If you can fail through effort, if you cannot take it too personally, if you can learn from the fail, you come back stronger, better, more knowledgeable, more confident, more refined, more developed, more experienced, more professional, more better.
General rejection is tolerable, personal rejection, from those you know, is harder.
There will be 2 camps in six months from now, those that got better and those that wish they had.
…we need to stumble, we need to be confused, we need to question, we need to feel that discomfort of “what the f”, in order to work through the issues.
…you have to have a big picture appreciation of where your head is by asking those 8 questions. I do believe all the tactics in the world don’t matter if you don’t have an appreciation/thought for the “why” you’re doing them.
This isn’t about a quick pep talk, it’s about a consistent reminder of keeping your head where it needs to be in order to grow outside of any comfort zone you may find yourself in.
When I’m strong of mind, or strong of heart, my faith overcomes any fear I’m feeling from the pressure and the mindset shifts to “failure is not an option”.
Simple exercise for me, every thought that comes into my brain, push it into 2 categories, is this love or fear?
I want to be a buffalo in everything I do. None of us are perfect and it’s easy to slip into a cow mentality in all of our lives but the sooner we can say “I’m going down the wrong path”, or, “I have no path”, that’s when we need to take a moment and switch directions.
It’s been said many of times will power doesn’t work, you have to change the way you think and I believe my friend’s morning encouragement and nightly review is as simple as it gets to put the odds in my favor of having an amazing day. Have enough amazing days and you end up with an amazing life!
