DON'T LET YOUR PAST DEFINE YOUR FUTURE - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

No one is watching you and nobody cares. Just grind. That's your damn problem. You keep worrying about the people watching you but at the end of the day nobody cares. Stop fiending for other people's validation and start validating yourself because at the end of the day that's all that really matters. I think you've lost your sense of urgency my friend. If I'm being honest with you I think you forgot what you're fighting for, your why and what there is to gain and what that really means. But I don't blame you. You know it's easy to get caught up in distraction when the world that you live in is almost entirely in perpetual distraction. But let this video be a reminder for what you're fighting for. Get that spark back. Start being excited for the process. Live through it. Breathe through it. Love it. Grow closer to it. This process it's everything we have. It's everything we have and if we can learn to romanticize it you're unstoppable my friend. If you rest and I'm working I got you because in the heat of the battle when it comes time for us to go head to head you won't gasp before me. I really believe that. If I take my body through you know and I'm tired and I'm aching and I'm pain and I got all these pains and I'm working through that. What can you possibly do to me? You know I've already been through the fire. This is far now. Pain is part of success. Just compare pain with a positive thing. Yeah success is not coming on silver platter. You need to work for it. I don't know who needs to hear this but you got pulled out the mix because that wasn't your crowd. You're different. Stop questioning why certain doors closed or why certain people fell off. That wasn't rejection. It was protection. Instead of fighting to fit in embrace the separation. You weren't made to blend in. You were made to stand out. It's all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you want different results in your life or your work all you have to do is change your mind. I need you to do me a favor. Do more than just exist. Do more than just stand around and wait for good things to happen to you. That's not how the world works and that's certainly not how your dreams work. Those high goals and aspirations that you have for yourself those same ones that you have on your vision board that you've prepared for 2024 it's not just going to come to you. I need you to confront you because you don't want all of you up. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you you are not going to do me like this no more. Life is shorter than you think. Okay you're you think wow I've got 10 years to figure it all out. I've got all these vistas of time. I'm young. I'm healthy etc. You don't have nearly as much time as you have to think you do. It goes very fast so you need a sense of urgency and energy. Opportunity mixed with difficulty. Opportunity mixed with challenge. We've got a chance to grow like never before but I'm telling you there's going to be many enemies that's going to try to prevent us. As soon as you plant the garden the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it and you've got to learn not only to nourish your values you've to learn to do battle with your enemies. Whatever threatens you I'm asking you to threaten it back. You know you're aiming high enough when you know you have to stretch in order to achieve them. Stretch mentally. Stretch in your skill set. Stretch in the rooms that you need to walk into. Stretch in the conversations that you have to have. The conversations necessary to bring out the best in you because the tragedy of life is not having a target too high and missing it. It's having a target that's too low and hitting it. It doesn't matter where you are in life. It really doesn't because the great thing about life is it's always your next move. Your next move that counts no matter where you are. Consider your craft as an energy alive in you. It's just as much a part of the cycle of evolution as other living things are. It wants to grow. It wants to flower. To hone your craft is to honor creation. It doesn't matter if you become the best in your field. By practicing to improve you're fulfilling your ultimate purpose on this planet. Your mindset matters. You know why? Because the quality of your life is dependent on your perspective. This world can be either hell or paradise. Pain can either be an enemy or a friend. Loss can either be the end or the beginning. But here's the good news. You get to decide. You create the definition of your reality because you are always in control. Stop it. Stop complaining. Stop moaning. Stop groaning. Stop wishing and wanting and whining. Stop waiting for the right moment. Stop waiting to know more or to understand how to do it better. Stop waiting for the end to be clear so that you can start. Stop waiting for someone else to show up. Stop waiting for someone else to tell you how to achieve your goals and how to live your dreams. If you win enough days, you win the week. If you win enough weeks, you win the month. If you win enough months, you win the year. And if you win enough years, you win life. It's that simple. All right? There's no magic outside of that. