When Life Doesn’t Reward Your Hard Work

When work and relationships get tough, how do we rise to the challenge? Watch this! XO

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When things at work and in our relationship gets tough, do we rise to the challenge?

Most of us don’t have a problem with working hard - we will happily put in 100% effort towards working hard to achieve great results.

The problem is, when the results aren’t as great as expected, we start to feel deflated and defeated, and our hard work is marred by feelings of unfairness, resentment and unhappiness.

Our thoughts naturally go down the direction of, “Why am I still putting in so much effort when it’s not even paying off?”

And that’s the thing - we expect our payoff to be commensurate with the hard work we put in, but life doesn’t happen like that. Life will throw us curveballs. No matter how absolutely wonderful your relationship is, at some point you’re going to disagree with your partner. You’d argue. You’d start to feel misunderstood.

The same thing at work - we won’t agree with everything, and we might feel misunderstood and maybe even taken advantaged of.

Whats important is for us to be aware of what the REAL problem is - the problem isn’t that you’re having challenges at work and in our relationship, the problem is how we’re responding to these challenges.

Instead of immediately quitting or diving further into resentment, we need to develop the trouble-shooting skills that will help us rise to the challenge.

what this means is understanding that the first step isn’t to look outwards at the flaws of our job or our partner, but to look inwards and ask ourselves, “What am I contributing to this situation that is making it more difficult?” and “What change can I make to help myself Igrow from this?”

This is not about blaming ourselves or “taking all the responsibility of what went wrong”, but about understanding that it’s not about blame or fault but about life - a happy and fulfilled life is all about troubleshooting.

Rising up to the challenge is about having the resilience to hang on tight during the hard times so we can work through different ways to solve a problem instead of feeling defeated because we’re not yet rewarded.

Our life is not going to be smooth. There will be curves and bumps and rollercoaster rides, not because people are against us or that life isn’t fair, it’s just part of the deal of being human.

If we want a great life, we have to learn to rise to the challenge with humility and a desire to learn, because that’s the only way to truly be happy, always!

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Hey Xaandria! Came back to your vids after awhile, love your messages. By the way did you watch Inside Out 2? It’s a great movie talking about mental health! Anyways God bless you!❤

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