When life throws you blows.

I think this is the most universally applicable motivational speech I can remember.  We've all went through those tough times where we've lost material things, people, opportunities, money, and lastly time.  Each time we go through this we feel the usual despair that comes w/the territory of failure or loss-the sense of hopelessness and misfortune, the usual why me?  However, I think as human, innately we are wired to be able to cope with failure and move on, it is a survival instinct, and I think what separates the ordinary from the extraordinary is the how we overcome and how fast we can do it.

I can't recall how many times I've felt if this didn't have happened to me and what if this person gave me this or if someone's decision would benefit me more favorably how my life would be.  I think it is normal to think about the what ifs but at the end of the day, you can't live on what ifs.  What ifs can't change your life now or change your future, only what now can.  Rocky telling me to just go out and get it is just bonechilling.  How true is that statement but each day we forget what we're capable of doing, whether at our career, the relationships we have with eachother, we could make it better.  As humans we are susceptible to homeostasis as in keeping things habitual/constant and manageable.  We like to say we hate "the same ol' thing" but subconsciously we strive to achieve as little variable in our lives as possible.  Few ever strives to get out of their comfort zone and just do something, take a risk, do more than you're required, because we've been conditioned to just be w/in status quo.  I think as humans, we are conditioned to always compare ourselves to others and everything we have is in somehow in relations to someone else.  Rocky saying stop giving an F and to stop pointing fingers never rang so true.

I think we are obsessed with the saying "rise like a phoenix out of the ashes" because it is so mystic, so extraordinary, so superhuman.  Being Superhuman, we all desire to achieve what ordinary people can't.  I'm not out to achieve extraordinary things, I'm out to work on what I feel I am capable of and going above it.  We all don't have to be Rocky, we all don't have to be Phoenixes, but we all can certainly be better than whatever it is we think the best that we can be.
"what's the difference between a champion and a challenger, a champion already conquered his caliber"
-Papoose