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Today, I'm going to be speaking with you about something that's big and impacts everybody at some point or another.

Today, I'm going to talk with you about how to overcome opposition.

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Hey, what's up, champions?

This is your host, Neal Reyes, and I want to welcome you back to the Executive Perspective.

Today we're going to be talking about a topic that I refer to as Overcoming Opposition.

You know, this is a huge topic, not only for today, but always.

In other words, when we teach here at the Executive Perspective, I try to focus on content that I believe is evergreen.

Meaning whether you're listening to it today for the first time, the day, day after it comes out, or the day it comes out, or whether you're coming back and finding it and connecting with it five or even ten years later, this content should be so impactful that it's able to speak with you no matter where you're at and what situation you're facing.

In other words, the content that we endeavor to produce here or that I endeavor to produce here is content that transcends time.

It's topics that aren't necessarily linked to current events, but it's topics that reside and resonate with the nature of people.

You know, people are my greatest passion in life and I find significant or I gain, I should say, significant joy by helping people.

It's one of the things that fills my tank or fulfills me is when I get to be able to help people in what I believe are meaningful ways.

You know, here at the Executive Perspective, we focus on three main areas.

We focus on leadership, we focus on business strategy, and we focus on personal development.

Every topic that I teach touches on every one of those subjects.

But in addition, it's something that I believe can be transcend and be applied to every area of your life.

Well, today, without a shadow of a doubt is one of those topics.

You know, I could do a deep dive and focus on this topic today and break it down just for leadership or just for business or business strategy, or just for personal development.

But as you hear me speak today, it's going to speak to the situations you're in or the situations you've encountered or coming out of.

And I believe it's going to help to be a guiding light, but also an encouragement to help you keep on keeping on.

So as a reminder, the topic that I'm presenting to you today is Overcoming opposition.

And that brings us to our first point of the day.

Opposition is confirmation, not cancellation.

You know, so Many times in life when people are going through things, especially if they're chasing down a dream or if it's something that they feel called in life to do, sometimes those things are met with opposition and sometimes even strong opposition.

You know, I've heard people say before or espouse the belief that when God's called you to do something, it's the simplest and easiest thing to do in the world.

And that's true some of the time, I can tell you from experience, But I can also tell you that when you wade into the deeper waters.

Now, I'm not going to say it's always like this, but when you wade into the deeper waters and the bigger things, the fact is that sometimes the greatest things you go to accomplish sometimes will be met with the greatest opposition in life.

Whether that's opposition from people, whether if it's spiritual forces, whether if it's just things in the world or emotions or uncertainties, whether you're dealing with entities, maybe you're trying to open a business and you just can't get all the right government entities that you need to give you the permits and everything you need to line up in a timely fashion.

I mean, it can be so many things.

Sometimes it could be that you're sitting on that next great product.

Maybe you've designed the next course that can just really emphatically change people's lives.

Or maybe you've written a book that is actually meant to be a masterpiece through the ages, but it just seems like you're being forced with resistance or faced with resistance.

I'm sorry.

That no matter how great this thing is that's in your hands or in your possession, you just can't seem to make it take off.

You can't seem to make it go.

In other words, whatever it is that you're facing today, everybody at some point in life faces opposition.

And today I want to help you to know how to overcome opposition.

At the same time, when you encounter opposition, I want to help to change or shift your mindset, so to speak, that rather than seeing that as something as so negative, flip it and start to see it as confirmation that you're on the right path and you're doing the right thing.

The fact is, it's rare that someone has opposition when they're doing something they're not supposed to be doing.

In other words, if it's something that doesn't matter, if it's something that's not going to have any impact or any change within this world, you know, oftentimes those things are met with no opposition.

But when you're doing something that matters or you're espousing to do something that's going to change and enrich people's lives, oftentimes those things are met with significant opposition.

I'm going to tell you that from a spiritual nature that sometimes they're met with significant opposition.

I've had things in life that God has asked me to do, and it felt like when I endeavored to do them, it felt like as if all of the forces of hell, the gates of hell, were trying to.

To resist me.

And sometimes it can very much feel like that, and sometimes it may very well be that.

But in those moments, you have to dig deep.

You have to recognize that that opposition, that doesn't mean cancellation or that you're not going to be able to fulfill the thing you're supposed to do.

Rather, you need to flip it and look at it as confirmation.

And for me, I say, you know what?

Praise God for the confirmation that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, and I just need to continue to do it and persevere a little bit longer.

You know, resistance often shows up because you're on the right path.

Not because you're on the wrong path, but because you're on the right path.

