Absolute Motivation - DO THE WORK SILENCE AND STAY FOCUSED ON YOU - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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The hardest part of life is waiting, waiting for things to change, waiting for opportunities, waiting for the life you imagine to finally begin. But patience isn't about doing nothing. It's about trusting that growth is happening, even when you can't see it yet. Just like a seed under the soil, it looks like nothing has happened. But beneath the surface, something is slowly becoming stronger. You don't have late nights. You don't have all-nighters.

You're going to have days where you sleep late, wake up late. Ain't going to have them days. But you just know you're doing for the greater good. You know that these nights are going to pay you all, bro. You're not putting in this work for no reason. I'd be dead if I'm putting in his work for no reason. There will be a reward for the work that you put in because hard work is always blessed.

You win the medals in the training. You just go to collect them in the fight. I work so hard. I know everything that I did, that I did everything that I could, and there's no way that I'm not going to walk out from that afternoon with the victory. You told yourself you was going to do a lot of shit. You're not doing it. You're a liar. You say you want it badly, but you're not willing to do the things that are actually going to propel you through success.

You want to be the best version of yourself, but you don't want to take no risk. You don't want to get uncomfortable. You don't want to grow. You don't want to do the things that scare you. It sounds to me like you're just like the idea of being successful. All those excuses that you're making, you don't have to be. the time, you don't have the money, you don't have the resources, you don't have the connections, you don't know how. All that is, is you saying, I am actually comfortable with where I'm at,

and I don't care to change, because if you really care to change, you would figure it the fuck out. It's a process. It's a standard. It's an expectation. High standard, high expectation, it's accountability, right? It's discipline, commitment, toughness, work ethic, pride. You know, it's wanting to be great versus wanting to be normal. And, you know, normal kind of equals average and average is okay my business average is the enemy and to be great you got to have special focus special commitment special preparation and discipline and the ability to say no to some things people who have done phenomenal things the journey that people go through what is the inner conversation that they have the inner monologue how do each of us navigate

through our own insecurities and all moments of doubt then when you have those doubts that understanding where those doubts come from in the first place. I think once you understand that, then really you can create anything one, which is a matter of first how to navigate the journey of the self. Once you have that, you can be dropped into any industry whatsoever, and you can figure it out. Do not become a slave to your own mind. Your thoughts dictate your actions,

and your actions dictate who you are. The first step to realizing your full potential is to think clearly and think positively. It's not that life is short, essentially. is short, as Seneca reminds us. It's that we waste a lot of it. And why do we waste it? Why do we waste this precious resource?

Because we think that we have an unlimited amount of it. We think we'll get to it later. ArcSrhea says, you could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow, right? And we do that because we think we have tomorrow. We tell ourselves that lie. What you could say is the biggest lie in the world. I'll do it tomorrow.

I'll do it later. I'll do it when the kids are older. I'll do it when things go back to normal. You don't know that you have that. That's the power of this Stoic exercise, Momentumor. Memento Mori is the embracing of the moment that you were in and the acceptance that you might not get that many more future moments. That's the power of momentum more.

It's not supposed to be depressing. It's supposed to be clarifying, right? It's supposed to make you do that thing now. Stop believing that you have time to waste. Whatever is in front of you isn't as big as you make it out to be. We start to make these very small things enormous because we allow our. our minds to take control and go away from us. We have to regain control of our mind.

We've all overcome so many things in our lives. But we forget them. And a lot of times, we don't spend enough time like reflecting back in our lives, realizing how great we truly are. We go through something, we put it back, and we go on. And life is gonna always challenge us, always challenge. And during that challenge,

a moment we panic we forget who we truly are most situations usually we can find the strength to handle them just through having the right mental process what exactly are you waiting for everything that you have been wishing for is right there waiting for you all you have to do is show up if you make a consistent and honest effort in pursuing it your dreams you will succeed you want to get to a level where you can't even believe that this is your life. That's how I feel. And I also know that anybody can do it, that anybody can do it. You just have to begin to look at yourself as the machine in that you are not the person that created you, not the person that created the bad programming that you were forced to learn to operate with, but you are the person that has complete control to reprogram it

and start version one of you right now. You are now the platform, and you are going to be able to continuously upgrade yourself, guide your evolution in a harmonious and peaceful way, where you will continuously now achieve your goals, reach your milestones, become the person that you always dreamed you could be, and at the end of it, you've now developed the skill to continuously get better and better at operating you the machine till the day that you die.

