Life will tempt you to become bitter. Age will make you bitter. Cuz during age, you collect enough experiences to become cynical.
Till after a while, you don't expect anything good to happen. Because you've been through so many bad thing that if anybody comes knocking at your door, you're predisposed to thinking something evil. You have to be careful lest you become bitter.
Either your troubles make you better or they make you bitter. We mature with damage, not with the years. You gain wisdom from your wounds.
You will grow through what you go through, but you must be willing to go through it. Don't you give up on your dream. I don't care if you don't have the money and you don't have the health and you don't have the family for it and you don't have the background for it and you don't have the friends for it.
Don't you give up on your dream. Don't you do it. Don't you do it.
Don't you do it. It may take you twice as long. You may have to take courses and classes.
You might not read as fast. You might not move as quick. You might not have as much.
But don't you quit. The days that break you are the days that make you. Every time you go through those dark times and you fight your way through to the other side, you're getting stronger.
It takes courage to be successful. It is far easier not to be successful. It takes courage to be exceptional.
It takes courage to be wise. It takes courage to be educated. It takes courage to be knowledgeable.
Because the more you do it, but you you don't talk like you, oh you got forgot where you came from. Look at you talk. It takes courage.
Is it easy? No, it's not easy. It's not easy living your dream.
It's not easy reinventing yourself. It's not easy sticking to and focusing on your goal. It's not easy being happy in the midst of a great deal of negativity.
It's not easy to remove people from your life that are no longer good for you. I mean, when you experience defeat and failure again and again and again, it's not easy to pull yourself back up and start all over again. It takes a great deal of courage to face yourself and say, "No, my life is not what I wanted to be and I can change.
" That's not easy. It takes guts. You got to dig down deep to cut it out.
Keep on going again and again and again. You've got to believe in yourself. You've got to believe in your abilities, your ideas unquestionably.
No, it's hard. Yes, it's hard. It's difficult and it's worth it.
It doesn't matter what it costs. I'm not going to rest until I have it. I'm going to do it.
And if this is the price that I must pay, then so be it. When you make up your mind, making up your mind is powerful. Some of us, we make up our mind and say, "We going to stay in this.
I'm going to stay in this mess. I'm not going to go back to that or I'm not going to quit. " Or whatever the situation may be, you got it done.
You found a way. You created a way. You prayed a way.
So when you make up your mind, it's over. You got to already make up your mind before you get to cancer. You got to make up in your mind before you get to the exam and pass that exam.
You got to look at it before you even get to it. So you got to be positive. You got to be excited.
You got to be confident. You got to be tough. You can be positive or you can be negative.
You can be happy or you can be sad. You can be a winner, you can be a loser. Well, folks, I made up my mind.
As long as there's a breath left in me, ain't nobody or nothing going to make me quit. Ain't nobody going to make me give up. Ain't nobody going to make me negative.
Dad come and I'm going to do it and I'm going to be happy and I'm going to be positive. You have got to change the way you think. It is the whole determining factor of where you go in life.
We are all where we are today because we thought ourself to this position. If you don't like the position, think yourself out of it. change your attitude, you change your altitude.
No matter what your hardships, no matter where you came from, no matter what your parents did, no matter what your [ย __ย ] teacher told you, you can learn to expect winning. So what your mama told you you can't do, so what your daddy told you you can't do. So what your teacher told you you don't have what it takes.
You don't walk in their reality. You don't live in their reality. Learn to live in your own reality.
You walk with a certain confidence when you know you expect to get all A. You expect to be rich. You expect to be healthy.
I don't care what the doctor said. You expect it. And when you expect it, that's what happens.
It's my journey. Nobody decides how I live. Nobody decides my life.
I'm not a victim. I'm a victor. It's my journey.
This is your journey. You're not a victim. It can end the way you want it to end.
But you got to grind like you want it. And you can grind your way through it or you can grind your way through it. Download this video and audio by becoming a member at benlionalscott.
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