Going Gentle: What Does Your Challenge Say About You?

How A Challenge Can Teach You About Yourself

Hello and welcome back to Going Gentle, a place where we strategize to decrease our stress and increase our peace! 
For today’s post, we are focusing on challenge and what our challenges can tell us about ourselves. How can we do that? By paying closer attention to the details! 

I share in the above video how our challenges can show us things about ourselves that can enable us to learn the way we think and what stresses us the most in the challenges we face. 

We all want to approach challenge with strategic confidence, don’t we? But how often does that happen? 
Do we find ourselves met with trepidation, frustration and even anger and resentment? 

It’s time to take a challenge and break it down into the tiniest bits like we’re going on an excavation to learn about what lies beneath. We can determine what our trigger points are and why they are there. We can recognize patterns in the way we respond to challenge, and learn from what we can do next time, to be Gentler with ourselves and come out strategically successful on the other side. 

So, watch the video for some inspiration and prepare to meet your next challenge with strategic confidence! 

Journaling Prompt:
Detail the last challenge you met up with and how you handled it. What was the greatest stressor point in the challenge and why? What was the context of the challenge? Where would you have wanted to change how you responded to that challenge? ​Always remember to recognize any effort you made in meeting that challenge, especially if it was unexpected. We’re definitely going for GENTLE here. No space for beating yourself up, ok? Nope. We all handle challenge differently; so give yourself space for that as you reflect. 

​Remember that Gentle is Magic! 

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Dawn uses her journal to decipher her challenges and how she wants to respond the next time! □✍️