you’re better than you think you are
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Ways to overcome setback and achieve your goals during tough times. How to pick yourself up from failure and maintaining positive attitude for success.TRANSCRIPT
YOU’RE BETTER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE
Kayiba Mpoyi
HOW IMPORTANT IS SELF ESTEEM WHEN REACHING YOUR GOALS?
THE POWER OF THE MIND
“ Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when thetough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough timesand you discover they aren’t so tough after all” – Gladwell. M (David and Goliath 2013)
YOU’RE BETTER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE
YOU WERE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME
Remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?
-Neuroscientist
-Doctor
-Astronaut
-Lawyer
Why was that?
Because you believed that you could!
You saw it somewhere maybe in a book, maybe on TV and you thought, wow I can do that!
And you didn’t wait for anyone’s approval and you certainly didn’t care about haters
Giving up??
What colour is that?
EXPERIENCE
Somewhere along the road, you were met with company, particularly failure and mistake.
And you had such a bad experience with them…but you took it TOO personally.
You had no idea that they were just hitchhikers and a lot of other people were l meeting them on the way too
People like these guys who were also on that road in fifth avenue
And for a while you kept on meeting them over and over again, and you just had no energy left in you.
They wore you out.
Now you’re tired and drained and you don’t believe you can do the things you dreamt of doing because a couple of standardized exams and tests and selection processes and bosses told you, you weren’t good enough
And they said “don’t call me, we’ll call you”
Now you’ve just thrown in the towel
YOU ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE
BECAUSE YOU’VE FORGOTTEN
That you’ve been here before
That you’ve probably been through worse
That you have been made stronger when you met them the first couple of times and they didn’t kill you
Surely this is not the first time you’ve felt
- unsure
- anxious
- scared
- like a total loser
Surely it cannot possibly be the very first time
Maybe two years ago something similar happened or you were pulled out of yourcomfort zone.
You had sleepless nights and lost appetite
If you can, can you remember detail for detail what it was?
Can you remember how it took so much from you
Can you remember feeling like it was just the end of the world
Can you remember wishing you were never born
You’ve taken for granted that you’ve overcome
You’ve taken for granted that in the midst of it all you’re still standing
You’ve taken for granted that there is a spirit in you that never gave up
Because even when you were under resourced
And under paid
And mistreated
And incapable
And lacked experience
You went for it anyway
So you think you just got lucky
That you caught a big break
That somewhere somehow life sorta kinda made a plan for you
That’s because you didn’t know
Inside you is that spirit although fragile, impossible to break
That warrior that just wouldn’t give in
That voice that said one more try after many rejections
The spirit to still be a joy to others even though there wasn’t much in your life
That smile when you really wanted to cry
That spring in your DNA that bounced back up when beat down
And you carried on with grace and the courage only heroes are made of
JUST KEEP GOING FORWARD
Because had it not been for failure you would never had known what success felt like
Had it not been for darkness, you never would know when the light shone on you
Had it not been for mistakes, you never would’ve been any wiser
Had it not been for those moments of weakness, you never would’ve learned strength
But you’ve been to war and back
And when you were in war you were younger
More naïve
Less experienced
Foolish
Weak
YET you survived, now you’re SO MUCH MORE than that
YOU WILL OVERCOME
YOU WLL MAKE IT
YOU WILL SUCCEED
YOU WILL ACHIEVE
YOU WILL, YOU CAN, SO YOU MUST
And life threw all these challenges at you because it knew, you were better than you thought you were
It was just waking a sleeping giant
And deep down you’ve never settled, you always knew
YOU CAN DO BETTER!! Because you are better than you’ve ever been