The Pathway To Your Results

Beyond Your Limits

Season 5 Episode 209

We dive deep into how purposely embracing challenges helps us shed the parts of ourselves that don't resonate with our desired reality and discover our unlimited potential. 

• Weakness is simply the parts of you that don't fit into the new reality you're creating
• The universe creates opportunities to reveal our misalignments so we can grow
• Focus is essential because distractions prevent us from assuming new frequencies
• Sometimes we must consciously put ourselves in challenging positions
• We often give more energy to what we don't want than what we do want
• You can't live an abundant life with an impoverished mindset
• The only thing stopping you from your new life is your old life
• Our hardships reveal parts of ourselves we didn't know existed
• When we push through limitations, we discover "I can do anything"
• Pause or pivot when needed, but never give up on yourself

Keep going on your path forward. Just by continuing, you ensure you'll move into your new life and discover who you truly are.


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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to your Results Podcast Bro, I hope you've been well. I hope life has been helping you move through the misalignment in your life so you can find all the parts of you that are aligned so you can continue to live the life that you want. But today I'm going to talk about how sometimes we got to purposely put ourselves in situations. We got to purposely put ourselves in challenging positions. So we can move out of misalignment. We can get those parts of us that don't resonate with the future desired reality that we want to live. We can get rid of those parts so we can start living the life that we want. Sometimes in the athletic world we refer to something or someone as being weak. I started to think about really what that meant on a deeper level. Really, what it means is it's really just the part of you that doesn't resonate. It's the part of you that doesn't belong or doesn't fit into the desired reality that you're looking to experience. So when you start to think of like you have strong and you have weak the weak part of you is the part of you that isn't. It won't work, it doesn't fit. That's a completely different frequency. It's the old reality that doesn't fit the new reality that you're looking to experience. You see what I'm saying. So I realized in my life, after going through some things, that sometimes we have to feel weak, sometimes we have to feel like we don't have enough strength to move on. Sometimes we have to go through that Because, through that time and through those situations or through that relationships, those parts of you that feel weakest, do we not know that this is our opportunity to let that part of us that no longer resonates to go ahead and dissolve? You see, what these old parts of us do is they'll sit and hang out and they'll hang out in the background and they'll stay in the background, in the backdrop, and we don't even know that they're there, because they're hiding in the shadows, and because they're hiding in the shadows, we don't actually acknowledge them. Do you see how this works? So this is why it's important for us to sometimes consciously put ourselves in situations that require us to grow, that require us to step towards adversity. You can have life manufactured adversity, but then you can have self-manufactured adversity, and one is no better than the other because both of them are going to show you where your misalignment is. Do we see how this works? Both of them are going to show you where your misalignment is. Do we see how this works? So I'm going to tell you a little story here, and stay with me here, because it's going to be a good one.

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I don't know who's been going through it, but after the 4th of July, I don't know, it's been crazy. I feel like, energetically, there's something going on. I know Schumann Resonance has been wild. I'm over here asking myself, man, what, the what is going on? I took two naps in a row, two days in a row. I took two naps I'm talking about. I wake up at seven o'clock and I'm right back in bed by nine 30. And I'm like, man, what is going on? What is wrong with me? I kept chalking it up to oh, I've been busy, you've been traveling a lot, and I'm like, no, there's something else, because last night I got my rest and the night before I got my rest, but I still feel the same way and I'm like what is going on. So, anyway, I know that whenever I feel like this and I'm in this energetic state. This is an opportunity that the universe has provided for me to get to a part of me that I could not get to myself, and I know that whatever's going on in me is going on in those around me as well. We're all connected.

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So I told my son you hear this story a lot, or hear these stories this was the summer of growth. He's 12, going to be 13. And he's going to be. You know, he's going to move from a little boy into a teenager, even though he looks like he's 15 and has a mustache. But that's neither here nor there. But I started to do things with him over the course of days, weeks, months that would start to prepare him for us, consciously putting him in positions that were challenging. So I told you, I took him to a camp.

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Took him to a camp on Monday, dropped him off, picked him up on Friday. Now, it was tough getting down there. We had two flight delays, flights canceled. It was a whole, as my dad would say, it was a goat fight getting down there. But we finally made it down and we made it there and I dropped him off.

