We all face times in life when nothing seems to work. No matter how hard we try life seems like it wants to give us nothing. We get knocked down and wonder if we will ever get back up. In today’s episode, I give you a rock-solid dose of encouragement to help you get back off the canvas. If you’re ready to go one more round in the battle of life then this is the episode for you.
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Transcript
Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you once again, welcome
Speaker:as always to the daily podcast.
Speaker:So good to be with, if you're a new listener, please make
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Speaker:On the podcast here.
Speaker:It's so good to have you aboard.
Speaker:I hope I can bring you something useful today.
Speaker:I've been doing a really fantastic four day course.
Speaker:Out of the U S unfortunately it means I've had to get up at
Speaker:midnight every single night.
Speaker:And the course runs from about 13, 14 hours a day.
Speaker:So it's been an interesting few days.
Speaker:Uh, but uh, really got so much out of it that I hopefully can
Speaker:share with you in the weeks ahead.
Speaker:Now, today.
Speaker:Is it really simple message.
Speaker:The YouTube version will be here too.
Speaker:So please make sure you go and check out that YouTube version.
Speaker:But today, I want to talk about the issue of getting up off the canvas.
Speaker:There are so many times in life when we can genuinely feel beaten down.
Speaker:If you pay attention to mainstream media, they serve up plenty of reasons
Speaker:every single day, where we can, um,
Speaker:We really feel that life is happening to us and not for us,
Speaker:that there is so much to be.
Speaker:Worried about concerned about so little that we control.
Speaker:They're the macro issues.
Speaker:And then of course, all the issues going on in our own lives, all the daily
Speaker:problems and challenges that are there, tests and trials that can make life seem
Speaker:so difficult to every single one of us listening today has been in situations
Speaker:where we can genuinely feel beaten down.
Speaker:We can feel like.
Speaker:It's, uh, it's all too much.
Speaker:You ever had that you sort of, you sort of know what your goals and dreams are, you
Speaker:know, what's important to you, you know, what you want to create in your life.
Speaker:But it seems that no matter what you try.
Speaker:No matter what you've done, the preparation, the
Speaker:efforts that you've put in.
Speaker:You keep seeing seeming to end up, are they going backwards or
Speaker:staying stationary or just feeling so beaten down you ever been there?
Speaker:I think all of us have at some point.
Speaker:And if you think about what makes some particular movies so influential,
Speaker:so famous, I'm thinking about the movie Rocky, because yesterday I
Speaker:was on the training bike and nine.
Speaker:Started watching the movie creed.
Speaker:Which is kind of the followup series to Rocky because often if I'm doing
Speaker:a long training ride, I'll, I'll check on a documentary or movie
Speaker:and the movie Creed's interesting.
Speaker:And you, you start to notice the same sorts of patterns.
Speaker:You get a sort of underdog hero.
Speaker:Who, um, gets a shot out of nowhere at a title and, uh, the, the, the
Speaker:action and the drama builds up to this moment where they're beaten
Speaker:to the canvas and beaten down.
Speaker:And the music comes up and, you know, with every single one of these movies, right.
Speaker:We know what's going to happen before it even starts, you know?
Speaker:We know what the movie's gonna.
Speaker:You know, you don't sit there and go, wow.
Speaker:I wonder if they're going to lose.
Speaker:She just always know.
Speaker:What, how it's going to work out, but we still engage, right?
Speaker:Like there's still such compelling stories when the heroes beaten to the canvas,
Speaker:but they, they managed to get one hand to prop them up and then another hand
Speaker:and the crowd screaming out at them.
Speaker:And finally they managed to get themselves back on their
Speaker:feet and they go on to victory.
Speaker:And there's a reason.
Speaker:Those stories are so compelling because they tie into something very specific and
Speaker:particular to our shared human journey.
Speaker:We get pumped by seeing those sorts.
Speaker:Of stories, because I think we all resonate with them and that's the
Speaker:sort of focus of today's message is just to remind all of us.
Speaker:That there will be times that are hard.
Speaker:There will be times that are difficult.
Speaker:Nobody gets a free pass in life.
Speaker:If you're listening to this, you've either already had.
Speaker:Significant life challenges, or they will be around the corner at some point.
Speaker:No, no amount of money or influence protects any of us.
Speaker:From the vicissitudes of life from the storms and schools of
Speaker:whether the can flow through.
Speaker:The landscape of our lives at any particular moment.
Speaker:So we mightn't get to control the weather.
Speaker:But we can control our response.
Speaker:And today is about reminding you my friend to get back up off the canvas.
Speaker:To get back up off the canvas.
Speaker:One more time.
Speaker:Is there something in your life right now?
Speaker:That's not exactly going your way.
Speaker:Is there something that you feel like you can't just change as
Speaker:you can't control the outcome?
Speaker:And you do feel beaten down by it.
Speaker:You feel exhausted by it.
Speaker:Well, this message today is simply to remind you to get up off that canvas one.
Speaker:More time.
Speaker:You know, if I had one superpower.
Speaker:It really would be perseverance often say that Karen would say
Speaker:that to my wife, she'd say, yep.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:That's the one thing that you do.
Speaker:That, uh, that you just keep doing, no matter what comes at me, I just
Speaker:have this ability to make myself.
Speaker:Keep going.
Speaker:Yesterday after another 48 hours in this training course.
Speaker:So I'm basically sleeping two hours a day.
Speaker:I get the kids to bed about 10.
Speaker:I sleep from about 10:00 PM till midnight.
Speaker:And then I get up at midnight and start the program again.
Speaker:But so yesterday I finished after about 13 hours and I knew
Speaker:I hadn't trained for, for a day.
Speaker:So I went down and got on the train of bike.
Speaker:I'm doing this 40 K race on the trainer bike and about 20 Ks in I'm gassed.
Speaker:I'm like, ah, I said it doesn't matter today, you know, I'm not.
Speaker:You know, I've got this program and I'm.
Speaker:How many sleeping two hours a day for four days.
Speaker:And maybe I should just, you know, just stop, just do half.
Speaker:Half's fine.
Speaker:You know, and I'm having this internal dialogue, but then I managed to go.
Speaker:That's not who you are.
Speaker:It's not what you do.
Speaker:And right in that moment, you know, I guess let's talk about the mechanics.
Speaker:I literally drew.
Speaker:On a, on a hero of mine, um, a mentor of mine who really exemplifies physical
Speaker:toughness and physical perseverance.
Speaker:And I thought of them.
Speaker:And I thought of my own sense of self and I'm like, no, I'm not stopping.
Speaker:I'm not getting off.
Speaker:I'm going to get it done.
Speaker:And I got it done.
Speaker:And I felt great afterwards.
Speaker:And I just had this sense of, you know, pushing through of pressing
Speaker:on, of not letting my current feelings dictate my response.
Speaker:That's what it means to get up off the canvas.
Speaker:It means to push through when you don't feel like pushing through, it
Speaker:means to make yourself get up one more time because these results matter.
Speaker:You know, Can you imagine a movie?
Speaker:Like, can you imagine Rocky, like Rocky had got into the ring
Speaker:with Apollo creed and just got punched out in the first round.
Speaker:And hit the four and the movie ended.
Speaker:We'd just be like, I don't, I don't get.
Speaker:I didn't get what all the fuss was about.
Speaker:This is a terrible movie, right?
Speaker:We don't like that sort of movie.
Speaker:We liked that.
Speaker:Movie where he screaming at the end, Adrian, Adrian.
Speaker:And, uh, his girlfriend comes running across and you know, the
Speaker:music comes up and everybody's emotional and we love that story.
Speaker:You know why?
Speaker:Because that's your story.
Speaker:That's actually your story.
Speaker:That's the truth about you?
Speaker:So my friend be encouraged.
Speaker:Get up off the mat.
Speaker:One more time.
Speaker:Maybe it's you got to get off that mat.
Speaker:Get off that canvas for your kids.
Speaker:Maybe you've got to get off that canvas for your marriage or your
Speaker:business or your friendships or your health or your spirituality.
Speaker:You feel beaten down, but today is the day to get back on your feet.
Speaker:One more time and finish this movie, finished this story.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:It's my encouragement for you today.
Speaker:So go ahead.
Speaker:Make sure you've subscribed.
Speaker:There'll be links here to book me for coaching for speaking,
Speaker:go and check those out.
Speaker:But I've, uh, I'm in the studio, but I'm going to get back to this program.
Speaker:Now I've got another sort of 10 hours to go today.
Speaker:And I'll keep you posted.
Speaker:Everything I'm learning.
Speaker:All right, God bless you.
Speaker:My friends, my name's Jonathan Doyle.
Speaker:This has been the daily podcast and you and I are going to talk again tomorrow.
