why i deleted my youtube channel

my channel was

deleted at first I thought maybe I had

turned on minimalism mode after watching

a few too many mat Della

videos but no my complete livelihood of

over 2500 videos and live

streams not available

anymore in this video we're going to

talk about starting over from

scratch for many of us one of the

greatest fears we have is the fear that

we might have to start over completely

from zero feeling fear regret resentment

we hate we bitly languish over what

caused us to restart we point the finger

at all of the injustices around us and

it was the computer it was uh Fox News

it was YouTube we point the finger at

our boss inflation the stock market the

economy the lender the reporter the cop

we were count over and over and over

again how things could have been

different if only we had done something

differently if only we had gone down a

different path made a different choice

if only if we had sold that stock at a

certain time or bought the stock at a

certain time or taken the job we were

offered or said no to a bad

idea sometimes the feeling is so bad the

anguish is so painful we just want to go

to

sleep just want to wake up in a happier

more certain time we feel like slaves

and

trapped but that time doesn't come that

happiness doesn't

come we're just

trapped happiness success wealth

satisfaction never come to you though on

a silver

platter and really it's resets like

these that end up separating the men

from the boys the strong from the weak

the leaders from the fearful the

resilient from the hesitant the

adaptable from the stagnant

true leaders know that they don't

actually restart back to zero they don't

actually go all the way back to the

starting line they adapt and they take

the most powerful tool that they could

ever take with

them

experience as Aristotle once put it the

roots of Education are bitter but the

fruit is sweet and so I kind of think of

this analogy

crop

rotation everything goes in cycles for 4

years you plant

strawberries first year in quadrant 1 2

and three and you leave the fourth

quadrant empty the second year you plant

2 3 4 and you leave the first quadrant

empty and you repeat the cycle over and

over again tearing down all of the

existing crops all the way down to the

soil and you start from scratch with

seeds again over and over and over

again sometimes that is what we call our

job our day in day out

livelihood but then something

changes and then we find out there are

two types of farmers one farmer keeps

planting strawberries keeps grinding

doing the same thing year after year

after year but all of a sudden gets

frustrated he's not progressing anymore

he used to do so well and grow so

quickly everybody loved his strawberries

but now he's frustrated he's not

progressing anymore he's falling

backwards he's losing more of his crops

to frost and heat less people are buying

his crops his profits are declining and

his success is

waning farmer number one says you know I

guess I'll just have to work harder

because after all the harder harder I

work the luckier I get right that's what

everyone tells us just just work harder

if it's not working out for you just

work harder you must not not be putting

in enough hours as the strawberry farmer

then maybe you should go from working

14-hour days to working 18 hour days but

then you fall

miserable become unhappy become

depressed and then you end up getting

divorced and things are even worse off

and your business

fails then there's farmer number

two who knows that yeah we go in Cycles

when we plant

strawberries and we might be the best

worker in the world but if the climate

is

changing maybe it's time to change the

product maybe it's time to change what

we're working on otherwise no matter how

hard you work you'll end up

failing so farmer number two takes a

different approach he suspects the

climate has shifted strawberries may not

be the best business to be in and

realizes that other farmers are planting

avocados much more likely to we be

profitable but they take more time it's

going to take a reset period to go from

no avocado trees to avocado trees he's

used to the strawberry business has a

lot of experience but the avocados are

more likely to withstand brutal cold and

heat waves this will actually end up

making his business more resilient than

it was before but it requires a

transition a reset it's going to be

expensive and

hard but he has to

learn something about human psychology

and that's when you go from success to

less success you eventually become

miserable and so Socrates put it very

well when he said the secret to change

is to focus all of your energy not on

fighting the old not being farmer number

one trying to keep the strawberries

going but on building the

new so farmer number two

demolishes his

farm he resets purposefully to

zero there's only one direction you can

go now that's up because you're already

back at zero but you brought all your

experience with you and even though you

might fail

again refusing to accept life's

challenges and the need to adapt means

you'll always fail by default and so in

your darkest moments know the light is

ahead so this this is where you

personally just like farmer number two

have to ask yourself what challenges are

you facing in your life that have not

let you get ahead what golden handcuffs

have made you feel like you're a slave

to the

system remember it's not money that

makes the man happy it's success it's

Conquest it's not about a number it's

about getting up and achieving it's not

about quitting it's about choosing to to

fight not being forced to fight like a

slave but getting up because you get to

fight what makes the man is the person

who seeks

failure who seeks starting over and

takes their experience and starts over

better true strength lies in embracing

change learning from setbacks and using

experience to forge A New Path think of

that Forge it means to make or shape

metal by heating it in a furnace and

beating it or hammering it Forge is not

easy it's not for the weak only you can

forge your own sword nobody else is

going to forge your sword for you think

giant

thick

sword where's your pricing power are you

maximizing

it we'll stand up and we'll fight until

we can't fight again because that's the

reason we're on this planet it's not not

to lie down and die it's to succeed and

fail and to succeed and fail and through

each Conquest we become stronger a true

man always stands back up and

says how do we solve it and let's fuing

go that's the conquest of life and every

single time you go through this cycle of

success and failure you become stronger

in that growth you grow your character

your tenacity your experience your

efficiency your work ethic that's what

makes you a man so if you find yourself

today unhappy unwilling cornered and you

feel like there's no hope you feel like

a slave you're not alone even the

greatest most respected people in the

world feel the way you feel at times the

most powerful men in the world go

through the cycle of depression sadness

addiction pain and failure everyone is

human the difference is what do you do

with your sadness do you stop give up

and hide or do you plot restart improve

get back in the fight you make the

choice to restart you make the choice to

get in the fight this is the one choice

we have the choice to keep

fighting

so with

that I've made mine