This Is Why Good People Often Lose

Your pain is your growth, in scorpion’s clothing. I guess what I’m encouraging you to do, is to work with your pain and embrace your suffering.
 
Strange advice right? To actually work with your sadness or fear. And maybe—if you’re seriously ready to operate at the highest level of consciousness and outright heroism—STAY IN the difficulty as long as you possibly can to get maximum growth and benefit from it.
 
Yes, I could talk about meditation and reflection and bodywork and journaling and sweat lodges and nature healing as practices to do what I’m suggesting you should do.
 
And I share all of the tools that have worked best for me in The Wealth Money Can’t Buy where I offer The 8 Forms of Wealth model that has transformed the lives of my clients for two decades. You really should read the book, if you haven’t as yet. 

Yet all I’m saying with such faith in your greatness and belief in your gifts is that hard times really do make powerful humans. 

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If you were to look at Nelson Mandela, he suffered more than most people. If you were look at Mother Teresa, she went through incredible adversity over the course of her journey. If you were to study Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, if you look at any great artist, a Picasso, a Jean-Michel Basquiat, if you look at The great world builders, all suffered. Let me put it to you this way with great love and respect, they all out suffered the majority. You see what most people do is this is why most good people lose. They stumble and they fall and they
become heartbroken or disappointed by life's challenges that happens to every single one of us. I've gone through a lot of hardship in my life when I was, you know, going through school, very few people believed in me and I was dismissed and called very, very average. And the principal at the school I was at said, you're not even gonna get into university. And you might know my backstory on The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, but that was a self-published book. And I was at
the American Booksellers Conference in Chicago with a cover of one of my books around my neck, shaking hands. with all the agents that were coming up the escalator. And when I was a self-published author, I used to go into bookstore
s and say, would you take three copies of my book? I'll sign them, could you put it on the shelf? And I was treated rudely and I was laughed at and I was on radio shows and I was ridiculed and then I've gone through a lot of personal pain in
my own life. And I've been on the top of the mountain of victory and I must tell you, I have walked the lonely path in the valley of darkness. But rue me. The great philosopher said it so beautifully. He said, allow your heart to be broken over and over and over until it opens. And what I'm suggesting to you is really to dial into this insight. All great heroes have been broken. But rather than blaming 27 years in imprisonment in the case of Nelson Mandela, rather than blaming his naysayers and his detractors in the case of Mahatma Gandhi, rather than saying life is hard, why isn't greatness easy in the case of a Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King Jr., rather than saying why did this happen to me in the case of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to someone on a bus. because she was being treated like a second class citizen because of the color of her skin. These great ones all had one thing in common. They leveraged their pain into power. They turned their tragedies into victories. And I'm not gonna suggest to you that that's an easy process, but if you simply start asking yourself, where am I blaming my current external conditions? for my lack of prosperity, my lack of energy, my lack of mastery, my lack of joyfulness and soulfulness. You actually start assuming something that's very powerful, and I've written about it in my books, and it's called APR, Absolute Personal Responsibility. And the day I grew up was the day I looked in the mirror and said, you know what, I'm responsible for my life, and I took absolute personal responsibility. It wasn't because of the energy vampires, and it wasn't because of the external conditions, and it wasn't because of my past, it was because of me. And start saying to yourself, how can I turn my stumbling blocks into stepping stones? How can I turn my hard times into monuments of strength of character and the great virtues and transform pain into power.