Going through challenges is the quickest and most effective way to reinvent yourself to become the new and improved you. — Kurek Ashley, How Would Love Respond?

Have you ever encountered a challenge in business? Perhaps you tried something that you thought would work. You gave it a bit of time and then gave up. Instead of making money, you lost money! In your eyes, you wasted previous dollars doing something that could have been spent on something else…something that would work.

I’ve faced business challenges before - financial, marketing, organization, etc. Challenges of all kinds, actually.

Recently, I was faced with a business challenge on a personal level that was really trying for me. Looking back, my perception of the situation is entirely different than it was at that moment, but I will whole-heartedly admit that my initial thoughts were completely negative. I thought, “What in the world? Why me!? Why am I being picked on? What’s so wrong with what I’m doing?”

The problem with thinking those kinds of thoughts is that I was focusing on the problem, rather than the solution. Instead of asking myself, “What’s great about this?” I was telling myself, “This isn’t good. I don’t deserve this. I should pack up and go home.”

Fortunately, I consulted mentors and I picked up a book that quite literally changed my entire way of thinking, and I was able to see the light in the perceived darkness. I started asking, “What’s great about this? How am I going to grow from this experience?”

And grow I did.

I titled this post “The Reinvention” because that’s exactly what I decided to go through - a reinvention. I put away old ways of thinking about challenges. Instead, I reinvented myself and created a new reality for me.

I decided that I wanted to change my world, my reality, my situations and my results. I realized that I didn’t like the things I was going through and that if I didn’t want to go through them anymore, I would have to change my patterns. In order to change my patterns, I needed to change my thoughts.

The you that you are now is the one who is doing what you’re doing now, and that’s why you have what you have now. — Kurek Ashley

Next time you face a challenge - and you will face challenges - consider your thoughts, because thoughts are so powerful.

When I changed my thinking, what was happening actually changed - really! Remember that events are just events and it’s our perception of those events that creates our reality. We are 100% in control of our reality. I decided to stop being the victim and reinvented myself as the creator - the creator of my own reality.