no matter how terrible a situation is no
matter how bad it is there's still going
to be a rose that grows from that
concrete every person on this planet is
capable of changing the world by
changing themselves
i was built for this
i was not going to let
myself fail right then i have that
mentality and i understand that now that
i grew from that concrete i'm starting
to plant my seeds and there's more roses
growing
we're planting seeds in places that
people like man
they'll never grow here right we're like
no it can't
you know because there's a lot of people
out there that have the heart that have
the talent that have the ability they
just have to see that someone else can
do it
at the end of the day man you really
gotta want it
you gotta really want it like man you
don't see
the work that goes behind us people
don't see all that it takes to even get
to that point and that's the problem and
so they think it's supposed to be this
this overnight thing goes oh i started
llc give me money you know i think one
of the things that um that's important
for all of us is just the work ethic you
know to be able to put in like you do
the incredible hours as an entrepreneur
as a visionary to do what it ever takes
because i don't believe that there's a
necessarily a magic pill but i think
there's a process
and doing the doing the work is very
important you know i don't want people
to believe that there's a silver bullet
and also you have a great memory or you
have this great success or great
relationship or health and people always
ask what's the one thing i could do and
i always tell people that you have to do
you have to do most of it right and be
smart about it but you have to put in
the work because you know a lot of times
people see on social media they see all
of
the success but what they don't see is
is the hustle right as this gary vee
talks about and the uh i think what you
as they say what you practice in private
they say you're rewarded for in public
but you have do you have to do the work
i feel like a lot of people expend
unnecessary amounts of energy trying to
hold up this image of their ideal self
to the world and then they have this
image that they fear so it's going to be
revealed to somebody else and the truth
is people can we're faster and we're
smarter than we think and not just to be
able to rote memorize things but be able
to really solve significant challenges
and maybe that these challenges that
we're going through are the lessons that
we need to
to learn the most
forget the things you can't control look
for the moments you can control lose the
times you can't control
use the times you can control
this is your journey this is your
destiny and either you wander aimlessly
or you grab the wheel and take control
of the ship
either you head in the direction you
want to go or you go in no direction at
all
most people allow life to happen to them
their time runs like a sand sign
life is happening to them it isn't
happening for them
make life work for you make your time
work for you do not allow your time to
empty each day without achieving
anything
go into the world today and spend your
time
wisely make small wins every day that
will lead you down the path to success
motivation gets you started
but habit will keep you going
motivation is great
it is like a coffee in the morning it
gets the engine going and gets you
moving but it is a habit that will
develop your success
you have the potential today to be
special every second that passes now is
the opportunity to succeed
succeed into something worthy something
with the power to change to adapt adapt
into the person you've always wanted to
be
you have this opportunity today to be
something with purpose
something with potential something that
has the power to improve to really make
it past your fears
so what i believe is all you are is this
moment right now everything that you
perceive about yourself from your past
it doesn't exist right now
you're just sitting here right
so if you take a deep breath you might
have these little images of what your
past story is like things that happen to
you things that you feel reactions to
whatever but if i actually realize that
everything that i think i am from past
accomplishments or future
accomplishments or that i have as goals
or whatever
are not me that i'm just this space that
those ideas show up in then often they
might leave right let's say you have a
thought no one likes me because no one
liked me at that one thing in the past
okay who's saying that
it's just a thought it's not you it's a
thought that comes from evidence of one
thing in the past but that doesn't mean
that's you right
whenever you let go of something scary
you're only scared because your mind can
measure what you will lose
but it can't see what you'll gain so if
you're sad because you're going through
a breakup you're focused on the loss of
one person versus the gain of 7.5
billion people so your mind just
remembers one person but it can't see
what's on the other side of it and
that's no different to me than getting
on an elevator
when you get on an elevator it's a dark
closed room just like when you meditate
sometimes your visions of what you were
disappear and you feel darkness but that
doesn't mean because these doors are
closed that there isn't a whole new
world on the other side about to open up
so when you feel lost you're really in a
problem of you're just addicted to
seeing the old story and we move as if
we have forever and it's crazy
and so we get very spoiled by the
relationships and the friendships that
we're in and we don't just appreciate
them in the moment
so we create these expectations and in
that expectation you better be like you
were before and you can't be you i have
an expectation we're here forever you
can't like someone else you can't feel
anything else you need to be mine and we
have these ex you know expectations
and we forget to live
and we forget to enjoy that we get this
moment most people think the things that
are temporary are the permanent things
right the temporary passing i'm going
through a breakup you don't understand
that in a month you're gonna be okay
you think when you're in a low when
you're feeling bad you think that thing
you're feeling is how you're gonna feel
forever which is what makes it feel
worse
you know what i mean when you're in a
low you're like this is my life now
this is it
or when you're in a high you also get
extra high because you think this is my
life now
i've fallen in love with this person
so we're together forever and i'm always
going to feel like this
they're the one
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then a month later you're like is this
my life forever
you're and then and then it goes back
and forth and you don't get that all of
your emotions are temporary they're
passing things
but there is this thing in this moment
right now that i feel is permanent
this thing that you can feel just this
silence this space
i've had so many things that have shown
up and left that i once thought were my
reality that it feels like parts of me
continue to die and i allow them to die
right
so most of our pain comes from believing
i believe that we should keep holding on
to these things that are really heavy in
our lives
even in physical examples like just
there's a lot of us that have an attic
full of things right a lot of those
things are things that your past thinks
you should have but they're not
necessarily what your heart would want
right now
right like this is something i inherited
or i should keep this in one day show my
kids
we live in a world where we don't say
what we're thinking we say what we think
people want to hear
now
if you wait
all that's going to happen is you get
older
because time is always going to pass and
you're always going to move away you're
going to wait for something to happen
it's going to set you behind on the time
you do have you're gonna wind up at the
back of the race and you're gonna wind
up in last place and that's not where
you want to be that's not even where you
need to be you need to be standing side
by side with your future self you need
to be sleeping at night knowing that you
tried your best and waking up every
morning with a desire to adapt with the
desire to change
stand out today be different
become something different stop lying to
yourself and stand up and become
something with worth something with more
than you've ever been
your goals your goals that you set for
yourself that's your power
your ambition is your power
having time is so powerful
you
are powerful
set out what you believe in
lay out the power you have
actually lay out the power that you have
always had
use this
become this and have this
your power can take you put you on your
path to your success to the place where
you succeed
where you can become more
than just ordinary
so see what you learn how much you gain
see how far you've moved forward and use
this use this to take every single
second for granted this is what's gonna
make your future and this is what gives
you the power to have success
you have this power to become something
better better than ordinary
your progress never stops because the
show always will go on with or without
you life still continues the world spins
and time still passes
this is your opportunity
you