Daily Motivations - WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE QUITTING

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

Speakers: Tyrese Gibson Nick Vujicic Brendon Burchard Noah Galloway Eddie Hall Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please Kindly support this show  Support Us

I want to encourage somebody out there who's thinking about quitting and giving up. Somebody who has been praying for years for things to turn around. You're thinking about quitting, you're thinking about giving up. Don't give up. Don't give up. There are some times in life where you fall down and you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up. So it's like, to step out of the whole race, the whole business. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

We cannot deny the forces that once we attain a certain level of pleasure, then we're gonna get used to it. But if it gets redirected or it doesn't happen the way we want, well that's when the suffering comes. You take steps in this direction, you take steps in that direction, sort of get lost along the way,

and sometimes you fall down. But if I fail, I try again and again and again. For as long as I try, there's always that chance of getting up. And it's not the end until you've given up. And just the fact that you're here should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up. There's still hope. Where is there happiness? Well, happiness is found within, within the heart. Or found within the whole world, everything and nothing.

It's not in one particular thing, but it's in everything. Now I first have a broken heart, and I know how it feels to be alone. But I just want you to know that it's not the end. You're thinking about quitting, you're thinking about giving up. Don't give up. Don't give up.

Stay in it. Stay focused. You've got to reevaluate and attack life again. It's tough, it's hard. It's like being knocked back almost, even though you're successful. It's like being pushed back again. Yeah, whether you win or you lose, the depression still sets in, right? Yeah. The number of teens, Gen Z-ers, 20-somethings suffering from depression and anxiety and loneliness. Loneliness is through the roof. This is one of the biggest issues that they're dealing with on college campuses.

We rise to our maximum potential when we're of service to others. rise to our maximum potential when we're of service to others. Going back to anxiety, going back to depression, going back to loneliness, I truly believe that's the answer. That's the way out of any kind of mental illness. It's like I'm going to make myself a better person, I'm going to make the world a better place, and everything that I'm doing, I've got these two chariots and I'm going down this road or I'm going down this road or I'm going down both together. I've been there a lot in my life especially before my car accident my

teenage years. Then the first woman I ever loved, we had a big breakup and that breakup set me down in depression and suicidal planning. And it's tough to dispense advice to people other than get help. And I'll share why. Because that time in my life, I had so many people coming up to me you know my friends would come into my dorm room and they're like, Brennan, let's go do something and you just there's just the hope is lost and what people I think makes the

mistake of trying to do is hype people up everything's gonna be okay you're gonna be great and what people need who are suicidal is serious psychological intervention they need to seek support and help. And outside of that, when they do get that support, the first thing a great therapist is going to do outside of the emotional reflection work of why are you here and what has caused this sort of pattern for you. They're going to get you starting to get some momentum. The most important thing is when you are super down,

outside of finding that emotional reasoning for where you are, is to start getting momentum. Because with momentum comes hope, with momentum comes motivation, with momentum comes that feeling that there's a reason for tomorrow. And so it's as simple as just saying, okay, what are three things I'm gonna do today?

And I don't mean that like a lot of personal development guys would say like, what are your three big goals for the day? I'm like, dude, sometimes that first goal is, I'm gonna shower today. I'm really gonna shower today. I'm gonna walk to the library. I'm gonna in shower today. I'm going to walk to the library. I'm going to come home.

And that's all they got. Like literally that's all they got. And you got to honor that struggle when you're in that place. Like know that where you're at it is okay that you're there. And now you're going to need help. And now you're going to have to set up some daily practices just every day. Win a little bit. Not like win your dreams, not like crush through goals, not like be badass, not like no. Just momentum man. Most of the guys I've dealt with in that position who were suicidal

outside of their therapeutic work I said the most important thing you can do is win the morning. I don't want to ever be flippant with the advice to people who are dealing with that situation outside of get some help, get some momentum, and be okay if that momentum is really small, because it will build. Trust that that momentum builds,

and trust that those gloomy and bad, dark days, trust that those are going to be there. They'll get less and less and less as you learn how to cope, but they're gonna be there. And so when they're there, it's one of my, I mean, outside of teaching people to bring the joy in my life, I teach people to honor the struggle, honor the difficulty.

When we honor the struggle instead of hate the struggle, we can really achieve extraordinary things because our mindset's in the right place. It accepts, like as soon as you honor the struggle, you accept that, oh, of course, there should be struggle here. I should honor this process. When you go to the gym to work out, you honor that this is going to be hard and honor that process of getting better.

And the more that you bring honor to it, the more your psyche builds with strength and you get a little bit of that esteem back Because you see yourself engaging something versus avoiding it and running away You see yourself connecting with something and giving it reverence Yeah, like I have reverence for the difficulties of life. They may be better So I don't want a friction-free life. I'm not interested in it. I like to say sometimes that the journey to greatness begins the moment that our

deep desires for comfort and ease are overpowered by our desires to connect and contribute. I mean, because you look at veterans in the past, it was, you know, I think in World War II it was called shell shock. It was all these different things, but it was not acknowledged in the way that it is now, but I think it needs to be talked about more. I think the more things are talked about, the more comfortable we are, and the more we can understand them. When I woke up one morning and saw that in a tweet that Prince Harry came out talking about his depression, it made me really happy.

Because I have been places and someone has said, well, you lost an arm or a leg, so you had a right to be depressed, and I stopped him. I was like, depression is real. You don't even have to go through something traumatic. Some are caused by something traumatic. Some can be a chemical imbalance in the brain. And I feel like if you had heart problems

and saw a cardiologist, well, everyone would be concerned about you. They would know you're doing better. And it would be open and honest with the crew, anybody you worked with. Yeah, but the most complicated organ in your body, if you have a problem with it, suddenly there's a, we don't want to talk about that. No, and you can get over it.

And that's what people need to realize. You can be cured. You can get past it. That's what we need to need to realize. You know, the reason I did is because when I was in my depression, I thought I was alone. I didn't open up to anybody. So I thought someone's going to read this and it's going to help them. So I just, as nervous as I was about the book, I thought I was alone, I didn't open up to anybody. So I thought someone's gonna read this and it's gonna help them.

So I just, as nervous as I was about the book, I kept thinking that one person's gonna read it. Well now it's opened up this dialogue and I'll go and I'll speak and we'll do Q&A and people wanna talk about it. I gave a speech in Florida and it was, it was an older crowd. Like I was gonna say, it was, they're old.

And I, I speak what's on my heart. And I gave my speech and as I was closing, I kind of mentioned some depression. Because I was, I was coming out of the winter months and it hit me again this past winter and I went and saw the doctor. And so it was on my mind and it came up. And as I was saying, I thought this generation of people Probably aren't connected to what I'm saying when I walked off the stage

And they lined up the amount of people that thanked me for talking about mental health and here I was I thought they didn't want to hear I thought I was stepping out of line No, it needs to be talked about because it's not just this generation It's people are realizing more and more that it's an issue. And the more we talk about it, the easier it is for people to be honest with themselves and get the help they need. Thank you.