Absolute Motivation - I REFUSE TO LIVE LIKE THIS ANYMORE - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

Episode Date: October 8, 2026

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Build habits that actually stick. The Absolute Ascension app. Link in comments. Listen to me, bro. This comeback has to be personal. This comeback has to mean everything to you. Even if it means cutting some friends off, hell cutting some family off,

this comeback has to mean all or nothing. So many times have you started and stopped? So many times have you taken that chance and given it to the next man because you thought you weren't worthy. What makes them any better than you? What makes them any more worthy of the success you know you truly deserve?

Nothing. And it's been like that all along. You have six months left to the end of the year. How bad you want to change your life? Show me. Nah, don't talk no more. It's time to show me how bad you want to change your fucking life. It's time for you to fucking win.

Get up off the floor and I will see your ass at the top. We have about five choices in our life. You know, we can be bad at what we do. I mean, we can be average at what we do. I mean, we can be good at what we do, which probably is God's expectation for whatever ability he, gave us or we can be excellent or we can be elite. And everybody has a choice as what they want to do and how they want to do that. But if you're going to be excellent or elite, you've got to do

special things. You have to have special intensity. You have to have special focus. You have to have a special commitment and drive and passion, right, to do things at a high level and a high standard all the time. And it doesn't matter what God given ability that you have. That probably can make you good. But without the rest of it, I'm not sure you ever get excellent or elite. Take the first step. The first step is always the hardest step because it forces you like a chick breaking out of an egg when it hatches. The first step forces you to break out of your comfort zone. And the comfort zone is so strong that probably 90% of people are held back from their full potential all their life because of this device-like comfort

And when you take the first step, the only way you can do is break out. And suddenly you see the second step, now the third step and the fourth step. And then as you take the steps, your self-esteem goes up, and your self-confidence goes up, and you become more creative. All it takes is one good year, bro. It's 12 months of doing what you said you would do when nobody else will. The house, the car, the freedom, the lifestyle that you have been daydreaming about. It is all 365 days away. days away and most people will never have that year because they negotiate with

themselves they take days off and they don't want it as bad as they say they want it I am having my year right now I am in the middle of my year so my question is are you if you don't have a goal so meaningful it makes other people's opinions irrelevant you will lose control of your life and you will be forced to adopt the goals that are assigned to you by your parents your teachers your employer and society as a whole If you don't create a goal, you will be assigned one. And if your actions in life are determined by the unconscious, conscious, or subconscious goals that you're pursuing,

then if you don't choose and pursue your own meaningful goals, then you are a puppet. You are controlled by everyone else that is assigning you the goals that they think are best for you. Would you live the hard way for a year so you could live easier for a decade after? So what if you just acknowledge the next year is going to be hard? But I'm going to make choices that I never made. I'm going to be more courageous than I've ever been. I'm going to unlock that creativity. I'm not going to listen to my mom because I know she loves me, but she's trying to protect me.

I'm going to do this. What if you were courageous, bold, made moves, and the next year was hard. But 12 months when I was a little lessover. And 24 months was amazing. 36 months now you were living into who you're meant to be. Just don't give up, even if right now it doesn't make sense. One day, I'm very, very sure. When you start to see the connections and things fall into place,

you will maybe also realize that it couldn't have been different. Giving up was just simply not the question. Because simply never an option. The winners continue where the losers stop. So what stops you becoming the fullest version? It's the things in you that whisper to you that you cannot be the things that you hope for. It's not usually prohibitions, it's inhibitions.

What stops us? are the lies we believe that are not true. You launch towards your goal, never consider the possibility of failure. Always forward, never backward. Always forward, never backward. Never consider the possibility of failure. Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is vital to all great achievement,

and it's always a decision that you make. It's not the external environment. It's always the internal environment. Opportunity mixed with difficulty. Opportunity mixed with challenge. We've got a chance to grow like never before, but I'm telling you, there's going to be many enemies that's going to try to prevent us. As soon as you plant the garden, the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it, and you've got to learn not only to nourish your values, you've got to learn to do battle with your enemies.

Whatever threatens you, I'm asking you to threaten it bad. Take care of your responsibility, but don't take anything off anybody. So many people talk about legacy. I want to leave a legacy. They use it in such a way that it sounds like it's easy. But it really, in order for you to leave a legacy, you've got to live a life worth recording. One that can be an impact,

one that has a voice long after you are gone, an echo that goes into generations long after you've left the face of the earth. Greatness has no moods. You can't just be in the mood to be great. You can't just be in the mood to be a hard worker. You can't just be in the mood to be disciplined. It doesn't work that way.

It has to become who you are. It has to consume you. It has to be your identity. Despite what I'm going through, despite my past failures, despite what people are saying about me, I'm going to get it done. I'm going to execute. It's not what I do. It's who I am. And life will seem like it's giving you hundreds of reasons to not execute today.

But it's just a test to see how bad you really want it. The version of you that you are right now is why you have what you have. you got to make a complete identity switch to get something different. And so what happens is when people aren't ready to do that, they will always go back to the low-hanging fruit that they're accustomed to. Because your presence will require something different. So I was just failing. I kept failing.

I kept failing. I kept failing. So I had to teach myself how to fail right. And what that means is when I fail, I can't spend much time in that fail zone. I have to be able to get up. and get after the next day just as fast. So the big thing is know that if you have big goals

and big dreams, along the way failure is going to happen. So how fast do you get up from that? The easiest thing in the world to do is to complain, blame, and quit and settle. That's the easiest thing in the world to do. But it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an individual

when they're trying to change. You got to stick to the script. You got to continue to take steps every single day. Even if things don't always work out, don't waver. Don't just start to go off the path because you're not getting what you want. You know what I mean? And trust the process. Have faith that things will work out. And that this moment, what you're going through is teaching you something. In life, you have to have no fear. You have to have no fear. You have to believe in who you are and what you do. You just can get it. waiting for. In all honesty, what are you freaking waiting for? You know, there's not just going to be a day where for no reason, you're going to just wake up and say, I'm going to go to the gym every day in perpetuity. Now, it's, it doesn't really happen. Most people don't need their life. They accept their life. And when you accept your life, you are living on things that are not worthy of your time and effort and energy.

To go uphill, you have to be intentional. Nobody ever went uphill by accident. You've never read a book on accidental achievements. You have to be intentional with what you do and who you are. As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. Your job is not to figure out how it's going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head.

And when the door opens in real life, just walk through it. And when I say, life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you, I really don't know if that's true. Why not take a chance on faith as well? But faith, not hope, but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.

You know yourself better than anyone. But sometimes you fall into the trap of believing the world. You're the only one who knows what's best for you. You don't need to look for answers. anywhere else they're inside of you there's going to be noise from every corner ignore it stay true to yourself because when you do every challenge becomes a victory waiting to happen every day sunrise sun goes down so that means there is a up there is a down since we are born we have inhaled 50% of our times we have exhaled 50% of our times

Our heart the same, sucking the blood, pumping the blood, also the same. Meaning always 50-50. Always the exchange between left and right, up and down, bright and dark, in and out, success and failure. The hardest thing to get people about success, the hardest thing is to start. Start, man. Every morning when you get up, say over and over to yourself, do it now, do it now, do it now, I do it now, do it now. Whenever you have this tendency to procrastinate, program your subconscious mind with this automatic conditioned command.

Do it now, do it now. The key to overcoming procrastination is to develop a sense of urgency. Be the kind of person who gets things done quickly. Be the kind of person who launches fast on a task. Five choices, you know, in our life. You know, we can be bad at what we do. I mean, we can be average at what we do. I mean, we can be good at what we do.

Or we can be excellent or we can be elite. And everybody has a choice as what they want to do and how they want to do that. But if you're going to be excellent or elite, you've got to do special things. You have to have special intensity, you have to have special focus, you have to have a special commitment and drive and passion, all right, to do things at a high level and a high standard all the time. It doesn't matter what God-given ability that you have, that probably can make you good. But without the rest of it, I'm not sure you ever get excellent or elite. It's someone so focused on the future that they don't just live in now. If you're looking over your shoulder over who's coming after you, you can never leave a legacy.

In order to leave a legacy, you've got to be the one looking forward. You've got to see the future and predict the things that come and come off a mute and echo your voice into the future by what you invest in others. It's about your DNA. What are you investing in? Remember that it's not the things that happen to you. Like you might not be able to control everything that happens to, right? It's inevitable. Things are going to happen that are out of your control.

But the one thing that is always in your control is how you respond, your perspective, your mindset. And that's the thing that you need to be taking responsibility for and taking accountability for is how you respond to these things that happen to you in life. Things are going to happen. You're going to be hurt. You're going to get faced with adversity. You're going to be heartbroken, right? You might lose somebody. Whatever it may be, there's so many things that will happen to you that aren't in your control.

And you need to focus on responding in the way that is going to help you. that is going to nurture you and help you move forward instead of keeping you stuck. Don't really let anybody take away that dream from you. Nurture it. Water it like you water the flowers. Even if you find only one person in this world that will accept, embrace and support your dreams, find that person and dream big because you can make it. The goal that you seek or the prize that you're seeking.

is in the work that you're not doing. No matter where your goal is in terms of its height or how delusional may seem, you're still going to aim for it and figure out whether or not you'll get there later. Something in you has to wake up, and usually the only person I can wake it up is you. But if you don't have a little flame, you're done.

