If someone is holding you to a standard you don't want in the moment, it's often because they believe in you more than you believe in yourself. When those around watch you quit on yourself and say nothing, that's because they expect just that out of you.

Just because you have knowledge doesn't mean you can apply it or teach it. Great. You're really good at trivia. Congrats. Now go learn to apply that information when things are getting escalated.

When you know you are doing it, and continue to do it, then it's no longer a habit. It's now an active choice you are making.

Your ego will hold you back way more than anything else when you need to be the best to be satisfied. I have a desire to do well and to win. But my joy in a thing isn't tied to that result. Did I do my best with what I have? Did I improve? And can I still keep growing? That's what I need to know.

The point of training is to be uncomfortable. So why do we like to complain when that's where we get to? I do it to at times. So I get it. But I can flip the switch quickly to keep going because I practice these skills. Can you?

We want to be offended. We want to give excuses. We want to be right. Accept that, talk back to yourself, and move on so you can get better.

It's not the event that created the emotion, it was your mind. You can choose to bring yourself down a negative path or you can choose to solve problems.

You're free to make all the choices you want. I'm also free to ask you to take your unaligned values somewhere else.

Being able to move past what you desired to happen and continue trying to solve the problems in front of you is a great skill. That will take you far in life.

By the very nature of a limit, when you find it, you should fail. That's the point. Learn from the failure, adapt, and go again. The point of training is to continously hit those limits and move them further and further.