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Endurance: A Life Matter
After two months of absence due to maternity leave I couldn’t think of another topic but endurance. I am not talking about the common definition usually used in aerobic or anaerobic exercise. I am talking about endurance as in real life because it takes a different muscle, the muscle of the soul. According to the Webster Miriam dictionary endurance (also called sufferance) is the ability to exert itself for a long period of time; the ability to withstand hardship or adversity; especially : the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity. So the point that I want to remark in this article is that endurance is in a big part a mental attitude. The power of the thoughts is amazing and fundamental when going through any period of your life that requires endurance. Ah…and patience is the key ingredient to achieve it. Think about the trainings that military people are exposed to or survival experiences. What made the difference for somebody that survive a plain crash and somebody that didn’t under the same circumstances? If both had access to water and some shelter, why one survive and the other didn’t? Because one gave up mentally and the other maintain a positive mental attitude: practiced endurance day after day. Fortunately we don’t have to survive plain crashes everyday but we do know that life faces us with many difficult situations that many times we don’t think we can handle, and we couldn’t unless we practice endurance.
In my current and personal experience of becoming a mom I discovered the ultimate test of endurance because there is no break. When training for a marathon, when you studying for a hard test, when preparing for the toughest job presentation… all these activities have a beginning and an end. Motherhood has the beginning but as many people reading this might agree, motherhood has no end. Endurance as part of the day to day existence means to not give up when facing the most difficult circumstances or tasks. When feeling like you can’t anymore but you continue. It is amazing how you start resisting more and more and you even become good at it. Your body and your soul get used to it if you are able to persevere during the tough part. Again like any physical exercise or hard diet. So how do you handle the difficult moments not only of motherhood but of any difficult time you might go through, when the pain seems endless, the patience exhausted and the energy gone? Mindset is the key. Here some especific phrases that I keep repeating myself as a mantra and they work. Hope they work for you too. Nothing new but I found them very useful if you remember then when you need them:
Remember that if you practice endurance life will be easier because no matter what you will find situations in which you would need to apply it so just take each circumstance as an opportunity to practice it and become better at that so you can use it next time you need it. Trust me it will become handy. It is like a phylosophy of life, again a mental attitude; otherwise, you could sink in depression and give up.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many races one after another. -Walter Elliot
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