Absolute Motivation - I Overcame and Returned Stronger: A Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

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If you wake up in the morning, you start having negative thoughts. Man, this ain't my day. I woke up on wrong side of the bed. I'm tripping. I just don't feel myself. In the middle of the day, if you feel yourself doing that, stop. Just stop for a second. And start going over in your mind everything you have to be grateful for.

Not everything you want. Everything you already have. Because what you have is substantial. Life is not easy. It is not. to make it that way, life's not fair, it never was, it is it now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, a feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

Get over it, get on. And yes, most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get them. You should never have to question something that's real. All right, you go through it to grow from it. You go through it to learn from it. You don't go through it just to go back to it. That's like putting your head on a hot stone that you know it's hot and it's expecting it not to burn. Wake up. Stop teaching yourself the same lessons that you should have learned from.

You will never move forward with your life living your life through the rear view mirror. Experiences where we were working on something and we knew it was possible and we did those things that were necessary to bring it into a reality. We took the responsibility to make it happen. All the people couldn't see it. A lot of people didn't believe it. You were attacked, you were criticized, you were criticized, people were opposing it, but you kept on doing it. It was It was hard, it was rough, it was difficult, but to you it was worth it. And eventually you got to a level you know, can't stop me not. I don't care where you come from. I don't care where you were raised.

Plus one is always going to equal two. Ten years of motherfuckin' work when everybody else is partying, making excuses, doing the cool thing on the weekend is going to pay off. You can do this. Small minds. Discuss other people. gossip, good minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas. Fear of failure. Fear of failure can keep you from taking risk. It can leave you

sitting there paralyzed into not taking action. And that is obviously bad. I want you to be afraid of failure. Fear of failure is good. Fear of failure will keep you up at night planning, rehearsing, going over contingencies. Fear of failure will keep you training hard. Fear of failure will stop you from cutting corners. Fear of failure will keep you working, thinking, striving, and relentlessly trying to be more prepared for battle. Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. Think about every poor decision you've made.

decision you've made in your life, there was more emotion that was involved in it than there was mine. Every single one of them. Think about it. Your feelings keep you in bed. Your mind tells you, get up. Practice and practice and practice. Practice makes one. Practice makes improvement. You can always better your best. You can always go beyond anything that you have ever done. You're never hit a state of perfection. You're always bigger than what you do. And And so all you're looking for new breakthroughs through practice and practice and practice, you'll get better and better and better. First thing to do is to forsake what's in front of you, because the attitude that you bring

to what's in front of you will color your entire experience, it will change your character into that of negativity. And you'll never ascend. You'll never get more. You'll never expand. You'll stay stuck. You can think about it. You can wish for it.

You can hope for it. You can think all about it all as long as you want. But unless you get out every single motherfucking day and put in the work inch by inch by motherfucking inch, you will never get there. Formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup. It becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle.

It becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot. It becomes the tea. Do you have the guts to fail? If you don't fail, you're not even trying to get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. Imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential. The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn't use.

And they're standing around your bed angry, disappointed, and upset. They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes? We've got to be excited about the future. We're going to do things that make us want to live. It cannot always be about problems every day. I mean, do you want to wake up every morning and everything is just a problem?

What inspires you and what makes you excited about the future? There's got to be some things like that. need to make it a habit to start every fucking day validating yourself, cheering for yourself, because life is a marathon. And this might be a challenging leg where you're like, I'm just going to throw in the towel. I'm not going to do that thing. Hell no, if you're standing in front of that mirror, you deserve to feel the support and empowerment and encouragement that you need. You are doing so much every single day that you don't give yourself credit for. I don't care how good you are in anything. You don't have discipline. You ain't nobody.

You're nothing about discipline because you give up under the slightest struggle without discipline. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. A gym cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. A plan is better than no plan. That's a really useful thing to know, especially, see if you're kind of drifting. It's like, well, I'm going to find myself. It's like, no, just pick something and move towards it. And as you move towards it, you're going to succeed and fail specifically. And then you're going to learn something about success specifically, and you're going to learn something about failure specifically. And then you can learn what you use to fix your plan.

