Navigating Challenges and Achieving Success: A Guide to Personal Growth

Ever thought about the impact of the path you choose in life? I'm your host, the Cyber Warrior, inviting you to a thought-provoking discussion on the significance of resilience and personal growth. Hear how accepting challenges and refusing to opt for the easy path can shape us into better, stronger versions of ourselves. Get ready to recognize the true value of learning from our mistakes and the power of jumping out of our comfort zone.

In our journey together, we'll also explore the fascinating world of business and success. I'll share stirring stories of industry giants like Steve Jobs and Amazon, who chose the road less traveled and reaped the rewards. We'll see how their daring approach and unique choices helped them stand out in a crowded marketplace. Get set to discover how your determination and resilience can help you carve out your own path to success, no matter how daunting it may seem.

Fasten your seatbelts, as we hurtle towards the grand finale of this enlightening episode. We'll revisit our discussion on resilience, looking at how our choices, failures, and experiences contribute to our growth and development. I'll pull back the curtain on my own journey towards becoming the Cyber Warrior, sharing the highs, the lows, and everything in between. This is your chance to gain insights and practical advice on navigating life's challenges, all wrapped up in one engaging and inspiring episode. Don't miss out!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Passion, drive, persistence, resilience, love
all qualities that shape anddefine us.
Join the Cyber Warrior as hehelps shape your path.
This is Walk With Me.
Welcome back to Walk With Me, aCyber Warrior Studio's

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production.
I'm your host on this journeythe Cyber Warrior.
Now, today's topic wassubmitted through the email that
I leave in the description.
You don't get stronger by takingthe easy path.
This is something that I'vetalked about before and it is
something that is valid, becausewhen you take the easy path,

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when you take something that hasno obstacles, when you have
nothing that is going tochallenge you, then it makes it
very difficult to learn becauseit's very unlikely that you're
going to actually fail.
You need to fail, you need tohave struggle in order to grow
stronger and to learn and tobecome better Throughout life.

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I think everybody struggles.
I think everybody has issues.
I think everybody faceschallenges, with the exception
of a few.
Those few may have challengesof their own, but a lot of times
they took the easy path.
Maybe they were handed thingsall their life, for whatever

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reason.
That is not something that Ilike to consider, because of the
fact that I've never beenhanded anything, nobody that I
know and that I've met in mylife has been handed anything.
We've all made choices, we'veall tried to grow from our

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mistakes and learned from theobstacles in our life and the
things that have challenged us.
If you don't do that, if youdon't step outside of your
comfort zone, then when thingsdo happen which is inevitable,
something is always going tohappen at one point in time or

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another in your life then youwon't know how to handle it.
I look at strength and internalstrength and the ability to
overcome and the ability to growas part of building resilience.
That is a topic that I'vetalked about before is the
ability to be resilient.
When bad things happen, whenyou get knocked down, you have

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the ability to get back up andto realign yourself and refocus
and really figure out what wentwrong.
When you do that, then yourmental health, your ability to
overcome, gets stronger andyou're able to see things
differently.
It gets you out of that victimmentality, that resilience, that

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strength, those overcomingobstacles.
Now you turn things a lot ofthe time from well, it's because
of this person to okay, how canI do things different?
Well, part of this obstacle wasI'm not able to overcome, and
how can I overcome it now.
So, for instance, let's say youwant to build a company and in

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the process of building acompany there's a lot of steps
to go into it, there's businessplans and it all starts with an
idea.
From that idea you get abusiness plan and you put that
together and then you got tohave funding and then you
actually got to start runningthis business.
But if you don't understandthat a business is going to take
a loss, usually it's first youknow a few years.
Then you're going to look at itand get down on yourself and

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you're not going to have theresilience to be able to
continue moving forward, oryou're going to realize that
maybe this isn't something youtruly want to do.
And I did that when I firstretired out of the Army.
I went to start a business,registered a name, did
everything, and then realizedthat I didn't want to run that
type of business.
I'm not good at sales and coldcalling people and really trying

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to make this stuff happen, andI was doing it all by myself.
So for me it was very difficultand so I decided not to do that
and I went into.
You know everything else I'vebeen doing since, but again,
that was me realizing where Iwas.
I knew I wasn't going tosucceed because of who I am as a
person and what I, what I amcapable of, and I am not capable

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of that type of Atmosphere oftrying to constantly get a hold
of people and and sell things.
It's just not who I am, but Ihad to learn that and so getting
out of the army, trying tostart a business that business
failing it was a learningprocess for me.
Now, that's not to say I'mnever gonna start a business I
own cyberwarrior studios, butit's a whole different concept.

