Change your Mindset & Achieve ANYTHING

I'm here today to talk to you about how to overcome the biggest obstacle you'll ever face. Let me take you on a journey ten years ago. I had just graduated from college. It was time to let go and see the world. I took my life savings. After three summers painting houses, I packed a backpack on a surfboard and set off into the world for an adventure without an itinerary. The adventure after the call is just bad planning. Three months into the trip I found myself on a beach in rural Thailand. It was a beautiful afternoon. I was watching the fire dancers in amazement and decided to join in the fun by jumping on a flaming rope because you know I was 22 years old and invincible in an instant my life

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d the rope wrapped around my legs and ignited my body completely in flames of survival.

The mode activated when I needed it most and with one last breath and a hint of courage I dove into the ocean a few steps away to extinguish the flames, then there was silence in the darkness. I woke up in a one-room nursing station and looked down to find my body completely bandaged. What have I done? I thought I had been badly burned. Which must have been at least 24 hours later. I woke up leaving a surgery room in a small ICU where there was a cat running across my chest and around my bed emphasizing the fact that I was far from home and in terrible circumstances, being in this unsanitary hospital could kill me and the pain The throbbing pain was unimaginable, but the morphine they kept giving me and giving me made me feel like there were insects calling on my skin.

I can't say what was worse I just wanted to give up I was in a rapidly downward spiral ready to quit luckily five days into this ordeal my mother arrived to be my protector. Now I know she was as scared as I was, but she decided to never show it to me. Instead, it was her fear, she walked into my hospital room every day with a smile on her face and an air of positivity, challenging me to dream of the future. She kept asking me questions like: what do you want to do and get out of here? a goal, my immediate response, mom, I'm screwed, the doctors say I may never walk normally again, what hope do I have?

Life as I know it is over, but her positivity was relentless and contagious, three days after she arrived, she was sitting next to my bed. and I announced my goal, mom, when I get out of here, one day I will compete in a triathlon, something I had never done before, and looking at my legs seemed unrealistic, but with a tear in her eye she nodded and wrapped me in her arms like only a mother can do it. Many more weeks passed until I was discharged from that hospital. He still hadn't taken a single step. They took me on and off the plane and put me in a wheelchair when I got back here. to Portland the next morning I was in my mom's kitchen and mom said to me, "Okay Collin, now I know you have this big triathlon goal, but today

your

goal is to take the first step," then she grabbed a chair. our kitchen table and placed Him one step in front of my wheelchair.

You have to figure out how to get out of

your

wheelchair and sit in that chair. That day it took me three hours to gather the courage and strength to take the first step, but I did it at the same time. The next day she had moved the chair five steps and the next day ten each day I was able to take a few more steps until finally, after many weeks, I regained my ability to walk and then, one day, jog, feeling like flying, but jogging. it was so far. of running a triathlon, so for the next 18 months I worked with my goal in mind and finally, a year and a half after my accident, it was time to give my dream a try.

I showed up in Chicago to compete in the triathlon. I dove into Lake Michigan to swim the first mile I ever cycled, I rode 25 miles, I put on my shoes and ran 6.2 miles to the finish line, I crossed the finish line, I had done it, I had

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d my goal and I had one more surprise in store for me that day I had not finished the race I had won thanks for its tragedy I had learned an invaluable lesson I had learned that life will test us with setbacks but these situations are not permanent we have total control of our choices To continue moving forward step by step, maybe right now you are struggling in your own daily life, feeling overwhelmed, like it's too much.

You see the tragedy and other great obstacles that happen to all of us and in these moments our minds are Flooded with doubts we ask questions like Should I give up? Is this possible? o Why does it lead me to a negative

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? But we don't have to stop there. The only question we have when we face great obstacles is how will you respond? You have a choice and when you shift your

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towards the positive, you will quickly realize that there is a reserve of untapped potential waiting to be unleashed by you. Achievement is not for a select few.

Achievement is simply for those who never give up. It is for those who Set goals is for those who take more steps ahead of others. Achievement is for those who can overcome the biggest obstacle of all mine, so set a goal, take the first steps, chairs right in front of you and when your steps get closer. there you push the chair harder when you feel like giving up put your boots back on let go of the fear thank you