YOU are DESTINED to WIN!!

Brett's episode focused on the idea that "your input determines your output"—what you consistently allow into your mind, body, emotions, and spirit ultimately shapes your life. He used a story about Athena hiding behind her hands to illustrate how people often have blind spots and may not see opportunities or weaknesses that others can see. Brett encouraged listeners to intentionally choose positive influences, healthy habits, encouraging relationships, and spiritual growth, because small daily inputs compound into major life changes over time. He emphasized that success, peace, confidence, and fulfillment are cultivated through consistent choices rather than dramatic one-time actions. The episode concluded with a challenge to evaluate your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual inputs and make changes that support the life you want to create.

Marcus Taylor | Why Can’t It Be You?  

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/motivation-daily-by-motiversity/id1581058922?i=1000768727722

Mel Robbin’s | 3 Ways to Quickly Get Out of a Rut

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mel-robbins-podcast/id1646101002?i=1000767448857

Carrie Wilderson | Excuses are Lies That No One Else Believes, Except for You

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-quote-of-the-day-show-daily-motivational-talks/id1163094296?i=1000766396468

Simple Daily Routine For a Balanced Life:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1njZbEbTg-NKLto1OptvAkglc6mxdXKo7/view?usp=drive_link

Transcript

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Welcome to A Conversation of Hope with Brett. This podcast is all about you. The listeners to remind you that you are a masterpiece. To inspire you to dream again. To equip you with simple, actionable strategies for success. Strategies you can start using today to begin your journey with the incredible life you deserve. He wants to remind you of the truth you were going to do. No matter your past or firmly believes that you're fascinated and grateful you're here and promises to give us all each week to help you create the life you were meant to live. So buckle up. Let's get started.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to a conversation of hope. I am so glad you tuned in this week. Right from the jump, I want to remind you, you are enough. You have what it takes. You are a champion whose absolute best days are straight ahead. Her new thing right now, because she's almost three, is she likes to hide whenever we come home. Here's the thing, though. She will stand in the middle of the room, put her hands over her eyes, and assume that because her eyes are covered with her hands and she cannot see anything, she believes no one else can see her as well. We all pretend like she is not there and have fun with it. But as I was watching this, I thought about how many times I had blind spots in my life. I was doing things or had opportunities that everyone else could see but me. Something you can do if you want to take your relationships to the next level is ask the ones that you love if there is anything you're not doing or should be doing to make your relationship better. Just today I texted my daughter. I asked her if there was anything I was doing that was failing her as a father. I always want to make sure I am doing everything I can in all my core relationships to make them successful. I always think about if something I ever said or did brought sadness or pain to my lady of love, that was just not right. If you saw someone causing the one you love to get upset and start crying, you would never put up with it. Why would we ever want to do something to the ones that we love that would bring them down? We want to be the main source of joy, encouragement, and happiness in their lives. Always remember it's you and the one that you love against the world, never against each other. All right, let's get into the main content. Today's main content could be the most powerful thing that you ever hear. It was absolutely a game changer for me when I first heard this, because it just made so much sense. Just true wisdom. All right, I'm gonna say it like three times just so it can resonate with you, and then we're gonna get right into it. So in every area of your life, physically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally, your input will determine your output. Once again, your input spiritually will determine your output, your input physically, mentally, emotionally. That's always gonna determine your output and how you perform. The cool thing is, for the most part, you totally control your input. So let's take a look at this and dig in. I'm so, so, so excited to share this with you because I'm telling you, I originally probably 30, 40 years ago, I heard from Zig Ziggler, and he said, your input will determine your output. And I thought, hmm, okay. And then I really started thinking about it. Wow, that's a hundred percent true. So every great life is built one input at a time. What you allow into your body, your mind, your emotions, and your spirit is shaping who you are becoming right now. Your life is not just being formed by big decisions that you make once a year, it is being formed by the small things you consume every day. The conversations that you listen to, the thoughts that you rehearse in your head, the music you play, the people you surround yourself with, the food you eat, the books you read, the words you speak over your future, the things you feed your soul, everything is an input, and every input produces an outcome. If you plant negativity, bitterness, fear, and hopelessness long enough, eventually those things begin to grow roots inside of you. But if you consistently plant hope, faith, discipline, gratitude, wisdom, and vision, eventually those things begin to produce a harvest that changes your entire life. A lot of people want a better life while continuing to feed themselves the same destructive patterns every day. They want peace while constantly consuming chaos. They want confidence while speaking insecurity over themselves. They want success while feeding laziness, distraction, and negativity. But life doesn't work that way, y'all. Your inputs determine your outputs. If you pour garbage into your mind long enough, eventually