If you could no longer speak without a stutter. Would you use that experience to embarque on a new dream as a comedian? Drew Lynch,, tells his amazing story. He calls his routine “Speech Therapy”.  As a teen Drew was playing softball and was hit in the throat by a ball. This damaged his vocal nerves. The force knocked him off his feet and he also hit his head and suffered a concussion. He did not go in for treatment right away in fact he went home and went to bed and because of the damage he woke up with a stutter. Drew was not one to give up. He vowed he would conquer his disability and auditioned for and got on “America’s Got Talent.” He says You can only hang your head for so long before you have to pull yourself up.

I know in my life when things happen to me, things that alter my life  or my belief of what I will be able to do that changed me, I would often feel put upon and victimized. I would whine and get frustrated because I wanted something different out of my life than the things that were happening to me. I look back at the things that made me so upset and oftentimes the things I thought were so horrible were very small and meant so little in the grand scheme of my life. In fact many of them I don’t even remember.

We all have things that happen in our lives. For some of us it is a softball to the throat like it was with Drew. For others we go through different things and even if the things that happen to you haven’t happened to anyone else ( which is tough to believe) There are only so many feelings and those we all share. It is less about what happens to us and more about the story and feelings we develop because of what happens to us. Does the thing that happens to you cause you to think “poor pitiful me”? If that is what Drew thought could he have done what he’s done?

In an interview with Ability Magazine, Drew talks about control on certain things he had to give it up, like his communication and what happens to him but then he had to take control of his feelings. “And again, it showed me that I have to be in control of what it is that I do after the fact, despite any circumstance being stacked against me or something looking unlikely. And I should just accept whatever it is regardless and not be like, “Oh, this is the outcome I want, and then I’ll be happy.” If there’s anything this career has taught me, it’s that you can’t do that. You’ll never be fulfilled, and it’ll never end up panning out the way you had hoped.” Drew also said “OK, this makes sense for what the universe is trying to tell me.” Because you can only play the victim card so many times.” So what is your number ? How many times can you play the victim card?

Think your life through in what places have you had experiences that were similar to Drew. Did you use that experience to move you forward or to hold you back? I mean Drew could have let what happened ruin his life, Right? The reason it didn’t was not because of what happened to Drew but because of what he did after it happened. He made conscious choices to pick his thoughts, to manage his emotions and expectations. This made all the difference in the outcome of Drew’s story. You get to control your story so how will you tell it?

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