Troubles Are Teachers [5-Minute Episode]

Your small and large troubles are teachers, hard and bothersome as they may be.
 
I’ve come to realize, as the years etch more notches on my belt, that troubles are actually precious friends, in disguise.
 
They serve to…
 
…help us make less mistakes.
…forge wisdom that can never leave us.
…show us how strong we are.
…melt away the toughness of arrogance.
…heal ancient wounds that are brought to the surface by present-day troubles.
 
Tools that will help you navigate the darker seasons of deep challenge include:
 
This is what my new book The Wealth Money Can’t Buy is all about. Real wealth versus fake success. True winning versus spending your life climbing a mountain, only to find out at the end that it was the wrong one. You can order it now by clicking here.

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Transcript

Using difficulty to your advantage is a skill that you will definitely become brilliant at with daily devotion and practice. And that's one of the great things about practice. Every single workout makes you a little bit better. And small daily optimizations and improvements over time lead to legendary results. And, you know, the victim will say, I'm having a bad day or a bad decade or a bad life or the... sort of growth, the fixed mindset entrepreneur will say, oh, why me and get stuck? And the growth mindset entrepreneur and the real game changer will practice developing a mindset and an emotional architecture and a way of being. And again, it's not something that's quick fix, but it happens inevitably over weeks and months until it becomes your automatic default, which is exciting for you because it's within your choice and you will get there as you do the work. But the big idea is, you will get to a mindset where when you get knocked down, you automatically get up. You will get to a mindset where you actually see hardship as opportunity and beautiful possibility to make yourself and your results even greater. So please just remember this principle, a problem only becomes a problem if you're running the mental software and have installed the hard wiring architecture and. in an operating system that says problems are problems. And I totally get that you say, but Robin isn't feeling the pain or getting discouraged during a difficult time. Isn't that part of being human? And I'd say to you, that's an old way of being human. And what I'm inviting you to start playing with and being a game changer is Human Nature 2.0. And I want you to start feeling that, yeah, it's human nature in the past for most human beings according to those old beliefs. feel that intense hardship is hard. It is at times. And I agree it's definitely just top 5% thinking to see that something difficult and feeling stuck that has knocked you down can actually lift you up. And I get that this way of being definitely takes practice over the coming days, weeks, and months until you get there. But it's so worth it. You know, I mean, if this was easy, everyone would be doing it. If being world class was easy, everyone would be doing it. If being in the best fitness of your life was easy, everyone would be in the best fitness of their lives. If living, if doing world-class work that stuns your industry was easy, everyone would be a Jordan or a Picasso or an Elon Musk or the Mother Teresa of what it is that they do or the Misty Copeland of their industry. And that's the opportunity because so few people are willing to do the work. And go deeper, it's because so few people believe that they can rise to iconic. You have that opportunity here today. So what I'm suggesting to you is as you do the practice and do the training and do the work, you will feel confident, positive, happy, and peaceful on the inside, no matter what's going on the outside. And that is a great place to be. Your inner state of grace and power will no longer be conditional on everything in your outer world being perfect. And that's an amazing place to be. And if you're still resisting me on this idea that you really have it within you to get to a place where no matter if your outer world is falling apart, you are graceful, powerful, and strong within, please just think about this. Everything you now find easy, you once found hard. And that's the very nature of developing any skill. See, all of this is developing a skill.Unconditional bravery is the skill we're talking about. And of course it's gonna be hard at first. And of course it's gonna be messy in the middle as all your false beliefs get torn down and make way for better beliefs. And it's gonna be ever so gorgeous at the end, which is the state of mastery.