making excuses is just another reason
why you're not going to succeed
don't allow their doubt to be contagious
reframe that
i think i'm going to prove you wrong
easy path hard path hard path every time
every time the hard path is the only
path
you know at the end of the day you have
to push through that short-term
discomfort for any long-term gain
nothing comes easy you know a lot of
people say that there were so many
obstacles in the past that obstacles are
the path
it's a case of just pushing through that
short-term discomfort
embrace the discomfort that's where you
grew up
i believe your mind is your strongest
weapon and yeah your mind will give up
before your body long ever does you just
need to tell yourself it worked like
david got into people like look what
they do with their
their body and it's their mind that's
making them do it probably 80
mindset maybe even more maybe 90 and you
can achieve anything you want in your
life if you have that
the right mind for me by
having the mindset that could achieve
this what seemed like an unreachable
goal probably
for your mind at the time how do you
know you're going to get up to this
level
and your mind has to tell you or has to
risk the fact that yeah i can do this
and what is the worst thing that can
happen i give something a really good go
but i just don't make it
is that is that really that terrible or
do we use excuses and just
don't even go for it you can achieve
anything if you've got the right mind
and i also believe your body responds if
your mind's in the right place after i
did all these seven swims i did ice
swimming
hadn't had much experience of ice
swimming swimming in two three degrees
water temperature they used to say you
would die
three minutes you know three or four
minutes to survive the reason that i
managed to do that isn't because
physiology i'm made up of
different blood my mind beliefs and my
body followed
most people is not a problem skill set
there's a problem of character
and empty the bucket is having the right
character to be consistent
and empty out everything you got in
every aspect of your life
it's not a valid reason unless you can't
physically
enable yourself to train if i give
everything and
and i just do not stop and and and make
it life or death
because i remember thinking the english
channel if the if there was no boat here
and i had to swim to france to save my
life or save my family's life
there'd be no debate that was a bit
tired i would just do it
so i had to get into that frame of mind
a strong mindset is i've said that
before everything comes down to that a
strong mindset will take you
as far as you want to go in life i had
to step into the short-term discomfort
for any long-term gain that's how people
live their lives they're not prepared to
step into that discomfort
knowing that on the other side of that
is the long-term
gain everyone's taking short-term
comfort whether that's
drugs drink relationships
job choices all the choices they make
they make
knowing that there's a level of comfort
there and if you want to achieve
anything in life if you want to achieve
success at work success in any aspect of
your life
you need to take short-term discomfort
for long-term gain
you can make up as many excuses in your
mind as you want with things and and as
a kid
you know i don't think i ever wanted to
face failure so
you know i never really took on i never
want to take on
too many big things i think when i was
younger probably too much for me because
i
i didn't want to fail it's that word
failure
so it's easy to use an excuse for not
doing something
because you might just end up sad or
feel bad about yourself but
i think we all know you can make all the
excuses in the world but in the heart
for hearts
why not just just go through it step
over that line see how capable you are
forget excuses we have one life i'd
rather go for something and not achieve
it
and try really hard than just come up
with excuses
is it worth it is the end goal worth all
the hard work
that you're putting through is it worth
dragging yourself out of bed when your
body's in pain
is it worth getting in there inspiring
with some
guy who's probably a lot better than you
but you're trying to better yourself is
it worth round five when you're
exhausted and there's 30 seconds left
and the fight's even is it worth
pushing yourself that little bit extra
is it worth
doing running an extra mile is it worth
getting up at six in morning doing hill
sprints
is it worth it and the answer will
always be for me yes
in life we can't escape anything that
goes on with life
you know we are not immune to problems
or drama or trauma a tragedy
so you know when you're going through
some sort of difficulties you know first
find out whatever that difficulty may be
you know you do all within your power
and uh and you believe you be optimistic
about it
you know being negative about a
situation
stand in that place it never helps you
know it's nothing wrong with
understanding that place feeling bad
about it looking at it for what it is
but don't stay there you got to get back
on that other side
and start looking at the resolve the
resolution of
how can i get back to feeling good
and feeling prosperous again to where
i'm not dealing with
this obstacle
don't quit don't ever quit you know
persistence beats resistance
you know that for me quitters is failure
you know but also understand that
failure is
um you know success is is
is is a series of failures so people
that quit the only people that fail are
people that quit
you know if that stops you from
achieving your goals then
you know you have failed you're
embracing failure
just too shall pass right and the reason
i would say that is um
like i said i champion adversity right
we know what to do when things go right
but the next time it gets tough uh the
next time you question your purpose
the next time you question your
existence uh your mission
if you're supposed to be doing what
you're doing and it gets tough
and challenging just whisper to yourself
this too shall pass
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the thing is when you are broken it
doesn't necessarily last forever does it
so you can be a bit broke you stick it
back together
and let's go again i just don't think
about it just do it you know it's
if you find your passion
in anything you know it could be baking
it could be drawing writing whatever
it's
find that passion and just don't let it
go um
don't have that plan b your life is just
so fragile
i mean you don't know what's gonna
happen tomorrow so treat each day like
it's your last day
you enjoy life a lot more doing it that
way i think
temporarily broken not permanently
um that's part of life that makes you
stronger as well
it doesn't need to be about the big
stuff you know it doesn't need to be
about these
life threatening situations we're faced
with this day in day out
you know everything we do in life
is about taking the short-term
discomfort you need to take short-term
discomfort for long-term gain
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