The easy street to greatness doesn’t exist. Contrary to the excuses we make, greatness is never achieved without encountering adversity.

Failure is a cruel professor. We’re told to embrace it and learn from it, but failure comes crashing down out of nowhere and destroys our best laid plans.

One moment you’re a on top of the world, and the next you’re broke and sleeping on your sister’s couch.

That’s exactly what happened to my friend, Lewis Howes.