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Chapter 1: What challenges will you face on the journey to success?
Every dream you have is going to be tested. Understand that. Ain't no easy walk to the top. Ain't no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. You're going to be tested. What you going to do when you get tested? Because you're going to get told no a bunch of times. So what you gonna do? You gotta master that.
But the only way to master it is you got to get knocked down to understand how to get up. You must fall and roll over to know what it is to have to recover. You gotta be down to understand up. You got to be under to know how to get over.
Chapter 2: How can setbacks shape your character and resilience?
You got to get to the low point to appreciate the high point. If you don't think it go like that, man, you might as well get out now. Because you're going to get tested. Now the question is, what you going to do when the test come? It's hard keeping your spirits up.
It's hard when you're hurting. It's hard, you got bills, you got responsibilities. It's hard. Easy is not an option, but it's worth fighting. It's worth believing. It's worth giving yourself a chance. It's worth mustering yourself up, standing up inside yourself. It's worth fighting relentlessly, never giving up. It's worth it. It is worth the struggle. It is worth
Chapter 3: What mindset is necessary to overcome adversity?
Whatever the struggle is to find out who you are and what you got and what you can do and what you can be.
This fire you're feeling, this pressure you're feeling, this frustration you're feeling, this is what is going to make you into the weapon that you are going to become that will then build the life that you are out to build.
Take this opportunity to recognize that the chaos in your life is actually forging you and improving you because you're choosing to press on when everybody else is not willing to push on.
What if problems were always gifts? What if every single problem really was a gift in your life? What if every problem you ever had was life happening for you, not to you? What if everything in our lives was guided? What if everything in our lives was divine titled? Everything, even the pain.
When you're in the darkest place, when you feel like all is lost, when you think there's no way to turn it around, remember this, victory is near.
You don't even know how creative you are until you run out of options. You don't know how innovative you are until you feel like your back is up against the wall. I am excited about your future because your darkness is about to be your development.
Everybody can stand up and do good when everything is all good. Everybody can smile when the sun's shot. Everybody can do right when everything is going right. Everybody can do that. But everybody can't face opposition, adversity and challenges and say, I've been waiting on you to come.
I'm going to embrace you and I'm going to figure out a way to use you because you will never make me a person that people don't recognize before the adversity. That's made up in my mind before the battle even happens, because I know I ain't running.
I know I ain't quitting. I'm going to make a commitment, and no matter what happens, I'm going to do whatever it takes to get it done. That's the will. That's the most important part. There are some things that you're naturally gifted at. Others you gotta will your way through. I will my way through homelessness. I will my way through that GED. I will my way through that PhD.
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Chapter 4: How can you find strength in difficult times?
I will my way through those books. I got what it takes. I got average skill, but I got phenomenal. I can. I have the ability to do it. I will. Somebody count on me. I will. I have the willpower to make it happen. We don't quit. We don't give up. We push a switch called will. Yes, we're tired. Yes, we're hungry. Yes, the mind is saying give up.
But we cannot quit because we realize we have not reached a goal yet. This is not what I dreamed about. This is not what I said I was going to do. This is not what it looks like. I got to push. I must. It's not an option. And the reason why some of you are not where you're supposed to be, you've given yourself an option. You've given yourself an out. Failure is not an option.
You can't even let it sink into your brain. Not even a second. You have to know that this thing is going to work. Come hell or high water, at some point, My dream is going to become a reality. You are the captain of your ship. Control your own destiny, your own life. You gotta talk to yourself. Sometimes healing takes place first in the spirit.
We must learn to talk to ourselves and focus on the internal things that we can control rather than the external things that we can't control.
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion. Don't believe everything you think. We naturally feel that if we think something, it's got to be true because it comes from within us. But just because you think something doesn't make it true.
When I started thinking about becoming a speaker, this voice inside of me said, You can't do this.
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Chapter 5: What role does belief play in achieving your dreams?
You don't have everything it takes. You don't have the skills. You don't have the knowledge. You don't have the money. Forget that. You can't do that. What if you lose everything you've got? You've got to stand up inside yourself sometimes and say, Shut up! You've got to stand up to it and say, I'm gonna do this anyhow. Come on man, get yourself together.
You can handle this, you just haven't figured it out yet. It's alright, this is your training period. This is a tuition you have to pay for what you don't know. How are you going to make it? I don't know, but I will. See, you will when you put yourself in that kind of situation. And you can kick on out of those circumstances, whatever they are. I'm gonna keep on kicking.
The biggest challenge that you will have in life is you. Nobody is going to care more about your dream than you. No one is going to care more about you becoming diamond than you. If the economy is good, that will help. If people have the vision, that will help. If your family members will support you, that will help. If your friends will chime in, that will help.
But all of those things are minor things. The major key to your becoming a diamond is you. Your belief, your faith, your drive, your determination, your persistence, your perseverance, your spirit. You are the determining factor.
Life is not always easy. There are times when it feels like everything is going against you. When you face obstacles that seem insurmountable. And when you feel like giving up. This is harder than I thought. Hard? That must mean it's bad. No. Every time you face disappointment, you face heartache, you face defeat, you face setbacks, it's preparing you for what this world has in store for you.
Life is not done with you. You're only just getting started.
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Chapter 6: How can personal struggles lead to growth?
The challenges you have right now, they're there to push the greatness that is inside of you out. And as much as I hate some of the parts of my life depression has dragged me down to, in a lot of ways I'm grateful for it. Because yeah, it's put me in the valleys, but only to show me there's peaks. And yeah, it's dragged me through the dark, but only to remind me there is light.
My hurts force me to have hope. Have hope and to have faith, faith in myself. So don't ever give up. Don't ever quit. Pressure has a point.
Pressure has a purpose. You see, most people suffer from possibility blindness. They can't see themselves doing better because they've been conditioned by the world around them. Most people give up on themselves easily. You know the human spirit is powerful? There's nothing as powerful, it's hard to kill the human spirit.
But when you have a made up mind, you don't care about the facts, you don't care about the odds, because you are creating your own production. You are the star of your show, you are the director, you're writing the script. And you will determine whether your life is a smash office hit or flop. You determine that. Working on yourself, talking to yourself, that's so very important.
Overcoming the negative conversation, that inner dialogue that's going on all the time, all the time. And so learning how to empower yourself, part of doing that is standing up to yourself. I'm in control here. The power to hold on in spite of everything. The power to endure the hunger, the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up. This is a winner's quality.
You have that quality within you. No one believed in me.
I believed in myself. Belief came from me was going through those hell weeks, taking those legs up, getting up early in the morning by myself, no coach, getting myself up. motivating myself every single day. And no one's here saying, come on, David, I'm forming belief. So when the hard times come, I know exactly how to get through them. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
It's good to you. Why? See, when it's hard and there's a struggle, what you become in the process is more important than the dream. That's far more important. The kind of person you become, the character that you build, the courage that you develop, the faith that you're manifesting. Oh, it's something that
You get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit. You can get through this. You can survive this. You can outlast this. You can handle this. You gotta push yourself to your limits. That's when you grow. You have the strength to pick yourself up and keep fighting through the darkness.
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