What does one do when life knocks you down, cause it will at some point.

Horrible crap is going to happen in life. Embrace that fact. Allow set backs to be without resisting. The event is not in your control… however, what happens next is. You get to choose. Are you going to become the victim or the student? I dug my way out of this career-ending injury, fighting depression, loss of purpose and direction. Shit happens. I had to re-invent myself and find a new purpose, or write a new chapter building on the same purpose.

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I share this insight because I’ve been through it multiple times, feeling doubt and the temptation to give up. And at times, I did… only temporarily. The ultimate solution is to get knocked down 6 times, but get up 7!

Below is an excerpt from the book, FLYING WITHOUT A NET 2.0

“Nooooooo!”

With seconds remaining, I stood at the center of the backstage tent, set to attempt something I shouldn’t have.

Thud!

The pain hit as if a surgeon forgot to give his patient morphine while he poked and prodded exposed flesh with a blowtorch.

I clenched my jaw and breathed heavily through flared nostrils. My body tensed. My temperature rocketed. The veins in my arms bulged and my tongue turned dry, yet leaked a strange taste. I wanted to puke. The brows of my forehead contracted.

I closed my eyes, but pain and curiosity pried them open, so I looked down at my right leg. It curved and kinked askew, mimicking the left from the perspective of a warped looking glass. I took in long, deep breaths to fight the discomfort, lungs pounding against my ribcage.

Breathe, deep and slow, Vital.

Nothing changed.

Why today?

Ah, no worries, it’s nothing. Just a minor sprain.

No, I can tell this is bad. I know it. This is the end. Why me?

Stop. It’s not the end. Think positive. Exhale.