In today’s message I want to share with you a couple of incredible quotes from one of the most amazing women in history, Hellen Keller.
She is going to help us realise that there is an incredible power in learning to press into the hardships, difficulties and problems we all face on a daily basis.
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Transcript
Well, Hey, there everybody.
Speaker:Jonathan Doyle with you once again, welcome as always my friend to the daily
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Speaker:And if I can make it possible while I'm over there, I'd love to do that day.
Speaker:It's such a joy.
Speaker:I just to be up on stage.
Speaker:Um, encouraging and inspiring people.
Speaker:It gives me a great deal of joy.
Speaker:It's a, and it's why I'm passionate about helping you.
Speaker:Unleash the magic that's within you to liberate your potential.
Speaker:That is why I'm on this little planet.
Speaker:I want to try and encourage all of us.
Speaker:To, uh, to unlock, to unleash all the magic that's inside us to
Speaker:contribute more richly and fully to the lives of those that we love.
Speaker:And to the people that we meet each day, that is the goal of friends,
Speaker:whoever contributes the most wins.
Speaker:I think that is how the game is structured.
Speaker:Um, I once read a quote that said whoever dies with the most stuff wins.
Speaker:I'm like not true.
Speaker:My friend, not true.
Speaker:What's that French saying the graveyard is full of indispensable people.
Speaker:Um, my, my father used to say, there's no pockets in a funeral shroud.
Speaker:You're not taking anything with you.
Speaker:What we get to keep is what we give.
Speaker:I'm just riffing this morning.
Speaker:And I'm just flowing with these little lines, but I believe him.
Speaker:I believe that contributing to others makes us happy.
Speaker:And that's what we're going to talk about.
Speaker:All right.
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Speaker:We're going to talk about.
Speaker:We're going to talk about the difficulties and hardships in life.
Speaker:I was up again super early.
Speaker:Uh, I think I was about three 30 this morning.
Speaker:Um, you know, As I said earlier this week, sometimes it's a struggle is bleak.
Speaker:It's cold.
Speaker:I was on the bike.
Speaker:I'm like, this is rubbish.
Speaker:And, uh, I was just on the bike and I thought, you know what?
Speaker:It's these hardships that make us.
Speaker:Better.
Speaker:It's these obstacles and difficulties and endless challenges and
Speaker:problems that make us better.
Speaker:So today I want to talk about that often.
Speaker:Of course we wish them away.
Speaker:We, if you're like me, there's plenty of times when you're
Speaker:like, if only life was easier.
Speaker:If only I didn't have to put up with these problems.
Speaker:But I want to give you a couple of really crucial quotes from
Speaker:the incredible Helen Keller.
Speaker:Um, Helen Keller is just one of the great figures of history in
Speaker:terms of somebody that massively overcame incredible adversity.
Speaker:So I want to give you two quotes, listen carefully.
Speaker:The first one she says this character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Speaker:As I say in the video, go and check out the YouTube version here.
Speaker:If you're on YouTube, hit that link because I'm.
Speaker:Doing videos on this every single day, seven days a week.
Speaker:So check out the YouTube version.
Speaker:But, uh, I love this quote character cannot be developed
Speaker:in ease and quiet on the video.
Speaker:I say, if we sit in the metaphorical armchair of life,
Speaker:if we sit in a situation.
Speaker:For too long.
Speaker:I mean, there's definitely times when we need recovery and rest, but if we
Speaker:are sitting in a situation where we are not challenged, we are not pushed.
Speaker:We are not growing.
Speaker:Then that is a problem that is highly problematic because
Speaker:character can't be developed.
Speaker:What is character?
Speaker:Character is the sum total of our decisions.
Speaker:We become what we do.
Speaker:Character emerges and ah, in the, into the English language
Speaker:around about the 15th century.
Speaker:Uh, from, uh, comes from old English.
Speaker:Um, I come in with the exact old English word, but what it means
Speaker:is it translates as an indelible mark written upon the soul.
Speaker:It's like a tattoo on the us soul.
Speaker:I kind of writing that defines who we are.
Speaker:Uh, and, and character is formed in our decision-making and our choices
Speaker:in our relationship with adversity.
Speaker:As Helen Keller says, you can't do it in ease and quiet.
Speaker:You can't get better and stronger.
Speaker:If you're not doing anything to sort of stress yourself.
Speaker:In the right way, right?
Speaker:We don't want to needlessly stress ourselves, but in the
Speaker:video again, I talk about.
Speaker:You know, being in the gym, I'm going to be in the gym in
Speaker:a couple of hours from now.
Speaker:And you push heavier weights and pushing those heavier weights,
Speaker:forces the body to adapt and grow.
Speaker:So today, my friend, I'm talking to you about the difficulties, challenges,
Speaker:adversities in your life, because these are the things that are going
Speaker:to make you stronger, better, more capable, and more capable of, uh,
Speaker:greater success, more contribution.
