When Life Keeps Tackling You | Live Wisdom
August 29, 2026video
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This content emphasizes the critical role of having clear goals and dreams to navigate life's challenges. Without a focus, life can feel like a relentless series of tackles, leaving us disoriented and unable to move forward. By setting intentions and utilizing a support network, we can effectively move towards our aspirations, even when obstacles arise.
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Stefan (00:01)
We are all on this journey. How do we want to live it? How do we want to experience it? A lot of us are just surfing. And life just keeps on throwing stuff out at us and it knocks us down. As I always say, I haven't said this for a while actually, so if this is the first time that you've been on this show, is that if you don't have a goal, i you're just like a foot just like the teenagers said about their day going to see and watching watching a football game. If the players don't have a goal to focus on, they're just standing around.
And the guy with the ball, why should he pass it to anyone? Because he has no focus, he has no way of knowing where he's taking that ball to. So he's standing in the middle of the pitch. And the opposition, life, is literally tackling him on a day to day, every second basis. And you're literally tackling you and what you're finding, because you haven't got a goal, is that the ball r comes back to you.
Life brings back the ball to you. Are we learning? Are we having a goal to focus on? Is the goal there? Nope, the ball's there. You get tackled again. Life literally tackles you. You pick yourself up. Some people don't even pick themselves up. They think
I've just got life just tackling me all the time. I can't deal with this. So let's start creating goals for ourselves. Let's create dreams for ourselves. So we know where we're going. We know what we're focusing on. I know a lot of people say, Yeah, but I've I create a goal, but it never happens, it never works out. Because you haven't stayed focused. When you start creating a goal, let's take that vision of being on the football pitch.
Now your players, your support network in your life are there to help you. So it's easier for you to pass the ball because then life gives you a break. You have the freedom to move forward. Someone else has got the ball, but you're moving forward to your towards your goal. Then they pass the ball back. Life the opposition tries to tackle you. But before, you're learning, you're learning. Now you pass it to your opp to your players again.
Your support network, the support network is there, and you're getting closer to your goal, you're getting closer to your goal. Also, your support network believes in your goal. They see the goal, they hear you, they see it in you where you're going and they want to be part of it. So they're always there supporting you. And you pass the ball again, and then you're in front of that goal, and then you know that you're gonna shoot that ball. Think about it. Think about it when you tell me, or in your head, the head says.
Life's alright. Yeah, well life's gonna tackle you again and again and again, and you won't be moving forward because there's nothing to move forward to. Life is just gonna pass you by.