Internal War

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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We're going to be talking about your belief, identity, and the internal war.

The first fight that we fight is always within.

The first battle we got to win, the hardest person to lead.

This is what we got to teach and understand in leadership is the hardest person to lead

is yourself.

The first fight we got to win is the one with ourself.

So nothing happens without belief.

This was my message this morning to my team.

It was the old, you know, anything I can believe and conceive, I can achieve.

It was the Napoleon Hill.

Is anything that you can believe and conceive, you can achieve, right?

And so nothing happens without a level of belief.

And belief matters the most when it's cloudy and no one else can see it.

When your friends around you can't see it and your family around you can't see it, but

you're putting in all this work and you're doing all this stuff and you're coming off

a loss.

That's when you really got to have to believe.

You know, it's, you don't need as much belief coming off of five straight wins.

You don't need as much belief when tons of people already believe in you because you've

already shown what you're capable of and what you can do.

Belief matters the most when that vision starts to get a little bit cloudy.

When people around you start to doubt, when even a little bit of doubt creeps into your

own mind, that's when you got to have the most belief.

That moment right there is the separator.

If you can't get yourself to believe, you're done.

If you can't get yourself to believe in where you're going, where you're headed to believe

in yourself, to believe you can get up, to believe you can do it, you're done.

Very rarely are you going to be able to achieve something that you doubt yourself on, that

you doubt that you can accomplish.

You've got to be all in in your mind knowing and confident that you can do it.

I think to me, what's always an easy way to start to get some of that belief is the

fact that if another woman or man can do it, it's the things that other people haven't

done that maybe you need a little bit more belief.

Man, if there's another man that could do it, in your same job, in your same role, in

the same thing that you do, if somebody else has overcome this level of adversity, whatever

it is, what is it in your mind that is going to say, oh no, I can't do it, but he can.

I can't do it, but she can.

If another man could do it or another woman could do it, you could do the exact same thing.

I think there's a level of intensity that you've got to have when you're pursuing excellence

and greatness.

You ever get around somebody that is so focused and so locked in that they don't even

got time for a bunch of jokes.

They don't got time for a bunch of travel.

They don't got time.

They're just committed in all in.

It's almost like they're in a good mood, but they're pissed off.

It's like if you're not pissed off for greatness, you end up being okay with mediocrity.

We got to be at that level sometimes people are going to say, man, why are you so intense?

Why are you so angry?

Well, I'm pissed off for greatness right now because if you don't get that level of intensity,

then what ends up happening is that you end up just becoming complacent and okay with

mediocrity.

The argument in yourself, the internal argument is, yes, I can do this.

No, I have some doubt that I could do this.

Yes, I could do this.

No, I got a little, I'm not sure if I can do this.

Yes, you can do this.

That's the argument.

We got to feed that version of yourself that's telling you, you can do this.

I think how do you start to feed that level of that version of yourself that you can do

this is by a couple of things.

To me, it's feeding your mind positivity, which to me, I like to go on YouTube, find different

motivation, people that are talking motivation, people that you respect in admire and let them

speak into your mind, let them speak into your life, let that go into your body and then

hey, we get to do the exact same thing for others.

But pouring in the right books, the right audio books, the right YouTube, the right things

into our mind, then for me, I attach myself to the spirit of God.

I'm not perfect.

But when I'm linked up with God, man, I can do all things.

Do Christ the strengthens me.

So then here goes that confidence, here goes that confidence.

And then the next step is you push yourself to do something physically.

That's hard that you don't want to do.

So here's what I did this morning.

I'm not, again, I'm not saying I'm perfect.

I'm just giving you, this is true, this is what I did this morning.

Sometimes I'll push myself a little longer in the sauna to where I wanted to tap out

five minutes ago.

Today I ran a mile in seven and a half minutes.

I wasn't super fast.

I'm 42.

All right, I haven't ran like that.

I've ran sprints.

I've ran intervals 45 seconds at a time, 30 seconds at a time, 20 seconds at a time, but

not like a straight mile has probably been year and a half.

And I did leg yesterday.

So I pushed myself doing the mile.

And I did some extra cardio after that, stretched after.

Didn't want to stretch to the level I was stretching at.

And then at the end of all of that, the whole mind, body, spirit, the lifting, the prayer,

the whole thing, did a freezing cold shower, super cold.

