May 18, 2025 • 13 mins
Focusing on the phrase 'this too shall pass,' this episode encourages listeners to embrace change and overcome adversity. The speaker shares personal anecdotes about the consequences of impatience and the benefits of introspection and self-awareness. It's about recognizing the phases of life and understanding that progress often requires enduring discomfort. The narrative reinforces that self-mastery and patience are pivotal for achieving success and sustaining happiness. With an emphasis on internal growth, the message is clear: be kind to yourself, forgive past mistakes, and keep moving forward, knowing that today's struggles are temporary.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Take a breath, let's dive in.
This too shall pass.
Happiness will pass, sadnesswill pass.
Hard times will pass.
Sadness will pass.
(00:27):
Hard times will pass.
Good times will also pass.
Nothing is forever, because thistoo shall pass.
It all passes.
Friendships go through cycle.
Friendships go through cycle,love, hate all of these things
(00:47):
aren't fixed.
They pass.
We say things like life cycle.
Things have a life cycle.
Human beings have a life cycle.
You know, the weather hasseasons and we have clim.
Because things change, nothingis truly fixed.
(01:07):
So your hardships and where youare right now, even if you
cannot see it, it too shall pass.
We have to remind that what weare currently living is only but
a infinitesimal portion of theentirety of our lives.
(01:32):
So we could either be fixed atthe problem we could either
fixate on the problems that arebefore us and the challenges, or
we can just move forwardBecause the moment isn't forever
.
Sometimes we stop our growthbecause we don't know how to
(02:00):
move on to the next thing.
We stay stuck in the good thingthat is, you know, present, or
the bad thing that is present,and we don't try to evolve from
the situation at large, or maybewe don't know how to to phrase
that better or correctly.
It all passes.
(02:22):
Growth is painful, whether it'sgood or bad.
I remember I heard someone sayto me when I was younger be
careful what you wish for or becareful what you pray for.
Either or we don't fullyunderstand the depths of the
(02:43):
things that we want to acquireor the situation or environment
we want to be in when we makecertain requests.
For example, when someone saysI'm working on my patience, I
want to be a more patient person.
How would you become morepatient unless you are tested?
Your patience has to be testedin order for you to become a
(03:07):
more patient person, whether itbe in the form of having kids or
learning to share a space witha significant other or learning
how to collaborate with those,you work with Patience.
If that's the thing that youwish for, pray for, you're
working on it.
It's a challenge and you onlybecome more patient because, as
(03:30):
I've said, your patience istested.
When you want to becomestronger, the weights only get
heavier, not lighter.
So let's not stay stuck in themoment and the situation, when
we have the entirety of ourlives to live, because it will
(03:52):
all pass and, as time passes,eventually you get to a point
where you either say, man, whathave I done with my life?
Or, oh my goodness, I am soproud of the life that I have
lived and the person that I am.
And that only occurs when youconstantly try to or strive for
(04:18):
evolution, the evolution of self.
You know, marcus Garvey oncesaid that when man masters
himself, he masters hisenvironment.
And so many of us, we focus onall the things that are not us
and try to make ourselves better.
That way, when the work has tobe us, we have to put in the
(04:42):
work to become better, to put inthe work to become better.
We have to learn how to notonly be critical of ourselves
but also pat ourselves on theback.
Because if you want to say, hey,this too shall pass, guess what
?
Your body is the engine thatgets you there.
(05:03):
So if you're not taking care ofyourself or working on yourself
, you can't ever hope toprogress forward.
It's not an easy thing.
So I don't want to minimizewhat it means to overcome
(05:23):
adversity or to get up.
When you're suffering fromdepression or you're going
through a period of mourning,you know the light in the tunnel
may not be there.
It may just be pitch black and,as I've said, yes, it's easy
for anyone to say, hey, this tooshall pass.
(05:43):
Yes, it is easy for anyone tosay that, you know, people don't
always see the work that youput in to get to where you need
to be.
But you are where you are,either due to the work that
you're putting in or the workthat you're not doing, and
that's where you are.
Where you are, and you don'tget to choose when your hard
(06:04):
work pays off.
The more you work on something,the higher the odds are that
you will become successful at it.
