Ep 66 - Courage Speech w/ Jim Carrey

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You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect. So we never dare to ask the universe for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it.

Please.

I can tell you from experience the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him. And so he made a conservative choice instead. He got a safe job as an accountant. And when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. That peace that we're after lies somewhere beyond personality. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to power.

Pass.

And when I say life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you, I really don't know if that's true. I'm just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You'll come up with your own style. That's part of the fun. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world. And after you walk through those doors today, you will only ever have two choices. Love or fear. Choose love. And don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I absolutely love that commencement speech and what he says in it. And every time I hear it, for some reason, I get chills because it just connects with me deeply and a few things that I want to talk about that he says. He says we can spend our whole lives imagining ghosts and worrying about the path to the future, and we can base everything that we do in either love or fear. Most of what we're afraid of is stuff that is made up in our minds. We can imagine ghosts, he says. That's all stuff that's made up. Some of the worst things that happen to people in their entire lives are stuff that never actually happen. It's just stuff that they make up in their minds. And we have to have courage to face our fears and to keep continuing on with those fears still being there. John Wayne is quoted saying that courage is is being scared to death and then saddling up anyways. So many of us, we choose our paths based out of fear disguised as practicality. He says we don't dare to follow our dreams because we want to take the safe route, which we say, quote unquote is practical. But nowadays nothing is really practical. There is no real safe route for us to go. He says his father was let go of what he felt was a practical way to go, his safe job. And he says you can fail at what you don't want, which is what happened to his father. He thought he took the safe route and failed anyways at the safe route. He said you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance at doing what you love. And like I said, lots of people, they choose the job security and now jobs change so much. The world is changing so quickly that there's really no such thing as job security.

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dial so we have to make a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial, to deal with them in the most productive way. So when challenges come up, we could see them as hey, this is something for me to overcome. This is something for me to learn from. There's no such thing as failure. There's only lessons that we learn from that quote unquote failure. Encourage to keep going to know what our fear is Is like a muscle. You have to work your courage muscles. The more you use your courage muscles, the stronger it gets. I remember I was in Costa Rica when I was 18 years old. I graduated high school and saved up the entire year to go to Costa Rica on a surf with surf trip with three of my friends and, and we were on top of a waterfall and I am terrified of heights. It was a 55 foot waterfall. And I remember I was sitting there and I started shaking at the very top of it and I just thought to myself, I can't sit here, I have to go. Like I have to jump. The longer that I sit here, the more that I think about it, the scarier it's gonna be and the less chance that I have of actually going and doing it. So when you feel that fear, whatever it might be, the fear of failure, the fear of getting up in front and talking to people or whatever it is, fear of being successful, whatever that thing is, you have to just stop thinking and immediately start taking action. So stop focusing on your fear of what you're afraid of and start focusing on your why. So if you want to go down this path, whatever it is, the path that you want to go down, you have to stop focusing on what your fear actually is and start focusing on why you're going down that path. The why has to be strong enough to cancel out your fear. And what I wanna leave you with is something. It's actually a quote from a letter that my dad wrote when my dad was in jail. He was in jail for God, I don't even know what anymore. But he was in jail a few times when I was a kid. And even though he was in jail and he was an alcoholic, he was still the smartest person I've ever met in my life. And there's actually a letter that he wrote to my sister on her 19th birthday. And he talks about courage and in it he says, this is a quote, it says, courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. So once again, courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. So let me ask you, how is fear holding you back in what you want to do today, on what you're working on, on the life that you want to pursue? How is it holding you back? And what can you do today to work your courage muscles to make better your life and to actually pursue the life that you want? Most successful people in the world are the ones who choose to be courageous. It's not that they don't have fear, it's that they carry on with dignity through their fear. Another thing besides the most successful people, the happiest people in the world are also the ones that choose to be courageous because they overcome their fears and they realize on the other side that they weren't as bad as they thought. That's a key thing. It's a lot easier to overcome stuff than we actually realize because we make up so much stuff in our head. So those people realize that they weren't as bad as they thought. And they're the happiest because they they actually realize that they have that sense of achievement. They conquered whatever fear that was and it built up their self worth and what they think of themselves. And that's why some of the happiest people are also the most courageous that will go out and conquer their fears. So that's what I want to leave you with today. And I want you to ask yourself what's holding you back and what can you do today to work your courage muscles to make the life that you want. So with that, I'm gonna leave you the same way that I leave you every single episode. Make it your mission today to somehow make somebody else's day better. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.

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