Stop Waiting For "Someday"
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What is the importance of starting before you're ready?
I am imperfect, a fraction of the man I hope to be someday. You know what? Here I go, and forward I march. If you thought being real took courage, wait until you hear about the courage required to be imperfect, to start before you're ready. To build without all the tools. To present yourself to the world unpolished, anything but buttoned up. Pulled, not by guarantee, but by a belief in your heart that something better awaits. I don't really know what prompted it, but I was kind of in my head running an inventory of the last few friends I've talked to on my phone. I'm going to share a few of them. Tom, a recovered addict and now CEO of a multi-million dollar business in OKC.
How can we learn from the courage of others who have overcome adversity?
Terry, similar beginning, fought through alcoholism, a liver transplant. Years later, owns a very successful marketing organization. Happy relationship. Michael, abusive childhood, now a legend of a human being, firefighter, builder, flipping real estate. Eric, ex-cop, saw things so sad and traumatic that it took him years to get over it. In many ways, he expresses he still is now one of the most sought-after trainers in the country. Work with a list of clients that would make your head spin. Wesley, who I recently met, battled through cancer, health issues, so much more, and is truly a source of light in this world, building his own inspirational brand now. And I bring these people up not because they battled, and they all did.
I bring them up because sometimes I marvel at the courage to stand back up after being hit that hard and decide to build again.
What role does self-doubt play in our journey to success?
Here's what I know. You don't climb your way back from addiction and immediately think, you know what, I deserve to be CEO of a multi-million dollar company. Think about the pain, the identity shift, the process of earning your own confidence, the mornings of self-doubt, convincing yourself that you aren't who you were, you're who you choose to be today. See, we don't talk about those things often. Because let's face it, we don't see them that often. It's behind the scenes. But that, as far as I'm concerned, is courage to its fullest extent. I am imperfect. I am a fraction of the man I hope to someday be.
Why is it crucial to embrace imperfection in our lives?
But you know what? Here I go. Forward I march. Because the normal human condition is to be so wrapped up in our own battles that we sometimes feel we are the only ones going through it. We forget others dealt with pain. We overlook the fact that many of the people we look up to push through a fog of doubt every morning so thick that they aren't sure what the other end will look like. Now, there are a couple of ways to take all this. and let's run that thought experiment. Route one, you fixate on the fact that the human condition is suffering. It's inescapable pain and anguish. Or you take route two and you think, despite that truth, look what these people rose to create. Look what so many others made with their quote-unquote unfortunate situation.
And hey, look what I can do with mine. It's funny, I read it so long ago now that I only remember like a handful of ideas from the book. But in Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death, I'll never forget the suggestion that the human predicament is we are simultaneously gods and worms. Worms because we are imperfect flesh, flawed, decaying, in many ways lost. Yet despite these natural animalistic characteristics, we have this beautiful God-like ability to transcend, to walk eyes wide into the abyss, not knowing what awaits, feeling anything but ready and somehow Pushing through the terror. Avoiding the grasp of despair. And then there's the notion that, yeah, it's one thing to survive.
How can we shift our perspective on life's challenges?
It's another thing altogether to come out on the other side and build something beautiful on the corpse of what could have been your excuse. to dance on the grave of regret as you offer something divine to a world that desperately needs it. It's easy for us to overthink this, right? Especially since on paper, it doesn't really make sense. Ask a five-year-old, hey, should you go before you're ready? They would almost certainly say no.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the importance of starting before you're ready?
0:00–1:06
2
How can we learn from the courage of others who have overcome adversity?
1:06–2:13
3
What role does self-doubt play in our journey to success?
2:13–3:11
4
Why is it crucial to embrace imperfection in our lives?
3:11–5:24
5
How can we shift our perspective on life's challenges?
5:24–7:01
6
What does it mean to find strength in adversity?
7:01–9:58
7
How can embracing the process of rebuilding lead to personal growth?
9:58–13:19
8
What is the significance of understanding the difference between control and acceptance?
13:19–32:06
Speakers
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