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Michael Todd

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The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

The container to do what you need to do. So you need to find ways to medicate. To numb, to medicate, to whatever. To release all of those words. And that's when people start making stupid decisions. Oh, man. What is the decisions that most people make? Oh, I mean, it's been the same since the beginning of time. It's the girls, the gold. It's the greed.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

The container to do what you need to do. So you need to find ways to medicate. To numb, to medicate, to whatever. To release all of those words. And that's when people start making stupid decisions. Oh, man. What is the decisions that most people make? Oh, I mean, it's been the same since the beginning of time. It's the girls, the gold. It's the greed.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

It's like you start taking more than you're supposed to. You start... investing in relationships that have no actual benefit for your life. You start you start becoming full. You got into it with the right motivation and now the motivation is just money. And so it changes the heart and the content of what you're doing, because it's not about actually helping people.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

It's like you start taking more than you're supposed to. You start... investing in relationships that have no actual benefit for your life. You start you start becoming full. You got into it with the right motivation and now the motivation is just money. And so it changes the heart and the content of what you're doing, because it's not about actually helping people.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

It's about how many people can help me like when motives change. The ways that I release change. And then, I mean, we haven't even talked about the substance abuse. Like, I can't tell you how many athletes and people that I mentor and pray for and help that they're literally inebriated more than half of the day. Like smoking, alcohol, drugs, mushrooms, whatever.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

It's about how many people can help me like when motives change. The ways that I release change. And then, I mean, we haven't even talked about the substance abuse. Like, I can't tell you how many athletes and people that I mentor and pray for and help that they're literally inebriated more than half of the day. Like smoking, alcohol, drugs, mushrooms, whatever.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

They're literally not remembering the life they prayed for. Wow. They were in some locker room or somebody's mom's house praying that they could get into this situation. And now they are so overcome with their past traumas and their current pressures that they are literally numbing themselves and saying, bro, I don't even remember.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

They're literally not remembering the life they prayed for. Wow. They were in some locker room or somebody's mom's house praying that they could get into this situation. And now they are so overcome with their past traumas and their current pressures that they are literally numbing themselves and saying, bro, I don't even remember.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

So you're living the greatest moment of your life and you don't even remember it? And it's because this is what we do as humans, because I don't believe that God created our bodies to be able to handle that kind of stress and trauma. And so we have to figure out a way to keep going because we want the results of it. But we can't really keep going because it's killing us. Wow.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

So you're living the greatest moment of your life and you don't even remember it? And it's because this is what we do as humans, because I don't believe that God created our bodies to be able to handle that kind of stress and trauma. And so we have to figure out a way to keep going because we want the results of it. But we can't really keep going because it's killing us. Wow.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

And so we try to find ways to do it. And that's why I say the safest way to get into the place that you need to be is you need to deal with your past issues so it can change your present situation and it can prepare for you a great future. Yes. Do you think we are ever able to run away from our past or our traumas? No. your body keeps the score. It does.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

And so we try to find ways to do it. And that's why I say the safest way to get into the place that you need to be is you need to deal with your past issues so it can change your present situation and it can prepare for you a great future. Yes. Do you think we are ever able to run away from our past or our traumas? No. your body keeps the score. It does.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

Like, I mean, people act like not saying it does something. No. Your body is a computer that is taking all the information and it's storing it. Mm-hmm. stress, hypertension, all of the... I mean, we have people dying of heart attacks at 32. Crazy. Like, there is so much information coming to us every day, all the time. So many ideas, so many opinions.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

Like, I mean, people act like not saying it does something. No. Your body is a computer that is taking all the information and it's storing it. Mm-hmm. stress, hypertension, all of the... I mean, we have people dying of heart attacks at 32. Crazy. Like, there is so much information coming to us every day, all the time. So many ideas, so many opinions.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

All of those things were never a part of the core creation DNA for a human being. So you think about processing all of that and then processing processed food and then taking on all the digital information and then worried about everybody's comments of you and how skinny and how like think about the stress.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

All of those things were never a part of the core creation DNA for a human being. So you think about processing all of that and then processing processed food and then taking on all the digital information and then worried about everybody's comments of you and how skinny and how like think about the stress.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

That your body and your mind and your emotions is under, not to mention that the real life stuff happens. You have a miscarriage. You lose a loved one. COVID happens and your business has to shut down. Like that? means that something has to be prioritized and that something is not anything external. It needs to be us.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

That your body and your mind and your emotions is under, not to mention that the real life stuff happens. You have a miscarriage. You lose a loved one. COVID happens and your business has to shut down. Like that? means that something has to be prioritized and that something is not anything external. It needs to be us.

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

We need to deal with the issues, the lies, the hurts, the layers that have made us into this person, but maybe the very thing that's trying to take us out. And so for me, I mean, I just know that part of my issue, even with food and weight and emotional eating, I need to delay. I need to talk about some stuff. I needed to. What did you need to talk about? What are you talking about?

The School of Greatness
How To Cultivate Inner Peace In Uncertain Times

We need to deal with the issues, the lies, the hurts, the layers that have made us into this person, but maybe the very thing that's trying to take us out. And so for me, I mean, I just know that part of my issue, even with food and weight and emotional eating, I need to delay. I need to talk about some stuff. I needed to. What did you need to talk about? What are you talking about?