If we looked at your background you should have had a nervous breakdown
and lost your mind.
You should have given up by this point.
You should have thrown in the towel on yourself already.
You should have walked away by now.
But there's something in your gut in your heart
in your spirit in your innermost being
that said hold on.
That instinct that still, small voice
is about to turn your life around.
Regardless of the situation and circumstances all the bad things happening around you
and what challenges you face now you've got to believe in your heart of hearts
that you can do it.
It's gonna be a dogfight.
And if you soft you want to get out now.
This is where you like, I quit.
Whatever you want you got to be willing to accept whatever come
with it.
Like adversity is adversity.
Opposition is opposition.
But it's not so much about the opposition and the adversity that we face
as it is about the perspective that we have about the opposition
and adversity that we face.
When you want something don't expect everybody to say
oh come on in oh you want this?
Oh great!
We want to give this to you!
You're such a nice person!
You're doing it for your family, aren't you?
Great!
No, no, life isn't like that.
No.
Many doors will be closed in your face.
Many loans that you will want and they say no
you don't have enough collateral you don't have enough credit.
And most people will give up.
But you've got to decide that I'm going to be fearless.
And I'm going to go all out.
I'm going to be relentless.
I don't care how many no's I encounter I refuse to be denied.
I challenge you to fight to work
to not stop here to believe so heavily
in your aspirations that you too will not fear the word no
but instead, you will choose to welcome it.
And when you want it as bad as you want to breathe says
I'm willing to make any sacrifice I'm willing to go through any pain
I'm willing to through any suffering I'm willing to go through whatever it takes
so when I get in there I guarantee you
at the end of it I won't be the one that surrender.
So as we look at the future we can decide
that from this day forward as I look at all the dimensions of my life
looking at myself mentally emotionally and spiritually
I'm going to do all I can do
to develop me to bring my talent out here
to make a contribution to life.
Is it easy?
No.
Is it worth it?
Yes.
Yes, your life is worth it.
Our biggest challenge is to look at our own lives
and ask the question how am I holding myself back?
Am I being as creative as I need to be?
Am I using every resource I have?
Am I turning up every rock to find what I'm looking for?
Am I being unstoppable?
Am I being relentless?
The only thing that holds you back is the thing between your two ears
your own mind.
If you can increase your self belief and see yourself doing better
you will.
And the process is not supposed to be uncomfortable.
So if it hurts welcome to the big leagues.
If you feel like you're under heat praise god.
If you feel like you're being pressured praise god.
But when god looks like he's pulling you back eventually he gonna let you go.
And the farther he pulls you back the further he pulls you back
once he releases you boom.
So when life happens I don't just sit there and cry.
I buck back.
We've come too far we've been through too much
we've seen too much we've had too many victories
we have seen defeat we've licked defeated in the face
and we've overcome it we've come too far to give up now.
We've come too far to be negative now.
We've come too far to start overthinking now.
Put yourself in a position where you can't retreat.
Where it's do or die sink or swim.
Here's what you'll find out you'll develop incredible swimming skills.
You'll find yourself stroking unlike you've ever seen before.
Through the inspiration of desperation you'll become more creative than ever before.
Throw your whole self into it.
See, most people go at it tentatively.
They don't give all their stuff.
They don't concentrate.
You can't make a basket unless you shoot the ball.
You can't hit a homerun unless you take a swing at it.
Most people won't even take a swing.
If you want something you've got to be relentless.
You've got to decide I deserve this
and I'm going to have it.
And you go all out to get it.
The spirit of resiliency the spirit of grit
it's in your DNA it's in your blood.
Overcoming is in your blood.
Getting through adversity is in your blood.
We need to focus on where we're going not where we come from and what's happening.
You got to tell
life I don't know who you've been dealing with
but you ain't dealt with me.
You got to tell bankruptcy you got to tell divorce
you got to tell sickness I don't know who you've been dealing with
but you come up against the wrong one this time.
You can be and do
whatever you want.
And nobody
can
stop you.
Nobody can stop you but you.