Life is not easy at all. There's going to be challenges. You're going to get beat down.

That's the way life is. Life will knock you between the eyes. It will

catch you on the blinds. I come out of nowhere. Stuff you can't anticipate.

They will knock the wind out of you. You want to give up. You will not be

challenged in your convenience. You will be challenged in your chaos. When you run

out of money, when things don't work out for you, when things happen that you

could not anticipate, what are the reasons that you can make up that can keep

you strong. If you know the why of the living, you can endure almost anyhow.

And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life. Does that's going to

happen? All the matters that you got to get up. You have to get up.

Whatever experience you're having right now, it has not come to stay. It has come to

pass. Sometimes you have to just back up and go within yourself and try and

meditate and recharge your batteries. Go away. Clear your head. And then come back

and look at it from a different vantage point. Don't operate while you are

under the spell or the effect of what's going on. Don't allow your emotions to

control you. We are emotional, but you want to begin to discipline your emotion.

If you don't discipline and contain your emotions, they will use you. You don't

have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively, to be depressed,

to beat yourself up over the head, to feel loaded with guilt. You don't have to

make any effort to do that. Your mind is on automatic. It will do that by itself.

But if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness, you've got to

be willing to go against the tide. You've got to be willing to harness your will.

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