You’ve been hit hard? Your plans fell apart? The other side isn’t playing by the rules?

Good. Good, that’s what Jocko Willink said. 

Good. This is an opportunity. It’s also a trial that will make you stronger. 

“He has won without glory who has won without peril,” Seneca wrote. “Mucius was tested by fire, Fabricius by poverty, Rutilius by exile, Regulus by tortue, Socrates by poison, Cato by death. One cannot find a great exemplug except in misfortune.”

To the Stoics, a life without adversity was a life without virtue. Virtue needs the struggle. It wants the challenge, it rises to it. 

So yeah, things have been rough. Yeah, you have been hit hard. 

But good! 

This is making you better, making you into something stronger, wiser, more resilient. 

Which is why you’re not complaining. No, you’re grateful.

Amor Fati. 

P.S. Amor fati is a mindset that you take on to make the best out of anything that happens. Learn more about it here , or if you want a physical reminder to help keep it constantly top of mind, get yourself an amor fati medallion to carry in your pocket or an amor fati pendant to wear around your neck.