Hi, This is Wayne Brown from Life Back On Track. Welcome to the latest episode. In this one, I want to talk to you about something that will occur many times in your life, and you need to be aware of this moment because it is a very, very big moment.

Many years ago, I was at a talk by a chap by the name of Jim Rohn. Now this chap is, a lot of people say he's the guy that got them started on their self growth journey. He has a lot of good information. He's written some good books, got some great courses of which I've done a fair bit and at this talk is addressing the crowd. He's talking about moments that can make a big difference and the emotions that are involved in them and this particular emotion that he mentions is discussed. He says, it's a very important emotion, and he says a lot of people call it negative, but it can have powerful positive moments because they are responsible for change.

He says, that disgust, that moment when you have just had enough of a situation, you're just disgusted with the path that you're on, you're disgusted with the situation, the people involved, you basically just at breaking point. The story that he uses is, it's an analogy, and he says his chap is successful, drives a nice car, lives in a nice house, and he's being interviewed as to why he's successful. What was the key to his success? And this chap says to the interviewer, "Come with me and I'll show you" and they go down to his garage and there's this old car and it's well beaten up and rusty and it's full of bullet holes. And he says, "This is the key to my success". And the blokes like, "How is that the key to your success?", he says, "Because I was driving around in that car, and one day I realised I've just had enough. I've had enough of driving this embarrassing car that keeps breaking down and leaking oil and just costing me so much money just to keep running", he said. "I've had enough. So I took a shotgun and I blew it to smithereens, and I kept it as a reminder as to why I'm going".

So there are moments in your life where you will reach a breaking point, where you will reach a crossroads, where you will reach a moment. Well, you have a choice to keep doing things the way you've been doing them or whether you're going to do something different so that you can get a better result.

So for me, I've had heaps of these different moments where, for example, like my second marriage, this was a relationship that was toxic. It was nasty. It was stressful. There was so much anxiety and fear and things involved in it. It was just really powerful. And one day I thought I actually deserve better than this, and I can't see this changing and I've just had enough. I've just had enough. And so I turned around and said, Right, I'm leaving. I've had it, yeah, and she weirdly went and displayed behaviour that basically just proved that what I was doing was the right thing, because it was all the behaviours that were making me leave. So it reinforced my decision.

So I knew then that it was a good decision, even though it was fearful, it was the right decision. I reached that point where I had just had enough. I was at breaking point, and it was either that or I was going to end up giving myself a stroke or something because of the stress.

So I want you to think about what's your breaking point? What's your moment when you're going to say I've had enough of my relationship being like this? I've had enough of my parenting being like this or my conflict resolution, or my mindset, or my stress levels, or my health or whatever. At what point are you going to say no more, no more, because that moment is going to be a glorious, beautiful moment in your life and only you can decide it. Only you can decide.

Now is the time where I've had enough and something different happens. What's going to be your moment? Because only you can decide. Only you can change it for the better. So this was just a little bit of a, hopefully a kick up the pants to strive to do it better, to get a better result for you. What's your breaking point? Is it going to be today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, 10 years? Hopefully not 10 years. You don't want to waste another 10 years of your life. That's not a good thing. Time's a most valuable resource.

So where's your breaking point or big moment? You can change before you hit that breaking point. You can do that as well. It's totally up to you. Okay, so that was today's episode. What's your breaking point? When are you going to change? You deserve it. Go for it. So until next time, here's to a good life.

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