Aug 22, 2022
It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. As long as you get back up. Everyone listening to my voice has been down. Some of you are right now. Today I’m going to help you get back up. Adversity is baked into the human experience. Bad things happen to us beyond our control. Bad things happen because of our choices (those can often be worse on our psyches). Sometimes, we feel bad. Sometimes anxious We get rejected. Our plans fall apart. Our kids make mistakes. We lose things. We lose people. And we go down. Today I am going to Talk it up, so I want you to Listen up because I’m going to ask you to Toughen up while you Lighten up at the same time. Then we are going to Light it up, then Follow up and last, but probably most important I’m going to ask you to Look up. If you do these things, you’ll get back up. I can’t promise it will be easy. I’ve been down and I know how hard it is to come back. If you are feeling depressed from self-blame, angry from blaming others, or both at the same time, I get you. I feel you. If you listen up, I think I can help you. It’s not pious platitudes from pop psychology class. It’s the shared experience of a friend who is probably only one or 2 steps ahead of you right now. I’m reaching out for you right now. Take my hand, lend me your ear for another 27 minutes, and let’s Get UP.