And have your successes and failures along the way, and learn from them. And then you can You can rejake the goal. You can move the target. We got people out there. We've been done wrong. Just can't get over it. Disappointments. Hold on to all that.

It isn't helpless. The sun rises and the sun sets. And you're the same thing in the spot. Stay home. What do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you want? What if you're not the only one that wants what you want? What if there are thousands of other people who want what you want? You have to outwork them.

You've got to outpiring them. You've got to get up earlier. You got to stay up later. You've got to execute and you got to go from 70 to 120. Stay focused. Don't listen to nobody. What's on your mind, just do it. Because what's destined for you, you're going to get it. As you look into the future, while the people are giving up,

People are giving up, feeling like victims, feeling powerless, becoming negative, turning on each other rather than to each other, feeling that they can't make it. Be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind with the mindset of that it's possible. It's possible that I can find a new profession, a new job. It's possible. I can create a new life. And it's necessary that I become actively involved.

in becoming a positive force in my life. And it's going to be hard. Easy is not an option. But if it's hard, we will do it hard. Whatever is required to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. And it's worth it. Yes, it's worth whatever we have to do. And once we know that, it is done.

Your biggest enemy is you. People don't understand is you against you. The only person that gets in your way is you. Nobody else. It's you. I need you to confront you because you don't want holding you up. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you,

you are not going to do me like this no more. You're not going to continue to sabotage me. You're not. You're not going to keep procrastinated. I need you. You're not. I am one decision away from a totally different marriage, a totally different life,

a totally different job, a totally different income. Your life comes down to your decisions. And if you change your decisions, you will change everything. where you want to be in life. And listen to me, at some point in life, you just, you have to tell yourself

because you don't make the adjustment, you don't make the shift in life until you get to the point where you say enough is enough. And listen to me, you deserve better. About winning before you're chasing. Winning's not loyal to you. It doesn't care about you.

Winning doesn't care how sore you are. Winning doesn't care how much sleep you get. Winning doesn't care how hard you work at times. Winning requires all of you, and then more, and it promises you nothing. It's a mastermind of creating fear and doubt in your mind. It causes setback after setback. So the question is about winning.

Are you willing to sprint when the distance is unknown? And why chase this thing called winning? Because the only thing that's guaranteed in life if you don't chase it is losing. It's one thing to be hungry. It's another thing when you're starving for greatness and starving for success. I know what it's like to operate every single day. Regardless of the success that I've been a lucky son of a wish to achieve, I operate every day as if I'm starving.

Self-confidence is really someone who keeps promises of themselves. Because self-confidence is really like your reputation with yourself. If you've got a great reputation with yourself and you know you can trust you, you're not so concerned about your reputation what other people think about you. More important, I want you to be horrified, terrified of sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing. That is what I want you to be afraid of waking up in six days or six days. six weeks or six years or 60 years and being no closer to your goal you've made no progress that is the horror that is the nightmare that is what you really need to be afraid of being stagnant so get up

take the risk take the gamble take the first step take action and don't let a Another day, slip by. Take responsibility for your life. I got me here, I can get me out of this. And I'm getting out. I'm not going to be a volunteer victim. We all live in this bubble. What you gotta do to get the life that God wants you to have,

you gotta put more air in your bubble. You got to blow your bubble up. Expand yourself. Take yourself out your comfort zone. Do not live in your bubble. Put some more air in your bubble. bubble. If you stay in your comfort zone, that's why you will fail. You will fail in your comfort zone. Success is not a comfortable procedure. It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt. So you got to get

comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful. And what that shows is that if you turn around and you confront the suffering voluntarily, you find out that you are way tougher than you think. It's not that life is better than you think. Life is as hard. as you think, it might even be worse. But you are way tougher than you think if you turn around and confront it. Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. The hard choices, what we most fear doing, asking, saying,

