When people talk about the Future, they often have a Vision for what will happen.
Some great Success or Series of Successes.
They have this Belief that this will become their Defining Moment.
What Stands Out.
How they will be Remembered.
It is this Glorious Height of Potential that they Envision.
Perhaps this is also Why Most People Fail to Ever Attain their Vision.
Long Before this Moment Happens...
They have Given Up.
But the question is Why?
Why does this Occur?
If we Look at the Past, we can begin to Understand Why.
What was a Defining Moment from Your Past?
Pick One.
Any One.
Here is what You'll Discover...
Every Single Defining Moment is Paired with a Challenge or Set of Challenges.
The Worst Challenges we have Faced and Overcome become the Greatest of Our Defining Moments.
This is What Makes them "Defining".
We Overcame the Challenge or Challenges, and that Defined a New Level of Our Potential Going Into the Future.
The Moment when we Thought about Giving Up, and We Chose to Move Forward.
When We Felt Hopeless but Continued Anyways.
When We Fell Horribly and Got Back Up.
When the Odds were Completely Against Us but We Succeeded Anyway.
This is the Secret of Defining Moments.
It is Not Truly about the Success.
It is about Overcoming the Challenges.
Which is Why So Many People Fail in the Pursuit of New Defining Moments.
What do they Prepare For?
The Success.
The Glory.
The Rewards.
What do they Fail to Prepare For?
The Challenges.
The Failures.
The Defeats.
The Missteps.
The Reality.
By Failing to Understand the Reality of Defining Moments, they become Dismayed when it Strikes.
Especially because the Reality is that there are Usually Many Challenges that occur before the Defining Moment.
They hit a Low, and give up.
When the Reality is that if You want a Defining Moment...
You will Hit a Low...
Then a Lower Low...
When You Think it Cannot Get Worse...
It Does...
Further, You Fall...
Another Slip...
Then...
Eventually...
You Hit a Defining Moment.
The Success Comes.
What makes that Success so Sweet and Beautiful is the Contrast of How Low You Fell First.
To Achieve the Defining Moment "After" Having Been So Low is What Makes It "So" Powerful.
The Higher the Success that You Seek...
The More Challenges You Will Face.
The More Difficult Those Challenges Will Become.
The More "You" Will Need to Become to Overcome the Challenges.
This is Why so many Fail to Understand their Future Defining Moments.
They Fail to "Become" More to Overcome those Challenges.
They Give Up Too Quickly.
See, Defining Moments Begin at the Lows.
Who You Are at the Lows will Determine How High You Can Rise.
You See this All the Time.
In Sports...
In Business...
In Entrepreneurship...
There is someone with Tremendous Talent.
When they are Doing Well, they are Amazing.
But what tends to Happen More Frequently?
Bad Situations.
Simple Mental Mistakes.
The Mess Up More than Succeed.
They are Unable to Handle the Lows.
This Stunts their Potential.
Eventually, someone with Less Talent Beats Them.
Then, They Give Up.
The Problem was they Relied on the Highs to Pull them Through.
But the Lows are More Frequent.
If Your Goal is to Reach the Highest of Potential Defining Moments...
It is Not Your Best that Matters...
It is How Good You Are At Your Worst.
Think of it like a Rubber Band.
If your Worst is Very Low, and you Try to "Only" Push Your Best...
The Rubber Band Stretches...
Until...
There is Too Much Tension...
The Rubber Band Breaks.
This is How Most People Approach Future Defining Moments.
In Reality, they First Need to Improve their Lows.
Then they can Raise their Best.
You can Stretch, but Not Break the Rubber Band.
If the Tension gets to be Too Much...
You Need to Raise Your Lows.
The Higher Your Lows Become...
The Higher Your Highs Can Become.
The Great the Defining Moments Become.
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