How to Stay Strong! ..Daniel Belcher

In this life we face many challenges everyday that test our character and souls. It is at these times we need to stay strong. How do handle the everyday things that happen? Our love ones may have wake up in a bad mood. The boss maybe upset about something. Someone at work maybe irritated and upset. How do we handle these challenges? If we develop some good practices, we can remain strong during these times.

If we work on constantly maintaining a positive attitude, we will weather some of these daily challenges quite well. For example, we come into work and the boss gives us a hard stare. Immediately, we think we have done something wrong. We should not assume we have done something wrong. Maybe the boss was sick or maybe he had a fight with spouse or another love one. We should put in our minds that we are going to stay strong. We must not assume that it is our fault.

Perhaps, one of the ways best of staying strong is to develop good habits of discipline. One the best disciplines to develop is the habit of prayer. We can find inner strength by praying for the power to stay strong. It is a simple principle but a powerful one. Many of us can remember the times when pray has enable many to weather the challenges of life. So, we must keep prayer in mind as key way of staying strong.

Another way of staying strong is simply to develop the mind set of endurance and perseverance. We should develop the ability to stay in the struggle and not give up. Some times if we just hang in there long enough things will change. Staying strong means we must be patience, things sometime have there owe timetable for working out. Think of the long distance runner who continues to run even though he is tired, thirsty and hurting. He continues to run.


A good way to stay strong is to develop a practice of playing games that challenge and exercise the mind. For Example, one the best games for this is chess. Chess is a game that helps us because it requires a great deal to concentration and it adds flexibility to our minds. This will help our minds to stay strong and powerful when facing the challenges of daily life.


Finally, we can be strong by just having the will power to stay strong. What helps us is to say to ourselves that we will be strong. It is a well know principal, that words are powerful. So as we face our daily challenges let us say to ourselves, "I will always stay strong."


I retired from United States Navy in 2003, after serving over 21 years of enlisted active duty onboard several different ships and a few shore assignments. I am married. My wife and i have two daughters. We have two dogs, Chow Chow's, to be exact. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts (Focus area Psychology) from Excelsior College class 2004.

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