My friends I want to take a moment and pose to you a relevant and resourceful question about resilience. Are you one of those people who believes you have the fortitude and wherewithal to push through adversity and overcome the obstacles which stand in the way of progress? Could you use some motivational encouragement to accomplish such a goal? If so, today your in the right place because I had a conversation with Jake Thomas. He is a Marine | 5x Natural Physique Champion who says:
“I was a drug addict. I was an alcoholic. I was a super-consumer of anything, everything and everyone that would take me away from the present and put me elsewhere. Nothing had taste. My insatiable thirst for substance or company could not be quenched. Like a vampire to the sunlight, I was deathly afraid of the present moment. I hated who I was, what I had become and where I appeared to be going. I contemplated running away and even tried taking the coward’s way out with a few close-call overdoses. But even then, I failed because I was too scared to really go through with it. I was weak at the core. Or maybe…just maybe…it’s because I wasn’t ready to die yet…I wasn’t ready to give up…I wasn’t ready to quit.
As I worked on myself, I avoided focusing on the result and instead focused on the steps, the process. I found that by living consistently in a manner that I admire I began personifying my beliefs. And that’s exactly what I do through exercise, nutrition, reading, writing, meditation and self-improvement. I had to create the man that I never had in my own and then fully become him as my own hero.
I am now alive, happy, healthy, grateful and living with purpose.” He joined me this week to tell me more.
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