as coach jay said you're in a fight between will and skill I say will first
because that's where you are you're locked and loaded with skill you're
studying everyday you're putting in your work you're buying everything your books
pins no paths you're making the investment you're living your dream
you're walking like your dream you're surrounding yourself with your dream
you're studying until late and night and waking up early to do it all over again
you've put your work in you've got your skill and now it's the test of your will
it's a mindset thing during right now it's a mindset thing because your
challenge isn't moving your mountain is not moving you don't feel like you're
making any progress you're not physically moving when you see
everything else around you and other people around you moving you're not
making progress you're in a test of your will right now because life says it has
a little more tests for you it's no different because you messed up because
you fell off the wagon because you failed an exam two exams three exams you
gave up on your studying you dropped out last year and you really want your dream
to happen and you're putting in your work and nothing's happening yet like
tom bill you said there will be times in your life where it will seem like the
world is literally coming after you and in those moments if rather than panic if
rather than letting your mind run away from you rather than getting bitter or
angry or frustrated if you remember in those times that forcing yourself to
push through it forcing yourself to find the opportunity forcing yourself to find
the lesson in all the chaos and disorder that is
what is going to be the very thing that brings you success failed an exam good
next time study harder next time study smarter next time obtain more resources
to help you it's actually failures it's falling over and over it's having
difficult times those are the things that allow people to really find and tap
into the thing that's going to allow them to achieve what they want to
achieve and that's how you should look at failure you don't look at it like
everyone's going to point and laugh it's an opportunity you just need to see it
because it's going to push you to study harder it's going to push you to study
longer and I know that's not fun that's not what anybody wants to hear but the
reality is if you want to achieve something great in your life you've got
to be going into the hard places you've got to be facing down the difficult
things you've got to be going down that road that is intrinsically difficult
it's untamed and in that in that sense that it's coming after you in that sense
that you've entered truly hostile territory in that is the very thing that
will lift you up and allow you to do things that your classmates have never
done their friends have never done that's exactly why the terrain seems
hostile that's exactly why it seems like everything is crashing down around you
because you've ventured into the unknown but it's only in the unknown you're
going to be able to find yourself it's only in the
know you're going to be able to accomplish something that other people
think is impossible but they only think it's impossible because no one's ever
done it whatever you're studying study it with all your might
so as you go into this wilderness of the untamed as you venture into this
dangerous territory don't like a bat out of hell
don't like you've got something to prove don't with the chip on your shoulder
don't knowing that you're going to face danger don't know him you're going to
have to stand up for yourself and they're going to have to fight for what
you believe don't knowing that you've got to get smarter
don't knowing that right now you're not the person you need to be in order to
get the grades that you need go now knowing that failure is guaranteed go
now knowing that in that failure you will learn what you need and by being
willing to face that failure and be willing to learn from that and putting
all of your energy into getting better and at taking responsibility and
focusing on who you want to become and looking at only where you want to go in
doing that you get the lift that you need in order to soar above what
everybody else is willing to do