Speaker:Here's the second quote.
Speaker:Quote from Helen Keller.
Speaker:She says all the world.
Speaker:Is full.
Speaker:Of suffering.
Speaker:It is also full of overcoming all the world is full of suffering,
Speaker:but it's also full of overcoming.
Speaker:Have you noticed.
Speaker:How much we love stories of overcoming.
Speaker:Can you imagine a book that's like, you know, this person kind of.
Speaker:Gets up in the morning, doesn't really do much.
Speaker:Everything goes really well.
Speaker:And then the book kind of finishes and you're like, wow.
Speaker:You know, one of the stories that we love, what are the great stories
Speaker:that are so exciting for us?
Speaker:You need to look at the Lord of the rings and the Hobbit, and you know,
Speaker:what do we see these characters pulled out of their comfort, pulled out of
Speaker:their predictable day-to-day reality and forced into all sorts of situations.
Speaker:They never would have chosen, but that they had to overcome.
Speaker:I can't lie to your friends.
Speaker:I've seen the new top gun movie, Maverick four times.
Speaker:Oh of that movie.
Speaker:And what do you see overcoming you see these characters, a whole
Speaker:range of characters in that film.
Speaker:Dealing with all these problems and adversities and, you know, you're in
Speaker:the cinema and you just like, you know, it's just so exciting to just watch
Speaker:this happen and you kind of get immersed in the story and you can pick any
Speaker:movie or any book that you like where.
Speaker:You're going to love those stories of overcoming.
Speaker:So can I just suggest to you that your life is participating in
Speaker:that same archetypal narrative?
Speaker:Like the, the hero's journey from Conrad, right?
Speaker:Like, it's this basic idea that we are called into this mystery of
Speaker:adversity, difficulty hardship, and we are going to overcome through it.
Speaker:I can promise you.
Speaker:I got problems.
Speaker:Friends, you got problems.
Speaker:We go and got problems.
Speaker:We do.
Speaker:I get.
Speaker:I've got a yellow legal pad in front of me here.
Speaker:I could fill that pad right now with problems.
Speaker:I really good.
Speaker:I just got that many it's extraordinary.
Speaker:You know, I mean that age.
Speaker:There's a huge Harvard study that said your unhappiest in your forties,
Speaker:because you just got so many problems.
Speaker:You've got, you got family and kids and parents getting older
Speaker:and business and travel and all the problems that come with it.
Speaker:Listen to me, you can even tell I'm not even complaining.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I'm just acknowledging and just recognizing.
Speaker:You've got yours.
Speaker:But I'll tell you what as we go about solving them.
Speaker:We grow.
Speaker:That's the magic.
Speaker:That's the magic right there.
Speaker:That's what we do.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I want to wrap this up.
Speaker:I'd love to keep these nice and short for you.
Speaker:Listen to Helen Keller here.
Speaker:These two quotes, again, character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Speaker:And secondly, she says all the world is full of suffering.
Speaker:It is also full.
Speaker:Of overcoming.
Speaker:I tell you something about yourself.
Speaker:You are an overcomer.
Speaker:You may not feel like that.
Speaker:You may have like, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This is just trying to pump me up.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I am trying to pump you up.
Speaker:That's exactly what I'm trying to do because life's hard enough as it is,
Speaker:and we need good people around us to encourage us, inspire us, push us forward.
Speaker:Tell us that we are overcome as you are an overcomer.
Speaker:You've got this far, look back over your life.
Speaker:Look how many problems you've had.
Speaker:Look how many heartaches you've had looking at suffering.
Speaker:You've already endured and overcome.
Speaker:You got this.
Speaker:You've already proved it.
Speaker:So just keep going.
Speaker:And, you know, Tony Robbins used to say that the, the, um, you know,
Speaker:the, the results of successes, you just get a better quality, a problem.
Speaker:You just get a bigger problem.
Speaker:They just keep growing.
Speaker:The knives, you become a senior leader in an organization.
Speaker:What have you got?
Speaker:You just got bigger problems.
Speaker:You just got more people sending their problems to you.
Speaker:So friends.
Speaker:You know, What happens here is that it doesn't stop.
Speaker:We don't get to this point where.
Speaker:We go yep.
Speaker:Fix my problems.
Speaker:I'm done.
Speaker:I'm going to go and find that metaphorical.
Speaker:Um, chair of ease and comfort.
Speaker:Move over Helen gala.
Speaker:Get out of my chair.
Speaker:I want us amazing comfort.
Speaker:Now it's not going to happen.
Speaker:You just going to get more, you going to get bigger ones and
Speaker:you're going to get them till the end and all that way through.
Speaker:You're going to grow.
Speaker:You're going to struggle.
Speaker:You're going to strive.
Speaker:You're going to.
Speaker:Push and you're going to become someone really magnificent in the journey.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:That's it.
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