Every year you tell yourself you're going to make it happen. You're going to start that business. Make more money.
Get that promotion. Lose that weight. Get in better shape.
And every single time there's these challenges and issues that come up against you and pull you off course. Stuff starts not going your way. You run into problems.
So you quit. You give up. You throw in the towel and you say, ah, who cares?
It's not worth it. But you have to remember in that moment, that is a choice you are making. And if you're going to make it to the next level of your life, you've got to decide to be unstoppable.
You have to have mental toughness. You've got to have a level of grit that says that you will not be denied. Life ain't about medals.
It ain't about certificates. It ain't about houses, money, cars, fame, all that bullsh*t. It's about scars.
Those scars show your willingness to get to their side. They show your failures. They show your willingness to start from scratch.
They show what you're willing to do to go the distance. To see what you're capable of. Ain't no elevator to the top.
You got to take the stairs. The elevator don't go to the top, man. Stop trying to do everything the short way.
Stop trying to figure out the easy way. 'Cause the sh*t ain't gonna happen. You got to get messed up sometimes.
You got to get your feelings hurt. You got to get disappointed. You got to get told no.
You gonna ask somebody for some money. He gonna tell you no. That's life.
And so every time something get hard, you quit, you call mama. I dare you to take a little pain. Somebody said, "I'm gonna go home, I feel bad.
" Go through it. At the end of pain is success. You're not going to die because you feeling a little pain.
And that's what this world's come to. Every time they try something, it doesn't go their way, they look for a complaining buddy. Well, guess what?
Life is hard. You got to find yourself in the grind, the grit, and you got to find yourself doing the sh*t that no one else wants you to do. And whenever it sucks, you got to just keep working.
I guarantee you cannot pass it if you quit. But you don't know what's going to happen if you keep going. I don't care what I've been through personally.
I don't care about family members dying. I can't let that bother me. I can't let that hurt me.
I still got to perform. So you got to execute. See, many start ladies and gentlemen, but few finish.
Because they say, well, it was hard. And they stop. They take that as a stop sign as opposed to a growth sign.
But as stuff gets progressively harder, when you have to go 1, 2, 3 years without a paycheck, everybody else quits during that time. So by default, 10, 12, 13 years in, I'm standing higher than everybody just because I didn't quit. It's learning how to endure.
Learning how to reframe frustration and seeing it as a driver for your success. Every single path is going to be hard. Struggle, pain, misery, frustration.
Those are signs that you are on the right path and making progress. Nobody that is where you want to be has gotten there without these struggles, without the bleeding, without the pain, without the depression, without the misery. You don't know what's ahead of you.
And that 70% you giving it right now, a trial or a tribulation might come, a storm might be coming, and it's going to break you if you at 60. As you're going through your go through and you ready to quit, you ready to give up, you ready to give in. It doesn't look like you think.
You didn't get the grades you thought you were going to get. "So maybe I'm not meant to be a lawyer. " Hold.
You put too much in it to quit now. Hold. Mental toughness.
It is in those times, we have to be stronger than we've ever been before. We can, we will, and we must get through this. Lay hold of it.
And when that thing tells you to quit, you look at it in it's eye and say, I ain't going nowhere. I will break you before you break me. You will not destroy us.
You will not defeat us. This will make us stronger. I'll go quicker.
I'll go harder. I'll go longer. I'll go faster.
I need mental toughness. And I'm telling you, when you come up against that thing, you gotta outdo that thing, and you can't do it when you get there. You gotta already make up your mind before you get to cancer.
You gotta already make up your mind before you get to that exam and past that exam. You gotta make up in your mind when you talking to your husband, when you talking to your wife, when you talking to that sickness. You gotta look at it before you even get to it.
I don't care how hard it is, I don't care how difficult it is, never give up, and never give in. Because some skill not gonna get you through certain things. But phenomenal will will allow you to get through everything.
As long as you got breath in your nostrils, don't you ever give in, because I never told you it would be easy. But with mental toughness, you can get it done.
