#74 Three Alchemical Qualities for Success (Resilience, Utilization, Delayed Gratification

We've been discussing success and the qualities necessary to achieve it in your life, relationships, and business.

Last episode we discussed resilience. The ability to get knocked down and to get back up. Let's discuss the next quality today: Utilization.

While resilience gives you the endurance to keep going, Utilization is more than that. Utilization is leverage.

Utilization is taking the hit, getting back up; and then utilizing the hit to  make it work in your favor versus disfavor. To make it work for you versus against you.

Now, while this often seems difficult, just because something is difficult doesn't mean it's impossible.

Napoleon Hill, "Every adversity carries within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Here's the fact: you learn and grow the most in the crucible of challenge.

Your greatest teacher is often your last "mistake."

How do we learn, grow, and improve? By falling down and getting back up and then taking the learning from the fall and using it to improve

So, at the end of the day, how can you use the punches life throws to make you bigger, better, stronger?

How can you learn?

How can you grow?

How will you utilize (there's that word again), your learning and growth to do better and greater next time?

Ask yourself: What's good about this situation? How can I utilize it to learn and grow? How will I use that learning and growth to do bigger and better next time?