How To Find Motivation When Things Don't go as Planned | Inky Johnson Speech | Goalcast

✪Inky Johnson's story leaves us not only motivated and inspired, but also with a great life lesson. His resilience and courage helped him find his life's purpose, even when it seemed that everything he had planned was falling apart. Today his story is a blessing to all who listen to it.
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✪ I REALIZED EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON

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she had me at 16 years old and for the most part of our life she was a single mother my mother is someone who's very very special to me and I had this dream that man if I could just make it to the NFL I could get my mother or for that double shift at Wendy's like man if I could make it to the NFL me and my cousins you don't have to miss Mills so most nights I'll be sitting there in the park and I'll be looking up at the lights and I'll be a vision of myself doing things in the NFL envision myself doing things through my community and just as the lights would always go out my mother she would pull up and she will put the car in park I would say mommy if you don't mind can you please sit back in your car I have to do some extra drills I have to go to the NFL she would never have to work another day in your life and I'll never forget my sophomore season I finally made it to the point in my life where I felt as if everything in my life was lining up my defensive backs coach Larry Slade came in the room he said inky johnson I got some good news for you and I said coach what is it he said son you're a projected top 30 driver he said all you have to do is play these next 10 football games your automatic mo top millionaire I ran out of the room I got on the phone I called my mother my grandmother I said listen I said after this season we were never struggling I said we would never miss another men that come out my first game just a little bit over two minutes left in the game and the quarterback just so happens to drop back and he released the ball to a guy coming down my sideline and my plan was to annihilate the guy separate him from the ball in the game but at the point of contact when I hit this guy something different happened there never happened to me before my life I hit him and it seemed as if every breath in my body left my body was completely limp I fell to the ground I blacked out my eyes opened my teammates ran over to me and said ink it up let's rock let's close it out let's go I said I can't I said what do you mean you can't man we need you I said man you don't get there's a shot one for my neck to my toes I can't feel anything doctors came running from the opposite side and the lead doctor says guys get in here we got a rusted kid back to emergency surgery he's about to die this is when reality set in it was me my mother my father in the room and the doctors came in they said inky johnson ears today he said something we hate to tell you but you're on it would never be the same again your hand and would never be the same again son you can never play the game of football again and she said to him one bad chapter doesn't define the book she said this is only a beginning for my son he'll be fine he's resilient and I walked out of the hospital on the third day you were to strip inky johnson down to his core the spirit the mind said the heart the resilience the dedication and the commitment that you will find that lies on the inside of me it's data boobie lewis which is my mother and she probably gave me the greatest gift that one could give me she believed in me and so I went back to school the next week after they had just saved my life I was back in class I had to learn how to write all over again have to learn how to walk all over again I'd learn how to tie my shoe all over again had to learn how to bathe all over again had to learn how to live life all over getting never one time did I say let me go home I need a break and my last stop to visit they came to me they said sorry inky johnson you would never be able to use this on my hand again in your life I said no disrespect to you doc but I will use this arm in his hand every day for the rest of my life by the way that I live my life every day I'm gonna impact someone's life every day I'm gonna empower someone every day I'm gonna inspire someone every day I'm gonna encourage them because one day in your life you will face something that's a lot tougher than you and your strength and your driving your commitment and your work ethic won't do it you have to realize that it's something inside of you that's greater than anything that life can throw at you and immediately I got everyday I understand and somebody in a free world that's looking at me to see if I'm gonna keep going and so I can't quit and I got told what commitment is commit me to stand true to what you said you would do long after the moon that you said it in has left meaning when I don't feel like doing what I said I'm gonna do I'm still gonna get up and I'm still gonna do it one thing about it character is not something that you're born with character is something that should get up every single day you fight it you build it and so when my life changed not only did my football career in I got a paralyzed right over the hand behind life changed overnight but I was extremely grateful for because the whole time I understood okay there's another person for the inside that you have to tap into in order to give you one of the darkest tough disruptive moments if you like but ultimately a key everything happens for a reason and you have to understand you've been dealt this you've been dealt this this this adversity his opposition in this challenge because somebody in the world needs to see you get through it so it can serve as a blessing in someone else