people can take
doubt one or two ways you know some
people get
delivered down from someone else and
that absolutely makes them crumble
cripples them they stop chasing their
dreams they start believing the doubt
expressed from someone else for me it
works differently
and as soon as i hear that it gives me
more energy to prove them wrong
i can sit around and wait for stuff to
happen i can get out there and make
things happen
and that is massively important in any
walk of life
it doesn't matter who you are or what
you do you've got to get after it you've
got to chase it you've got to make it
happen yourself because no one's going
to get gifted to you
you're going to have to work for it and
those people are while working and those
people are just grinding and they are
going the extra hour doing the extra
mile they're the ones that are going to
be
at the top don't make yourself fall
short
you know it's it's so easy to
to accept that nothing is going to
happen for you
you know that you're just going to be
another number that's the easiest way
you know get a job nine till five and
that's easy
you know it's it's accept that something
can happen but you have to put the work
in
it's just don't be scared of hard work
let that fire that you've got in your
belly
you know translate into something good
you know if you've got that passion and
that drive
don't ever stop you know if you stop
i guarantee you like if you stop when
you're 20 by the time you're 40 you're
going to resent
whatever that reason was you stop nobody
knows how capable they are a lot of
people go oh adam i couldn't do what you
do yes you can
if you want it enough and i say how much
you want it are you willing to go
through the discomfort
of it you know are you willing to face
your fears
and potentially failure all comes back
to failure
everything so what's the true fear
failure and once you can face failure
in the eye then then you're
indestructible
i think having a purpose is that thing
that
that makes us tick that gets us up every
day and gets us over the hump
of opposition and adversity and the
reason that i
champion adversity in opposition is
because
i think for the most part in life people
pretty much know what to do when things
go right
right like when things go right they
know how to feel they know how to act
how to react
but it's when that opposition and that
adversity comes
and it creates a level of
misunderstanding right
now the vision is blurred now you don't
have clarity
about what you're supposed to do now you
question
if your existence matters and i think
when you have a purpose
it's powerful because in the midst of
the opposition it makes you realize that
you've been put here for a certain
reason
and so me once i tap into my purpose of
once i thought it was football
right but when i started speaking i'll
never forget the day i got the exact
same feeling
backstage that i used to get before i
ran out on the field to play football
and that's when i knew like this is my
purpose
this is what i've been put here to do
and so the opposition adversely the
challenges
it's just a part of the process it's
going to make me a better person
but my purpose i can't let anything stop
or detour me
if you want to use your life then
fighting man it's it's not
going to be rewarding you know doing
something easy
you get a lot of reward from it doing
something hard
and succeeding doing a marathon climbing
mount everest
lifting 500 kilos putting 230 kilos
above your head those are extremely hard
things to do
but the reward is never ending you know
making that historic lift
the historic whatever it is is never
ending
you know so for tom and i strongest
brothers in history first brothers in
history to ever make the world's
strongest man final
that's never ending everything we do in
life
is about taking the short-term
discomfort you know and that whether
that's
sending an extra email staying a bit
longer at work whatever it is
if you want to achieve a goal let's say
you want to run the london marathon you
know that every week
you're going to have to do some training
to achieve that and that is about
yeah you're not going to want to by the
time it comes to point you train someone
going out the door your mind is going to
tell you
and enforce every reason why you
shouldn't do it and it's devious it'll
tell you to go and check your computer
do this do that and that's when we have
to switch this off you have to switch
the mind off and follow the process
and that's something that i learned from
an early age but something that was
further enforced in the military
you have to follow process follow your
heart switch off this which is the
program
and that through that you will achieve
your aim if you can take care of the
small stuff
you know about doing everything whether
that's washing the dishes before you go
to bed at night so you don't come down
to a whole
mess in the kitchen whatever it is
making your bed in the morning simple
things
if you can do the simple things the big
stuff takes care of itself
that i felt as if if i do this well
i can get my family in a better
situation if i do this well
i can get my mother off the double shift
at wendy's if i do this well
i can get my own bed if i do this well i
can get my grandmother
a better living condition if i do this
well maybe i can stop my uncles
from selling drugs