How can you beat someone who cannot fucking quit? How can you beat someone who every time they go through a hard time, they get better and they get stronger? Instead of getting weaker and getting demoralized. How can you beat someone who looks back on all the tests that they've had and said, yeah, that wasn't shit, dude? Okay, as opposed to the person who's like, Oh my God, I can't believe this happened.

And then in two months, another thing happens. Oh, my God, I can't believe this happened. It's going to be the person who has a stoic mentality, who looks at it and says this. Okay? All right, we'll get through it. And then the next thing happens. Well, won't do that again, but we'll get through it. You can't buy what you're looking for.

Nobody can give you what you're looking for. What you're looking for is on the other side of thousands of days of unrecognized work that feel like they won't pay off. but eventually do in the biggest way. The confidence you need to carry out the life you want is an earned characteristic, and that is why it's so valuable. Discipline exists only as a result of doing the things that most people are not willing to do. So recognize that what you're searching for is a tall mountain to climb,

but there's no sense in letting that scare you. Just start taking the steps. When our brain starts to go through suffering, when our brain starts to go through pain or starts to go through insecurities, when we start to feel uncomfortable with ourselves. Our brain gives us a way out. And that way out is usually quitting or taking the easier route. If we're able to look at ourselves and face whatever we're running from, we can do a lot more than we think. You feel pain, you feel suffering, you feel discomfort, you stop right there. Everybody has a wall in their mind.

It's a wall, and it stops us from going further. Most walls have a door or a window. You have to find that. You have to have the courage to find that. And once you open that door or that window, you realize how much further you can go. In psychology, there is an expression called a sense of control. People are happy when they feel they're in control of their lives. And people are unhappy when they feel they're out of control

or controlled by other circumstances. So the starting point would be to teach people to set goals. Setting goals is the master skill of success because from it, everything else is possible. And they can be personal goals, financial goals. But teach them how to set goals. So learn how to set goals first day. What are your goals for this one?

week, this month, this year, five years. Where do you want to be in 10 years? You can change as you get new information, but start off with an idea of where you're going and then make plans to achieve the goals and then organize the plans. Now each day, you plan your day in advance and you use your time and you work on achieving the goals that are important to you. You set priorities and you do things of high value rather than things of low value. You don't owe anyone an explanation for keeping your circle tight and your energy protected. Silence isn't weakness. It's strength that doesn't need an audience.

Not everyone will get you, and that's okay. Those who resonate with you will understand without you having to say a word. Stay true to yourself. Preserve your energy for what really matters. In a world loud with distractions, be the calm that others need. The people we admire the most are the ones that stand alone.

They're willing to take risks. They're willing to take chances. They're willing to be outliers that don't follow the rules. That understand what it takes to be great. Understand you have to be different in order to succeed. You have to take a different path. You can't follow what everybody else is doing. Who you are today is going to continue to be the person you are

if you don't change anything about you or around you. You have to start looking and saying, who am I affiliating with? And what level are they at? And if I'm at equal level with them, I have to start looking for new people to affiliate with. If I'm going to become the average of the people I hang out with, then I want to make sure I'm leveling up

in who I'm hanging out with. It's when I get complacent and I decide to coast. That's when I roll backwards. So I want to keep driving. I want to keep driving to the next level. I want to find out what motivates me and I want to go after it. I have to define that.

I have to figure out what it is that motivates me, but then I can go after it. And I can find the people that have done it. I can find the people that have blazed that trail. And I can follow them. I can follow them to a certain point. But just like if I'm walking through snow and I follow the person in front of me

and I walk in their tracks, eventually I have to go make my own tracks. But by following through those tracks, I've realized I understand how to walk through that snow even better. So when I venture off on my own, yeah, it'll be slow at first. But I'll know what I'm doing because I've seen it done. I'm going to learn from others. I'm going to do what they did to get to where they are.

