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How many of us get stuck on that treadmill of life thinking soon? We'll start living a more meaningful life soon
We'll shake up our daily routine
soon
We'll start something new we'll stop and think about those things as important things
We've always wanted to do the things you always talk about so
Who do you think you are when it comes to being on that path to finding the purpose unique to you?
Are you castaway and shipwrecked?
sadly
far too many people fall into this category
These are people who are disillusioned maybe depressed
Their hearts sinking as they walk into yet
Another day at the office
Whatever place of work around
And the problem is that you're so entrenched in this mindset that
You just accept what you've got
You stagnate and you stay where you are
You're doing what your education your grades will allow you. You've got a good job, maybe
But it's not fulfilling you
It's paying bills. You don't think about clarity or purpose. It's not necessarily the case that
These people don't think about what's meaningful to them ever. It's just more likely that they assume that
what they've got the job the commute the habit of going home to sit in front of the TV is
What's meaningful to them? They don't really push their boundaries
instead of
The attitude of let me make my best
They just make the best of what they've got
So the reality is that the whole point of all of this is to find that
door amongst the other
990 doors that you're going to leave open and you're gonna shut all the other ones
It's more about the things you're going to not do than it is about the thing that you're going to do
If you're not willing to make changes
The sad truth is they're gonna continue to be unhappy and unfulfilled
But right now you're wasting it by falling into bad habits
And you get stuck in this daily weekly monthly routine
It's been a tough year man in the last 10 months both my granddad's died
In dealing with the grief of losing these really important people in my life, or I come to one proper important conclusion
How lucky I am to be alive
When I think about them and how they were literally just there like yesterday yesterday
I could have seen them touch them cuddled them and the next day boom gone in
the blink of an eye at a click of a finger
Have you ever lost someone?
Like do you guys actually have any idea how lucky you are?
Seriously what the gains of perspective?
Everywhere you look there are people just moaning up forgetting and take him for granted that they are alive. Oh
Man, I hate my job. Whoever is terrible. I'm sick of it. I wish I didn't have to travel as much bla bla bla
You're alive man. Wake up
Whenever you find yourself moaning about life do what losing my Grandad's has taught me to do and quickly
and aggressively
Remind yourself that you are alive
And always always end up smiling
Because you could be dead a
CS Lewis said hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny
People look at their past to decide who they are people look at their past to decide who they can be
But the problem is often times people mistake
difficulties
suffering pain
For being bad being less than being broken and it erodes their sense of self-esteem
It erodes their sense of self-worth
But nothing could be more opposite from the truth because in reality
No matter what. You've gone through no matter how hard it was
All of it was shaping you into
The person that you can become the hardships the difficulties the pain the suffering all of that makes you tougher
It is literally in the difficulties that you begin to find just how much you're capable of
It's in the suffering that you find out how resilient you are. It's in the pain that you can rise up and get tough and
All of that is going to serve you as you move forward, but you have to know how to frame it
You have to know how to think about it. You have to know that whatever you've been through that
All of it is an opportunity to learn all of it is an opportunity to grow
All of it is an opportunity to get better, but you have to use it to shape yourself
You have to lean into it
You have to know
that the pain and the suffering all of it is serving you but if you're telling yourself a story that diminishes you if you're telling
Yourself a story that bad things have happened to me or I've done bad things and that makes me a bad person
The none of it is going to help you and you're always going to move backwards and it's gonna be this stress and this pressure
That's pushing you backwards instead. If you could put it behind you said it pushes you forward. It propels you to be more
Than no matter what's happened to you. You can become something truly extraordinary
And as David Livingstone said I'll go anywhere
Provided it be forward
So even when you're making mistakes, even when you're falling down if in that you can see that it's an opportunity. It's a lesson
It's something that you've learned even when you're running and you stumble and you trip and you scrape yourself all across the pavement
You're still moving forward as long as you get back up dust yourself off and keep going
It doesn't matter that you fell it doesn't matter that you embarrass yourself
It doesn't matter that you made a mistake or that you look stupid none of that matters. The only thing that matters
Is how do you think about it?
Do you let it be something that moves you backwards?
Or do you recognize at least it was momentum at least you were going at least you tried at least you were putting your energy
Into something at least you were willing to take a risk and that's where most people fail. They're never
Willing to put themselves out there because they don't see the momentum. They don't see the forward movement. They only
See the failure it really is that easy and I know that you've heard this a thousand times
I know that people are telling you all the time that failure is a part of the learning process
But so is the voice that says you're a fuckup
So is the voice that tells you that you're unworthy?
But it's up to you to decide to ignore that voice. It's up to you to prove that voice wrong
it's up to you to love yourself and
yes, I know that's easier said than done and
Yes, I know each and every one of us has to do things to be worthy of
loving ourselves we have to
Take that leap of faith. We have to be willing to look at our inadequacies
We have to be willing to get up and do ourselves a service. We have to be willing to serve ourselves
and
You do owe yourself that and you do have to take action and you do have to be proactive
But if you do that, you don't need extraordinary accomplishments. You just need to know
That you're trying
You need to know that when you fall you're gonna get back up
You need to know that you'll keep pushing forward. You need to know that you won't give up
if you've given up in the past and once you know that about yourself once
You know that every day is a date and opportunity to reinvent yourself. That's all you need to believe in
That's all you need to build that self-worth is to tell yourself. You're going to do something better today than you did yesterday
That's it. It doesn't need to be grand. It doesn't need to be extraordinary
It simply needs to be a commitment to yourself
Commit to yourself if you commit to love your self
despite
Everything that's happened to you. Despite everything you've done
Your life can be beautiful
But it starts with a decision to move
forward
And what the Masters realize is that they make a point of spending time
Working on things that are essential that are meaningful to them and that could be hobbies
relationships projects charity work businesses
these are the people that they really maximize their potential and
They strive every day to
Be the best they can and they take the unexpected problems in their stride
They're winning a life and they're not these
Magical superheroes with lark or powers or genetics that's just been handed term. They're definitely human
But they just have certain habits certain qualities that many people don't
so step one is to find something you actually want to do and third sell as
Les Brown would say the hard times they come to stay they have come to pass
You ain't dead but you are gonna die so go and live
There's always potential for people to grow and change
And you just know if you push yourself a bit more a bit harder you could become this better version of you
You