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Libra Living Liberations: Struggle vs. Challenge

by Meghan Toups

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Meditation
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Video #18: Struggle vs. Challenge Libra Living Liberations are weekly video entries by Meghan Toups, where she shares her own personal insights and stories, struggles and triumphs related to her own health and wellness journey. Sometimes it may include excitement and joy and other times tears and sadness. They will be raw and real “liberations”. The hope is that through these videos others can be encouraged to share their stories as well, the bad and the good, as a way to heal. Please note that while these videos are meant to support your healing journey, they do not replace professional medical or psychological care.

Transcript

Hi,

Megan here from Libra Living Wellness Limited for the 18th video of Libra Living Liberations.

It's been a little while since I've done one,

But today I wanted to talk about um,

Struggle versus challenge.

Um,

This is something I've been thinking about as I've been doing a lot of changes in my business.

Finding what actually brings me joy in my life and focus more on doing that.

What I kind of just realized,

For me at least,

Is that there's a difference between struggle versus success.

A challenge.

And when I think of a challenge,

I think of,

Okay,

This something's challenging.

You may need to learn how to do something.

You may You may need to learn how to do something for yourself.

But it's something like.

.

.

It's easy,

Not easy to overcome,

But.

You take it on,

Like you see a challenge as something,

Okay,

I need to learn how to do something and I can push through it.

Whereas to me,

Something in regards as a struggle,

Um It's just a lot harder.

You keep trying and keep trying to get somewhere.

You start losing the joy of what you're doing.

Um Like to me,

Challenges are things to overcome,

Whereas a struggle.

Can really bring you down and take away your joy.

And it's just something that I've been Like I said,

Thinking about that,

Okay,

To me,

There's a difference.

And To me,

I don't mind challenges because that's where we grow in life.

We see a challenge,

We either learn how to do something or we adapt.

And then we get through it.

But when we're struggling,

That's when it's like,

Okay,

There's something that's no longer serving me or I need to change something completely because there's too much struggle.

In trying to do this and it's not working.

So I hope that makes sense but it's just something I've been thinking about you know and I'm like okay if I start struggling And something I'm like,

Okay,

No,

I need to kind of like reevaluate and say,

Okay,

Something needs to change because there's too much struggle in this.

And it's not a challenge where again like I think a challenge I See it,

And I'm like okay.

I instantly go into brainstorm mode and be like okay.

How can we get through this?

And it's sometimes.

It's there's some excitement to that too,

But when you're struggling it's just takes away the joy of something.

So yeah,

Notice that maybe in your own life where something is a struggle versus a challenge and kind of make note of that.

And.

Yeah,

Find more of what brings you joy and brings challenges and new things for you to learn and get through versus trying to struggle and something takes away your joy.

So may you find things that bring you joy in your life and do more of that.

Until next time.

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