Absolute Motivation - IT'S GOING TO BE MY YEAR - New Year Motivational Speech Video

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

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Whenever you try to do something out of the ordinary, people will line up to tell you that you can't do it, why you can't do it, that you'll lose your time, you'll lose your money, that you will in effect, die in the deserts. Even people who should know better will try to discourage you. To achieve anything greater worthwhile, you must train yourself to rise above these people and ignoring them and pressing on towards your goal regardless. If your life was a movie and the audience were watching up to this point, what would they be screaming at the screen telling you to do with your life? What would they be screaming? You've already achieved goals that you said would make you happy. If you haven't made it now, if this isn't when life is going to begin, when are you going to start? You know why you don't like change?

You know why it's uncomfortable? Because your nervous system does not like new things. Because its job is to survive. That's it. And every time that you have to become somebody you've never been, that version of you, who you were, has to die. That's the complete opposite of what the nervous system wants. So this is why it is so painful. This is why we seek familiarity.

This is why it's so hard for us to develop a new belief system. When you understand how your actual mechanism works, this pain is just an illusion. I'm actually moving in the right direction. That's how I know I'm actually changing because I'm feeling this. Your pain is the pathway to your progress. Hey, listen, going into the new year, I don't have a long wish list. I just want to finally give myself for everything that I've always deserved

my peace my growth my discipline and the life that reflects the work that I've been putting in that's it how much longer are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself

you know you're not being the person you're capable of being you know you're not fully realizing your potential you know you're doing things you want to stop doing and you're not doing things you want to to start doing. So how much longer are you going to wait? How much longer are you going to wait to start? This is the one thing all fools have in common, Seneca said, always getting ready to start. We don't say we're never going to do it. We say we're going to do it later.

I am not like everybody else. I don't want to be like everybody else. I have something inside, which is burning. And I look around and this life and everything I see is not for me. I'm supposed to be something different. I think the first thing, a person needs is they need a dream. You got to have a dream. I don't know how people survive in life with any kind of peace or happiness or fulfillment without having a dream.

A dream needs to be something that there is a possibility of fulfilling. Otherwise, it's not a dream, it's a fantasy. But you need a dream. And don't be afraid to dream big. You know, the saying is that if your dreams don't scare you to death, they're not big enough. Your dream needs to be bigger than you are right now. There's a specific person that you've got to get out of your life right now.

It's the person that wants to remind you of who you were. It's the person who wants to remind you of how you used to be, what you used to do, how you used to do it. That used to person's dead. Anybody who wants to resurrect that person cannot be. you in your life. There is nothing more important than getting people out of your life. They want to pretend you're the person you were yesterday. They want to act like you're the person you were yesterday. You're evolving, you're growing, you're advancing. You need to be focused on you right now and anybody that wants to bring you back, anybody that wants to pretend you are the same person that they knew

one, two, six, seven years ago, get them the hell out of your life. Trajectory. Focus on your trajectory. You can't keep living in this all or not. mentality where you have to do the perfect set of perfect things in the perfect order just like that guy you follow on Instagram does. That guy's full-time job is personal development. He gets paid to sit in a cold plunge. You don't. You are going to make mistakes.

You are going to mess up. So if you have that all-or-nothing mentality, when it's not all, it's going to be nothing. You're going to be the guy that gets one flat tire and then gets out of his car and slashes the other three simply because he doesn't have four perfectly inflated tires. Makes no sense. The measuring stick is not, am I perfect? The measuring stick is, did I get closer to who I want to be or did I get further away? Am I moving in the right direction?

Am I going down the right path? Focus on path over perfection. You're doing this for you. And this is something I've only realized relatively recently, but after a certain level of material comfort, the only person that you need to do this thing for is you. conscience knows when you're being honest and when you're not. Think optimizing to make that person happy, that conscience happy, is a really good idea. What if, what if problems were always gifts?

What if every single problem really was a gift in your life? What if every problem you ever had was life happening for you, not to you? What if everything in our lives is guided? What if everything in our lives? was divine title, every fit, even the pay. What are you going to do when no one's watching? Are you going to operate to your standard? You're going to cut corners?

I can tell you this, dude. I try very fucking hard to operate in my standard all the time, 24 hours a day, even when no one's watching, especially when no one's watching, because that's when you actually gain more of the discipline and strength that you need to uphold those standards. I think every single fucking human should have a set of core values in a mission statement and a vision for their own lives. And most people don't.

