

When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it. The eagle does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm. When the storms of life come upon us — and all of us will experience them — we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God. The storms do not have to overcome us. We can allow God’s power to lift us above them.

God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure and disappointment in our lives. We can soar above the storm. What I find most pressing or interesting is that naturally, individuals stop perusing their dreams, goals, and desire at the onset of adversity. While we may have tremendous ability, when we become afraid overwhelmed or unsure of ourselves we can unconsciously sabotage our journey’s because we’re spending too much time on the right now versus our opportunities and passions. Thereby psychologically derailing or limiting our quality of life towards success.

What I find most pressing or interesting is that naturally, individuals stop perusing their dreams, goals, and desire at the onset of adversity. While we may have tremendous ability, when we become afraid overwhelmed or unsure of ourselves we can unconsciously sabotage our journey’s because we’re spending too much time on the right now versus our opportunities and passions. Thereby psychologically derailing or limiting our quality of life towards success. Introducing the subject of But Despite this, "There is Still Hope." 3-keys of how to persevere during difficulty will help you to realize how to quickly counteract self-defeating emotions that limit our abilities to develop into our best selves while going through difficult challenges.

3-keys of how to persevere during difficulty

(1) Stop Being Afraid to Hope

1. Hope according to Webster-feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
   
2. Practice working though the hard times with an expectation that you will overcome or that you are an overcomer.
3. Work on your ambitions daily.
4. Invigorate and reboot your dreams by revisiting your original hopes, aspirations, and expectations.
5. Find a focal point and commit to achieving your goals.
6. Pay yourself first and avoid second guessing your abilities and talents.
7. Practice and develop Self- control, discipline and determination.

(2) Discover Your Limits

1. Are you an emotional train wreck?
2. Discover what your limits are and live with a limitless mindset.
3. Work daily on your purpose despite of your fears, worries, and doubts. Even if it is 10- 15 minutes for 3 times a week. This helps you to develop self-control, discipline and determination.
4. You Gain momentum through tenacious acts of self-love and worth. Examples of exercising self-love to yourselves are watching how you speak to yourself and what you listen to. Do not allow every person access to your time. Give love to yourselves by avoiding self-sabotaging behaviors such as remaining in unhealthy relationships. Give yourselves a break and stop being hard on yourselves because you made a mistake. Let go of any person, place, or thing that does not contribute to your character, lifestyle, growth, or positive development.
5. Avoid people who do not have your best interest at heart
6. Finally, you develop Commitment and consistency and developing

(3) Find Your Faith

1. And hold on tight, this may be a bumpy ride. Hebrews 11:1 says Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2. Hold on tight to your confidence and optimism.
3. Develop a working resilience of tenacity
4. Exercise perseverance within your life.
5. Look for the evidence of growth by practicing gratitude and thankfulness because as we practice this we gain a renewed sense of hope.
6. Here we end with Perseverance because you are practicing being steadfast, unmovable, despite your difficulty or delay in achieving your success. Exercise perseverance within every facet of your life even within your spiritual walk no matter how that looks.

-Lisa IG: @d2dlife1

[Originally uploaded by me, Lisa Nobles, on 03-29-2020]