I came up with a slogan and I tell it to my kids all the time I say there's no
losing only learning there's no failure only opportunities and there's no
problems only solutions so to me what failure is failure is the mother of all
success if it wasn't for Michael Jordan getting cut from his ninth grade
basketball team he wouldn't have became Michael Jordan you know if it wasn't for
I've seen an article the other day where they were talking about Oprah Winfrey
and how she got fired because she wasn't good for television you know you got
people like Walt Disney who got fired if I'm not mistaken from a newspaper saying
he had no imagination to maintain a look at that oh you seen these are the same
people that I got a deal with telling me what's not a hit record so
what do you tell them you tell them you know you know that all they can do is
learn and come back bigger better stronger because all is going to do is
lead you in the right direction see if you always win and you don't
really understand what it is the wind you've got to take those losses you got
to take those hits there's got to be the valleys the peaks the ups the downs in
order for you to when it does happen you go wow this is what it's
all about and not only that it's never about making it guys it's always about
maintaining that's the toughest part you may have set back so you may have failures but
you're not done you're not even getting started not by a long shot
and if you ever forget that just look to history Thomas Paine was a failed corset
maker a failed teacher and a failed tax collector before he made his mark on
history with a little book called common sense it helped ignite a revolution
Julia Child didn't publish her first cookbook until she was almost 50 Colonel
Sanders didn't open up his first Kentucky Fried Chicken till he was in his 60's
Winston Churchill was dismissed as little more than a has been who enjoyed
Scotch a little bit too much before he took over as prime minister and saw
Great Britain through its finest hour no one thought a former football
player stocking shelves in the local supermarket would return to the game he
loves to become a Super Bowl MVP and then come here in Arizona and lead your
Cardinals to their first Super Bowl your body of work is never done
each of them at one point in their life didn't have any title or much status to
speak of but they had passion a commitment to following that passion
wherever would lead and are working hard every step along the way I want you to
really get in touch with first of all the fact that you are interested in all
of it and that you could be interested in any one of these topics genuinely
right this is something you have to kind of like pause and admit to yourself you
have to say to yourself okay wait a minute what's really going on here sure
maybe there's a subject that I do like a little bit more than another subject
like maybe math I don't really like math but like let's say history I really am
really fascinated by people in history that's cool you can have those preferences but
also don't be so close-minded to say well you know what I'm just bad at math
I just hate math if you say that what I want you to do is actually I want you to
ask yourself pause and ask yourself wait a minute why do I hate this thing called
math isn't it a part of reality isn't it fascinating that that we can use mental
concepts and numbers and these numbers seem to have certain patterns to it and they
work in certain very logical and interesting ways and we can use this
math to do science we can use this math to do advanced technology isn't that
fascinating to you it should be fascinating to you no matter who you are
and even if it's not you're like forte and your most passionate thing
this is important because in school you're going to have a diversity of
subjects you can learn to focus by practicing focus until it becomes
automatic one of my favorite quotes is from Goethe the German philosopher and
he said everything is hard before it's easy so the formation of any new habit
is hard before it's easy you have to keep working at it it's just like a
bicycle you keep falling down you have to keep getting back up again until
finally it becomes easier and easier and soon it becomes automatic and when you
automatically get up each day plan your day and work on your most important goal
your whole life will transform how do you stay driven I'm going to ask you a
question how don't you stay driven well let me get this right you won the lotto
of the universe which is you are a human being on earth you I'm just going to say
this I mean I don't think people think about this you won the lotto you in the
universe you're not some weird specimen in Mars that does nothing you're not you
know a bird you know you're not a sunflower like you're a human being on
earth you won the ultimate ultimate lottery
and you're not driven and you're not fired up and you're not going for it and
you're willing to sit like a lump and just wait till you die you suck like I
don't know you suck like I how do I stay driven because I couldn't even
comprehend the alternative we start to shift our perceptions and we start to see
things with a better perspective when we start to see our experiences as obstacles
turning into opportunities or a resentment as a divine assignment to
forgive more or a moment of lack as an opportunity to focus on what we're
grateful for rather than focus on what we don't have
we start to make these shifts within our life what begins to happen is that we
begin to have more faith in that way of being and so the neat thing that
occurred this has been my experience that had six years of practicing the
life of a spirit junkie is that now my choices my moment-to-moment choices are
choosing more of a positive perspective when there's traffic my first thought is
okay I welcome the traffic to go I try to start to think about the ways or if
I'm supposed to be late maybe I'm meant to be there late maybe
there's something greater coming or something doesn't happen the exact way
that I believe it should happen I know and my first thought is there's
something way greater coming this is just the sights the types of miracles
that occur the ways that your mind begins to shift when you start to
practice these principles in your every corner of your life
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