Stress ❤️

Friend, I want to start this week off by sharing with you an extract from Tim Grover’s book “Relentless”.

It’s a powerful message and one that can change your perspective on stress:

If you want to be successful, to have that place in the sun, you have to leave the shade.

It's not easy to leave the shade; it's cool and comfortable, compared to the hot discomfort of the sun.

But you can't be relentless if you can't take discomfort, and you can't be unstoppable if you only deal with pressure when you have no choice.

Pressure can bust pipes, but it can also make diamonds.

If you take the negative view, it will crush you; now you're in an "I can't do this" frame of mind.

But the positive view is that pressure is a challenge that will define you; it gives you the opportunity to see how much you can take, how hard you can go.

Everyone wants to cut back on stress, because stress kills.

I say bullsh*t.

Stress is what brings you to life.

Let it motivate you, make you work harder.

Use it, don't run from it.

When it makes you uncomfortable, so what?

The payoff is worth it.

Work through the discomfort, you'll survive.

And then go back for more.

Of course, you have to be able to recognize the difference between stress that can bring great results, and stress you create yourself that just causes chaos.

Showing up unprepared, not putting in the work, blowing off commitments and obligations...

that's the stuff that creates pointless stress.

You had the option to manage those things before they turned into negative situations.

But when you're faced with the stress of great challenges set before you:

Making the team, working for a raise, finishing a job, winning a championship…

Undeniable gifts are buried under all that pressure.

Not everyone gets the opportunity to be stressed by the potential to achieve exceptional things.

Read that last sentence again.

Stress is a luxury.

You get the opportunity to be great.

So be great this week.

Much love,

Mason - Founder of New Mentalities

PS - You can order Tim Grover’s book here.