Have you ever had a moment where it feels like everything's going against you?
It feels like the weight of the world has fallen on your shoulders. You're thinking about quitting. You're thinking about giving up. It's hard. It's hard living your dream. It's hard changing your life.
Once you've been knocked out by life, it's hard to pull yourself together and go back again. You're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to have a lot of failures. You're going to have a lot of struggles. You're going to feel dumb and ask questions and don't know what to do or where to go.
You got to know why you're out here, 'cause you're going to get your ass kicked by life when the storms of life come. And they're going to come when life pounces on you. And that's going to happen when it catches you on the blind side and drops you to your knees. And that's going to happen when your plans don't work out, when you start running out of money, when you want to give up.
Your reasons will be your source of strength that will comfort you. Your reasons are the things that will help you get back up and try once again. That moment of extreme adversity is the best moment for audacity. It's the moment where you can flip everything and turn every trial you have right now into treasure.
Sometimes you need to step back, meditate, and recharge. Sometimes you got to go away for a little while. Clear your head, view your situation from a different angle, and try another approach. Don't ever claim that you're a failure. You're only ever a failure when you stop trying.
Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." As long as you're trying, you have another chance to win. Don't allow your emotions to control you. We are emotional creatures, but you got to learn to discipline your emotions, discipline your thinking, staying focused on the goal and not allowing your feelings and unproductive thoughts to get in the way of your progress.
If you don't discipline and control your emotions and thoughts, they will use you. You must have faith. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in your abilities, your ideas, your vision, unquestionably. And when you get punched in the face by life and you feel broken inside, you got to be able to say to yourself, I've got to do this, this is what I'm supposed to do.
This is why I showed up. You've got to talk to yourself day in and day out, selling yourself on you and on your potential. And all I want you to do every day is just say to yourself, when you feel that inner negative conversation saying you can't do it, you got to shut that voice down. Tell it to shut up. Tell yourself I can handle this, I can do this. I can get through this. I want you to stand up inside of yourself and demand that no matter how many failures I endure, I must keep going.
No matter how many rejections I have to face, I must keep going. Regardless of the trials and tribulations that come against me. I must keep going.
