Brian Weiner

I have never met a strong person with an easy past.

When something is successful, very few people have any clue what has transpired behind-the-scenes. 

As this unforeseen set of variables, scoped and shaped the respective participants in that success, it has a propensity to mold their character and deliver a resilience and a tenacity that is unparalleled.

When we are working towards our greatest success, we are infused with an internal energy akin to the fusion that is transpiring within the stars above. This burning fuel facilitates one’s ability to overcome obstacles, negotiate different variables, and ultimately succeed.

In studying the majority of brilliant, successful people, it is quite common to discover one or more very rocky chapters in their story. We find that the majority of them have overcome tremendous obstacles that would have sent a majority of us packing.

Leonardo da Vinci was denied any opportunity to go to school for him having been born out of wedlock. (His father got the maid pregnant). Steve Jobs was removed from the Apple. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Dickens battled depression. Beethoven and Churchill were both bipolar, Michelangelo was autistic, and Issac Newton was coping with being bipolar, autistic and schizophrenia. 

When we are confronting the variables which threaten to imprison our being, hold us down, and restrict our opportunity, there is only one mental framework that I have discovered that can dismantle such an obstacle. 

The mental fortitude of “take no prisoners.”

When you see every obstacle as surmountable, you learn quickly to go over, go through or destroy the obstacles, regardless of how imminent they appear and how daunting that they may present themselves as being.

The only means of maintaining your equilibrium in the face of these impediments is to set your focus, and continue to show up and make your progress on whatever fronts you are most able to.

If you can truly believe in your heart that it is always darkest before the dawn, then in your darkest hours, you can illuminate your courage with the belief that you are turning the corner at that very moment.

The rest just seems to happen.

Happy Tuesday!