Currently I am exploring the theme of strength in my life and I find the whole subject really powerful. The mind is amazing when we learn to use it correctly but dangerous when it uses us.

One aspect of strength is the choice to face whatever is using our minds destructively.
Defeat accepted within the mind is destructive. Defeat is squashed by strength but we have to believe in goodness.

Life never took us to a tree to hang us, it took us to show us how to climb. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Life wants to give us the best but we must accept this version while strength requires the belief in accepting this. If life took you to a tree what is it asking you to do?

If you get to the top of the tree, what are you going to see? Think about it.

Life isn’t there to stop you; it just wants to show you another way that you’re presently not considering. It’s the reason why you’re not getting where you want to be. (You don’t always have the answers from your limited human perspective).

Many people in life will have you believe that the rope attached to the tree is there to hang you but it could be there to assist you? Will you ignore the rest and approach the tree without fear but instead faith, or will you reach the finishing point in life that so many succumb to.

Few people choose to accept the positive role of life in helping us to become the best and most powerful we can. It is safer to believe the rest and accept life is bad and nothing but bad happens. Be like the rest and see what happens.

If you want to change you are going to require strength. To use strength requires an acceptance in not always knowing what’s best for you but acquiring a belief that if you show up without fear, life will show you the ropes.

Below are some personal quotes I would like to share on the subject of strength:-

If you don’t know your strength how will you find it? You find strength by using it.

Strength happens when we least expect it. It is “that moment” that demonstrates strength. No amount of planning, conversation or reading can amount to the same level of experience. To know strength is to experience it.

Strength gives us what we need at exactly the right moment; it is our choice to take it.

When we accept the weakness of who we are, can we truly accept our strength.

Sometimes strength is coming out of the person who you are, into the person you were afraid to become.

The strength that I see is the weakness I am. That weakness is my strength to see.

Strength calls for us to take it and move on.

Strength is courage.
Courage is willingness.
Willingness is surrender.
Surrender is strength.