Most people just go along with the flow. They swing into someone else's vision and they stay there for a little bit and they swing into someone else's for a little bit. And then they get to be older in life and they're like, why the f-if there's nothing worked out for me? Well, the reason nothing's worked out for you is because you don't live what you say you're about. You don't have a plan for yourself.

You don't have a mission statement for yourself. You try to cut the corners when no one's watching. Bro, you'll lose that way. That's just it. It's always harder, takes longer, and costs more than you think it well. It makes sense because if it did it, then everyone would have it, and everyone had it, then it wouldn't be worthwhile. And so if it's hard, that's amazing,

because it will make you that much harder once you conquer it. And it will also make it harder for anybody else who wants to follow in your footsteps. And so the higher of the mountain you climb, the thinner the air gets, and the rarer the climber or explore must be in order to get there. If you can survive temporary pain, on the other side of temporary pain, you will meet another version of you. Every time I wanted to quit, I didn't make a decision to not quit the rest of my life. I made a decision not to quit for one more day. One more day just don't quit.

One more day, hang up. People who win are disciplined about winning. They don't just casually take a look at this. They don't just casually try something. They jump in with both feet because they absolutely intend to win at it. And that's going to require discipline and consistency on your part. As you start to study, you're going to learn things. You're going to learn the skills that you need.

That's going to require discipline on your part. All of which, by the way, you can learn any of these skills. You can learn anything, but you're going to have to be disciplined. There's this revered master who everybody wants to study under, and it's almost impossible to get to him. And so he's interviewing candidates. And the aspiring samurai comes to him and says, how long will it take me to be a master?

And he says, 10 years. And so then the young samurai, eager to kind of prove himself, he's like, well, what if I work twice as hard and I work day and night to become a master? How long will it take then? And so the master sits back and looks at him and says, 20 years. The young samurai is like, wait, what?

how can I, how can I take twice as long if I, if I'm working harder? The master replies, if you have one eye fixed on your destination, then you only have one eye left to find your way. But I think what's truly important is the ability to detach yourself from the outcome. It is one of the most important things that I have adopted in my life. Set the goal, know where you want to go, know where you're aiming, and then let it go. It's possible, in fact, it's probable and likely. It might take you longer to get there.

And so what if it does? If it does, you're still making forward progress every single day. It's really important to we understand that better is not always visible. You can be getting better and not be public, because very often private victories will precede public accomplishments. Most people never pick up the phone call. Most people never ask, and that's what separates sometimes. the people to do things from the people that just dream about them. You got to act.

And you've got to be willing to fail. You've got to be willing to crash and burn. You know, with people on the phone, with starting a company, whatever. If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far. You need discipline. You need personal discipline. There's times when you don't feel like doing what needs to be done. to get this.

But you got to say, feelings has nothing to do with it. This is my dream. This is what I'm going to do. And I'm going to do the things that I don't feel like doing. I'm going to do the things I don't want to do. I'm going to do the things that don't come easy to me, that do not come natural to me. I'm going to get up and do it.

You can't live your life on feelings. loneliness. It's a feeling we all experience, though it's rarely something we talk about. When it creeps in, it can feel overwhelming, suffocating even, as though you've been cast aside, forgotten, or left to face the world alone. But here's a thought. What if loneliness wasn't something to run from? What if instead it held the keys to a deeper understanding of yourself? loneliness is often misunderstood it's painted as emptiness as a void that needs to be filled with people noise or distractions in reality loneliness isn't the absence of connection it's the opportunity to reconnect with yourself and in a world that's always pulling you in a million directions

solitude is a rare and powerful thing we live in a culture that glorifies being busy being surrounded being plugged in. We equate a full social calendar or an endless stream of notifications with a full life. And when that quiet moment comes, when the noise fades and the distractions stop, loneliness feels like failure,

as if being alone somehow makes you incomplete. That's the misconception. Loneliness isn't about what's missing outside of you. It's about what you have yet to find within yourself. When everything else is stripped away, when the spotlight dims, and the crowd disperses,

you're left with the one person who will always be with you. Yourself. And that's where the real work begins. There's a reason so many of life's breakthroughs happen in the quiet. When you're alone, you're forced to face the parts of yourself

that are often buried under the noise. The insecurity you try to ignore, the dreams you've been too afraid to pursue, the questions you've been too distracted to answer, solitude gives you the space to reflect, to feel, to grow. It's in those quiet moments that you start to see yourself more clearly, not the version of you that you present to the world, but the real you, the one with doubts and fears and flaws, but also strength and resilience and untapped potential. Growth doesn't happen in comfort.

