Excuses Are Lies Wrapped Up In Reasons

When things go wrong, they always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other, and it's pretty easy sometimes to feel beaten when faced with all of those issues and problems, they all hit you at the same time, but that doesn't mean you should give up. In fact, it means the opposite. It means you need to fight harder to dig in. It means it's time to go on the offensive.

Don't waste your pain. We all go through disappointments, setbacks, and losses. Pain is a part of life. The pain is temporary. It could last a minute, an hour, a day, or even a year, but it will pass and something else will take its place if I stop. However, it will last forever. This is the only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey.

You have got to suffer to grow. To grow, you must suffer, the key is what we do in times of pain, pain changes us. Losses and disappointments don't leave us the same now. It is up to you how the pain affects you. You can stay bitter or better. You can leave defeated, giving up on your dreams, or you can leave with a new passion, a new fire, excited about the new opportunities in front of you.

The majority of us experience pain. The challenge is to not just get through it, but grow through it. That difficulty is an opportunity to get stronger, to develop character, and to gain new confidence. Everybody can give up, anybody can let it overwhelm you, but you know what that's doing to waste your pain.

That pain is not there to stop you; rather, it is there to prepare you, to strengthen you, and to develop you. It will be difficult because life is difficult. That's what life is, and these challenges that you face are going to do their best to take you down. Do not let them stand up. Dig in, line up your problems, and confront them. Face them. Fight them. Don't let them bring you down.

In fact, let those challenges raise you up. Let them elevate you. Allow their demands and trials to strengthen you. Allow the adversity you face today to shape you into a better person tomorrow so that you can look back on these difficulties and say, "Thank you." You made me better.

I'm not saying to put yourself down, I'm saying listen to the truth and the truth isn't in the 20%, the truth is in this other part of your brain saying "look man, you're wasting a bunch of percentages here in this other 80% is suffering pain, failure, self-doubt, darkness and then a whole bunch of light." It's not a trick, it all comes back to a very primitive mindset of "we just have to do it." It's like breathing.

When that alarm clock goes off at 4:00 or 5:00 a.m, your mind says no, you simply say, "This is what we do." That's what we're doing now to get to where you want to go. The amount of pain involved, I'm not talking about physical pain or having to break yourself off, the amount of mental pain of having to do something you don't what you need to do to get where you want to go then it's like breathing, and then once you do this over and over and over again, it becomes like breathing. I don't want to live this lifestyle, but to get to the other side of this, I have to.