In the Arena
Published: Sun, 06/25/23
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It's the age of incessant opinions.
Not only does everyone have one, there's no shortage of ways to broadcast them for all the world to see.
So much so that it's easy to get lost in the dissonance, allowing the negative clamor to drown out your creativity and focus.
But remember this: the critics are not the ones in the arena.
You are.
You're navigating the ever-changing wholesaling landscape, building relationships, crafting strategies, and driving growth.
The critics?
They're merely spectators.
Sitting in the cheap seats with partially obstructed views.
Naysayers will trail behind us throughout our careers, ready to critique and cast doubt.
You are the doer - and the world needs more doers like you, not critics like them.
“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 in 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
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Rob
p.s. Friendly suggestion: if you have a high profile advisor event in mind for early fall, start your planning today by checking out how WOWvitations™ can put the right cheeks in your events' seats.
Not only does everyone have one, there's no shortage of ways to broadcast them for all the world to see.
So much so that it's easy to get lost in the dissonance, allowing the negative clamor to drown out your creativity and focus.
But remember this: the critics are not the ones in the arena.
You are.
You're navigating the ever-changing wholesaling landscape, building relationships, crafting strategies, and driving growth.
The critics?
They're merely spectators.
Sitting in the cheap seats with partially obstructed views.
Naysayers will trail behind us throughout our careers, ready to critique and cast doubt.
You are the doer - and the world needs more doers like you, not critics like them.
“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 in 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
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Rob
p.s. Friendly suggestion: if you have a high profile advisor event in mind for early fall, start your planning today by checking out how WOWvitations™ can put the right cheeks in your events' seats.