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And when he came back now, when I picked him up on Friday. He was exhausted, but he said, dad, I feel like I can do anything. I said, yeah, this is what happens when you put yourself in a position that you ain't never been in before. So the reason why I'm saying this to you all right now and you can hear me it's because sometimes, when you have those tough times that you don't feel like you can make it through, and you make it through, even if it's just a step, even if you went into it walking and when you got out of it you were crawling, that will be just enough proof that you could get through it.

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So I told my son there's levels to this game. So I told him the other day. I said, hey, look, you got to work out. I took him out in the garage, I called the dungeon, took him in the dungeon we're going to do our upper body workout. And then after that you got to run five miles.

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Now, when I told him he had to run five miles, apparently he thought I was joking around with him. I was dead serious when I said it. So we get done with the workout. I said so we get done with the workout. I said go ahead and get your running shoes. We're going to go run five miles.

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I looked at him. I said what's the furthest you've ever run? He said I ran around my school three times. Now I've been to a school. You ran around school three times. That wasn't nothing. That wasn't nothing close to five miles.

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And I was thinking to myself, lord have mercy, this boy don't know what he's about. But here's what I will promise you If you can push through it, you will find out something about yourself that you never knew. So we go ahead and get started running. And anyone who's been jogging before or run a marathon if you play basketball, there's basketball jogging, and then there's like jogging, running like I'm running a marathon bless his soul. He didn't know any better. He started running like he was running up and down a basketball court and I'm saying to him I'm saying, buddy, you got to lengthen out your stride a little bit more. You got to run a little bit more on the balls of your feet. You can't be going heels, it ain't gonna. I'm telling you, we're gonna be running for like 50 to 55 minutes. It it's going to take a while here. So just go ahead and pace yourself.

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So we start running and we're passing by a pond where me and him always go fishing and we can see there's bass in the shallow water and I look at him and he's to my left and he starts falling behind and I'm like, hey, what are you doing? He's like look at those fish. I said you better focus on what you got to do right now. Those fish going to be here when you get back, but you need to focus all your energy for this journey ahead of us. So why am I saying this to you right now? Because focus will be required for this journey ahead of you. You got to think about what's going on. Humanity is literally becoming a new species. Not only are you becoming a new individual, humanity is becoming a new species. I don't know if we're moving from Homo sapien or whatever we are, homo erectus, whatever we are, into something else. Maybe it's Homo enlightenment I don't know what the word is but you can see that there's a shift that's taking place. Focus is going to be needed because there's so many distractions that will keep you from assuming the new frequency that will keep you from assuming the new vibration that will keep you from assuming the new frequency that will keep you from assuming the new vibration that will keep you from assuming this new, more capable version of you. So I'm telling him, I'm like yo, just focus on the task at hand.

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So I have mile markers where I've run this before. I know exactly what's a mile. I know it's two miles. So we get to about three quarters of a mile and I can hear his footsteps and they start laboring and it sounds like he's running upstairs. And I'm like his footsteps and they start laboring and it sounds like he's running upstairs and I'm like, hey, your knees are going to start hurting. You can't run with so much force. And he says to me I got a cramp. I said ah, yes, I know you do, but I'm here to tell you that cramp ain't going anywhere because we probably got about another four miles left. It's not going anywhere. I said you see that light way, way, way, way up there at the top of the hill. That's where we're running to. We're going to run to there and we're going to turn around and come back. That'll be about two and a half miles.

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So I can see him now he's running and he's holding his side as he's running. Now he doesn't have a shirt on. I said why are you holding your shirt? I mean, why are you holding your side? He says because I'm about to die. I said well, hold on now, you ain't going to die. I'm your father, I'm going to make sure that nothing happens to you physically, you will be okay. But by you sitting here holding your side, do you realize what you're doing? And this is all in real time. Now, mind you, I feel like I'm David Goggins. He don't even know who David Goggins is. I'm sitting here running with him. I feel like I'm David Goggins, trying to encourage him, say come on, son, you ain't got to hold your side, just keep running. So anyway, he's running and I say to him do you realize what you're doing? Right now, you're giving more energy to the pain you pain. You're giving more energy to the discomfort. You're giving more energy to what you don't want to experience than what you do want to experience. Good God, almighty.

