Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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focus on the virtues of your eulogy. Who do you want to
be remembered as? What do you want to be known for?
Though it’s lovely to reflect on all of the virtues and talents
of your life, here is an even more important part of finding
your purpose: It is often found through pain. Most people
come into awareness of their purpose not because they are
effortlessly clear on what their talents are and how they
can best utilize them, but because at some point, they find
themselves lost, depleted, exhausted, and with their backs
against the wall.
In experiencing hardship and challenge, we begin to
realize what really matters to us. It sparks a flame that,
when kindled through action and commitment, becomes
a transformative fire.
If you listen to the stories of many of the most successful
people in the world, they often begin with unimaginable
hardship. In the face of the most unlikely situations, these
people are forced into action. Comfort and complacency
is not an option. They realize they must become the heroes
of their own lives and the creators of their own futures.
At the end of your life, your purpose will be defined not
by how you struggled, what circumstances you were in, or
what you were supposed to do, but how you responded in
the face of adversity, who you were to the people in your
life, and what you did each day that slowly, in its own
unique way, changed the course of humanity.