Tim Place

PURPOSE!

All things will contribute to your advancement as a person.

Let me make this word salad more appetizing for you, Melanie. Maybe a nice cobb, caesar, or antipasta depending your mood. Or something saltier to match the tone of your reply. You're confusing what I'm saying with bringing those events into your life, which I'm not saying. There's a difference between an event that happens and the adversity you experience with it. An event can be random, like cancer. Which my dad died of 2 years ago. But the adversity people experience from an event like cancer varies wildly. Some people blame, some blossom. Some people quit, some fight. In some people, cancer reveals a profound inner strength. In others, a weakness they've been hiding for years. Cancer doesn't decide that. The person does. The event might be random, but your experience of adversity isn't. It's tied to how you see, think, believe, desire, skills you've built, how you've prepared, and how you haven't. My post quite obviously wasn't targeted at your oddly specific and not random examples of people losing a child or getting hit by a drunk driver. Those are tragedies. But they happen. And people respond to them in wildly different ways, too, even though they didn't bring them into their lives.

We are all just renting our jobs, roles, and titles. "I have been here for 15 years as the head coach...this position has been on loan and it wasn't mine to keep...It's time for me to give it back, but to give it back to gain what I can't lose." -- Tony Bennett Titles eventually get handed back. Just make sure you don't completely sacrifice what matters most trying to hold onto something that was never yours to permanently keep. Jobs are finite. Values are infinite. 📹: University of Virginia

Become a winner by how you show up everyday. Being a winner is about your work ethic. It’s about growing. It’s how you show up in the process. You can be a winner and the scoreboard not be in your favor. You can’t control the result or other people, but you can control you. You can control your preparation, your work ethic, how you show up, how you compete, what you put in, etc. Thats why you can’t judge a winner solely by the reflection of the scoreboard. The scoreboard doesn’t tell the whole story. The scoreboard relies on external factors, while being a winner is defined by internal ones. Winners understand, on the scoreboard, you either win or you learn. The scoreboard may reflect in your favor or it may show you areas to improve on. Regardless, it’s all about the process & the journey. That’s what matters. That’s what winners focus on. Being a winner is measured by your growth in the process. Are you better than you were yesterday? Show up, get 1% better everyday, and live in the process.