Being stuck in our past and playing victim to it can block all the good things from happening to you. In this episode Scott talks about his past and how people around him get past his ‘past’. We hope you enjoy!
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways:
- Life’s greatest setbacks reveal life’s biggest opportunities.
- All people who have experienced happiness and prosperity have experienced as much if not more adversity than the common man. They just manage their memories to level up their lives
- Don’t live in the past and always remember the more you fail in life means you are living more complete. Embrace it and LEVEL UP!
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Recommended Resources
Robin Sharma Book: Who Will Cry When You Die?
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Speech Transcript
Time to shine today, Episode 12. Let’s honor our past. This is Scott Ferguson. Let’s level up.
Hey, time to shine squad at Scott Ferguson and welcome to Episode 12. And we’re going to dig into something here that can haunt you or you can use it to your advantage at all times. And that’s that big p word past. Everybody has one, whether it’s good or bad, don’t let it dictate where you’re going with your progression of leveling up leveling up your life. So this is one that didn’t really take me too much to really talk about because I’ve been that guy that’s been a victim of my past. I was born the Philippines in 1972 was put up for adoption I was adopted by a couple who unfortunately could not raise me then I was adopted by a family who did raise me but then they kind of went through a split and I kind of bounced back and forth between houses. I used to use that excuse of my past to dictate my future. I was so afraid of abandonment, I was so afraid of moving forward into relationships that really hurt people. And not only people but also myself as well. I have sought help through books through counselors through shrinks I not afraid to admit it. I but I really didn’t start understanding the magnitude of how much it hurt me until one day. I was. The market crashed in 2008 and the real estate market crashed. And I was kind of a big deal. not that big of a deal but kind of a big deal where where I was selling but Unfortunately nothing else sold after that. So I had nothing I had no money. I had beat up 12 year old car that I was barely making payments. I remember my church paid my payment for three months. They’ve been there benevolent fun. I had my dog roadie at the time that was about it. I had a the listing one listing, there was a short sale at the time, which were pretty involved then. And that’s where somebody owes more on their house and it’s worth so I decided to list their house and they had moved to Florida. And I decided to live in their house with really no electricity and it was just me and my dog. And we but it was a roof over my head and they had running cold water. So I would sit there and wail and feel sorry for myself about oh my gosh, all this stuff’s happening from the past. I was handed a book by a gentleman named john kite and it was called the traveler’s gift it was by Andy Andrews. And I read it pretty much in one setting. And that really kind of pulled me forward into getting out of the victimhood. Which reading him led me into Robin Sharma who I kind of took this podcast from in a chapter in his book, who will cry when you die. And he basically says that, you know, most people will dictate where they are going in their future by their past, and they let that happen. But they, what it does is it blocks things, good things from happening to them, coming into their life, good things that come to them. If you live in your past, then you’re going to black the good things that are able to come forward. And that’s something that again, I’ve been a part of, it’s happened to me, I see it happen to a lot of my students, I see it happen to a lot of my colleagues, even family members, and I was given a really good analogy of a car pretty much everyone drives a car You have the windshield, which is this huge, huge window in front of you. And then you have this small little window or mirror, I should say that your rearview mirror. And my one of my mentors was said, Listen, you know the, you have everything in front of you. I live in something so small, that really hit home. It did not allow me living in my past and not allow me from letting great things happen in my life. Okay. So I want to encourage you to understand that even the most successful people have went through major setbacks. But they realize that in the worst of Fortune lies the best chances for happy change, which is huge. The more you try, and you let the past be the past, let the dead bury the dead The more you try it and the more you move forward. Sure more things can happen to you that are negative but
Great things will have to happen as well. Okay, so the successful people, they all experienced a lot of adversity. Okay? Tons of adversity you name one person of influence, whether it’s an athlete, business owner, movie star, whatever. They’ve all experienced adversity. But the one thing they do is they manage their memories to level up their lives. Write that down. They manage their memories to level up their lives. And that’s what I’m going to encourage you to do. To remember that the more you fail in life means you’re living more complete. Level up, embrace it, get after life. Okay, Booker T. Washington says I have learned that success is to be measured, not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. Read that over and over again to yourself. They measure a lot of the success by the obstacles they’re able to get over. If it was easy, everyone would do it there would be no bliss, there would be no euphoric feeling when you if your salesman making that sale if you anything that you’re going after. If it was easy, it wouldn’t feel as good when you’re done. So don’t let the things in the past, dictate your future in where you’re going. Okay, so that’s what we’re going to do today. Squad is we’re going to level up our life, level up our health level up our wealth, we’re not going to let our past dictate where we are progressing to. Alright guys, until then, guys and gals sorry. Until next time, this is Scott Ferguson. Let’s level up. Hey, thanks so much for listening to this episode of time to shine today. If you liked this episode, please subscribe an apple podcast, Google podcast Stitcher, Spotify, I Heart Radio or wherever you get your podcast. There’s a link in the show notes to our website. Also there you will see our recommended resources We hope you’ll help support our show by supporting them. If you like what you’ve been listening to, it’d be great if you could just give us a five star rating until your friends have to subscribe while you’re at it. I’m your host, Scott Ferguson and until next time, level up, it’s your time to shine.
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