From Pain to Purpose: Harnessing the Power of IKIGAI to Overcome Life's Greatest Challenges by Christian Paul A. Atrazo

Before you can achieve your success, you need to have a bachelor's degree in pain, a master's degree in misery, and a Phd in suffering. Those are the programs that life can offer to you. They will push you to your limits, and sometimes they are quite devastating. There are times that you'll get discouraged, and you will be tempted to give up in life and forsake all the beautiful things and promises that you're holding onto. You will get to a point in your life when you do not want to continue your journey anymore.

But, you have to be firm. You have to stand on the foundation of your principles. Go back to the very reason why you started your journey. Reorient yourself with the question, "Why do I wake up in the morning?" That is the meaning of IKIGAI. It is the Japanese concept for your reason for living. Keep asking yourself with relevant questions such as “What keeps you awake?; Why do you do what you do?; Why do you need to continue your journey?; What is your WHY in life?”

Only then you can realize that you have to continue moving forward. Those periods of emotional crisis and downfall moments are the ones that will teach us to rely on a much greater Source of Strength. It reminds us that there is a Sovereign and Almighty God who controls everything according to HIS purpose and will regardless of the situations. The battles and challenges of life will always remind us of the Sweetness and Faithfulness of the Promises and Love of the Lord for us.

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