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And there's other businessesthat I want to start as well,
and so I'm hoping to eventuallyget to there.
But again, it's a process andfor me I'm gonna need help.
I know I'm going to need peopleto, you know, be a partner or
something like that, to go intoother avenues and another
ventures that I have in mind.
But you know, this is all partof growth and without that

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failure, without that businessfailing and actually I think
I've had like two or threebusinesses fell now I wouldn't
have learned where I am going tobe able to do better.
I wouldn't have learned what Iam good at, because I always
thought, oh, I can do this, butcertain types of business I just
can't do, and I know this.
So when I look at things and Ilook at what it takes to become

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stronger mentally, when I lookat the failures that I've gone
through, when I look at theFailures that some of my friends
and family have gone throughand what it is Help them to
become, then it makes me realizethat when we see come to a fork
in the road and you have twoways you can go, you have the
path that looks like somebody'swalked at a million times and

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yeah, sure, you can go that wayand it's probably gonna be easy,
but Somebody's already done it,in which means, what are you
gonna learn from it?
But then you have the otherpath.
Actually, we'll go, we're gonnachange this out.
There's three paths.
You have the other path.
The other past a little bitharder.
You see a little bit of bramblethere.
Maybe a few trees fell alongthe way.

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Whatever, the case may be, youhave this other path, now that
passed a little bit harder, allright, and you're gonna learn
some things along the way andyou're gonna keep going and
you're gonna fall down, you'regonna get back up and you can
keep moving.
You're gonna reevaluate whatwent wrong.
Maybe you've got to go get achainsaw, come back, cut that
tree out the way.
Whatever the case may be, thenthere's a third path.

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You see, that third path is themost important.
That third path is what makespeople special.
That third path is what makespeople realize who they truly
are, and that's that path thatdoesn't exist.
That's the path that you forgeon your own.
You see, you have no wayforward.

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You have no direction.
You just know you want to getto over here.
So how do you get there?
Now, when you forge your ownpath, you can have help along
the way, and we've talked aboutthis before.
You can have somebody that'sgonna kind of guide you and or
help pick you up when you needit.

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But ultimately, that path isyour own.
That is the one you forge.
That is what makes you special.
That is what is gonna help yousucceed in life, because you
have overcome everything.
You have made your way on yourown.
You didn't take the path thatother people have walked a
million times.
You didn't take the path thathas a few obstacles, but

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ultimately you're gonna getthrough it.
You took the path that you knewwas gonna be the hardest.
You took the path and didthings your way to find your way
in life and to succeed.
And yeah, there's gonna bechallenges.
You're gonna have to cut thegrass, you're gonna have to pull
out a chainsaw or something towork your way through this path.

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You're gonna have to becreative and innovative and do
things differently.
But then it is your own andthen no one can say that you
didn't make it.
Things go wrong.
Okay, you're gonna get back upand you know you wanna get to
that point.
You know you wanna get there,so you're going to make it.

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You're going to find a way.
One of the people that a lot ofthose in tech like to talk about
is Steve Jobs and the amazingthings he did and the way he
innovated the future with thingslike the iPod and then the
iPhone and things of that nature.
Microsoft tried to do the samething with the Zoom, which never

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took off, but the iPod did theway it was marketed, the way it
was designed, the things that itcould do was so innovative.
At that time, steve Jobs becamea genius, but he made his own
path.
He said I'm gonna do it thisway and do it my way.
One of the biggest points aboutApple and one of the biggest

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things that a lot of peopledon't like is its own ecosystem.
It can only run on thingsdesigned for it and it controls
everything.
It has so much control withinitself.
Unless you find ways around thesystem which do exist, don't
get me wrong but it is designedto be a certain way and to only

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work with things that are Macand Apple.
So that was his way and thatwas Apple's way of being
innovative, while alsomaintaining control and being
able to do things their own way,not the way everybody else had
done it for years.
And I look at these things andI look at just the innovations

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that have come from people thathave wanted to make their own
way.
Look at how Amazon started froma basement.
And, again, these people thathave become successful.
A lot of people may not like,and I'm not gonna say whether I
like them or not, but I will saythat they made their own path,
they made their own business,they made their own success and

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they took the failures, theytook the knocks, they took
everybody talking about them.
They took everything and grewfrom it and continued to expand
One of the biggest platforms inthe world that many, many, many
people don't like is Facebookand Instagram, owned by Metta
Mark Zuckerberg.