I can't light it for you. And that's the harsh reality of this life that I want to get across so fucking bad. have to explore, examine the insides of yourself. And what do you really want in life? Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. So if you think insecure thoughts, in a matter of seconds, you are going to feel insecure. Brain is monitoring how you're feeling. and you think more insecure thoughts,

which then makes you feel more insecure. And the repetition of that cycle conditions the body to become the mind of insecurity. And whenever you say, I am anything, you are commanding your mind and body into a destiny. Even if you're tired, you can still go to the gym. Even if you're annoyed with your spouse, you can still speak in a manner that's loving.

Even you don't feel like doing that hard work, you can still push yourself to do it. your feelings aren't a choice. Your behavior and your thoughts are always a choice. Life is about loss. As time goes on, you lose fights, you lose people we love, you lose our hair, and then we lose our life. You know, it's all a loss.

About these loss, but from all these losses, we learn so much. When everything is falling apart in your life, when people are leaving you, when people are betraying you, when people are not coming through with their word, Are you still going to put in the work? Are you still going to execute? Are you still going to do today what you told yourself that you would do yesterday?

Seeing opportunities, instead of seeing punishments and instead of seeing downturns in your life, seeing opportunities, it's just going to have such a much better impact on the way you, the where you get to. Pull a constant vision of what it is you want to achieve, see it accomplish and go all out, find a way to win. In spite of the setbacks, in spite of the disappointments, in spite of your failures.

I tell people, fail your way to success. I have a saying is life knocks you down, trying to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up. I'm continuing to take the steps each and every day, and moving the direction that I know is aligned with, you know, my calling and my that I know that I'll get to where I need to be when I need to be there, right? And all that's doing is distracting you from moving in the direction that you need to be moving into. You know, and the more you focus on what everybody else is doing, the more you're going to continue to make decisions that aren't aligned with what you should be doing.

Doing the same things, hoping to be a better person, expecting same things out of the externals, hoping it would be different. The only way that you can conquer yourself in the moon past us is the renewing one's mind. In order for a man to gain his life, he must lose his life. So you've got to be willing to die to who you are now, to give birth to who you are to become. Understand just how hard it is to work every single day to try to be great. Everybody is excited in the beginning. Like New Year, everybody.

Everybody started in January, gems back. Every year, you get to February and March, habits matter. Habits matter. Principles matter. How you view what you're doing and trying to accomplish matters. If you want to achieve success, you're going to have to pay the price. And it won't be cheap. It'll be tireless nights, long days, isolation, loneliness, tribulation, heartaches, headaches,

in a lot of pain. But on the other side of pain is pleasure. On the other side of pain is success. Those who have left their mark in this world believed that they were chosen for something great. And a lot of us think that it's just the special ones who get to live out their dreams. It's not those who are special.

It's those who believe. It's not those who are magically chosen. It's those who choose to be. chosen. Petitus's question was, how much longer are you going to wait to demand the best of yourself? We all know we have potential. We all know we have things we need to stop doing.

We all know we have things that we should start doing, but we tell ourselves we'll do it later. But will you? So tell yourself the truth about the situation that you're in. That's what we need to do. And it should hurt a little bit, by the way. It should hurt a little bit. There should be aspects of your life that you know you can improve upon.

That should hurt a little bit. Here's the cool thing. Take ownership of those things and guess what? It doesn't hurt at all. Now guess who's in control? You are. But if you're having trouble finding discipline, start by telling yourself the truth about what's going on.

You can have what you want in five years. But there's two conditions. You have to know what it is and you have to aim at it. Figure out what you want. Write it down. Figure out what you could do to start moving towards that. Develop a vision. And you have to do that in dialogue.

with yourself, right? It's like, if I could have what I wanted, what would satisfy me? And you might think, well, I could never get that. And I could say, well, maybe not, but I'll tell you one thing, man. You can move towards it. And I know almost all the pleasure is in the moving toward. Let me tell you a secret. No one does when they begin. Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started. The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate because we feel like we haven't had ours yet. And it prevents people with seeds of good ideas from ever getting started in the first place. Be prepared to be misunderstood. Anyone working on a big vision is going

to get called crazy, even if you end up right. In our society, we often, we often, you're going to don't take on big things because we're so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing. People should know that you never will be able to go through life without failures. Failures make us learn, failures make you stronger, pain makes you stronger. So I think all of that is good. Write everything you want on a piece of paper. Everything. I don't care. Use your wildest imagination.

If you can think it, you can achieve it. Write it on a piece of paper. on piece, read it every morning and every night, come back here one year from today and see how much of that stuff came true. It's easier to live a life you hate than it is to live a life you love. Doing what you love can be hard because we live in a world that encourages the opposite. But that doesn't mean it's right for you. No one can decide what struggle or success looks like in someone else's life.

You get to choose that. And if you don't, then society will decide for you. for you. People will be little your plan. People will tell you that you have the wrong vision. People will tell you that it will not work. But here's the thing. It's not their vision. It's your vision. It wasn't given to them, but there will be people who will try to tear it down. Who will tell you you don't have what it takes? Who will tell you that this is impossible? Who will tell you that you need to be realistic? But nothing great has ever happened from being realistic in their own hearts. Small, Can not see a big plane.

The higher you fly, the deeper you fall. Okay? So if you want to fly high, do it. But if you fly high without somebody telling you before you're starting the flight, that there will also come the descent, then I think it's kind of blind. Just keep it in mind that there is something in our lifetime which is always balancing out. out. This idea of being happy is this concept that people have been sold, right, that life is about happiness. But what if life wasn't about happiness? What if life is about experiencing every aspect and

every emotion that life has? Wouldn't you want to experience the full sudden range of emotions that life has to offer you? The sadness, the heartbreaks, the joy. And you have butterflies, and you're feeling anxious and you have anxiety or nervous, that's when you're most powerful, I believe. A lot of people, instead of homing this power and using it, they allow it to just consume them. A big challenge or big pressure is like a fire. It's like a raging fire.

Either you can allow this fire to consume you and just take you over completely, or you can gain control of this fire and harness it. If you can dream it, it can potentially become yours with the right energy input, the amount of work ethic necessary, and a good attitude, that you have one life. How you live it is your choice, but life will pass you by. You don't want to

be the person that wakes up 30, 40, 50 years from now and regrets what they did. I never like to look back because it's just, there's really not much in it for me, right? It's just I always like to look forward. Do I want to look out the windshield or do I want to look through the wheel? I'd rather look forward because I know where I'm going then rather than I was looking at the back. You think the price of winning is too high. Wait till you get the bill for regret. And that bill for regret is generation. And the only way that bill gets paid off

is you gotta be willing to make the hardest decisions. The energy requires to start doing something is way more than the energy required to continue doing the thing. And the beginning of doing anything results in the lowest amount of reward, internal and external than when you've been doing it for ages. The only reason why you're not living the life that you actually want to live

is because you keep on feeding the life that you don't want to live. Day by day, keep on feeding the life that you don't want to live. That's a lesson that people need to hear and learn. It's so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable. Everybody wants to sit in the car, I don't want to go outside, it's cold. I don't want to do this, it's hot. Like, you've got to do things that you don't want to do because you show your body that your mind is the boss.

It's telling your body what to do, and then you have control. You've got to do something, yeah. If years and years pass and you're just the same dude, then you're not really living in a way. I kind of feel like you're just being pushed through life. I think people are where they deserve to be. And if you look at what they did over the last 10 years, their life is going to look exactly what it should look like.

If you can't become aware of your own internal dialogue and you can't start to have control over your own internal dialogue and you can't start to tell the bitch voice that you have in your head to sit the fuck down or shut up, you're going to have a very hard time making any year your year. In failure and in suffering, all the answers are in there. All the answers to all the test questions, the test is your life.

All the answers are in there. You have to live in suffering and pain and failure all the time. You have to learn, I need to visit it. I'm not going to negotiate with my goal. Like, I've been negotiating sometimes with my goal. At the time in my life where I'm most successful, there's no negotiation. A friendly reminder that in three generations, everyone who knew us will be dead, including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along.

Imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every day. every goal they have. Years later, they get old and die. Two years after that, how much do you care? About as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams. Do it for you. Consistency, consistency, man, that's the name of the game, bro. Don't get much simpler into that. If you keep going every single day and don't stop, they ain't ready for prime time. They ain't trying to really get it right. Grind every day, one foot in front of the other brand. I promise you, let me lap in these folks, bro. Give it a year. Watch what happens. Just do. You're living. How do you want to live? How do you want to die? How do you want to be remembered?

