As a follow up to our last post, “How to Beat Adversity, Obstacles, and Other Crisis In Your Life,” we wanted to share with you the most important component on that list. The umbrella over it all, for us. We want to share it with you not to shove it down your throat or be obscene about it, but because it is who we are at the core and we always want to be transparent about that. Emphasis on always. Introducing our F-word. We have a few of them, but not the one you think. Failure is one of our favorites, because we have such a gratitude for the opportunity (more…)

We all have crisis. If you are not in it now, you’ve been in it before, and you will likely be in it again. And perhaps again, and again. We (Aly and Andrea) happen to be in it now, personally, and in an unimaginably huge way. Perhaps because we are motivational speakers, and most see us as just about the “happiest people they know,” you probably don’t believe us when we say this is a very sad, difficult family crisis we are going through right now. It is. We’ll tell you all about it another day, but we know we’ll get through it, past it, and beyond it. The question for you becomes, how do you get past your life-crisis? Better yet, how will they shape you?
We did not become the “adversity experts” for no reason. We have been here, in the middle of awful, many times before and we have a system. We know the critical components to beating and thriving amongst the adversity. Here are some of our favorites:

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