You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful.
It will be discouraging. At times, it will test you to your very core. It will not be easy.
It's alright to fail, as long as you fail forward. It's alright, but I need you to have heart. Because there's some things you just can't get without perseverance.
When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that will come from it. Mission got cancelled? Good.
We can focus on another one. Didn't get promoted? Good.
More time to get better. Didn't get funded? Good.
We own more of the company. Didn't get the job you wanted? Good.
Go out, gain more experience, build a better resume. Got injured? Good.
Needed a break from training. Got beat? Good.
We learned. Unexpected problems? Good.
We have an opportunity to figure out a solution. That's it. When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out, don't get startled, don't get frustrated.
No. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem and turn it into something good. Go forward.
If you can say the word good, it means you're still alive. It means you're still breathing. It means you've still got some fight left in you.
So get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, re-engage. And go out on the attack. I challenge you to see your problems as a great thing.
I challenge you to start being thankful that you have the opportunity to grow, get stronger, get more focused, get more skilled and kick more ass because of every hardship you face. It's hard, then handle it. You got to fortify yourself and say come on with it.
I've got to step into it. Just find an excuse to win. Keep going.
If you're going to be successful in this game, you gotta have a dog within you, you gotta know it's a dog fight and you gotta go get that fight. Life ain't gonna be easy, ain't nobody gonna hand you nothing. You still gotta go to work, you still gotta compete against everybody in your industry.
Life's still gonna happen while you're trying to blow up. I want to know what the f*ck I'm made of. I want to know what I can overcome.
And I know from experience that the harder the task to overcome, the more strength I'm going to gain from it. These are the days that test your fortitude, they test your endurance, your grit, your dedication, your determination, your mental toughness, your character. You are testing your ability to do something.
And that something is something critical to your dreams. At the very moment when everything in you wants to do absolutely nothing, when you'd rather die than send another email or take another phone call, or talk to another human, you gotta get the job done. It's an opportunity to prove what you're made of.
It's an opportunity to prove you are what you say you are in your head. When you look in the mirror and you say, there goes a bad motherf*cker, you actually believe it. What you become in the process is more important than the dream.
The kind of person you become, the character that you build, the courage that you develop, the faith that you're manifesting. Oh, it's something that you get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person, you walk with a different kind of spirit. You knew it was hard, but you did it hard.