It doesn't happen when you're surrounded by constant validation or external noise. It happens when you're willing to sit with yourself, to embrace the discomfort of being alone, and to use it as a chance to understand who you are and what you want. Silence has a way of bringing clarity, of stripping away the distractions and revealing what truly matters. In solitude, you can hear your own thoughts without interference. You can tune into the voice inside you, the one that gets drowned out in the chaos of daily life. What is that voice telling you? What dreams have you put on hold? What truths have you been avoiding? Loneliness doesn't just leave you with questions. It gives you the space to find answers.

And those answers? They're the foundation for the life you're meant to create. Instead of seeing loneliness as a problem to solve, try seeing it as a tool to use. Use it to reconnect with yourself. The ability to be comfortable in your own company is a rare and powerful thing. It means you're not afraid of the quiet, of the stillness, of the moments when it's just you and your thoughts. It means you've built a foundation with you. within yourself that doesn't crumble when the world around you shifts.

When you learn to value your own company, loneliness stops feeling like a burden. It becomes a choice, a time to recharge, to reflect, to reconnect. It becomes a reminder that you are enough exactly as you are. Here's the reality. The time you spend alone is never wasted. It's where the most important growth happens. It's where you learn what you stand for, what you value, and what kind of life you want to build. Loneliness can be painful, yes.

But it can also be transformative. It can teach you resilience. It can help you find clarity. It can show you that your strength doesn't come from the people around you. It comes from within. If you're feeling lonely right now, don't run from it. Sit with it. Embrace it.

Use it as an opportunity to grow, to reflect, to reconnect with the person you're becoming. This is your time to build something extraordinary, not outside of you, but within you. Loneliness isn't the absence of connection. It's the space where you rediscover yourself. And in that space, you'll find everything you've been looking at you. for. Well, well, well, if it isn't the guy that thinks it's too late, then this is one part that I try to tell people and teach them. If you're trying to go to that uncommon amongst the uncommon place, it's a lonely motherfucker up there, man. If I had to pick one trait for a young man

to have, it would be resilience. Let me ask you something, bro. Why not you? I think I know why. It's because you never really believed it in the first place. Do you want to be on your deathbed, knowing that you could, but you didn't? I'm not asking you for very much at all. I'm just asking you to be disciplined now. If you go visit the darkness that you've been running from, you'll have the opportunity to leave a better person. Like if you're going to live, you're going to be pushed past your living. Right?

If you're going to live. So... But who knows what you discover when you push past your limit? People will try to put the same limitations on you that they put on themselves. Don't mistake their insecurities for your ceiling. Death is real. And the clock's going to keep ticking whether you like it or not. You have right now.

You just have to take the first step. I define resilience as the amount of time after an understanding. time after an aversive experience that you return to baseline function. And so if you have a series of behaviors that you do under certain conditions and then something bad happens, how quickly you return back to the original behavior set. And so in doing that, like if someone can not give up and learn, then on a long enough time rising, you guarantee victory. Like if you only had those things, you don't stop and you get better. That's it. you don't feel like doing something that you're not doing it for how you feel now.

It hurts right now. It's inconvenient. It's uncomfortable. You're doing it for you in the future, you tomorrow, you in a year from now. You will thank yourself for staying consistent in the times where you felt like giving up, where it felt like the most viable option. But it is in these moments that separate those. who prevail and those who don't. You will weigh in the long run.

