Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org, and I want to talk to you about the defining moment.

What is the defining moment?

The defining moment is that point in an endeavor that you're undertaking, or a project that you're working on or

anything that you're trying to master where you feel like giving up.

It's when your brain says, you know, I don't want to do this anymore, let's quit. It's too hard or you know what, I'm just bored,

let's go watch TV, or you know what, this project isn't going to be as successful as I thought

it would, so I'm just going to drop it.

So all the excuses that your mind will come up with to get you to go back to the status quo that you were at before and to stop working on this thing

that you were working on.

You know, whatever project or endeavor it might be.

It might be something at work, it might be something hobby related, whatever you're trying to master.

And I think what really sets people apart,

the people that get success in their life

and the people that are able to accomplish something,

the people that are able to get really good and master something versus those people that are kind of

ordinary and mediocre and are not good at anything and I'm not accomplished anything is that they lean in to those

moments those defining moments right when their brain is telling them to give up.

Because those moments, you actually do a reframe here.

And you can reframe yourself when in the middle of a project

and something just goes horribly wrong and you want to quit, what you can

say is that this is exactly what happens with everybody else out there, right?

With the six billion people that are living on the earth. Whenever they undertake something

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