And then I'm going to grow and do it even better. I'm going to level up by finding people who've been there before me. You're not failing because of the circumstances and situation. You're failing because mentally you let the circumstance and situation make you stop laying bricks and you're not successful because you keep laying bricks not laying bricks, land bricks, not laying bricks. If you would just lay bricks regardless. The way I do it is I ask myself what's true. But you can write a narrative in your head and spin yourself down a negative path and beat yourself up and second guess and go back. But what's true is you made what you thought

was the best decision in the moment. And then you leave it behind. I have a mentor of mine that says learn the lesson, leave the event. You leave the event behind and you learn everything you can from it and there's no going back. Do it? Yes, you. What are you doing? You stop hoping. You stop dreaming. You stop setting your expectations high. What are you doing? That's not the you that's always been you. What are you doing? You've let them get in your mind. You've let them lower your expectations. You left trials, tribulations, nose after nose fog you down. What are you doing? We'll believe in you until you believe in you and then the more you believe in you, the more the world will start believing in you. Another way to shape it is every visionary was initially ridiculed before they were revered.

So I want you to think about that. Believe in your vision, your mighty possibility. Go out there and do the work required to make your vision real. And if you do it, step by step day by day, eventually the world will say, wow, you're a genius. Challenging times blow. I mean, when I think about periods of my life that were just an absolute struggle, financially, emotionally, and relationships, it's horrible. And here's what I would always tell myself.

This challenge is molding and shaping and strengthening me and ways that I didn't know that I needed. Because the thing about strength in life, and character and resilience is those things like steel, they're forged in the fire of your life. And so you create that when things are hard. And so just keep waking up and doing the best that you can and know then one of these days you're going to wake up, you're going to get through it.

You're going to see a stronger, braver and more resilient you staring back at you. Everything in your life right now, everything you You have, everything you do not have right now are all results of your past actions and that's hard to accept for a lot of us. But until you accept that, you will not be able to move forward. And when you do accept that, you take ownership and control over your life. When I wake up every day, there's only one voice I have to listen to.

It doesn't matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don't achieve all of the goals in three generations. I'll be forgotten. only people who were nacing against me will also be dead. And so then it's like, just do it for me. You're more capable than you think. Tough times can destroy your confidence and lead you to doubt yourself. But just because you struggle doesn't mean you're incompetent.

If anything, it's a sign that you're growing and exploring potential that you didn't even know was inside of you. So take a chance on yourself. Do the hard things. even when you don't feel ready. You have what it takes to fight through the discomfort. I believe in you. I hope you believe in yourself too.

Want to achieve something serious, you need to be serious. You can't achieve something seriously impactful if you're joking around and if you're losing your focus all the time and if nothing is important in a way to you. So that means setting priorities, knowing when is the time to invest the energy, when it is the time to release energy, when is it good now to recover, when are you really feeling this is now starting to be the limit?

These are all very, very fine aspects that only you know. There is no success without action. That's a fact. If you're not acting on what you know you should do today, the question I have for you is, what are you going to do it? Honestly, the only time you have is now, it's the only time you have.

So I would encourage you make today count. It's more powerful for you to do what you want to do to become who you want to be, even if it's uncomfortable, because that's what's going to actually change and rewire your psychology and your thinking. But the key is really behave as you wish to be, even though it's foreign and uncomfortable, until you behaving the way you wish to be becomes natural in your new norm. People are impatient. They want results too quickly. They don't appreciate the amount of hard work that goes into actually crafting the life of your desires. And I think as a result of that, when they don't see results immediately, they burn out and retreat to what's safe and

and what they know versus welcoming failure, welcoming uncertainty, getting comfortable with risk, and remaining persistent in their vision to create something more in alignment with their authentic self. You have to condition yourself to take action. You have to program yourself to take action. There's a moment where you can either take action

or you can let it pass. And if you don't take action, that moment It grows and it grows and it fills itself with all kinds of instability and concern and wandering and more hesitation and it doesn't work. You fall apart. If your default mode is to pause, is to hesitate, is to wait, you're going to miss out and you're going to miss out a lot. And in the end, if you hesitate, you're going to lose. Genius is not about genetics. That is a seduction that society has told us to keep you small. Genius is not about genetics.

