Finding Belief Through Adversity: Insights from Ernie Johnson
A little more than a month ago life had finally kicked my ass.
Pardon my language, but there is no other way of describing it.
I have faced many challenges in life, yet I have always managed to turn them into something positive. I was always capable of transforming trauma into gratitude and fear into belief.
I took great pride in performing this difficult alchemy.
It is who I believe I am.
Until it wasn’t.
I needed to correct that.
I could feel it happening. I could hear it in the words I was talking, both out loud and to myself. Fear was winning every outcome over belief, and doubt was doing the same to hope. And I couldn’t generate gratitude for anything.
Over and over and over again.
I was aware of life storming my mental moat. I didn’t put up enough fight to stop it from happening.
Before I could realize it, life penetrated my outlook on life and destroyed my gratitude and belief system, and replaced it with fear and doubt.
And it bothered me to the core.
I allowed life to rob me of what I consider to be my most valuable asset – my outlook on life.
I needed to realign.
Around the same time, while browsing YouTube, I kept coming across clips of the “NBA on TNT” sign-off moments.
I never once watched the show, but I do know “a feeling” when I get one.
The feeling said:
Look further into Ernie Johnson.
So, I listened to the clips and watched the videos, and researched Ernie Johnson further.
After a few minutes in the Ernie Johnson rabbit hole, I came across the book he had written, called “Unscripted.”
If you’re like me and feel the need to realign your beliefs back into harmony with your soul, read this book. It helps you maintain the ability to see something to be thankful for in every circumstance.
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