Here’s How To Extract Your Extraordinary Value.

A rock is a rock until it’s polished.

Know how to find a needle in a haystack? Burn it down.

Sounds aggressive. Becoming that needle, and withstanding the fires revealing your value requires resilience. Like stormy seas make better captains, your value to your self and others is refined by struggle.

Remember, every expert in every endeavor started as a novice. Experts exit the galvanizing gauntlet better for the experience. In search of excellence? There’s testing required. Beneath the heals of travelers trekking to see a mighty Sequoia that’s withstood 1000 years of wind, rain, fire, earthquakes and freezing are countless wilted flowers.

Bringing your A game means toting your proficiencies to the plate. Grandmas are beloved because their A game is forged in the tempests of life. Star players are admired because their suffering results in pinnacle performances. Successful business leaders, the ones we like to talk about, have battled the biggest threats to their survival.

Ever wonder if you’re making a difference? The question haunts me frequently. It alights itself when I hang around people without an agenda who seemingly are as happy as anyone else. While their happy factor may be high, their contribution to the world factor may be low. They’re having fun, but…