Absolute Motivation - IT’S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGING YOUR LIFE - Motivational Speech

Episode Date: September 20, 2026

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your sister, your brother, your aunts, your uncles, your teachers, they are all going to look at you like you're doing something wrong. Those other people try to fit into their framework of what's normal. You're going to be miserable too. So the understanding just has to be. Warriors need a fucking war. It's too late for you, bro. Those dreams of retiring your parents, that dream job, that dream physique.

You were never worthy of that shit. You see how painful that it was to hear. And yet you tell yourself this every single day. You let those thoughts run in your mind every single day. The reality is it's never too late for you. Because matter of fact, you're just getting started. And after you're done watching this video, you are going to make every single dream of yours reality. On one condition, you got to believe that deep down.

I know there's a part of you that knows it's still possible. It's time to let him shine, bro. There's a life out there for you. I know it because I've seen it myself. But nobody can grab that shit for you except for you. And I know you will. You got to pay a price for winning. But most people are willing to pay it.

They may pay it once, but literally you've got to pay it every single day. And the crazy part about that is the price changes. Daily. Price of winning changes on a daily, daily basis. In order to become the better version of yourself, you literally have to kill off your original version. Because if it lingers around, it's going to find you again. And that's the thing people don't understand. They're like, I'm looking for the better version of myself. But in order to have the better version of yourself, you have to have a few. for your old version. Otherwise, that old version is gonna rise back into it

and try to pull you back. Just turn your fucking feelings off when it comes to your goals, bro. You're tired, I don't care. You're sad, I don't care. You got dumped, I don't care. You're stressed, anxious, pissed off, unmotivated. I genuinely don't give a fuck. The work still needs doing. Your feelings are temporary. Your standard shouldn't be.

Most people are complete slaves to how they feel. They train when they feel motivated, work when they feel productive, to feel productive, eat properly when they feel disciplined, then they wonder why their life never fucking changes. Stop asking yourself how you feel. You said you were going to do it, so fucking do it. End of story. Once the mind knows you're not going to quit something, it's going to try to find more. It's going to try to give you more. Once it realizes you're not going to take the path of least resistance. You're going to stay here until it's done. My mind and my body, my spirit became one for the first time ever for the first time ever became one and I went to a level

that never thought was humanly possible for myself or anybody else it certainly isn't balanced but it's the real story real motherfuckers are obsessed with what they do the people who win the biggest are obsessed you cannot argue that you will figure it out like as long as you do not quit you'll win like you just have to not stop there is nobody coming to freaking There is no coach. You have to fucking do it and you have to do it now because you are going to die. Your time is running out and there is only so many tomorrows where you can tell these lies to yourself to the point where there's no time left. And what are you going to do when there's no time left? You think this is painful now? You think it's painful and I'm not living up in the standard.

I'm not earning the money that I could be making. I'm not trying. I'm not being the best I could be. You think that's painful. Wait until you don't have any fucking time left and you have to sit there think about all the things you could have been that you never were because you believed your own fucking lies. Brother, I'm convinced there's a moment in every man's life we're throwing in the towel sounds like a better option. But what I urge you to remember is the devil doesn't need a pitchfork to take your purpose. You have to just believe.

You have to believe or better. You have to know that you are the one you are ready for to show your best. right here, right now because these chances will not come if you are not ready. You can't be interested and you can't be obsessed.

Interested is a hobby. Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. An obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention to.

And I have a saying, right? Interested people, watch obsessed people change the world. Do not ever allow anyone and anything put you in a conceptual box. There is no, you must become this or you must become that. You can become everything. Your purpose in life is something that you're born with. It's like your destiny.

this is what you were meant to accomplish. This was what you were meant to be, what you were meant to do. We have to find our purpose. And because it's so deep and so important that if we don't find it through this authentic process I'm talking about, we'll find it somewhere else

because we need a purpose of life. We need something to live for. How long will you continue to compromise your goals just to satisfy your need for certainty? Freud said, once in retrospect the struggle will strike you as most beautiful. Like the years of struggle will strike you as most beautiful. And it's true, you think about the worst moments of your life from earlier.

