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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey guys, time time, time to me, tell me, to me,
time to me, Ti me time again. It's not for
motivation you motivation you Hi? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
A been? It is me and as I you are
a beard and Marathon are in this. My god, my gosh,
this motivation you?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hi? You been? I found this audio clip just for you,
just for you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I found this cool little audio clip, and when I
heard it, I was like, Yes, everyone will appreciate this,
whether you're a sports fan or not. You'll understand it.
You'll appreciate it, you'll like it, you'll enjoy it, and maybe,
just maybe, just maybe you'll glean something from it. You'll
feel inspired and motivated to start pursuing that dream, to
(00:51):
overcome that thing that's in your head, because sometimes sometimes
the only thing holding you back is that thing your head.
Don't take my word for it. Check out this week's
guest speaker. Well, blah blah blah. On the other side,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm a professional football player.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I played quarterback, and two weeks earlier, two defenders almost
five hundred pounds of muscle crushed me.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
At the same time.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It sounds scary, but honestly, it's pretty normal in my
line of work. This time, though, my leg was bending
where it shouldn't. I had what they call a compound
spiral fracture, which means that my leg was twisted and
snapped diagonally. I'm proud that I made it back out
onto the field, but I'm more proud of what got
(01:44):
me there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not the physical journey, but the mental one.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I've learned this so much of the anxiety that holds
us back in life, it's self inflicted.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We make it worse on ourselves. These days, I've come
along with with this guy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
These scars, they're not just a reminder of everything I've
been through, but more so everything that's in front of me.
They stare me in my face, challenging me to be myself,
to help others out of their own spirals.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
When I can.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Now, you might not have a leg that looks like this,
but I'll bet you've got some scars, and my hope
for you is this, look.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
At them, own them. They're the best.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Reminder you'll ever have that there's a whole world out
there and we've got a whole lot of living left
to do.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Guys, what you think that was? Alex Smith?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Alex Smith, former NFL quarterback Alex Smith.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't recommend it. I am not encouraging you to
do so.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But if you want to, you go on YouTube right now,
go on the Google machine, go on the Yahoo and
you can google up Alex Smith injury. The pictures of
the video are there for the whole world to see.
I don't recommend it. Take my word for it. It
was gruesome. It is not something that anyone should ever
go through, let alone see It was bad?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
How bad?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
How bad was it? The doctors were thinking about amputating
his leg? Why to save his life? To save his life?
That was a horrible, gruesome injury. And not only did
he physically come back to walk, to jog, to run,
to be a regular human being like the rest of us,
(03:38):
but in an elite athlete.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He came back and joined his team again. He didn't
just make the roster.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
As a second thring or a third stringer, oh No,
he came back as a starting QB and still was
successful in leading his team the next season. Alex Smith,
and he even said he's more prouder not of coming
back physically, but overcoming the mental. How hard must it
(04:09):
be to walk back on that field after sustaining such
a gruesome injury, overcoming all the pain, doing all the physical,
doing all the work to build back to be an
elite athlete.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's a lot. That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But he felt his dream was worth it to come
back and be who he wanted to be, to be
who he knew he could be.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
All he had to do was overcome the mental. What
do you want to be?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What's your dream? What is that achievement you're striving for?
And is it the mental that's holding you back. When
I first did my first marathon, the mental was a
big block. The mental a huge thing to run twenty
six point two miles and I'm not an elite athlete.
(05:07):
I am not top of my game at that time.
I was forty four years old. I was well past
my prime. People said I was nuts, people said I
was crazy. The physical was hard enough. The mental, the
mental of keeping yourself disciplined and going through the process
every single day, eating right, exercising the whole thing, going
(05:28):
through the pain. Because running running that far, running that long,
it's not all happy's and smiles. Sometimes it hurts.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sometimes it hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm not comparing myself to Alex Smith, what he did,
what he went through, is fantastically bigger than anything I
ever I ever went through. But the mental was tough
for me, the mental was gigantic for him. But the
mental can be beat. The mental be beat, especially if
(06:03):
that's the only thing stopping you.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You have the dream, you know how to achieve the dream.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You need to get past the mental and if you
need the help to get past the mental, please reach out.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
There are professionals and people.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Waiting to help you. But you have a dream, you
want to achieve it and realize something. The only thing
stopping you may just be the obstacle that's in your
head and that that can be beat. Guys, thanks for
onant sjoining me again this week. I'm the Beard of
(06:41):
Marathon or this motivation you Dottyelle Real soon
Hey guys, time time, time to me, tell me, to me,
time to me, Ti me time again. It's not for
motivation you motivation you Hi? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
A been? It is me and as I you are
a beard and Marathon are in this. My god, my gosh,
this motivation you?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hi? You been? I found this audio clip just for you,
just for you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I found this cool little audio clip, and when I
heard it, I was like, Yes, everyone will appreciate this,
whether you're a sports fan or not. You'll understand it.