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It's not going to be perfect and it will change along the way. But it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser. And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. You never get to surprise yourself. Surprise yourself with the greatness that lies within you. All you have left are thoughts and dreams of what if I had only tried? What if I had only pushed myself a little bit longer? What if will be the death of you? Tell a greater story. Do yourself a favor and don't just exist. You're made for more than that. Need adversity. We need adversity. We need difficulty. We need struggle. You need a weight to carry. And if you don't have any of this, you do not get your character tested. You do not advance in your own perception of who you are in this world and how you how you engage with all the other people around you. I woke up one day and stopped making excuses. I woke up one day and stopped playing the blame game. I woke up one day and looked at the man in the mirror was like, yo, bro, what are you doing? Wake up. It's show time. Let's go. Easiest thing in the world to do is to complain, blame and quit and settle. That's the easiest thing in the world to do. But it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process. That's why I always say to people, what's more important, what we acquire or who we become? I don't care who you are. I don't care where you come from. I don't care what your story is. At the end of the day, you can win if you choose to learn the things that you need to do and then can do that. When it's time, you'll know. Trust me, when that moment comes, the feeling is unmistakable. So no matter how dark things might get, never forget that you are the light. You can pull yourself out of any situation, but it's going to take effort. It's going to take putting in the work when no one's watching or even cheering you on. Stop looking outside yourself to conquer that voice within. You have what it takes. Now go make it happen. I'm telling you, the moment you truly decide to commit to self-mastery, to becoming your 2.0 self, to really elevating to the highest version of yourself, you will lose 99% of your friends. And the reason for that is you will scare them because they will not understand why you're so committed to self-development, self-actualization, becoming a better human. You won't have things in common anymore, right? Because if you are trying to transcend the self-mastery to develop as a better human, and so in your process, in your journey of self-development, you will lose 99% of your friends. Pretty soon, you'll win. Pretty soon, you'll **** them. You have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the mindset about everybody and go **** themselves. Most important question to ask yourself is what pain are you willing to endure in your life rather than what pleasure do you want? So whatever pursuit it is that you're going through, whatever challenges are placed in front of you, realize that there is value in stepping outside of their comfort, that on the other side of discomfort is something valuable. We're told that worthwhile things are difficult to attain because if they weren't difficult to attain, they wouldn't be worthwhile. And really ask yourself that question. What is it essentially that you are looking for living this life? How much of where you want to go did you achieve already? And also, are you actually still finding yourself on the way to wherever you wanted to go? If you're not being defined by a vision of the future, then you are left with the memories of your past and you'll be predictable in your life. If you're not creating anything new, that means you're believing in your past more than you're believing in your future. So then if the person is living in anger, impatience, resentment, frustration, and they're holding the intention of their future, they're waiting for their success to feel abundance or empowerment. They're waiting for their new relationship to feel love. Well, that's the old model of reality of cause and effect, waiting for something outside to change how we feel inside. And if you're living in that lack and you know that you're creating your future or creating more lack, and if you're reacting to the people and conditions in your life that are all known to you, then your thoughts and feelings are equal to everything that you know. You keep creating the same life. One entire year has just passed. Look at yourself in the beginning of this year compared to right now. Are you any different? Are you the same guy that you were in the beginning of the year? Try to make sure that this year you at least change something up, right? If years and years pass and you're just the same dude, then you're not really living in a way. I kind of feel like you're just being pushed through life. Intentionally act like the person you want to become because when you intentionally act like the person you want to become, your brain sees you taking those actions. So your brain starts to change the way it relates to you. You know, that first, you know, step when you really decide, all right, I got to start changing things. It is very uncomfortable because you're going to start doing things that aren't the norm in your life. You're going to have to let go of old ways, let go of old habits and start stepping in and implementing new ones. And that is a very uncomfortable process because it's, you're stepping into the unknown, you're stepping into something that your body is not familiar with. But at the end of the day, it's so rewarding in the long run. And if you can just stick it out through that first step where it gets really uncomfortable. On the flip side of that is everything that you want in life. It's the relationship, it's the job, it's the situation, it's the environment, it's the community. Don't resent tough times. When life hands you adversity, it's not to expose how weak and vulnerable you are. It's to push you to become more resourceful and show you that you're capable of making it through what once felt impossible. Your battles are intended to build your character, not destroy