Didn't want to do it.

Argument in your mind.

I already did this.

I already did breathwork.

You already did the sauna.

You already did this.

You don't need to do that.

I think when you push yourself to do things that are uncomfortable that you didn't want

to do and you got through it, now you're confidence level in your belief level.

It starts to increase because you start saying, man, there ain't too many people in your

shoes that's out there sprinting at 6.30 in the morning.

There ain't too many people in your shoes that's out there doing a freezing cold shower when

it's already cold outside.

There ain't too many people.

And when you start to, you start to build that up, you start to build yourself up, then

then starts to come that natural confidence level.

And then the understanding in the process that, hey, everything ain't going to be sunshine

and rainbows.

If you're in the process of greatness, there's going to be injuries, plan of physical sport.

There's going to be injuries in business.

There's going to be injuries to your staff.

There's going to be injuries.

There's going to be battles.

There's going to be setbacks.

There's going to be things that happen.

And you got to be able to say, these things are happening for me, not to me.

Can you get the belief in your mind that all these things that are happening are happening

for me, not to me?

That person left.

Good.

That person quit.

Good.

This situation happened.

Good.

Why?

Look at all the things that you're going to be able to do and grow from in all the positive

ways that you're going to get better from that happening once you get through it and just

got to believe that these things are happening for me.

What do you protect to me from?

What are you trying to teach me?

What are you trying to show me?

What are you trying to develop me and learn?

What do I need to learn?

Because when you read a lot of the times in the word, all the people that were chosen that

were called to do big things, they had to go through the desert first.

They had to go through some trials first.

They had to go to jail.

They had to go through some stuff.

And so maybe these things that are happening in your life that you think are so bad are

happening for you.

But you don't get to use those things.

You may say, oh man, I've been through all that.

I don't see it happening for me because you're not looking for it to happen for you.

You're not believing that it's happening for you.

You can't be unintentional about it.

You got to believe that these obstacles, these setbacks, these things that it's all happening

for me.

I'm looking.

My eyes are wide open for the opportunity here.

What is the blessing in this?

What an odd air it is.

Let me focus on that.

It's just like if you start the old, oh, I wanted a, and I don't want one.

But let's say you wanted a red Tesla.

And not all of a sudden you're driving on the street and you start noticing more red

Tesla's.

It's just because you're looking for it because it catches your eye because you want it

work.

If you're looking for how these things are going to be better for you, how this is happening

for you, you're going to start to find it.

And then you get to meet somebody.

Every time you go through an obstacle, you get to meet somebody new and that person

that you meet is yourself.

Adversity introduces you to yourself.

But you get to find out who you are.

You get to introduce others to who you are.

And you get to introduce yourself.

And you get to build yourself in these moments of adversity.

Stop letting people make you feel bad for not settling, right?

On the push, on the come up when you're, it's like, ah, man, why are you doing that?

Don't you have enough?

Didn't you do enough?

Whatever.

People are going to shame you, especially people that haven't done what you've done

in the, why don't you just calm down?

Why aren't you content?

There's a difference between being grateful and being complacent.

You need to be grateful.

I am happy and grateful for where we are.

Oh my goodness, so grateful.

But it doesn't mean that I got to be complacent.

It doesn't mean that I have to stay where I'm at.

It doesn't mean that I can't pursue excellence.

So don't worry about stop listening to people that make you feel bad for pushing.

You got to be the one in control of your thoughts.

If you're unintentional in your passive about it, you let anything happen.

You're going to only have negative thoughts making its way into the filter of your mind.

The news, this person, that person, you know, whatever it is.

And you're going to start feeling the way that you're thinking.

That's why the book is called Think and Grow Rich.

You got to command your thoughts.

That this is the way that we're going to think.

I'm going to focus on this.

I'm going to focus on the positives.

I'm going to focus on what I'm grateful for.

I'm going to focus that these things are happening for me.

You know, there was a quote that said, a man's foes are of himself and of his own household.

The biggest obstacles in battles we got to fight or in our own home.

The biggest obstacles in battles we got to fight or in our own mind.

I think a part of growing in growth as an individual is learning how to forgive.

It doesn't mean that you become weak.

It just means I'm not going to give that thing or that person so much control over me,

that it keeps me angry.