Now they're integrated into who you are. And in some ways we understand that we couldn't and wouldn't be where we are without those things. So worried about, will I regret it? You won't regret it because you actually don't have that many regrets at all. the mind is pretty good at minimizing that feeling of regret. We convince ourselves that what happened was for the best. So we know this is almost certainly where we're going to end up. And so why torture yourself in the interim, right?

Why not give yourself some of that grace now? Why not go, hey, I understand that this is going to be a thing that forms me as a human, and in the future, I will be grateful for it. Pain is an unavoidable reality of life. You will have moments where pain will be unbearable. And then you will understand that there are some pains that will remain, but it doesn't have to be a stain on your life. Then some of the pains that you experience are making you into something stronger.

The loss of a loved one can be the thing that propels you to live life big enough for the both of you. Sometimes it's the motor that will get you going so that you don't stay stuck in the moment, thinking about the fact that pain is on your life. Pain is like an atmosphere. You can choose what you do with that pain. You are your own hero. You are your old hero. You are your own master.

We idolize so many people and we want to be them. We want to be someone else. And in doing that, you lose all the potential of who you are. You mimic. You be them. You are them. You become them. And you lose you.

And we look up to so many people as world who will let us down. Where's you is? I'm going to let you down. You're going to let some money down. And you put on a pedestal, you didn't lose time when that person comes up and lets you down. You must hold yourself accountable and being your hero. That's what that does. You make yourself so totally accountable for who you are.

You focus on you and only on you. to become the best person you could be for others. How can you become the person that you wish to be unless you live the life that you wish not to live? How can you be brave unless you felt fear? How can you be strong? Unless you always weak. Allow what's inside of you to get out of your atmosphere

and reach other people's lives. Use your pain to become your gain. And what you will have, you'll find that there's something greater on the inside. of you that only comes out because of what you've been through. Challenges of pain comes, but it doesn't have to remain. It's the mindset that you can maintain that when things are going great, this two shall pass. And when things are going bad, this too shall pass. The greatest people on the planet have suffered the most. Suffering is not bad. I'm suggesting suffering is awesome. The ego

runs from suffering because it's the death of the ego. But I believe pain, difficult times, failure, loss is purification and preparation for personal heroism. Always remember, the mistakes will never define your character unless you define your character with your mistakes. So do not let your mistakes to define your character. always you have the chance to improve and move on and make yourself a good person and improve yourself.

What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? If you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that you could not fail, what one thing would you send as a goal for yourself? Because sometimes answering that question will tell you the one thing that you've been put on this earth to accomplish. Start the business that you wanted to start, the idea that you had, go for it. Your procrastination is murdering your dreams. Your inability to be consistent

and your inability to commit to yourself is costing you your dream life. My true understanding is, all right, you got one life. And at one life, the goal for us is to live it to the best of our ability from the beginning to what's said the end. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest. exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. 19 plus to wager. Ontario only. Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about

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I said, oh, excuse me. I thought you just told me you want to be the best player to ever play here. He said, I'm going to show me. Nobody will ever work as hard as out. Michael Jordan is not only the best basketball player, but he's not. the most exciting basketball player to ever play. We only dream about doing things that he can do. So open Chicago with the lead.

Played professional basketball for the Chicago Bulls. 32 seconds to go. A one point lead for Georgetown. Brody, the blank. The tie, 18. Shot. Glad to trace my evolution, the Michael Jordan evolution.

that I always had to start back in college, hitting a shot against Georgetown in 1982, and I really didn't know exactly what I was doing. 1980s. It awakened a person inside of me to excel, to compete to excel, to be one of the best, or be the best. That drove me.

And I guess with that shot, it kind of ignited a fire inside of me that nothing's gonna stop. My biggest motivation in life, you know, is to compete, you know, find different competitions and certain things in life and try to overcome that, you know, be it positive or negative. But I have yet to meet someone who is as competitive as me. I missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game running shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my career. my life and that is why I succeeded. It was 97 when he was in Minnesota and flip that switch and put me on Michael Jordan one of the greatest probably ever touch a ball and I counted his dribbles I was able to catch his dribbles you know I counted the dribbles one two come across when I blinked he was gone I turned around he was dunking the ball giving somebody dapping halfway down the

court that fast that's The first of Michael Jordan wasn't here. When you step on the floor, it doesn't matter how many times you've done it before. All that matters is that you do it now. Being true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to short cut the game,

then the game's gonna shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good thing to be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game. And in some ways, that's about life too. For me, losing this is the worst feeling in life at anything, whether it's cars, golf, basketball, whatever it is. I hate losing.