You'll appreciate it, you'll like it, you'll enjoy it, and maybe,
just maybe, just maybe you'll glean something from it. You'll
feel inspired and motivated to start pursuing that dream, to
(00:51):
overcome that thing that's in your head, because sometimes sometimes
the only thing holding you back is that thing your head.
Don't take my word for it. Check out this week's
guest speaker. Well, blah blah blah. On the other side,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm a professional football player.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I played quarterback, and two weeks earlier, two defenders almost
five hundred pounds of muscle crushed me.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
At the same time.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It sounds scary, but honestly, it's pretty normal in my
line of work. This time, though, my leg was bending
where it shouldn't. I had what they call a compound
spiral fracture, which means that my leg was twisted and
snapped diagonally. I'm proud that I made it back out
onto the field, but I'm more proud of what got
(01:44):
me there.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not the physical journey, but the mental one.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I've learned this so much of the anxiety that holds
us back in life, it's self inflicted.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We make it worse on ourselves. These days, I've come
along with with this guy.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
These scars, they're not just a reminder of everything I've
been through, but more so everything that's in front of me.
They stare me in my face, challenging me to be myself,
to help others out of their own spirals.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
When I can.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Now, you might not have a leg that looks like this,
but I'll bet you've got some scars, and my hope
for you is this, look.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
At them, own them. They're the best.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Reminder you'll ever have that there's a whole world out
there and we've got a whole lot of living left
to do.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Guys, what you think that was? Alex Smith?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Alex Smith, former NFL quarterback Alex Smith.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't recommend it. I am not encouraging you to
do so.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But if you want to, you go on YouTube right now,
go on the Google machine, go on the Yahoo and
you can google up Alex Smith injury. The pictures of
the video are there for the whole world to see.
I don't recommend it. Take my word for it. It
was gruesome. It is not something that anyone should ever
go through, let alone see It was bad?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
How bad?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
How bad was it? The doctors were thinking about amputating
his leg? Why to save his life? To save his life?
That was a horrible, gruesome injury. And not only did
he physically come back to walk, to jog, to run,
to be a regular human being like the rest of us,
(03:38):
but in an elite athlete.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He came back and joined his team again. He didn't
just make the roster.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
As a second thring or a third stringer, oh No,
he came back as a starting QB and still was
successful in leading his team the next season. Alex Smith,
and he even said he's more prouder not of coming
back physically, but overcoming the mental. How hard must it
(04:09):
be to walk back on that field after sustaining such
a gruesome injury, overcoming all the pain, doing all the physical,
doing all the work to build back to be an
elite athlete.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's a lot. That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But he felt his dream was worth it to come
back and be who he wanted to be, to be
who he knew he could be.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
All he had to do was overcome the mental. What
do you want to be?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What's your dream? What is that achievement you're striving for?
And is it the mental that's holding you back. When
I first did my first marathon, the mental was a
big block. The mental a huge thing to run twenty
six point two miles and I'm not an elite athlete.
(05:07):
I am not top of my game at that time.
I was forty four years old. I was well past
my prime. People said I was nuts, people said I
was crazy. The physical was hard enough. The mental, the
mental of keeping yourself disciplined and going through the process
every single day, eating right, exercising the whole thing, going
(05:28):
through the pain. Because running running that far, running that long,
it's not all happy's and smiles. Sometimes it hurts.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Sometimes it hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm not comparing myself to Alex Smith, what he did,
what he went through, is fantastically bigger than anything I
ever I ever went through. But the mental was tough
for me, the mental was gigantic for him. But the
mental can be beat. The mental be beat, especially if
(06:03):
that's the only thing stopping you.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You have the dream, you know how to achieve the dream.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You need to get past the mental and if you
need the help to get past the mental, please reach out.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
There are professionals and people.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Waiting to help you. But you have a dream, you
want to achieve it and realize something. The only thing
stopping you may just be the obstacle that's in your
head and that that can be beat. Guys, thanks for
onant sjoining me again this week. I'm the Beard of
(06:41):
Marathon or this motivation you Dottyelle Real soon
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