Taking a knockout punch without getting knocked down

Learn to turn setbacks into growth, stay resilient, anticipate challenges, make informed choices, and redirect adversity into strength.

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Sometimes it doesn't work. You make assumptions and it turns out you weren't just wrong, you were laughably, calamitously, epicly, ruinously wrong; the kind of wrong that could actually bankrupt you or cause serious harm to yourself and/or those you love.

And right there, in that moment when you're living it, you have a choice about how to react. You can crawl up in a ball and let it happen to you, learn how to make it just a little bit worse every day so maybe it doesn't hurt so many people, or pivot in a way that turns your failure around and redirects it somewhere that doesn't hurt anyone.

The longer I do this work, the more I think that these moments, and how you choose to react in them, make or break somebody's spirit.

Luckily, this isn’t magic. It’s strategy.

People talk a lot about getting up from the mattress once you've been knocked down, but truly, the secret is how you take the force of a blow that was supposed to knock you down and redirect it so that you keep standing, ev…