That's, that's it. Nobody can destroy you if you won't let him. Whenever I get to a low point where I think, why do I even bother? I just remind myself, this is when most people stop, and this is why they don't win. Got a fucking fight. It's hard. It's hardest. You're going to have days where you don't want to do anything. You're going to have days where getting out of bed is the hardest motherfuckin' thing. you ever did in your life. You got to get the fuck up and you got to get in the fucking fight. Get serious. That's number one. I don't know any substitute for that. You've really got to get

serious. You don't have to be grim, but you must be serious. Go from average to fortune. You must get serious. And you must get serious about two very important things. Number one is setting your goals and where you want to go. Designing the next five, the next 10 years is so vitally important. What do you want to do economically? Where do you want to go? What do you want to be? You got to keep working. Your time's going to come. Trust me. Just keep working. They're not getting what you want? Keep working. You are getting what you want. Keep working. You got to work. Your time is going to happen. You're here for a reason. But you got to be ready because if you're not, it's on you. The reinvention occurs in the micro-actions that you're taking every single

day, the tiny little things that perhaps no one even notices that are creating muscle memory around new behaviors that perhaps are very uncomfortable to you. Tiny little things repeated over time is what produces dramatic change. I'll get to it tomorrow. I'm like, who promised you that? I'll get to it a month from now. I'm like, who promise you that? Right? Because light changes so quick. We live our lives and we feel as if we promise something. Right, but when you think about it's like when we try to control things, but when you really think about the macro of life and the grand scheme of life, we really don't have any control.

We can control what we possess, emotions, attitude, thought process, perspective, how we speak, how we respond. But just life in general, we have no control of that. How bad do you want this? If it's as bad as you want to live, breathe, or sleep, I can work with you. Most people don't want it that badly. You know how to do it. You know exactly.

how to be you or how to be me. You don't want to do it. And you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything. That's who I want to work with. To get there, luck ain't going to happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work.

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. Now is the only time that action can occur. The present moment is the only time in which we can do anything. So if not now, when? If I want to do something, now is the perfect time to do it

because it's literally the only time anything can be done. Poised for action in the present moment. This is the moment that you've been waiting for. Your whole life has actually conspired to bring you to this exact point. Now is the time to act. You're paying a price by sitting there being miserable. you might say, well, the devil I know is better than the one I don't. It's like, don't be so sure of that.

The clock is ticking. And if you're miserable in your job now and you change nothing, in five years, you'll be much more miserable and you'll be a lot older. The next three months and donate that time to your future self. Commit to something that you're going to thank yourself for doing a year from today. Just accept the fact right now that the next 90 days of your life do not belong to the current version of yourself. It belongs to the future version of yourself.

because all it takes is three months of consistent action to set yourself up for a successful year. This time next year, you don't want to look back and say to yourself, damn, I wish I spent my time doing this. So how are you going to spend the next three months? Are you going to set yourself up for success or is it just going to be another year? You have it in you if you choose to keep going. Because if you have that energy today, then why can't you have it tomorrow? And why can't you have it the next day? And why can't you have it the day after that?

One foot in front of the other, one foot in front of the other. Just like for you on your journey in life, that's sometimes what it feels like. You feel like you have nothing left in the tank, but sometimes you just connect to something, and that something causes you to take just one more step. Because every day is a battle. Every day is a battle because your mind wants to choose the path of least resistance. Every day. But you don't become better by ever doing that.

You become normal and I don't want to be normal. Everything in your life right now, everything you have, everything you do not have right now are all results of your past actions and that's hard to accept for a lot of us But until you accept that you will not be able to move forward and when you do accept that you take ownership and control over your life Short-term pleasure equals long-term pain and short-term pain equals long-term pleasure. Everything you're looking for is on the other side of short-term suffering. And everything you don't want is on the other side of avoiding that suffering. It's a, it's many sprints inside a marathon of life where the winning line, finish line is constantly changing. It's constantly moving. It's constantly evolving. Sadness comes from a perceived lack of options.

It's why it feels like hopelessness. You don't know what to do. Anxiety comes from many options, but no priorities. You solve that by making a decision. And you solve sadness by figuring out what to do, which means that it's something that you can solve through knowledge. So there's only two things that control the quality of your life. Please jot them down.

For the rest of your life you want to remember. The quality of my life is controlled by two things. Meaning and emotion. Meaning and emotion. The meaning that you have to be able to remember. What do you give to things controls the emotion that you feel? Develop a sense of urgency. Yet the reputation as the person who does things fast.

Develop a reputation for speed and dependability and your future will just open up in front of you. Working fast, working fast at sense of urgency, act now, do it now, do it now, do it now. Most people just sort of shuffle through like, you know, they get to it when they feel like it. But all the excellent people, all the high performers have a sense of urgency. Things never feel like they're changing in the moment. Day by day, minute by minute, it's easy to feel like you're making no progress. So you get frustrated and feel like you're not doing enough.

But the reality is, everything is compounding. The day things feel different doesn't happen overnight. The miles you have to overcome aren't conquered in one step, so just keep moving. All of us walk around the stories about our lives. Why choices were made, why things went wrong. stories are the way we make sense of our lives. But what happens when the stories we tell are misleading or incomplete or just wrong?

Well, instead of providing clarity, these stories keep us stuck. The way we narrate our lives shapes what they become. We talk so much in our culture about getting to know ourselves. But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself, to let go of the one version of the story you've been telling yourself so that you can live your life, and not the story that you've been telling yourself about your life.

What would happen if you looked at your story and wrote it from another person's point of view? What would you see now from this wider perspective? Just keep on going down that path, that path of alignment, that path of truth, that path of love and authenticity and gratitude. Keep going down that path, you know, because that's the path where you will find yourself. Once you understand that you can control the future life, it gives you the single most powerful emotion that you can feel hope. And most people live in a state quiet desperation. They can't pay their

bills, they don't feel healthy, they wake up and they're anxious. So why are these things taking place? And if you can address that and understand that if you want to feel different, you must believe that that that what you want is already yours and that time space continuum just has to catch up. You think you have to become something to become someone? I'm telling you right now, you already were created as someone, especially someone at that, you know the statistics of you being you. But yet we're sitting here thinking that we have to become something to be great. For a lot of us in here, our next level is not upward. It's going inward.

Nobody is going to save you. Nobody is going to make it easy for you. Nobody can live your life for you. Endure your pain for you. Choose your struggles for you. Nobody can experience the growth that comes from loss for you. Nobody can build your confidence through a thousand tiny failures for you. Nobody can lie awake crying about some inconsolable loss that hurts so much, it creates a bottomless pit of emptiness for you.

Nobody can learn the lessons for you. You get to do that. You have the honor and privilege to suffer and overcome that suffering, only to suffer and overcome again and again and again. This is called being a lie. Hold up yourself slip away. Come back to the moment. Set your intention and go to need of it. I think we have to clearly define what optimism is.

Optimism is the undying belief that the future is bright, but it allows for reality to exist. And I think complacency has no room to exist in blind positivity, or as we're calling it, sort of blind optimism. So for example, we can be in darkness, we can be in difficulty, we can be in struggle. And the optimist says, look, these are hard times, and I do not know how long we are going to be in these hard times,

but what is necessary is for us to come together, work hard, take care of each other, and I am confident that we will get through this and come out of the stronger than we went in. That's what optimism sounds like. It's hard to believe things that you can't see. It's hard to believe, it's hard to believe these things. But if you can actually sit there and have a conversation

with yourself and believe that all things are possible, then everything is possible. Because like I said, it all starts with the mind, and the mind is the controlling factor of everything. everything. The mind is like the steering wheel of your life. And if you can't take control of your mind, somebody else will control it for you. To edit your life, what's most important to you. When you do that, you do that exercise with yourself, things become clear rather quickly. Say, I want to be the best. So I want to do this. So I want to do that. And if things in your life don't line up with that, get rid of it. It's not

important. I think that it's always the toughest times in your life that define who you are, much more so than the easiest times or the best times. So failures are typically some of the hardest times of your life. So when I look back and I see all sort of the pivotal moments in my life, it was always the struggle. It was always the failure that motivated me, not the like loveliness of success. One day at a time, you're going to say, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. And you do those things. You wake up the next day and you say, I'm still in this shit-ditty situation. I don't have any confidence.

I don't feel good. But I did do what I was supposed to do yesterday. And that's where it starts. It starts this little bitty wind that is seemingly insignificity. And then you go around the second day and you say, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. And you do those things. So you're doing these things day in and day out and day in and day out. And eventually those things that on the first day were so fucking hard for you are now just part of who you are.

And not only are they part of who you are, you feel great about who you're becoming. Stop thinking too much. Don't go into the past. Don't go into the future. Be in the present. Because only then it's possible that the mind is free, capacity is free, and now you're completely immersed into whatever you are doing. And this means you have arrived. You have arrived. I have to align with what's most important to you, what you really believe in, what's meaningful for you. That if you settle for something less than that, well, you might have to do it because you have to pay your bills.

You can't ever give up pursuing what's going to make you feel most alive. Because ultimately, I really believe probably the most sacred thing in our lives that we can give another human being besides our love is our labor. But when nobody's watching, what are you doing? And so if success today was your boss, and success was watching you over the last seven days with the sound off, and there was a video camera following you around it, is success impressed with you? Is success saying, I will see you soon, my friend? Or if success was watching you, they go, wow, the actions sure don't match up to the words. because at the end of the day, the truth of the matter is, what we do produces results, not what we say. What we do ultimately dictates the results in our life.

So think about how you feel when somebody breaks that contract, what breaks that commitment to you. Everything's done. Handshake, everything's negotiated, all the way it's done, it's over with, and they say they're not going to do it. You should be more pissed off with breaking a commitment to yourself. And people do it all the time. People do it all the time.