I mean, it's not even question. But I mean, I have to respect losing, because losing is a part of winning. Yeah. And you never just, you know, win. You got to lose to win. Losing is going to hurt. Absolutely. You know, to a point where you would look at, how can I do things different?

How can I change? How can I make this team better? And that's the thing about a team, and you know this, too, is that before you can look at someone else, you got to look at yourself in the mirror, because of you can look at you yourself in the mirror because that's how things get started and you got to be willing to change you are without question one of the most gifted players i've ever seen what makes you different from other people once again it falls back to my parents in terms of how i approach a situation you know i never feel that i'm at my best i feel i still have room to improve i still set goals for myself

to strive for uh i'm never complacent with what i've achieved uh even though it's been very very successful for me, I still feel I have a lot to prove not just as a player, but as a person as a father, to some extent, as a role model in all aspects. So I'm never really too complacent with myself or with what I've achieved. When I get to a point where I feel I can improve as a player, I walk away from the game. I still feel that I have a tattoo that I hadn't reached yet in terms of my skills or my expectations of myself. You know, I'm always going to expect myself to do certain things or surpass certain things.

As long as I believe that, then, you know, my road to success has continued to expand. I don't want to do this. I only doing it because it is who I am. That's how I played the game. That was my mentality. If you don't want to play that way, Don't play that.

Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn't. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash and not fire. Maybe it's my fault that you didn't see that failure gave me strength, that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God-given gift and not something I worked for. Every single day of my life.

Maybe I'd destroy the game. Or maybe. You just make him excuse it. You just... Impossible. It's just a big word thrown around by small men. Find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Possible is not a fact.

is not a fact, it's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. So I know why you go on Instagram. I know why you, because you just have the time. You have the time because you don't want to put that time into bettering oneself.

You start going after your goal and you start achieving them. People will start looking at you differently and secretly they will start hoping that you fail because it will make them feel better about the action they have. have never taken. Progression is an ugly role that leads to a beautiful place.

And the sad thing about that quote, that's true, is most people never get to that beautiful place because they never persevere. They give up before it's their time. They quit before they see they breakthrough. That's why I love a breaking point, because at a breaking point, that fork in a row, you got a choice. You can break down or you can break through. And when you choose to break through, those adversity, strengthening all those things that

have come against you, it's streaking you. That's why you've got to find a meaning, a mission. that carries you through this stage of resistance. Get started and stay consistent. You have things to share with the world that only you can deliver. But you'll never experience them if all you replay in your mind are doubts and excuses on why going after your dreams now isn't a good time. You have what it takes. Get out of your own way.

Don't count yourself out yet. you want to achieve is possible. It might take time, effort, and discipline, but it's all within reach. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go, start walking. You've got to start walking because the perspective's not going to change. You have to start moving forward. You have to start taking steps in order to improve your vision, improve your perspective, change your perspective, make some kind of progress. And worst case, you figure out that you walk the wrong direction. Okay, now you can walk in the other direction. And that's going to be fine. But standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die, waiting to starve to death.

The only thing in life that stands between you, everything you've ever wanted to do, is doing it. Not preparing to do it. Not scheduling time to do it. Not telling people you're going to do it. Not reading books about how to do it. Not watching videos about how to do it. do it, but instead actually doing it.

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, 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. You can stand there at the door looking at this abyss, but when it becomes so being painful that you walk into that, that's... when the change happened. But there's a hell of a lot more to you than you think, like way more, enough to cope with

the trouble of the world inside you, there's enough to cope with trouble of the world. And you, if you had enough courage, you could let that out. Enough courage and faith, you could, you could let that out and everything would be better because of it. Only fail because they get caught up into what winning was. It's supposed to fail at some point in time. You're supposed to, you're supposed to get knocked down a couple times. You're supposed to lose.

