When your world is falling apart, or maybe it’s just your project that is not going the way you thought it would, or maybe you’re losing your sports event/game/race, when that stuff is happening the people watching you are on your string.
They give up if you give up. They pull harder if you pull harder. But they also can’t do anything for you. You, and only you, are the one who can rise up and turn it around.
I have tried to make it a general rule in my life that when I least feel like doing something, that’s the cue that I most need to do it. When I am making excuses (even valid ones) about why I shouldn’t get a workout in, or get my reading done, or spend time meditating, etc… at that moment it’s most essential that you go and do that thing.
In this way, when everything is going badly, you can press through and pull yourself and your entire world out of the darkness and into a brand new day.
Never give up and do your work. When you want to sleep in, don’t. Don’t sleep in for the sole reason that you preferred to sleep in rather than get up and do your things.
Use moments when you need to be resilient to make you tougher. Embrace those moments and find a way to love them.