Shit happens. Not everything will go your way. Are you going to sit their and mope or are you going to stand-up, throw some punches of your own, and make a fight out of it?
According to the Top Definition on Urban Dictionary roll with the punches means “When things don’t go your way and you adapt to the changes and keep moving ahead instead of flipin[sic?] out.”
Being adaptable, and flexible to predicaments, is a skill that we all need to master. For me, it’s not something that comes easy. I have always been above-average in almost everything I do, and almost always achieve above average results. Sometimes the cards don’t fall my way. I have to remember to roll with the punches instead of flipping out.
Benefit of Good Habits
Even when times are hard it’s important to stay true to the good habits you’ve spent time cultivating. Successful habits are the path to success whether you’re building upon a snowball of good fortune or find yourself under an avalanche of crap. There’s a reason why so many successes have also suffered huge failures. It’s not because they’re only capable of success, but because they took hardship as a learning experience instead of an indication of failure.
Charlie Shrem
Today I learned about a man named Charlie Shrem. He’s Bitcoin’s “first felon” as outlined by this CoinDesk article. Basically he was imprisoned for knowingly operating a Bitcoin exchange where some of the Bitcoin was used in black-market transactions.
He’s free from his jail sentence now, and instead of pouting about prison, he’s even more convinced blockchain, and Bitcoin, is the way forward. Seeing the mackerel trading market between inmates more than assured him of the future of cryptocurrency. His jail time can certainly be seen as a punch to roll with, and that’s exactly what he’s doing. Even his blog’s homepage has a link to his blog titled Onward .
My Boxing Ring
The punches being thrown at me are nowhere close to jail-time. Instead of getting beat down by a few hard punches thrown my way, I am using every ounce of my body weight to make sure I throw some punches back. I know, in time, the habits I’ve developed, and the mindset I possess, will land me a knockout punch. I just have to keep rolling with punches as they come, and trying to land my own as I go. Onward.