Dealing With Adversity

Dealing With Adversity
by Corey Wells
No matter who you are, at one time or another you’ve had to deal with adversity. We’ve all experienced times when nothing seems to go right. Whether it’s surviving a crisis, dealing with an unexpected setback or any number of possible occurrences. If you can name a problem, it’s happened to us or someone we know.

Today, we live in a society where blaming is pretty much the norm. We blame our parents, we blame the politicians, we blame our employers, we blame our customers, we blame the weather, and so on. But if we want to overcome our adversities, we need to change our attitudes and outlook. Instead of looking at adversity as something that was “done to us” by something or someone else, we need to identify it as a blameless event that we can learn a positive lesson from. Instead of saying; “Why am I the victim of such adversity?” ask yourself “What can I learn from this?

By changing our outlook, we’ll find we have better responses and a much better outcome. It’s not the problem but rather your response to the problem that’s important. By coming up with new responses, we’ll be free from the previous response patterns that have always limited our progress. If we can look at adversity as just an impersonal experience, we’ll soon discover that overcoming it is nothing more than choosing a different way to experience the situation.

One of the greatest thoughts on adversity I’ve ever heard comes from the late professor Randy Pausch who was dying of pancreatic cancer and said, “We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” I think this sums up dealing with adversity perfectly.
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