But again, the feeling ofsuccess can plateau Because, as
I've said, this too shall pass,and I don't mean to be
repetitive, but repetition ishow we learn.
(06:29):
So I'm saying that this tooshall pass, because if you're
successful, you can loseeverything, and if you have
nothing, you could also wineverything.
So we're kind of like the moon.
We have phases Sometimes we'rea full moon, sometimes we're a
(06:58):
half moon, sometimes we're acrescent moon, and so forth.
Our friendships are the sameway, our love lives are the same
way.
Is work to get to where we needto be, and while doing so, we
are constantly working onourselves mentally, spiritually,
physically.
It's important for us to getback to working on ourselves.
I think that a great percentageof mankind, we chase material
(07:23):
wealth, which is a great thing.
I chase wealth too.
That's why I work the way thatI do and I'm not going to tell
anyone to not do that.
However, in the pursuit ofattempting to attain more, what
is the cost?
What is the toll that you mustpay?
(07:47):
Ponder that thought.
Is the toll?
Abandoning your family, missingimportant family events, not
being there for your friends?
What is the toll?
What is the cost?
How can you do thingsdifferently?
Slow down and think about thesethings.
I recently made a mistake.
I recently made a mistake andmy goal is to never present
(08:20):
myself as this virtuous, perfectperson, because I'm not.
I'm flawed and I have so manyimperfections.
I've been grinding and justthinking that I'm progressing
and I strayed away from thethings that have made me
successful in the first place,which was patience.
And because things were goingso well, I kept just putting my
foot on the gas, not analyzingmy moves, and in the process,
(08:45):
for the past two weeks, I'vemade, you know, errors in
judgment, I've miscalculatedthings and I've disrupted the
flow of how things are supposedto operate and I own that
Because I was the one thatdidn't slow down and I was
(09:06):
counseled to slow down.
So someone gave me some adviceto slow down, but I just cared
about the progress that I wasmaking and the success that I
was achieving, that I missed outon, you know, a lot of little
things that turned into bigthings.
So and I say this to say that,am I beating myself up about it?
(09:27):
No, did I at first, absolutely,and it just goes to show that
your intentions mean nothing.
The outcomes are what trulymatters.
The results of the fruit ofyour labor are the things or,
yeah, the things I think thingssounds excellent Are the things
(09:50):
that you will be judged by whenit's all said and done.
So I was having a great streak,things were going great, I was
doing a lot of things right, butI didn't slow down.
I became impatient and eventhough it didn't cost me a great
(10:11):
deal, I still have to fix mymiscalculations and make those
adjustments.
And that's not something thatI've had to do before, because
I've always been patient.
I exercise patience.
I would always look before Ileapt, as they say.
So it is so difficult to givemyself grace when I know that I
(10:39):
messed up.
It's easy for me to forgive themisgivings of others.
It's hard for me to forgivemyself because I hold myself to
such high standards.
There's lots of things thatmorally and ethically, I just
won't ever do, and I think whenthings don't fall into the moral
or ethical category and I makemistakes that are so easy to
(11:03):
avoid and I don't avoid themwhen they do come up, it tears
me apart in the moment and, yes,I need to go back to home base
and navigate that so I don'tmake those mistakes again.
But I would say that patienceis the thing that often, many
times, stunts my growth and youknow, I had to kind of do a
(11:27):
reset, a healthy reset, so thatI could say to myself this too
shall pass.
So, yes, I messed up, I own itand this too shall pass.
So same thing for you out there,whoever is listening.
Don't get hung up on all themistakes that you've made,
(11:51):
because your mistakes are thingsthat have happened and at the
end of the day you have to getto the point where you love you,
you accept your mistakes, nomatter how terrible they are.
You have to accept that they'vehappened, you've done them and
(12:11):
move forward.
And you can't make other peopleforgive you if it was something
that you've, maybe you offendedsomeone.
You can't make someone forgiveyou, someone forgive you.
You can't make someone acceptyour apology, but you know, you
can acknowledge to yourself that, hey, I messed up, but I'm
going to move forward.
That you can do.
Hey, I forgive myself.
(12:33):
That you can do.
Hey, I love myself.
That you can do.
So get back to home base andwhatever crap you're going
through, just remember this, too, shall pass.