your spirit. There is growth in your struggle. So just keep pushing. With our thoughts, we create the world. That means there is something powerful about you. If you are disciplined, if you do the proper things, if you stay determined, stop the laziness. Chances are very high that many of the goals that you're setting to yourself will become true. What are you willing to sacrifice and what are you willing to give up to find every bit of who you are as a human being? There's no hacks, bro. It's you against you. You against you. And if you misunderstand that, you have a real problem. So the things that are important to you in life, you must do always or you're nobody. It's impossible to increase your mental toughness if you're afraid of failure. It's impossible to increase mental toughness if you don't get outside of your comfort zone. It's impossible to increase mental toughness if you don't do hard things. It's impossible to increase mental toughness if you don't throw yourself into the fire just to find out who you are on the other side. To throw yourself into the deep waters just to find out who you are on the other side. Being fearless means put yourself out there and going for it. No matter what, go for it. Not for anybody else, but for yourself. Just don't give up, even if right now it doesn't make sense. One day, I'm very, very sure when you start to see the connections and things fall into place, you will maybe also realize that it couldn't have been different. Giving up was just simply not the question or simply never an option. The winners continue where the losers stop. So what stops you becoming the fullest version? It's the things in you that whisper to you that you cannot be the things that you hope for. It's not usually prohibitions, it's inhibitions. What stops us are the lies we believe that are not true. To launch towards your goal, never consider a possibility of failure. Always forward, never backward. Always forward, never backward. Never consider the possibility of failure. Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is vital to all great achievement and it's always a decision that you make. It's not the external environment, it's always the internal environment. Opportunity mixed with difficulty, opportunity mixed with challenge. We've got a chance to grow like never before, but I'm telling you there's going to be many enemies that's going to try to prevent us. As soon as you plant the garden, the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it and you've got to learn not only to nourish your values, you've got to learn to do battle with your enemies. Whatever threatens you, I'm asking you to threaten it back. Take care of your responsibility, but don't take anything off anybody. So many people talk about legacy. I want to leave a legacy. They use it in such a way that it sounds like it's easy, but it really in order for you to leave a legacy, you got to live a life worth recording. One that can be an impact, one that has a voice long after you're gone, an echo that goes into generations long after you've left the face of the earth. Greatness has no moods. You can't just be in the mood to be great. You can't just be in the mood to be a hard worker. You can't just be in the mood to be disciplined. It doesn't work that way. It has to become who you are. It has to consume you. It has to be your identity. Despite what I'm going through, despite my past failures, despite what people are saying about me, I'm going to get it done. I'm going to execute. It's not what I do, it's who I am. And life will seem like it's giving you hundreds of reasons to not execute today, but it's just a test to see how bad you really want it. The version of you that you are right now is why you have what you have. You got to make a complete identity switch to get something different. And so what happens is when people aren't ready to do that, they will all will always go back to the low hanging fruit that they're accustomed to because your presence will require something different. So I was just failing, I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself how to fail right. What that means is when I fail, I can't spend much time in that fail zone. I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast. So the big thing is know that if you have big goals and big dreams along the way, failure is going to happen. So how fast do you get up from that? The easiest thing in the world to do is to complain, blame and quit and settle. That's the easiest thing in the world to do. But it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an individual when they're trying to change something. You got to stick to the script. You got to continue to take steps every single day, even if things don't always work out. Don't waver. Don't just start to go off the path because you're not getting what you want. You know what I mean? And trust the process, have faith that things will work out. And at this moment, what you're going through is teaching you something. In life, you have to have no fear. You have to have no fear. You have to believe in who you are and what you do and just go and get it. What are you waiting for? In all honesty, what are you freaking waiting for? You know, there's not just going to be a day where for no reason you're going to just wake up and say, I'm going to go to the gym every day in perpetuity. No, it's that doesn't really happen. Most people don't lead their life. They accept their life. And when you accept your life, you are living on things that are not worthy of your time and effort and energy. To go uphill, you have to be intentional. Nobody ever went uphill by accident. You've never read a book on accidental achievements. You