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Two thousand and nine, I made my effort to change.
It was at that time that I listened to or
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I listened I watched the Wayne Dar's videos on PBS
and also read was reading his book one of them,
and in that time I made a conscious decision to
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change my life. I could be like those people that
are angry about life and angry about how things are
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going to the world and everything else. Or I could
be like Wayne Dyer, who had faced adversity and wrote
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and had that passion. As he said, don't die with
your music still left in you. Unfortunately, I haven't had
the chance to meet Wayne Dyer because he passed on.
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But I don't forget that time. Was at that time
I was watching I Bought the Secret. Now, some may
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say it's bogus or not, but I do believe that
film came at the right time, because right when my
life was falling apart at every end of the spectrum,
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I watched that movie or I watch that documentary. And
I haven't attained the wealth of having millions of dollars
or anything else, and I'm still staying afloat, but I've
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changed my life, and in that I worked hard. I
worked to paying on some deaths I wrote. But then
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more adversity came as I was having job issues with
my old job, as they were cutting hours and they
cut it very bad where I had a collect partial unemployment.
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It wasn't the job that I'm at right now was
my whole job, and but it was hard. But I
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didn't give up. I started taking chances. I started writing more.
After I finished my books, I started putting more out.
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I started working on my writing. Just last year, I
started podcasting. I've been doing bogging. I've worked. Excuse me,
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I've worked hard to get to where I'm at. I've
worked very hard now. Adversity. We all face adversity. I
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faced a lot of it in my life, and I'm
sure I will face more. An idea popped in me
today to talk about adversity. I talked about hard times,
but this cover is adversity, and it's a little different
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because it discusses my story a little bit of it,
a little bit about it. We all face adversity at times,
but we gotta push ourselves through it. We all feel
we can't go through it, that we gotta go through
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another day. Knowing I had this addiction, knowing how I
had this knowing how I had that, but excuse me,
but you can go through it if I'm knowing. Right now,
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it's two forty eight am in the morning and I'm
still up because I wrote down today on my WordPress
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blog that I would do a podcast tonight, stayed up
a little bit and doing it right now. But we
all face adversity. We all face it in every aspect
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of life. Some of them are hard and difficult. Some
of them you don't want to even deal with, but
we deal with them now. I'm not gonna say. I'm
not gonna say that anything is better, because it isn't.
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But you have to work on yourself. You have to
work on yourself until you get to the point that
you need to. It may seem impossible to you, it
may seem that you're never gonna get anywhere, but don't quit,
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don't give up and keep fighting, keep fighting like no tomorrow,
keep fighting and keep moving because adversity can bite, and
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it can bite hard. You can bite many many times
that you will say I want to quit and I
want to give up, and then, because you know one
way is in an option, you turn to addictions. And
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then reality hits as you can't afford them anymore, and
then you gotta face reality. Is this the way I
want to live is dealing with everything that I'm dealing
with the way I want to live, and then you
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gotta change. I was listening, I was watching The Opus
today as they talked about adversity, and I thought this
was a very good topic to talk about that, And
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I have to say, you go through adversity in life,
you go through the everyday challenges and it's like a
building block. Eventually you're gonna get to where you want
to go. Now, you can settle in life. You can
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settle with life that everyone pans out for you, and
you can settle working a job that pays a lot,
but if you're not happy, they don't do do something
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you want to do, even though it's a sacrifice. You
might have to do a part time job, not making
a lot of money, but doing what you want to
do on the side. It may be writing, it may
be video and making, it could be anything, but you
do it. And no matter how hard that adversity is
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going to take you, no matter how hard it's gonna get,
as Rocky said, Rocky Balbo, you gotta keep moving forward.
That's how winning is done. And I quote him on
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that because life can hit so hard, but you can't
give up. Life can hit and deal with those blows,
but you can't give up. And I might not have
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many listeners, I might have a handful, but I will
say this, whoever you are, if you have something to overcome,
if you have a dream in mind, if you have
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anything that you want to do in life, no matter
who's criticizing you, no matter who's putting you down, no
matter who's trying to tell you what to do, you
follow through with your dream. It might be sacrificed, but
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you gotta go through and do it because it's in
that dream, in that prose, that the promised land you're
going to be guided to. And when you see the
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light at the end of the tunnel, when you know
you've made it. Doesn't matter if anyone else it's shearing
that you made it. But if you know you've made
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it and you overcome that obstacle, no matter what it is,
it even could be cancer, you face that challenge, you
live like you have a purpose in life, and you
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live it to the fullest. Because blows from adversity will happen,
but your will to live is much stronger than any
blow that life has still offer, and I will end
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with this. Life may show you mercy, but it doesn't
have to end with mercy. It can end with a
dream you've always wanted. This has been the Joseph ev
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