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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Dealing with Tragedy When It Strikes | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Tragedy can strike at any moment of your life. Are you training and preparing for when that inevitable moment arrives? On today’s #MindsetMonday episode, I share why you should train yourself every single day to help you build mental toughness. We all deal with tragedy in our lives, and you have to know for who and what you’re fighting for. How will you show up when it all collapses?

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0:00.0

We all deal with tragedy sometimes. Maybe it's in your own life. Maybe it's someone that you love. Maybe it's you. The question is, in that moment, how do you show up? How do you show up when things don't go your way?

0:18.0

How do you show up when all of a sudden everything you wanted collapses and falls apart on a Tuesday.

0:24.0

How do you show up?

0:27.0

You see, people say to me all the time, like, you know, Tom, how do you stay so motivated?

0:31.0

Why do you keep doing these routines and gratitude in the morning and all this stuff and you can hear sort of the

0:35.2

cynicism that I hear in my tone is people say that to me and I say look I don't

0:39.6

train hard for the good days I don't train hard for when things are going my way. I train for the phone call. Hey, your

0:47.8

wife has cancer. Hey, this just happened in the business. Hey, this is what's

0:52.3

going on in our industry right now. This is what's happening in the business. Hey, this is what's going on in our industry right now.

0:53.6

This is what's happening in the economy.

0:55.3

I train for the tough days.

0:57.3

Look, we all have 60 to 70,000 thoughts every single day,

1:02.0

and most people will tell you that 91% of them are the same thoughts over and over and over and over almost unconscious

1:08.8

Which means the 9% the 9% that's what controls your life.

1:14.4

So when you're faced with a challenge,

1:16.2

how much more are you going to lean in to what you believe in,

1:19.2

your faith, your work ethic, your drive, your purpose, your motivation, the people that you love and the people that are relying on you that my friends is the difference it makes the difference

1:29.7

It's at 9% so who you training for today? who are you training for today?

1:33.4

What are you training for today?

1:34.9

Tragedy is gonna happen,

1:36.2

just like triumphs gonna happen.

1:37.7

But if you don't train for it, my friends,

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