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I wasn't going to start preaching. I promised I was going to keep this story mode, but y'all going to get me going here. Do you see how we do this in our life? Things won't go the way we want to go. Situations didn't pan out the way we wanted. The relationship ended before we thought situations didn't pan out the way we wanted. The relationship ended before we thought.

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And then we sit here and keep ourselves in this lower state and we only give energy to the thing that we did not want, which is why we created, but we unconsciously did it. So someone will say, oh, I want to live an abundant life and I want to have this, but yet we only look at what we don't have. You say you want to be in a happy relationship, but you're sitting here looking at all the things that he ain't doing. We will never, ever, ever have an abundant life by living in an impoverished mindset. And I told him. I said you're not going to get to where we need to go if you sit here and focus on the thing that you don't want to experience. I said you need to have focus. So I was psychologically wrestling with him when we're jogging.

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At one point I was even running backwards talking to him saying, hey, come on, you got to keep coming. And then he stops. And I said what you doing? He said it hurts, I can't do this anymore. I said well, hold on now. Is it that you can't do it, or is it that it's uncomfortable while you are trying. Which is it? He said I can't do it. And then he that it's uncomfortable while you are trying. Which is it? He said I can't do it. And then he starts spitting. I said what are you doing? Why are you spitting like this? What's going on? He goes I'm spitting blood. I said no, you ain't boy, stop that. You're not spitting blood, you're fine.

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But here's what I started to realize he had a story that was playing underneath. He had a limiting belief that says I can't do this because I've never done this before. How many times do we do this? How many times do we think that we can't do something because we haven't done it before? How many times do we think that it's not possible because we've never seen somebody else do it? It wasn't that it wasn't possible, it wasn't that it wasn't capable. It's just that version of you that was needed to do. It had not yet been created. That version of you, who's living from a place of limiting belief, had not yet died yet. So I told him, I said hey, look, you ain't going to die, you're going to be fine. You ain't spitting blood. I will promise you this. This is the worst it will get, it won't hurt any more than what it does right now.

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So now here's the battle. Can you just put one foot in front of the other? Let's go. So we start running. I originally told him four miles before we started. I said we'll do four miles, but then I'm sitting here looking at the light. I told him also we're going to run to the light. So I'm like you know what, you know what? We're just going to stop. Let's stop right here, cause I can hear him on my phone saying that the app's telling me that we're at two miles. I'm like two miles out, two miles in, let's turn back around.

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So I go to him, I go, hey, all right, let's turn around. And he's like no, no, you. You told me that I got a break when I got to the light. You said no-transcript. The universe was not going to allow me to bypass this boy's lesson. The universe was not going to allow me to bypass what was needed for him to kill off a version of himself so he could become something that he had never been before. Good God, almighty.

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So we start running. We get to the top and I looked at him and we had a little bit of an incline. This last thing you want when you're tired is to have an incline. And I looked back at him. I said look, you can come with me or you can stay, but I'm leaving, I'm running up to the top and when I get up there I'm going to have a break, probably a little bit longer than you. So you need to make up your mind if you're going to come with me. Well, he didn't make up his mind and he just continued to fall back. Just a little bit more and I get to the top of the hill. I'm just sitting there waiting for him, and at that moment we had about three minutes to sit and talk. Now, mind you, there's an intersection, so there's cars all around, and I started to notice what he was doing.

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He was worried about well, what if a friend passes by? What if somebody sees me? What if somebody sees me in my most vulnerable moment? How many times do we worry about this in life? We're scared to grow because we're afraid that somebody may see us at our weakest moment. But do we not know that when we go through the pain, the progress is on the other side? So I told him.

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I said hey, stop worrying about who passes by. If somebody passes by and somebody sees you standing here, let that be a sign that you actually are trying to work on yourself. So, anyway, we sit there and start talking. I told him. I said look, here's what's happening. Right now you feel like I'm against you because it's so challenging and it's so hard, but I'm not against you. I know what you're capable of and I know that there's something deep down inside of you. But there's this little boy inside right now who's saying I can't do this. This is too hard, this is uncomfortable. But I'm telling you, there's a version of you who's waiting on the other side. If you can just push through it, I'm not asking you to sprint. I'm not asking you to want to run a world record five miles. But here's what I am asking you Step into it willingly.