these are very often exactly what we most need to do. You see people who do big things and you automatically say, that guy's so lucky, she's so lucky, she's lucky, she's so lucky. You don't know that. You're assuming that. Going to work every day for 20 years and grinding your ass off and then becoming a multi-millionaire, that's that's a look. That's action and reaction. Quit using the word of luck, quit believing in luck, and start believing in work, start believing in results that come from your actions. Telling your visions to other people because they're not going to see it. Why you think

you keep imagining opening a business? Why you keep imagining graduating, getting a better job. Why do you keep imagining buying a house? Why do you keep imagining getting rich one day? Why do you keep imagining that? Because God is talking to you. He's showing you something that he has for you. It's okay to be unbalanced for a while. It's okay. Don't be all this stuff. People say you got to be balanced. To be the best in the world. At what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find out. on every bit of energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great.

And it takes being fucking obsessed to where people think you're crazy. Let's go. Let's go. You got money, but do you got that dog? Yeah, you got money, you got print, but do you got that dog? You have to lose your fear of failure. Failure is a part of the process. People who never fail, never try.

you have to fail. You gotta get it wrong to get it right. God gives you a dream and I believe that we all have a dream. If God is given each one of us something that's beyond us, and hope and aspiration that makes us look beyond. Sometimes the dream is so big it scares us, but it should inspire us to believe that we can only do it with God's help. The dream is your dream. And sometimes we make a mistake if we want to share our dreams with everybody.

about it. Dreams can get you in trouble. You have dream busters. There's people who don't have a dream and they will try and help bring down your dream. God gave your dream to you. Everything that God gives you, God intends for you to achieve and accomplish. Don't have time to regret. We move on because we are acceptable for what we are, not what we think we should be. I'm accepted in myself by what I am, but not as I think I should be, because that's a lie. I'm a sinner, I'm an old sinner, I've done some bad things, I've done some good things. So, you know, you just forgive yourself and move on. These people that you're comparing yourself to, you don't really know.

You see their shiny outside, but you don't see the reality of their life. People have hard lives, and the ideal that you're observing that makes you jealous and resentful is in large part an illusion that's created by your own mind. Down, get up, and write what you want out of your life, and don't fucking stop. You know what I'm saying? There ain't no vacation. Write it down after a while, the power of the pen, you'll fucking believe it. If you don't have what you want, stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money, you have the time.

That's bullshit. It's because you haven't committed yourself where you would burn your boats. If you want to take the fucking island, burn your fucking boats, and you will take the island because people, when they're going to either die or succeed, tend to succeed. Here's the truth. This is the reality. Nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it. Nobody's going to come and celebrate with you until you've already done it.

Just stand. You keep standing. You keep standing. No matter how rough the sea you keep standing. And I'm not talking about just water. You keep standing. No matter what you don't give up. A difficult and challenging times to demoralize you are.

He said, in life you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities, brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. And I'm saying, in your hands, you have ideas. You have been given something to bring to the universe that was not here before you showed up. Do a little bit more. and a little bit more work. The results are going to come more. More people are going to believe.

Nobody fucking believes in you because you haven't done anything like. That's the reality. That you let go of that hurt and release that pain forever. Your tears have served the ground for far too low. It's time for you to practice that smile day. It's time for that smile to no longer be a stranger. And it's time for you to let go to things that are stripping your heart of this happens. You can't heal by going back to the hurt.

You can't receive your future by hope. on to your past, so stop pressing replay on the things that need to be deleted from your life. He had this beautiful quote and it read, Rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart. I believe there's time for resting at the end. That time is not now. To have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle.

When people can't get up in the morning, I'm going to tell you why, because they can predict the feeling of everything that's going to happen in their life and their bodies resign to the family. resigned to the familiar. It says, oh, another mundane day. But remember when you were a kid and you were going on a field trip? What happened then? You were up and dressed and ready to go before your parents were up because you knew something unexpected was going to happen. That's how we should live our lives. Waking up with the understanding to expect the unexpected and something unusual should happen in our life as a result of our efforts. It doesn't matter. What is your

level of intelligence? What is your level of capability? Introvert, extrovert. Extrovert. This, that doesn't matter. Do you have the courage and commitment to make the possibility into your reality? Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exist in you.