confusion, discouragement, and fear will come out. But when you begin intentionally feeding yourself things that strengthen you, suddenly your thinking changes, your energy changes, your confidence changes, your decisions change, and eventually your entire future changes. You cannot constantly consume negativity and expect to live a positive life. You cannot constantly feed your spirit fear and expect to walk in faith. You cannot constantly fill your mind with limitation and expect to create greatness. Success is not accidental, it is cultivated. The truth is many people are slowly becoming what they repeatedly expose themselves to. If you spend hours every day around toxic people, eventually their mindset starts rubbing off on you. If you constantly hear criticism, eventually you begin doubting yourself. If you constantly replay your failures, eventually you stop believing your future can improve. But the opposite is also true. When you begin surrounding yourself with growth-minded people, your vision expands. You're doing it right now by listening to the podcast. Great job. When you begin feeding your mind with wisdom, your confidence rises. When you begin speaking life instead of defeat, your outlook changes. When you begin protecting your peace, your emotional health improves. When you begin feeding your spirit with faith and truth, strength rises up inside of you. Little by little, your inputs are either building you or breaking you. Physically, what you put in your body matters. Your energy matters. Your health matters. Your rest matters. Your body was never designed to carry endless stress, exhaustion, junk, and neglect forever without consequences. Sometimes the breakthrough people are praying for starts with simply taking care of themselves again. Drink more water, get more rest, move your body, take care of your health. Because when your body's depleted, it affects your emotions, your focus, your discipline, and your vision for life. You cannot consistently abuse your body and expect to operate at the highest level. Emotionally, your input matters too. Some people are emotionally exhausted because they are constantly feeding on drama, conflict, comparison, offense, and negativity. They are carrying bitterness from years ago, replaying hurt from the past, staying connected to the environments that drain them. But healing begins when you change what you allow into your emotional world. Not every battle deserves your energy. Not every opinion deserves your attention. Not every relationship deserves unlimited access to your peace. Protecting your emotional health is not selfish. It's wisdom. You have to learn to guard your heart, because whatever constantly enters your heart eventually begins directing your life. Mentally, your inputs matter more than you realize. Your mind is like a garden. Whatever you water grows. If you constantly water fear, fear grows. If you constantly water insecurity, insecurity grows. If you constantly water faith, courage, discipline, gratitude, and hope, those things grow stronger. Some people spend years speaking death over themselves. I'll never succeed. I'm too old. I'm too broken. I always fail. Nothing good ever happens to me. But your words are shaping your identity. You become what you repeatedly believe. That's why successful people are intentional about what they allow into their minds. They read things that challenge them. They listen to things that inspire them. They stay teachable. They protect their focus. Because they understand something powerful. Your mind is the control center of your life. Oh my goodness, that's so true. And spiritually, your inputs may be the most important of all. Your spirit needs feeding just like your body does. Faith, prayer, truth, purpose, worship, stillness, and time with God. If you neglect your spiritual life long enough, eventually you begin feeling empty, even when everything else around you looks successful. Because success without peace is not success. Achievement without purpose is not fulfillment. There are people with money who are miserable, people with fame who are broken, people with accomplishments who still feel empty inside. Why? Because spiritual starvation cannot be fixed with external success. You were created for more than survival. You were created for purpose. And when you begin feeding your spirit consistently, something changes inside of you. You begin thinking differently, walking differently, handling adversity differently. You stop living from fear and you start living from faith. You realize that your future is not determined by where you started. It is determined by what you continue to feed yourself daily. Every day you are becoming someone. The question is, who are you becoming? Are your daily habits building the person you want to be? Are your conversations strengthening your future or weakening it? Are your thoughts empowering you or imprisoning you? Are the things you consume helping you rise or pulling you down? Because your life will eventually move in the direction of your strongest inputs. And here's the encouraging part, everyone. You can change your life starting today. Not next year, not when everything becomes perfect, but today. You can decide. I'm going to feed my mind with better things. I'm going to protect my peace. I'm going to stop rehearsing negativity. I'm going to take care of my body. I'm going to strengthen my spirit. I'm going to surround myself with people who push me higher. I'm going to speak life over my future. Small positive inputs repeated consistently create massive transformation over time. A healthy life is not built in one dramatic moment. It's built daily with one better decision, one better thought, one better habit, one better conversation, one better prayer, one better step. And eventually those small steps become a completely different life. Wow, it's exciting. You may not see the results overnight, but do not estimate, underestimate what consistent positive input can do over time. A single seed looks insignificant at first, but eventually it becomes a harvest. The same is true for your life. Every encouraging word you feed yourself matters. Every moment of discipline matters. Every healthy choice matters. Every prayer matters. Every positive thought matters, and every active growth matters. You're planting seeds into your future every single day. And if you stay consistent long enough, one day you will wake up and realize you are the person that you once hoped to become. You are stronger, healthier, wiser, more peaceful, more disciplined, more faithful, more confident, and more fulfilled. Not because life was easy, but because you became intentional about your inputs. Your future is being shaped right now by what you repeatedly allow into your life. Choose things that strengthen you, choose things that inspire you, choose things that heal you, choose things that challenge you to grow. Choose things that feed your spirit instead of draining it. Because the quality of your life will always reflect the quality of your consistent what you consistently consume. Feed your faith, feed your purpose, feed your mind with truth, feed your heart with hope, feed your spirit with life, and watch how your entire future begins to change from the inside out. Wow. Alright, y'all. We, me, all of us, we gotta always realize that our input is always, always, always determining our output. All right. Here we go, everybody. It's time to enter the laugh zone. Buckle up. Get it ready. If you're on a treadmill, maybe step off. I don't want you to fall off. Um if you're driving down the road, two hands on the wheel, this is exciting. You might end up laughing so hard that you come off the road. Or maybe not, but I like to think so. All right, here we go. What did one plate say to the other? Lunch is on me. Sneakers. All right, y'all. It is story time. And we got two great stories for you. First one up, police deputy praised after run-of-the-mill call turns into emergency baby delivery. A call about suspicious activity saw a California police officer race to save a newborn's life. A woman was sitting between two bushes near a business, and deputy foster Tracy described the situation as routine before it became anything but it was a zero to a hundred really fast. It was one of those calls you go to that's supposed to be run of the mill, said Deputy Foster Tracy. This was definitely not something that I was prepared for at any part of the day. Excuse me, Tracy remembers saying, as it didn't really register. You're having a baby. Indeed, the woman had been begging for help for hours, calling for medical backup. Tracy got down on his knees and went to work as he realized there wasn't time to waste. The baby's head was already out. Tracy's partner arrived moments later and they both saw the problem as the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck. I was concerned the baby was deceased because it was purple and blue. Yet their persistence was rewarded with a healthy baby and a relieved mother, who were both taken to the hospital to recover from the ordeal. The deputies have been credited with life-saving intervention and were praised by the mom, the police chief, and the surprised shop owners who had called to inadvertently save a life. Oh my goodness. You never know what you're going to come up with, especially if you're a police officer. That is fantastic. Next one up, y'all. Bride goes viral on wedding night dancing while doing vital cystic fibrosis treatment. A bride who was filmed dancing at her wedding reception was undergoing treatment for cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis doesn't stop no party, said Danica. That's what she posted on TikTok. 20-year-old Danica married her fiance Bo Evans last June in South Dakota. Twenty might seem young in this day and age, but cystic fibrosis has the effect of altering the perception of time among patients, particularly regarding how much is left. Parents of children born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that leaves the patient extra susceptible to lung infections, are often cautioned not to grow too close to them. Mortality from the disease is high among children, but many, like Danica, make it to adulthood. In Danica's case, a twice a day treatment involves a nebulizer and a high frequency chest wall oscillator vest to help open her lungs, which can often become clogged with overly thick mucus like secretions. The bride to be did her treatment combo the morning of the wedding and expected that she might have to do it during the reception that evening. Knowing that I had to do the treatments the night of my wedding, doing them on the dance floor with everyone I love surrounding me seemed like the best option, said Danica. While energy was high, we had the time of our lives, dancing the night away while I was shaking. Wow. As a cystic fibrosis patient myself, I feel so much joy seeing other people sharing the happy parts of their life, said one of the people that had cystic fibrosis. Knowing that I can reach people just like me gives me hope to keep posting my life journey with cystic fibrosis. I hope it gives people a new perspective of the disease. Cystic fibrosis can take, take, take, but you can also fight back with joy, patience, and doing everything you can do to stay as healthy as possible. This does seem to be the prevailing attitude of those who survived childhood with cystic fibrosis. What a fantastic attitude, you all can do attitude, and making life continue to go through and happen, even with the adversities that are going on in her life. She is fantastic, a role model of excellence. All right, everybody. Time to recap my top three podcast episodes of the week. I like you, like to learn great. Grow. I listen to podcasts a lot because I realize A, my input determines my output, but also I'm always going to get either constantly better or worse. Nobody stays the same in life. You're either going forward or you're going backwards. That's just how it works. There is no neutral. All right, so here we go. The first one up. Why can't it be you? Success, joy, purpose, and breakthrough you admire in others can be there for you too. Many successful people started with disadvantages, rejections, insecurity, and failure. The difference is they refuse to stay victims of their circumstances. Your life begins to change when you stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your future. Even when situations are unfair, taking ownership gives you power again. Instead of saying life happened to me, you begin saying, I can respond, I can grow, I can fight back, and I can build. Finding your why, Eric Thomas explains, that many people drift through life without clear direction. They wake up tired, unmotivated, and uninspired because they don't truly know what they are fighting for. But when your purpose becomes clear, why you know why you want to your success, why you want to change, why you want to become better, you stop hitting the snooze on your dreams. Your purpose begins pulling you forward. Greatness is already in most people, but fear and low self-esteem keep them from walking in it. They compare themselves to others and assume they could never reach a higher level. Believing you are capable allows you to transform your life. Eric says execution is worship, meaning that dreams alone are not enough. Vision without action changes nothing. Success belongs to people who constantly execute, people who show up daily, put in the work, stay disciplined, and refuse to quit. Winning small battles daily builds momentum. The more you win in the small areas, the more confidence and opportunities begin to grow. All right, y'all. As always, the link to the entire episode is in the show notes. Make sure you check it out. It's fantastic. Number two, three ways to quickly get out of a rut by Mel Robbins. Mel delivers a powerful and practical message about breaking free from emotional, mental, and motivational ruts. Instead of shaming people for feeling stuck, she explains that being stuck is actually a signal that you are ready for growth and change. Mel says people remain trapped because of three major patterns waiting until they feel ready, overthinking and lack of direction, hesitating instead of taking action. She explains your life changes the moment your actions change. Many people mistakenly believe feeling stuck means something is wrong with them, she says. But in reality, it usually means your current life no longer matches who you are becoming. Deep down, you know you're capable of more, but fear, overwhelm, and self-doubt keep you frozen. Nobody ever feels fully ready before making a big move. Whether it is starting a business, improving your health, leaving a bad relationship, or a change sign of a dream. Readiness is a myth. She explains that confidence is built after action, not before it. Waiting for motivation keeps people trapped for years. Make the decision and go for it, she says. The second trap is overcomplicating life. When people feel overwhelmed, the brain starts making simple things feel enormous. Suddenly everything feels impossible. Getting healthy, fixing finances, rebuilding confidence, pursuing goals. The mind turns one small action into a mountain. Her solution is simplify your focus. Instead of trying to reinvent your whole life overnight, commit just 15 minutes a day toward the person that you want to become. Every small action is a vote for your future. Want to become healthier? Take a 15-minute walk. You want to become a writer and write a book? Write for 15 minutes a day. If you want stronger faith, confidence, or peace, spend 15 intentional minutes a day building it. Alright, y'all. Another phenomenal one. Link to the full episode is in the show notes. Number three. Excuses are like lies no one else believes, says Carrie Wilkerson. Carrie says your excuses may comfort you temporarily, but they never create the life that you truly want. Stop hiding behind reasons, stories, delays, and self-imposed limitations. At the end of the day, most excuses are simply fear wearing a disguise. She says people often say things like, I don't have enough time. I'm too old. I'm not qualified. I'll start when life settles down. I'm waiting for the right opportunity. But deep down, many of those statements are not actually true. They are productive mechanisms. They help us avoid discomfort, risk, rejection, or failure. The problem is this while excuses protect you from fear and from failure, they also prevent you from true success. Successful people are not people without obstacles. They are people that decided that their future mattered more than their excuses. Excuses can become identity statements like I'm just bad with money. I'm not disciplined. I never finish things. I'm just not confident. Those words shape our future. Carrie encourages us to become intentional with our language because our words influence our mindset, and our mindset influences our actions. She also talks about personal responsibility, not blame responsibility. Life may have handed you disappointments, setbacks, unfair circumstances, rejections and failures, but we still have the power to decide what happens next. That's where growth begins. Stop waiting for perfect conditions, she says, because perfect conditions rarely come. You may never feel fully ready. You may never have enough money, and you may never have all the answers. But action creates clarity. Every small promise you keep builds self-respect and momentum. Man, good stuff. Definitely check out that full episode. The link is in the show notes, y'all. All right, here we go. Challenge of the week. Evaluate your inputs in every area of your life. I will do the same. Your inputs physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. If you have some areas without the positive input, change it up so you can live that exceptional life that I want you to have and I know that you deserve. All right, y'all. I want to remind you once again, you are enough. You have what it takes. You're in fact a champion whose absolute best days are straight ahead. You are loved and appreciated, as my dad would say to everyone he met. Let's all live out hope this week, helping one person every day. Continue to speak words of life over you and the ones that you love, saying, I am getting better and better every day and every way. My family is getting better and better every day and every way. Never ever ever ever ever stop dreaming and believing big for you and your family. Big dreams. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for being a part of our great community as we roll to one million. Have an epic day, an incredible week, and God bless.

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Thank you once again for listening to a conversation of hope with Brett. Brent wants to remind you that you are loved and appreciated. If you found value in this episode and know someone to use the little hook and please like and comment. And ultimately, you've got to do that.