Why Me?

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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And one of the questions people come up with a lot is, you know, in your head sometimes

is why me.

Like, you ever have those moments of life, seasons of life of like, you know, why does

this happen to me, you know?

And feel like it's not deserving.

And you know, I think that sometimes the reason maybe is because you're called and that

you're blessed even though you think that you're cursed.

And so I think why me is often asked in moments of, of, of, of comfort and pressure and, you

know, when, when things aren't moving in your direction.

But, you know, what I've seen on my 42 years on Earth is a lot of times it seems like

if you let it play out, it's, it's because it's of who you were called to be.

That you had to go through some of these moments, some of these things to, to develop you,

to be exactly who you were called to be.

The same calling that is going to bless you is also the same calling that's going to burden

you.

That's going to bring you a lot of the heartbreak and hardships and obstacles that forge you

in the fire.

And I think responsibility is the price of, of having that level of potential.

You know, it's, it's like, man, it's, it's our, it's our responsibility to handle a lot

of these problems and issues and things that arise and ups and downs because you have

such a high level of potential in you that you got to be able to handle the responsibility

and the burden that comes with those gifts and those blessings.

And just looking at the, the word and a remind you for the consistent listeners out there

that, you know, responsibility, you break that down and what is it?

It's the ability to respond.

And so we just got to choose our ability to respond and, and being chosen doesn't mean

that there's an easier path.

It doesn't mean that, that you're just going to have this easy path to where you want to

be.

It means that you're probably going to have a meaningful one.

You, you, you're going to be traveling in the, in the direction that you were created

to travel in and you can impact tons of people's lives, including your own on levels beyond

your own wildest dreams.

But it doesn't mean that it's going to be an easy one.

You ever hear the term to whom much is given, much is required?

A lot of times people feel like, you know, maybe the, the more gifts that they have or the

more that they're called that it's supposed to be this easier pathway for them.

And if it's not an easy pathway, then maybe I'm not on the right track.

But every high level athlete or entrepreneur, you know, that you look at has faced seasons

where the gift felt like it was a curse because of the pressures and the things that come

with the responsibility of carrying that gift.

And so there, there was a quote by Kobe Bryant, Rest in Peace to the great Kobe.

And he said, everything negative, pressure, challenge, all of it is all an opportunity

for me to rise.

And so I, I agree with that.

All those negatives, all the negatives, all the challenges, all, it's all an opportunity

for you.

If you realize it's an opportunity for you to rise.

And every time that you rise, you develop these other gifts and skill sets that you didn't

have prior to that.

And when you walk through it and you develop those things, those are things that are forged

in fire that they're not bought and they're not taught in a school often time.

So these are things that create and increase your value that everybody can't just go to

the store and buy.

You weren't called all the times because you were ready.

A lot of times you got to go into the next season of life that you're supposed to go in

and you're not going to be ready.

You're called because you're capable of becoming that next level person, that doing that next

level thing.

What I feel is quitting is the only way to disqualify yourself from what was really meant for

you.

You know, a lot of, I travel around sometimes and visit some of our leaders that are spread

out and around the country.

And, you know, one of the questions I got recently is, you know, how did you get through,

you know, to develop in your first year, second year, how did you get through some of

the inevitable hard times?

And there's some challenges, especially in your first three months, six months in any

business.

And I think one of the things that I remember bringing up was I just didn't quit.

And you'll be surprised at how much you can develop when you just keep going and you don't

quit.

Quitting is the only way to really disqualify yourself from what was meant for you in

the first place.

And it's never too late to walk into your fruition of what you got inside of you.

Time doesn't cancel your purpose.

Age doesn't limit your destiny.

To me, it's your mindset.

You know, I just saw a post by somebody on social media and he's an older, you know, guy

upper, upper forties, right?

An older all depends on where you're at.

And so, you know, he's in good shape, real good shape.

And he's talking about how so many people make the excuses when they get to that age or

they get to our age of how hard it is or, you know, whatever it is because of the age.

