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Change The Narrative.
Topic Started: May 8 2015, 04:59 PM (96 Views)
SaviourSelf
Seasoned Professional
-The scene opens and inside of a new gym, decked out in "Zebra" mats, red and black the color scheme of the day, apparently, is a bustle of people. It's "Grand Opening Day" in Portland, Oregon, and while Angel Hernandez and Angus Cadogan have taken time off from their busy SPARTA schedules and Monte Doyle, Tim Mateo and Caitlin Deckert have both shook hands and taught classes on the first day of a business, a cagey old vet wearing a sleeve on his ankle and a hooded LFC sweatshirt; black with red piping, is sitting on the mat, sweating profusely.-

LeBlanc: You look around, and this place is probably more spacious than the one in Montreal, more area by square foot than the one in Upstate New York, and cheaper to lease and rent out than the space in Big Bear Lake. Everyone's happy, everyone's smiling. Everyone is having a good time.

-LeBlanc chuckles a bit and whisks away the sweat from his brow.-

LeBlanc: Another year I come close, and another year I lose Superbattle. It burns, and I hate it, but then I look around and I realize that ultimately, it doesn't define me. Winning Superbattle wouldn't have changed me, just like failing to do so isn't doing that now.

-Alex looks away a bit and sucks his lip, but then he comes back, chest heaving a bit.-

LeBlanc: Maybe I'm tired, I don't know, but mental toughness, that fortitude will make it so that mentally you'll have the strength to save yourself and walk past what's beating you. Mental toughness will put you in position do things that others say you can't. Mental toughness is what helps you open businesses, what helps you build a life after all this is done and what gets you to wake up at 3AM to run 5 miles when there were people out there peer-pressuring you so that you wouldn't.

-Alex chuckles a bit, when Angel Hernandez comes and sits next to him, eating a Cliff Bar, not interrupting, just listening. He's slowly followed by Cadogan, who is sipping water. The respect is evident, but yet there's a familiar aspect here, not one of teacher versus student.-

LeBlanc: I'm sure these guys can tell you, it's not easy to run on unpaved roads or cracked highways.

-Alex shrugs as the fellow LFC members, the rookies of the clan just nod and agree.-

LeBlanc: Hell, I can give you an example: Running on a cracked highway at 3AM because it's the only time you have to train after classes at McGill only to find yourself rolling back to the only apartment you can afford in the city and see the sight of 4 police cars that tell you that you can't pass through because someone was shot. Facing that and shrugging and telling the cops, "that sucks man, I live in that apartment complex."

We make sacrifices for what we want, but those sacrifices are what end up driving us. What end up molding us. A loss isn't a loss if you learned something from it. But the fortitude you need to survive in this game isn't built up and taken away by one loss. I've been the grandest of champions in PRW, but before that I was going to school all day, getting a 3.9 GPA at McGill, running home, training, running at 3AM, then waking up and starting over at 8AM.

That's how bad I wanted to make it. That's how much you have to Embrace The Grind, succeed. And it would have been easy. It would have been easy to fail. It would have been easy to quit.

-LeBlanc sighs a bit and laughs.-

LeBlanc: I could have been my brother. I could have been my younger brother. Slanging. Weed. Crack Cocaine. Making 12 to 15 thousand dollars a day. Holding it in a stack between his forefinger and his thumb. My younger brother. Asking me constantly, "Why would you work?", "Why would you do this to yourself? Why would you even entertain the notion of possibly failing?", all the while calling me an idiot or a moron.

LeBlanc: Years later, he's dead. He's dead, a victim to that game because he took the easy way out. A young man who hung himself as to not get shot on a street corner, drowned in the stress of owing people money and constantly looking over his shoulder wondering when his time was up. Me? I'm here, taking a rock hammer to a brick wall, chipping away like Andy Dufrense, hoping to crawl through a river of shit to get to the other side. Hoping to get, eventually, to my Zihjuantaneo.

-Alex shakes his head and he looks at his young proteges and laughs a bit, chuckling to himself.-

LeBlanc: A little while ago I heard someone say something that stuck with me. They said, "In life, you can either go left or you can go right. They'll tell you failure isn't an option. That's ridiculous. Failure is absolutely an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times."

And it's true. Failure is ALWAYS an option. Failure and self-doubt, is always going to be present, you can choose to fail or you can choose, but if you start planting seeds of confidence, that becomes the road to victory and the road to success. Failure is always there, it's always an option, but it is just that:

A choice.

-Driving the point home, always teaching, Alex pats the mat, bringing the kids in closer.-

LeBlanc: Failure is a choice made of Fear. Fear kills dreams. Fear kills goals. And there will be days where you will be tired, where you will have felt you put in all the hours, where you did all the work necessary. But when you get to the point where enough is enough, where you are tired and you are battered, but you still have that toughness, that strength of character, that refusal to fail, that outright indignant hunger to be successful and a proven commodity?

Doors start opening, opportunities start happening, but what you cannot do is quit during the process, you cannot give up.

-LeBlanc raises his tenor a bit, more forceful.-

LeBlanc: Champions keep going when they don't have anything left. That's what separates them. When they don't have anything left, when they're tired, when they're frustrated, when they have spent their last dime...that is when they get started.

Every day you have an opportunity. You have an opportunity to get up. You have an opportunity to stop the bleeding. You have an opportunity to make people believers. You have an opportunity to rise, but you cannot fear failure. You have to acknowledge it. Acknowledge it, but don't choose it. You get off the mat, you embrace the grind and you burn your self-doubt.

-LeBlanc slaps the mat, startling his crew, but pushing off the mat to a standing position.-

LeBlanc: That loss did not define me, just as your losses will not define you. They will not define us because out of a defeat comes a lesson and out of that lesson comes victory. I will not be outworked, I will not be outperformed. While Razer is drinking, Kevin and Kenny are bickering over who gets the asshole in a devil's three-way with Jenna, and Patrick Slaughter does more media tours, I will continue to grind and dig.

This loss will not define me because I will rise, and I will not let failure define me.

-LeBlanc looks back at his charges.-

LeBlanc: It's a choice, not a birthright. An option, not an obligation. Choose to succeed.

-LeBlanc nods at them, seeing them nod back.-

Cadogan: If you change your narrative...

Hernandez, finishing it: You change your mindset.
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