One of the best quotes I've ever heard on this subject is from Rumi. He said, yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I'm wise, so I'm changing myself. Most people aren't happy, bro. Most people spend a third of their life working at a job they don't like so they can make not enough money. In a relationship that they don't want to be in, doing things that they don't want to do, most people have an idea of who they want to be, but they're not doing a single thing about it. So if that's not the outcome that you want, why do you do the exact same things that they do?

If you want different, then you're going to have to be different. And being different comes with its own set of consequences. People aren't going to understand you. You're going to miss parties. You're not going to have as much fun according to the world. You're going to have to say no to yourself a lot of the time. You're either going to have to face the consequences of being different now, wishing you were different later.

The best way to fight the demons that chase you in the night is to stop and turn around. Turn around. Face them. A hero dies once, a coward dies a thousand times. Unchosen suffering is going to happen in life. Your parents are going to pass away, loved ones are going to die, your relationships are going to break down, your body is going to fail you, you're going to become

ill or sick or destitute. Things are going to happen. You have no control over, and the only way that you can prepare yourself for unchosen suffering is with chosen suffering you can elect to put yourself into a position to become a stronger alloy of whatever the metal is that you're made of and by purposefully choosing difficult things you will arm yourself against that situation you think you got so much time like you think you got so much time not that you need to rush your life but you think you got time make that call man like you think you got time right that letter you think you got time go see that person you think you got time I said man

when I say the most underrated blessing is leaving your house and making it back home every single day people treated like it's a cliche man that's the most underrated blessing because every single day we wake up we walk out of our front doors we just treat life as if it's promised to us it's not problem is you think you have time but in reality you don't so what are you waiting for The story, the story they sell themselves on. Everyone's got a story. And everyone wants to tell you their story

of how bad they had it, how hard they had it. And the more times you tell yourself or others that story, the more you reinforce the fact that you're not meant to have happiness, success, abundance, great relationship, awesome health, whatever. The story, they don't realize that they still hold the pen. and there's thousands of empty pages still in that book that they could rewrite them.

But we have to let go of the pages that others have written in our book and we can start writing how the story looks from this day forward. Whether you do, whether you don't, they're still going to talk about you. At gatherings, they whisper about you if you're making moves or you're standing still.

So honestly, I've come to realize in life, just do you, just do you, do what you want to do. Let them talk. And the only guarantee that you and I are going to have a better tomorrow is the fact that you and I are growing today. If you and I are not growing today, what would make us think that tomorrow has greater possibilities? You don't go into possibilities, you grow into possibilities. You don't go into opportunities. You grow into opportunities. It becomes the natural thing to a person that keeps learning and growing, expanding, and stretching. There's a payoff for bad eventually.

There's a payoff. It can't be bad, but for so long. If you got the strength and the understanding to realize that, shit will change. It will change. But saying I think to myself every day is that I didn't come this far to only come this far. Creativity is no limits. We're not like a limited amount that we're going to use up. When you do something, you check the box and move on.

Do the next thing. We don't live in the past. Create a life resonate do as many things that you can do that you want to do and check the box and do the next thing You take the chance to go after your dreams when you take the risk sure you may fail But what if you fly? What if you succeed? What if you do greater than you could have ever imagined? What if you impact and change? Millings of lives? What if the world is different in a better way because of you? Don't worry about making me mistakes mistakes happen to everybody everybody makes a mistake you're not

special because you make a mistake there's no big deal to make it a mistake it's all in the recovery it's all in the recovery most people don't recover from a mistake if you want to differentiate yourself get the blessing of the lesson get up and move on if you are living a comfortable life it only means You are continuously staying inside the field of what you know already. Every time you are crossing that line, every time you are expanding that order, you are bringing light into a space that before that time was a space of uncertainty. But there is only one way to find out and make uncertainty become knowledge.

And that one is through experiencing it. And everybody's fundamental issue is that you either hate yourself or you do nothing but judge yourself. And this habit of relentless self-criticism and relentless self-rejection is the reason why you're unhappy. It's the reason why you're never satisfied. It's the reason why you can't take a compliment and why you're uncomfortable. And it all comes down to the fact that when you stand in front of the mirror every single morning, you have this really subtle way that's not so subtle of starting your day by rejecting yourself. People change in four different seasons. People change when they hurt enough they have to.

When they see enough they're inspired to. When they learn enough that they want to. and when they receive enough that they're able to. Those are the four times that people change. It can't be focused on the future. What you need to be focused is on the present moment. What you can control today, the habits that you input today, the amount of work ethic and good attitude that you've portrayed today. These are the things that matter.

The stoics used to speak about these things because it's so easy to either reminisce in the past or to be conjuring imaginary scenarios of the future, oftentimes negative, that lead a present moment of stress and a state of being miserable. So if you want to be in a life that is full of equanimity, equanimity means the calmness of the soul,

and a life that is full of peace, you need to be here now focusing on what you can control. Fear never goes away. You just learn to live with it. Here's what I can tell you for free. It's going to be much harder than you think. It's going to take much longer than you think, and you're going to suffer much more than you expect.

But there will be nothing worth it more. What you've got to decide for yourself, do you want to be the person, you want to be. If I remove the suffering from success, you lose character. That's why you suffer. Because the journey you have to go through

is life that's going to teach you, but it's going to give you depth and character. The first thing you have to ask for yourself is, do you want to be who you are, or do you want to be who you are becoming? You're only as good as your last shot. You're only as good as your last sprint. A lot of people that live in past victories

or past failures end up losing in life because they're reminiscing on the past. The past will not determine the future. You need to understand. that every single day when you wake up, you have the ability to reset the clock, and you have the ability to reset the direction of your life. If you were doing something yesterday that wasn't pushing you towards success, that doesn't define it.

You can change. You can adapt. You can re-engineer your future by changing your habits. True happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become. Some people will never like you, Because I believe your spirit irritates their demons. You want to be strong? Learn how to be alone.

Use this hurt as fuel, as energy. Falling down, failing is part of life. Is life? Getting up every day, no matter what is living. It's okay if your path is different than what you envisioned. Trust all the delays, the detours, and the roadblocks. Even if you can't see where you're going to be, you're going to see. you're headed, just trust that many roads can take you where you want to go. Maybe it's taking you longer because you aren't cutting corners or manipulating people to get there. Maybe

it's taking you longer because you're doing your right. Whatever it is, just keep going. You don't have to know exactly what you want to be when you grow up. You just have to try different things, even if 99% of them fail. You only have to be right one time. You don't have to figure it all out in advance. You can be wrong, you can pick the wrong career, you can pick the wrong job, you can pick the wrong spouse, you can pick the wrong whatever. But you get it right one time, you're sick. But if you don't try, and if you don't go out there and try all these different things, you'll never get that one time. What are you willing to do difference? How willing are you? And a lot of people will put words to that, but only time they'll tell whether those

words are followed up by the action that demonstrates the level of willingness that is required to actualize anything of meaning in this world. You understand that you are going to take blows. You're not going to walk through this thing seamlessly, never getting hit by a punch, never losing money, it's going to happen, and it doesn't make you less. It's just going to help you understand and get harder to the facts of things that you have to do in order to succeed. All I would urge you and tell you to do is understand that it does get darker before the dawn, and you must keep pushing through,

because you truly have no other choice. I will do good, no matter what, no matter what happens to me, I will do good, no matter what happens to me. It's an absolute rejection of the idea of being a victim. It's like, no matter how much suffering comes my way,

no matter how much undeserved suffering comes my way, in spite of my innocence, I will not lose faith and I will do good. Fear of not achieving your goal, what we call self-limiting beliefs hold you back more than anything else. And your self-limiting beliefs are not based on reality. That's why you have to constantly think, if I had no limitations, what goals would I set for myself? It's the ultimate passion, a passion for incredible success in every department of my life. That's the passion.

Don't look down on some menial job you have to do to finally get you to where you want to go. No job is menial. Every job is noble, training life for pay, making the contribution to society. Nobody changes until they change their energy. And when you change your energy, you change your life. Don't expect anything in your life to change if your environment is controlling your feelings and thoughts. And if your environment is controlling how you feel and think, What you're really saying is that person is controlling your feelings and your thoughts,

and that means you're a victim to your environment. Well, turn that around, and you start realizing your feelings and thoughts, create your environment, and you start seeing the effects of you at cause. You're going to believe more that you're the creator of your life and less victim of your life. And I say, the more you practice it, the better you get at it. Everything you want will be found on your way to the top. Not once you get there. The character, the discipline, the consistency, the self-respect.

None of those things come with achieving the goal. They all come from the journey. Goals give you direction, but your commitment to the process will give you happiness and fulfillment. So commit to the vision, and wherever it takes you, just make sure you enjoy the ride. You can literally feel when it is time to move into the next chapter of your life. And the thing is, your new life is going to cost you. you your own life. All you are going to lose is what you built for a person. You no longer are. Let it go. It's supposed to be hard. Everything worth pursuing comes with a little pain. A trick

is not minding that it hurts. But the question you have to ask yourself is, who am I, where am I going, what do I want to accomplish? Three major areas of goals that you have to think about. The first is your personal and your family goals. These are, These are the reasons why you're alive. What do you want to accomplish for yourself and for your family? Write them down, define them clearly. The second set of goals that you have to ask is your business, your career, your financial, your material goals.