You just can't give up. That is the only way you lose my friend. The warrior is strong, yet his sleep is fragile. His wisdom, an amalgamation of precedent, yet his decisions cannot be based on the frailties of man. He is rather fueled by divine inspiration, ascending from the heart. He knows not anger, and only fears. the unknown. The warrior does not judge, for his true assignment is to deliver evidence of

superior behaviour to the creator of all men. The warrior does a dream of frontiers. He only sees horizes. The true warrior knows, accepts, and embraces, above all, integrity which is this course in life, and only when one can fully absorb of these most divine of all virtues, can one at last see how impossible and futile it is to make war. One of the things that I've noticed between champions and everyone else is that people, everyone else, is so excited when they win. They're so excited, you know, by the idea of them getting first place. But there's a reason that they never get first place. It's because they're excited about it. The people who always, and very consistently hit first place and win the championship, are relieved

because they tend to hate losing more than they love winning, and they expected to win because of the level of preparation they had compared to what else. I don't like the notion of everyone saying, oh, he got lucky, yeah, he got lucky, yeah, of course. But luck to me is not what everyone is saying. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. The most important question that you have to ask yourself in life is how badly do you want what you want? How badly do you want it?

Or do you want it at all? You see, there's an awful lot of people who want an awful lot of things. But how badly do they want it? If you want it so badly, if you want it with tremendous intensity of desire, there's really nothing in the world that can stop you from getting it. Don't let them ever see you with your head down, bro. Get up. You're not tired.

Get up. They're watching. You know, your kids are looking for their father to be strong. And somebody they can follow, don't disappoint them, bro. Don't let the troubles that this world bring you down. Because there's so many people counting on you to make it. you're not tired get up

and do it for them do it for that when the lights are off and everybody else has gone home and everybody else is taking a break and everybody else is just doing whatever they are going to do what are you doing that

that's going to determine what your life outcome is it's about how you move when no one's watching it's about how you work when you're not going to get applause it's not about what you do on Instagram it's about

what you do in reality. You've been taught that it is just about showing up on time and doing the job. Greatness does not come from doing what you're supposed to do. It comes from you deciding what you actually want and you saying, I am willing to do whatever the takes to create that, no matter how hard, no matter how long, no matter what I have to go through, I will get there. How do you want to live? How do you want to die? How do you want to be remembered? There was no passion, no drive, no nothing. But I had this fire that I'm going to be somebody. I want to get people in the confidence to walk in a room of a million people and none of them like you and you just like say, I'm good. And walk out with you by yourself. Our single life guts,

isn't doing this stuff. They're going past your head. current levels of comfort, hitting new levels, get knocked on your ass. That is not the hard part of life. The hard part of life is when you don't have the time to do this and ignore. And you didn't achieve everything willing to do. And you look back when you're like knowing there were pockets throughout your existence, but you could have applied yourself. Now, all it's left is you in a self-arrest, self-corral estate, thinking, wow.

I could have been great. Wow. I could have done something with my life. Now stop with this shit over like a man. Think of that. And you're in here hurting, man. You're wondering, how do you go on? The other question is, how can he not go? I think the most important thing is to become the best version of yourself, to become and achieve your fullest potential. But you can truly become whoever you want to be. And I wanted to push this message of hope. And I wanted to push this message of if you work hard, maybe you are consistent, and if you dedicate yourself to a worthy ideal, you can become whoever you want to become.

Give people the freedom to think negative thoughts about you. And when you let people think negative thoughts about you, it unlocks your confidence, it frees your self-expression, and it will catapult you into. a whole new chapter of your life, your career, your happiness. This is amazing. Give people the freedom to think something negative about you. Let them. You have zero control over someone else's opinion of you. So it is stupid to waste your time trying to manage it. The fact is it's impossible to control someone else's thoughts. Therefore, fearing what other people think or trying to control their thoughts is a complete waste of your time. You will never feel in control of your life, your feelings, your thoughts, or your actions until you first stop being consumed with or trying

to control what other people think about you. The ones doing the least will always talk the most. They don't see the hours you put in, the risks you took, and the sacrifices you made. They just see the surface and scream from the sidelines. Because the ones in the arena, they don't boo. They know what it takes. They know what it costs. So keep building, keep showing up, and don't waste your breath, explaining your grind to anyone who's never laced up. Most people have way more potential, but the thing is people aren't pushing themselves. You need to start thinking how much you can put yourself instead of trying to see how much you can get away with. And learning how to push yourself more, you will unlock a level of potential

that will look fucking crazy to everyone else. And if you can do that, that on a consistent basis, your whole life can change. Within a year, everything can change. But most people never push themselves. Everybody's trying to see how much they can get away with. They're not ready to get extreme. You know, just being extremist, you will bring so much more your potential to the surface.

