Learned That Something Constructive Comes From Every Defeat

All of that hurts. The thing about pain is that once it's there, it's there to stay. It's a constant reminder, it's a stopping point, it's something that wants to keep you from moving forward and so you will focus on the hurt. Rather than the obstacle in front of it.

You see, you're going to have obstacles in life, whether you're hurt or not, but if you stay focused on your hurt and you want to live life so that you have safety, like I'm safe as long as I don't press the button that will cause me to get hurt, What's the button? The button goes off. Get off the button, get up, get after the button. Whatever happens, I have to keep going. You're going to get hurt whether you lie in bed or whether you get up and take control.

You guys need to understand what you don't have to do. You don't have to work hard, you don't have to be right, you don't have to sleep right, you don't have to do more than what's required of you. You have to be a good leader. You are under no obligation to do anything you do not wish to do. But you also don't have to win. So the greatest things in life are sacrifice and discipline.

That's why so few people achieve great things, they don't want to sacrifice. They don't want to be disciplined. So you see, all these people have great things in life that you look up to just because they sacrificed and disciplined long before you ever knew them. So don't get mad later when you've created your whole storm and then it starts raining on you.

You don't want to ever put yourself in a situation where you have a limited vision and you're only using a limited amount of your talents, of your skills, and of your abilities, and I'm saying to you, if you want to make it today, it's necessary for you to constantly look at ways of getting better not only is it possible for you to have your dream.

You know, the major key to your reaching your dream is for you to challenge yourself to go after it to get better and leverage relationships that can help you get there, but it's you. You're living up to your greatness. You're making your contribution. If people are positive, that's great. You don't have any opposition, which is great, but the major key to making things happen in your life is you.

You see, here's the thing about hurting. The reason why we don't go forward is that hurts trigger memories. Because most of us are afraid of failing, and in fact, that was one of the reasons I said I was going forward in life. The reason why I'm chasing greatness is because I have a fear of failure, but a fear of failure is really crippling because you're still playing extremely safe.

You will do your best not to be around people that will hold you accountable. As a man, I messed up there. You've got to get past that. You've got to grieve over the things you've lost. We learn from it. But you can get up and get over it. There are a lot of us who give total control of our lives. We don't have any control over it. Do we just give all control of A healthy body gives you a healthy mind.

So if you go into battle, you're going into battle with the right mindset. The hurt isn't what you focus on. I need to win. I wanted to win, and I was also hurt. Whichever side you're going to feed is the side that will win. Focus on your wins. You will not live if you do not experience failure, hard work, and sacrifice. If you don't go through your faith being tested, If you don't go through loyalty issues If you don't go through fights, you don't really love yourself if you can't bounce back from them.

So all these words are attached to the word "love" to me, so if I say I love you, that means I have been through the ringer with you and I'm willing to love you. Even still, if it's going to hurt anyway, and then you might as well get up and move, because one of the things that happens when you start doing adrenaline is that adrenaline is like a momentum that comes from within and leads to the outside. In spite of what you don't have, people can see it.

You can lose a limb, you can lose a person. You'll lose these, no matter what you have. As long as you still have your will, you can get up, you can go, you go. You're going to get hurt. There's nothing like having success to wash away those words. You're not going to wake up every day feeling great. You're not going to want to go to work all the time.

You get tired, you get sore, and it is probably one of the two. That is always the case. You're exhausted. I think it's important that it's the highest level of opportunity. You have to create confidence. Some of us have been told you'll never amount to anything. You've had people in your early development that would speak negatively about your life.