Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial.

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episode. Today, we're going to be talking about how to make sure that you not only get through the hard

times in your life, but how you actually grow and make sure that you get better every

single time you go through a hard time. Because I don't know if you're starting to feel this way,

but the older that I get, the more I realize that life is beautiful, life is hard, life is a shit show, life is up and down,

it's terrible sometimes, and it's just absolute hell. And then sometimes it's absolute pure bliss.

It's like hell sometimes, it's heaven other times. And one thing that is absolutely for sure

is no matter what, if you're going to continue on and do this human thing for a little bit longer, you're going to have to go through some hard times. You're going to have to go through some pain. And when I was young, I remember thinking to myself, I always played this victim card of, why is this happening to me?

And then I would complain and I would think about the situation that I was in and I would think, well, why is it not this way?

I want it to be different. I want everything to be different.

And it was always this kind of, even if I didn't necessarily specifically say it or think it was this,

this feeling of why is this happening to me? And basically, without knowing, what I was doing

was I was making myself into this little victim, like a child. And I was like, why is this

happening to me as if I wasn't in control of my reality in some sort of way. As if, you know,

somebody was coming to save me and hopefully one day they'll come and I'll just kind of sit here

and wait for it to happen. But as I got older, I started to realize looking back through many

different chapters of my life, I realized that the most important moments of my life,

the most important growth moments of my life were always, without fail, the hardest moments of my life.

Now, I would never want to go back to those moments ever again.

But when I look back at them and I'm like, damn, like, those are the moments where I learn the most.

I learned the most about myself.

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