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Don't go into it with this mindset of well, I don't know how am I going to do this? You make the choice to say I'm going to do this, and this goes for everybody out here who can hear this right now. You make the choice. Life is going to provide the table. You make the choice. Am I going to do this, saying, oh, I don't know if this is possible. Am I going to say you know what? I'm tired of getting beat up by life. I'm going to test life for once. I'm going to check life in the chin and see life. Are you ready for me? I so I told him.

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I said we running back. I said we ain't stopping, we're not going to stop. So I said, here's the beauty of it. You're halfway done, you're on the backside of the mountain. Now All we got to do is do what we did and you'll make it home.

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Now, sometimes, when we get to halfway, that's actually the hardest part. We think that when we get to the top of the mountain and we got to come back down, things would get easier. But that's actually when it gets harder, meaning things get harder when you start to see the finish line, when you know that you're almost there. That's actually when it's darkest. So we start running. This is when the pain I mean he said his legs were cramping, he had a cramp in his side and he's like I feel like I'm going to die and my lungs are going to fall out, and all these things.

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I said, boy, if you don't stop, ain't nothing wrong with you. You're going to keep going and you're going to be fine. So he stopped. He stopped running and I told him. I said hey, you know where we live at. I'll see you at home. Oh, and don't get hit by a car, please. Your mom would be furious at me. Now I know some of the moms out here may sound boy, what is wrong? What in the world is he doing? But I had to do this.

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It's sometimes this masculine, this fathered energy that's needed, because I know what's inside of him. I go back to when he was nine years old and I told him. I said, hey, you got to jump rope 25 times straight without messing up. And he kept trying. He was just learning how to jump rope. He'd get to 20. He'd get to 15.

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He started crying. He said I can't do it. I said, yes, you can. He said, no, I can't. I said, yes, you can. And I said here's the deal I ain't never going to give up on you. You may give up on yourself, but I ain't going to give up on you. And here's what I'm realizing the masculine, the father's energy. So I told him when we were running. I said look, I'm not giving up on you and I'll never give up on you. But I also realized sometimes you have to run your own race. Sometimes I can't run it for you. I will see you at home, goodbye. And I took off running. And boy, I don't get emotional. You know how it is Sometimes. As parents, we know what's best for our children, but sometimes it's not easy. And now, here I am running. I'm just kind of glancing back, but I'm doing it in a way so I don't make it look like I'm looking back to make sure that he's okay. And I just see him getting further and further behind. And I said this is what he has to do. He has to figure it out. He's going to have to run his own race. And here's the deal. Don't you project how you think he should be running it. Let him run it. Let him figure this out himself.

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So I start to reflect as I'm running by myself and I'm like, wow, I'm not tired. Normally I would be tired, but I'm not tired. I spent so much energy carrying him and showing him the way that for some reason, that gave me energy and I'm not tired. But then, at that moment when I didn't have to carry him anymore, I could start to feel fatigue in my legs show up and I started to realize, oh wow, this is a theme in your life. You carry people, you carry people, you carry people. Now you're at a point where you don't feel like you have to carry him and it's like I'm tired, I'm overwhelmed and as I'm sitting here running and I'm reflecting in this, I start to hear him reflecting in this. I start to hear him. I can hear these little feet running like this and I'm like, well, if he's running that hard, we still got a long way, we still got a mile. I don't know if he's going to make it home. And I look back behind me and as I'm looking, he's right up on me and he sprints past me. I said, oh, my goodness, now there's a light we have to stop at. So I catch up to him at the light.

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I said, hey, you sure did run pretty fast, considering you were spitting blood and you was about to die, or so you say. He said, well, I just want to get it done. I said, okay, I understand that, but I said, sometimes you got to pace yourself. See, this is all a microcosm for the self-development journey. If you don't see what I'm saying right now, I know sometimes we're in a hurry to heal those wounds. People ask me all the time when am I going to be done? When can I hurry up and heal this? Why are you in such a hurry? Slow down and run the race, put one foot in front of the other. Why don't you just focus on that? And that was the goal. It wasn't the goal of how fast you got there, it was when you got there. So I told him.

