The Crossroads Nobody Wants to Cross
Hey guys! It’s Jessica. Sorry I haven’t made that many videos lately. I’ve been fighting this dang sickness that my husband caught on a plane two weeks ago and I thought I was getting off scott free but it finally beat down my immune system.
I have a huge October coming so I’m really focusing on getting better FAST! I’m going to be spending some time with the top leaders in my industry later on this week in California. And then I have a lot of my Dare 2 Dream team coming to Jacksonville and we’re just going to celebrate DREAMS COMING TRUE in their life and just hooking up with a lot of people that decided to go against the status quo and chase their dreams.
I was just driving to my parents house and I heard a song that reminded me of a time in my life where I learned a lot but it was also a super painful memory, in some ways.
It was when my grandpa was on life support in the hospital.
He was an avid athlete and runner his entire life. He was even running still 5-7 miles multiple times a week when he actually had a stroke. He was in the hospital for week’s on end and I remember the day that everyone decided to take him off life support.
In that moment, I had 100% belief that he was going to just GET UP out of that hospital bed and he was going to be Pepo again. I remember being in this room and I could tell that people were saying goodbye. And I was kind of getting angry in a way. I’m like…you guys are losing HOPE. You’re losing your FAITH. You’re losing your FIGHT.
And I wasn’t.
I had, like I said, 100% belief and hope and I just knew that he was going to get up.
And he didn’t.
From that day, I had a decision to make.
I could be angry.
I could be confused.
I could change the way I operated..meaning, from then forward, not to have that HOPE or that BELIEF or that FAITH.
But that’s not to me what life’s about. And I WILL face and do face every situation with hope and faith and the belief in the impossible because THAT is what’s going to drive you to do what you’re going to do in life.
I just want to encourage you…it wasn’t meant for him. Maybe it was his time. Maybe he wanted to go. But that doesn’t change that I’m going to approach every situation and every day
believing in the impossible and
expecting the unexpected and
and waking up with hope and conviction
that a miracle’s going to happen TODAY..
that a dream’s going to be fulfilled TODAY..
that I’m going to have to come up with NEW dreams because life’s going to be so amazing, I’m not going to know what to do. And when you approach life with THAT attitude and with THAT expectation, your life will change.
Don’t be Jaded
So don’t be jaded by things that have happened to you in the past because it WILL hold you back. But approach each day with confidence that something amazing is waiting for you around the corner and you WILL DO amazing things.
I just wanted to share that with you because the song I was just listening to in the car was the song we were listening to in the hospital. And I remembered thinking FROM THAT MOMENT, I could leave that day angry or I could leave that day hopeful of the next situation going a different way.
I literally had to make a mental decision. You might have already made that decision and you might have made the WRONG decision. So today, just change your mind.
Expect the unexpected.
Believe in miracles.
Wake up each day waiting for your next victory and looking for it.
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I’m going to go inside and see my parents and hopefully get to feeling better. Bye!
