279: Find the Gifts in Your Adversity with Marcus Aurelius Anderson

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Adversity an inevitable part of life, and the reality is that all of us have more adversity that we will experience in our future. So it's vitally important that we learn how to embrace our adversity and turn it into an advantage.

Personally, I view adversity as a GIFT and often our greatest opportunity for GROWTH, and I'm living proof.

My two greatest adversities (being hit head on by a drunk driver, breaking 11 bones, and dying for 6 minutes - at age 20… and then being diagnosed with cancer and given a 30% chance of surviving - at age 37) were two of the greatest gifts I've ever received, because both enabled me to learn, grow, and become the person I am today.

That's why I'm excited to introduce you to my podcast guest today, Marcus Aurelius Anderson (link to listen to the podcast is below). He is the author of The Gift of Adversity, TedX speaker, US Army veteran, lifelong martial artist, and high-performance mindset coach for leaders, companies, CEOs, and entrepreneurs.

Today, Marcus joins the podcast and we talk about how you can find the gifts in your adversity—no matter what happens to you—and turn your adversity into an advantage.

Marcus suffered a severe spinal injury while preparing to deploy, died twice on the operating table, and was told he would never walk again. With no other options, Marcus began to see the lessons learned from his injury - and when he saw adversity as a gift, something miraculous began to happen.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies
0:15.0	to take your life to the next level,
0:17.0	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs
0:20.0	who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves
0:22.0	and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready? Here we go.
0:32.0	Goal achievers. Welcome to the Achieved Your Goals podcast and this is your host and your friend
0:37.3	Hal Elrod and I have a question for you today.
0:41.2	Have you ever dealt with adversity? Right? That's kind of a
0:45.4	rhetorical question because we've all dealt with adversity and we have more
0:50.2	adversity on the way. Sometimes when I'm giving a keynote speech,
0:52.7	I'll talk about that, I'll say, I'll kind of joke
0:55.0	and say, look, you know, we've all had these rock bottoms
0:57.6	in our lives, these moments of adversity
0:59.8	that are beyond what we've ever imagined,
1:01.6	and we question ourselves, and we question God imagined and we question ourselves and we question God and we question the purpose of life and we question the fairness of what we're dealing with at the time.
1:10.0	And I said we've all dealt with those rock bottoms and here's the deal more are on the way right like
1:14.8	that's not the most inspirational thing is well you got more adversity coming your way so
1:19.4	be ready for it and there's the old adage it's not what happens to you but it is what you do with what happens to you and I do believe
1:26.3	that diversity is a gift I think it's our greatest opportunity for growth and that is why I'm really
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