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you know what you've got like a devil
and an angel on your shoulder all the
time and that devil just needs to
knock it off because you're always going
to have these doubts you know what i
come in here some days
i'll be training for a fight and i'll
train three days in a row and i'll be on
fire and i'll have one bad day
which is expected when you're doing like
an eight week camp or anything like that
and you've got one bad day and that bad
day out where's the good three days by a
mile and i'll go on picking up what am i
doing here i'm gonna get battered in
this fight but then you come back in the
next morning you have one good session
again and that doubt's gone again
so just it's hard to to get rid of them
demons and
um i think any athlete who says that
they never have any sort of doubts that
he's lying i think
everyone's got someone that creeps in
somewhere but it's the ones who just
manage to just push them on one side and
keep the tunnel vision and keep the
what i do is i visualize after the fight
i don't visualize what's going to happen
in the fight because i never know i just
always visualize
what it's like to win after the fight
what i'll be doing after the fight how
i'll feel after the fight and i think
doing that
that always helps you stay mentally
strong i'll adversely always prepare you
you know you have to go through those
things in order to see the light at the
end of the tunnel you know i don't think
anything is going to
just be like this throughout your life
you know you have to go through that
difficult overcome obstacle
you know because it's it's a testament
of your character of who you are and how
you're able to deal with certain things
in order to get yourself back on that
playing field it was that mission that
goal that i would always
focus on because if you don't have a
focus
on a goal or a mission and this is
generally in life
you will find that you end up becoming a
victim of your circumstances
you get lost in the journey something
happens something major happens
and you become a victim of your
circumstances because you've got nothing
bigger pulling you through
so really for me it's always been about
the fact that i visualize where i want
to be when times are tough
when times are hard when things are
going really wrong
i visualize i've got a vision of where i
want to be and it's that one thing that
pulls me through
and i don't get bogged down in the
situation
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pain's got to go away at some point so
what it means to me is it's a process
you have to go through to make you
stronger
everybody goes through it it's going to
come into your life as long as you're
ready for it as long as you're prepared
to go through it then it'll change
and it'll give you success when you have
to rise above the panel
everyone feels pain there's no like
person out there as a terminator
everyone does is just how you deal with
the pain that's what the
makes a difference either somebody is in
the midst of adversity
or just came out of adversity or won't
be long before they head into
adversity so you need to be prepared
either way
and so we all go through adversity
opposition i think that's the thing that
that makes us all in common as people
right no matter if you're from london
atlanta florida california new york like
we're all going to go through something
at some point or phase in our life right
and as cliche as it sounds when the
quote says
it's never about what happens to you
it's about how you respond to it
that's very true right but in the same
sense i think what's most
important is when we go through
something what's the perspective that we
have of it
right because for most people when you
go through something the person's
natural perspective is
okay what did i lose right what happened
to me
like i took a loss right people never
look at it and say okay man tell me what
did you gain
right even though i know it hurt you
didn't want to go through it
but look at it in a way to where you can
say what's the lesson in this
right what would you say life is trying
to teach you from dealing with this
and so when i went through it my
perspective was
okay what can i extract from it to apply
to other areas and aspects of my life
that i feel can help other people and i
firmly believe the quicker you can shift
your perspective from yourself to others
when you're in the midst of adversity
the quicker you'll get through it right
martin luther king has a quote that says
life's most persistent and urgent
question
is what are you doing to help other
people now i'm not telling you to not
acknowledge your pain i'm not saying
that
i'm not telling you not to say man i'm
going through this in his heart i'm not
saying that
i'm saying when you go through it look
at it step back from the picture
and say okay i'm dealing with this nine
out of ten times is somebody else that's
either dealt with it
or they're gonna deal with something
similar to this and if i deal with it in
the right way
i can use it to add value to lives of
other people
hold yourself accountable you know don't
make these excuses that's it
hold yourself accountable don't make
excuses
and just have some pride
in what you do know that it's possible
just believe in yourself
that's it it's simple believe in
yourself and take pride in what you do
don't
ever let anyone say that you can't do
you