Greeting’s dear hivers, community and friends 🥰💕. Hope you are all enjoying good health. Thanks to God another weekend is here with little resting and relaxing.

When I saw this weeks prompt what immediately cane to my mind is how I have discovered that “SELF MOTIVATION” during challenges and crises has helped me to handle and pass through situations and circumstances of all kinds especially in this past year that was totally one hectic kind of a year.

Not that I have not faced or experienced challenges through life or other past years, but it appeared 2025 was one year with lots of problems at the same time that I started asking God to direct me through His Holy Angels 😇 on how to go about them.

First it was an accommodation problem that came in through 2024 with everyday visits to my Lawyer’s office. And this heightened in 2025 with how house rent increment in Nigeria 🇳🇬 went above 💯 . My family and I never saw this coming, but inside me , I told myself that what ever that has a beginning will surely have an end. I kept motivating myself even when my hubby and children felt so down and overwhelmed with all the stress.

This is a kind of situation where you feel that there is no one but only you and your God apart from your immediate family. So I kept on believing that the end will soon come and it did came but with lots of unexpected expenses that truly gave me some emotional reflections.

And then my senior sister became very sick just in a twinkle of an eye because she lost her job in a place she has worked and kept so much effort. Although before this happened I have told her severally to resign and start food stuff and condiments business, but she said she will do that at the end of 2025. So when she was laid off, she could not help herself with the shock that came with. She became so sick because her blood 🩸pressure went up. It was one incident that brought so much anxiety 😨 to her immediate family and we the siblings. And once I visited her and talked with her on how to move on with life, she immediately saw what happened as how God wants her to start a new chapter because there is nothing so permanent in life.

And with other struggles through 2025, I kept believing, motivating my family and myself because I got to realized that my inner strength is all I need to keep going. And because of how 2025 was one tough year , everybody was practically struggling, so you can not want to carry your problems to anyone. And seeing myself focusing on how to go about realities of life and not waiting for anyone, I became even more motivated without feeling down.

Although it was never an easy struggle because some of them that was not achieved has been carried into 2026. But who ever tells you that problem finishes lied to you because solving one problem is only creating way for another, and unless we don’t wants to grow in life. As long as life exists, struggles, problems, circumstances and all uncertainties will continue to surface.

In fact, with all that happened in 2025 and with the steps I took , I came to realize how encouraging oneself during challenges can help make us more stronger. We don’t really have to be pessimistic in life because optimism can make us move that heavy mountain 🏔 without the help of anyone especially in times like this where life has become “every man to himself”

This is my response to the #realtalk prompt #23#

Thanks for visiting and reading friends 🥰

Best Regards @sunshine29 🧡

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