What is it that you want to accomplish in the external world? Where do you want to make your contribution? The third type of goals you have to ask about are your self-development goals. And in my estimation, your ability and your willingness and your tenaciousness in developing yourself is the key to accomplishing everything else. You know that dream in you that seems out of touch and crazy? Yeah, that one. What if that dream was actually put in you for a reason? Do not buy into the fear that everyone around you calls logic. The dreams that truly make a difference are rarely logical. Be fearless in the pursuit that sets

your soul on fire. The proper comparison group for you is you yesterday. First of all, you're their only control group that's appropriate to you, because you have a certain set of talents and possibilities and limitations and tragedies that are truly unique to you. Shouldn't it just happen? Well, it doesn't. Basically, life is this way.

What you put into it is what you put into it is, what you get out of it. People want their life to be free of struggle and conflict. They want a smooth path in front of them. When you face adversity or things aren't going quite well, you have to reassess who you are. You have to reassess your opinions. You have to say, maybe I'm not doing this the right way.

Maybe my patterns of responding in the past aren't working out. Maybe there's something wrong with me. How can I learn from this moment? How can I get past this particular option? If you never have failure, if you never have conflict, you are never going to develop yourself in life. Even though you are scared, can you still go through with the task? Even though it's risky and you don't know what's on the other side, can you still stay focused, stay locked in,

keep working and keep pushing forward? That's the person that people want to follow. That's the number one way you measure somebody that's hungry? Very simple. their sense of urgency. That's simple. Let me explain to you why. So people say,

you have no idea of hungry I am. Really? Yeah. What'd you do about it today? Oh, not today, but tomorrow, I'm gonna, I'm like, you ain't hungry, man. You just think you're hungry. You are not hungry. Think like the person you intend to become.

Ask yourself, how would the person I'd like to be do the things I'm about to do? Everybody in here wants to get to the next level. Very simple, you can make two lists. And I can tell you if you're gonna get to the next level or not. Make a list of what you wanna do to get to the next level. And on the other side of the list, what are you willing to do? To get to the next level.

And if that list doesn't match, you are so far away from winning, you have no chance. Who do not have time to fuck around? You don't have time to play games, to be in everybody's face, to not be focused on your goal. Every single day counts. You didn't do nothing yesterday and you didn't do nothing today. Every single day that you don't do nothing, bro, is a day wasted.

It's a day that you could have got better. You've developed a false belief system in yourself of what you need to know to take action. And so successful people are willing to step into the unknown and the unprepared more than people who are unsuccessful. So procrastination is really saying, I got to know a little more, I got to prepare a little bit more, I got to get a little bit more ready, more ready, a little bit more ready, a little bit more ready, and you keep raising the readiness quota to a point where you never take action. And so you've got to get to this point where you're like, I'm going to get into the room, I'm going to start to write that paper, I'm going to start the book, I'm going to get into that, and I'll figure it out when I get there. And most people

that are successful have this internal belief system that I don't need to know everything to take action. I just need to know enough to get in the room and I'll figure it out from there. No one has ever, ever achieved anything if they haven't faced failures, if they haven't had disappointments. To achieve anything in life, you have to be prepared to take on the odds. Face disappointment. You only lose when you give up. If you do not give up, you will win from the most incredible positions. The fight is in the mind.

It's not physical. It's in the mind. What are the things that you fear that's been keeping you from living your dream, that's been keeping you from doing some things that you would like to do? Let's think about those things. You must become a vigilant gatekeeper of everything you allow to go into your mind. Anything that gets into your mind is entering holy ground. When you recognize who you really are and why you've been put on this earth,

You'll start to understand why the enemy works so hard to stop you. Why the negative thoughts and the self-doubt seem to come at you like bullets out of nowhere. You were not put on this earth to the average. You weren't put here to sit the sidelines. You were not put here to fail. You were given gifts and talents and skills so that you could go out and make a difference. You were put here for a reason and a purpose. you or could hear to be great.

We all have ambitions, we all have dreams and goals and desires that we want, but really what gets you to where you want are habits, our daily habits. There are negative habits that you can't get rid of, but there are other habits that like discipline, like working every day, like taking steps to reach your goals, that are immensely liberating. And you can get rid of your bad habits through different developing positive habits, right?

So the goal here is to focus less on the giant dreams and on the everyday process of changing your thinking. It's not really about what you want, it's about what you're willing to do to get it. And in that, maybe you have to give something up that may not be a good habit, to replace it with a better habit. Everybody got to make that decision.

So it's not just about what you want. just about what you want it's about what are you willing to do to get it that's what it all comes down to guys I fail to be at the pinnacle on my knee game in any whatever you do you've got to be a little bit gone to it you're not all there you've got to be almost insane to your craft not a lot of people can understand that people think being consistent means never falling off track but that's not true that's called perfection and for most Most, that's just not realistic.

Consistency means staying on track most of the time. And when you fall off, whether it was intentional or not, you pick yourself up and you get right back on. Consistency is about being persistent, not perfect. It can do. All it takes is determination. You'll get your chance. Sometimes it doesn't come as quick as you'd like.

There's a lot of hurdles, but you will get there. You have to believe in that. We have to believe in that. For kids to bet on themselves. Take some chances, get your knowledge, know what you're doing, and then go two feet in, and then bet on yourself. If you go to somebody, you ask for somebody and they shoot you down, or let that be the answer. You have a passion for something, and it's burning, it's your job to curate that passion.

I really believe that. You don't take nose for answers. Never look at yourself in the mirror and said, you let you die. Until you get to that point, you let you die. You're never, you're not brave enough. You want to put it on somebody else. I have standards. I have value.

I chose to do that. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say, why are you only given 50%? What's wrong with you? Nothing in life is promised except death. If you had the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate their moment.

until this past. Seneca said there is no greatness without stillness in it, and I think that's right. What kind of success do you have if you miss every sunrise and sunset, if you're always busy, if you never have time with your family, but also if you never have time with yourself? And so if you don't have moments of stillness in your life, I would ask you what kind of life you're living, and if the kind of life you're living is really your best life. If you do not have clear goals for your life, you are condemned forever to work for those who do. You see, in life it's very simple.

Either you are working toward the accomplishment of your goals or you're working toward the accomplishment of other people's goals. Our actions may be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt, the mind adapts and converts to its own purposes, the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. The secret to an art unknown as turning obstacles upside down to act with a reverse clause, so there's always a way out or another route to get where you need to go, so that setbacks or problems are always expected and never permanent, making certain that what impedes us can empower us. What is a mistake? Everybody will do something which will go wrong.

Making something wrong the first time is not a mistake. It is your chance to correct it. But making the same situation over and over wrong again and wrong again because of the unwillingness to learn something from it. That is the mistake. The hardest battle that we fight is between what we don't want to feel, want to feel and what we know we must do. Following your intuition isn't always rainbows and sunshine. Sometimes it's making decisions for the greater good that really hurt. Just remember, you are

choosing what's best for your soul, and that is worth it. Anything you want good, you can have. So claim it. Work hard to get it. When you get it, reach back. Pull someone else up. Each one, teach one. Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference. The goal is to die fulfilled. How do you die fulfilled? You have to die unfilled. You have to die unfilled. You have to die unfilled. You have to to empty out all of your efforts. You have to empty out all of your knowledge, all of your giving, all of your help, everything you have into making this world a better place, bringing your vision into a reality which should impact many lives. There's a saying, this quote that I really believe in that when the pain of the current reality becomes greater than the fear of change,

that's when we change. So like when you become, that when the pain becomes so intense, that it's greater than the fear that you have of the unknown, then you'll go into the unknown. I had to convince myself that I'm gonna make it. What it does, it makes you feel like there's gonna be points that people are gonna mistake my confidence for arrogance. They don't understand the process of it. Here, there's no such thing as a weekend.

This is an everyday gig. Every day is a Monday. And you might not like that. Me? I love it. To me, every day is a beginning, a new day, a new week, a new shot at life. Our issue is depth perception. We think it's further away than it is. And because we think it's so far away, we create patterns and behaviors in our life that

perpetually keep it there. And that's what we do in our life? But what if that's the great lie of life? And what if the truth is that you're one relationship away, one meeting away, one new tactic or strategy away from completely changing the trajectory of your life. The truth is it was one decision, one meeting, one extra rep, one more phone call, one thing they did that changed their trajectory. That inner conversation, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason that most people take

their greatness, take their ideas to the graveyard within. You know, the wealthiest place on the planet is not the gold mines in the various areas of the world or the diamond mines. The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard. Because in the graveyard, we will find inventions that we never, ever were exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon. Because most people allow that inner conversation for whatever reason to keep them from ever pursuing their goals. When the world tries to get your head up in the clouds, let your humbleness keep your feet on the ground.

When the world tries to get your head up in the clouds, let your humbleness, right? Let your appreciation, let your gratitude, let you remember where you came from, let you remembering your mission, keep your feet on the ground. As you grow, don't lose yourself. As people praise you, don't put yourself on a pedestal. As you continue to climb, don't feel like you are entitled to everything, because entitlement leads to destruction. Instead of going backward, instead of decaying, get stronger. Get better. Grow and learn and develop and live.