And those times can be so reassuring because they help you to recognize that you're not off track.

You're doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing in the right timing.

If there's no resistance, you might not be pushing hard enough.

I'm going to say that again, because that may not be something that's favorable to believe, or maybe people may not like that, maybe it doesn't resonate as strong with you.

But I'm going to tell you, for the overachievers who are here in the room today, for those who are listening to this podcast, for the high achievers, the high performers, you have to understand that sometimes if there's no resistance, and it might just be because you're not pushing hard enough.

In other words, when you learn to push and give it your all, your dreams should be so big, your goals should be so audacious, that when you go to push for them, there should be resistance of some sort.

And that resistance is not meant to knock you down.

It's not meant to wear you out, and it's not meant to scare you in any way.

That resistance is simply a confirmation that you're pushing hard enough and you're doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing.

And I will tell you that that is a good thing.

You know, even in life, if you were to go to the gym per se, you know what the going to the gym is referred to.

You know, a lot of times people call it lifting weights, but the technical term for it is called resistance training.

Why?

Because you're constantly pushing or pulling or pressing or doing something, but you're constantly pushing, pressing, or pulling against resistance.

You're purposely pushing or pulling on heavy weight that doesn't want to move, and you're making that weight move.

That's what it means to push against resistance.

Well, that's a natural example.

However, if you look at your personal life, or you look at spiritual examples, or you even look at business or leadership examples, you can compare the same type of resistance training you have in the gym to the same type of resistance training you have in life.

But everyone who goes to the gym, everyone who trains on a regular basis or who has ever trained, and I'm not talking just working out, but I am saying training where they were training for something meaningful.

You know that every time you pushed or pulled that weight and it felt fought against you, and you push through or pull down one more rep, whatever it is, and when the lactic acid started to build in your muscles and burn and it was trying to send signals to your brain saying, stop, this hurts, we got to stop.

Abort, Abort.

You know, when it did that, you dug deep down inside because there was something deep in you, in your heart, that said you didn't care about the temporary discomfort, what the goal is that's on the other side of that you wanted more.

Whether if it was that healthy physique, whether if it was the nice shaped body, whether if it was fitting into the clothes that you desire into, or you just want to look good, or you just want to feel good, or if you're training for something, you want to perform your best, you want to be faster, you want to jump higher, you want to be able to be stronger or run longer or last longer or have better endurance, whatever that thing is that you're training for, you're working on it on the inside.

You know, I tell you all the time on this podcast that, champion, I believe in you.

And if I'm the only one you hear that from today, I want you to know that there's someone out there who believes in you.

I believe you have greatness deep down on the inside of you.

You just have to continue to cultivate it, to grow it and develop it.

And as you do that it won't be long before it shows up on the outside where others are able to see it as well.

And they may think that you're an overnight success, but you know the work you put in the dark corners.

You know the work you put in the dark.

And when I say in the dark corners, I'm talking where the lights weren't shining, where nobody was paying attention in the dark.

In other words, you may not physically be in the dark, but when you're putting in the work deep down on the inside, behind closed doors, you know the cameras aren't on you.

In those moments, however, when the cameras and the lights turn on, they're going to see a success in you that everybody's going to wonder where you appeared from overnight.

But it wasn't an overnight thing.

It was you stepping in, day in and day out, resisting that opposition.

Now, that brings us to our first leadership truth bomb of the day.

Opposition is often the echo of your progress.

Whoo.

That's fire right there.

I'm going to say that again.

Opposition is often the echo of your progress.

In other words, meaning you're progressing so loudly, you're making such a loud thunderclap, so to speak.

And what you're doing, that roar that's inside of you, that's coming, that thing that you have that's inside of you, that's coming on the outside, that progress is creating an echo coming back at you in the face that's appearing as opposition.

And it's simply an echo of the progress that you're making.

Champion, you just need to keep on keeping on, keep on pushing on.

And if you feel like you're ready to give up, then you just need to get up and keep on keeping on.

And sometimes understand that especially as high performers, we feel that in order to be successful, we have to take new ground every single day.

But I'm going to tell you, as a high performer, sometimes just not losing ground, or sometimes just not giving up any ground to the opposition that's waging a war against you, that in itself is success.

Picture yourself.

Or if you've ever seen a video of someone who jumps in like a river that has a strong current, and there are people who do this for training, and sometimes people do it for fun, and sometimes people do it because they're really stupid.

No, I'm just joking.

But anyways.

But if you ever see someone who does that, or if you even consider one of those wading pools, and if you don't know what a wading pool is, I think that's what they're called.

But anyways, they're the ones that they're not very big.

