There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.
I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.
When we get bad shots, it's hard to rebound and it's also harder to come back in transition defense.
How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.
Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.
Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
Whenever I do anything, I need to take 15 or 20 minutes, maybe longer, to regroup.
