How is your attitude to resilience?

Hi, this is David Sammel with another podcast. I'm very tired, but I'm also very happy and delighted that Liam Broady, after our 3rd challenger together back in 2014, in Charlottesville, Virginia, lost his first final. Since then, he's made seven others and lost them all.And finally, yesterday, he won his first challenger. Now, this is what resilience is all about. We all think that we are ready. And often before, we are not quite ready. And if I look back at all the finals he played, he wasn't favoured in any of them. Definitely one or two of them, he could have won the others, he just wasn't quite good enough. But today, he went in as the favourite and very calmly executed his game and the level that he had was good enough to win that final. And so he did. Resilience is it's a, it's a strange thing, really, because I think so much of it relies on getting up and going again after disappointment. But importantly, it's the way that you get up and go again, I know a lot of people who are resilient and that they keep going at something that they're trying to achieve. But they either feel sorry for themselves while they're doing it, or they're angry while they're doing it, or frustrated all the time, whilst they're trying to get things right. And the attitude at which you have resilience is so so important. In, in my opinion, that you get up and go again, of course, you know, after disappointment, you may be, you know, have a couple of hours of disappointment. But then when you go again, you need to do it happily. Because when you go about your work happily, there is a greater chance that you gain to learn faster. And also, why not, you know, if you're going to carry on, you always have a choice, you either carry on or stop. And if you're going to carry on, why not dirt with a sense of enjoyment? Otherwise, what are you doing it for? It's, it's, it's also a choice of attitude. And if you know, the right things to do, and you just got to get better at them. Why be miserable while you're doing it. Just put a smile on your face. And not every single day, of course, there are days where we've all fallen tougher than others days when we're a little bit tired or a little bit irritable. And that's normal. So, you know, this is not about being a saint, or, you know, smiley all the time and happy every moment because that's not reality. However, overall, you should be in a place where you enjoy what you do. And therefore, when you must have resilience, and you must keep getting up off the floor and going again, that you do it with a sense of enjoyment, and a sense of belief in your process that no matter how long it takes, you will get there. And of course, I have a saying that I put in my book, Locker Room Power - work hard, do the right things and good things will happen, you just never know when. Certainly, after that first final with Liam Broady seven years ago, little did either of us realise that it would take seven years before he wins a title. But you know what, we just kept going and now we're here. And, of course, it would have been nice if it happened earlier. But you know, this is the journey that we're taking, and who knows whether it's not ultimately a better journey, because of all the hardships that we had to overcome, and all the things that we learnt in overcoming hardships. So, signing off again today, and go out and have a week of happy resilience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices