9. TRU potential

This episode had TRU "potential".

Chapters

• 0:08 Navigating Struggles Towards Self-Improvement
• 10:27 Toiling Upwards Through the Night
• 16:35 Behind the Mind

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:08

you. Greetings, hi and hello everyone. My name is jason pizzi flair. I'm a speaker, I'm a podcaster and my life's work is centered around allowing the world to meet the true you, by helping you think, speak and eventually live better than yesterday. We do this, first, by establishing a good reason why, a strong and powerful motivation to keep going when the going gets rough. Second, we need awareness and acknowledgement of what's holding us back. And third, we need scalable steps forward as a reliable bridge between who we are right now and who we need to be tomorrow and the day after that, and the day after that and the day after that. This, my friends, is how you go from stuck to thinking as, speaking as and living as the true you the True you, you know.

Speaker 1: 1:12

Sometimes I really do wonder what it is about my life that just attracts so much difficulty or that invites so much challenge. Now, bear in mind, this is a feeling that often gets magnified the more I'm just in my own head or in my own emotions, to the point of thinking that I'm the only one going through stuff like this. But I realize, with just a bit more, you know, introspection or actually, technically, the opposite of that just a bit more of an external perspective gives me context into the fact that other people deal with this kind of stuff too. Just what seems like endless struggle or endless suffering or trials or endless tumult, like it. Like it's something that when it's your sole focus, it can get very, it can be very demoralizing. And today I just want to briefly because I don't want to make this too long of an episode just relate a little bit when I think about the myriad of times that people have ever told me oh, you're going to be great or you have so much potential, you're going to be amazing, you're going to speak to the world. You know you're going to be amazing, you're going to speak to the world, you're going to be a world changer, an atmosphere shifter, a life transformer Just the craziest things that people well-meaning have spoken over me or to me, and I don't know if this is something that I'm just going to have to pray about and like submit to God as far as just my own personal relationship with such phrases. But nowadays I feel almost as if and I say this humorously, but there is some truth to it I feel like a salty elderly person that just can't be bothered anymore with hearing the hogwash. And this isn't me calling all of that stuff hogwash, necessarily. It's more so me calling the price tag that comes with it, the invisible price tag that comes with all of that stuff. That's what I feel like calling hogwash. Or, you know, nonsense.

Speaker 1: 4:25

People speak into your life. For example, if you've ever been told you have such amazing potential, great, awesome, cool, that's dope. But you know what that also means. I'm going to be chasing fulfillment of that potential wherever my skills lie or wherever my purpose lies, and much of my struggle, much of my suffering, much of the sacrifice that I'm going to have to push out or birth out of my mind or out of my own physical effort is going to come about. That pain is going to come about because of my journey to fulfill that potential, because of my journey on the road of purpose or calling, which you know is it's all connected to the word potential, and when people speak such things, they they don't tend to also warn you of the price, and so that's what's created in me a bit of the difficulty in hearing such things or in associating with.

Speaker 1: 5:38

You know just what some may think is an encouraging word, but to me it's a heavy one. Not that I never want to hear it, don't get me wrong. It's just that I'm at the place where, right now, it's hard for me to take my eyes off of that price tag. It's hard for me to not feel just a little jaded sometimes when I think about the difficulties I'm going through and the fact that I'm aware enough to realize that I'm not going through them for myself. I'm not going through all of them because I deserve to or because I caused those situations or those difficult scenarios. I'm going through them because somebody in my future is going to be just like me, stuck like me, broken like me, weak like me, and is going to need the strength that I will have cultivated by that point. That same person is going to need the wisdom that I will have gathered and refined by that point. That person is going to need the relatability that I will have earned by that point.

Speaker 1: 6:58

And so I'm going through what I'm going through for you, whoever you are, that, just like me, you're tired of not being enough. You're tired of feeling like tired of not being enough. You're tired of feeling like everything you do is insufficient. You're tired of feeling like great intentions or good intentions aren't enough, effort isn't enough, hard work isn't enough. You it it just just the whole message of your life feels like never enough. This is for you, even if you don't always feel like that and you sometimes feel like feel like that, then then make use of this. I encourage you to.

Speaker 1: 7:43

But that's been my life story, just the word word insufficiency up until this point. But I am on this new path now where I'm rewriting the theme of my story. From this point forward, I am relabeling my life. It is no longer a life of insufficiency. I don't exactly know what word I'm going to be replacing it with yet, or I don't exactly know which word God has replaced it with yet. I'm figuring that out. But as I figure it out, until I get my own word, I've decided to cling to the one who is more than enough. I've decided to cling to the one who satisfies all my needs, the one who provides for all my needs, maybe not in the time that I want, or maybe not in the ways that I prefer, but I cannot sit here recording this and tell you that he has failed me. I can't. Literally everything that I've been through Ever that has been resolved has been resolved in a way that has made me better Every Single Time as long as I'm looking for it, but ultimately not to get too sidetracked.

