Thought of the week. We are completely and solely responsible for being ready for our adversities and opportunities. It's our job to build enough strength to face the bad and enough capability to grasp the good.
Build
When you face adversity weakly, you build weakness. When you face adversity with strength, you build strength. Both are a simple choice that contributes to your foundations. Build wisely. "We don't always get to choose the adversity we face.We do always get to choose how we respond to it."Anthony Dyson
Be Farm Strong
Wake up every day with discipline to do the work that needs doing. The work that most people won't do, or understand. The work that has to be done whether you want to do it or not. The work that makes a difference. The work that nourishes the world. Farm strong isn't about being a... Continue Reading →
Space to struggle
Your job is not to save your children from struggle, it's to give them a space to struggle in relative safety. By trying to protect them you inadvertently have the opposite effect. Struggle, hurt, and failure don't belong solely in the bad category - they exist in the good as well. They are necessary for... Continue Reading →
Good character is heavy
The heaviness of choosing the right way over the easy way must be accepted. Not just the thought of the weight, or words about the weight, but the physical moving of the weight; The lifting, the sweating, the bleeding, the heaving and the shouldering. Without training this capability, without callousing the hands and strengthening the... Continue Reading →
Why we train
It's to fight the little demons every day. No matter how many times you turn up, they are still there, always chirping, always trying to take control. Turning up every day makes you stronger, more forceful, more in control. It teaches you to master yourself, to master your impulses and short term desires. The physical... Continue Reading →
The habit of grit
"Why do you always insist on taking the hard road?" I replied, "Why do you assume I see two roads?" I believe in the theory that there is only one way we develop mental toughness......Doing hard things. The kind of hard things that force us to embrace discomfort, but purposefully, not stupidly. To keep pushing,... Continue Reading →
It all matters
"It took me a long time to realise that it all matters. Not just in training but in life. Every single moment and action matters in the story of our lives. These moments and actions don't have to be perfect, but purposeful is a good start." At the beginning of my big shift, that's what... Continue Reading →
Pound the Stone
"The hard work makes a little more sense when I keep 'Pound the Stone' front of mind." In front of us all stands a mighty stone. Rugged and untouched, it beckons to us, a blank canvas for creating. Underneath that exterior is the statue of our lives. A statue created by our strikes. Every thought... Continue Reading →
New Adventure
And some nights, my thoughts don't flow out as a blog or an article. Some nights, poetry is all that's in there. These strange times when we're forced in, still finding ways to fight and win. It all seems tough but that's good you see, we grow more in adversity. So hoist the black flag... Continue Reading →
Inspired Lion 