It's not about giftedness. Genius is about practice. And if you do the practice, you get the results. Genius is also about your routines and your rituals. You look at the great athletes, it's not their skill. It's not their willpower. It's they install the right rituals and routines to the point where their practice is automatic. Your habits matter. They're not just small choices.

Your habits are your blueprint for tomorrow. Every action you take has a ripple effect on your future. You can't hide from it. Self-care isn't a suggestion. It's a non-negotiable. It's the visible evidence of the respect you give yourself. Don't underestimate the power of your choices. What you do today matters. So make it count.

Another day has passed, my friend, and look, you're still here. And as we take a look back, you'll come to find out a couple of things. But you made it through the stress. You made it through all the difficulties. You made it through all the blockades that this life loves to put in front of you. You get to look towards tomorrow. Because you're still alive, my friend. So I ask you this question.

What's stopping you from doing it all over again? Most people never pick up the farm and call. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You've got to act. And you've got to be willing to fail. You've got to be willing to crash and burn. If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

I bet you and I have a lot in common. We're not the strongest, smartest, or richest people we know. We're not the fastest or most connected. connected. We're not the best looking or most talented. We don't have the best genetics. But what we do have is something a lot of those other people will never have the will to work. If there's one unavoidable truth in this world, it's that there is no substitute for putting in the work. There is no shortcut or growth hack or magic till that can get you around the hard work of doing your job well, of winning

something you care about or of making your dreams come true. Work works. That is the bottom line. No matter what you do, no matter who you are, my entire life has been shaped by that single ideal. It's all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believe, you will continue to act as you have always acted. You will continue to to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. Self-doubt is one of the many ways we can become enemies of our own progress, sub-a-chorries of our destinies. This can come up as a result of us,

amplifying our incapabilities. We seem to project failure into our future based off a temporary hurdle, either one that we have overcome or one that's currently in our path. But your analysis of yourself cannot be built on a foundation of the seat. Now while it is okay and absolutely necessary to locate your flaws and weaknesses, it is not okay to marinate in them. It is not okay to let them overtake your identity. You are not inadequate.

You are not insignificant. And you are not someone who is incapable on the very chain of greatness you show desperately seek. Bruce Lee quote, he said, in great attempts, even failure is glorious. Failure shows you who you are. The reality is you love failure. You just don't love it when it's yours.

But when it's Kobe, oh yeah, you know, when it's LeBron, oh yeah, he didn't win these championships, look at him now, yeah. You're a fan of LeBron, you're really a fan of yourself. He's just having to finish your story. You know, that's one of the biggest things that just continues to keep people in shackles is the story they just keep telling themselves each and every day about why they aren't good enough, about why they can't do something, about how it won't work, you know? So really challenge yourself to change the story, change the narrative, the ability to write out our own story. the ability to manifest and to create the things that we want to create in this life.

Do you wonder why you feel like you're not capable? Because you're telling yourself that you're not capable. Stop telling yourself you're not capable. You are capable. Tell yourself, I am capable. I have everything I need to try to do what I want to do. You have everything you need to be capable. But don't listen to the stories you tell yourself.

Question of worth it is reliant on an outcome. We don't make these things for an outcome. It's not the mindset to make something great. The outcome happens. You're making the best thing you can make. It's a devotional practice. Whatever happens after that happens. And that part happens after it is completely out of your control.

You are responsible for your life. And if you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward. What matters is now, this moment, and you're willing. willingness to see this moment for what it is, accept it, forgive the past, take responsibility, and move forward. Seneca famously said, we do not learn in school, but in life. If you want to live a life of success, if you want to develop into a complete person, you must learn from life, the experiences, the people, the places that you go to, and understand that the culmination of

your experiences is what gives you the knowledge to make you the knowledge to make you. better decisions for your future but I decided to learn from my experiences I decided to put myself in situations that were uncomfortable so that I could grow and become better and the better you become the better life gets if you want the future to change for you you've got to change if you don't change the next six years of your life is gonna be just like the last six you'll still be behind on your bills you'll still be behind on your promise if you will change everything will change for you.

