When you're going through hell and everything is going against you, the easiest thing in the world to do is to start thinking negative.

The impulse to dream has been slowly beaten out of me through the experience of life.

And that's what causes many of us to give up the experiences and the challenges, the defeats, the disappointments, and the failures of life.

It's a natural inclination for us to put ourselves down.

See, we are born negative, I think, in a negative consciousness because we live in a negative world.

This world will try and beat you down.

So you've got to begin to guard your mind against negative programming.

Like turn off the television.

Don't watch the news.

If you look at the news, you cannot feel good looking at the news.

It turns your power down.

You've got to be conscious of that.

Just try this. Just experiment with yourself, but start filtering the stuff you allow to

come in your mind.

So you've got to guard the kinds of things that you put in your mind.

See, if you don't program your mind, your mind will be programmed because human beings

are goal-oriented.

Every time you hear that voice in your head telling you, we can't do this.

This is too hard.

This is too painful.

This isn't worth it.

You've got to tell it to shut up.

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