It keeps me upset.

It keeps me bitter.

It keeps me in a place that's closer to Satan than it is to the Lord.

Who are we giving that much to control us?

You know, who do we need to forgive?

People that have done you wrong.

People that have said wrong things about you.

People that have whatever, like who is it in your world that you need to give forgiveness

to?

It doesn't mean you got to go to the club with them.

It doesn't mean you got to always hang out with them or whatever, but just let it go

and truly forgive, because that sometimes releases a lot of the energy and the positive

energy that you need to go to the next level.

You know, at some point, I'd like to teach that energy, all the energy levels of the

frequency and vibration chart, where a plus 10 is gratitude and like a negative 10 is anger

and revenge.

So you start to, there's all these different levels from minus five to plus five to plus

10.

And it talks about, man, you start to attract things into your life and people into

your life.

You operate almost like pitching yourself flying an airplane and things on the highest

level.

If you fly your airplane on the highest level, man, the world seems, it looks so much more

beautiful, the air is so much more beautiful.

There's more sunshine.

There's better food.

There's more riches.

There's more things coming your way.

If you travel on that high level up there, you end up catching a tailwind and it pushes

you to where you want to go easier.

And then that negative 10, you're lower in the sky and you're running into buildings.

Birds are pooping on you and it's all this mess and mayhem.

You're getting blown around a bunch by the wind and it's dark and it's gloomy.

It's a rougher ride.

That's that negative energy.

So if you could get on that frequency and vibration.

where I'm in the gratitude, in abundance,

into optimistic versus pessimistic,

unforgiving, revenge, you're gonna be happier

and you're gonna track better things to your life.

And it's in my experience, it's crazy that it seems like

the people who need the most mercy show the least.

You know, the people that need the most forgiveness

because they've done so much wrong or harm or hurt or, you know,

whatever, those, it seems like those folks are the ones

that give the least mercy and grace.

They can't let go.

They hold grudges.

They wish bad upon people.

You know, what helped to change my mindset in this is when

one of my mentors, one of my longest mentors

and most impactful mentors, you know, walk me through

and he said, you know, you know the Lord's Prayer.

And I'm like, what?

The Lord's Prayer.

He said, yeah, you know, the our Father.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I know the our Father.

So he's like, well, let's say it together and then, you know,

he stops me at the point and he says, you know,

forgive us as we forgive those who trust pass against us.

Right?

So he goes in explaining to me like, man, that basically means in the

measure of which you could forgive others is in the measure

that the Lord can forgive you.

Forgive us as we forgive those who trust pass against us.

And so if we want forgiveness, you got to give forgiveness to others.

If we want the Lord to have grace on us, oh, man,

Lord knows I need grace and mercy and forgiveness.

Well, we got to have grace and mercy and forgiveness.

The easy part is to receive it and know that you need it,

the hard part is to give it to somebody else.

And that that's that's why, you know, it looks and make like in your

mind you may think that seems weak, but you know that's strong

when you like how much it takes more strength to forgive and

truly forgive and move forward and operate on a that positive

vibration, that takes more energy in heart.

It's harder than it is to go from I want revenge.

I'm angry with you.

I wish all the bad upon you.

That's easy.

That's natural.

Right?

And so I think for us to grow and go to the next level,

we got to believe in ourselves.

You got to consistently pour into the things that are going to help you

believe in yourself because you're doing the right things in the process.

And then we got to always understand that we got to go to war with

ourselves in order to become the best version of ourselves.

Because to go to the next level, it's going to take a better version of

yourself and that's going to be a battle and that's going to be a war

and the war is always internal and that's the toughest battle that we

got to win.

If you win that battle, all the other battles become a lot easier.

So what would you know the whole thing, the kids like said,

a girl's now, you know, a slay, you know, we got a slay.

Right?

So what demons do you got to slay?

What battle do you got to, like go what battle do you got to win

with yourself right now, that's going to elevate you and lift you

and put you in higher vibration, higher frequency and where you want to go.

And I think it just all can be wrapped around, being grateful,

giving forgiveness the way to other people need to give, you know,

the way that we want to be forgiven.

And understanding when these things happen in life in the process that are

going to suck, having the belief and energy that I know somehow some way,

these things are happening for me and not to me.

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