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Happy Monday yet again my beautiful people!

Another fresh week full of opportunities and blessings! Yes, even the adversity. With the proper perspective 99% of what life throws at us can be flipped, twisted, and turned into an opportunity, lesson, and/or a blessing.

Positive perspective provides power. Read that again. Actually, here you go:

Positive perspective provides power.

While so many choose to lower themselves by viewing life’s obstacles from a negative light, you and I gain power.

((Case in point, as mentioned in previous newsletters, society tells us Mondays are the devil and by default so many long for Friday, wasting away precious time and opportunities. Not us though, we can’t wait to wake up stronger each and every Monday!))

Your ability to remain steadfast towards your greatness despite the odds or how the crowd tries to sway you otherwise— due to your positive perspective— will also have a solid influence on your confidence.

And I’m a firm believer in:

“Confidence breeds success. Success breeds confidence. Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.” - Mike Tyson

Damnit man, Iron Mike with an absolute gem right there. Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

Bruh.

This is also from the same vein as my main man Zig Zagler here:

Listen y’all, life can be a terrible. It can chew you up, spit you out, and stomp on you back to back to back. Out of nowhere too.

The point of today is to remind you how powerful you can become even in the face of adversity and opposition. In fact, that’s the only way to grow strength and power.

That’s the literal definition of how you build stronger and more powerful muscles in the gym— when the weight gets heavy, when you’re in pain, and feel like you can’t go on, you must embrace that burn and push past it. One more rep— GO HEAVY!

It’s no different in life and how you gain mental strength.

To tie all of this together and then some, you have to watch this video. It’s one of my favorite stories, both funny and motivating, that illustrates the value of taking control of your own perspective rather than waiting for others to dictate it for you.

If you do nothing else this week, watch the video, I promise it’ll be the best 3 minutes of your day, if not week!

One thing I say all the time in the gym is— YOU control the weight, don’t let it control you.

As Joyce here, Inky in the video, Mr Zagler and Tyson above, along with myself in this newsletter state, you have so much power in the palm of your hands.

Don’t let it slip through your fingers like the rest of the world, ball up that fist instead and grab a hold of it like your life depends on it!

Because the quality of your life does, indeed, depend on it.

And please never forget:

Your soul shines much brighter when your confidence is fueled by a relentless belief in yourself rather than from the validation of others. In other words, do you boo!

Help a simple man follow his big dreams, just click and follow the prompts.

Much love mi gente,

- Mike O’Hara

PS

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