“The most successful people I know have a high tolerance for pain,” Leila Hormozi.  I’m on the fence with this one but felt it was an interesting point to address.  It isn’t necessarily that they have tolerance for pain but they have a tolerance for adapting to the unexpected and unknown.  They have a knack for compartmentalizing things.  They can look beyond the pain to do what needs to be done—they keep their eye on the prize and not the hurt.  Their main focus is identifying barriers to their goal and eliminating them so they can do the work they need to do to reach that goal.  They also have a high tolerance to persist.  They don’t let initial mistakes or failures stop them and they’re always willing to try something else.  They may get knocked down but they will certainly get back up.  It’s that drive to keep going no matter what that brings success. 

As I wrote that I understood how that may look like a tolerance for pain—but we all define pain differently.  When we keep our thoughts in line and have a firm sense of self as our foundation, less things can bother us.  We don’t let emotion make decisions. So that in itself is another key: successful people feel but they don’t get caught up in the feeling and they don’t make decisions at the height of that feeling.  The feeling doesn’t alter the scope or trajectory of their goal.  Resilience is a huge factor in the end result we see—we get what we put in.  It’s a matter of making a choice based on what we value and our ability to rise to the challenge.  Get up on the days we feel weak and keep doing something productive—keep the momentum going.