Your goal is growth to the grave. If you are breathing but not growing, you aren't living. You're dying. Make every moment of your life a moment of growth. There will be discomfort. There will be failure. There will be pain.

and there will be growth to the grave. And all of us have this conflict going on at all times inside of us. And it's between two forces. And the first force is your survival instinct that's been with us for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years. Once this inject into you fear and doubt and worry and anxiety, and once you fight or flight, and that's kind of your voice of fear and your inner critic.

And that's really loud. That voice is in your mind all the time. And then there's another voice, the second voice. And that voice has been written about and talked about by philosophers thousands of years. And that voice has been called many names. It's been called your intuition. That voice is a little quieter. And that voice isn't in your head.

A lot of times it shows up in your body. It shows up in your heart, your gut, your chest, you feel that. And unfortunately, that first voice really drowns us out a lot of times. And the thing is that the voice of fear will lead you to a life that's too small. And you know this. You already know this. And the reason you, the way that you know this is you feel this. You know, you feel this conflict, this dissidence and tension when you're in that position, when you're doing something that's too small.

If you want to reach full power in this one life of yours, it's in the second voice. It's in the voice that's the real you. So if your false identity says that you're a loser, you're a deadbeat, you're not deserving, you're a failure, you're not worthy, you will find evidence in the world to reinforce that. If your identity then says, I'm a winner, I'm deserving, deserve happiness, abundance, joy, success, and I will always find evidence in the world to find that. It starts off with rewriting your story. Be specific about how you want your life to look in the categories that matter.

Write down specifically what you want your life to look. And then once you write that down, go, what are the habits that this month needs to have in order to bring that story to life. When you bring that story to life, the false identity sheds and the new identity is developed. It's a long grind, and it's totally worth it because it's not about where you get. It's about who you become in the process of getting there.

And when you quit, you'll never meet that person. The heart part of quitting is not just that you lost your dream. That's bad. Worse is you're never going to meet the man or woman you could have been. you pursued it. But what is even way better than you think it will be is who you become in the process of getting there and being proud of you.

And I could tell you the things you'd be most proud of is the fact that you lasted, is the fact that you got up after you quit, is the fact that you go, you know what, I did quit, but I'm getting back. I'm getting back up. I lasted, I'm tough, I'm resilient, I'm mentally tough, I innovated, I improved, I grew,

I thought, I clawed, I competed, I won. That's way better than you think it is. It's way better. Man, remember that when I almost quit? Remember that time I was down for a while? Remember when that person said this? Remember when that controversy?

Man, that one would have knocked anybody. Remember when that person stole for me? When that person did this to me? Just so you know, everything you think probably bad will happen, probably will and worse. And that's what makes it so sweet when you last. Live your life at full power. And I believe that that power is already inside you right now.

And that the way to access that power is through your second voice. And your second voice is not just the path to accessing that power, but it will also show you where to direct it, to have the biggest impact that you're going to have in this world. That voice speaks to you in the language of energy. That's how you know what it's saying. So go toward that energy. Make a promise that you will constantly move in the direction of the thing that gives you energy,

particularly the thing you knew you would do if you knew you wouldn't fail. That voice wants you to go all in. I want you to experience yourself at full power. So make a promise that you will not wait, that you will not utter the words, not now, but you'll go all in with wherever you are in your life right now. I used to think that there were millions of decisions that we would make and that life was really complicated. I think that I've realized if you want to live at full power and feel the full magnitude of what you can do in this one life that you have, that there's really only one decision. Which voice will you listen to it? I think when you feel stuck or dissatisfied in your life, it's a signal and it's not a signal that your life is broken. It's a signal that one of your most basic needs are not being met. Your need for your need for you.

for exploration. Everything about your life, about your body grows. Your cells regenerate, your hair, your nails. Everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. So get out of your head.

Your feelings. Your feelings are screwing you. I don't care how you feel. I care about what you want. And if you listen to how you feel when it comes to what you want, you will not get it. Human being has to have a sense of purpose.

