Tough Searching Means Toughness at Your Core...

I have known young professionals who were so tough that they could win the SuperBowl or the World's Cup...if theirs was a sport....their sport was business and starting their career professionally....they are so tough...they are ageless...I mean young in their 20's or old...er...

They are male and female.  My favorite in my recent life is a younger woman, so highly professionally accomplished, she just has immense power...because she is clear at her core what matters to her about her professional goals, her professional stature, she is a formidable force....so the tough ones are the ones who can be like El Wood, and take on Congress!  We lack a few of those on Wall Street just now...

In all that I have written about the fact that the biggest gifts come to you and you cannot reach and touch them.....I am NOT suggesting that we be lazy, or relaxed or asleep!

I have referred to my team as NFL ready...that means "playing injured"...what does that mean?

It means we are tough, at our inner core, not lazy or entitled by birth, Daddy, Mommy, or wealth, or family.
We are soooo tough...we are professional...we measure every word...we watch intently what others are doing...on their own and to us....we do not take abuse...actively or passively.

When I am teaching, if students abuse the classroom and chit-chat, they either respect me and their fellow students or they leave at once...that is tough...

Students should not take placation or mediocrity from their peers...if they do, they are weak and not individuals, not leaders...they are more interested in being popular and seen as stirring up their party, not serious at all as professional students...this is a close call by professors, I know...

...I just know I demand toughness....

Life demands toughness.

Flashes will come to those who are rigorously tough on themselves and those whom they love...
......for the folks who just expect life to be this big gift-giving parent or government, or someone with money...they are not yet tough....enough....

Tough enough is what it takes to survive, yet alone thrive, yet alone live for flashes...

I think the Four Flashes of Life I write about come to those who have achieved "toughness" at their core, not children of parents, or parents themselves who have everything nicely worked out...every detail picked off and played out....

The "tough" inherit the full life, the pursuit of happiness....

Soooo, if you think you are not yet tough enough....at whatever age....you are probably right....you need less comfort, less what you are used to, less of someone taking care of you...you may or may not know what this means if you slip into someone's comfort and your own....

If this angers you, you are surely not tough at all!

If this worries you,....good, we are on the path for a better life.............