Questions of the Week
How are you conditioning yourself for the energy and resilience needed to thrive in times of uncertainty?
What is your current relationship with this year’s goal?
What is the hardest thing are you doing daily that challenges your perseverance?
Who are you choosing to BE today that will persevere an come out of this current storm Better than you entered personally and professionally?
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” - Steve Jobs
Consider that every day there is a choice to be made; do what is comfortable and common or do the hard things. Growth lives on the other side of what’s comfortable. Yesterday was easy, tomorrow the real work begins. One of my coaches and mentors taught me that we are always preparing for our next opportunity. When interviewed for the role as CEO of what would become the world’s largest coaching company, when asked how long she had been preparing for the role, she responded with, “My whole life.” While I am unsure what specifically we were supposed be learning from the pandemic and the events that started in 2020, what is clear to me is that resilience is the key towards thriving in this next economic environment. Two years have passed and we are still living each day growing more accustomed to increasing prices as inflation becomes a normal every-day conversation. I mean have you been to the grocery store lately, bought a gallon of milk, a pound of bacon, or gassed up at the pump? Today civilizations collide with one-another and you can’t even escape the violence when zoning out watching the Oscars. So how does a person thrive through this chaos and uncertainty?
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
―Thomas A. Edison.
One of the the things that drives fear is our attachment to losing things that actually aren’t ours to begin with, they are simply borrowed for a time. Attachment is the enemy of resilience. In order to win the infinite game and build the muscle of tenacity, one can’t be attached to anything. Children are great examples of living in the moment without the attachment of losing. My kids are big fans of Paw Patrol and as I hear episodes playing in the background, its amazing how quick they can be to drop their identity and become the characters they are watching. You might say, thats just children being children and yet sometimes they set the best example of living in the moment without the need to be attached. Fear is the driving force that fuels anxiety. We become so attached to what we have and fear losing it all. Resilience is a muscle that needs exercised in order to grow and become stronger. The more we live in the moment and become less attached to who we think we are, the more we can enjoy the peace that only lives in the present. Every hardship you’ve experienced has been preparing you for this moment right now. There are 1.5 million licensed real estate agents and I believe only enough life vests for half that number. The good news is that those who are resilient can control what they do and what matters most. Go do your best, give your best, and be your best.
"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
―Nelson Mandela.
