“You’re not special.”

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you're not special when I was a kid there's this Quest program in elementary school where you take this test it's a gifted test and they tell you if you are a that what felt like a genius or deserve to be in uh higher education classes this is like elementary school right took this test twice missed it by one or two points several of my friends passed this test and then started going to these special classes where they learned all these amazing things had all these fun activities and I felt like I wasn't special fast forward Elementary Middle School High School average grades College average grades but there's one class that I took that I fell in love with psychology for the first time ever a like A+ Almost 100% loved loved loved psychology for the first time I found something that I was passionate about that I felt like it wasn't um something that broke through what I thought I had to be labeled as which is not special right and so love psychology love thinking about thinking fast forward to after college and um I had got to the place where I could train with somebody called The Iceman and him and I wrote a book together we published it together you may know him as Wim Hoff Wim Hoff method all of these different things and it created this it it it broke me free from this mindset of I'm not special now it wasn't because of that one test that I felt like my whole life I wasn't special and maybe you have felt like you weren't special because of a test that you failed or a job that you couldn't get or maybe somebody told you that you weren't special and uh we don't necessarily have to live by the labels that we go by so even though I was labeled as somebody that wasn't special in the beginning I um God has given me a space where I could write a book and travel across the world and train people how to do uh how to stay warm in coold temperatures all of these different things you may not feel special but there is something special that's inside of you a gifting that you have that you just need to figure out how to unlock it for me it was a specific class that I learned about something that I realized that I thought about all the time even my spare time and just remember the tests that we're taking in Elementary and high school and college and even at work uh in the professional life they're just tests they're testing for something specific that they're looking for but what the world is looking for is something that's unique something that's different so you may not be special to some people but to the right people people that are just like you people that need um encouragement people that need to see to be exposed to something that is different you have that and remember you are not special in that you will have the uh similar experiences as other people around the world you will face the same challenges that other people around the world experience you will face Hard Times uh I fa faced hard times but there is something special inside of you so that when you're facing the um same circumstances as other people or similar circumstances something can break through when you decide that you can overcome it so regardless of what you're facing in this season I encourage you listen to the people around you and how they are encouraging you for example for a while people said to me something about your voice it's just very calming uh you should read audiobooks you should do a podcast you should do videos um fast forward to the last few years I've had the opportunity to step in and do some voice over work I've was able to read an audio book and um people have told me that my voice is very calming so listen to what people are encouraging you if there's a theme of like hey you're really good at this dig into that because maybe there's something there maybe in the eyes of the world you're not special when it comes to math or English or specific things but there is something unique a superpower that you have that if you were to just spend a little bit more time in it you could change the world around you and through determination and just taking steps of faith and steps forward you could change somebody else's world by the way that you decide to live today so with that I uh hope you have a great rest of your day