When Life Feels Like an Uphill Battle, Here's What to Do to Stay Strong

How do you respond to challenges that make your life or your career feel like an uphill battle? Do you have the emotional strength and determination to face difficult challenges in your career?

A job may feel routine to you, or you may even be looking forward to the day when you can leave it. Yet at the heart of your job is a career, which may feel threatened when you are faced with challenging circumstances that cause you to question your ability to be successful in this chosen profession. When you think about your career, you may realize how you have worked to cultivate skills that allow you to perform your job to the best of your abilities. Over time you've gain experience and knowledge, whether it was learning on the job or formalized education obtained in a classroom environment. You also have a level of dedication established for your job and career, and to your employer. But what does this ongoing development mean for you and your career when life or your career presents challenges which feel like an uphill battle?

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