Les Brown

and at some point either the pain is going to get big enough or you're going to bump into somebody's story somewhere on this planet who has been in the position that you're in right now facing the stuff that you're facing right now and there is something about their story at this exact moment in time that will ignite something in you that is missing and what is missing in you right now is hope

What really breaks my heart is how stuck people are.

And that there are things you can do to change your life for the better.

And if you don't have hope,

And you don't have this breakthrough where you have, for just a millisecond, this insight where you go, well, what if things did work out?

If you don't have that moment, most people stay so stuck in resignation.

It's about you ultimately actively moving through your emotions rather than being stopped by them towards a goal.

I think when change hits and it's personal, that's when the perspective shift comes.

Life is going to give everybody a bad hand.

No one's going to leave here without being tried in life.

Adversity makes the strong stronger or the weak weaker.

But how do you keep going?

That gratitude allows me to have perspective at the end of the day as opposed to focusing on all the horrible things or the bad stuff.

It brings me back to perspective that my life is amazing even if it's horrible.

My life is amazing even if it's the worst day ever and everything's against me and I lose all my money and something else bad happens, it's still incredible.

So every single day for me, it starts in ground zero.

I'm humble and I'm listening and my mind is open.

And this is what I've seen and this is what I can tell you about.

Everything that I look at, I try and look at from a humble perspective.

And if you don't do that, it's going to be a problem.