If you will get better, everything will get better for you. If you'll change your philosophy, if you'll change your habits, if you'll refine your thinking, if you'll change and accept some new disciplines, if you'll turn the corner, where you've been in the past, go for a new life of the future. All kinds of remarkable things will happen for you, if you will change.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept. the way to lose, to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying. If you had tough shit happen to you, it sucks and it's not your fault. But now what? Where do we go? My two cents, win anyways and prove that you can win even when the chips are stacked against you and your dealt a lousy hand.

Because we can't get dealt a new hand. We've got to play the cards we got rather than hoping the dealer rules in our favor. So again, what do you do with your sh**y hand? The only thing possible, you play it the best you can. Understand that your attempt to be better cannot be based off your previous understanding, of your lesser self.

You are not who you used to be, no matter how little the difference is. Remember this. Just because you can't do something right now or having been able to do so in the past, does not mean you won't be able to do so tomorrow or sometime in the future. It takes courage to bloom.

So I want you to know that in this season of uncomfortable growth, that you are way braver than you think. Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It's going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It's going to cost you relationships and friends. It's going to cost you being liked and understood. It doesn't matter. All you're going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. Everybody has the desire to do something. But they don't know how to really complete the process of dedicating themselves and having the discipline to do it. If you've got the desire, you've got to match. match that desire with your dedication and you got to match it with your discipline. No idea how limitless you are when you don't care what other people think or say about you. It is fear to drive that. It is. And most of your mates that you hang around with

are just as afraid because you pick somebody like yourself to hang around with. If you feel like you lost your way, I would say congratulations. If you're a lot of That only means one thing. You're about to be found. And sometimes you need to lose your way in order to find a better way. Sometimes you need to lose certain things to gain better things. Sometimes certain doors have to close that you want to keep open. So a better door.

Sometimes the reason that you're suffering is because you just won't let go with the thing that's biting you. And so one of the rules is if people are impeding your development, you sacrifice your relationship, sacrifice your relationship with them. Right? It's a very, very rough rule. Rather than trying to impress people who don't give shit about you,

just start impressing the next 2.0 version of yourself. Like what would the next highest, most stoic version of you be impressed by today? Would it be impressed by the fact that you're going to bed earlier, that you're waking up and getting your workout in, that you're eating right? What would the future self be impressed by? Make a list of three to five things and then start doing those things. Like those are the things I love impressing the future me versus trying to impress the people around me.

I think something that keeps people so stagnant is the fear of stepping into the unknown. You know, staying where we are is painful and we don't like it, but we allow the fear of stepping into the unknown to keep us in situations that we don't even like because we're scared to take that leak. We're scared to really, you know,

put ourselves out there and lean into that uncertainty, but you got to have to. to understand that uncertainty is a gift. It is a gift. It's quite possible that things could turn out better than you could have ever imagined. Sometimes scenarios play out in our lives and things don't work out the way that we wanted them to. And the reason for that is because the universe knows that you deserve way better. So when the door closes in your life that you really wanted to enter first breathe it and then get really excited because the next door will be the one that was made for you and I think as a as a human sometimes you

feel like you always got to wait for the right time what makes sense to you to actually start executing to actually start stop making excuses to doing the things that you always really wanted to do I'm starting to find myself now being like now there is no right time to do anything you just got to start doing If you have a goal, you have a responsibility. A responsibility to rise to the level required to achieve it. A responsibility to respect yourself enough to put in the work. It won't be easy, but if it was, everyone would do it.

There wouldn't be so many early mornings, failures, or sacrifices. Everything that comes with the struggle is what turns you into the person who's capable of achieving the things that you want. So stop shying away from the challenge. It's your responsibility to face it. Expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. It won't get harder.

Like this is the hardest part. And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill. Get to where you want in life, which is not in the way you imagine. and that's because the path that's paved is far different than path we paved. Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do or can or cannot achieve. Just don't allow it. Just do not allow it. Be whatever you want to be.

