Success is a Choice! SPARTAN WAY 007
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Many of the most "successful people"in the world have a tough back story. They experienced tough times and instead of allowing those experiences or circumstances to define them, they chose to use those tough times to DRIVE them to greater heights.
Lessons:
Use your tough times to empower you vs over power you
Remember that people who are achieving success often times had the odds against them, but they chose strength & success over giving up
There are other people out there sharing their stories that you can relate to. Find 3 other podcasts to learn from and give them a listen today.
Sometimes you simply need a reminder that it can be done and your situation is not unique.
Change you frame of reference as Joe always says. Listen to another Spartan UP podcast episode and you'll hear someone who has used their tough times as fuel for success!
LINKS:
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2018 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Success is a choice. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way podcast, |
| 0:07.0 | bite-sized pieces of awesome success-driven information every week |
| 0:12.0 | with one thing to do and action to do so |
| 0:15.1 | today's lesson is all about success is a choice and we could think that a lot of |
| 0:20.4 | people who are successful or have achieved success and the reason they achieve success |
| 0:25.8 | is because they chose to become a success, not because they were handed something that was easier, |
| 0:31.4 | they were given success. So think about Oprah Winfrey. Her |
| 0:36.0 | childhood was brutal. She was abused as a child and she could have used that and |
| 0:42.0 | said you know what this is my |
| 0:43.7 | circumstance I'm going to hide from the world I've been abused I'm not going to go |
| 0:48.2 | out put myself out there but instead she did not allow that circumstance to |
| 0:52.4 | determine what she's going to do with her life. |
| 0:55.0 | Instead, she has inspired and changed the lives of millions of men and women for a decade. |
| 1:01.0 | Think about Sean Stevenson, the three-foot giant who we've |
| 1:04.6 | interviewed on a previous Spartan-U podcast. He's had hundreds of bones |
| 1:08.6 | broken in his body, but instead of letting that circumstance debilitate him and hold him back. |
| 1:15.0 | Instead, he started attending conferences. |
| 1:18.0 | People started getting inspired by him. |
| 1:20.0 | He said, you know what, I'm going to start holding my own conferences. I'm going to start holding my own conferences I'm going to start being a |
| 1:24.7 | person of success who shares success strategies with other he chose to be successful |
| 1:30.8 | and success and opportunity is all around us. |
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