RIVER RIDGE RANCH RULE #5

One of the biggest ways to get taken out in life is to lose perspective. Keeping a positive attitude in rough weather and long periods of personal drought is the difference between winning and losing. 

We gotta remember this world is a battlefield, not a playground. Thats why God told us to put on the full armor of God. The wind and rain are gonna come. We have to enjoy the good times but not lose heart in bad times.

Proverbs 4:23 warns us about this:

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows  from it.

In the book, Trails Best Traveled, Jack takes the men back in time to gold mining days with a visit to an abandoned mine. After experiencing firsthand the hardships life dealt every day, he wraps up the lesson by saying:

 “Men are constantly asking if they have what it takes to compete in the arena. The problem is we use the wrong scorecard. We don’t assign enough value to getting knocked down and then getting back up again. That takes courage. All we focus on is the loss. Then we let the opinion of others, who didn’t take the risk, have too much weight.” 

A miner would have to have a huge reason to endure the day to day of their existence. It may have been purely out of the shallowness of wanting to become rich. Still, he had the big ‘why’ we talk about. Then it was about setting your mind right.

Goal setting really isn’t that tough. You decide what it is you want, figure out the time and effort it's going to cost, and then you pay the price. 

Men that make it have a strategic plan; they expect to win. They also expect to suffer hardship in order to get to the mountaintop. They find a way to enjoy the process, even the grind, knowing it strengthens them. When things get tough, or on a losing streak, they stay the course. To them, a loss is just a lesson. They won’t let the negative into their hearts and persist to the finish line. 

There is no quit in them."

Remember: SOMEONE IS RIDING A TOUGHER TRAIL THAN YOU