We work with a variety of teams, both sports and business. The athletic teams develop callouses as a result of their training. This is good and a natural response to gripping steel and doing hard reps which build strength and provide power to their punch, first step, or shot. Callouses are built by effort.
Today, during practice ONE.120, I reminded a team they need to build another type of callous. They must callous their minds. Too many have hard bodies couple with soft minds. If you want to be elite in any endeavor, your mental strength must be built alongside your physical. Far too many have next to no appetite for hard truth, they prefer soft soap and empty praise. Those are fine if all you’re after is feeling good. If, however, you want to be good and do good, you must receive more truth to transform your performance. Truth may hurt. Truth may not feel good. Truth does not harm. Truth helps, heals, and transforms those who learn to love it. Where, friend, are you soft in your mind? Harden it. Build callouses in your mind. Make sense? Simple, not easy.
Live hard. Love harder…
BUILT TO LEAD 