I wanted to make this verypoignant and hopefully this
episode resonates with you andknow that in your darkest
(12:58):
moments, whatever they may be,whether it's depression, whether
it's heartbreak, whether it'syou feel stuck or loneliness,
whatever it is, this too shallpass.
If you enjoyed today's content,please like and subscribe for
more.
Be free.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Take a breath, let's dive in.
This too shall pass.
Happiness will pass, sadnesswill pass.
Hard times will pass.
Sadness will pass.
(00:27):
Hard times will pass.
Good times will also pass.
Nothing is forever, because thistoo shall pass.
It all passes.
Friendships go through cycle.
Friendships go through cycle,love, hate all of these things
(00:47):
aren't fixed.
They pass.
We say things like life cycle.
Things have a life cycle.
Human beings have a life cycle.
You know, the weather hasseasons and we have clim.
Because things change, nothingis truly fixed.
(01:07):
So your hardships and where youare right now, even if you
cannot see it, it too shall pass.
We have to remind that what weare currently living is only but
a infinitesimal portion of theentirety of our lives.
(01:32):
So we could either be fixed atthe problem we could either
fixate on the problems that arebefore us and the challenges, or
we can just move forwardBecause the moment isn't forever
.
Sometimes we stop our growthbecause we don't know how to
(02:00):
move on to the next thing.
We stay stuck in the good thingthat is, you know, present, or
the bad thing that is present,and we don't try to evolve from
the situation at large, or maybewe don't know how to to phrase
that better or correctly.
It all passes.
(02:22):
Growth is painful, whether it'sgood or bad.
I remember I heard someone sayto me when I was younger be
careful what you wish for or becareful what you pray for.
Either or we don't fullyunderstand the depths of the
(02:43):
things that we want to acquireor the situation or environment
we want to be in when we makecertain requests.
For example, when someone saysI'm working on my patience, I
want to be a more patient person.
How would you become morepatient unless you are tested?
Your patience has to be testedin order for you to become a
(03:07):
more patient person, whether itbe in the form of having kids or
learning to share a space witha significant other or learning
how to collaborate with those,you work with Patience.
If that's the thing that youwish for, pray for, you're
working on it.
It's a challenge and you onlybecome more patient because, as
(03:30):
I've said, your patience istested.
When you want to becomestronger, the weights only get
heavier, not lighter.
So let's not stay stuck in themoment and the situation, when
we have the entirety of ourlives to live, because it will
(03:52):
all pass and, as time passes,eventually you get to a point
where you either say, man, whathave I done with my life?
Or, oh my goodness, I am soproud of the life that I have
lived and the person that I am.
And that only occurs when youconstantly try to or strive for
(04:18):
evolution, the evolution of self.
You know, marcus Garvey oncesaid that when man masters
himself, he masters hisenvironment.
And so many of us, we focus onall the things that are not us
and try to make ourselves better.
That way, when the work has tobe us, we have to put in the
(04:42):
work to become better, to put inthe work to become better.
We have to learn how to notonly be critical of ourselves
but also pat ourselves on theback.
Because if you want to say, hey,this too shall pass, guess what
?
Your body is the engine thatgets you there.
(05:03):
So if you're not taking care ofyourself or working on yourself
, you can't ever hope toprogress forward.
It's not an easy thing.
So I don't want to minimizewhat it means to overcome
(05:23):
adversity or to get up.
When you're suffering fromdepression or you're going
through a period of mourning,you know the light in the tunnel
may not be there.
It may just be pitch black and,as I've said, yes, it's easy
for anyone to say, hey, this tooshall pass.
(05:43):
Yes, it is easy for anyone tosay that, you know, people don't
always see the work that youput in to get to where you need
to be.
But you are where you are,either due to the work that
you're putting in or the workthat you're not doing, and
that's where you are.
Where you are, and you don'tget to choose when your hard
(06:04):
work pays off.
The more you work on something,the higher the odds are that
you will become successful at it.
But again, the feeling ofsuccess can plateau Because, as
I've said, this too shall pass,and I don't mean to be
repetitive, but repetition ishow we learn.
(06:29):
So I'm saying that this tooshall pass, because if you're
successful, you can loseeverything, and if you have
nothing, you could also wineverything.
So we're kind of like the moon.