Do not judge so you would not be judge. Radiate and give love and love comes back to you. I will try 100 times to get up. And if I fail 100 times, hundred times, if I fail and I give up, do you think that I'm ever going to get up? No. But if I fail, I try again and again and again. For as long as I try, there's always that chance of getting up. And it's not the end until you've given up.

You have to start living your life in expectation. You have got to start expecting great things to happen for you in order for it to happen. If you live your life in expectations, that's what happens to you. If you live your life in despair, that's what happens to you. Disengage your sense of self, your sense of self-worth from achievement. Once you are wholly focused on sincere pursuit, everything changes. I'll never be rich. never be rich, you won't. You won't. The moment you change the frequency that your tower

emits, different things come back to you. If you change your attitude, you change your altitude. Most of us go through life pretending, pretending that we're satisfied where we are, pretending that everything is okay, pretending that we don't have any special goals or ambitions or When really deep down inside, we do really want more. Because you have to judge a tree by the fruit it bears, not the fruit that it talks about. See, a lot of people pretend that they want more out of life. But all you have to do is watch their actions.

So, you really have to work hard for a set of skills that matter to you. A fool never learns. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. the mistakes of others. So you've got to completely divorce yourself from this notion of outcome and become completely obsessed with the idea of sincere pursuit. And so when you look at the night sky and that sense of awe grips you and calls something out of you, right,

to respond to your encounter with the infant, even your encounter with mortality, you're encountered with finitude and limitation, all of that in relationship to the infinite, that's of awe is also the calling forth of something out of you that can respond to the challenge of that infinite. Well that's the microcosm within, you know. It's a reflection of the structure of the cosmos itself. That's the divine ideal. The only thing that's going to make you happy, my friend, and this year or any other, is to step up. It's to raise the standard, it's to discover what you're capable of and feel that incredible power pushing through whatever's holding you back and get to the other side of more

of your true self. That's what this game's all about. So life is real sharp. So you have all you traveling, add up all your sleeping, out of all your school, and up all your entertainment, you've probably been half your life doing nothing. So out of 30 years, I might have about 16 years to be productive. So it's how we can all break individual lives down. You've got to completely divorce yourself from this notion of outcome and become completely obsessed with the idea of sincere pursuit. Now why sincere pursuit? The reason to tie your sense of self, your self-esteem, your pride, your ego, your identity, all of that, the reason to tie that to sincere pursuit is it's the only part you can control. I cannot promise you that you'll ever

be successful. I promise you that you will be successful. But you can promise and know if you actually did it to show up every day and really pursue it. What do we say but but there always be tomorrow guarantees you're going to show up tomorrow people who were here yesterday that they're not here today there are a lot of opportunities that were around yesterday they're not here today talking about real commitment not that cheap stuff right not that counterfeit stuff not that if I get what I want stuff not that little boy stuff I'm talking about concrete commitment. The commitment that says, can I stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I've said it and it has left. It's easy to say what you're going to do when you're sending these plus seats and it's AC and you've got the words on the wall.

There's people out there that don't want to see you do good. As you know, there's people out there that don't want to see you happy. Don't want to see you accomplish anything. Don't want to see you broke. So you got to go start your journey and the journey starts with you finding why the hell am I here on this planet Earth? Why am I here? If you don't know that, you will live the rest of your life searching, always asking the question why. I'm saying, answer your call. The universe is calling you.

Here's something about life. You can't get out of it alive. Hello? You can't get out of life. Rea said, live your dream now. There's people out there that are threatened by your greatness. People with you, they know they can't beat you. So they're gold, their great ones in life.

One thing they had was composure. No matter what people do, negativity, gossip, drama, rumors, no matter what they do with them, they stay focused on where they were trying to go. No matter what's going on in your life is not permanent. Everything is going to change. So there's two things you can do with change. You can react to it or you can participate in it. It's going to change anyway.

