We all fall down.

But only a few choose to get back up.

A few depersonalized failure.

A few understand that falling is the cost of greatness.

See, your reality is not what happens to you.

Your reality is how you internalize what happens to you.

Or obstacles stop signs.

Or are they checkpoints along the way to something greater?

Checkpoints that make you stronger, build you up, become your armor, that is ultimately

the difference.

What we misinterpret in life is the meaning behind that difficulty, that pain, that suffering.

No one gets a pain-free life.

No one gets a free ride.

Suffering is inevitable.

As Nietzsche says, to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

And what's changed my life, and I don't mean here and there, I mean truly transformed the course and trajectory of what's possible, is simply redefining that which is difficult.

I grew up watching the Kobe's and the Brady's of the world.

I remember thinking, how do these guys get better when things get difficult?

I mean, as a kid, I could feel the pressure watching from the couch,

but they somehow elevate

themselves when the odds are stacked against them. Same exact situation that causes most to

doubt, to run, to lose their self-belief. What they see that alludes most is that in every

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