Live in defiance of the weakness and in rebellion against the decay. Fight them as they creep in with their offers of instant gratification and immediate. rewards. But when it's your time, your time is it doesn't matter who's on the team. If it's your time, that means your talent, your head knowledge, your heart, and your skill set in practice have come together so that you can step into the moment. When it's your time, no one can deny you. When it's your time, everyone can see it coming. You can feel it, you can sense it, you can own it, and you take dominion over that moment because it's your time. But if you wait on your turn, that's a sense of entitlement.

Waiting for someone else to vacate a position is not how you get elevated. You learn, you watch them, you study them, and then you turn that eye into a rival. You battle for the position, you battle for the moment, and you discover what's deep inside of you. Why is it that most people don't ever reach their goals or live up to their true, potential. One is fear, and there are only two kinds of fears that we're born with. The fear of falling and the fear of a loud sound. All of the fears we learn, like the fear of failure. If you can survive the temporary, even our bodies are temporary, only our souls are permanent. If you can survive the temporary on the other side of temporary pain, you meet another version of yourself.

Many people who believe because of where they're born, because of the, area where they are in life and where they find themselves, that's all they know. See, I know something about you, even not knowing it, that you've got greatness within you. You have the ability to do things that you can't even begin to imagine. You have talents and skills in you that you haven't even began to reach for yet. You rub against that iron so that iron can sharpen iron and make you into a weapon that no one else can defeat because you can not be defeated by the battlefield of your own mind you will not lose when someone else tries to play mine games.

But that's where winners are made. It's in the heart, it's in the mine. When it's your turn, you won't win. When it's your time, you can't lose. This state, pursuing success, becoming someone who is abnormal, becoming someone who sets the fucking standard for others, becoming someone who shows the rest of the the world what is possible is a very difficult path the biggest thing in life is you have to do is you have to be proud of yourself and the most important conversation we'll ever have is when we have ourselves fight go down swinging and i'll tell you if you fight with all you have more often than not you won't go down at all you will win but you have to make that as

a part of your everyday life. Do the extra repetition. Run the extra mile. Go the extra round. Make the right choices. Give the full measure. Make yourself stronger. Mentally and physically.

Stand and fight. And so I've been intrigued with can you be committed to the process of what you do without being emotionally attached to the result of what you do? Because it's not a lot of what you do. Because it's not. A lot of people can be committed to the process of what they do if the results don't change. But the moment the result or the outcome changes of what they're chasing,

they shut it down or they quit simply because the result changed. So can we be committed to the process of what we do, but not emotionally to the result of what we do. Understanding every day I get up and give everything I got to everything I'm a quarter of simply because this is who I am. Fighting is weakness, against fear, against time, and against decay. Fight back, go down swinging. Give every day everything you've got.

The sun doesn't shine every day. The storms will come. There are times when the nights will be long and dark, and you will be alone. There will be times when the darkness seems to consume everything. But don't let it consume you. Don't let it consume you. Suffering is a byproduct of the unknown.

And that's why we will project out into the future and go, what if? Because suffering does introduce a man or discomfort does introduce a man or a woman to their highest self. I call it the other room, like in your head, and everybody's head, like there's this other place that you can go to. You may have been there before. And this other room, this other place, you get to meet your other self. The comfort zone is dangerous. When you're comfortable, you are at most dangerous. You should never feel comfortable.

You should be happy and dissatisfied. You should never be satisfied with what you got. Because the attempt to get more makes you into something better. All the time. Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning. But winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they're being lazy. Passion is that fire that you hold in your heart that will make you final cause to pour your life into. Passion is the thing that made you get up this morning and say I'm going to run, I'm going to lift, I'm going to go after my goals.

Passion is the most powerful motivator that you can have. It's something that must be given to you by God and you must sharpen its tool and put it to work. When it comes to passion, you have to realize that it will increase you. your willpower. It is the thing that is like weights. You start off at one level. The more that you work on, the more you pour into it, the stronger, the more powerful you will become. That's when human beings change. It's like if you want to take the island and you're the head of the army, you want to take the island, the most powerful way to take the island is burn the boats. Because if there's no way to go back, it's amazing what happens when it's a must to do something versus

Even in the darkest times, even in the strongest storms, even when the sun is blotted out and the world is falling apart, the darkness can not extinguish your light. You, your will, your determination, no matter what is happening, no matter how hard the fight is, as long as you keep fighting, you. You win. Only surrender is defeat. Only quitting is the end. Because the darkness only wins if you let it. Do not let the darkness win fight. Fight on.

A fight against the darkness is to win. So fight on. Good intentions are overrated. I know so many people, I'm going to do that. Yes, I think that's a good idea. I think I'm going to do that something. Good intentions are the most overrated phrase in the world. You've got to go from good intentions to good actions.

Nothing happens until you've got good actions. You're not all you could be, and there's pain in that, and there's the necessity for a certain amount of judgment about that, and even a certain amount of exclusion, because what you are that is insufficient in some sense should not be allowed to propagate. further. But, you know, here's some things about you that are virtuous and good, and they're pretty powerful, actually, and if you just made those more manifest, you could dispense with a lot of this immaturity and misery, and you could start walking this pathway that makes things better, and the

thing is that as soon as you start walking the pathway that makes things better, then things they may become better, because your whole orientation changes, and, you know, if you're in a bad place, but you're escaping? That's pretty positive. So find five reasons that empower you. Why is it that you deserve your goal? What are the five reasons that you won't give up? When life catch you on the blind side,

when the messenger of misery visits you, what are you going to do? What will keep you in the game when life knocks you to the canvas? You still have to play the hand that you're given if you didn't have a father in your life. You got to play your hand. If you didn't have your hand,

father in your life. If you did have your father, you got to play your hand. If your family gave you absolutely nothing, you got to steward that. If your family gave you everything, you have to steward that. We have two primary choices in life. We can either accept conditions as they exist, or we can take the responsibility to change them. See, a lot of people want to exempt themselves from taking responsibility. All they want to do is talk about the problem. Every time you see them, they'll tell you their story over and over and over and over again. No, no. You want to 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. You need to make it a habit to start every fucking day validating 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. You got to learn to let the past go so you can grow. Many people never act on their dreams because they allow their past experiences to determine what their possibilities are. Whatever you've done in the past, that's not a reflection of your possibilities. That's just a reflection of your consciousness. The future is unfolding for you right now.

If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. You will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. You feel that pressure inside of you, and it's very heavy. You're motivated. You feel it, I've got to get up in the morning, I've got to do this,

I've got to accomplish this. When that pressure goes away and you don't feel any pressure during your life. You can do anything and there's no consequences for it. You'll just waste time. You'll waste years, you'll waste months. You'll never accomplish anything. You give somebody a deadline, right? They'll accomplish in two months what it would take somebody two years to do without a deadline. It's that necessity, it's that sense of there's a sword at my back. I've got to get it done. Love your life, you know, find the things that you can enjoy, be curious. You don't have to have all the answers.

I'm a hardcore believer that everybody has something that they're really, really, really good at. That could be world-class great, every single human being on this planet. And the hard part is just finding what that is. It is not everyone's job to make sure that you feel good. It is not everyone's job to solve your problems. It's not everyone's job to make sure you're happy. That's on you. only you understand that you are where you're at because of the decisions you made and the actions

you took and if you manage to convince yourself that it's everyone else's fault that you're miserable not only is your entire life a lie but you will be stuck in that misery forever sacrifice temporary fun for permanent dreams or sacrifice your permanent dreams for temporary fun and the reality is a lot of you guys are willing to sacrifice your permanent dreams for some temporary fun it's never been so easy to win because so many people are checked out so many people are scared so many people aren't doing the work it's the time to roll up your sleeves and in many ways spend the next month getting lost from the world optimizing yourself building your battlesheets and game charts dialing in your daily habits so that you

bring it on when you come back out into the world you deserve everything you're going through because you'd rather become good tomorrow than be good today and this immense universal and timeless truth is really boils down to the fact every single thing every single challenge struggle or behavior that you ever want to adapt or avoid asks of you to attain it or to fight it this present moment. You are capable of so much, yet you choose to do so little. You have the physical and mental capacity to contribute something valuable to the world, and you would like to sit on the couch and waste away day after day, week after week,

consuming everything and contributing nothing. You have the option to go out in the world and do something that makes the world a better place and you just choose not to. You know, there are people that don't have a choice. There are people who are confined to the reality that you are choosing. And even on the days where they feel like going out in the world and doing something, they can't. And I guarantee those people would be willing to trade everything to be able to work out, to be able to go to work. Yet you have the audacity to complain.

You don't even see how fortunate you are that you can do these things that you don't want to do. And that choosing to not take advantage of that opportunity is an insult, not only to the people that believe in you, but to the people who don't get to make that choice. You want you start dreaming about what you can become, the effect you can have, the joy it's going to give you, the return that's going to come. You just start designing this incredible purpose for your life. You can see yourself being uniquely benevolent, providing things for people. They never dreamed they could have. Helping them to accomplish things, they never dreamed they could accomplish. How that's going to make you feel, the kind of person you're going to become from it, the joy you're going to get from it.