They're a little bit bigger than a hot tub, but people jump in them and they turn on the jets and it's rushing water at you.

And what it basically is, it's like a water treadmill.

It's allowing them to swim in place in the water, but it's allowing them to swim for a distance.

So it'd be equivalent to them swimming out on the lake or out on a river or something.

But if you jump in the river and you have a strong current against you, you know, sometimes you'll swim as hard as you can just not to get taken down the river.

And you may not feel like you're gaining much ground, but sometimes just not losing any ground, that's a victory in itself.

Now, that brings us to our second point of the day.

Don't let uncertainty shrink your posture.

Whoo.

That's a big one right there.

You know your posture.

And sometimes people, when they.

When you watch their nonverbal communication or their physical gestures, you know, sometimes they'll turn around and just kind of slump over or hang their head.

Don't let opposition do that to you.

But not only are we talking about your nonverbal communication on your physical body, I'm also talking on the inside.

Don't let uncertainty shrink your posture on the inside.

You keep your head held high, champion.

You keep your head up and hold it high.

In seasons of opposition, your confidence must speak before your circumstances do.

In other words, I'm going to say it like this.

In seasons of opposition, your confidence has to speak louder than your circumstances are.

They have to not only speak before your circumstances do, but it has to speak louder.

Because in seasons of opposition, your circumstances are going to want to talk to you.

They're going to tell you to give up.

They're going to tell you to quit.

They're going to tell you you're a failure and you missed it big this time, and no one's going to be able to help you.

You're going to go broke.

You're going to lose it all.

What about your reputation?

And on and on and on.

But when that resistance shows up against you, you just gotta keep on keeping on.

You have to let your confidence do the speaking in those moments.

In other words, you need to be so confident in who you are and what you're doing and why you started doing it in the first place.

Why it was important that when your circumstances try to speak to you, they can't even break through your mindset.

But your confidence is speaking louder.

You may not.

You may know full well that it's not easy going right now, but your confidence tells you it's all worth it and it's all going to work out.

You need to stand tall even if your next steps feel shaky.

I'm going to say that again.

Even when your next steps feel shaky.

You know, that kind of reminds me of leg day.

Have you've ever done a really strong leg day and you're at the gym?

You know, sometimes when you've just finished a real tough set of squats or maybe you're doing hack squats or something like that, and you go to walk, man, your legs might feel like you're at the disco at the gym.

You're shaking and wobbling.

But you know what?

You're building stronger muscles for a stronger tomorrow.

Well, sometimes in life we can have those same types of moments.

Maybe the day after leg day.

Especially if you've ever done stairs.

If you've ever worked out your legs really hard and then tried to not necessarily walk up a flight of stairs, but walk down, oh, man, you better hope there's a handrail because it may feel like you're going so shaky down the stairs that you're gonna spill it or go down much faster than what you intend to.

In other words, sometimes it feels like your legs might give out underneath you.

But on the moments in life when you're feeling that opposition, you need to stand tall.

When things feel uncertain around you, you need to stand tall even if your next steps feel shaky.

Posture will always set the tone before progress shows up.

I'm going to say that again.

Posture will always set the tone before progress shows up.

This is something that on the inside of you, you've got your head held up high.

And remember how I talk about that.

I believe in you, champion that.

I believe you have greatness on the inside of you.

You just need to continue to cultivate it, grow it and develop it so that it comes on the outside and others can see it as well.

Well, I'm going to tell you, this is much like that.

Your posture on the inside sets the tone before progress shows up.

Well, that same greatness that I'm talking about that lives on the inside of you, that same greatness can help you stand up so straight on your posture on the inside, with your head held up high and you've got confidence in your eyes that your outside posture matches what's on the inside.

Because what's at the core of you is showing up.

You know, I have other podcasts I've done where I explain that people are like grapes.

And when you squeeze a grape on the outside, whatever's inside comes out.

And the harder you squeeze a grape, whatever is deep down inside, that grape at the core will shoot right out.

Well, people are the same way.

And when you squeeze people, whatever's on the inside comes out.

And when you squeeze people, how do you do that?

People are squeezed with pressure.

And when you squeeze a person, when you're squeezed with opposition in life or uncertainty, the only thing you want coming out of you is confidence and that posture of greatness that lives deep down on the inside of you.

And if you're facing opposition day, then champ and I want to let you know you're built for this, man.

I feel so strong.

I feel that in the spirit to say to you as a word of confirmation, I'm going to call this a spoken word in due season for you, Champion.

You're built for this, and you're built to outlast this thing.

