Choose Your Battles Wisely In A Workout

You must have the right context to win, in everything.

The right context for a workout is to choose your battles carefully and to determine your goals and objectives with equal care. The goal is survival, the objective is debt reduction so you may operate successfully (and yes, profitably), but hold your context as you set your course.

You have no right to debt reduction, it must be a carefully choreographed negotiation with victories taken where and when they can be won. Compromise is the rule when necessary and as appropriate. Reasonableness is the watchword, survival the victory. In short, choose your battles. You do not have to win them all, you simply must win enough to survive, turning your cash flow positive.

I offer you the following words of wisdom to guide you: Press on. No matter what they say to you, victory is not always about winning, but is really about doing. This is the spirit of entrepreneurship. Do it, fall, get up again and do it again.

It is 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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

A workout is about winning but failure is a mindset. A true entrepreneur never fails, he simply learns another lesson, a valuable lesson, and lives to fight again.