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Don't get me wrong.
I don't like the guy.
I don't like the platforms.
I use them because I have to topromote my own content, but it
doesn't mean I necessarily wannabe there.
It is just the most widely usedplatforms, so I use them to my
benefit.
Mark Zuckerberg was another one.
Now, whether what he did wasright or wrong when he first

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started Facebook, the fact is heis the owner and he got there.
My only suggestion, my onlyissue, when people want to start
a company or do things, is todo it the right way.
You see, don't be like thepeople that have stepped on

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others, that have hurt others,that have taken from others.
Do it the right way, do it theethical way, make it your own,
build something yourself thatcould be in school, that could
be a business, that could bewhatever you wanna do in life,
your career, your future is inyour hands.

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I was talking to a gentlemanthe other day and actually I
seen a post about it online alsoand what he had said is you
know, the past is in your head,the future is in your hands.
So when I think about that andI think about the strength we

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get in, the learning we get fromthe past, remember it's the
past.
You've got to move forward.
And the very next quote puteverything into perspective for
me, and it is something that Iheard a long time ago, but it
was refreshing to hear again.
When you're in a car, your pastis that little rear view mirror.

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Your future is the windshield.
You can glance behind you tomake sure that nothing is coming
up on you, but it's small.
Your past should not determineyour future.
Your future is the windshield.
You make your choices, goingforward.

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You are looking ahead, you aremoving forward and you are doing
what is best.
You are avoiding the car infront of you.
You are changing lanes, slowingdown, stopping at a red light.
Whatever the case may be, thechoice is yours.
And so, with all that, and whenI look at strength and when I

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look at the things we do and thechoices we make, the biggest
thing that I can take away fromit all is that the easy path
makes weak people.
They aren't going to be able towithstand the struggle,
withstand the pain, withstandthe hurt, withstand the

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challenges that are going toeventually come their way and
they're also gonna becomearrogant and conceited and think
that everything in life is easyand they are never going to
help others out.
Because I did it, so you shouldbe able to.
You know this was easy to gethere, not realizing they had

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trust funds and money handed tothem and everything else.
They didn't know the struggle.
So I look at my people, theones that have struggled their
entire lives, the ones that arebuilding something from nothing,
the ones that want to taketheir life from college or trade
school or whatever and finallyfind their success, find what

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means the most to them.
That is what I look at.
That is who I speak to, becausethose are the ones in this
episode that are going to seethose paths and choose.
Even with my content, I make myown path.
I have determined what I wantto do and how I want to do it.

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A lot of people will noticethat a lot of my content, a lot
of my videos, a lot of my posts,are not geared and marketed in
a way of, oh, let's go and justdo technical content, or let's
just do this, this or this.
No, no, no.
You see I do, what meanssomething to me and what speaks
to me, because then the peoplethat support me will always

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support me.
I don't have to change foranybody.
I'm gonna beat me and I'm gonnafight and I'm gonna continue to
do what I do and I'm going tobe a warrior and not let
anything beat me.
So, as things come to an end inthis episode, as we look at

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where our life is gonna go andhow things are going to unfold,
as always, I wanna leave youwith a few words of wisdom.
This final quote and again wassent to me via email, but it's a
quote from Bruce Lee Do notpray for an easy life.
Pray for the strength to endurea difficult one.

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And the reason that is soimportant is, like we just said,
because we are all going tohave a difficult life.
No one can give you an easylife.
An easy life does not exist.
A difficult one does, and weall have to be able to fight
through it and be warriors.
Now saying all that look, I loveyou all.
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This is Cyber Warrior Studios,and this has been another
amazing episode of Walk With Me.
Thank you so much for watching.