Puke & Rally: It's Not About The Setback, It's About The Comeback
No one can avoid it.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, coach, executive, or full-time mom or dad, you’ll face setbacks. Everyone that has reached a level of success and significance has messed up and failed.
There will be turmoil, hardships, and extreme adversity. It is just when rather than if you’ll encounter them.
Despite our mistakes, pain, and even being told that we are not good enough we can still rally!
It’s not about the setback, it’s about the comeback!
In this book you’ll apply:
•Why just one mistake derails the best plans, but you’ll rally if you can overcome this error.
•Being told or shown that you’re not good enough is actually the key to success.
•Why more people die coming down Mount Everest than climbing up.
•That the process is more important than the product.
•The greatest mental skill that you’ll need to comeback.
•The most powerful lightning strikes are from out of the blue.
Reviews (46)
Good Read...
Quick read, relevant stories to bring home the points of the book. I would recommend the book for those who think it’s about the end goal and not the process...
Superb and actionable content!
Superb book that utilizes powerful quotes and experiences to bring tools that anyone can apply to their lives. Dr. Bell does a splendid job delivering actional and relevant content and I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in bolstering their mental toughness, which should be everyone.
Simple & Effective
Great job of straight forward concepts/principles followed up by real life examples that we can all identify with! I will use this as a great resource moving forward.
Awesome book!
Dr. Rob Bell's book are great for both athletes and parents! This book is great for time we are in now.
Perfect Motivational Book!
Incredible book! Perfect to read each morning to get you started for the day! Also, great for kids, especially in sports!
Dr. Bell hits a homerun with this book!
Great perspective with real life information/stories.
Uplifting Pep Talk
This is a quick and powerful read with many unique inspiring stories and quotable messages. I am a coach and like to be able to relay messages through stories and this book has many inspiring stories about different people from different walks of life that have had set backs and have overcome them. Dr. Rob Bell had taken these stories and made them relatable and inspiring. I now have to reread it and highlight all the motivational quotes. Full disclosure I have received this book free from a promotional contest. I have heard Dr. Bell speak at many different functions. I am a fan. He has a way of telling stories with positive messages that stick with you for a long time.
Encouragement for Life's Tough Times
Years ago, I read Scott Peck's "The Road Less Traveled," that began with the sentence, "life is difficult." Indeed life is, as Dr. Bell notes in his latest book, with the provocative title, "Puke & Rally." Dr. Bell makes the point that we all face setbacks in life which can occur for a number of reasons, including our own blunders, the words and actions of others, and, circumstances over which we have little or no control. Dr. Bell begins with his own story, an attempt to run a 50K trail race. During the race, he became severely dehydrated, and eventually, using his own word, "puked," not once, but several times. He left the race to return to the cabin he and his family were renting. Once there, he faced the fact he had given up. After some food and more thought, or what he calls a "who are you?" moment, he decided to return to the course and finish the race. He came in last, but had the satisfaction of accomplishing what he set out to do. He described his experience with the words that became the title of the book. The remainder of the book deals with the effects of setbacks, the recipe for comebacks, and a look at why the process we go through is just as important if not more so than the product or result we were seeking. Along the way, he offers illustrative examples from the real life experiences of various people, including former Green Bay Packers quarterback, Brett Favre, swimmer Diana Nyad, and golfer, Jordan Spieth. I found the book realistic in the descriptions of how we all "puke" at times (and no one escapes such experiences), and how we can choose to "rally" to move ahead. I would highly recommend this book to all readers for the truth that Dr. Bell tells and the inspiration he offers.
We can’t control what happens to us but we can control our response to it.
Puke & Rally sounds like the mantra of a warrior but it's also the title of a book written by @drrobbell. I sat on my back deck drinking coffee and finished reading it this morning. Dr Bell and I met a few years ago at the @NHSSCA NAT CON and I've followed him on social media since then. I have several books of his and this book was an excellent read filled some very interesting stories. Rob does an outstanding job blending facts, with stories of the famous and the not so famous, for making the information both practical and relatable. Basically everyone pukes (adversity/setbacks) in life on numerous occasions, but it's how you deal with puking that makes the difference. Do you overcome the circumstances and rally a comeback or do you just quit and tapout? It depends on your contactions (I didn't even know it was a word), communications and connections. Again, our relationships that we form do matter. This book has so many wonderful quotes and informative tidbits that I plan to share with my own daughter as well as my student/athletes. This book is a must read to educate yourself on how to Puke & Rally!!!
We all puke in life and that’s ok!
“There is no reward for playing it safe in life.” -Dr. Rob Bell This book made me seriously evaluate where I am in my journey. What I learned is that in my present state I had puked, and at this moment had been content with living in the setback. By writing this book Dr. Rob Bell has acted as a lightning rod, igniting a fire that is part of my rally (comeback). We all puke and so it is ok. What is not ok is staying in the setback and accepting it as reality. Dr. Rob takes his reader through the journey of others whom have at some time puked in their journey only to see their Hinge moment become the catalyst for their rally. Well done sir! Well done.
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