People look at their past to decide who they are. People look at their past to decide who they can be.
- The problem is often people mistake difficulties, suffering, and pain as being bad or less than.
- It erodes their sense of self-worth
- Nothing could be more opposite from the truth
In reality, no matter what you’ve gone through and no matter how hard it was, all of it was shaping you into the person that you can become.
- The hardships, difficulties, pain, and suffering all make you tougher.
- It is literally in the difficulties that you begin to find just how much you’re capable of.
- It’s in the suffering that you find out how resilient you are.
- It’s in the pain that you can rise up and get tough.
You have to know how to frame it
- You have to know how to think about it
- You have to know that whatever you’ve been through, it is all an opportunity to learn, grow, and get better.
- But you have to use it to shape yourself.
- You have to lean into it and know that the pain and suffering is serving you.
- If you’re telling yourself a story that diminishes you then you are always going to move backwards.
- Instead if you can put it behind you so that it pushes you forward and propel you to be more
- then no matter what’s happened to you, you can become something truly extraordinary.
- So even when you’re making mistakes or falling down, it that is an opportunity and lesson.
- Even if you’re running and you stumble, and you trip, you are still moving forward as long as you get back up, dust yourself off and keep going.
- The only thing that matters is how do you think about it? Do you let it be something that moves you backwards?
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
Re-source: Recondition
Most people fail because they are never willing to put themselves out there and they don’t see the momentum and forward movement. They only see the failure.
- Failure is part of the learning process, but so is the voice that says you’re a fuck-up, unworthy, etc.
- It is up to you to decide to ignore that voice, to prove it wrong, and to love yourself.
Each and every one of us has to do things to be worthy of loving ourselves.
- We have to take that leap of faith, be willing to look at our inadequacies, get up and do ourselves a service.
- We have to be willing to serve ourselves.
- You have to be proactive. You don’t need extraordinary accomplishments, you just need to know that you’re trying.
- You need to know that when you fall that you’re going to get back up, keep pushing forward, and won’t give up.
- Even if you’ve given up in the past.
Every day is an opportunity to reinvent yourself. It doesn’t have to grand; it doesn’t need to be extraordinary. It simply needs to be a commitment to yourself.
- If you commit to yourself; if you commit to love yourself, despite everything you have done or that has happened to you, your life can be beautiful.
- It starts with a decision to move forward.
craving and resource form “Commit To It” by Tom Bilyeu (YouTube)