I'm back!

It's been almost three and half years since I last posted on here. 

At the time, I was trying to keep my head above water in physical therapy school and was trying to figure out the whole living-on-my-own-in-a-big-city thing. During the unintendly long hiatus, I've thought about blogging again. Instead, Facebook became my creative outlet and way of keeping people updated with my life, as well as a place to post inspiring quotes, funny pictures/memes/videos, and a platform to take a "stand" for various current events (the efficacy of this approach is rather widely debated, and I've decided social media is usually a horrible place to talk about things of substance). 

But here it is, 2015, and it's time to resurrect this blog. It's therapeutic more than anything, since I don't usually write explicitly for my readers.

Now that I've made enough excuses for my absence, here's a video you really MUST watch! It was originally posted prior to New Year's last year, but to the best of my knowledge it fell into internet oblivion. I came across this on Facebook a few days ago and can't get some of the lines out of my head. I have no idea who the speaker is, nor does it really matter. Give it a watch (or read the transcription below).

Now doesn't that get you excited for 2015? I'm working every day on my dreams, making them one step closer to reality, striving to become phenomenal, and challenging the enemy within so as withstand all the enemies without. What about you?

Video transcription:

There will never be a time in your life where it's the right time to do a great thing. If you're waiting for that perfect moment, that perfect timing, it's not going to happen. You know what you have to do? You have to create the perfect time, and the perfect opportunity, and the perfect situation. 

A lot of people become comfortable. They stop growing, they stop wanting anything, they become satisfied. People getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like. Jobs that are making them sick. You see, when you're not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you are stretching for, reaching for, that takes you out of your comfort zone, you'll find out some talents and abilities you have that you didn't know you had. When the messenger of misery visits you, what are you going to do? What will keep you in the game? 

There are things that you think you will never need to know, that you may only need to know one time in your life, but that could save your life because you had that knowledge. 

Unless you attempt to do something beyond that which you have already mastered, you will never grow. What is it that you looked at at some point in time and you decided that you couldn't do it? That you talk yourself out of it? You waiting on your next door neighbor to make it happen for you may not happen. If you're waiting on your mother or your father, they may be so ancient in their thinking that they don't understand this opportunity that you have. And if you waiting on them, it may never get done. 

You don't beg average people to be phenomenal, you don't beg good people to be phenomenal, you just are phenomenal, and you will attract phenomenal! 

What reason can you remember that you can call on, that you can reach on that can make you get back up? Find that reason. If you're not where you are, if you're not where you want to be, if you don't have what you want to have, if you're not where you think you should be at this particular point, it has nothing to do with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you're not making the sacrifice. 

I want you to make that dream become a reality, because if you don't you will be working for somebody else to make their dreams become a reality. 

[There may come a time that] everybody's against you or don't believe in you no more, and let me tell you something, that's a lonely feeling. It's a lonely feeling. Particularly people that you're doing it for. 

Most people take their greatness, take their ideas to the graveyard with them. 

Listen to me, if it was easy everybody would do it.There are people right now who are working who don't want to work. There are people who hate their jobs, but they keep getting up to do it. 

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard. Because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to. Ideas, dreams that never became reality. Hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon. The question is, what are you going to do with your time? What drives you? 

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day. Workout after workout. Obedience after obedience. Day after day. 

When things don't work out for you, when things happen that you could not anticipate, what are the reasons that you can think of that can keep you strong? You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain! Your pain is going to be a part of your pride! A part of your product! I challenge you to push yourself. 

See, it's easy to be on the bottom. It doesn't take any effort to be a loser. It doesn't take any motivation, any drive, in order to stay down there on a low level. But it calls on everything in you, you have to harness your will to say, "I'm going to challenge myself." I'm mean that what you did last week doesn't count today. Today is the only important day. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. And how you use those is critical. You got 86,400 today. And what you do today is going seep into who you are. No one will ever talk about what you did last week. 

See, the biggest enemy you have to deal with is yourself. There's an old African proverb that says, "If there's no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm." 

You have this opportunity of a lifetime. It means absolutely nothing if you don't take advantage of it in the lifetime of this opportunity. I got a saying that when life knocks you down, try and land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up. If you want a thing bad enough, to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it. To give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it, if all that you scheme and dream is about it, and life seems useless and worthless without it. 

See it's time now, if you want to make this your decade, you've got to start saying "Yes" to your life. You got to start saying "Yes" to your dreams. "Yes" to your unfolding future. "Yes" to your potential. As opposed to saying "No." 

When you die, leave no dream left behind guys, leave no opportunity behind. When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you can accomplish. Listen to me, you gonna be here one day, but you'll never get here if you give up! If you give in, if you quit. And finally guys, you gotta want to succeed as bad as you as you wanna breathe!