Rise up Against All Odds: Adversity to Advance B R a V E System

By Thandi Boshoma

Everybody suffers adversities; Superheroes bounce back. Rise Up Against All Odds arouses you to reclaim the Superhero in you during the turbulence of adversities. Adversities make us feel like it is the end of the road and leave us discouraged, confused, shocked, defeated, hopeless, deprived, rejected, depleted, petrified, disempowered, betrayed, humiliated, undignified, destitute, insecure, wiped-out, powerless, frustrated and depressed. The book applies the BRAVE system, which is an acronym for Boldness, Resilience, Authenticity, Vision, Enthusiasm to help you navigate and deal with adversities. It equips you to face the headwinds of adversities while remaining solidly grounded applying Boldness. It enables you to emerge stronger and powerful applying Resilience. It teaches you to become true to yourself and your purpose despite the prevailing circumstances applying Authenticity. It navigates you to limitless possibilities to carve a trajectory of success for yourself applying Vision. No matter how gusty the intensity of your adversity, the book will energise and propel you to reach greater heights applying Enthusiasm. The book compels you to defy the odds and use your adversities to advance. Instead of seeing adversities as obstacles, you will view them as springboards to leap off to a world of abundance. You will learn how to rewrite your lifes storyline using your adversities to create a life with new meaning of richness, greatness, prosperity, liveliness, worthiness, empowerment, confidence, and fulfilment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Jan 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781482877137

Thandi Boshoma

Thandi arouses and energises people to defy the odds and reach greatness irrespective of their prevailing circumstances. Having endured adversities, survived and advanced, she has transcended to being a pain-remover and is enriching people to use their adversities to advance to greater heights. She depicts on her life’s memoir to demonstrate how people can use their obstacles as springboards to succeed.

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CONTENTS

About The Book

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Chapter 1    Boldness

Chapter 2    Resilience

Chapter 3    Authenticity

Chapter 4    Vision

Chapter 5    Enthusiasm

Chapter 6    I Am The Author of My Life’s Story

Chapter 7    Fulfilment

Epilogue

ABOUT THE BOOK

To all that have endured or are enduring adversities

Everybody suffers adversities; superheroes bounce back!

W e all experience adversities in different forms at some point in our lives. Often in life when you are facing adversities, you feel like it is the end of the road. You see yourself in a deep, dark, lonely hole or a cul-de-sac where there is no way out except the way that led you to the very same hole. The very way that landed you in that cul-de-sac hole is full of obstacles and debris from the blast and explosiveness of the adversity, which further makes the chances of getting out seem daunting. Adversities generally make people feel reduced, discouraged, confused, shocked, defeated, hopeless, lacking, valueless, deprived, rejected, depleted, drained, incompetent, petrified, disempowered, betrayed, embarrassed, shameful, humiliated, undignified, destitute, insecure, wiped out, powerless, and depressed. The list goes on. In his book, Good to Great , Jim Collins stated that what separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty but how one deals with the inevitable difficulties of life.

Since everybody experiences some form of an adversity, this book will enable you after suffering an adversity to bounce back and reclaim the superhero in you. By applying the principles contained in the book, you will learn how to defy the odds and use your adversity to advance to greater heights. Instead of seeing an adversity as an obstacle, you will view it as a springboard to help you leap off to a world of limitless possibilities. In short, you will learn how to use adversities to create a new meaning to your life—a meaning of richness, greatness, prosperity, liveliness, worthiness, empowerment, confidence, and fulfilment. By applying the BRAVE system as your guiding principle, you will be able to navigate through adversities with enthusiasm instead of being paralysed by them. You will learn that what you have lost because of the adversity might have been precious, but what you are to gain is priceless.

BRAVE is an acronym which stands for

Boldness

Resilience

Authenticity

Vision

Enthusiasm

By applying the BRAVE principles, you will learn how to:

• Face the headwinds of adversities while remaining solidly grounded, applying Boldness.

• Deal with adversities and emerge from them stronger and powerful, applying Resilience.

• Become true to who you are and your purpose irrespective of the prevailing circumstances, applying Authenticity.

• See limitless possibilities and carve a trajectory of success for yourself, applying Vision.

• Be energised, and focused on your path to advancing from an adversity, applying enthusiasm.

The key ingredient to overcoming adversity is your willingness. That means you need to be willing to deal with the adversity in the first place. When faced and dealing with adversity, what you are and what you will become is determined by the meaning you attach to that situation. For it is not what you see but how you look at situations which determines your destiny. Secondly, you need to have an understanding that against all odds, you will make it, and emerge not unharmed, but stronger than before the adversity. To achieve that, you need to apply your one and only control that is your inner power, your mind power.

The book will make you realise that the key to changing your life is right in you, right within you. The key to better your life is your thoughts. What are you continually feeding your mind? What thoughts are occupying your mind during adversity? Are you thinking abundance or scarcity? Are you thinking success or failure? Are you thinking life is good or life sucks? These are some of the questions you will reflect upon as you go through the book. The book will let you realise that you cannot change your painful situation, but you can change the way you think about the situation, and the way you look at things, and ultimately how you respond to the situation. The challenges and pains you are experiencing now are there for a reason. They are there to shape you, to make you strong, to make you grow, to sharpen you. The key to this transition is to find the benefits associated with the adversity. It is okay to feel the pain when experiencing adversities, but do not become the pain because it would mean that the situation is in control. This book will teach you how to rewrite your life’s story so that the wound from the adversity becomes a blessing, and a gift at the end. When facing an adversity, it does not matter how you start, but how you finish. It does not matter that the adversity is slowing you down; what matters is that you finish strong.

The book will enable you to have an understanding that as much as there is darkness, there is also light. As much as there is rain, there is also a rainbow. As much as there is night, there is also day. If you are experiencing darkness at present because of the adversity, look for the stars above your situation, for they are visible and beautiful in the dark. Stop focusing on the one side of life because the truth is that life has polarity, meaning that there are opposites in every situation. Therefore, you can choose to look at the dark side or the bright side. You can change the undesirable thoughts by concentrating on the opposite pole. Same way that there is a left and a right, there is also a downside and upside, failure and success, bad and good.

The book will also enable you to be the master of your own destiny, and to be the author of your life’s story. Do not let situations dictate to you where you must go. You have the steering wheel in front of you. The universe has already given you the right to