How Confronting Difficulties Can Lead to Personal Growth and Discovering Your Life's Mission w/ Ryan Williams

As humans, no one didn’t want a life without stress, problems, and hardships. We may believe that comfortably living translates to having no responsibility. But is that the life we desire, and is it worthwhile to pursue? To learn, progress, and be successful, we must face challenges and put in our best effort to achieve our goals. Continue to look, search, and go forward; God will direct your steps and is more than eager to assist if you do your best.

Ryan Williams shares his life experiences of finding who he was, what he wanted to be, and how he achieved it. He also tells why having a driving goal is crucial to motivate ourselves and continue what we do again and again until we reach our destination of what we dream of. Tune in as young leaders ask questions about life, personal growth, entrepreneurship, and more!

Quotes:

• “If somebody wants to do something difficult, they have to truly want it from the inside.” –  Ryan Williams
• “As long as you're searching, as long as you're looking, something will pop up. It might not be today, might not be tomorrow. But as long as you're searching for it, and you're taking steps to find it, God, the universe, will put something in your path to where you are like, okay, this person is putting in the effort to move this direction, I'm gonna move things and help them along their path.” – Ryan Williams
• “Identity is the key. It is cool to have these key things that you pull into yourself, build yourself up, and say this is part of me. But you got to be careful not to lose sight of the rest of you, and just let yourself get fully absorbed into this thing.” –  Ryan Williams

Takeaways:

• External motivation, such as validation from other people, will fade. So if you truly want to accomplish a challenging goal, it’ll need to start from the inside. You need to spark your desire and reach that goal no matter what.
• The average person can get through a day. But the real problem is deciding whether to get up and do it repeatedly. In order to get through this, you need to have a driving goal to motivate yourself, do what you need to do, and attain what you believe is worth achieving.
• Depending on where you are, everyone has a distinct version of themselves. And if you can't function clearly in those multiple versions, something will suffer because you didn't perform your best at one or more of those things; you must be intentional. Similarly, if you are not careful, you may quickly lose your identity to your business in entrepreneurship.

Conclusion:

To figure out what you want to do in life, you need to do something hard. Because those are the moments that we will have responsibilities, motivation, and an effort to exert, a recipe for us to grow and mature. Being in hard situations will also result in us making mistakes, which is where we get the lessons we need to polish ourselves and be wise.