That's how you learn. Perfection is only a word because imperfection was discovered. You can't be perfect without knowing what imperfect is. You have to experience imperfection at some point to go, now I'm perfect. Feel something is shifted. Some people are not strong enough to adapt to the change. Some people don't know how to put it into practice in order to go with the change.

There will come the time and it's not going to take long, where a natural separation is going to take place. A natural separation. The ones that are able to read the signs that are able to go with what is happening to adapt to the changes this world is bringing to us, they will move on to another world. Other people that are unwilling, unable,

may be incapable of adapting to the coming changes. It is simple like this. they will stay with the old world which is about to end. A eagle flies of a certain altitude, and the only other bird flies at that altitude is another eagle. So if he find himself flocking with pigeons, he may be flying too low. One of the things limiting you from your income, your impact, a world-class life. You care too much about what people think about you.

You can be world-class. fit in with the world, you don't get to do both. One thing I've learned is everyone has an opinion. Why let the opinions of other people deny you from a life that will make history? This is my question to you. When you're going to free yourself, how long are you going to stay in this pain expecting change to happen in your life? How long are you going to stay in this situation expecting things to change in your life? You've been here for the last year, the last five years, the last decade, staying in the same mess, accepting the same mess. and wonder why distress,

wonder why you're not happy, wondering why you're not fulfilled, wondering why you're not experiencing the life that you deserve to experience. When you're going to free yourself from the pain, when you're going to free yourself from selling for less, because I want to tell you right now, you don't have to accept it.

I know you know that, but I need you to feel that, understand that. You don't got to accept it. You don't have to stay where you're just tolerated and not celebrating. You don't have to stay where you're not happy. You don't have to stay where you're not happy. not being better. You don't have to stay where you're suffering. You can free yourself from it.

What do you want in your life? Make up your own mission statement. What do you want to be in life? Here's the secret to my success. I stood up and did it again. I stood up and I did it again. And I did it again and I did it again all those many years ago. I did it when I was scared and I didn't when I didn't want to and I did it when I was ill. And I did it when it didn't work well. And I didn't did it when they didn't appreciate it, and I didn't a lot of times when I didn't know much what I was doing. I just did it anyway. And now all these years later, I got better. I got better day by day and week by week and month by month, and I'm asking you to do the same thing. Heart was sold now, mixed in there that wasn't there, missing before. I'm asking all of you to get better,

in spite of the winters, in spite of the downturn, just get stronger. Get better with. If you want to be exceptional, by definition, you will be the exception. You will not be normal. You will be unlike the others. And so it makes sense that you would be in the out group. And it hurts as a human being because you want to be in the in-group. But the thing is, is that you're actually not in-group or out-of-group. You're transitioning.

You're between-group. And so in that lonely chapter, that's where you can do a disproportionate amount of work because you have no distractions. People always want to try and write off and talk. test greatness. I don't have to be great right now. Check me in 10 years. Everything you do in life, you've got to start from scratch. And the key is you can't be afraid to fail. That's the key to success. Hard work, dedication. I'm going to get nice over time. And you're like, yo, where did this come from? That's what I'm doing. I'm getting nice over time. I don't mind suck it. You know, I don't mind. Because I'm going to get nice with it over time.

will never feel ready to do things that scare you. You'll never feel ready to take that leap. Your brain is designed to protect you. And change requires risk. And so you are protecting yourself by saying maybe tomorrow. If you want to change your life, you must make a decision to change your life. That version of yourself, the one that you dream about, the life that you want to live, it's all there. But you have to be aware of your own weaknesses to become that person.

And not only just be aware, but be honest. Be your biggest critic. Apply that pressure and engage that adaptive instinct that we all have in our DNA. I sincerely mean this. If you have a vision and you have the awareness to realize what needs to change in order to get there, you can have whatever you want. So I think it's not that we fear death. I think it's that we fear not living the life that we want.

