It was an opportunity the entire time.

It was just disguised as a problem.

Let me unpack this for you because this shift in thinking changes everything.

So I want you to imagine the particular chapters or seasons of life

where what's in front of you feels so big that it's insurmountable.

It's constant chaos, fight or flight mode.

It's the walls closing in around you, right?

In those moments historically, you know, I would feel disappointment and shame and just

sadness, right, for letting that happen.

It's like, how could I not have been better?

How could I not have had the foresight?

How am I the guy in this spot?

This isn't good, therefore I'm not good.

You reap what you sow.

But what I've come to learn is that not only is that thinking obviously counterproductive,

it's false because it's in those very moments where it feels like the walls are caving in,

that we are handed the greatest opportunity of all.

We are not past decisions.

We're not prior circumstances.

We are defined by what we do amidst the chaos.

We are defined by our ability to get back up and rise again.

Because those moments, yeah, the very moments that feel like you're suffocating, they are when life

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