You can make life a lot harder for yourself by focusing on negative things in your path or making excuses for why things didn't go your way. Or, you … - Tom Brady

You can make life a lot harder for yourself by focusing on negative things in your path or making excuses for why things didn’t go your way. Or, you can refuse to take things personally, let them go, learn from them, and become the best version of yourself. It’s a choice. It’s actually your choice.

At TB12, balance is as much about creating the right mixture of strength, conditioning, and pliability as it is about lifestyle choices — what we eat, how much rest and recovery we get, and what daily activities we engage in. The more balanced we are, the better. In my experience, most athletes like to work on things that they’re already good at. It reinforces their confidence in their own abilities. Strong athletes like to work on strength, and fast athletes like to work on speed. But that doesn’t create balance. To create balance, we need to work on our deficiencies as well.

Wisdom, someone said, is about knowing the difference between the things you can control and the things you can’t.

Mental toughness is an attitude centered on doing the best you can in the present, while believing you can do even better in the future.