And I think the easiest way to get out of that is just to start living the life that you want now, not putting it off. We just put off our lives. Don't settle for average. Please go, okay? Because you'll look back one day when you're old and gray, and you'll say, you know what, that freaking sucked. Because with those few moments in my life when I was extraordinary, that was why I felt most alive. You go through a way, you have one life to live, right? Just go for it.

And don't show for anything less than total and utter excellence. First one reads, this is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever. And this place is something that you have left behind. Let it be something good.

If your purpose is rooted in your success, your purpose is fragile. But if your purpose is rooted in the person you become, it's untouchable. Because when your purpose is rooted on the person you're becoming, no matter what the circumstances are, no matter how things change, no matter how much, you know, variance,

success and failure and ups and downs, you never lose your purpose because your purpose is about the kind of man, the kind of woman you're going to become, the kind of leader you're going to become, the kind of human you're going to become, the kind of husband or wife or father or friend that you're going to become,

you need to have goals that are rooted in the quality of life you live and the person you are. and let your success come out of that. You are gonna be tested, you're gonna go through hard times, you're gonna be in situations where it would be a lot easier just to give up, but why? Because you are being built to become the person

that can achieve the vision. Dangers to dwell on past mistakes, because people sort of define themselves by the worst moments that they've ever had. And if that's the case, like some people are stunned. in high school. You know, they're stuck in failures that they add like when they're first getting jobs and they always think that they're a loser and they don't like the feeling of failure so they keep low expectations so that they never have to feel that.

You gotta get through it. You gotta get through bad feelings. You gotta get through failure. It's very important and you get through it by just picking yourself back up and moving forward and going. It's challenges. Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for for things that we're not equipped to handle in the moment. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary to let go, we're demanding that our power be turned on.

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle that you know nothing about. Be kind. I think you know what you're supposed to do. Deep down the side, I think everybody does. A lot of people just don't go after it. You know, like most people start out, they say, I want to be a this, but I'm gonna get

that to make sure I have something to fall back on. And what you're doing is you set myself up a thing because you go and there's a possibility that I'm to fall back. And when you put that out there, then you fall back. But if you just say, hey, this is what I want to do and you go do it, you usually get your stuff to where you want it, man. What are you going to do? How bad do you want it? There's two options to continue forward, pushing homeward. And if you do, that dream is given birth. And forever, you will live in the reality. of it. If you stop, I'll wait, throw it down. I promise you there's no distance you can travel far enough to find that dream again. For it is dead. And it is death. It's replaced by regret. And right now, it's your choice.

You want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat. To learn to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of iron. Let me give you the best of ancient script. Here's what it says. Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might, do it with all your strength, and do it with all your power. What a good fluffin. Some people can't handle your success. They'll make remarks trying to bait you into trying to get you upset. Here's the key. Don't get involved in battles that are not between you and your destiny. Most of the conflict we engage in is a distraction. Your job is not to change people's mind about you. Your job is to run your race and not worry about the critics in the naysayer.

Can't keep doing what you're doing and get more. You have to do something different. If what you're doing, Now, was enough to get you what you want that you don't have, you'd already have it. Oftentimes, if it doesn't go our way, we don't see it as a blessing. If something happens and experience, if it doesn't go the way we want it to go, oftentimes we don't consider that to be a blessing. But some of the greatest blessings in our lives are things that didn't turn out or work out the way that we wanted it to. Ken and Yang shows you light and dark. dark. Here's the thing with success. Every time there's success, you have to be prepared for the darkness. So anytime something happens good to you, you have to sort of now look out for

what's going to anchor that because you can't have sunshine without darkness. You cannot invent and pioneer if you cannot accept failure. To invent, you need to experiment And if you know in advance that it's going to work, it is not an experiment. You have to be willing to do that. And it's embarrassing to fail. You know, it's always embarrassing to fail. But you have to say, no, that's not how this works. If I said to you, you have a 10% chance of a particular decision, a 10% chance of a 100x return,

you should take that bet every time. But you're still going to be wrong nine out of ten times. And it's going to feel bad. 910 times. If you went through a real bad experience, it's a good experience because these are invaluable. What you learn through unpleasant moments in your life is invaluable. If you forget that experience, you are a fool. Only a fool will try to forget.

