For when you feel like giving up

Most of us have had this feeling at least once in our lifetime: the sense that nothing we do has any effect on what is happening in our life, that all hope is lost.

Please STOP for 5 minutes, watch this video and read its transcript to the very end!

A personal note: this message made me regain focus some time ago.

Video:

Message:

One of the things that we know about Life is that it is always changing.

Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don’t.

Sometimes you’re happy, and sometimes you’re sad.

Now that's that thing called Life.

And when we begin to understand and know that, accepting that reality, that we will never ever have things just on an even keel all the time.

But that you're going to have some ups and you’re going to have some downs, but during those down moments, that's where the growth takes place… that's where the work is.

Anybody can feel good when they've their health, their bills are paid.

Anybody can be positive then, anybody can have a larger vision then, anybody can have faith under those kinds of circumstances.

See but the real challenge, the real challenge of growth, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, comes when you get knocked down.

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It takes courage to act.

Part of being hungry when you've been defeated.

It takes courage... to start over again.

The power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure.

This is the winners' quality.

And this is an opportunity for you to grow.

And you’ve got to be so relentless, regardless of what comes down the path, that you are always looking for a way to get over, always looking for a way that you can break through, always looking for a way that you can win, always looking for a way that you can strike a telling blow.

Decide that you are going to push yourself.

Most people won’t do that, most people give up on themselves easily.

Do you know the human spirit is powerful?

There's nothing as powerful, it's hard to kill the human spirit!

You've got to be willing to go against the tide.

You’ve got to be willing to harness your will, and say:

"In spite of this, I’m in control here...

... I’m coming back, and I’ll be stronger and better because of it."

Credits:

Message: Les Brown (excerpts from different speeches).

Video: Ryan Sun.

Music: Archangel by Confidential Music.

Photo: Anthony Quintano.

Starring: Seattle Seahawks NFL Team with its Coach Pete Carroll in 2014.

Please, do also read:

When You Feel Like Giving Up, by Amy Przeworski Ph.D. on Psychology Today.