The feeling of no purpose is suicidal. So what people do is they create a false sense of purpose. Their false sense of purpose will be attention. If I get so much attention from people and so much recognition, then I'm fulfilled. But then you can never realize that. You can never get enough attention. It's an individual.

you had a purpose in light. You had something you were meant to achieve. Because you have a unique DNA, unique genetics, and unique parents, unique experience, something about you is truly original and weird. And to the degree that you mind that weirdness and your uniqueness, you can become fulfilled. You can create something beautiful and lasting.

We live in a world obsessed with perfection, the perfect body, the perfect career, the perfect relationship, the perfect life. We scroll through social, social media, flipping past polished images, filtered moments, and curated stories. It's also easy to get caught up in this illusion of perfection, that if you just get everything right, just line up all the pieces, then success and happiness will follow. But here's the truth.

Perfection doesn't exist. It's an illusion, a moving target that you'll never quite hit. And the more you chase it, the more you waste time trying to get everything just right, the further you'll drift from your real goal. Because perfection isn't the goal. Progress is. We are conditioned to think that we need to have everything aligned before we can move forward. We wait for the perfect moment, the perfect plan, the perfect circumstances.

But while we're waiting, life is passing us by. The version of you who has the life you dream of isn't the one waiting for things to be perfect. It's the one moving forward, no matter how imperfect the journey looked. The problem with perfection is that it paralyzes you. It keeps you stuck in the planning phase, in the research phase, in the thinking phase, forever refining, forever adjusting, never doing. You wait for the moment when everything aligns, but by the time, time it does, you've lost so much time that it hardly matters. If you're constantly waiting for

things to be perfect, you're wasting your life away, you're stuck in a cycle of waiting and doubting. You tell yourself, I'll start once I have this figured out, but that day never comes. The truth is you'll never have it all figured out, and that's okay. The only thing that matters is that you start. Even if it's messy, even if it's impressive. Even if it's imperfect. The only way to make progress is to take that first step, even if you don't know where the second one will lead. Perfection is about control, about seeking something that is impossible to hold on to. But progress, progress is about moving forward. It's about learning, growing, stumbling, and getting back up.

Progress is messy, raw, imperfect and beautiful all at once. It's about taking action. even when you're on shore. The people who achieve great things are not the ones who waited until everything was flawless. They're the ones who were willing to move forward even when they weren't ready. They acted. They made mistakes. They learned from them.

And each small step, each decision, each action, however imperfect, added up over time. They didn't worry about getting everything perfect. They just focused on getting better. And that's the key. Progress isn't about reaching perfection. It's about becoming better than you were yesterday. Every day is an opportunity to grow, to evolve, to take one more step forward, even when it feels like progress is slow,

because the small, consistent efforts you make today are what build the foundation for tomorrow's success. There's freedom in progress. It's about giving yourself permission to grow. without needing to have everything perfect. It's about embracing the discomfort of starting before you're ready, of taking that first step, even if you don't have the whole plan figured out.

You don't need the perfect blueprint. You just need the courage to move forward. Perfection keeps you stuck in a dream world, one where everything is idealized and nothing real can ever happen. It's a world of waiting for the right conditions. the right opportunity, the right timing. But progress? Progress forces you to deal with reality.

It forces you to confront where you are, except that you're not perfect, and keep moving anyway. Life isn't about creating a perfect image of yourself. It's about growing into the best version of who you already are. And that growth doesn't come from waiting. It comes from doing. It comes from learning through doing. through failing, through adjusting, and through keeping your focus on progress, not perfection.

In the end, it's not about being perfect. It's about being better than you were yesterday. Each day, you get one step closer to the person you're becoming, not because everything aligns perfectly, but because you keep moving forward despite the imperfections. The road will never be perfect. The plan will never be flawless. The conditions will never be ideal, but the magic happens when you start anyway.

The moment you stop waiting for the perfect time, it is the moment you begin to create your own opportunities. So stop waiting. Stop trying to make it all perfect. Start moving. Start doing. Start learning. Let go of the idea that everything needs to be flawless. And instead, embrace the mess, the progress, the beautiful imperfect journey. Because progress, not perfection, is what gets you where you want to go. Every step, every effort, every imperfect action you take

brings you closer to the version of yourself that you've always dreamed of becoming. Perfection is an illusion. Progress is reality. So focus on moving forward, no matter how small the steps. Because the person you want to be is out there waiting for you. just on the other side of every imperfect action you take today. My favorite Chinese proverb is everything must be hard before it can be easy. I think it's amazing what you can endure when you have no choice.

