Motivation Daily by Motiversity - WHEN LIFE HURTS

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

We don't have control over everything in life. Life doesn't owe you a thing. But the beautiful thing about adversity is that it teaches you. One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever featuring Inky Johnson."Can I condition my mind and my perspective in a place to extract some good? Stop trying to understand it and focus on surviving it."Special thanks to Lewis Howes for providing the interview used in this video! Subscribe to his channel here: https://bit.ly/LewisHowes1Speaker:Inky Johnsonhttps://www.inkyjohnson.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zp...https://www.instagram.com/inkyjohnson...https://twitter.com/inkyjohnsonMusic:Secession Studios - And the Sky Turned RedScott Buckley - There Was a Time Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. I'll get to it tomorrow. I'm like, who promise you that? Because light changes so quick. We live our lives and we feel as if we're promised something. We really don't have any control. We can control what we possess, emotions, attitude, thought process, perspective, how we speak, how we respond.

But just life in general, We have no control of that. But it's so many parts of the injury that shaped my perspective. It was almost surreal. Your career's probably over. Your arm and hand would probably never be the same again. Hey man, life don't owe you a thing. Everybody them been through something.

Everybody's going to encounter something. I think the beautiful thing about adversity and opposition, when you live with it, it teaches you. If you're open to it, easiest thing in the world to do is to be negative. Easiest thing in the world to do is to complain. Easiest thing in the world to do is to quit. That's easy. It's moments like that that you remember that shape and mold you as a person as you go throughout life.

And I think we all have them. We all have these moments, right? Whether it be humility moments, whether it be, you know, moments that keep us grounded. It's just we choose sometimes to forget them. And for all of us, we're going to encounter those defining moments in our lives, right, to where it's going to hurt. It's always a lesson. It's always a blessing. It's up to us to extract it. Attitude drives performance. So that's the key to life, I think, sometimes when things don't go our way, the quote says it.

You judge the true character and caliber of a person, not by where they stand in times of comfort and convenience. You judge the true character and caliber of a person by what they stand in times of challenge and controversy. But when things go wrong, things don't go the way you want them to. They don't unfold the way you want them to. Who are you? Because that's the true test of who you are as a person. That's your true character. Everybody is going to smile when the sun's shining, man.

But the song says it. Can you stand the rain, baby? Attitude is a small thing that we often underestimate, but we really can control that. I come into my junior year and I'm about to get exactly what I want. About to get this thing called NFL. Ten games away from this dream. This thing that I have been working for.

My whole life, my whole life is dedicated to this one game. I got the paperwork that states I'm about to be an NFL draft. NFL on top of the paper. Inky Johnson projected top 30 automatic multi-millionaire. Now all you have to do, the heart part's over. Just play the next 10 football games, Inc. You've made it. And I go out in a silly game against Air Force,

two minutes left, and I go to make a tackle that I can make with my eyes closed. And when I hit him, every breath in my body left, my body goes completely limp, I fall to the ground, I blacked out, my eyes open. I'm still not too concerned because it's football. When my eyes open, guys run over ink.

Let's rock, man, let's go. Let's finish him off. And I'm like, I can't. I said I can't move. It's a shock, neck to my toes. I can't feel anything. Shock leaves, it stays in my right arm and hand. I'm like, maybe I got a bad stinger.

They put me on the spine board, willing me off the field. Doctor says to me as he's walking beside me, I don't know how you're still alive, son you don't have any post. We get to the ambulance. My father's standing there, I'm like, pops, I laid it on him, right? I put it on him, right? My dad's like, yeah, but I think you got the worst part of this one, me. Doctor said, we're saying, we're going to be.

Doctors say, we're going to take you over, run a couple tests, bring you back into the room, everything will be cool. They run the test, they bring me back into the room, mom comes in, kisses, praise, son, you'll be fine. Doctors rush in, hand boy says, hey, man, we've got to rush him back to surgery, he's about to die. If we don't perform this surgery tonight, I guarantee you, you won't be here anymore. And now the thing I place my identity in, now it was going. That's why I laugh at people when they say, man, if I could just get this, I'll be. Man, if I could just get this position, I'll be, woo. Man, if I could just get this amount of money, I'll be, I'm like, ooh.

