Don't Give Up: Turn Your Pain Into Power

0:00Life is not easy at all. There's gonna be challenges. You're gonna get beat down. That's the way life is. At some point, everything's gonna go south on you. Everything's gonna go south and you're gonna say, this is it. This is how I am. Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. One thing I know is that we've all been hit with a fester of adversity at some point in our life. Everybody listening to me has been hit with a fester of trauma. Sometimes in life, you have to hit back. I'm going to learn. I'm going to do everything in life's power. I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor.

1:00Not a victor. Recycle your pain. Get something from it. You already have pain. Use it. Do something with it. Allow it to take you to the next level. Allow your pain to push you to great. You are powerful. You direct the power in your life. Whatever your life is right now in is a duplication of your consciousness. It's a result of how you have decided to use your power. That's all it is. Sometimes you have to just back up and go within yourself. And try and meditate and recharge your batteries. Go away. Clean your head. And then come back and look at it from a different vantage point. You look at what's of information from somebody that you already got with you. A, this is tough and you can get up and be the best part of the new one. This is your chance. This is your shot. This is your move. This is your pride. This is your place. This is your opportunity. Every single thing that you will give and you will promise you that for this day forward,

2:02you will not be defeated. It's necessary to know that there are going to be some difficult times and no one will have to take some clothes. Find out how strong that is. I stand up. I know I'm going to experience some rejection. Disappointment. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Keep fighting. Keep going. And don't give up. Because the only real failure is actually giving up. And if you don't give up, you will win. Journey is not easy. It's hard. It's hard to keep your spirits together. It's hard. It's uphill battle. It's a path less taken. The beaten path that everyone else takes. It's a path that leads a character.

3:02You've got to earn that. Stress is God's way of training you. It's preparation. But you got to, in order to develop and to change and to grow, stress is necessary. God is a trainer. No matter how painful it is, I got to keep going. And I got to keep going because what is my passion? What is my focus? Your focus in your passion will numb you, to failure, and to pain, of striving to get to where you're trying to go. There are a few people in this room that nobody's like to be in a situation where everything in your flesh is saying give up. And yet you're in a situation where sometimes you're standing not because you're so strong, you just don't have any other option. You just back in a corner, you know. It's not that you didn't think about quitting. It's not that you're so tenacious and so strong, but life has got to be pressed in a corner and you simply cannot let go of anything. And you have to stand there to middle of the store and keep up with your head

4:04with the faith to persevere and just say, just hang in there. Just don't give up. Just don't give up. So just don't give up. So, and away you're going to get through this. Great people are people who don't cave in. This fire you're feeling, this pressure you're feeling, this frustration you're feeling, this is what is going to make you into the weapon that will build the life that you are out to build. I don't care who you are. Life's going to punch you in the face. Sometimes life will take you to your knees. You're still alive. You're still breathing. And if you're still breathing, that means you still got some fight left in you. I don't accept that I am what I am and that that is what I'm doomed to be.

5:08No, I don't accept that. I'm fighting and clawing at those weaknesses to change them. If you want to be the best, you must be obsessed with it. Getting better isn't a hack or a trick or a one change that you need to make. Getting better is a campaign. It's a campaign. It's a daily, a weekly, it's an hourly fight. See sometimes we can't say I can do that. But what we can say is that it's possible that I can have my freedom.

6:12As we run toward it, as we work on it day in and day out. It's a campaign of discipline. A campaign of hard work and dedication. It's waking up early and going to bed late and grinding out every second in between. An incessant fight that doesn't stop against weakness and against temptation and against laziness. Every single day. And anytime I was successful in those situations, I mean, you know what I would always let people know. It's through dedication, through your hard work, and through mental preparation and visualization. If you do those things, if you can see yourself being successful in your mind, then it will appear in the physical reality. So take advantage of today. Take advantage of tomorrow. Take advantage of every opportunity that you have to do what you want in life. It's time to night the dream. It's time for you to stop settling for just money and really open your game up.

7:14I want to find more. All I can, you have to dive in that to find more. Because if you're not willing to go in there, I can find anything. I wanted that bad. I can see myself doing this for the rest of my life. Why? I really, really love it. If you love something, you spend time with that something, right? It's no longer just an idea or a probably or maybe or one day. I love it. So I nurture it. I polish that car. I wash it. I spit shine. Right? What is the one thing that people can change that have a massive impact on their health? In order to change, you have to change. Love what you're doing, but challenge yourself every day.

8:14Love what you're doing, but challenge yourself. You will change. You