Because at the end of the day, life is hard, but believing it should be easy makes it even harder. See, I've come to believe that the secret to success is just not giving up, that life is constantly testing you. that there are going to be days where you don't do the reps. There are going to be weeks where you don't do the reps. There might even be months that you don't do the reps. That's okay. And the reps are the boring, tedious actions that you take every day. And that's how you achieve a goal.

What defines your success is not the days where you do it. I actually think it's the days where you come back after you didn't do it. So the day that was really hard at work or the week that you were really sick and you couldn't do the reps every day, the small tedious stuff, you couldn't get out for your walk, you couldn't sit down and write. It's the day that you return. That defines success because it means you didn't quit. Like if it is day 37, you have not eaten the way you said you would,

you have spent a ridiculous amount of money even though your goal is to get out of debt, and you see that little note where you wrote down your goal, it's okay, it's still there. It's the days where you come back after you didn't do. do it. That defines success. How do you build trust with someone? You prove time and time again that when you say you're going to do something, you do it. And what makes you think building trust with yourself is any different? Because if you're the kind of person that fears your future self, the solution is right in front of you. Spend months and year of building the evidence that when you say you're going to do something you follow through, it is not complicated. It's just difficult.

If you constantly flake on your own expectations, it's no wonder your relationship with you is nothing but uncertainty. But when you can look back on undeniable proof that you are the person you claim to be, counting on yourself is not so difficult. One of the key things and attracting the things we wanted to our life is to be able to feel as if we have them before we possess them. What we really want in our life are real dreams, are real ambitions, our feelings. They're not things. One of the things that happens when we feel

like we possess something, we begin to act in accordance with that feeling. And as a consequence of that action, those things begin to chase you. So it's not some manifestation thing. When we feel a certain way, we act a certain way. And when we don't, we don't. Spend a little bit more time giving yourself the gift or doing the work, frankly, of what would it feel like and beginning to feel as if you possess the goal. And I also just think the gift of giving yourself the emotions you want will create more health in your body, more vitality, more energy, more optimism, more belief, more confidence. Feel it this week and then you'll possess it. Odds against there being another person like you are more than 50 billion to one. In the entire history of humanity, there will never be two people

like you. Never be two people with the same face. There will be two people with the same even blood composition, exactly. Never be two people with the same outlook, the same talents, abilities, capacities. There will be two people just like you. And that every single person are born with the capacity to do something remarkable with their lives. And the starting point of personal greatness is when you usually say to yourself, what a wonderful thing I'm likely to do with my life. Why am I here? I have this one life, this precious, precious life. And as you know, this life is not a rehearsal for something else. This is the real one.

You say to yourself, what am I going to do with my life? Why am I here? What are my unique talents and abilities? Look back into your life and ask yourself, what is it that you've done in the past that you most enjoy? What is it that you've done in the past that comes easy to you, but which may be difficult to others?

What are the things that are indicators that this is where you should be focusing all your talents and abilities? Whatever it is, find it, and then commit yourself to become, becoming excellent at it. It says the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering,

known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. You will feel. a million miles away from your dreams, and then you'll blink, and suddenly you'll be living

them. I just want you to think for a second. Like regardless of any struggles that you're facing right now, just think about how good it feels once you actually pull this off. Just think about that. Money's no longer an issue. You're doing something every day that is fulfilling. You're surrounded by people that you love.

able to travel and do the things that you want to do when you want to do them. You are no longer being controlled by external things. You decide how you want to live your life. You live on your own terms. And you live a life full of fulfillment and purpose and love. All the things that you long for right now. Let me tell you something. That day is in your future.

And it's not as far as you might think. You're almost there, my friend. I promise you. All you have to do is continue. to show up. Don't be ashamed of your effort. Midwits hate earnestness and sincere conviction because they can't stand being reminded of the thing they're capable of or resist, actually trying.

