If you are having a bad day, a bad training or even just a bad roll, don’t let it get to you. Accept that those days are going to happen and most importantly, don’t become your own nail. It’s going to suck but you will have to get over it and work through it. That being said, when you are the hammer don’t get ahead of yourself. This is all comes down to ego, if you let that one good day fuel and inflate your ego then the next time you’re the nail you will get hit twice as hard. Similarly, if you let the bad days break you down you will never make it to see those good days.
The bad days, just like the good days and the in-between days are all inevitable. I find that, the more I train, more often I am the nail. While most of my hammer days appear after I’ve had a few days’ in-between sessions. This may be a personal discovery, but both of these types of days are few and far between. This leaves a majority of training as middle ground, where you can keep showing up and slowly grind away. At the end of the day training is never about winning or losing, it’s about always getting better and improving.
Editor's note: Keep this in mind - It's the nail that holds everything together when the hammer is done with its job.
Eleanor Wright
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