If You’re Struggling To Move Forward, Listen To This | EP 886

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

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0:53How did you keep your emotions, your heart at a level of some sense of peace and not get into a depressed state or a downward spiral like so many people do, which is probably normal for people when they've lost their brothers, their teammates, their family, potential loss of identity, of being a soldier again. How did you keep your heart and your emotions in a state of calm, peace, and certainty with all this trauma? One aspect of that was being made aware of how the attack happened. And once my teammates got back, they came to visit me. They told me what they had learned about the incident. Because I was holding on to a lot of anger from that.

1:38Sure. Particularly because it was someone that I had been working with. And at that point, I had been in a whole lot of different engagements and gunfights and the explosions. And to be killed by someone or that wounded by someone that I was working with was frustrating to me. I can imagine. You know? Betrayal, the hurt, all that stuff. Yeah, betrayal. That's some powerful stuff, right? So once I was made aware of his reasoning, I was able to let go of quite a bit. And have some understanding or some type of compassion. Complete. It's hard to have compassion for someone who's doing this to you, but when you know why.

2:13Yeah, man. He cared about his family, and he knew he was going to die. Right. Because although I didn't have the wife and kids I have now, I could empathize with that. and saying, if I'm put in that position between truly a rock and a hot place, and I have no practical way to fight this, right? Like nine guys with guns and I'm a dirt farmer in my home. I'm doing the exact same thing. So I was able to like, let that go and then, you know, get to business. And you ask, you know, how I'll just, I'll sum it up into one word because it's the only one I can think of to explain it. And it's faith, you know, which certainly has a strong, you know, religious and biblical feel to it.

2:54However, a definition of faith being a firm belief in something for which there is no proof. And I just felt it in my heart and my soul as I was laying in the hospital bed. And as I began doing early phase physical therapy, and once I originally got my, you know, my first prosthetic, I just had this belief that this is possible. It's never been done before, but that doesn't make it impossible. I just have to figure out how to go about doing it. And, you know, I mentioned Green Berets are somewhat natural problem solvers, and then we become highly trained problem solvers. This became the greatest problem that I needed to solve.

3:34And I just leveraged everything I had learned as, you know, certainly an athlete in college, but more so as a Green Beret working on a team and being tasked to do these things. I leveraged those lessons and I leveraged the people that I had the chance to work with to begin solving that. Have you seen anyone else in the military get out of a tough situation? I mean, a situation similar to like yours where they lost an arm or something happened physically to them or some of their teammates were lost. Have you seen anyone get through it in a positive, semi-healthy way, if that's possible, without faith?

4:16I'm not sure I've seen it. Do I think everyone who I know that has done that would recognize that faith or at least verbalize it that way? Probably not. But I do think that it is a fundamental requirement depending on the degree of goal that they're trying to work towards. To overcome the adversity. When it comes to achievement, the size of the struggle is commensurate with the size of the goal. If you are trying to overcome the greatest challenge in your particular life, Whether or not it's been done before ever is irrelevant, but this is your biggest set of adversity, your greatest challenge ever.

4:52The struggle is going to then be the highest that you have ever dealt with before. And the likelihood of success is also probably the lowest it's ever been before. So to say that you can accomplish something like that without faith seems to be unlikely. at some point you are going to believe in what it is you're trying to do whether or not anyone else does or not but you believe in it there's no proof that you're going to make it happen there's no proof that it's possible but you feel it and you buy into that to such a degree that you're willing to do it anyway

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