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I said hey look, we're going to have to cross the street real quick. I'm going to make sure I escort over you. If you can beat me, go ahead and go. If you can run faster than me, then go. But I'm just telling you this If I beat you home, we will do this all over again. As soon as we hit this driveway and I swear on everything I've ever known and he looked at me like I was nuts Now, part of me is crazy.

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But he understood the assignment and we crossed the street and we take off and I'm ahead of him now I said look, it's the same deal. I'm a run, I'm a keep my pace, but it's on you now. And we had probably about a quarter mile and I was in front of him and I looked back at him. I said, hey, you can run if you want to like this, but I'm just telling you, if I get home before you, we're doing this again. I was willing to do that. I was Because here's the deal. I was running too. It wasn't like I wasn't tired, I was. I was sitting there saying, well, I'm going to have to run Back to that light too. I was going to have to do it.

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But then, all of a sudden, he takes off and I'm getting. I'm going to get chills. If I get emotional, I'm not going to apologize, because this is just the father in me. He takes off with about a quarter mile left and, lord knows, I did everything I could to catch him. I couldn't catch him.

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I'm sitting here looking at this 12-year-old boy. I thought I was looking at Zeus, I was looking at Hercules running down. All of a sudden, the boy had muscles, he had veins, he had all that. He was a 12-year-old boy. I said, what in the world? And I said, good God, almighty, I'm just seeing the future version of him right now. I'm seeing the version of him that he didn't know was inside of him. I'm seeing the version of him that was wrestling with the old frequency when we were on the way up to the hill. This is what ends up happening.

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So we got to the end and he made it. He beat me and I told him. I said look, I'm going to be honest with you, son. I did everything I could to catch up with you and this is the first time in life where I realized I'm the old, bald man who can't keep up with you. I couldn't do it and I told him this. I said how do you feel? He goes. My lungs feel like they're about to fall out of my chest and I can't feel my legs. I said, okay, I know that. I knew that 35 minutes ago. I knew that. But I said how do't feel my legs? I said, ok, I know that. I knew that 35 minutes ago, I knew that. But I said how do you feel? And he looks at me. I'm to the right of him, he looks at me and he goes. I feel like I can do anything. I feel like I can do anything now.

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This is what happens when we face our challenges and we don't run from them. Happens when we face our challenges and we don't run from them. There may be times when we have to walk, there may be times when we have to crawl good God, almighty. There may be times when we have to stop, but that doesn't mean we quit, that doesn't mean we give up on ourselves. And sometimes, sometimes, the universe will provide someone whose energy we borrow, because if my son, if I wasn't there, I guarantee you he would have quit. But he borrowed my energy and I said, no, we ain't going to quit. And I looked at him. I was over here. I was in David Goggins mode. I'm over here. I didn't even know I could. I don't even know. I didn't even know I could talk like that.

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While I was running that to me, I'm like well, shoot, we might do this more often. I might make motivational videos, I don't know. But I'm sitting here, I'm saying to him I said you got it inside of you, it's there. It's there. Just because you haven't reached it yet doesn't mean that it's not there. And this goes for anyone who has ears. Let them who have ears hear me right now.

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Just because it's tough, just because it hasn't happened, just because you've been trying and you tried and you tried and it doesn't look like it's showing itself, that doesn't mean that you were not still capable of it. That doesn't mean that you couldn't do it. That isn't what it means. That just means there's a part of you, there's pieces of you that can't come with you for the where you're looking to go. And I told him. I said look, this is why I didn't give up on you. This is why, when you were jump roping years ago, I didn't stop. I stayed out there until you got it.

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This is why, when we were running, I said look, we're going to go ahead and do this and we're going to finish it. I know it's going to get hard, but I'm not going to give up on you. The reason why is because I see something in you that you just can't see and I'm telling you, if you're listening to this right now, I don't have to be with you in space and time. I don't have to be sitting here looking at you. I don't have to be sitting in a room with you. You have something in you that you have not found yet. That does not mean that it's there. Life is going to give you the challenges. Life is going to give you the struggle. Life is going to give you the setback. Life is going to give you the adversity? Why To bring up the parts of you who can't come with you to the next reality, to the next frequency? That's the only reason why and I told him, I said, look, the reason why I did that is because I know, if you did this, nothing will be harder than what you just went through.