have to be intentional with what you do and who you are. As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. Your job is not to figure out how it's going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head. And when the door opens in real life, just walk through it. And when I say life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you. I really don't know if that's true. Why not take a chance on faith as well? But faith, not hope, but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it. You know yourself better than anyone, but sometimes you fall into the trap of believing the world. You're the only one who knows what's best for you. You don't need to look for answers anywhere else. They're inside of you. There's going to be noise from every corner. Ignore it. Stay true to yourself because when you do, every challenge becomes a victory waiting to happen. Every day, sunrise, sun goes down. So that means there is an up, there is a down. Since we are born, we have inhaled 50% of our times. We have exhaled 50% of our times. Our heart, the same. Sucking the blood, pumping the blood, also the same. Meaning always 50-50. Always the exchange between left and right. Up and down. Bright and dark. In and out. Success and failure. So the hardest thing to get people about success, the hardest thing is to start. Start, man. Every morning when you get up, say over and over to yourself, do it now. Do it now. Do it now. I do it now. Do it now. Whenever you have this tendency to procrastinate, program your subconscious mind with this automatic conditioned command. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now. The key to overcoming procrastination is to develop a sense of urgency. Be the kind of person who gets things done quickly. Be the kind of person who launches fast on a task. Five choices in our life. We can be bad at what we do. We can be average at what we do. We can be good at what we do, or we can be excellent, or we can be elite. Everybody has a choice as to what they want to do and how they want to do that. But if you're going to be excellent or elite, you got to do special things. You have to have special intensity. You have to have special focus. You have to have a special commitment and drive and passion to do things at a high level and a high standard all the time. It doesn't matter what God-given ability that you have. That probably can make you good. But without the rest of it, I'm not sure you ever get excellent or elite. Remember that it's not the things that happen to you. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you. It's inevitable. Things are going to happen that are out of your control. But the one thing that is always in your control is how you respond, your perspective, your mindset. And that's the thing that you need to be taking responsibility for and taking accountability for is how you respond to these things that happen to you in life. Things are going to happen. You're going to be hurt. You're going to get faced with adversity. You're going to be heartbroken. You might lose somebody. Whatever it may be, there's so many things that will happen to you that aren't in your control. And you need to focus on responding in the way that is going to help you, that is going to nurture you and help you move forward instead of keeping you stuck. Don't really let anybody take away that dream from you. Nurture it. Water it like you water the flowers. Even if you find only one person in this world that will accept, embrace, and support your dreams, find that person and dream big because you can make it. The goal that you seek or the prize that you're seeking is in the work that you're not doing. No matter where your goal is in terms of its height or how delusional it may seem, you're still going to aim for it and figure out whether or not you'll get there later. Something in you has to wake up. And usually the only person that can wake it up is you. But if you don't have a little flame, you're done. I can't lie it for you. And that's the harsh reality of this life that I want to get across so bad. You have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want in life? Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. So if you think insecure thoughts, in a matter of seconds, you are going to feel insecure. The brain is monitoring how you're feeling and you think more insecure thoughts, which then makes you feel more insecure. And the repetition of that cycle conditions the body to become the mind of insecurity. And whenever you say I am anything, you are commanding your mind and body into a destiny. Even if you're tired, you can still go to the gym. Even if you're annoyed with your spouse, you can still speak in a manner that's loving. Even if you don't feel like doing that hard work, you can still push yourself to do it. Your feelings aren't a choice. Your behavior and your thoughts are always a choice. Life is about loss. As time goes on, we lose fights, we lose people we love, we lose our hair, and then we lose our life. You know, it's all loss. From all these losses, we learn so much. When everything is falling apart in your life, when people are leaving you, when people are betraying you, when people are not coming through with their word, are you still going to put in the work? Are you still going to execute? Are you still going to do today what you told yourself that you would do yesterday? Seeing opportunities instead of seeing punishments and instead of seeing downturns in your life, seeing opportunities, it's just going to have such a much better impact on the way you, where you get to. Goal of a constant vision of what it is you want to achieve. See it accomplished and go all out. Find a way to