No matter what challenges you have faced or what obstacles you will face they are insignificant to one you faced at conception. Because you were born, Victory is built into your genes.

Think about it, every living person has champion written all over them because they made it into this world.

Time to Defeat your Bullies!

Ok, See if this story strikes a nerve. Everyday Ben had to walk home from school by railroad tracks. Several times a week a neighborhood bully would jump Ben and beat him up. He would scatter his school books and send him home crying.

Ben lived in a state of fear and self defeat. Something always has to happen to break pattern of defeat. The victory that is always within us will not show itself until we are ready.

Ben's teacher encouraged him to read some books about heroes and champions. Ben really got caught up in some of these books and started seeing himself as hero in books he was reading, even dreaming about it at night.

Some months later, Ben was walking same railroad tracks and saw bully dart behind a building. He stopped and started to run other way. Then he remembered hero in books he had read and started straight for bully.

It was a brutal fight. Ben started fighting with such determination that caught bully by surprise. All of a sudden bully had a bloody nose, and then a bloody mouth, and then bully started running.

After bully ran off, Ben realized he had a bloody nose and bruises all over his body. But he didn't realize it until after fight was over. It was worth it, it was a great day in Ben's life. In that day, he overcame fear, and self-defeat.

Ben was not physically stronger than he was last time he got whipped by bully. Then what was it? Nah………he wasn't kid that fell in sewer and caused that bully to run off holding his nose either. The difference came in Ben changing himself. He stood up in face of fear and decided he would no longer be pushed around by his bully.

Have you whipped your bully yet? What are your bullies? Have you thought about it? Or, do you just let yourself get all stressed out with nobody to choke?

Choke The Bully!!

Remember this, it is one thing to talk about bull fighting, it is another thing to get in ring with that bull. Well, I might get a fat lip. So What? The thing can't eat ya! Get in ring with that bull and say this so loud that every sand flea in West Texas can hear you; NO MORE!! I WILL NOT FEAR!

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2. Next make a list of all your talents, abilities, strengths, and coping skills that you used during that year. This may take some time as you may find yourself dismissive of talents and strengths. However, try to be fair and generous of yourself, as you would be if you were generating this list for a dear friend.

3. The third step in this activity is to go back and tell story of that year of your life either on paper or to a friend or maybe just inside your head but tell it honoring some of talents, strengths and/or coping skills that you used that year.

I think you will quickly begin to see that any year of your life takes a different shape and shape more favorable to naming yourself a wondrous person when you truly take into account efforts that you gave to that year of living regardless of outcome. This material is based on an article from Story Circle Journal.