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In the movie Rocky Balboa with Sylvester Stalone Rocky is telling his young adult son that somewhere along the way the kid lost himself. Somewhere he started to believe the bad things about himself. Somewhere along the way he started believing others had an effect on what happened to him. Rocky then says “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.” Now this part is nothing new to any of us here we all know how hard life hits. We have been hit so many times. Each hit feels like it is the last one we can take. Then we get hit again.

I got hit. The punch was full out as hard a hit as I had ever had. It caused a message to start playing. I listened to that message for almost an hour before I changed the message. The message was not about how good I was, it was just the next thing I was here to overcome. It was the next springboard in my forward progression. Let’s go back and hear the second part of the quote by Rocky. “But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!”  I used to believe that life would be better when life stopped hitting me or at least cut it’s punches right? I wanted the punches to be something I felt I could cope with. I wanted the punches to fit my idea of what I could handle rather than for the punches to show me what I can manage. That is what Robert Balboa Jr wanted. He wanted the hits to let up. I’m betting this is something you also want right? If life would just ease up on you a little. Just allow for you to catch your breath right. 

But there are things you can do to overcome the hits to keep moving forward even when they are coming.

1. Take a moment. Look at what happened and the story that we tell ourselves due to the hit. In the moment pay attention to your breath. Are you breathing deeply or shallow? Through your nose or mouth. Work to slow down breathing.
   
2. It has been wisely said “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it keeps you busy but takes you nowhere. So what the story you tell yourself. Is it getting you closer to what you want or does it move you farther away? Stop looking at your journey as linear. Set up the story that will propel you with direction and speed to where you want to be.
   
3. Humor will help you move past this if in the future you will be able to look at this without strong negative emotions then you can take the strong negative emotions out of this now and make it funny. Learn to see the humor in everything.
   
4. Accept where you are and find where you want to move forward from here. Revisit goals, establish a new plan. Find the spark of joy that will provide the motivation to move you forward.
   
5. Move! Take action. You can do it, this is what will change everything. This step is so important. If you do the other four without this one it will not propel you forward.
   
   

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