Have you ever had anything bring you to the point
that you weren't sure if you could get out of this?
Somehow it's not the one thing
but it's everything. It's everything you
went through all the years before and to find out that the things are
never gonna stop coming at you that finally brings you to the point
that you say, you know what? I'm not sure I wanna get up
out of the bed in the morning if all I got to face is another fight.
Maybe you have doubt in your life
maybe you don't know for sure what's gonna be happening in the future and
it scares you. Just that fear paralyzes you
and I just want to ask you today do you think you have hope?
You can't stop life from happening. You can do something about it.
Life is 10% of what happens to you it's 90% what you do about it.
You got to stop tripping every time something happens to you
like it's the end of the world it ain't.
It's not the end until you've given up.
Either you lie to yourself
and get bitter and blame everybody
for your own weaknesses or you strengthen yourself.
You see, muscle muscle is created
by repeatedly lifting things that have been designed to weigh us down
so when your shoulders feel heavy stand up straight
lift your chin hell, call it exercise.
Remember that life is a gym membership
with a really complicated cancellation policy.
Remember that you will survive.
Remember things could be worse.
Remember we are never
ever given anything that we can't handle. When the world crumbles around you
you have to look at the wreckage and then build a new one
out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember you
are still here.
The human heart beats approximately 4000 times per hour
and each pulse each throb
each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words
you are still alive. You are still alive.
Act like it. If you don't have something in front of you
you stop fighting you stop dreaming
you stop reaching. You need to have
something knocks you to your knees. You'll never discover what's inside of you
until something challenges you. Life don't give you what you want
life gives you what you'll accept. If you will accept failure
hardships disappointment
that's exactly what life's gonna give you, right? If you wanna win
you gotta show up and demand for yourself success and fulfillment
and happiness. In spite of all those feelings every day
of just giving up of just quitting
in spite of all that it's gonna be your ability somehow
to muster up the courage to flush that out
to reach down deep and find something inside of you
that will allow you to go for it one more time.
Adversity defines true character.
Don't quit. Don't collapse.
Don't faint. Don't give in.
Don't succumb to depression. Either way you go, you gotta fight.
All of us we got the same ending
we're gonna die. So if you know you're going to die
why are you playing it safe? I'm gonna build something.
I'm gonna make something happen. I am not going to live and die
and not leave anything in the earth as a sign that I was here
I'm gonna build something. I will not settle.
Even if I have to start over even if it took longer than I expected
even if I had to make payments even if I have to crawl on my belly
I will not give up on my dreams. I will not neutralize my tenacity.
I will not give up on my integrity. I will fight every day.
If you knock me down you're gonna have to do it tomorrow
'cause I'll get back up again. I will not go quietly away into the night.