It's one thing to believe when you've got money in your pocket. It's one thing to believe when your marriage is working out. And you've got your health.
And your children acting like they've got good sense. It's easy to believe then. Oh, but when you get that diagnosis that says, you ain't gonna be here long.
When you lose your job. When someone you thought you'd be with for the rest of your life says, no, we can't do this no more. There will be times when you will feel alone, and you will feel deserted, when you'll feel weak and you're doubt yourself and other people are doubt you and you ask yourself, am I crazy?
Maybe I am dreaming. Maybe. .
. Maybe I don't have what it takes. That's gonna happen.
It is literally at the darkest moment when it dawns. You don't really even get to the next level until your darkest moments. Stop tripping when it get dark and you running.
You running from your success. Like why would you do something for 10 years then quit? Why would you do something for 11 years then quit?
So for a lot of you, if you was going to quit, you should have quit when you put your first grand in it. You're like 20,000 deep now. You're like 9,800 hours deep into it.
It only takes 10,000 hours. Pain doesn't leave us the same. It's like problems.
It's like failure. It moves us. It either moves us forward and we get better, or we have a wrong attitude and it moves us backward and then we get bitter.
You don't get to choose when or why you go through pain. That's out of your control. But you always get to decide how you respond.
How you handle it. What you do about it. Life is tough.
You may have been overlooked, underrated, overshadowed, underestimated. You may not have the money, the resources, the perfect genetics, or the perfect past. But I tell you this, if you have a five letter word called heart, that is all you will ever need.
You are the hero you have been waiting for. And see, the hero cannot start at the top. That's a boring movie.
The only way you can start at the top is if you're digging a hole, the greater the challenge, the greater the growth. As long as your heart says yes, you can overcome a million no's. You will face doubters.
They all have the same disease. It's called possibility blindness. They can only see with their eyes.
It is literally necessary to have haters. To be doubted. This whole world will discourage you.
People will try to ruin you. But if you follow your heart, you can dodge the bullets that they shoot at you. You can build a mansion with the bricks that they threw at you.
Just make the decision now for the future you. We've got to autocorrect the negativity. We don't look at the problem, we look at the solution.
We don't look at the story of us losing, we look at the story of us winning. And we tell ourselves that by continually selling ourselves on our own life. This is the vision I have for my life.
This is the way it's going to be. These are my goals. This is who I am.
This is my plan. These are my values. And I don't need anyone to validate me.
I don't need anyone to believe in me. All I need to do is execute and believe in the work. I'm not going to rest until I have it.
It's necessary. I'm going to do it. It's on me.
No one going to make it happen for me. I get some help and assistance, but I know that it's on me. Will it be easy?
No, it's going to be hard. But it doesn't matter what it costs. If it's hard, I'll do it hard until I make it happen.
And I know that when I'm done, the result will be there and it will feel amazing. You must trust. That's when you must believe this is what I'm supposed to do.
And when something happens to you, don't experience it as a failure as a defeat look at it and find out what is it that I didn't know? What is it that I can learn from this experience? It's done when people have that kind of determination.
When they don't allow what they don't have to become a factor. When they don't allow what the odds are to really matter. When they are constantly looking and seeking to find a way to make it happen.
That's when the universe yields to you. That's when you start operating at a higher level of beingness. That's when it almost seems magical as you are able to speak the word and things begin to materialize.
Sometimes when you don't know what to do and you don't know what to say, and you don't know how long it's going to be, all you can do to express your fight, just cheap on walking. I don't know where the money's gonna come from, but keep on walking. I don't know when the problems gonna get fixed, but keep on walking.
It was good they rejected you. It was good you didn't get the job. It was good that it didn't happen the way you imagined it.
The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Oh, it's sweet to you. It's good to you, why?
See, when it's hard and there's a struggle, what you become in the process is more important than the dream. That's far more important. The kind of person you become.
The character that you build. The courage that you develop. The faith that you're manifesting.
Oh, it's something that you get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit. And people know that you know what life is.
That you have embraced life. You knew it was hard, but you did it hard.
