YOU CANNOT STOP

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Everybody falls down. But not everybody has the courage and resolve to keep picking themselves up and persevere. Be part of that small minority, and you'll go further than anyone thinks you can. Including you.

Spoken by:

Les Brown
instagram.com/thelesbrown

Steven Furtick
stevenfurtick.com

Rick Warren
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Eric Thomas
instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher

Andy Frisella
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Music:

Secession Studios - The Storm

Secession Studios

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
A lot of things are gonna happen
that will catch you off guard.
You’re gonna make a lot of mistakes.
You’re gonna have a lot of failures.
You’re gonna have a lot of struggles.
You’re gonna feel dumb and ask questions
and don’t know what to do
or where to go.
And that’s part of growing.
That’s part of the experimentation process.
Because when the tough times come,
they’re going to come.
When life hits you on the blind side,
and that’s going to happen,

(00:21):
or someone you thought you’d be married to
for the rest of your life,
and they decide they want a divorce.
It’s called life.
It’s the panic or the pain that breaks most of us.
you weren’t expecting it,
and it threw you off,
and that’s what broke you.
When you’re going through hell,
what do you do?
You don’t stop there.
You don’t stay there.
You want to spend the rest of your life there.

(00:42):
You keep going.
You put one foot
in front of the other.
If at first
you don’t succeed,
you’re normal.
Nobody succeeds at first.
Successful people
simply see failure
as a temporary setback.
There is no comeback without first
a setback.
You don’t know what you can take

(01:04):
until the pressure is applied to your life.
You don’t know what you can endure
until people stab you in the back
and walk away from you.
You don’t know how much courage you have
until you’ve been under fire
and under struggle
and under tribulation.
It’s when all hell
breaks loose.
That’s when you get to see

(01:26):
what you got.
If you ever go through something,
hold your head up.
If you ever make a mistake,
hold your head up.
If you ever do something and everything goes wrong,
life catch you on the blind side,
hold your head up.
And sometimes you think you know how it ends.
But what if it’s not over yet?
What if it’s not over yet?
What if your best days are not behind you?

(01:47):
What is everything that you have been through
can serve a greater purpose?
What if a generational curse
was being broken
through your battle?
It’s not over.
I’m still here.
I’m not dead yet.
Oh, it’s not over yet.
Don’t count me out yet.
That which does not kill you
will make you stronger.

(02:08):
Life will always be to a large extent
not what circumstances will make of it.
Not what
other people will make of it.
But what you make of your life.
That’s what your life will be.
Not what other people say it will be.
Not what the environment will try and dictate to you.
No.
What you make your life.
When you hold on to your dream,
don’t let anybody kill it in you.

(02:30):
Just hold on to that dream.
When it doesn’t make sense to anybody,
including you sometimes,
just hold on.
If it gets hard,
you tie a knot around yourself,
you double tie it if you have to,
but you hold on.
See, it’s easy to be on the bottom.
It doesn’t take any effort to be a loser.
Doesn’t take any motivation, any drive
in order to stay down there on a low level.
But it calls on everything in you,

(02:51):
you have to harness your will to say,
I’m going to challenge myself.
Sometimes I have to pull myself out of bed and say,
come on Les.
You’ve got to learn to stand up to yourself
inside yourself.
And short circuit override that conversation
that’s always going on.
85% of what that conversation will tell you
is negative.
It’s negative.

(03:12):
It will tell you you’re tired
when you really are not tired.
It will tell you you can’t do it.
It will fill you with fear.
So you’ve got to watch that conversation.
And when you find it going on,
you’ve got to stand up to it and say,
I’m going to do this anyhow.
I’m afraid,
but I’m afraid not to do it.
And I’m not going to let you stop me.
This is not a question of if.

(03:33):
If you can get to the next level.
It’s when.
When are you going to blow up?
Don’t worry about if.
You know you can do it.
You know it’s within you.
You know you have what it takes
to get to that next level.
The question is not
if.
the question is when.
And I had to hold on,
I had to persevere,
I had to tell myself,
you can do it.

(03:54):
There’s a reason every successful person
is successful.
They got themselves to a point
where they f*cking can expect to win.
When you get there,
you gotta walk in it.
You gotta walk to the job interview
like you know you got it.
You gotta sit down and take that test
like you know you about to lick it.
I need you to expect it,
you gonna pass this thing.
You have to stop accepting the reality

(04:16):
of other people
and you gotta accept your own reality.
I walk in my reality.
I don’t walk into other people’s limitations.
Because you can’t do it,
because you can’t see it,
it doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
I expect it.
I expect to be phenomenal.
I don’t expect anything else but phenomenal.
Failure is not an option.

(04:36):
And you have to have
patience.
You gotta have the ability
to wait stuff out,
to hold on
and hold out.
Embrace the I don’t mind waiting mentality.
If it takes six months,
if it takes a year,
if it takes 10 years,
I am going to wait it out.
You gotta have that patience,
that fortitude to say,
even when you don’t see

(04:57):
physical evidence,
when you don’t see any external activity,
any external outcomes,
you still believe you can get it done.
It is the ability, when you have a terrible day,
to wake up the next day and act like
ain’t nothing happened.
And you get up and you pursue it
as if you starting all over again,
as if you got a chance.
This too shall pass

(05:18):
like every storm that has come to you.
Every single storm,
this too shall pass.
You don’t have to be perfect.
Your circumstances don’t have to be perfect.
You don’t have to be born in a perfect environment.
You don’t always have to do the right thing,
the right way
for you to get to prosperity.
You don’t have to be perfect to get to the place
where you want to be in life.
All you got to do is be willing.

(05:39):
All you got to do is try.
All you got to do is put forth effort.
You want to get out in the field
where the action is.
And you will be amazed
after the struggle,
there will be a calm period
and things will begin to click for you.
Come out here with what you got.
You don’t have enough money?
Don’t worry about it.
You got the dream.
Just go out there.
It’s possible you can get what you want.

(06:01):
It’s necessary, if you want it,
you gotta go into action,
you gotta be willing to experiment.
You gotta be willing to fail and to succeed.
For those of you that are willing
to focus your energy on your life,
on what you wanna create,
as you focus on something,
as you go into action,
as you hold that thought in consciousness persistently,
you begin to develop the consciousness
to manifest and create all kinds of things,

(06:23):
you will begin to realize
powers and abilities you have.
You will realize you have
miracle working power in you.
You keep going.
You keep studying.
You keep writing.
You keep singing.
You keep rapping.
You keep boxing.
You keep fighting.
You keep dribbling.
You just keep on keeping on.
It’s your life.
Nobody else owns it.

(06:44):
You are the captain of your ship.
You are the master of your life.
You can have it.
You can do it.
You can be it.