If you are smart, you must remember every unpleasant experience you had without resentment, without anger, without unpleasantness, just in your memory always so that you never ever get into the same situations again. If you've had any thoughts about quitting or giving up on something lately, please keep going. Your potential in life is unlimited. The only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself. If nobody's told you recently, let me be the first. I believe in you. Even the word hopeless still has hope in it. Why you're not doing it?

What is holding you back? Are you afraid failure? Or are you scared that other people might judge you? How would you feel about the thought that you might die without achieving this one thing or just one goal? The only person that is holding you back is yourself. And that is the main problem that we have. If you fail, the pain of failure is short and fades fast.

But the pain of regret will stay with you forever. I want to make sure everybody knows but they're enough no matter what they go through what they've been through that they are enough the number one calls for anything is people not knowing that they're enough they feel like they're not enough just because you have some bad chapters doesn't mean your story can't end real and every story has bad chapters it's about you find the strength to turn the page and so hold on to that in your struggle in your journey in your pain and then turn your pain from your worst enemy to your best friend do that

but use pain only the usual. When you are rejected, you feel a lot like giving up and stopping. But I think what's really important is to persevere and continue and continue again and get rejected and rejected again, which feels completely outrageous and like the exact opposite of what feels natural. Because rejection is hard and trying again and being told that something isn't working, that you don't have whatever it is that you need. It doesn't really feel like you to try and try again. But what I want to do today is to show you to show you something.

that rejection and perseverance are two very critical ingredients to succeed at literally any goal that you put your mind to. Difficulties in life is nothing that stops you because it is so heartbreaking because it goes through deep. It carries the potential for the highest transformation. If you want to see it bad, it's 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 and this is based on the source on the mental redirectioning of yourself elevation requires separation in order to grow and become the person

you want to be you need to distance yourself from the habits people and situations that are keeping you the same it can be hard to that what feels good in life isn't serving you. But having the awareness to do so is the first step towards transformation. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMGM and Game Sense remind you to play responsibly.

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Stop waiting for life to be easy. Stop hoping for somebody to save you. You don't need another person by it. Face some hard facts and you could have an incredible life. What are you creating today? What are you doing today to move the needle forward? You have everything that you need to succeed. It's already within you.

The discipline, the confidence, the courage, the compassion and grace. It's all in you. The information you need is going to be from your own process. You understand? Your own failures. Getting into action and seeing what happens is all you need. You have to have the courage to go after what it is that you truly want to do.

That's the thing that separates people. Because people were hard all day long. They're working hard, but they're working hard. And at the same time, they're believing that it's not possible for people. for them. What do you have faith in? Do you really believe you can do that? Are you willing to sacrifice to get that? Or are you just going to keep this job that you hate because you're free? You're not being tempted to give up because it's hard for you and because it's not meant for you, but you're being tempted to give up because life is weeding out all the people who don't really

want. You are being tested to see if you're the one. who's meant for this vision to see if you're the one who can not only attain it but keep it nurture it and teach others to go get it those are the ones who are going to get it if you're ambitious and you have a desire and you're willing to dedicate a thousand days I will tell you that your life in two and a half three years will look dramatically different can you Wake up every day for a thousand days and do the work. Well, what's the work? You know what the work is.

The work is keeping the commitments you make to yourself, working on your body, working on your self-esteem, working on your spirituality, working on your mind, working on the skill sets that makes you more valuable to your team. Keep showing up for yourself. Keep taking steps towards your goals and stretching your view on what's possible for you. There's usually no switch that flips that gets you to where you want to be.

But the compounding of your habits over time is what really moves the needle. So be intentional with your time. Although they might seem insignificant right now, the small actions and decisions you make today will shape the trajectory of your life. Stay the course. The brutal fact about success is this. It makes you complacent. It makes you arrogant.

It makes you close-minded. It causes you to build a fence around your success and say, boy, I don't want to lose this. And so you get a, I got to hold on to it mindset. You see, the objective of your life and the objective of business is to improve every day. What part of improved do we not understand? What part of it every day do we not understand? We are constantly improving.

