00:00Life is going to happen, and you're going to set up a plan, and you're going to have a vision,
00:07and you're going to hope that it's going to turn out perfect, but what so often happens in life
00:11is that things get burned, and things go the wrong way, and it's in that moment that you're
00:17going to have to choose your reaction. Do you have a choice to make? Do you have the right
00:24reaction, or do you have the wrong reaction? Some of us were tempted. I'll just lay here.
00:30And it will pass over me. I'm telling you, you will be in a vicious cycle forever.
00:38You have to get up. Some of you have been knocked out by life, and you got up and saw the blood,
00:46he hit me. Sometimes in life, you have to hit back. Recycle your pain. Get something from it. You're
00:55already in pain. Use it. Do something with it. Allow it to take you to the next level. Allow
00:59your pain to push you to greatness. What's your why? You need a why. Why do you need a
01:04why? Because some days you're going to say, I don't want to get up, but that why is going
01:07to say, I'll push yourself. Get up. Your mama needs you. Your daddy needs you. Your children
01:13need you. Get up. Your why is going to push you when you can't push yourself. When you want
01:19to quit and give up, your why is going to give you that edge you need, that advantage you need,
01:24that lift that you need to get to the next level. Your why. You better go inside. You're
01:29still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside. You're still looking for someone
01:34to save you when you're already your superhero. You're looking for some information from somebody
01:39when you already got what you need in your head. It's just time for you to get up and be
01:43the best version of you. As you're going through your go-through and you're ready to quit, you're
01:47ready to give in because it don't look like you think it should look. You've been doing it for five years and it don't look like you think. You put all your money in it.
01:53You put all your time in it. People are looking like you crazy. Five years you've invested. Oh, you have absolutely nothing to do with what happened to you. It's not your fault. You got knocked on the ground. You have absolutely nothing to do with that. And I'm not blaming you for that. But if I come back a week later, you're still on the ground. That's your fault. If I come back a year later, you're still on the ground. That's your fault. If you get knocked down, there's nothing you can do about it. But getting back up has every single thing to do with you.
02:22And you will promise me that from this day forward, you will not be defeated.
02:29Why do you keep crying? Why me, God? Why did I get MS? Why did I get cancer? Why did my mama die? Why did I get fired? Do you understand? Listen, you got put through that because what that does, that tension produces greatness. Stop running from it and run to it. Stop telling me what you're going through. The greats, they get to it, they go through it. And the harder it is, the better.
02:55Now listen to me. I don't care if you're sick. I don't care what you're going through. If you're not dead, he ain't through with you yet. As long as you're waking up, you're still in the game. As long as you're alive, you can still make it happen. As long as that breath in your nostrum boot, you're still in the game. You still can win. Now get your butt up. I don't need you thinking about it no more. You're doing too much thinking. You're analyzing too much. You're talking yourself out of it.
03:25I just need you to keep moving. I need you to make up in your mind that the only way you can lose is if you quit. And I just need you to keep going. Get emotional if you must. Cry if you must. Get it out. But get your butt back up after you finish crying. And put a time limit on the grind.
03:40You say, coach, I need 30 minutes. Don't take it. But when you come back after that 31 minutes, you better cry. Because if you don't, you'll be stuck at that adversity for the rest of your life.
03:50And some of you are not successful. Because every single time you run up against a trial, every time you run up against a tribulation, you stop and you cut off beast mode.
04:00And what I'm here to tell you is, if you tell that thing, I'm here just like you here. And I promise you, I ain't leaving without the degree. I will not leave without that goal. I will not leave without that dream. I will not leave this university until I'm successful.
04:15I will not leave this job. I will not leave this client. I will not leave this opportunity until I get it.
04:23What will you do with your pain? Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine you?
