Use Adversity As Fertilizer

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Let's use the adversity, which is, we got to graduate from the U. You know it's, it's

a given.

You're going to go through some adversity if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

So we might as well use it as fertilizer, right?

To fertilize the ground and make everything grow a little bit more.

Pain can be used as poison and let it break you or you could use that pain as fertilizer.

It's, it's your choice because guess what?

Life will shit on you, you know what I mean?

And so it's, it's up to you if we're going to use that as fertilizer of a, all right,

thank you.

We're going to go ahead and use this to make us grow a little bit more or are you going

to allow it to be poison and ruin everything and kill everything?

You know the fertilizer grows things.

You know the people pay for that stuff.

Can you believe it?

People are paying for shit out there, okay?

People pay for it because it helps to grow things.

And so are you using your no cost benefits?

Are you using your no cost manure to grow because you're getting the adversity for free

out here?

You know a little bit of sunshine, rain and that stuff and we could, oh, we could, we

could shoot it up.

You need both, right?

So you know, I had friends of mine that lived in Texas and last year they were like on a

drought and everybody was worried because there was no rain.

They were literally praying for rain, okay?

I'm in Pittsburgh.

I'm praying for rain to stop, please.

They're praying for rain because you need sunshine.

To grow, but you also need rain.

And I think that's the stuff that people need to understand and the longer that you go

and grow in the process, you're going to understand it was the times that it rained in

between the sunshine that took you to the next level.

And so the question becomes, can you stand the rain?

Can you stand the storm?

Can you stand in the face of obstacles and trials and adversity and walk through that

storm and continue to use it to grow?

You know, we don't always get to choose the hand that we're dealt, right?

You go to the casino, you sit at the table and you start playing games.

We're not always able to choose the hands that we're dealt.

But usually what I found is that you could find somebody with the same hand that you

were dealt, that would win with it.

And I let that inspire me.

I mean, there's wrestlers out there that have won national championships, I think, with

like missing one leg or both legs.

So imagine whatever your scenario is, excuse me, whatever your scenario is, are you finding

all the reasons to play yourself this sad story?

Are you finding somebody out there that you can use as inspiration that has already won

with the same hand that you were dealt?

Because somebody would win with that hand.

Life is unavoidable suffering.

On the other side of suffering is greatness.

You know, I think, you know, I read the book a couple times, I've reread this book, Man

Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl.

He was in a Nazi concentration camp.

Everybody around him died, believes his wife passed while he was in there.

He's getting tortured, but he makes it out.

Years and years down the road.

And so think about men if a man could make it out of that, eight, ten years in the concentration

camp and lose, you know, your loved ones and lose, you know, everything and make it out

of that.

What do you think you and I can make it out of?

Everything that you want in life that's great is going to be a fight because other people

wanted to.

And guess what?

Everybody will have it if it was easy, if it was easy, everybody will be doing it.

And so the reason why it's something that's sought after oftentimes is because it's a little

bit more rare, not everybody's able to do it.

And so you got to be willing to fight through some things in order to get it.

You know, in football, football fields, 100 yards, you can't go 99 yards and expect to

score.

Man, I made it so far.

Yeah, well, who was it, the Eagles?

Throw an interception to the Patriots at the one yard line in the Super Bowl?

You can't go 99 yards and almost, almost don't count.

We got to be able to finish.

It ain't about a good month.

It ain't about a good quarter.

It's about, we got to finish the job.

There's all these people out there that you could use as inspiration that found a way to win

when we talk about win with the handkerchief, Beethoven was deaf.

I ain't talking about the dog.

I ain't talking about the dog out there.

I love Beethoven.

But I'm talking about, you know, Google it.

Look at the music guy.

Legend was deaf.

How?

Helen Keller was deaf and blind.

Diversity could be a fertilizer if you allow it to be.

Somebody could use, take the hand that you're dealt right now and go out and score with

it and go out there and win with it.

We got to start having a different relationship and understanding what the way that we look at

things.

When you change the way that you look at things, the things that you look at change,

if you could find the silver lining in it, if you could believe that these things are

the exact same things that you need it to grow.

If you could believe that the hand that you were dealt was there just to grow you more

and inspire other people that you were called to do that mission and that you have this

steadfastness in you that's going to say, I'm not going to quit, I'm not going to give

up no matter what I got to go through or go through.

It's only going to make me stronger.

It's only going to build me better.

Every stone that they throw at me, I'm only going to build a bigger mansion with it.

I'm only going to use these things for good.

If you do all that and you have that mindset with the right reasons of why you want to

accomplish some things, what good you're going to do with the accomplishments that you

have and it's not all about you, I think there's a force out there that will back you

and support you and help you get to the next level.

My word for you today, my wish for you today, I got two wishes, is that any obstacles in

adversity currently that you're facing right now is that you just find a way to be inspired

and use those things and believe that those are going to be the exact same things that's

going to grow your garden, that's going to take you to the next level.

We're going to use those things as fertilizer, not to break us and smash us and stop us.

And my second wish is that if this message or any of the other messages ever help you

or inspire you that you wouldn't keep it to yourself, that you would share this message,

take 30 seconds out, share it with somebody that we can inspire today together and let's

be on the mission together this week.

And we'll be seeing you next week.

As always, thank you for joining us on another episode of the Grindcast.

Get ready, it's a new day.