Resilience: Get You Some

26 years.

That’s how long ago I should have quit trying to compete in sports.

I’d just gotten cut from my high school team for the third year in a row, which is, pretty much, a clear signal that I probably chose the wrong job.

Most people would have, and did, walk away by that point.

I decided to keep trying, though. Silly me.

I played on a local recreational team (NOT my school team) as a high school junior, and had a few moments of success there. That gave me the confidence to keep trying a bit longer.

That was 1998.

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Often, when good things are about to happen for us, we must first face a setback.

The setback is a question from the universe.

“Are you serious about achieving that breakthrough or not?”

If you handle the challenge and keep going, the breakthrough happens.

If not, you know the rest. It’s over. You’ve seen it before. Maybe in your own life.

In episode #1663 of my Work On Your Game MasterClass, I explain the concept of the “shit sandwich.”

Everyone aiming for success has to eat shit in order to get there. Even average people have to eat some shit. The more successful you want to be, the more shit you must consume and hold down in your system.

The successful get to stand on stages, write books, and give interviews telling their stories of glory, accomplishment, and the shit that they had to eat in order to get there.

The unsuccessful ate the shit too — but because they didn’t see it through, they don’t get to tell their stories, even though they have one. No one pays to hear an unsuccessful person’s story.

We’ll line up around the block to hear a successful person talk about themselves, though.

Everyone eats shit; only a few get to tell the story of how they ate it.

The difference between one group and the other?

Resilience: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

I know a lot of successful entrepreneurs. All of them are extremely resilient. Because what they do now, and what they did to get to where they are now, is and was not easy.

It is good to be talented.

Gather as many resources as you can.

Work On Your Game and have skill.

Gather experience.

Be as smart as possible.

Without resilience, none of this means anything.

One punch in the face from a challenging situation knocks you backwards, sending all of that talent, resources, skill, experience, and knowledge scattering all over the ground, never to be recovered.

Success is not a fashion show.

It’s a toughness competition.

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