I’ve been struggling a lot lately with external factors that are affecting me, but also with some of my internal demons coming back to bite me.

The most important thing I’ve learned is that we can’t just fight what’s outside of us, we have to fight what’s inside too. It’s the only way I can get rid of all my weaknesses and become better.

When you have your own problems and you see someone else with the same problems and they overcome them, it can be hard to find the strength to do the same. It’s natural to want to let go and give up because we see people around us doing the same. Keeping going can be really hard if you let it.

In order to fight this weaknesses, we need to know that:

We will never be able to change what happened in the past.

We will never be able to change how we were raised.

We will never be able to erase our personalities, or how we were shaped by our experiences.

What we can do is decide that we are going to fight our weaknesses. Our unproductive habits, our unconscious biases, our ignorance. We can decide that, however much we might have been hurt before, we are going to stop hurting others. We can decide that whatever came before, we will always do our best.

We can decide to change. Not because it's easy. Not because it's popular. We have to decide because it's right.

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Because it's our duty.

Because it's the only way out of hell and into heaven.

The first weakness I remember facing was my fear of darkness. As a young child, the dark triggered feelings of fear, causing me to cry and pull away from it. But when I became an adolescent and we moved into a new house, my fear of the dark manifested itself in another way. The basement had no lights, and each time I ventured down there, I ran back up crying and screaming.

I've been fighting my weaknesses for a long time.

I've been thinking about how my weaknesses are not completely my fault.

As a kid, I was told that "God made everyone perfect, there's no such thing as weaknesses."

And I believed them. I would sit there and think "there is nothing wrong with me, I'm perfect."

This thinking makes it difficult to get help from others.

Because if there is nothing wrong with you, then you don't need help.

And if there's nothing wrong with you, the problem must be everybody else.

You have to fight those weaknesses all by yourself.

While being told that this is weakness is slowly killing me.

There is something wrong with me. I have weaknesses, but that does not make me less human.

That does not mean that I am not allowed to ask for help from others, or show weakness in front of others.

I have a weakness for resentment. I'll keep it to myself and let it fester over time. This doesn't always work.

The only thing worse than resentment is shame. So I fight it.

Before, I never fought against my weaknesses.

I never fought against my weakness because I was afraid of being weaker after a fight.

It was only when I realized that fighting my weaknesses makes them weaker that I started fighting.

Fight your weaknesses as well.

And now that I've gone through enough fights, my weaknesses have become too weak to fight.

Fighting my weakness made me stronger.

Not only did I get stronger, but also the things around me got stronger with the help of my strengths.

Fighting my weaknesses until they become too weak is how I overcome my weaknesses.

This is how I was able to be the best version of myself.

I’ve always been one to look for a competitive edge over other people and this battle against myself has become quite a thing.

My mantra for fighting against all my weaknesses:

Fighting my weaknesses until they become too weak.

I am a winner

I will not be defeated.

I will not be stopped.

Completion to me is just a matter of time.

I am a winner

I will not be offended.

I will not be shown up.

The work is hard but my determination is strong.

The expectations are high but I make no excuses for the work that's in front of me.

I have the strength and tools to get me where I want to go, and Go I will.

We’re all guilty of having certain “weaknesses” that we do our best to avoid. On the surface, those weaknesses might look like a cool feature you wish you had or it might look like the fact that you’re afraid of public speaking. But I assure you, no weakness is born out of a desire.

The truth is, every weakness stems from a desire. And only if we could discover the underlying reasons behind these desires, would we understand what our true strengths are!

I believe we all have the power within us to overcome our weaknesses and once we do so, we’ll be able to focus our energy on what makes us amazing.