Stop tying your value and worth to external achievements. How much money you make. The position at your company, what kind of car you drive. Your value must be. to something greater than material things that can disappear overnight. Greater than what the world defines as success. Instead of looking out here for validation about your value, look internally. Look at your heart. Look at your intentions. Look how far you've come. Get your idea of your value and worth from that. It will free you in so many ways.

Stop looking out here for your worst and value. Look inside and look up. We believe that the biggest obstacle we have to overcome is out there, and many times the call is coming from inside of our own house. I think that the worst enemy that many people have is the voice that's inside of their own head. Now, this voice has probably maybe come from the outside world, but we've now internalized it. You know, we have become our own worst enemy in some regards. You have to stay busy.

You have to find yourself now. You have to find out who you are. And it's going to take effort, man. I hate to tell you that because I know it's probably going to be hard sometimes. But you can do it. How I keep positive, I'd say, is every time it gets tough, when I feel like I don't want to do it,

there is someone out there in this world laying on the hospital bed, begging for a second chance at life. I don't think I have any excuse them not go hard. It's easy to give up. It's the easiest thing in the world to do, I am, I'm done. What was hard is going, yo, yesterday I got nothing

from working as hard as I could. Nothing happened from that. I'm going to do the same thing again today, but I'm going to try to go harder. That's the hardest thing in the world. And give 100% and be in the same position that you were each day, but mentally know that you're trying, and trying and trying and that's that's a real that's a real grind your current

situation is not your final destination there's more to your life and I know right now it's hard for you to believe that but I need you to believe it like everything you're currently facing is building you for something greater you're more than your struggles you're more than your pain I know you feel like nobody understands you nobody gets you I know you feel alone and isolated to flood your life with appreciation Even for the little things, the small things, for breathing your body, for your heartbeat. Because appreciation is the first step to elevate in your life.

So I want to tell you, I'm proud of you for not giving up when it's so easy to. Your work ethic reflects your gratitude, which ultimately leads to your results. The grateful person shows up early. The grateful person gives full effort. The grateful person asks several questions. Look around you, and you can tell those who are grateful by their work ethic. Those who are great in any profession understand. It starts with the understanding that you are capable of going from nothing to everything.

But here's the thing that if you have a very clear vision and you're absolutely convinced and have the faith in your vision, then all the work that you need to do becomes easier because there's a purpose for it. Haven't you imagined a better life? Okay, who you think he showed it to? He showed it to you. Why you think he showed it to you? Because he wanted to give it to you. But if you don't work, if you don't ask him for it,

he cannot give it to you because he created us with the power of choice. It's not okay for you to be a weak loser. It's not okay. And the reason it's not okay is because you could be way more than that. And it's a crime, an ethical crime, for you to allow all that necessary potential to go to waste. It hurts you, it hurts your family, it hurts the world. Really, really, it does.

There are two types of pain, the pain of action and the pain of inaction. The pain of action is blunt, in your face, and forces you to grow. For every hour we suffer through sharpening our skills, being proactive, and restoring order. we don't reduce the amount of pain we face, but rather we take it on the chin. We sign up for it up front. And because of this voluntary acceptance, day after day, we gain the strength to shoulder it. By embracing pain instead of running from it, we are simultaneously transformed by it. We become someone we are proud of, someone that others can depend upon, which in turn gives meaning to the pain.

And it's this feeling of growth and progress that helps us feel useful to ourselves, useful to us, others, which gives the suffering a purpose. I don't think anyone who suffered a tragedy that has gotten through it in some way will tell you I need it to find deeper meaning in my life. Once something has happened that is a tragic event, a loss, a death, or anything that is a setback. Some people numb themselves, but that doesn't mean the pain's not there. It just means you're not feeling it.

Tragedy is just too strong, too powerful for the mind to fathom. Let's be honest. The mind cannot deal with it. So you have to go deeper than the mind. And the place that's deeper than the mind is love, faith, hope, meaning, and purpose. And that's what you hold on to for your dear life. You just forge your head. Some days are going to be harder, and some will be easier.

Sometimes it's very painful. And if you can move from one day to the next, you get stronger, whether you know it or not. And ultimately what will emerge is a new person, a person that you'll see that you went through the fire and you become a more powerful person. person in the process.