Have you ever asked yourself, “Why me?”

I know I have plenty of times. Sometimes life and circumstances can have you feeling like up is down and down is down. Problems you would rather avoid can hit you out of the blue and really take your head out of the game.

I experience this, I’m sure you experience this, and I would imagine we all do—even the most successful of people. In fact, I watched the women’s Wimbledon finals this morning. Serena Williams was playing—I’m a Serena fan—but today she just wasn’t at her best.

She got beat pretty badly. I didn’t watch to see what she had to say about the match in her interview afterward, but as I watched her play, I wondered whether she has moments where she asks, “Why me?” like the rest of us. 

I thought about all the millions of dollars she makes as a tennis player and business woman. I thought about the millions of adoring fans she has, all over the...