There’s a beautiful quote by Mahatma Gandhi that says

“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will”

Who do you think is in control of your life? (Asides God or whatever deity you believe in), Your mind or your body?

While the debate about what came first between the chicken and the egg is a trick question, this does not fit into that category but it is something to chew on. 

Imagine you wake up with the thoughts of owning your day and being productive – if you’re not ill or handicapped,as long as your mind is set on having an amazing and productive day, your body is bound to follow every instruction you give to it

You can decide you want to read a book and you tell your body what to and it will obey you, You can decide to start running and once the information is sent to the body it would follow the best of its ability

On the other hand, when you are hale and hearty, fit and have all the energy in the world, if your mind is not right – you’ve lost someone, you’re missing someone, you’re heartbroken – it becomes easy to be a self pitying, self loathing couch potato

Nothing is physically wrong with you but you just don’t have the “mental energy” to do anything, Instead you are putting up your best version of bruno mars where “ you don’t feel like doing anything and just wanna lay in your bed”

Why’s that?

It all lies in the decision you make each day and every decision is a product of the mind rather than your own physical limitation. Physically, there is a limit to what you can or can’t do but your mind is limitless in it’s own power. You can be a great person but until you CHOOSE to be strong no matter what’s happening around you, you’d never reach amazing.

You can do amazing things when you choose to be strong—when your mind decides to be limitless and says “I am strong.”

Not just you, everyone of us needs this fuel

We sometimes go through situations and think we are doomed -forgetting all the times we’ve survived worst in the past when we thought we were doomed. 

It is easy to forget that – We are all survivors. We have all overcome adversity. We have all had our share of battles,scars and lessons. We’ve all had moments when we’ve fallen so low we never knew if we’d ever bounce back up.

Yet we have – we didn’t only bounce back, we got better as a result.

We got smarter, bolder, braver, and wiser from the struggles we’ve endured and overcome in the past. And this happens first in the mind – In choosing to be strong 

It might have taken time,it might not have been easy, but we’ve bounced back from hard times before and we would do it again no matter what happens. 

We’ve proven to ourselves over and over again that our spirit is stronger than anything we’ve faced and would ever face.

Today, Our lesson for you is this – when it comes to what you can change, handle, or overcome, We want you to always remember: You can do amazing things when you DECIDE to be strong.

How you feel matters less than how you think