win in spite of the setbacks, in spite of the disappointments, in spite of your failures. I tell people, fail your way to success. I have a saying is, life knocks you down trying to land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up. I'm continuing to take the steps each and every day and moving in a direction that I know is aligned with, you know, my calling and my truth, that I know that I'll get to where I need to be when I need to be there, right? And all that's doing is distracting you from moving in a direction that you need to be moving into, you know? And the more you focus on what everybody else is doing, the more you're going to continue to make decisions that aren't aligned with what you should be doing. Learn that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on. And it will be better tomorrow. It's dangerous to dwell on past mistakes because people sort of define themselves by the worst moments that they've ever had. You gotta get through failure. It's very important and you get through it by just picking yourself back up and moving forward and going. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place. And that's the graveyard. The number one regret of the dying is that they didn't take risks. They didn't become their ideal self. And I think that sometimes people hold off braveness and courage because they don't want to risk failure and they don't want to risk shame. And I think you gotta risk it. You need to decide what you want. You need to decide what you want to be remembered for. You need to decide what your legend will be. So many people live in their head. They go to therapy in their head. They go in circles and nothing changes because it just becomes a circular conversation. And so what do you gotta get yourself to act? Well, to get yourself to act, you have to get yourself in a state where you'll do it. So you can take anything and make it represented in your mind as difficult or easy. And the way we represent things is the way we feel. You experience life, you experience life, you focus on. I'm focused on what's wrong, my life is wrong. I focus on what I love, my life is love. It really comes down to, yes, the way you represent the world is the way you experience the world. What's life? Oh, it's a test. Well then, what's life like if it's a test? Oh, if it's like a test, then it's hard and I gotta study and I could fail. Or someone would say, then life's easy because I'm good at tests. Or is life a battle? Then those people always are looking for someone to fight where they expect there's going to be a fight. It's always a struggle and they find a way to make it a struggle. Is it a gift? Like however you represent life, it'll change completely what you're feeling, what you're doing. Let me tell you something. You listen to me and listen to me closely. Success doesn't come to the most intelligent or the most talented. Success to come to those who are the most hungry. And there's a thing in your life called momentum. And if you're stuck in your life, it's because there's a lack of momentum in it. Momentum takes average ordinary people and makes them appear to be superhuman. You have to do really difficult and feared things first. So if you could start to build the habit of doing feared things first, difficult things first, if you can survive the temporary, on the other side of temporary pain, you meet another version of yourself. And I have found that in my life. Most people avoid pain and discomfort and that what happens is they never create any momentum in their life. But for people with a growth mindset, the brain becomes most active when receiving information about what they could do better next time. In other words, people with a fixed mindset worry the most about how they're judged, while those with a growth mindset focus the most on learning. There are other consequences of mindset. People with a fixed mindset see effort as a bad thing, something that only people with low capabilities need. While those with a growth mindset see effort as what makes us smart, as the way to grow. And when they hit a setback or failure, people with a fixed mindset tend to conclude that they're incapable. So to protect their ego, they lose interest or withdraw. We observe that as lack of motivation, but behind it is a fixed mindset. Whereas people with a growth mindset understand that setbacks are part of growth. So when they hit one, they find a way around it. The journey to success comes with a lot of what? Failure. So why the f*** don't you teach yourself, like I taught myself, is how to fail properly. You're gonna have to learn how to get up extremely fast, because you are going to have a million setbacks on this journey. And that's how I literally taught myself how to fail first. If you've forgotten the language of gratitude, you'll never be on speaking terms with happiness, right? Like what are you grateful for? Every single day, just slow down, right? Like what are you grateful for man, right? Because it recalibrates and puts us in a space and place. And when I'm grateful, I learn more. When I'm grateful, I'm a little bit better, right? When I'm grateful, I listen a little more. When I'm grateful, I'm more in the moment. Belief comes before ability. You're not always born with the ability, but you have to believe before you have the ability. If you believe you have the ability, and then you have the courage to take action on that belief and that ability, then you can start moving forward. That is momentum. Momentum is potential. It's not guaranteed success, but it is potential. We become people that only care about the outcome, then we lose ourselves. Marcus Aurelius gives us a very nice idea on how to find the good. He