Episode 312 - Motivation U - Rudy Francisco - “ whether the cup is half empty or half full…”

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
That's time and time and time and Tom and Tim
and Tom and Tom. Again. It's not for motivation you
motivation you Hi, How you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Ben? It is me, It is I. Your beard and
marathon are and this, by golly gosh, he's motivation you. Hi,
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You been? I found this audio clip just for you,
just for you. It's by Rudy Francisco. Oh my gosh, golly.
He has got such good motivational, inspirational, and most importantly,
thought provoking content. Go find him on social media over
on the YouTube, over on the Instagram. I don't have
TikTok anymore, so you can look at TikTok, but I

(00:43):
don't know if he's there. He should be, He should
be everywhere and anywhere. Because this little audio clip that
I've found of him is freaking fantastic. And that's why
I chose to send it over to you. Put it
right here so you could hear it, so you can
listen to it, so you can hear it again and again.
Not because I want the clip of the listens, because
I think you need to hear this. You really need

(01:05):
to hear this. Because I've had days where I've had
to been reminded that my glass is half empty or
half full. But most importantly, there's still water in the glass,
and I should drink that stuff up so I can
go on living and not look at the negativity. Check
this out, Rudy Francisco, man, it's damn good.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
The following are all true stories. May twenty six, two
thousand and three. Aaron Ralston was hiking a boulder fell
on his right hand. He waited four days, then he
amputated his own arm with a pocket knife.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
On New Year's Eve, a.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Woman was bungee jumping in Zimbabwe. The court broke. She
then fell into a river and had to swim back
to land and crocodile and infested waters with a broken collarbone.
Claire Champlain was smashing the face by five watermelon being
propelled by a slingshot. Matthew Robis was hit by a javelin.
David Striegel was actually punched in the mouth by a kangaroo.

(02:09):
The most amazing part of these stories is when asked
about the experience, they all smiled, shrugged, and said, I
guess things could have been worse, So go ahead, tell
me that you're having a bad day. Tell me about
the traffic. Tell me about your boss. Tell me about
the job you've been trying to quit for the past

(02:29):
four years. Tell me the morning is a townhouse burning.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
To the ground.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Tell me the snooze button is a fire exting, which
shouldell me.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
The alarm clock stole the.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Keys to your smile, drove it into seven am, and
the crash told your happiness. Tell me, tell me, Tell
me how blessed all we to have tragedy so small
it can fit on the tips of our tongues. You see,
when Evan lost his legs, he was speechless. When my
cousin was assaulted, she didn't speak for forty eight hours.
When my uncle was murdered, we had to send out
a search party to find my father's voice. Most people

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have no idea that tragedy silence have the exact same address.
So when your day is a museum of disappointments hanging
from events that were outside of your control, When you
find yourself flailing in an ocean of why this is
happening to me, When it feels like your guardian angel
put in his two week notice two months ago and
just decided not to tell you, When it feels like
God is a babysitter that's always on the phone, where
you get punching the esophagus by a fistful of life.

(03:19):
Remember that every year to me and people dive dehydration,
So it doesn't matter if the.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Glass is half full of half empty.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
There's water in the cup. Drink that shit and stop complaining.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
You see muscle.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Muscle is created by repeatedly lifting things that have been
designed to weigh us down. So when your shoulders feel heavy,
stand up straight, lichit chin and call it exercise. Remember
that life is a gym membership with the really complicated
cancelation policy. Remember that you will survive. Remember things could
be worse to remember we are never ever given anything
that we can't handle. When the world crumbles around.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
You, look at the wreckage.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Build a new one out of all the pieces that
are still here. Remember that you are still here. The
human heart beats approximately four thousand times per hour, and
each post, each tribe, its palpitation is a trophy engraved with.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
The words you are still alive. You are still alive.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Act like it.