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Survive the Season: Channel Your Inner Panther · R.E.A.L. Talk for REAL L.Y.F.E.

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  Welcome to Real Talk for Real Life.
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  Realizing everyone is always learning and living your full experience.
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  This is where we live out loud, on purpose and with purpose.
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  I'm Coach C, your host, and this is Season 3, Episode 1, Survive the Season.
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  Welcome back to season three. Today, we're talking about one thing, surviving the season.
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  When I was a senior in high school, our class of 1998 yearbook theme was survival of the fittest.
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  I can still remember that Black Panther stretched across the cover.
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  At the time, I thought surviving high school was a challenge.
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  What I didn't know was life was preparing me for bigger seasons.
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  Seasons of loss. Seasons of uncertainty.
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  Seasons of heartbreak. Seasons where the bills kept coming. Seasons where people walked away.
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  Seasons where I had to smile publicly while privately figuring things out.
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  And yet, here I am. not because life was easy but because i survived the season.
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  Here's what I've learned. Survival isn't always fruity.
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  Sometimes survival looks like thriving. Other times survival looks like simply refusing to quit.
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  To survive your season, you're going to need seven things.
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  Number one, be stubborn.
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  Not hard-headed, purpose-headed. The kind of stubbornness says,
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  I came too far to stop now.
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  Some of you need to stop negotiating with your dreams and start protecting them.
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  Number two, become sacrificial. Every meaningful goal costs something.
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  Your sleep, comfort, convenience, your excuses, because you don't get the next
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  version of yourself without leaving something behind.
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  Number three, be strong.
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  No, strength isn't the absence of tears. Strength is crying and still showing up.
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  Strength is being afraid and moving anyway.
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  Number four, be steadfast. Anybody can be committed when it's easy.
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  Character shows up when progress is slow.
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  Steadfast people keep planting seeds even when they haven't seen a harvest yet.
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  Number five, be strategic.
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  Stop trying to win every battle. Win the right battles. A panther doesn't waste
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  energy chasing everything in the jungle. It focuses.
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  Number six, be systemic. You cannot rely on motivation alone.
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  Motivation is a visitor.
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  Systems are your roommates. Create routines that carry you when your feelings don't.
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  And number seven, become straightforward. Tell yourself the truth.
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  The truth about your habits.
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  The truth about your finances.
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  The truth about your health. The truth about your relationships.
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  You can't conquer what you're unwilling to confront. but here's what I love about the panther.
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  It doesn't announce itself.
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  It doesn't need a pause. It doesn't need permission. It moves with purpose. It adapts.
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  It endures. It survives.
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  And there is a panther inside every one of us, a version of you that's stronger
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  than the setbacks, A version of you that's bigger than the disappointment.
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  A version of you that refuses to surrender because the season got difficult.
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  The question isn't whether you have what it takes. The question is whether you'll unleash it.
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  As we approach the midpoint of this year, hear me clearly. Don't stop. Don't quit.
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  Don't fold. Don't abandon the dream.
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  Don't surrender the vision. You have survived 100% of your hardest days so far.
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  The season may be testing you, but it does not get to define you.
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  So channel that panther.
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  Be stubborn. be sacrificial, be strong, be steadfast, be strategic,
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  be systemic, be straightforward.
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  And in the words of Ice Cube, don't stop, get it, get it.
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  Go after your it. Chase it with courage. Pursue it with conviction.
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  Attack it with purpose. Because the goal isn't just to make it through the season.
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  The goal is to survive it, learn from it, and emerge stronger than when it started.
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  This is Coach C, and until next time, live fearless.
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  merchandise, and all my other goodies.
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  This is coach C again.
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  I'll catch you in the next one.