overcoming challenges

In the business world, there needs be challenges to overcome.  That is true for life as well.  Challenges play a huge role in growth, intellectually and spiritually.  Unfortunately, many view challenges as something that is simply in the way of what they want to achieve, an annoying pest that never goes away.  People who carry and support this mindset simultaneously surrender their chance at learning and progressing.  In order to take a difficulty, invest in it, and turn it into a strength, it requires a series of characteristics.  Humility allows us to listen to those who we can learn from.  These could be family, friends, and mentors, but it they could also come in the form of setbacks, mistakes, and disasters.  The truly humble can take the worst of experiences and invest in its memory, rather than haunt themselves by it.  It also takes a fair share of persistence to learn from challenges.  Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times before making a successful light bulb.  Can you imagine what the world today would be like if he never persisted?  There are many challenges that cannot be overcome with one attempt.  You cannot deem something impossible to attain if you give your 110% one time and fall short.  Go through your attempt and find shortcomings, analyze and prepare for another run.