But what happens even if you get it or you don't get it? Like, do you have the ability to accept what you don't understand? Can you handle when things get off course? I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, like, man, I'm eight games away and God is redirecting me. And I'm like, God, just let me get to the NFL, didn't redirect you. Like, let me get the contract. redirect me so I can help my family and I thought it was over after football got redirected my life got redirected two three more times before I even fell into my

purpose and my mission and what I was supposed to be doing I got redirected two three more time I'm thinking I'm gonna be a coach just like every guy when he finishes the game and I'll just coach but people keep coming to me telling me speak ink you need to speak and I'm like I'm not speaking everybody got a story That's how I view like. Everybody doesn't have been through something, right? Everybody's going to encounter something. And so I never looked at speaking, sharing.

I never was the guy like, oh man, this happened to me. Let me go share with the world. I was like, no, I ain't figure it out. Like pick up the pieces, move forward and figure it out. And so when people would say this, I'd be like, nah, I'm not trying to speak. Like, I want to speak. The things we go through in life, man, and not just for us. right once we get to a place of peace and we figure out how to deal with it it's our responsibility to go out and share that

it's like not before the world all the time but just to share it because other people go through things right other people are fighting just go out and share it and it was the first time i had got hit with something to where i pundered it right to where i was like you make a nice point and uh i was getting invitations to speak at the time school assembly I got the same feeling that I was getting in the tunnel right and I'll never forget when I got it I felt it

and I captured it I spoke did well got home and I'll never forget thinking like I might need to be more intentional about this when we go through things and like

the first thing we try to do is understand I'm like nah man some things you're going to go through it's going to be so tough you're not going to understand it right away. Just survive it. I always tell a story about when my faith was fortified and my life went to another level was the only thing I had at that moment was a prayer and a book. I got up and I looked at my wife. I said I'm going to take this book to open. So I got my book. I got my suit. It's hot. Every door that opened I ran in it. I'm hey man, Inky Johnson,

drove from Atlanta. They're like, get out of here. I'm like, man, over people rude, man. I thought You're nice. You give away cars. I get rude. So after getting kicked out like four doors, I go to the back of the building. I sit down, I put my back on the building and look up to the sky. And I'm like, oh, man. Thought it was you. Like, I'm like, man, my wife won't chew me out, man. I get up. I look down the sidewalking at this moment. There was nobody for Oprah and a security guard.

Talk about nobody else. She's walking toward me. I'm walking toward me. I'm walking toward. her I get a couple feet away I stopped she grabbed my suit say hey that's a nice suit I said thank you I said I drove from Atlanta I wanted to get you my book so cool great I said would you mind taking a picture we take a picture and I'm going to walk off she said I got to get in and do my show I said all right thank you and I'm going to walk off and her security says to me said uh hey young man come here stop I went back to him said I just want to tell you something he said what just happened never happens he said now I don't know what's

going to come out of it. I don't know book club, show. I don't know about any of that. He said, but I just want to make sure I tell you what just happened never happens. Like, God, are we really moving to the point where I can get up in Atlanta, Georgia? Look at my wife. Don't know. Nobody in Chicago. Don't know nobody on Oprah staff. And look at my wife and say, I'm going to meet Oprah. I got a certain level of faith that I'm going to meet Oprah. Like, at a certain point, like, what is it really about? Like, and I know the initial reaction when we go through things is to say, man, why did this have to happen to me? And this is an honest reaction. Because sometimes good people go through some crazy stuff. At a certain point, you're going to hit something.

It's going to test that level of faith. And my definition of commitment was always staying true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I've set it in has left. Like, am I going to stay true to my beliefs and my core and my essence of who I am as an individual, even if I get a paralyzed right arm and hand, am I going to stay true to it? Even if my little career that I thought I was going to have disappears. Am I going to stay true to it? Even if one day I'm in a football game, the thing I love to do, the thing I have been practicing my whole life, and in one moment it gets wiped out. Am I going to stay true to it? Somebody comes up to me almost every week and say, like, be honest, like you said you wouldn't change what happened to you. Why? I got a paralyzed

right on my hand, but who I am as a man that never got paralyzed. Can I condition my mindset and my perspective that when uncertainty happens, opposition happens, adversity happens, I can put my mind, my perspective, in a space and place to extract some good. Stop trying to understand it and focus on surviving it.