You just must ponder that and think about it, talk about it, and design it. What's your life going to look like if you don't do it? What's your life going to look like if you don't fucking go out and build what the fuck you want to build? That you have this little vision in your heart and in your mind of what your life should be like. And what are you going to feel like if you don't go do that? What are you going to feel like in a year? Five years, 10 years, 20 years. When you die, what are you going to feel like if you don't go do that?

to be safe because I can promise you bro that dream ain't going away most people dream one day doing something and because they dream of doing it that never becomes a reality if you ever want to do something impactful if you ever want to leave a mark on humanity you've got to be able to write down those goals write down those plans write down that dream and then chase it down like it owes you absolutely everything like your life depends on it because it does for living is a life worth recording. You have to write down those things. You have to set these goals. Set them higher each month. Set them higher each year. It doesn't happen overnight, but it happens every day and every night because the decisions made a day last at night.

Equalities in life is nothing that stops you because it is so heartbreaking, because it goes so deeper. It carries the potential for the highest transformation. If you want to see it, bad is going to be bad. What happened to you is not going to change. You can only determine what is going to be the consequence of what comes to you. How will you transform it? Will you let it stuck inside of you and it slowly eats you up from the inside? Or do you make something different about it? If you recite your excuses long enough, you will actually hypnotize your subconscious mind to think they're true. Most people, you can tell their beliefs by their words.

And then their behaviors, the positive psychologists, call it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Often in life, we go back to our old patterns of, this means this, I'm not the best, I'm not that good, that people won't believe in me, people won't follow me, what are people thinking about me? We have all these questions that don't serve us. Thinking is the process of asking and answering questions to yourself.

That's what a thought is. So when you want to change your life, you change the questions you ask yourself. You begin to take control of the questions you ask yourself. That will change the meaning. It will change your life. The question creates the meaning. The meaning creates an emotion. The emotion gives you the quality of your life.

Hear me very closely when I say this. A person's only limitation is in their development and use of their imagination. The mind could produce anything. The mind could conceive. conceive and belief. If your imagination could see it, it could come into this world. Whether everyone calls it unrealistic or whether everybody supports it, everything you see started in the imagination. But Seneca says, a mind that is settled, a character that is at peace with itself, will always be home wherever it is, both in location and in time. Problem lies with us.

and not with the situation. And outrunning this or that occurrence of that fundamental problem is not a fix, and it only makes us more stressed, more tired. See, nighttime can sometimes be the darkest time in your goals, dreams, or aspirations. And that's why it's so important for you to set your goals while the light is still there. One day, the light will go out for me. And as it begins to flicker in the days of our lives, lives begin to wind down, you will have a regret about what was, what could have been,

what should have been. But not if you go ahead and chase down your dreams. I mean, you hunt it down. You set traps for it. No way I'm letting you get away. Every being has a destiny loaded and coated within them. People want their dreams to come true. Well, you have to come true to yourself to have your dream come true. But if one establishes an intention, then through universal law, That intention is matched because so many people are listening to so many voices in their head. They're listening to so many external authorities. But within each being, there's a destiny trying to emerge. First step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. Very simple. This is what I believe. And I'm willing to die. for. Period. I mean, there are no manuals, no shortcuts, no secrets. You write your own manual, you develop your own shortcuts, you find your own secrets. You go where you're drawn to go, and you learn by doing the work. I mean, if you're scared, if it all seems like too daunting, if the machinery of it all seems too big and scary and overwhelming, it's great. You wake up in

the morning and you do it anyway. Don't get better automatic. you only get better because you intentionally make a decision to get better. You have to go from being a person of good intentions to a person of good actions. That's the great separator. The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and then launch. Get started. Take action. Do something. Move. The act of taking the first step is what separates the losers from the winners or the winners from the loser. There are times in life when you're going through a hard time and you think you're going through a test.

That's not a test. The test is how do you go through the hard time? And if it's a test that you are designed to fail, how do you handle that failure? your story is going to be the greatest story that's ever been told. I'm so glad that you got overweight. I'm so glad that your mindset's all over the place. I'm so glad you haven't been treating the people

that you love the greatest. I'm so glad you haven't been working your ass up. I'm glad you haven't changed people's lives or make enough impact yet. I'm glad you got comfortable with complacent because when you change, the story is going to be that great. The understanding that winners write history,

which means that no matter how difficult whatever the season that you're going through is, just win. Like, keep going until you win. And then once you win, you can rewrite whatever history you want. And that has gotten me through those harder periods because I just knew that I needed to get through to the other side. You really want some? You're going to find a way ultimately. And it might not be today or next year or five years.

or 10 years, but this thing takes priority and precedent over all other things. When you don't want something as much as you think you do, of course, bro. Just like you said, I don't know why I want to live a hard life. We all want to make life easy for ourselves, for our families, for our mothers, boom, boom, that's amazing. And the thought of that is amazing. Sometimes your desire might not be enough fuel. You got to have a strong desire.

And when you have a strong desire, that outweighs all other. You are going to die one day, and every single person whose opinion you're afraid of is also going to die one day, and in 300 years it's probably not going to matter to people whether you did the thing you said you were going to do, or you let people's opinion beat you into submission. And I got news for you, whether you do it or not, people are going to say, they're either going to make fun of you for trying, or they're going to say that you had so much potential and he just didn't try in life or whatever. No matter which direction you're going, it's going to come with some bullshit.

You can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and actually do the thing you want to do, or you can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and die with regret. What you choose to do with your life, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, isn't that important to people. Most people are just focused on their own shit, doing their own thing, worried about their own life. So, fuck it. There is no guarantees. Even if you work hard, there's no guarantee it's going to work out. I do believe hard work pays off and know it tells you when.

And that's the test. Can you maintain your patience? when you don't know when the end is coming. You don't know when it's going to pay off. You just believe in yourself, regardless of who believes in you. Take ownership. Don't make excuses. Don't blame any other person or any other thing.

Get control of your ego. Take ownership of everything in your world, the good and the bad. Take ownership of your mistakes. Take ownership of your shortfalls. Take ownership of your problems and then take ownership of the solutions that will get those problems solved. If it seems impossible, it's even better. You do it anyway. And as you go, like I said, remember that amidst all that machinery, you're the one who's going to make the picture.

You and the spark. In the end, they're one and the same. You guard that because it's precious. how it's time to get to work. Maybe this chapter of your life is meant for you to do it alone. Maybe this is the time for you to practice independency, to do the things you've always known

but kept putting off for some reason. Maybe this phase is for you to be a little bored and lonely because it might be what you need as you're putting the pieces back together. It might not be fun, but it's necessary. Because in order to evolve into the next version of yourself,

you need to find out who you truly are. Everything you do, every choice you made, move you in the direction of what you say your vision is. And when you do that, the forces of life rise up to meet you. The reason why most people have such chaotic lives is because they're living in chaos in their head. And as soon as you get clear, it clears up.

You may be in your dark, out. Noted, night don't ask for help. There's a morning coming in your life. stay down until you come up. You have to learn to do things you hate in order to do the things you love. No payoffs come without sacrifice. Imagine how much further you'd be

if you did things even when you didn't feel like doing them. People think there's some complex formula to winning when the most basic one is do what you said you were going to do before it became inconvenient. Practice, practice, practice, and do not accept failure. Maybe it shouldn't be repetition.

Maybe the answer should be persistent. because we all repeat something, but very few of us really will persist. Get out there. Do what you want to do not accept no. No matter how you travel, whether be in coach or first class, turbulence comes to us all. There is no one exempt from trials. It may seem like others have done it better than you. Some are handling it better than you.

The debt that has to be paid in order for you to have the confidence built on experience. means you got to go through something. When you go through it, you become it, you become more, and you serve more. You become more so you can serve more. You do more so you can impact more. It doesn't matter how you travel, that's temporary. It doesn't matter what pace you travel at. You just have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going.

When it feels like you're not making progress, understand that you are progressing. It doesn't matter what their pace looks like. Slow and steady wins the course. If you love what you do and it's making you happy, all the hard work and perseverance were pay off. I once had a gowning council tell me that I shouldn't play basketball, that it would never amount to anything for me. His negativity towards me made me stronger.

You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams, but you can stop it from becoming a reality. Your dreams are up to you. The more you value you value you. comfort the less you value progress. Discomfort is a necessity for fulfillment. We are made to face challenges to set goals and conquer them and to build great things. Realize that the resistance in your mind is the only thing that makes things hard. So embrace the difficulty because that's where you'll find your true purpose. We all know when we're reliance exactly the person who I become.

The question is do we believe we can make Come. Very few people are going to tell you this, but growth hurts. Becoming the best version of yourself comes with a lot of goodbyes. Sadly, the only way for some people to learn to appreciate you is to lose you. It's really uncomfortable, but you need to do it if you want to grow. The pain that you feel today, though, is going to be the power that you're going to feel tomorrow. It's not glamorous. It's lonely as you start changing, everything around. around you starts changing. It's not even fun in the beginning.

And so you'd either have to have an incredible amount of hope or a ridiculous amount of inspiration and delusion, or you have to be in so much pain that the alternative to continuing this pain that you're in is to try something different because it's the only thing that might be slightly less painful than what you're doing. Most people lack the ability to master the mundane tasks.

They get bored very easily, They don't feel like doing things. They don't understand that. To build a life, it is mundane. It is the same things day in and day out. Operating at a high level, holding a high standard, executing with discipline. Most people just can't do that because they don't have the endurance to do that. They don't have the fortitude to do that.