Speaker 1: 9:20

I'm realizing more and more that this is my toiling upwards through the night. It's hard, it's painful and even right now, as I'm recording this, I kind of have a headache. And it's Thursday and I know tomorrow, which is Friday, seven o'clock, this needs to be up and there's just no question in my mind anymore of whether or not I could post it or should I just? I just do, because it's who I am now. That is how I am measuring my success. Have I checked that box? That's how I'm measuring my success right now. Of course, as time goes on, I'm going to add on to that a bit more quality control, because I want to make sure that I improve in quality over time. Not just quantity, but quality, depth, breadth. You know all that. But let me go back just for a moment.

Speaker 1: 10:27

That toiling upwards through the night statement that I made. It's from a poem that my parents, specifically my mom, I believe. Mom, if you're listening right now, I absolutely love you. Thank you so much for not just the gift of my life and the care and nurturing that you've put into it, but also just the endless wisdom that you've bestowed upon me and the nigh-infinite patience that you've exhibited throughout my knucklehead years and, yeah, my wayward moments. I just think to myself, well, before I get into any of that man I almost got emotional there for a second, but I'll get back to that this poem that she would always recount to us just endlessly well, well, not endlessly like that, not every day, but any time that it was appropriate, any time that she wanted to encourage or inspire us to keep working hard, she would tell us this Heights of great men reached and kept, but were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards through the night.

Speaker 1: 11:59

Friends, I'm not reading this on a screen, I'm not reading this on my phone or on a piece of paper. That is from memory, because I grew up with that kind of mentality, with that kind of philosophy, with that kind of mantra spoken over me, into me and out of me Heights of great men or women reached and kept Meaning they didn't just get high and then fall immediately after. They're called great men and women because they reached and they kept. They've got staying power, they've got consistency. It's a part of who they are. It's their character. They reached and kept. But they were not. Those heights were not attained by sudden flight. It wasn't an overnight thing. Even those quote-unquote overnight sensations that you see on social media or whatever the real ones, the manifestation or the not manifestation, the unveiling happened in the span of a night, but the manifestation was taking place over years, days, weeks, months. It took time to build up the talent that you see, that blew up with one video that went viral, as it were. But they were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, or I can even say while their competitors slept, they were toiling upwards, working upwards, fasting upwards, dedicating themselves upwards, consistently, improving upwards, studying upwards, upwards, consistently improving Upwards, studying Upwards, growing Upwards Through the night.

Speaker 1: 14:00

What sets you apart from your competition? Just like everyone else complaining about the president or about the economy, or complaining about religion, or complaining about their family, or complaining about past scars that are forever holding them in place. I'm not discounting those scars, I'm not discounting the pain, I'm not discounting any difficulty that the presidency or the economy or religion, might you know, visit upon your life, but I am communicating with full confidence that those things cannot be blamed for where you are right now. They cannot be the sole responsibilities for where you have ended up. Have you been toiling upwards through the night?

Speaker 1: 14:57

What's the standard that you hold yourself to? Don't talk to me about your friends. Don't talk to me about your spouse or your children or your parents. Now's not the time for that. There is a time for that, but now's not it. Talk to it. Talk about it with your therapist. I encourage you and everyone to get therapy. Go to counseling. It's done wonders for me. But anyway, what standard do you hold yourself to? What's the quality control that you've got going on in your own shop? What quality assurance is being maintained consistently throughout your organization?

Speaker 1: 15:39

And by, just to be clear, I'm talking about your brain. I'm talking about how you think. I'm talking about your life. I'm talking about the time you wake up in the morning. I'm talking about how you wake up in the morning.

Speaker 1: 15:48

What time do you go to sleep? What do you put in your body? How do you speak to your friends? How do you speak to your family? How do you speak to people who are rude to you? Are you rude back just because you can be? Are you rude back just because you can be, or have you been toiling upwards in your patience? Have you been toiling upwards in your grace? Have you been toiling upwards in your what's another good value In your generosity? Are you generous not just with your money, but with your time? Do you care about people?

Speaker 1: 16:35

Anyway, I said I didn't want this to be a long one, so I think I'm going to wrap it up here and For this week's Behind the mind, I think I'm going to talk about my mom. Yeah, because, yeah, that woman can take an episode and a half for sure just speaking about how amazing she is. So if you're interested in hearing about how cool my mom is, join me in the True you Podcast's Behind the Mind. Thank you very much and I hope you enjoyed listening. Have a good one, you.