So if you keep waiting around, you're going to have to react to the change. And now you're behind. But if you participate in the change, if you know the job you have is not going to last forever. Where you go to work at every day, that's going to change. So what you've got to start doing is you got to start anticipating that it's going to change and just start living your life with the preparation for change. At the beginning of the year, allow you at going to go. A lot of you had goals, ambition, a lot of drive, a lot of motivation.

Well, it's Easter. It's the middle of April to make sure I'll get too far. With my goals, my dreams, a lot of you aren't proud of who you are. You don't like the person you created. Do what I did. Start from scratch. Create somebody that's a proud of. Stay hard.

You can learn all the techniques in the world. believe in yourself, it won't happen for you. I learned all focus on the seller. You've got to focus on you. And as you convince you, as you sell yourself, every day, every day, every day, every day, you will begin to see a difference in the things that you're doing. Selling yourself on your ability to perform a job, to achieve a certain objective, telling yourself every day, here I go again, and I got what it takes.

This is my day and nothing out here is going to stop me. His Y was greater than defeat. His Y was greater than his trial and his tribulation. And I'm telling you, if you don't know what your Y is and your Y isn't strong, you're going to get knocked out every single day. And say, in spite of this, I'm in control here. When motivation is just a spark to get things moving, but it's your commitment that gets you to the gym every single time.

You don't go because you're motivated. You see, you don't do the things you know you need to do to reach your goals because you're motivated to do those things. You do it because you've got the mindset of a machine. You just say every Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday, this is what I do. Every Tuesday, Thursday, this is what I do. Every Tuesday, Thursday, that's what I do. You just can do it because that's what you set out to do.

Success and failure are not giant events. They don't just show up. You don't just suddenly become successful or suddenly have this cataclysmic event that makes you fail. It may look that way. But failure comes from all the little things. It's failure to make the call. It's failure to check the books. It's failure to say, I'm sorry.

It's failure to push yourself to do things physically that you don't want to do. And all those little failures day after day come together until one day some cataclysm event happens. You blame that. That event happened because you missed all the little stuff. I'm not going to let this get me down. I'm not going to let this destroy me. I'm coming back. and I'll be stronger and better because of it.

You have got to make a declaration that this is what you stand for. You're standing up for your dreams. You're standing up for peace of mind. You're standing up for health. And you're going to go all out to have it. It's not going to be easy when you want to change. It's not easy. If it were in fact easy, everybody would do it.

But if you're serious, you'll go all out. We don't really understand the value of time because we've always had time. We say we value time, but do we really value time? Like some of us, we're holding grudges with people that we love. If you really value time, you would let go on that grudge. We don't think that at some point, this is gonna end. At some point, your parents might not be here. So the more you future think and think that this is gonna come to an end,

at some point, we think that we have forever. And I wanna tell you, forever, ever comes with an expiration date. Make today, every day. Go forward, get aggressive and attack, whether it's on the battlefield or on the beat, or in the factory, or on the farm, or on the construction site, or on the website,

in the garage or in the firehouse. Don't hesitate. Forward. Either way. Okay, being broke is hard for fuck. Being successful, it's hard as far. All you get to do is choose which hard you're gonna be and you don't get to opt out of it being hard.

That's the fucking thing when people fuck up. They think they can opt out of life being hard. No, life is going to be hard. But you get to choose the result that it's going to produce because of it. It is not the darkest moment. That's the problem. You're the problem. And your perspective is the problem.

You thought you was just going to have a dream and a goal. and you were just going to wake up and just walk into the sunset. You have a dream and then life, life poked you. You're going to lose friends. Do you really want this? Do you really want this? And so I'm telling y'all, you have come too far to quit now. You have invested too much to quit now.

You have lost too much to quit now. Get a reward for your pain. This is the only life that I have. I'm going to take the leap of faith. I'm going to jump in it. I know the universe will never give me anything I don't have a capacity to handle. You know, too many times we allow yesterday's troubles to turn into today's struggles. We allow yesterday's worries to turn into today's stress.

