Your Thursday Three Things for June 19, 2025

When Life Doesn’t Ask Permission - The Unbreakable Mindset

Some people choose hardship. Others have it thrust upon them.
But no matter how it arrives, adversity doesn’t ask if you’re ready.

It kicks in the door.
Shows up uninvited.
Demands a response.

And here’s what most people don’t want to hear:
You don’t get to decide if life will test you.
You only get to decide how you’ll show up when it ultimately does.

Pain is a certainty.
Loss is a given.
But brokenness… brokenness is optional.

We often think of resilience as some lofty, theoretical quality. But really, it’s the practical work of:

• Making your bed when grief is choking you.

• Showing up to work when your confidence is gone.

• Choosing honesty when shame says hide.

• Saying “Let’s go again” when failure screams “Quit.”

• Getting back up every single time you get knocked down - even when the world says it’s ok to stay down!

There’s a reason why people with a military background often display such extreme clarity under pressure:
They’ve trained to treat chaos like an old friend.
They don’t just “hope” for mental toughness. They build it brick by brick, rep by rep, discomfort by discomfort.

And this is a topic we explored deeply in our recent episode of the Men Talking Mindfulness Podcast with someone who knows this better than most. Nick Lavery, Special Forces operator (Green Beret) lost his leg… and then, after being almost forced into medical retirement, chose to return to active combat. Not just survive. Thrive.

His story isn’t about heroics. It’s about what happens when you refuse to be defined by loss.
🎧 (Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/2e6429)

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