TRANSFORM ANY BAD LIFE SITUATION IN YOUR FAVOR
Hey, my friend, here we go again. If this is your first time here, let me introduce myself: I’m Prof. Gleidson Poney (Founder/Headcoach - Fighteria Academy). Every week I’ll be here delivering good stuff to you and everyone else who likes it. This week we will understand a bit more about what we can do when bad situations happen in our lives, or when someone says something bad to us or about us. You may have found yourself in a life situation that wasn't going in your favor or wasn’t what you were expecting. Is that right? At some point this will happen with all of us. Before I get this going, I need to tell you one thing.
“EVERYTHING IS ENERGY.”
Energy needs to be used. How about we use it in our favor? Who’s never had a bad discussion with your spouse, friend, or co-worker? Who’s never felt let down? Who’s never felt frustrated with something or someone? This is life. Those things are going to happen. Take that as it is. It isn't what life throws at you, but what you do with what life throws at you that will make a situation good or bad.
I'm gonna tell you what happened to me today in our BJJ class here at Fighteria Academy. I was training with one of my students, he is in the beginning of his BJJ journey (White Belt). When the professor trains with their students, it always goes one of two ways: 1) They will freeze and get super excited to do something 2) Or, they will go crazy to try and show you they have been improving. It’s funny and also true, and today training with my student was no different. He wanted to show he was improving. As we roll, I mounted him and this is a very good position for me as top player. He, on the other hand, was in a very bad spot. Yet, he was trying to choke me out from the bottom, which is not recommended. Remember what I’ve said, “everything is energy.” However, to use this in your favor, we need to do a couple things to succeed. Like I said, it isn’t about what life throws at you but what you're gonna do with it.
A lot of things are going to happen in our life, good and bad. Some of those things are out of our control, but that does not mean it is out of our responsibility. I say this all the time here for my students: “GOD IS NOT IN CONTROL, but He is always controlling.” God isn’t in control of your life, but He is controlling and loving LIFE. But, when it comes to YOUR LIFE, you have the free will to do whatever you want. However, you also have the consequences of your actions.
In 4 steps I’ll show you what you can do to transform everything in your life in your favor.
Are you ready? Let’s fight!
1- CAPTURE THE ENERGY - Doesn’t matter what happens in your life. It could be good or bad. You could be in control or not. You could have said something or someone said it to you. It doesn’t matter. Everything is energy and energy is good, we always want more. First thing we gotta do is own it. Maybe things you didn’t want happened, but that does not mean you are not responsible for it. If it comes in your way, you now have to handle the situation.Now, let’s exchange the word “ENERGY” for “PROBLEM.” If you have some problem in your life right now, stop complaining about it. OWN THIS AND BE RESPONSIBLE FROM NOW ON. That’s the first step, capture the energy.
2- CONVERT THE ENERGY - Think about this: You might hear something bad from your boss or your partner. The point is someone told you something that affected you in the first moment. You are capturing the energy (problem), now we gotta convert that bad energy into good energy. But efore we do that, we need to dive into ourselves and ask ourselves questions. You need to confront yourself all the time.
Ex: You are going to work. Accidentally, you are on the right side of the road. The light turns red, but you don’t want to turn right. You hold back those cars behind you. The guy behind starts to honk and yell at you and call you all the creative names. You know what I mean? Remember this is energy given to you for free. Take it and convert it in your favor. First thing you gotta do is ask yourself: Am I what he says I am? Answer: NO! So rest your heart. Don't let this affect you in a bad way. He was the one who woke up late, rushed into the car, missed breakfast, and his wife complained to him because he didn’t give importance to his family first thing in the morning. His day already sucks, so don’t let yours be the same. CONVERT THE ENERGY.
3- CANALIZE THE ENERGY - In this part, it is time to structure things in your mind. At this point you captured and converted the energy (problem). This will be the moment we will start to make our response towards it. Ex: When we do training in martial arts here at the gym, our partners will deliver a lot of things to us. It can be an armbar or a punch. Whatever it is, I need to make sure I understand what is going on in order to respond properly. RESPONDING and REACTING seem similar, but they are not the same. Every response will be a reaction, but not every reaction that will be a response. The difference between those is when I am reacting, I am going with the flow without proper control. When I respond, I have to process what is going on and be intentional in my feedback. I am able to react in a proper way. Hope that makes sense for you. Canalize the energy. Structure your answers. Don’t play by your emotions.
4- CATAPULT THE ENERGY - That’s the moment in life when we will need to take action, responding intentionally and with accuracy. That being said, we can use our emotions to respond in a smart, rational way. If we do, we will be able to transform any scenario in our favor while taking care of our heart and emotions.
Those are the steps all of us can do in order to make things better in every scenario. My question is: Why don’t people do it? Answer: They got triggered by their emotions and they messed up right away. Don’t do that. Don’t react this way!
We can apply these steps in every scenario in our life. I guarantee that if you do, you will uplift yourself and your life will be lighter.
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
Your heart is the most precious thing you have. In this verse, the RIGHT and LEFT words for me are correlated with our RIGHT and LEFT sides of the brain. RIGHT being rational and LEFT being creative/emotional. When I say, “don’t play by your emotions,” I believe it is because you will look like a fool. But, if you play the game of life in the proper way, you will look wise. That does not mean you will be wise. Wisdom is only one person and that person is JESUS. You maybe don’t WANT Him, but all of us NEED HIM. Thanks for staying here with me another week.
I love your life and I hope this message reaches your heart. I would like to invite you to try a class with us here at Fighteria Academy. We are located at: 10330 Ranch Road 12, Wimberley, Tx. Give us a call today and book a free class: (512) 722-3751.
I looking forward to meeting you,
Have a Great Day!
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By. Prof. Gleidson "PONEY" Cutis