Happy Monday Mindset!
250 years ago this past weekend, a group of men signed their names to what the most powerful empire on earth saw as a death warrant.
They were not desperate.
Many were wealthy and comfortable.
They bet all of it against the largest military on earth, and they knew the odds.
Here is the part we forget.
Freedom is not comfort.
It is not safety.
It is not the absence of struggle.
Freedom is the weight.
The freedom to build means the freedom to fail.
The freedom to choose means you own every consequence.
Most people say they want that.
What they actually want is to be taken care of without being told what to do.
Those two cannot coexist.
That is the whole game of turning adversity into advantage.
The weight is not the thing crushing you.
The weight is the thing building you.
The setback you are carrying right now is the raw material.
You do not escape it.
You author it.
This week: in honor of our forefathers, pick the hard thing you have been avoiding and own it fully.
That is where the advantage lives.
Bryce Henson
CEO / Speaker / Coach
