I want you to save this.
I want you to remember this.
I’m going to tell you a quote that I read every single day. It’s The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt. I’m going to give it to you so you have somewhere to go back and read it throughout the year as you need it, because I think I want more people to be in the arena this year.
I want more people taking action this year. I want more people understanding that there is no fame, fortune, and reward to being on the sidelines and in the stands you have to be on the fucking field. So let’s go!
“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs; who come short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt.
Get out there this year.
Win fast, win often.
Set your gate, your daily plan, set your intention, set your target, set your initiatives.
Get after it because no matter what, at the end of the year, if you know you were in the arena doing the deeds all year, you’ll be satisfied no matter what the outcomes actually are.
Touch the line this year.
Play through the whistle.
Do not let one moment go by this year where you are not intentionally trying to win.
Stop being a passenger in your own life and get in the arena!
