“Monday Motivation-Down But Far From Out!”

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fail. -Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Irish poet, writer and physician.

Chest pumped up. Head held high. Come and go as you please. Get paid well. Spend it freely. Plenty of friends. Who cares about the haters? If anybody gets too close for comfort, bite them. Who cares? Everybody that matters likes you anyway…or do they?

So is this the description of us at our best or just what our self-indulgent ego thinks is our best? These days it’s not hard to see how little tolerance the general population has for those that think they can dictate and dominate at the true hard hitting expense of others. It might work for a while but, ultimately it will bring you down. Just look to the world’s dictators who are no longer or the financial institutions that redistributed the average consumers money without adding value.

All of this has come into complete focus as people have been broken by a changing world. For me, I’ve lived it and coached many people through it, even my new dog. Our full-of-life Springer had gotten so out of control that he thought he had a rightful place at the dinner table. Now after a second round of training he came home almost dejected and depressed. Talk about pulling on your heart strings.

Yet I’m blessed to know that look let alone feel it. It’s the tired stare we make after life yanks us off the greased skids we were cruising along. What the heck happened? Our sails were filled with plenty of wind and the waves at our back and just like that it changes. We figure maybe it will be okay soon enough, but it stays tough. Then the clouds start to roll in and we don’t even notice them.

Like a magnet we now seem to have everything going against us. Friends start to abandon us. Business gets worse. You can’t seem to get a break and you curse the world. However, what if all of this is your calling. What if this is the time the life’s True Architect is dialing your number? How in the world can you be at your best if life were always easy?

How does it help anybody to sit on the couch and have life on call for home delivery? What happened to that hungry survivalist that had to hunt and gather? Did you know that “technology” has been evolving since the beginning of time? Where would you be if Steve Jobs hadn’t been pounded on by the world many times only to get up over and over until he changed the world?

So you think that “get-up-and-keep-fighting” stuff doesn’t apply to you? Why not? What makes you so special that life should be easy for just you? Or maybe it takes a ton of new energy to keep fighting and you just don’t know where it will come from? Well challenge it all! Look in the mirror and see if it’s the best you can be. You’ll know the answer. And if you see a battered and torn vision then feel even more blessed, because that’s precisely when you’re already down and remember that when you’re down you’re closest to getting up!

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