DON'T LET THE PAIN STOP YOU - Powerful Motivational Speech
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Listen up, corporate types. It's me, Billy Idol. You might use Workday's responsible AI to future-proof your business, but that doesn't make you rock stars. When have rock stars ever been responsible? Be a finance and HR rock star with Workday. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big ROAS man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend.

My friend's still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com slash results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com slash results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. Pain is inevitable. Pain is unavoidable. We can't live without pain. How much pain can you endure?

Are you willing to use your pain? Sometimes pain can be your friend and sometimes pain can be your enemy. There will always be pain. There will always be betrayal. There will always be somebody that doubts you, somebody that overlooks you, somebody that underpays you, somebody that undervalues you, somebody that talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk, somebody that's with you but not for you. We're always going to experience pain.

You just got to understand how to use pain to your advantage. You've been through too much to retreat. Don't run from the discomfort. Lean into it, feel it, and remind yourself that it is only temporary. Pain can lift you up even when you're feeling down. Pain will remind you that you are still alive.

will push you beyond your threshold. Pain is just doing its job. So use it because it's always going to be there. There will always be a measure of pain in your life. In order for things to change, you've got to be willing to get up and do something. You don't have to be perfect, but you've got to make a move. Pain is an indicator light that lets you know that you need to take action on something.

See, we're talking about the game. We're talking about growing. We're talking about suffering so that you can go further. The choice is yours. Use the pain to your advantage. Pain doesn't mean you're finished. Your pain is trying to get you to get up. See, there's the physical pain. There's the mental pain. In fact, there's even the spiritual pain.

It could be a painful day emotionally. It could be a painful day relationally. It could be a painful day financially. Are you going to complain or are you going to use it to your advantage? Your pain is calling you to a higher level of thinking and a higher level of performing. We have to come to a conclusion and know you got to hurt so you can grow. It hurts.

when we hit in the gym it hurts when we're lifting these weights and we're trying to accomplish a goal it hurts it's painful it's daunting it's cumbersome i don't want to do it i'm sweating i'm i'm bleeding i'm crying i'm suffering but after i've suffered there is a reward for those that are fighting and battling with mental stress let me remind you if it did not make you

It can never break you. You got to know how to rise above it. You got to know how to endure. You got to know how to fight for it. And that pain, there's never a day off. Maybe this pain wasn't my enemy. Maybe this pain was building me up even through the hardship.

So instead of a temporary fix, I'm challenging you to use your pain as fuel so that you can begin to design the life you want. You see, you can't build muscle without discomfort. You can't build a business without experiencing challenges, rejection. You can't get a strong and fit body by just laying around and eating whatever you want to eat. No, in order to get there,

You have to experience the pain of discipline Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel imagine if you could use the pain as a passport Imagine if you could use the pain to push you to condition you to prepare you for the stages and the rooms You've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on What if the pain can make you better? What if the pain?

could build muscle? What if the pain could cause you to reach higher, to leap farther, to run faster? What if the pain could help you? What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help? I'm going to use the lessons I've learned to my advantage. Let pain serve its purpose. Use pain. You're not supposed to go through life without a struggle. You're not supposed to go through life

Without some kind of a setback throughout the course of your life, you will build on it and you will grow from it. If you really want to grow, you've got to be willing to admit when you are the issue. There were times when I was ready to give up, but I pushed through the pain and I made it. And that means that you can make it too. Just like you made it through your last storm, you're going to make it through this one.

Dry those tears and get back to work. Dry those tears and get back to your mission. When pain shows up at your door, when people try to inject it, inflict it, use it to your advantage. I'm not complaining because life got heavier. I'm celebrating because I'm getting stronger. Let's go! Use the pain! Your time is not up yet. Your time is right now. Your time is at this moment. And through the pain,

You must rise up again. But as long as I can feel it, I'm not in a state of paralysis. If you can feel it, you can move it. I know you're tired. I know you're weary. All the sweat, suffering, quit right now. But this is not the time to let go. What are you going to do with your pain? Keep going. Use it to your advantage.

Hey, corporate types, Billy Idol here. Just because you use Workday to drive long-term success, it doesn't make you a rock star. Rock stars drive fast cars, not business operations. Be a finance and HR rock star with Workday.

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