An [Important] Message for People In Pain

What I’ve learned is that pain is not the curse that most of us think it is.
 
No, pain has been my purifier—burning through the layers of dross to make a little more of the gold shine.
 
Let your hurt reveal your wisdom and your difficulty open the doorway into whatever forms of precious magic lies at your core.
 
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Every great human being has had the same journey. It's born into innocence, hypnosis by society, descent into mediocrity, but then there is a trigger point, there is an inflection point. Maybe it's a divorce, maybe it's an illness, maybe you lose your job, maybe you just can't take the pain anymore and it surfaces from your vast subconscious into your conscious and you just feel so unhappy you need to do something about it. On the hero's journey, That is really the changing point, and it's born of suffering. Something happens and there's a crisis, and you just start to suffer. And that's when the mask over your mastery gets shattered. And like I say, for a lot of people it's a illness, a divorce, a bankruptcy, some kind of a tragedy. And they turn within, and they become very reflective when they start reading the great heroic books. and they start spending time reflecting. They start asking themselves the big questions. Who am I? What are my values? What are my talents? What are what's said about me when I'm no longer here? What do I want to stand for? How can I be the icon of my own life? How can I shift from average into iconic? And through all of that suffering, the suffering creates an intimacy with your best self and your weaker self. and your shadow self starts to get burned off if you choose not to be a victim, right? If you go into the pain, the pain can be a great servant. And the next step is really integration. You start to realize who you are, you start to connect with your talent, you start to find the great call on your life, what I call your mighty cause. See, the average person has a tiny cause. They sleep too much, they drink too much, they eat too much, they talk too much, they waste time because they're bored. They have no mighty cause that defines and inspires their life. But when you find that cause, maybe it's to be a great teacher, a great filmmaker, a great manager, a great mom, a great taxi driver, a great chef, that fuels this obsession. An obsession is only an unhealthy thing if it's an unhealthy obsession. The other morning I got up at five and I was watching the speeches of... Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy, the man on the moon speech. You know what, he actually said that we're gonna put a man on the moon before the materials for that spacecraft had ever been created. You talk about a visionary. But what I wanna dial in on was I saw Martin Luther King's last speech. It was the speech he gave the day before he died, before he was killed, before he was assassinated. And that was the speech, you've heard it. It's the one where he said, I have seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I've seen the promised land. That man had detected his mighty cause. That man said, until you have found something you are willing to die for, you're not fit to live. And so I just want to remind you about the importance of resisting average. One thing about every billionaire that I've worked with, every great performer, every great visionary. Every great artist and every great entrepreneur, they were all ridiculed before they were revered. The very nature of resisting average and ascending to world-class means you will be called eccentric. People will think you're strange. People will call you bizarre. You will be misunderstood. Being misunderstood is the price of legendary. Why? Because if you're behaving like everyone else, you're gonna get the results that most people have. And most people don't have epic results. So when you stray from the crowd and start installing the right mindsets, behaviors, habits, values, you'll be called different. That's the price of living your true life. And I'm going to challenge you. Today is the day to start living that life, thinking those thoughts, installing the right habits, being true to your values, getting up early, playing at world class, being a student of your craft. Surrounding yourself not with energy vampires, but with people whose lives you wanna be living. Putting in your mind not toxic influences, like violent movies, violent commercials, violent conversations. Putting in your mind beautiful information, inspiring information, valuable information, and creating a life that really serves you and your loved ones and respects your talents so you can go out into the world and bring it on. And that's my great wish for you.