says, to the lover of glory, it is the reactions of others. To the lover of pleasures, it is his own passive experience. But to the intelligent man, it is his own action. You have to be delusional. Franz Kafka once said, by believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Embrace the power of your dreams, for they have the potential to shape your reality. Let your desires guide you, fuel your actions, and manifest the life you envision. Don't listen to anybody. Don't even listen to me. You already know what you need to do. It's in you. It's talking to you all the time. You downplay it because you think you're not experienced, or you know you're not experienced, so you're scared to listen to yourself. But you know you. Your soul knows you, and that's what you're listening to in your head. Trust it. Trust your gut. Go with your first instincts. You can't lose. Words are life. Speak things into existence, and create your universe. Protect yourself with your words. The universe is listening. Destiny taps us on the shoulder, and is it going to find us ready? Are we going to be there in our finest hour? And the answer is most people don't. Most people turn away when destiny calls. We let things get in the way. We know what we're supposed to do. We know what we want to do. We know what the right thing is to do, but we don't do it. We let other things get in the way. Courage calls, but we ignore it. But what history needs, what the world needs, what you need, is to answer that call and not let anything get in the way. You're about to win big, and I have key signs that you're about to win big, because you've been doing the work. You have been staying faithful. Listen, you're about to win big. Our definition of a winner is someone who never let losing stop them, and the idea that a single loss in the competition is somehow a defeat is completely insane. Let's say you're a good player, and you lose the tournament. It's like, well, so what? You played the game. You're increasing your skills. Life isn't a game. It's a series of games, and the right ethic is to be the winner of the series of games, and part of that means you learn how to be a good loser, because you're not going to win every single game. Because to be a winner, you want to be disciplined. You want to know what you're doing, and then you want to be on the edge where your skills are being developed. And if you're going to be on the edge where your skills are going to be developed, you're at a place where losing is always a possibility, because otherwise you're not pushing yourself beyond your current capacity. So what if you fail? So what if you have to start over? So what if it doesn't work out? Yeah, it's nice when your efforts pay off, but some things are just meant to teach you about the process of hard work. They're meant to humble you with the fact that sometimes you don't get what you want, but you can still be satisfied knowing that you left one less stone unturned. Not everything is supposed to lead to success, so just stay the course. Like a good example of this is when people talk about hitting rock bottom. When you get to a point where you really can look at yourself objectively and think like, what have I been doing? Like that's a state, that's a mental state where you are very prone, and you have a very high potential to be able to say, okay, I can't do this anymore. I gotta change something. You deserve your breakthrough. You deserve your next level. You deserve your healing. Stop discrediting yourself and give yourself some damn credit. Everything you've been through, you survived through, and I'm gonna just tell you right now, everything that you're going through, you're making it through in this moment. Give yourself some credit, man. If somebody were to sell your story, your movie of your life, they would have been counting you out. Everybody who counted you out, even yourself, and you're still here, you're worth it. I'm not saying I don't care about you. I'm not saying I don't care about these hard times that you go through, but most people do not care. The very small window in life that you have to succeed is not just gonna stay there. You have to put in the work despite how you feel, and guess what? If you just so happen to do that, that is how you build toughness. Our deepest fear is not that we're inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we're powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant and gorgeous and talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. When you watch a movie instead of doing your work, that's called instant gratification. You feel really good while you're watching it, and you're happy you're not doing your work. But when the movie's over and you're alone, you realize that you don't have that thing to show for it. You don't have that work that really lasts. Nothing is achieved without some perspiration. Nothing. Anything that is worth anything. If you really want to be successful, you have to work at it. And that's why you have to continuously have that inner dialogue and bring yourself back, you know, and remind yourself that things are exactly as they're meant to be. Release the expectations. Forget the picture of how I think my life needs to be going at this specific time and just live in this moment, right? And as you continue to just take steps each and every day, trying to make the most out of what you have now, you're going to start evolving and growing into new seasons, into new opportunities, into new phases, right? And you're going to reach points where one day you look back and you're like, wow, I actually had to go through that to get to where I am now. And I realized that that was happening for a reason.