But really, you know, he and I agree is it's a mindset.

Ray Croc built McDonald's, I believe in his 50s.

But there's proof right there that the timing thing really just gives way to persistence.

If you're persistent and you believe the age and the time, it's not always really the main

factor.

Growth, to me, requires getting rid of your old thinking habits and thinking patterns that

are not serving your current calling.

The way that you think right now is either helping you or hurting you.

You know, I remember mentor of mine saying, talking to me about sports and he was saying,

you know, when, when, when two teams come into a game and there's a big underdog, heavy

underdog, and you watch a team lose to somebody that they had no business losing to, you

know, you watch a team beat a powerhouse college program and this, this program has no business

even.

It's supposed to be a practice warm up game and that team beat to me.

Said, here's what you know about the way that they were thinking.

One team that pulls off the upset in the victory, they were thinking right.

They were probably thinking empowering thoughts of we don't care how big of an underdog, how

big it looks as an obstacle that we're playing away.

Things we're going to lose.

We're outmaned a little bit.

We expect ourselves to win.

We believe in players on this team and they have to have this belief in themselves because

you're not accidentally going to beat a team like that unless you're thinking properly.

And the other thing that you know is that the other team wasn't thinking the right way.

Because if they're both thinking the right way that upset doesn't happen, the other

team was thinking, we're going to roll over these people.

Let me just get ready for next week.

Let's not really give it our best.

No big deal in practice, no big mindset.

Because it all boils down to as a man thinketh.

Transformation begins in the mind before it ever shows up in your results.

And so be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Renewing your mind is how the curse turns into the blessing.

Because if you renew your mind in the way that you think of these things and you allow

these things to happen and you allow yourself to develop through these moments, then the curse

goes, it just transitions you right into being some of the biggest, your biggest blessing

that you could ever imagine.

You look back on some of the things in your life that have challenged you or hurt you

know, and look at how if you responded the right way.

Sometimes if you don't respond the right way, but you just don't quit.

Look at how you grew from those moments and how much it shaped you into being the person

that you are today.

How much of that good has happened that you wouldn't regret, you wouldn't give back if

you could because of some of those moments because of the character and who had developed

you into becoming.

And so sometimes these things are necessary in your journey to shape you and not curse you

and so many people quit during those moments.

We're not going to be called who we're called to be if you're going to think that it's

going to happen all by being comfortable and it's going to be all perfect to sunshine

and rainbows.

You become who you're called to be by continuing to grind and not giving up in the process

when things are not going your way or when it temporarily looks like there's a setback

or it's a cloudy or rainy season in your life, we just got to flip the script on those

things.

You know, one of the ways that I've learned to get through some of those moments and think

more stoic is comparing myself to people that got it worse and there's always somebody

that got it worse.

There's always somebody you can draw inspiration from out there that overcame something and

you look at those people and you're like, man, I thought I had it bad.

This person had to do eight years in prison and they got out and they didn't have no money

at all and they found a way to make it happen.

They had no family members that they could just bunk up with and live in this really good

neighborhood and give them a job and all this other stuff, but they got on the found a way

to make it happen.

So you can look at your situation and you could either get the poor me's on how hard it

is or you could look outside and find and draw inspiration from people that have overcome

harder things, no matter how hard it may be, that overcome those harder things and you

say if they could do it, I could do the exact same thing because if you have that mindset

now you're able to turn some of those things that look like temporarily that they look

like a loss and you turn those things into victories and sometimes the best things that

ever happened to you in your life.

So instead of that, why me sounds cliche but get the mindset of try me, I'm not going to

quit, I'm not going to give up, I'm going to believe in the process, I'm going to put

one foot in front of the other and control what I can control and make this something that

I turn into a positive and that's my wish for you this upcoming week and this upcoming

year, 2026 is that anything that comes your way, understand, count it all joy, it's all

going to happen in your favor, just don't quit, put one foot in front of the other and

I think chances are you come out the other side and you realize that was a lesson that was

there to create a blessing and not something to hold you down.

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