Eric Thomas

Does saying that that person started further ahead of you in any way benefit you?

No, because your actions are entirely independent from them.

Some of y'all, you're like, ET, I'm frustrated.

I can't take another loss.

Listen to me.

Can you just survive today?

I call it the Rocky cut scene.

And almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year, but many years of doing work without reward.

where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting and they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most.

Look, life is hard and there is suffering, but you're not alone.

There is a way out and there is light out there and it is good, but you got to hang in there.

You got to never give up and you got to remember that you are never out of the fight.

because to do so would deprive me of my victories.

It was never designed to be easy.

Life was given for a reason.

We exist for a reason.

We were put on this earth to do great things.

But the challenges, ladies and gentlemen, the challenges had to happen.

They must happen.

They will happen.