Atlas, From the Streets to the Ring;

I don’t know how you feel about boxing, but there is something we can all learn from the sport. Boxing is a brutal sport, requiring intense training again and again over long periods of time. Furthermore, the deciding moments of a fight are seconds long. Three punches can mean the difference between a knockout and a decision victory. Whatever you do, you can learn from the crystallized toughness of boxers.

Check out Atlas by Teddy Atlas. Teddy Atlas is a fantastic boxing trainer who has a spellbinding story. The book is well written and engaging. Furthermore, the book will help you stay the path, and get you to your long-term goals. Teddy Atlas has mastered weathering short term storms for achieving long-term goals. From his autobiography; “at a certain point, if he’s going to get to the top of the boxing profession, he’s going to have to learn the truth. The truth is that if you give up, that you will realize, that any of those punches that you thought you couldn’t deal with, or those rough moments you couldn’t get through are just that. They are moments.” Moments pass.

No matter what you are going through today, keep in mind they are moments. This to shall pass. And you can be better for it. You can’t live with the thought that you gave up.