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How many times you ever go through a struggle, you go through a hardship? And when you got through it you were like, oh, my goodness, I can do anything. Yes, that big dog energy. When you walk in a room, you're like, ah, I feel different. When you walk in front of that shower, in front of that mirror, you're like, ooh, damn, girl, who are you? I have not met you yet. What is this? Damn that energy. But here's the. You're going to have to go through that wall of hardship. You're going to have to go through that web of adversity. You're going to have to go through that portal of pain. But this is what's waiting for you on the other side.

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So the next morning, when he woke up he woke up a little later than normal. I expected that I said his little body's probably tired. I'm going to let you live this morning, I'm not going to wake you up. He woke up about 1030. I said, hey, how are you feeling? He said I didn't know my calves could hurt this bad. I said, yeah, I know, but how do you feel? He said to me he goes. I know, I literally know I can do anything.

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When we came home I didn't tell you. The only reason why I was able to do this was because Carly wasn't home. See, mama Bear wasn't home when we went for the jog. Mama Bear was gone. Her and Ruby went off somewhere else. I know good and well if she knew that we were about to run five miles, ain't no way Mama Bear let her baby go and go out there on that five mile run.

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But here's the funny part. You know, they got like find my phone right and the app. You can see where people are right, we can always see everybody's location. And I had my phone with me and she's like I knew. When I came home and I saw that garage door open and there were weights all over the garage floor and I looked on find my phone and I saw that you were about four miles away. She said, oh, my goodness, what are you doing to my baby? And I looked at her and I told her. I said my responsibility is to put him and our children in positions so that they can find out new parts of themselves. I'm just using this physical activity, through running, to do it. My mom did it with mulch. Now do you want me to go order 10 yards of mulch and we can go get a shovel and a wheelbarrow and make these kids go out here and mulch all day, like my mom did in the 99 degree weather with 100% humidity in Louisiana during the summer? Do you want me to do that? Okay, we might as well go ahead and do something that's going to contribute to their physical wellbeing.

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So what is the point of the story that I told you? I realized that this wasn't even about him running. This was about humanity. This was about me and my own life. There's times I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not going to sit here and sit up on my high horse or my throne and act like I don't experience all the same things that everybody else experiences. I have days where I want to give up. I have days that I doubt myself. I have days that I question am I good enough? I have days that say can I and question myself, imposter, ship, all those same things. But I also realized those are just the old parts of me that no longer resonate, that are coming up to the surface. I've told you all before the only thing that stops you from this new life is that old life, that old way of being, those old habits, those old stories, those old mechanisms, those old programs. That's the only thing that stops you, literally the only thing. It wasn't someone outside of you, it wasn't the challenges of life, it was just you. The challenges of life were trying to help you to see this part of you. So I'll leave you with this. So I'll leave you with this.

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We were driving yesterday coming back from a location and when we were coming back we passed the same route that me and Hudson had to go run the five miles. And he looks at me, he goes Dad, there's that sidewalk again. I said that sidewalk has a little different relationship with you now, doesn't it? He goes, man, every time I look at that sidewalk, I know I can do anything. I said do you see what that sidewalk did for you? That sidewalk can't do nothing to you. You need to go ahead and tell that sidewalk thank you.

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That sidewalk showed you a part of yourself that you didn't even know existed.

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That hardship that you went through showed you a part of yourself you didn't even know existed even know existed. That hardship that you went through showed you a part of yourself you didn't even know existed. That setback that you went through showed you a part of you that you did not even know that existed. I know he may have left you, and I know she may have cursed you, and I know you may have gotten fired, and I know they may have stolen everything, but they were doing it to show you a part of yourself that you didn't even know that existed you, a part of yourself that you didn't even know that existed. So this is why we extend the gratitude, this is why we say thank you and this is why we start to realize nothing was ever here to stop us.

Speaker 1:

At worst, at worst, I was going to feel a little bit of pain because I wasn't quite yet used to this new life that I was in and everything is trying to move you forward through life. So my advice to you, my encouragement to you when you need to pause, go ahead and pause. If you need to pivot, go ahead and pivot, but do not give up on yourself, because just by you continuing on, that will ensure that you move into the new life. Because think about what you had to do and who you had to become. Not to give up on yourself, good God, almighty. So keep going and, as always, I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway To your results.