You need to keep going.

Put your head down.

Put your head down, and do the work.

Keep pushing.

Be relentless.

Reflect on self-discipline and the inborn grit in your gut.

You think about the end goal, but don’t make it about that.

Make it about what you are looking at right now, about what is next.

You make it about the process.

And you continue on.

Because you are more capable than the others, and because persistence wins.

“Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.”

-Seth Godin, The Dip (Amazon)

Get up again.

I’ll say it again if I need to.

Get up again.

This idea of resilience cannot be emphasized enough, because what is the alternative?

Navy Seal, Eric Greitens wrote the book on it.

I don’t care if you get flattened a thousand times. As long as you get up that thousand-and-first time, you win. As Hemingway said, “You can never tell the quality of a bullfighter until that bullfighter has been gored.”

-Jerry Weintraub and Rich Cohen, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead (Amazon)