Too many of us are good, too good at carrying the things from our past into our present. And we live our whole entire life and stress, our whole entire life, and worry. And we don't use our one superpower that we have, which is appreciation. You get in your own way. That's what self-doubt is. The fastest band-aid ripped off remedy to fixing this. terrible situation is to do the thing you're afraid to do. Do it. It's not about feeling confident about going into the situation. It's not about knowing that

it's going to work out. It's not about having the most detailed plan for how this thing will happen. It's about doing it. Courage. Courage is what you will experience and what you will grow. When the doubt is there but you do it anyway. So your problem isn't doubt. Your problem is courage. Doubt is going to be there. But doubt gets out of the way when you express courage. On the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley. But be the best little scrub on the side of the real. Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be the sun, be a star. But it is a bush. If you can't be a tree.

For it isn't by size that you win or you fail, be the best of whatever you are. But also to remind you, like, everything that you're going through is preparing you. I want to remind you of that. Like, everything that you're going through is preparing you for something greater. Right? Everything that you went through, you made it through. Because you're here. You made it through.

And the things that you made it through is preparing you for what's meant for you. Everything that you went through and made it through. I'm sure you can think right now all the times when you felt like me and my life is over my story is done But you made it through it everything that you went through and made it through is preparing you Was preparing you for what it's meant for you What's your why you need a why why do you need a why because some days you're gonna look at that alarm clock You gonna look at that alarm clock and it's gonna say six and six is the time you wake up and you're gonna look again It's gonna say six oh five and you're gonna say I don't want to get up with that why is gonna say I'm put up

yourself get up mama needs you your daddy needs you your children need you your commitment get up your wife's gonna push you when you can't push yourself when you want to quit and give up your wife's gonna give you that edge you need that advantage you need that that lift that you need to get to the next level your why do the thing and you will have the power we're waiting not to self-doubt any longer right whatever it is that you're deciding that you want to do with yourself that you're doubting your ability on ideas are never going to interrupt you.

They have to be pursued. And if you don't pursue them, you're going to get what everybody else has, which is all this fear, all this uncertainty, all this stuff that won't work, because everybody's focused on what won't work, what can't happen. Why? Because they're afraid. They're afraid to fail. They're afraid to try and feel like they're not enough.

So you've got to stand guard at that mind by feeding your mind. You know, Jim Rohn just said to me, success leaves clues. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. If you want things to change, you've got to change. But you've got to do it. deliberately and consciously. And so what happens is we very often reinforce things when we put things in the negative, right?

I can't get apart. I can't get apart. Can't get apart. Or I can't do this versus I'm going to keep doing this. It's the same thing for you. If you focus on the obstacles, all you will see is obstacles. It's your choice how you choose to perceive your own career. It's literally perspective.

If you watch a great movie, if you read a great book, the size and the power of the hero, how much you become as a hero is defined by how tough an obstacle you face. How difficult is the villain, the opponent? The things you know you're supposed to do and be as strong as you can, mentally, physically, and emotionally for yourself, for your team, for your family.

You up against the rope. And you gotta do me a favor. Like, you can't give up, you can't give in. Life, listen to me, if it was easy, everybody would do it. And if life's got you backed up, I need you to do what Buster Douglas did. Buster Douglas started fighting back. He said, I know you knocked out 30 other people before me, but I won't be the 31st. You gotta tell life, I don't know who you've been dealing with, but you ain't dealt with me.

You gotta tell bankruptcy. You gotta tell divorce. You gotta tell sickness. I don't know who you've been dealing with. But you come up against the wrong one this time. Courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You see? You can't be consistently kind or fair or humane or generous.

