The myth of the person who never breaks.

Every sheepdog is going to get knocked down.

Because resilience requires honest contact with reality.

And if you can't acknowledge the fall, you can't execute the recovery.

To be honest, it wasn't some superhuman quality that I was born with.

Then discipline will make the right action automatic because you've done it

day in and day out in the small things. Resilience is the strength to recover and return.

Let me ask you to do a quick inventory. Take a mental note as I read these off. I think I know

what the answer is going to be.

Have you ever failed at something that really, really mattered to you? And have you been knocked

down literally or figuratively really bad by something you didn't see coming? And have you been

so exhausted, depleted, or ground down by life or work or circumstances

that quitting felt like the only sane option?

Well, if you're like me, you answered yes to all of those.

So welcome.

You're a human being with a pulse.

But here's the question.

The one that actually determines the trajectory of your life.

What did you do next?

That question and the answer to your building right now in the daily choices you make is everything we're talking about today.

So welcome back to the Mark Devine show.

I am Mark Devine, I'm retired SE commander. Founder of Seal Fit and Unbeatable

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