They don't have the perseverance to do that, which is why it's important for you to build yourself in someone who does. That way you can follow the path to success because there is only one path. And the only path there is is day by day by day by day over the course of a period of time. You've got to be okay that there's going to be people that don't think you're qualified. You got to get okay that there's going to be some people that want to see you fail. You're going to have to get okay that there are going to be some people that never understand you, that never support you, that never cheer you on, and you're okay to do it without their applause. You're okay to do it without their approval.

You've got to get to a season and a space and a time where it's okay. I wasn't doing this for you anyway. is going to give you anything that you have not earned. Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. You have to remember that whatever you've gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured, and they overcame them, and if they overcame them, you can overcome them too. Courage.

Courage is the key to life itself. There are a lot of people who were born in situations with someone, I'll never get out of this, so they won't. I say to people who say, well, I would like to have done so-and-so and so-and-so. So we could have done it. So, well, I couldn't get out of there. Man, the bus runs every day. Will offend people as you're pursuing your vision.

You even believing that anything is possible will offend people. You maximizing your potential will offend people who are so limited in their thinking that instead of progressing their... lives and their mindsets. They want to stop you from being the best version of yourself. And you can either live your life to please them, shrink yourself to a point where they will be happy and comfortable with you, or you can have the shameless audacity to do it anyways, to go after your dream anyways, to learn, to grow, to maximize your potential anyways regardless of who it offends. You do what you love, you will work harder than you ever have worked

and harder than you could ever imagine. Your dreams will call for that kind of commitment. It took an insane work ethic for me to get here. It took time and commitment and sacrificing. Betray your destiny and see how long it takes you to be drowning in a storm. It'll happen immediately, and of course it will, because what's calling you to be your best is exactly the thing that's pushing you forward

to manifest yourself most fully in the world. It's what you need. You run away from that. The boat's going to start to rock very, very quickly. Failure, hell, disappointment, discomfort is a great learning tool. And many people don't understand that, but it's these few moments in life that you have. Rocky won round 14. That one two minute and 13 second clip of Rocky getting up with Apollo 9.

them down. That one clip when I was going through a very bad time of my life, I saw what I wanted to be. It is simple. Ignore and outperform. Yes, while you're over there watching me and talking about me, I'm working. I'm working hard. I'm taking things to the next level. I'll keep focusing on what I can do right. And when you finally look around at where you are and where I am, you will realize you have nothing to talk smack about because you will lose and I will win. It's not lonely at the cop. That's just something losers say to excuse themselves from doing the work that is necessary

to actually become who it is they want to become. Because everybody has this little version of themselves in their heart. They know they're supposed to become. They know what it's supposed to be. They can feel it. They can see it. They know they're supposed to be this bad mother. that exists inside of them,

but they do not have the courage to even say this is what I want to become. And if you don't have the balls to say this is what I want, you sure don't have the inner grit, fortitude, tenacity to go out and create it. So what? That's what you have to think about. So what that people will look over you.

That's what you have to remember. So what that they didn't see value in you. That's what you have to believe. So what? So what? They said. You are more than what people have said. If your life isn't everything it could be, you could ask yourself, what would happen if you just stop wasting the opportunities that are in front of you?

You'd be, who knows how much more efficient, ten times more efficient, 20 times more efficient. You have no idea how efficient, efficient people get. It's off the charts. If we all got our act together collectively and stop making things worse, because that's another thing people do all the time. Not only do they not do what they should to make things better, they actively attempt to make things worse because they're spiteful or resentful or arrogant or deceit, all of those things all bundled together in an absolutely pathological packet. If people stop really, really trying just to make things worse, we have no idea how much better they would get just because of that.

Outwork and outperform every last one of them. The fight that you're not going to be broken by what people have said about you. You're not going to be stopped. because they have rumors or whispers or they have ideas you're about to be so authentic so real that when people experience you you're not ashamed of what you've done you're not ashamed of the mistakes you've made your failures fortified you so what that you've made mistakes now that's to you you've got to be able to look past the things you've done and look towards the things you will do

because of what you've become because of what you've overcome You don't win immediately. You win through trial and error. You win by going to war. You win by battles. What do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you wants? 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 gotta outbind them. You've got to get up earlier. You've got to stay up later. You've got to execute. And you've got to execute. and you've got to go from 70 to 120. I think we have it backwards.

We're so worried about the external things. We're so worried about competing with other people. We're so worried about what this world thinks of us. We're so worried about all these things. The greatest victory isn't external. It isn't a follower account. It isn't a dollar account. It isn't a position in society.

The greatest victory is knowing you already have victory. The greatest victory is knowing that God is already giving you victory. The greatest victory is an internal victory. Because it don't matter how the victory victorious you are in the world. If you're defeated inside of you, what does it matter? Right? He have all the things in the world, but you have no peace inside of you, what does it matter? Right? If you're pleasing everybody else, but you're unhappy, what does it matter? So I want to just say that off top. Make sure you're working in your internal self because that's the thing that

truly matters at the end of the day. So I want to say that. Get away from these people that's in your life that ain't doing nothing. Get away from people in your life that's hate. Get away from your family members they ever followed their dream. Get away from them. I have given every single thing. Every ounce of my life to this craft, to perfecting my craft, and I continue to do so. And in the process, I have lost my mind, but in a good way. See, dirt is necessary for growth and development. Dirk builds character. the push-through factor. Dirt makes you come with it when you don't feel like coming with it no more.

Is somebody talking about you down on your job? Is somebody accusing you or something that you didn't do? Is somebody telling you you ain't gonna make it? See, that dirt builds character in you. When they talk about you, it teaches you to withstand it. 95% of our decisions are made by how you feel in the moment. And that is the problem. I don't care how good you are in anything.

on anything, you don't have discipline, you ain't nobody, in nothing without discipline, because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline, discipline to do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. See, when you accept yourself, and you accept fear as a thought, that means that it's something that happens,

it's something that you're going to experience, but it is not a force to hold you back. It doesn't have any special power other than that that you give it. So you accept the fact that you're going to be it. So you accept the fact that you're going to be able to be it. afraid and then you move on anyhow. I believe you were born to do something great with your life. But the first thing is this, either a reminder or an introduction to you, which is that you were born

to do something great with your life. You were. We think we're disqualified. Oftentimes, the smallest things when we're doing them end up having the biggest ripple effects that changed people's lives. But if we don't walk around knowing we were born to do something great, we may miss the very opportunities to do it and I want you to think about your goals and dreams and I want you to expand them why because it has been said that most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss no most people fail in life they aim too low and hit and many never aim at all not at all they just go through life surviving these notions that you can be whatever you want to be as

long as you want it bad enough or not Not true. They're fairy tales. We all have limitations. But what does that mean? Does that mean I give up? Does that mean I quit? Of course not. Not at all. It means that I'm going to try to be the best that I can be, the strongest, the fastest, the smartest human being that I can become. What will it take for you when others are quitting because of the rejections? and others are stopping because they just become so discouraged and they have creditors breathing down their neck and they have family members and friends telling them they're fool. What is it that will allow you to have the mental resiliency

to keep on keeping on, to keep your commitment to your commitment, the will to do it? You want to surround yourself with people that are hungry. People that are hungry or willing to do the things and they others weren't doing. In order to have the things tomorrow, others won't happen. There's a few lies in life that most people buy into. Number one, most people think they're disqualified

from becoming mega successful. Let me tell you what they do. They think their past disqualifies them. So what you do regularly is you disqualify yourself. What I'm saying to you, what if the truth was that your greatest mistakes are the very things that do qualify you to change people's lives. What if that's the case? Your success every day. Success is a daily thing, not a destination thing. Because so many times people have a tendency

to devalue the moment today. What they do is they greatly value the destination. And so they kind of talk about, well, when I get there, or if I arrive there, or when I do that or when I accomplish this and they don't understand that success is a daily thing and I'm here to share with you that the secret of success is determined by your daily agenda. All those excuses you got they're just fear. They are just fear that the only thing that is keeping you from identifying the things that aren't working and doing the work to move your life into alignment with who you're meant to be and the things that truly make you come alive, the only thing that's preventing you from doing that is you. And you're of fears.

Whether you're like any excuse that you have is just fear. You're afraid to try, you're afraid to fail, you're afraid you're too late, you're afraid of this, you're afraid of that. Now's not the right time. I don't have this, I don't have that. This person would be upset with me. All of it is fear. Fear of rejection, fear of it not working out, fear of being disappointed, fear of disappointing others. That's what an excuse is. You're just managing fear. That is what I'm going to go for. And it doesn't matter, but I will not be better than others when I compare myself to them. No, I will look at others who do achieve greatness in a category, and I will say, look at what is possible. How close can I get to that greatness? How close can I get to that greatness? How close can I

get to that glory. But my glory doesn't happen in front of a crowd. It doesn't happen in a stadium or on a stage. There are no medals handed out. It happens in the darkness of the early morning. My number one competition is me. It's always you versus you. You got to be the one to get up every morning, be disciplined, put in the consistent daily hard work because that gained success. No coach, no trainer, no mentor, no boss can do it. You versus you. you. You can do what you put your mind to. And if you continue to put your mind to it, the game opens up new levels. In each new level that gets opened up, you're able to adapt a different mindset and a different approach. You can stop at that level, or you can go, I want more levels.