Uncommon by Tony Dungy
Author:Tony Dungy [Dungy, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Men, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
ISBN: 9781414363950
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2011-02-21T05:00:00+00:00
Toughness
I was recently talking about hardships with James Brown, the studio host of The NFL on CBS. He said that he has been called an âovernight success,â and then he shook his head and laughed. âYeah. After the first twenty years of toiling, sure . . . then it was overnight.â
To me, this shows toughness. Our players so often talk about being âtough,â but Iâm not sure they grasp what that truly means. Toughness is shown in how you respond to adversity. Can you respond without losing your footing and your direction? If so, that shows me that youâre tough. Life is messy. We donât always get a happy ending, and sometimes the middle isnât so happy either. You never really know how tough people are until they encounter the rough spots. Weâre all tough when things are going our way. Weâre all tough when weâre getting the breaks. Thatâs easy.
But the truly tough man is the one who stays grounded in his values and focused on his goals when things are challenging. When things in life donât go according to plan, the tough man will exhibit a determination to reach his goal no matter the obstacles.
I try to give our players some latitude and allow them to fail so they can learn to respond to problems and then grow. Toughness, even on the football field, is more appropriately thought of as mental, not physical, endurance.
People often ask the question, âWhy does God allow bad things to happen to good people?â Obviously, there are no easy answers to that question. But I do know this: God is constantly working in us through it all, molding and shaping us into what He created us to be, and itâs in the valleys of our failures where He is working the hardest, making us into something uncommon.
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Keys for Your Full Potential
1. Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think.
2. Build high expectations into others.
3. What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.
4. Your education matters. Donât cut cornersâyouâll only cheat yourself if you donât learn the material.
5. Sports are great . . . as a complement to academics.
6. Find employment that excites you for reasons beyond the salary.
7. Make conservative decisions with debt.
8. Donât take hassles from work home with you.
9. Goals are important, but make sure they are worthy goalsâyou just might reach them!
10. Donât fear riskâlife is an adventure, not a dress rehearsal.
11. Make the best decisions you can after deliberation and prayer, but donât second-guess yourself. You did the best you could.
12. Be careful with mind-altering substances, even legal ones. Addiction can sneak up and destroy your life.
13. Donât be afraid to be different.
14. You will fail. Remember that, but donât fear it.
15. True toughness is how you respond to adversity.
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