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"Faith and Hard Work" - Dominion Ezechibueze
Dominion is a Nigerian immigrant who was born not breathing and was physically abused throughout his childhood, both in school and at home. As you'll hear him describe it, he entered this world just trying to survive and viewed much of his early life as living in hell. Through faith in God and a lot of hard work though, he was able to change his mindset and change his life. He is now a college graduate who played division 1 football and has 2 businesses, who is chasing his dream towards the NFL and greatness. It is hard for him to even imagine sometimes the life he lives now, but it is a testament to believing in yourself and your higher purpose.
What I really enjoyed about this conversation is that we got to explore two really important (and difficult) aspects of trying to improve. The first is how to find your purpose and motivation to actually make a change? It sounds really good to say you felt like you were living in hell and now you're in a better place, but what does that really mean? How do you actually do that and make it real? Among other things Dominion described, it was really interesting to hear him say that as a kid he honestly didn't even know being "great" or "happy" was an option, he just thought life was all about survival.
Then the second aspect of improvement we explored was the philosophical question of: is grinding your whole life to reach your goals actually worth it? That might sound like a stupid question to ask, but I think it is important. Dominion works really hard. He believes you have to be crazy to achieve the important things in life, because it is so hard and so much work. So we talked about if there is any fear in that; if there any fear that you do all that work and one day realize it actually wasn't worth it? This is important because I know for many people listening (any myself) the fear of putting in all the work and not getting the outcome you want is one of the biggest deterrents.
With all that said, a story like this one, if nothing else has to be inspiring. We may not all see the world exactly like Dominion does, we may not aspire towards the same things; but seeing someone make a deliberate decision to create a better life and then do the work to create it is something we can all learn from.
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Dominion is a Nigerian immigrant who was born not breathing and was physically abused throughout his childhood, both in school and at home. As you'll hear him describe it, he entered this world just trying to survive and viewed much of his early life as living in hell. Through faith in God and a lot of hard work though, he was able to change his mindset and change his life. He is now a college graduate who played division 1 football and has 2 businesses, who is chasing his dream towards the NFL and greatness. It is hard for him to even imagine sometimes the life he lives now, but it is a testament to believing in yourself and your higher purpose.
What I really enjoyed about this conversation is that we got to explore two really important (and difficult) aspects of trying to improve. The first is how to find your purpose and motivation to actually make a change? It sounds really good to say you felt like you were living in hell and now you're in a better place, but what does that really mean? How do you actually do that and make it real? Among other things Dominion described, it was really interesting to hear him say that as a kid he honestly didn't even know being "great" or "happy" was an option, he just thought life was all about survival.
Then the second aspect of improvement we explored was the philosophical question of: is grinding your whole life to reach your goals actually worth it? That might sound like a stupid question to ask, but I think it is important. Dominion works really hard. He believes you have to be crazy to achieve the important things in life, because it is so hard and so much work. So we talked about if there is any fear in that; if there any fear that you do all that work and one day realize it actually wasn't worth it? This is important because I know for many people listening (any myself) the fear of putting in all the work and not getting the outcome you want is one of the biggest deterrents.
With all that said, a story like this one, if nothing else has to be inspiring. We may not all see the world exactly like Dominion does, we may not aspire towards the same things; but seeing someone make a deliberate decision to create a better life and then do the work to create it is something we can all learn from.