Your understanding of your identity and values must be strong enough to ground you through the successful times and anchor you in the tough times. There are so many things in life we have to do because we believe in it, not because we feel great or are passionate about it.
If you haven’t developed your ability to list clearly and authentically about what you believe in (values), and all you are relying on is staying passionate, feeling good, or keeping the momentum up, then you are doomed to fail and you will never reach your potential. The path to purpose, success, and fulfillment over your lifetime will require you to fail, fix it, forget it, get up, and move forward and try again.
That journey will require you to overcome all kinds of negative emotions, emotions that lie to you, and tell you that you are not good enough. The only way through that adversity is to genuinely know who you are and what you believe in as your compass through the storm.
Keep Coming Forward,
Jimmy Hensel