Not without courage. Because if you don't have it sooner or later, you'll stop and say, ah, the threat is too much. The difficulties too high, the challenge is too great. There was someone before me, someone found the path, someone made the road before me, and I have the responsibility of making the road for someone who is yet to come. So tonight, the question that I asked you

is what things in your life are you gonna give a funeral to? What things in your life have to die? What things in your life have been keeping you from seeing the greatest? version of yourself have been keeping you from knowing your work have been keeping you for seeing how special you are have been keeping you to live in depression have been keeping you to live in pain what things are you allowing to live in your life that need to be dead because the truth of the matter is and i'm not trying to put fear in your heart but i'm putting reality on your mind the truth of the

matter is we're all going to die but the truth of that is not all of us are going to live It might be April where you are, and you're expecting nice weather, but it's 20 degrees. So, you might be somewhere where it's too hot. So, you have sore legs, sore back, sore shoulder. So, the struggle is real. It never gets any easier. You've got to get harder. No one cares what you did yesterday.

The only man is do it today. I'm a cheerleader for those who want to be better, not for those who want to stay the same. Stuck in this comfort zone, and the comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing never grows there. We're so stuck where it's convenient, we're so stuck in this ritual where it feels good, and so when God tries to shake us up a little bit,

the problem always happens before the miracle. The lessons always come before the blessings. How bad do you want your goal right now? I think there's a lot of people in the world today, because it's really niche thing. talk about I want this this is my outcome this is my goal like how bad do you want you want as bad as breathing do you want it as bad as anything you ever wanted in your life and if you calibrate it at the highest enough levels right found the

people that are the hungriest they find a way you choose to stay comfort you choose comfort you choose to stay comfortable you choose to stay in a place that you know your life shouldn't be at anymore some of us we've been living in the same place for the last decade for the last 15 years for the last five years. And we've been keeping ourselves in the place that has done no good for our life. Some of us need to give that funeral

to the environments in our life. As you know, what you surround your life around is what you'll become. When you go through something, you're going to learn some lessons, but it's not always easy to extract lessons from a bad situation. Every day is a beginning,

a new day, a new week, a new shot at life. An opportunity to come out of the gate like a man possessed and attacked the day without mercy. Today, I'm taking scalps. I'm putting the pressure on. I'm the aggressor. I'm on the attack.

And of course, I will get tired. I will get beat up. I'll get knocked down and drained, and I will have some bad days. We'll not stop. When you know why you want something, when it's desperation, the power of being desperate is something that most people avoid. They think desperation is a weakness. And I'm here to tell you, desperation is one of the most powerful emotions you could possibly possess.

Because when you're desperate, you find reserves and reservoirs of ideas, talents, and a strength that you don't know you have when you find yourself in a desperate situation. So the number one thing we need, more than anything to win, is hunger. which comes from a state of desperation. Yet we're constantly trying to comfort ourselves in the real world to avoid the state of being desperate. And so I love the process. I love it. I love working for what I want. I love the sacrifice. I love the dedication.

I love the commitment. I love that. Everybody wants to prize. Nobody wants to process. Everybody wants to be a diamond. Nobody is willing to get cut. Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die. And I'm saying to you whatever you got to do, do it because if you don't, life is going to whip you until you say, surrender to have it's hard and do it hard.

These are not tears of sorrow, these are tears of joy because the thing I understand, the only thing I need you to do is deal with it in the right way. And watch what God not only does in your life, watch what God does in everybody's life that's connected to you. And the thing about every storm, every storm has an expiration date. So when I don't see the point and I feel like my life is being dismantled, could it be that God's preparation comes packaged, packaged as pain. And maybe if you could see it that way, it wouldn't take the pain away,

but it would give the pain a purpose. If you could see what you've been calling a failure, really wasn't a failure. It was a foundation. Near 25, you could be an idiot. It's no problem. Okay, well now you're the same person at 30. It's like people aren't so thrilled about you at that point. It's like what's the hell have you been doing for the last 10 years? Well, I'm just as clueless as I was when I was 22. Yeah, but you're not 22. You're an old infant, right? And that's an ugly thing, an old infant. So part of the reason, you choose your damn sacrifice, because the sacrifice is inevitable. But at least you get to choose it. Part of the proper path of development in the last half of life

was to rediscover the child that you left behind as you were apprenticing. And so then you get to be something and regain that potential at the same time. Make a decision. Because if you don't decide, well, you know, life decides for you. Indecision is still a decision.