When you get discouraged, lose an account, or lose a job, consider not what happened to you but what remains within you.
What are you best at? How did you show up, regardless of what others thought? How can you use your adaptability at this moment? How did you get through difficult times before?
It's easy to find yourself in a pit of someone else's making and sit there watching the sunlight disappear.
Instead of using the shovel to dig deeper, use it to carve out steps.
Your shovel is your collection of talents, skills, experiences, and relationships.
When we allow others to define us, even in our greatest successes, we begin to lose sight of what helped us get there in the first place.
Success and disappointment are both unreliable mirrors.
Better to place your faith in the abilities you have developed, the lessons you have learned, and the resilience that has carried you through challenges before.
It requires faith in ourselves, just as others have often had faith in us.
