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Welcome to Words of Wisdom.
If any of you are new here,
Words of Wisdom is a series where I share quotes and words that have inspired me
and shaped my life or my mindset in some positive way.
Today's Words of Wisdom comes from Tony Robbins and it's not really an exact quote,
but more of an idea, and it comes from his documentary "I Am Not Your Guru".
In his documentary, he says:
And that is a concept that, once I heard it, I was like, "Whoa.
That's so true."
Basically, a problem that most humans have is we think we shouldn't have problems
and we don't want problems.
We try to avoid problems as much as possible,
or we just think that we shouldn't have them.
We're like, "Ugh, I have this problem, this issue."
And you think a 'perfect life' is a life without problems.
But actually, your problems are there
for a purpose, and they're for a reason.
Your problems are actually your gifts,
and you should start to look at your problems from that angle: that your problem
is a blessing because every problem that you have shapes you in some way.
Every problem that you have, every struggle that you go through,
makes you a stronger person in some way.
We're not meant to live life without problems.
Problems and struggles and challenges are going to happen and they're there
to teach us something, to help us grow, to help us be stronger.
And I think that's really a fresh way to look at it.
Don't try to avoid your problems.
Don't act like you don't have problems.
And don't act like you don't want to have problems
in the future, because you're going to have problems.
You're going to have challenges.
You're going to have hard times, and you should, instead, be grateful for them.
See those problems as a blessing, as hard as it can be, to just see it as something
to help push you to be a better person in any shape, way, or form, whatever it may be.
I think, in the documentary, the example he explained it with was this girl
who didn’t have a good relationship with her father and that kind of fueled a lot of
her anger
and her insecurities inside and she was just so passionate about doing something
good in the world or doing something with her life.
She was a very passionate and ambitious
woman with a lot of fire inside, and she was angry at her father, angry at her father
for being a drug addict, for abandoning her, just whatever it may be.
So Tony Robbins was like, "You need to thank him.
Thank your father
for what he's done to you, instead of hate him or be angry at him for what he's done
to you.
Thank him because everything that he's done fueled your fire and made you into this strong,
beautiful woman that you are."
And I think most of us should start to see our problems
more in that sense that we're thrown things in life and not because we're not lucky or
not loved,
that all these problems come our way.
It's not to do with that.
But our problems are really there
to teach us a lesson, to push us to become more of the person we're capable of becoming.
And I'm sure there will be a lot of devil's advocates to this idea or this concept,
but I don't know.
I really like seeing it in this fresh way that your problems are your gifts
and you should learn to be thankful for them and appreciate all your problems.
Appreciate everything in your life, the good and the bad.
So I hope you guys liked today's Words of Wisdom.
Let me know what you think about this quote,
"Your problems are your gifts."
Post your thoughts in the comments.
I'd love to hear them
and I'd love to just get some conversation and some discussion going.
Thank you guys so much for being here, and I will see you guys next time.
Bye!