Use your success as a stepping stone, not a pedestal. If you want to be anything special in lives for a long time, it comes with discipline, discipline, discipline, discipline, discipline. Like really understanding the word of discipline and sticking to it. Set a goal, be disciplined to that goal. If you have a mindset and a mentality of what you cannot have, you never will. If you are able to adjust it, no matter where you came from, no matter what your people said to you, no matter how bad it was, no matter, none of that matters.

If you can get your mind around a dream, a goal, a possibility, it will become your life. I think a lot of you don't have the courage to forgive yourself. You feel like you have a life now, and you're basing it off of your past. You have your family that probably tells you, hey, I remember when you did this. I remember when you made this mistake. And you're a prisoner of your own mind, so you have to have the courage to say, hey, I forgive myself. deserve it. I have my why. Fight for would you believe in. But the thing is, if you're caging yourself because of your past, you're never going to get ahead. Whoever it is that you believe in,

whoever it is that you look up to, they made the same mistakes you did. So just release yourself. Forgive yourself. It doesn't matter what you did in the past. You are here because you're going to recreate yourself. You're here because you're no longer that person. So give yourself permission right now to forgive yourself and you do deserve it. The people who we consider to be chosen, people you see on TV, the people who are going after their purpose. A lot of the times we just think that they're chosen, they're special, it's only them. It's not meant for me. I wasn't picked for a life like that.

But really, those who are chosen are just those who chose to be chosen. They're the ones that said it's me. They're the ones that said, I have everything necessary. Why not me? What makes them so special? I don't know how to. You never let your mind ever again disempower you and say, well, guess that's just how it is. Instead, success and growth requires you to say, I don't know how to do that.

So it is my job to learn them. It switches you from disempowered to a skill builder. It switches you from a fixed mindset. I don't know how. I only have these capabilities into a growth mindset. I will learn. I can expand. I can change.

I can get better. That's the critical moment of transformation. And I'm obsessed with being the best version of myself, and that's a daily thing. I'm obsessed with finding myself now and not having to prove anything to anybody other than myself. And realizing that that is enough,

Giving your best is enough. And sometimes we lose track of that when everybody's telling you who and what you are. So for anybody out there, you know, you're enough, man. You're not ready. You're still talking about what other people are going to say. You're still talking about what other people think. You're still talking about how they hate you.

No shit they fucking hate you. You're out trying to do something. You're out trying to build something. You're all trying to be better. And they're not. And they know what that's going to lead. to. So no shit, you're going to get some hate. That's reality. But you'll never move past the beginning stages of your journey, worrying about what other people think. Stop talking about it.

Stop thinking about it. Go do your thing. Your character is so important. And character isn't defined by times of happiness and joy and when everything is going your way. It's about, you know, when things aren't going your way, when maybe you don't get the opportunity, when maybe you put all the work in the world into something and it doesn't go your way. Who are you in that moment? You're feeling the most trapped and down and nothing can't go right. I feel like those are the moments that define that are like, what am I going to do now? How do you respond to that? Thinking your way, feeling your way, working your way through those things on the other side. You know, you're the closest to getting what you want is always the hardest. People give up right

before they get what they always wanted to get, people quit and they give up. And I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted. But I'm starting to realize, bro, when you dance to your own rhythm, when you play by your own rules, and you live in through your vision, that's a perfect, perfect indication you're doing it correctly. Because they literally don't see what you see. They don't see what you see. They don't see as far as you see. And they don't understand why you see what you see.

Reality is that most people don't change. Most people live the same six months a hundred times in a row and then they die. They go to the same places, they make the same jokes, they have the same small talk, they work at the same job, and then they die. Because they were never willing to be uncomfortable because they were never willing to change.

And a lot of people get real uncomfortable when I talk about this stuff. But most people are average. And most people stay stuck in the same patterns. They live the same six months for 40 straight years and never change. And so if you want to be exceptional, then you will often have to be the exception. This is a friendly reminder that the clarity that you're looking for is on the other side of the action that you're afraid to take. So you're stuck in this place of indecision, paralysis by analysis, trying to find 100% uncertainty that the next move you're going to make is the right move.

