DON'T QUIT
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What challenges do we face during our darkest days?
Once in a while, you're gonna have one of those days. Everything's gonna go south on you.
Life gonna beat you down. All hell will break loose. Everything that can happen will happen.
When you're going through those days and you're going to go through them many times in life, it's so dark you can't even see ahead of you one foot. You haven't the slightest idea what to do next with your life. Everything's just kind of turned to ashes. It's thrown up in the air. All of the plans have gone down the toilet and you don't even know what to do. You're in the day of confusion.
And most people will give up.
Success is not measured on the days when the sun shines. Success is measured on the dark, stormy, cloudy days.
There are going to be some times in your life where it's going to be dark.
How do we measure success in tough times?
Somebody, you're running away from your marriage. There's somebody running away from their job because it don't look like you think it should look. There's somebody running away from the degree. It's too much. I can't handle it. It's just taking too long. It's not for me. And you don't realize you're running away from your glory. Y'all running from obstacles when in fact it's the obstacle that's gonna take you to the next level. You've been through hell and you ain't gonna get nothing for that? It can't end like that. You've been through too much. You gotta get some redeemable value off of that. You gotta get something from that. You gotta make a choice.
What choices do we have when facing obstacles?
You're going to let it break you or you're going to let it make you. You get to decide. It's your beginning. It's not your end. It's not how fast you start the race. The race is not given to the quick nor the swift nor the strong. But the race is given to those that endure. I need you to endure. Get through this. You're going to be all right. Do not allow this to break you. But may this be your breakthrough. And you can get through this. Because you're bigger than this. You're badder than this. You're tougher than this. And when you get to the other side, you're going to be better. You're going to be bigger.
You're going to be bolder. But we got to get through this. If you're struggling right now and you feel overwhelmed by life, let's break it down. Break it down to the breath. You can take the next breath and the next, next breath, one breath at a time. Take this one step at a time, one day at a time.
Take this 24 hours at a time. Start off just worrying about the morning and then get through the afternoon and then get through the night.
You do the math, you solve one problem and you solve the next one. And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life because that's going to happen. All the matches that you got to get up.
You keep getting knocked down.
How can we break down overwhelming situations?
You keep quitting because whatever your why is, it ain't stronger than the beat down you take it. Whatever the beat down, whatever life is throwing at you, whatever punches is blowing, whatever is happening, you're getting punched and you feel that pain and you're like, ain't no need to get up. And I'm telling you, if you don't know what your why is and your why isn't strong, you're going to get knocked out every single day. But when you know what your why is... You're going to be great. What's your why? And your why has to be greater than your pain. Because if your why is not greater than your pain, you're going to stay down. But if your why is greater than your pain, you're going to get up and you're going to finish this race.
Average skill, phenomenal will. Get up. Wipe the dust off of you. Wipe the tears. Cry if you must. I get it. Get emotional if you must. Get it out. But get your butt back up after you finish crying. And put a time limit on the crying. You say, I need 30 minutes. Don't take it. But when you come back after that 30 minutes, you better cry. Because if you don't, you'll be stuck at that adversity for the rest of your life. Yup, you might be hurting. Yup, you might be disappointed. Yup, you might want to cry. Yup, you might feel defeated. Yup, you might want to give up. But do me a favor. After you finish doing all that, get your butt up and try again.
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