Good morning, my friends, and welcome to the Increasing Rampag Podcast.

I'm Justin Souta, episode 1,836.

The reminder for today is to remember how important it is to expect adversity.

A lot of people struggle because they expect sunshine and rainbows.

They expect their work to pay off immediately.

They expect all of their training to translate immediately into the games or the performance,

but that is not reality.

One thing we talk to our kids about all the time, my wife and I, is to give your absolute

best, but expect adversity.

And when you expect adversity, you expect it to be difficult.

You expect it yourself to overcome tough times.

You expect uncertainty.

You expect chaos.

You expect things to not go the way you want them to go.

Now this isn't to be down on yourself.

This isn't to be negative, to have negative thoughts and to be a Debbie Downer, sorry, to

Debbie's out there.

It's to phrase, but it's to be able to properly calibrate your expectations because when

you expect it to be difficult, when you expect adversity, then it turns into deciding

what you're going to do about it.

How you're going to respond, preparing your mind and your body and your strategy to respond

effectively to adversity.

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