Even if circumstances are flying in your face that feel different, even if your emotions are trying to tell you different, I'm telling you that you're built for this, champion.

You just keep on hanging on, keep on keeping on and keep on pushing.

Now that brings us to our next leadership truth bomb of the day.

You can't control the unknown, but you can control how you stand.

I'm going to say that again because I think that's powerful for people to know.

You can't always control the circumstances or the unknown, but you can control how you stand in those moments.

Now that brings us to our third point of the day.

Push back with purpose, not panic.

I'm going to say that again.

Learn to push back with purpose, not panic.

You know, opposition isn't a sign to quit.

It's actually a sign or a signal to clarify and then press forward with intention.

Man, that's significant right there.

It's not a sign to quit.

Opposite opposition feels like that.

You may feel like you're supposed to quit, but that's not what it is.

You need to shift your mindset.

Remember, I'm an advanced mindset coach.

If you don't know that about me or you're just connecting with this podcast for the first time.

One of the things I do is I'm an advanced mindset coach where I help people shift their mindset.

That's what I refer to, where I help them in the weight room of the mind.

I have Podcasts dedicated to that as well.

But I help you in the weight room of the mind, and I'm helping you that you've got to shift your mindset to recognize that opposition is never assigned to quit, but it's actually signals to you that you need to get clarity or clarify that you know you're doing what you're doing and it's not your why.

Sometimes you need to clarify your why or remind yourself of your why, but other times it's just clarify, am I doing this my best or in the right way I'm supposed to?

Not am I doing the right thing, but am I doing it my best in the way I'm supposed to?

Am I showing up as my best self?

And then you press forward with intention, and as you do that, you're going to smash that opposition and you're going to knock them down one after another and after another and after another.

You know one of the things I say often here on the executive perspective, that as high achievers here on this podcast, we have one direction we move, and that's always, always, always forward and upward because we're taking new ground and every single day and throughout the day, praise God.

Now, the next thing I want to share with you in regards to push back with purpose, not panic, reacting emotionally, and this is a big one here, it gives your opposition power.

Oh, I'm going to say that again.

You may not want to, but if you want to fuel opposition, if you want to give it a fresh tank of gas, then reacting emotionally is the best way to do that.

When you react emotionally or uncertainly or when you're uncertain in your emotions.

In other words, when you react with emotion or when you react like just freaked out and panic, you're actually fueling your opposition with power.

Responding strategically will give you leverage.

I'm going to say that again.

Learning to respond strategically can give you great leverage in those situations because you're strategic in your nature.

You're strategic in knowing what you want.

You've got that clarity about you.

You know your why, you know what you're doing, you know why you're doing it, you know why it's important, and you know what you need to do, and you just need to keep on keeping on.

Now, that brings us to our third leadership truth bomb of the day.

You don't need to push back harder.

You just need to hold steady a little longer.

Who I'm going to say that again because this right here, I could have made the whole video about.

You don't need to Push back harder.

When you're being faced with that opposition, you don't need to push back harder.

You just need to hold steady a little longer.

You know, so many times people feel that when they're being pushed with opposition that they got to push back against that thing.

And, yeah, that's accurate.

Some you do have to push back.

You have to say, not today.

Saying, not today.

You have to say, not today.

I'm not going to accept that.

But at the same time, sometimes it's just about not trying to match that energy or trying to match that force.

It's just agreeing to hold steady a little longer because you know your true north, you know what you're supposed to be doing, and it resonates deep down on the inside of you, and you have clarity about that now.

That brings us to our fourth and final point of the day.

Victory is on the other side of resistance, man.

Let that be a battle cry for you, and let it be a word of encouragement.

Victory is on the other side of resistance.

You know, sometimes you hear me say on this podcast, and I hear it from one of the people who are mentors in my life, that's Terry Savelle Foy.

And I hear her say regularly that someone's always waiting on the other side of your obedience, meaning that whatever you've been called to do in life, whatever your purpose is, whatever your assignments are, whatever season you're in, someone's waiting on the other side of that obedience.

And if you lay down, roll over, and give up on whatever you're facing right now, hand whoever's waiting on the other side of your obedience, they're not going to be able to connect with what it is you have for them, because you're rolling over.

You got to keep on keeping on.

And I don't care what it is that you're facing or if it's a product you're creating, maybe you're just creating, you know, pretty hand soaps and you're thinking, well, my hand soaps just smell good.

Or I have, you know, fragrantly lotions that smell real fragrantly.

How's that going to help anybody?

You know, you may turn around and not recognize it, but when someone puts your hand lotion on or they're washing their hands in that soap, you know, you may not think very much of that, that you're changing lives, but what if that fragrance reminds them of something their mother used to use when they were little?