People will try to put the same limitations on you that they put on themselves. Don't mistake their insecurities for your ceiling. Regret. It's a word that carries weight, doesn't it? A word that feels like a chain around your ass. around your ankles dragging you back to moments you wish you could erase it whispers in your ear at night you should have done better you could have tried harder why didn't you take that chance the first step to turning regret and to

resolve is to stop running from it stop avoiding it stop numbing it stop pretending it doesn't exist face it look at it head on and say Yes, I made mistakes. Yes, I missed opportunities. Yes, I wish I'd done things differently. Owning your regret doesn't mean wallowing in it. It doesn't mean beating yourself up or living in the past. It means taking responsibility for it,

acknowledging what happened without letting it control you. Because here's the truth. Every regret holds a lesson. Every missed opportunity, every missed opportunity, every mistake, every failure is trying to teach you something. But you have to be willing to learn. Ask yourself, why do I regret this? What would I do differently if I had the chance?

What does this regret reveal about what I value, about who I want to be? The answers won't always be comfortable. They might force you to confront parts of yourself you'd rather ignore. But those answers are the key to growth. They're the blueprint for the person you're becoming. Regret without reflection is wasted pain. Don't waste it. Once you've learned the lesson, it's time to act.

Regret is a fire. If you let it burn out of control, it'll consume you. But if you harness it, if you direct it, it can be the fuel that drives you to change. Let your regret remind you of what's at stake. Let it push you to take the chances you were too scared to take before. This might be the hardest part, forgiving yourself. Because regret often comes with guilt, with shame, with the weight of feeling like you. you've let yourself or someone else down.

But carrying that guilt doesn't serve you. It doesn't fix the past. It doesn't make you stronger. Forgiving yourself doesn't mean excusing what you did. It means acknowledging that you're human, that you're imperfect and that you're trying. Forgive yourself not because you're letting yourself off the hook, but because because you deserve the chance to move forward without the weight of shame, holding you back. Don't stress in the face of adversity, make adversity something you desire for an opportunity to grow.

You have to get used to being alone because there are seasons where you'll basically transition from one group of friends into another. And it's not even a group of, you'll usually transition from a group of friends into no friends. And then you'll find one or two people who are at a new level. And then sometimes those people introduce you to some of their friends. And if you keep walking and you keep outpacing, then that group will then start retiring past you. And then maybe one stays with you. Maybe no one does. And you'll have another lonely period.

I'm saying this because I used to think that there was something wrong with me. When in reality, I just didn't understand what the nature of being exceptional meant. To be exceptional means that you are the exception. It means that you are not normal. And so it's normal for normal people to find you absolutely. if you do things that are not normal. Resilience is our ability to bounce back. I mean, in the simplest definition,

resiliency is our ability to bounce back. But really what it means also is it's our ability not to get pushed that far, not to have to bounce that far back, because we built our resilience to a place where when life happens, and life's happening, life is going to keep coming. You've either gone through something,

you're going through something, or you will go through something. Life's going to keep coming. keep coming. Our resiliency or our ability to take those things on is a muscle and it's a muscle that we can work on to allow us to take those things on as they're coming at us. The more we work on it, the better we get at. In fact, the more we grow through, not go through, but grow through in our lives, the better that resilience muscle gets. So on these things are coming at us, instead of feeling like the victim, we want to embrace them because they're growing our ability to take

things on in the future. And as I grow my ability to take things on, I can start to take them on for the people around me. I can show them how to go through these things and actually grow through these things. Resilience is an important part of who we are. When we build it, we become better, better able to handle the things that are coming at us and continue to make the world go around. There's small gains. That's it. And what separates me, people who achieve their goals from people who do not is simple. People who achieve their goals understand the power of showing up every day and just doing the boring, tedious stuff. That's where greatness is made. It's in the things that aren't fun. It's in the stuff that nobody wants to do.

That's the thing most people don't talk about. Goals are boring. All those people you admire that have what you want, you know what they're doing? They're doing the reps. And if you've ever looked at somebody who becomes an overnight sensation, I want you to look at their actual story, because they were doing the reps in the dark for a decade while nobody was paying attention. There is no shortcut here, period. One day, when today, then you wake up tomorrow and you do the same thing, and then you wake up on Wednesday and you do the same thing, then you wake up on Thursday and you do the same thing, and guess what happens then? You create a winning streak, and when you do this long enough, you're forming new habits.

Okay, and after a while, winning the day is not hard. It's easy. It becomes automatic. And when you get to the point where you're winning every day and it's automatic, guess what happens? Winning becomes who the fuck you are. And when winning becomes who the fuck you are, guess what you become. Become a winner.