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What I’m about to say is not new, and it’s not earth shattering. Everyone has hard times. Everyone has trials. Everyone eventually gets knocked on their freaking butt. I mean knocked to the ground HARD. The question is, What do you do when you get down there. I mean seriously…. You going to get back up? Cause here’s the thing…. You are going to get knocked down again. Life is unrelenting. Either because of your own stupid mistakes, or someone else’s, you are going to hit your face on the deck again… hard. It’s not a matter of IF…. It’s a matter of when. Success is going to be determined not by how many times you hit rock bottom, it will be determined by how many times you spit the blood out of your mouth, and wipe the sweat from your eyes. You are going to need to push the earth down to get up, and get back on your feet.
I’ve just gone through the hardest 12 months of my life. It began with a freak injury that took something valuable away from me for 6 months. That started a funk that nearly consumed me because of my own inherent weakness. Although I tried took tough and appear to have it all together, I let the stress of work, and family, and personal goals overwhelm me in a critical time of my life. I was already in a low place, then I chose the lower path, and paid the price. I made some incredibly stupid decisions and allowed addictions and selfish acts nearly consume and destroy the most important things in my life.
I know what it’s like to lose it in the shower. I mean drop to your knees in tears and shame and sob in shower. I mean, no one’s looking, so maybe this is a safe place to do it, Right? I know what it’s like to go from July of one year to April of the next without a full nights sleep. I know what it’s like to force your self to eat day after day when you just don’t think you can stomach another bite. I know what it’s like to have your soul and your body be in total opposition to one another and not want to be in the same place at the same time. I did that. I own that.
But here’s the thing. I can’t stomach laying there on the ground in defeat. It’s like I’m allergic to it. My default mode is to push the damn earth back down and stand up. Im hard wired that way, and so are you. I can feel it. We are more powerful than we can possibly imagine. I keep getting up, because it’s the only thing I know to do. I keep pushing forward because I know I can’t go backward. When faced with these challenges, I literally doubled down on my workouts. It was one thing I could control when everything else seemed out of my control. Find something you can control and dominate that. That domination will slowly infect the rest of our life. One success will elicit others. It’s contagious.
Yes, I will fail over and over again. So will you. The question is how many times will be get back up, spit the blood and dust… and go again? Therein lies success.
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