Hey, what's up guys? Before I get started today, I want to draw your attention to the chalkboard behind me I'm getting ready to begin creating some brand new coaching videos A brand new series I'm going to share with you pretty soon and since I'm a visual learner and teacher I figured bringing them back to whiteboard like I used to do back in 2008 2009 Might be a good idea Anyway, today I figured I'd answer a question. I got a question here from our friend Adam And Adam goes on to say hey Elliott You're most likely not going to read this But it never hurts to try You're right buddy Never hurts to try I've been working out lately, but I don't see the point anymore Since my chest sticks out a lot and I mean it. It's called pectus Caronatum The thing is I hate my body every time I look in the mirror I see my chest and I feel like killing myself I can't take my shirt off at the beach or the swimming pools Or to even change at the gym locker room without feeling like shit I don't know how to tell my parents that I Want to see a doctor about it and about my depression Do you have any advice? Well Adam I just discovered what pectus caronatum is because you use the word in your question and Before I share a few bits that might be supportive to you I figured I'd do some research and punch that word in to good ol youtube So I Punched it in up above and I found this wonderful Video from this incredible young man who teaches people how to deal with the very problem that he's struggled with Isn't that amazing He apparently has had the very same problems that you've had and he's took it upon himself to Instead of allowing it to Drag him down and deform his outlook on life to Feature it And bring a gift to the world in fact that's one of the very principles that I live by That if you cannot fix something absolutely cannot fix something Then you must feature it Right of course you do the best that you can to deal with the thing that you're dealing with But owning who you are owning what you have owning your mindset owning your circumstances owning your body Is the first step to life mastery Self-love and I know that's hard when we have challenges, but my man We've all got challenges All right yours happens to be the Portrusion of a part of your body or chest sticks out right Mine interestingly enough. I Didn't like myself. I struggled a bit had some problems with the way I look as well Right and I grew up where there was a clear delineation in my neighborhood and in my School between what's a black person and what's a white person and Puerto Rican speaks Spanish I fit nowhere right how's that to live But over time I've discovered that the greatest gift that I could give to the world is get over myself And then pose various tools and ideas and mindsets that I've used in order to transcend the challenges that God gave me purposefully So that I could be a stronger version of myself and inspire others just like our friend in the video that I'm going to put actually I'm going to put the damn playlist Our young friend has a playlist all about how to deal with pectus Escobatum in fact, you know, I keep calling him young man because I don't remember his name, but I'm going to pull it up right now because he deserves a fucking shout out And I'll tell you why in a moment Jo Lee fitness you'll see him here put on a pectus brace and he's got exercises and stuff and Of course, I'm directing you to go look at what this young man has done um Not just because of the information he's going to give you but because of the young man's attitude right He like yourself Like myself Like every fucking human being on earth Has been born with challenges things that make us different Things that hurt us things that make other people hurt us Things that we don't like that we reject that we want to get rid of but Offer us the greatest gift we could ever have which is a challenge To grow stronger. I often use the metaphor the reason why I'm I speak in terms of strength training is because I'm a coach in that way But unless there's some resistance Unless he adds some struggle to the barbell There's absolutely no opportunity to grow stronger And not only will you grow stronger if you embrace accept look in the mirror right If you've watched enough of my videos on my Elliott Holes channel because this question came to my strength camp channel If you've watched enough of my videos you know That is up to you to love yourself to feature your weaknesses to embrace your limitations to grow beyond them Not for yourself my man We got to get over ourselves and I'm not yelling at you. I'm yelling at all of us I do the same day same damn thing our challenges aren't just for us We tend to be so selfish that we want to take our own lives because the challenge that we have Feeling so sorry for ourselves, but If you man the fuck up because sometimes that's what has to happen their chest friend If you man the fuck up and you handle this and you get over it and you own it Not fix it, but featuring you're gonna give hundreds thousands Maybe tens of thousands or millions of other young people out there Who have the same problem? similar problems all of the motivation inspiration that they need and information To grow stronger themselves bra. You don't grow stronger for yourself. You don't deal with your challenges for yourself You don't grow into the strongest version For yourself and neither do I we do it such that we may empower others Overcoming your challenges is not just your right It is your responsibility done