7 min
You Have to Be Great in the WORST Situations The Man Show
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Greatness is won in the worst of situations.
The more I get to know extremely successful people, or read about their lives and story, their struggles are present and persistent, just like mine.
There’s no example of this not being true, at least not that I can think of.
Even a guy like Dwayne Johnson, a fella who’s on top of the acting world, moving into that same position in the apparel world, seems to have it all. He didn’t. In fact, his struggles may be greater than either you or I will ever face.
At some point in his life a decision was made that he was not going to succumb to a bad situation, rather, he’d be great even when the situation isn’t.
We see the private jets, the fame, the millions of dollars, but no matter how you break it down, achievement is won through struggle. The greater the achievement, the greater the struggle.
We see where he is, we hear his words about how hard his life was, how he had 7 bucks in his pocket, how he failed at the biggest dream he ever had (playing in the NFL), but we can’t get past the fact that he has, by all accounts, won.
So the words of struggle fall on deaf ears. They may motivate us for a second, but then our reality of mediocrity sets in and we allow our situation to diminish how we act.
Where you are isn’t where you’ll be.
One thing we have to realize is that where we are is not where we’ll always be, if we’re willing to work, be disciplined, and stay the course (don’t get pulled off of the path you set even by something that appears to be a new opportunity if you’ve committed to a path already).
Don’t get discouraged by your present situation, be challenged by it.
Anyone can be great when times are great, but you only make the great times by being great when the times aren’t great, when the situation is horrible, when you want to quit and give up and feel sorry for yourself.
Be great even if the situation isn’t perfect.
The essential task you’re faced with in life is to struggle well. To act like a winner even if you’re not yet a winner. That’s how the winning takes place.
You act like a loser, you’ll lose. Act like a winner and you’ll win.
“On the other side of your struggle is something good.” Dwayne Johnson
That’s the thing about success, it is on the other side of the struggle. It isn’t immediately after we start on a path or set out to do something.
In fact, and I’m realizing this a lot, when you set out to do something great you’re usually hit with a gargantuan roadblock, an intense or a long stretch of resistance where resilience is the only thing that will get you through it.
All you can do is be the best you can be. Sounds cheezy, but it’s true. You can control you, the effort you put in, how you take care of yourself, handle yourself, how disciplined you are and the amount of work you put in.
You can’t control the circumstance, but over time the circumstance will evolve and rise to the level that you operate at.
Be great.
Greatness is won in the worst of situations.
The more I get to know extremely successful people, or read about their lives and story, their struggles are present and persistent, just like mine.
There’s no example of this not being true, at least not that I can think of.
Even a guy like Dwayne Johnson, a fella who’s on top of the acting world, moving into that same position in the apparel world, seems to have it all. He didn’t. In fact, his struggles may be greater than either you or I will ever face.
At some point in his life a decision was made that he was not going to succumb to a bad situation, rather, he’d be great even when the situation isn’t.
We see the private jets, the fame, the millions of dollars, but no matter how you break it down, achievement is won through struggle. The greater the achievement, the greater the struggle.
We see where he is, we hear his words about how hard his life was, how he had 7 bucks in his pocket, how he failed at the biggest dream he ever had (playing in the NFL), but we can’t get past the fact that he has, by all accounts, won.
So the words of struggle fall on deaf ears. They may motivate us for a second, but then our reality of mediocrity sets in and we allow our situation to diminish how we act.
Where you are isn’t where you’ll be.
One thing we have to realize is that where we are is not where we’ll always be, if we’re willing to work, be disciplined, and stay the course (don’t get pulled off of the path you set even by something that appears to be a new opportunity if you’ve committed to a path already).
Don’t get discouraged by your present situation, be challenged by it.
Anyone can be great when times are great, but you only make the great times by being great when the times aren’t great, when the situation is horrible, when you want to quit and give up and feel sorry for yourself.
Be great even if the situation isn’t perfect.
The essential task you’re faced with in life is to struggle well. To act like a winner even if you’re not yet a winner. That’s how the winning takes place.
You act like a loser, you’ll lose. Act like a winner and you’ll win.
“On the other side of your struggle is something good.” Dwayne Johnson
That’s the thing about success, it is on the other side of the struggle. It isn’t immediately after we start on a path or set out to do something.
In fact, and I’m realizing this a lot, when you set out to do something great you’re usually hit with a gargantuan roadblock, an intense or a long stretch of resistance where resilience is the only thing that will get you through it.
All you can do is be the best you can be. Sounds cheezy, but it’s true. You can control you, the effort you put in, how you take care of yourself, handle yourself, how disciplined you are and the amount of work you put in.
You can’t control the circumstance, but over time the circumstance will evolve and rise to the level that you operate at.
Be great.
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