Life is Hard. Life is Hard. Life is Hard. Life is Hard. If you expect life to be easy, then you are going to make life EVEN HARDER. Life is Hard. Don't make it HARDER. God didn't say "... IF you face trials ...". He said, "... WHENEVER you face trials ..." James 1:2. He didn't just say "when" but "whenever" because they are going to happen A LOT. The sooner we realize life is hard and we won't make it through cleanly and perfectly, we can then see failures or mistakes that we make as part of life and part of the process toward growth and reaching our full potential. “If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!” Charles Barkley
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Competitive people do not hate losing. EVERYONE hates losing. I don't know anyone who says, "I hope to lose today". We all love winning. We all don't have the heart, guts, or various other internal organs that it takes to put in the work to win. We want the result but we don't want to pay the price. Anyone can "run" a marathon. ANYONE. Finishing a marathon is not impressive. Running the entire time is more impressive than finishing by walking. However, TRAINING for months to run a marathon relatively fast is the most impressive thing. Every day, for weeks and months, increasing from no running to a 20 mile long run is an amazing feat that few accomplish. “The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” Bobby Knight
"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know--but if you listen you may learn something new." JP McEvoy
When we think about all of what we don't have, we feel as if we have nothing. When we are grateful for anything that we do have, which is a lot, we realize how much we have. "Where focus goes, energy flows." Tony Robbins
Bad day, bad week, bad life. If we are waiting for all of the planets to align before we give our full attention to something, we are going to be waiting a long time and we are going to miss out on a lot of great experiences and an endless amount of opportunities to grow and improve. We may luck in to success occasionally but to have continued and repetitive success requires increased effort during the difficult moments. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” Arnold Palmer
If you are a person that MUST have expectations, then make sure that those expectations are POSITIVE. The point of having goals is to motivate us toward a desired result. Expectations can serve the same purpose but expectations and goals are not the same thing. Unfortunately, most humans set expectations rather than goals and those same humans are de-motivated, instead of motivated, by unmet expectations. Therefore, goals are better than expectations but if you must have expectations, make them positive expectations. "Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." Brian Tracy
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” Fred Devito
Do we look for the best in people? Do we look for the best in ourselves? "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock
Happiness is overrated but we all seem to want it. If we truly desire happiness, then hard work shouldn't deter us. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” Pele
Unfortunately, many people allow a single moment in time to derail the remainder of their life. These experiences should not be ignored but their ultimate impact on one's life must be placed in proper perspective. Often times terms like "diminishing" or "minimizing" or "devalue" are avoided because they elude to lacking sympathy, compassion or empathy. However, there are time we should lower the value and minimize the importance of some experiences in our life so that we are not anchored to something that doesn't allow us to reach our full potential. One moment should not limit the impact that you can make for the remainder of your life. “Today, you have 100% of your life left.” Tom Landry
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