Tackle Challenge And Decision Making With Equal Aplomb

Is life a challenge for us, because I certainly think it should be. If it is not then what are we really doing? What are we really gaining if everything is easy, comfortable and smooth? When we get confronted, when questions are asked of us, that is really when we can show what we are made of.

Making decisions can seem like a test at times. We can wonder why such confrontation occurs. Why we are so tested. What answers can we find when questioned. But I imagine that for the vast majority of people [if not all] life is a mixture of rough and smooth, of difficulty and ease, of hurdle and flat.

When it comes to decision making challenges can often prevail or they just put this off the scent. When all the time all that we seek is a simple, content and happy life.

And the purpose of these confrontations? Is this a test us, to make life difficult for us or just part of life's rich tapestry? Is the real purpose to get the best out of this, or to ask of ourselves the best?

For if life is too smooth and easy will we not grow tired and bored of the activity that we face and, if not literally, appear to fall asleep on our job?

We may not like tests, hurdles or obstacles, but we do realize that to overcome them we may have to put more effort in than we are used to doing. We may have to excel rather than just provide an ordinary effort.

They can be a real test of our attitude to life.

Perhaps it comes down to action and reaction. If the action is too straightforward or simple than we paid little attention whilst doing it. If the action is more complex and demanding we tend to be focused and concentrated and give of our best, because we know that second best may not be good enough. Perhaps a matter of perception or is it inspiration?

This is often why we play games, is it not? For the challenge, for the chance of winning and success, for the chance of not succeeding and failure.

Each game has its own rules and we do well to abide by them. For the test of the trial is in overcoming the opposition and gaining victory. But in so doing we often have to confront our own selves, our own fears, or question our own abilities.

When it comes to real life, which is not a game, should we not use the same attitude and effort as you would in a favorite game or sport or recreation? But we do need to be aware of the consequences.

Why would we not object to the rules of a game when we so easily object to the rules of life and the challenges that life has for us.

We can take comfort in the fact that a friend and our foe are all confronted in life just as much as we are. In fact, sometimes when we look to the lives of others we feel that they are tested more than us or perhaps we feel the opposite that they are not being taxed enough.

What it boils down to is that in life we have to meet the challenges that life decides to throw our way. How we meet these tests, if you wish to see them that way, or hurdles is down to us and no one else. These are questions that we need to answer to move on in life.

In these pages we should be looking at how we can make successful decisions and how we can meet the challenges and the questions that life will inevitably throw our way.

What will we be looking at on these pages?

What questions might we ask?

• Do you have a conscience?
• Is conformity your middle name?
• How useful is your common sense?
• Will a life of deception not get in your way?
• Can you change your life?
• Is changing yourself a priority?
• How do you tackle the challenge of change?
• Will perseverance be an advantage?

Hope you enjoy these pages and get what you need from them. Please feel free to contact me with any thoughts, comments, ideas or suggestions.

All best,Martin