How To Overcome Any Challenge In Your Life | Robin Sharma

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0:48When you look back on the most painful valleys of your life, do you wish you could change them? Absolutely not. It's the old question I get asked a lot, which is, do you have any regrets? and of course not. When I look back at my life, I see it almost as a set of invisible hands creating a magical orchestration and a life school perfectly designed to carry me kicking and screaming into the human being destiny wants me to be. What's the point of being top of the mountain but losing your soul in the process? and what I want to bring to as many people as possible is you can be uber productive, you can be an empire maker, you can dominate your domain, you can materialize your primal genius and at the same time you can be so loving to people and you can care about the earth, you can care about service, you can care about becoming the person your higher power wants you to be.

1:49And if you can marry those two universes, then I think you've done your job. My difficulties, and I've gone through a lot of them, there's a chapter early on I mentioned before we went on, that time 10 years of my private journals vanished. I'm a daily journaler and I've been doing so for going on 22 years. And so I had in those journals, I had my dreams, my hopes, the times that I was heartbroken. I wrote about my difficulties, my weaknesses, my fears. I wrote about my travels. I wrote about my learnings. I wrote about my struggles. Everything was in those journals because that's what journals are for.

2:32And one sunny Friday, I went into the cupboard and they were all gone. Where'd they go? Well, I'm going to protect the unpresent because we all do our best based on the place that we're at and I'm not going to judge and there's I have no absolutely no bitterness or anything because it served me again yeah it was a platform for possibility because that taught me one of the most powerful lessons I think a human being can learn which is the ability to let go and so what are they going to do if they look inside my journals they say a man who has dreams and ethical ambitions and aspirations and wants to live beautifully and they see a man who's flawed and scared sometimes and has things to work through and has struggles like anyone.

3:16And that just makes me human. What's the biggest fear insecurity you had about what people might know about you from those journals or what people might know about you now? One of my core themes that I've been working on for many years is just not feeling good enough. Like no matter what I achieve, what's the next mountain top? How long How have you felt that? Probably since I was a little kid. Really? Yeah, and it's served me well in the sport that I'm in, right? Because you just keep on pushing. And I think if you look at the great ones, the Michael Jordans and the Kobys and the Muhammad Ali's and the Bobby Fishers and the Hedy Lamars and the Mandela's, I mean, I think they all share a similar wound.

4:01I think what can be a curse can also be a blessing. If people haven't written one book that they've been trying to do, if they haven't done a fraction of what you've created, how can they feel enough if you can't feel enough? I think part of our neurobiology is progress. Yes. So I think, you know, when you look at the healers and the emotional pundits, they say heal the wound. And I understand that. And there's a very powerful tool in the Everyday Hero Manifesto that has served me dramatically as well as my high-level clients. It's called the AFRA tool. and it allows you to move through micro and macro trauma in very profound ways.

4:40How do you use it? You literally go in the body and Aphra is a, you find the awareness, so you're located in the body. Where's the pain? Where's the tightness, the tension? We are taught in our society not to feel. So what do we do? We become machines. Yes. And that's why we hurt our brothers and sisters and that's why we become selfish versus giving to the world. We get disconnected from our hearts. When we are disconnected from our hearts, we are disconnected from our truth. And our truth is creativity. Our truth is heroic productivity. Our truth is decency. Our truth is to serve the world. When I was growing up, my dad said, Robin, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced.

5:18He said, son, live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice. This is all our truth. But through the micro and macro trauma that we pick up and then swallow, we develop what I call in the book a field of hurt. And I think this is really powerful because we all read books on productivity, elite performance. We all want to be less distracted. But I think the missing link to personal mastery is not in the head. It's not a new technique. It's doing the emotional healing that releases the blockages that build intimacy with who we truly are. And as you do that through the Afro tool and the other tools that I talked about, each day there's a payoff.

5:57We are born into genius, but many of us get resigned in apathy and mediocrity. We all can be heroic. We just don't know how to get there and then we're not willing to pay the price to stay with the program. What's the biggest thing that gets in the way of getting to our heroic adventure? Self-forgetfulness. What does that mean? From the moment we are born, the world does a con job on our greatest self. Our early caregivers, well-intentioned as they are, start messaging their programming, their scarcity, their belief system onto us. We also pick up this micro and macro trauma. You're in grade five.

6:34You don't get invited to your best friend's party. You remember it for years. You remember it for years. You're singing loudly in biology class or whatever, and someone says, you sound terrible. You carry that wound for a lifetime. You say, I want to be a billionaire or an astronaut or a movement maker. I want to change the world, mommy or daddy or teacher or best friend. And they laugh at you, and they laugh at you for the next three weeks. And then a story gets set up about your undeserved ability. It is our story. And so I think what it is, it's we forget who we are and then we buy into a story that was taught to us.

7:09And then we keep rehearsing the story intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually daily until it creates a brainwashing and a heartwashing. And we hypnotize ourself against us for who we truly are. And then we walk out in the world and we see the Mandelas, the Mother Teresas, the Rosa Parkses, or the kind people on the street, or the startup entrepreneurs, or the great artists, or the amazing bakers. And we say, but they are not cut from a cloth that I can wear. And then we resign ourselves to average. Our daily behaviors reflect our deepest beliefs and our income and impact are always aligned with our self-identity.

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