There are no challenges in your life,
there's no growth.
So this is a good thing
that's the very first place
you should proceed from.
The person's character is not judged
when they ride the wave of success.
When everyone chants their name
and you want to be their friend.
No!
Your character is put to the test
when your back is against the wall.
Good.
You're feeling some pain, huh?
Right?
Because that's all going to contribute
for you growing stronger.
You've got to have challenges.
Okay.
How am I growing stronger
through this challenge?
What do I have to learn?
What can I learn through this challenge?
What part of me am I being shown or asked
to strengthen through this challenge?
Always subjective.
Always go in first.
For you to fulfill
your greatest purpose here on this planet,
In this lifetime,
you have to have multiple deaths
to immature versions of yourself
so that you could be reborn.
as a stronger version of yourself.
That's how the process goes.
Once you growth
mentally,
emotionally, and spiritually
come
when you get knocked down.
It takes courage to act
Part of being hungry,
when you have been defeated,
It takes courage
to start over again.
Fear can age you,
can hold you back from doing something
that you know within yourself
that you're capable of doing,
but it will paralyze you.
You don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself
to think negatively.
to be depressed.
to beat yourself up over the head
to feel loaded with guilt.
You don't have to make any effort to do that.
Your mind is on automatic.
It will do that by itself.
Don't allow your emotions to control you.
We are emotional, but when you want
but you want to begin to discipline your emotion.
You have absolutely nothing to do.
with what happened to you.
It's not your fault
You got knocked on the ground,
you have absolutely nothing to do with that,
and I'm not blaming you for that.
But if I come back a week later,
you still on the ground.
That's your fault.
If I come back a year later,
you still on the ground?
That's your fault.
If you get knocked down,
there's nothing you can do about it.
but getting back up
has every single thing to do with you
it's a matter of will
it's a matter of hard work
It's a matter of sacrifice
It's a matter dedication
It's a matter of commitment.
Pain is temporary
It may last for a minute
or an hour or a day or even a year,
But eventually
it will subside.
Uh, what thought process gets you through
the ups and downs associated with life?
With thought process?
For me, it's trying to stay present,
but your brain is very self-serving and
it's very, uh, it lives in a world of
comparisons and, uh, time, and none of
these things are helpful and, and it just
kind of would consistently take me out.
A positive place.
You know, the, the, the man I wanted
to be with the man, I thought I should
be, or, you know, thinking, you know,
how you should be doing things or
what you should be doing, but then not
executing those things needs you in
this kind of spiral of disappointments.
But again, all that thinking is based on
time, you're basing who you are and what
you think you should be on who you'll
be tomorrow and who you were yesterday.
And, uh, so, so for me, the,
the most effective tool I've
adopted is just trying to stay.
When you are hungry to win, you
spend your time and your energy
being a warrior, not a worrier.
What am I going to do
to make things happen?
And when you have something that
you want to do, when life is not
you down and slap you around.
In order for you to get back up, you got
to be hungry to win when you can make
Your reposibility is to figure out how to
take that pain and how to overcome that
and build a happy life for yourself.
I realized what was
stopping me was my own fear.
It wasn't anything with
my educational aspect.
It was me thinking I couldn't do.
And when I learned to remove that fear
and think I'm going to do this no matter
what's going to happen, I may fail it.
I'm going to do well at this.
And I'm going to just,
just see where it goes.
I'm going to put my all into it and find.
It's your responsibility to
make your dreams come true.
My friends, I know you can do it.
Remember you're stronger than
you think I'm going to work
at this thing diligently.
I will test it.
I will put it out there.
I will make it better, but I will not give
up on my dream because that dream, I own that too
Will it be easy?
No.
Will it be challenging?
Yes.
What will happen overnight now?
Would it be a struggle?
Yes.
Will there be times when
you can't make ends meet?
Yes.
That's a Potter.
Will there be times you
won't know what to do?
Yes.
That's a part of
we all have some stuff that we've been given and
I don't think that it's optional
for us to sit on what we have.
And if you don't do that, if you're
not filling in your mission, then what
we do when we're not living out our true identity
Don't be stagnant.
stay moving forward.
If you can find, what is your passion,
If you find what you love,
you never get tired.
But if you find out what you're supposed to do
and you know what you're supposed to do by how it feels.
And so, you know what?
If you're doing the right thing, if it feels like it right to you
and when you hit the thing that feels rights
when you know it's the right thing,
You would... You know it's right,
because it gives you your juice
and you know it's right
because you would do it for nothing.
You would do it for nothing
and find a way to be able just to do it
in order to be able to continue.
That's how you know
you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.
Many people die at the age 21
And don't get buried until they're 65
they're walking dead
Too many people go through life against themselves,
feeling wrong on the inside.
I discovered the enemy.
It was me
Because most of us can't see ourselves in people.
So then we try and fit ourselves
into the boxes that we do see.
While you are living in that bubble and that echo chamber
Getting to what you really want to do
is impossible
Today, I'm not what I think I am.
I'm not what you think I am.
I am what I think you think I am
And do not fall into a "comfort" trap
A comfort zone into a danger zone.
If it's comfortable, you're not forcing
to adapt to anything new.
So therefore you're not growing anymore,
intellectually or physically.
I'd much rather try and fail
than wonder what if the rest of my life, if I could've won
sometimes you don't have time for dreams and goals and stuffs,
Right.
But I want you to do me a favor.
Don't let life do you like that?
Don't let life put you in
a circumstance or a situation where you stop dream.
Don't let life put you in a situation
where you are helping somebody else
make their dreams become a reality,
you forgot that you have your own.
Don't do that.
Don't get so caught up giving some job
30, 40, 50, 60 hours of your day that
you don't have any time left for yourself.
You don't have to have a dream
Find if you have something you've always wanted to do
dream of, like in your heart.
Go for it after all it's something to do with your time,
chasing a dream.
And if it's a big enough one,
it'll take you most of your life to achieve.
The micro ambitious,
put your head down and work with pride
on whatever is in front of you.
You never know where you might end up.