We have phases Sometimes we'rea full moon, sometimes we're a
(06:58):
half moon, sometimes we're acrescent moon, and so forth.
Our friendships are the sameway, our love lives are the same
way.
Is work to get to where we needto be, and while doing so, we
are constantly working onourselves mentally, spiritually,
physically.
It's important for us to getback to working on ourselves.
I think that a great percentageof mankind, we chase material
(07:23):
wealth, which is a great thing.
I chase wealth too.
That's why I work the way thatI do and I'm not going to tell
anyone to not do that.
However, in the pursuit ofattempting to attain more, what
is the cost?
What is the toll that you mustpay?
(07:47):
Ponder that thought.
Is the toll?
Abandoning your family, missingimportant family events, not
being there for your friends?
What is the toll?
What is the cost?
How can you do thingsdifferently?
Slow down and think about thesethings.
I recently made a mistake.
I recently made a mistake andmy goal is to never present
(08:20):
myself as this virtuous, perfectperson, because I'm not.
I'm flawed and I have so manyimperfections.
I've been grinding and justthinking that I'm progressing
and I strayed away from thethings that have made me
successful in the first place,which was patience.
And because things were goingso well, I kept just putting my
foot on the gas, not analyzingmy moves, and in the process,
(08:45):
for the past two weeks, I'vemade, you know, errors in
judgment, I've miscalculatedthings and I've disrupted the
flow of how things are supposedto operate and I own that
Because I was the one thatdidn't slow down and I was
(09:06):
counseled to slow down.
So someone gave me some adviceto slow down, but I just cared
about the progress that I wasmaking and the success that I
was achieving, that I missed outon, you know, a lot of little
things that turned into bigthings.
So and I say this to say that,am I beating myself up about it?
(09:27):
No, did I at first, absolutely,and it just goes to show that
your intentions mean nothing.
The outcomes are what trulymatters.
The results of the fruit ofyour labor are the things or,
yeah, the things I think thingssounds excellent Are the things
(09:50):
that you will be judged by whenit's all said and done.
So I was having a great streak,things were going great, I was
doing a lot of things right, butI didn't slow down.
I became impatient and eventhough it didn't cost me a great
(10:11):
deal, I still have to fix mymiscalculations and make those
adjustments.
And that's not something thatI've had to do before, because
I've always been patient.
I exercise patience.
I would always look before Ileapt, as they say.
So it is so difficult to givemyself grace when I know that I
(10:39):
messed up.
It's easy for me to forgive themisgivings of others.
It's hard for me to forgivemyself because I hold myself to
such high standards.
There's lots of things thatmorally and ethically, I just
won't ever do, and I think whenthings don't fall into the moral
or ethical category and I makemistakes that are so easy to
(11:03):
avoid and I don't avoid themwhen they do come up, it tears
me apart in the moment and, yes,I need to go back to home base
and navigate that so I don'tmake those mistakes again.
But I would say that patienceis the thing that often, many
times, stunts my growth and youknow, I had to kind of do a
(11:27):
reset, a healthy reset, so thatI could say to myself this too
shall pass.
So, yes, I messed up, I own itand this too shall pass.
So same thing for you out there,whoever is listening.
Don't get hung up on all themistakes that you've made,
(11:51):
because your mistakes are thingsthat have happened and at the
end of the day you have to getto the point where you love you,
you accept your mistakes, nomatter how terrible they are.
You have to accept that they'vehappened, you've done them and
(12:11):
move forward.
And you can't make other peopleforgive you if it was something
that you've, maybe you offendedsomeone.
You can't make someone forgiveyou, someone forgive you.
You can't make someone acceptyour apology, but you know, you
can acknowledge to yourself that, hey, I messed up, but I'm
going to move forward.
That you can do.
Hey, I forgive myself.
(12:33):
That you can do.
Hey, I love myself.
That you can do.
So get back to home base andwhatever crap you're going
through, just remember this, too, shall pass.
I wanted to make this verypoignant and hopefully this
episode resonates with you andknow that in your darkest
(12:58):
moments, whatever they may be,whether it's depression, whether
it's heartbreak, whether it'syou feel stuck or loneliness,
whatever it is, this too shallpass.
If you enjoyed today's content,please like and subscribe for
more.
Be free.
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