And maybe their mom's not around anymore.

Maybe they died long time ago.

Who?

This Speaks I can feel this tugging right now on the inside.

Maybe they even died when they were just a little girl or a little boy.

But when they use your hand lotion or they use that soap that you invented that you didn't really think was going to change the world, but you just thought it was a great idea and it was a passion of yours to do.

What if that fragrance is the only thing they've encountered and it takes them right back to that connection point with their mom when they were little and the uncertainty that they're facing in life or the doubts they're having about life and whether life matters or if anybody even loves them.

Maybe now that scent helps to connect them with that moment with their mom and how much their mom loved them and valued them and approved them.

And I'm going to tell you that if you can do that and you can focus on those moments, man, now you've changed the world, even though you might never know that, that's powerful right there.

You know, victory is on the other side of resistance.

Most people give up just one press away from the breakthrough, man.

What do I mean by that?

Well, going back to my weightlifting analogy, remember how I talked about that you're pressing through.

Well, sometimes you just need to press through a little bit more or one more time because that victory is waiting on the other side.

That breakthrough is waiting on the other side.

The key isn't just to endure, but to endure with expectation.

You've got to have expectation that something great is happening.

You got to have expectation that something great is waiting for you.

And that brings us to our fourth and final leadership truth bomb of the day.

What's pressing against you now might be the weight that strengthens your very next move.

I'm going to say that again.

Give me the chills over here.

What's pressing against you now might be the very thing.

It might be the weight that strengthens your next move.

You know, when you're resistance training, going back to the weight room and maybe you've never stepped in the gym or you don't like it, but understand, and I say this often as an advanced mindset coach, I take people into the weight room of the mind.

And even though you may not be a one on one client with me, or maybe you are, I don't, you know, who's listening to the other side of this.

But you know, most of you are not one on one clients with me.

At least not yet.

But even though you may not be, well, you've got me one on one right now with you, either in your earphones or in your car or wherever you're listening to this podcast.

But you got me one on one with you right now.

And as you tune into the content that I produce, I'm always going to commit to taking you into the weight room of the mind, even when I don't announce that I am still taking you into the weight room of the mind.

We're working on shifting your mindsets.

We're working on growing you on that inside.

Remember, I told you I believe in you because I know you got greatness on the inside of you.

Well, when I tell you that you just need to cultivate it, grow it, and develop it, what do you think I'm doing here?

I'm trying to help you with that because you matter to me.

People are my passion.

And you, last time I checked, you're a people.

You were a who.

No, I was joking around.

You were a people.

And you matter to me.

I'm going to tell you that.

Just like that.

Like when you're in the gym, that weight that you're pressing against, man, it might feel so heavy today, but when you break through to your next level, that weight is exactly what prepared you for the next thing that you're trying to go after, that next PR or that next movement, whatever it is.

Well, on life, it's the same way.

Whatever that weight of opposition is that's pushing against you today, you lean into that thing and you give it all that you have.

Because that very weight that feels so heavy for you today, it's the very thing that's training and preparing you, even if it doesn't know that's what it's doing.

And even if that's the last thing it endeavored to do, that weight that's trying to operate against you is what's helping you to push through to your next level.

And when you get to your next level, what feels heavy to you now will not feel heavy to you then, but it will help to prepare you for your walk.

Man, that's fire right there.

Guys, I am so grateful that you stopped by to grow with me today on the executive perspective.

Now, before you go, I want to remind you of a couple things.

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And when I do this show, I do it to give.

I don't do it to get.

Meaning that my heart is not to try to get and receive something, but it's to give.

I want to give meaningful information to help people, to help them connect with their best life right where they're at.

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And guys, before I let you go, because I think it's super important, I wanted you to hear it from me at least one more time.

I believe in you.

If I'm the only person that you hear that from today, I believe in you.

And while I hope that you listen to our podcast every day, I'm going to share with you.

Take a timestamp of right now.

I've already said several times today, but take a timestamp of right now.

Screenshot it on your phone.

If you need to, on your mobile device or computer, whatever you're doing to listen to this, screenshot it.

Why?

Because tomorrow, if you need to hear someone tell you that they believe in you, you can come right back to this moment and hear me tell you that I believe in you, Champion.

I believe you have greatness deep down on the inside of you.

You just need to continue to grow it.

You need to continue to develop it and build it up and let it show up on the outside so that others can see it as well.

And whatever that thing is that you're facing today, you go out there and smash it.

Because you've got greatness on the inside of you guys.

Until next time, thank you and have a blessed day.