Otherwise you'll be miserable. But the funny thing is, you're already miserable because you're stuck in this place of fear and self-doubt. and the clarity that you're looking for isn't going to come until you take the next step. Yourself, you push yourself to that point where you feel that the sword is coming back, it's time to rest. And when the mind says it's time to rest, that's the point to keep going. That is that threshold which is going to make the difference afterwards. So discovering your limits on the one side, it's the first thing, because discovering your limits means you have a vision about what you can do,

and at the same time, the limit is showing you what you cannot do at the moment. It is also to condition myself to a certain vibe. That vibe is, I don't know what this life is gonna bring, but there is no alternative than when the challenge comes, when life is getting hard, there is no alternative for me than to just keep going. When we no longer know which way to go,

We have come to our real journey. What if the experience of feeling lost or confused was inviting you into a deeper inquiry with your soul? What might it be asking you to look at? To feel? To change. Or to release? And what is one step you can take to honor this invitation?

You can't be great at anything without effort. What appears to be raw talent is usually the result of a skill that's been refined over time. Nobody is born a master of their craft. Don't be discouraged by the abilities of other people. They all started off as beginners who doubted themselves too. But the difference is they never gave up.

So speak it into existence. Surround yourself with people who are on a similar path. Keep pursuing the things that interest you, even if you're not the best at it yet. Because with consistency and effort, it's only a matter of time. You have to work every single day. I think that's where your confidence comes from.

Because when nobody's looking, because that's what you're gonna be able to fall back on. And that's just gonna be able to, like, rely on which comes to shove. What is your attitude like? How do you respond to those things? You know, because that says so much more about who you are than what you say or when things are going well.

You know, it's so easy to put on a smile and be faithful. When things are going, you're wet. You know, but when you get tested, you hit an obstacle in life, you hit a setback, who are you in those moments? Because that's true character. Whenever you feel negative or unhappy about anything, you say, wait a minute, I'm responsible. I'm responsible for my life. I'm responsible for what happens.

I can't change the past, so I'm not going to spend a second worrying about the past. I'm going to become so busy working on my future and my goals that I don't have time to think about the path. Before you can do something, he was first, something before you can do what you would most like to do you was first become the person who can do it the secret is to get an whole fast in your mind the mental image of the person you would most like to be then in every situation you act and talk as you feel that person would you make the kind of decisions you think that person would this is the way to constantly grow into a better more

effective person now your life will not be transformed overnight. There'll be no sudden miracles, perhaps, but steadily, day by day, you'll grow into the image you hold in your mind. If you doubt this, try it for 30 days and watch what happens. You've got nothing to lose. The time is going to pass anyway. Why not put it to work? Becoming the person you most want to become. It's the trick of the experts in every field. If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, if there is something that you feel is good, something you want to do, something that means something to you, try to do it. Because I think you can only do your best work if you're doing what you want to do,

and if you're doing it the way you think it should be done. And if you can take pride and have after you've done it, no matter what it is. 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 persistence. 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 it 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 and pay order for you to have the confidence built on experience means you gotta 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 guidance counselor 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 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. I can do that. that human brain cannot comprehend the negative.

It is incitimate. Yes, it's true. Can I tell the human brain not to do something? Right? And so what happens is we very often reinforce things where we put things in the negatives. It's the same thing for you. If you focus on the obstacles, all you will see is obstacles.

If you focus on the path through the tree, all you will see is path through the tree. I feel like with there's tests, there's growth, right? You can't grow without test, right? So we don't resist them. We don't run from it. We don't retreat.

We fight, we navigate, and we find a way through it in order for us to grow and become the individuals that we feel we're destined to become. That one step after the other, I will get to wherever I'm supposed to be, and that's what your mindset has to be. I am going to get there because that destination that is ahead of you

is your destiny. It is where you've been GPS to. It is where you've been rolled back to. You have a destiny. And the only way to get to that and manifest it is to believe when it doesn't seem to make sense. Procrastinating is a form of fear. And it is difficult to acknowledge fear. But the truth is that you cannot create anything of value without both self-doubt and self-belief.

Without self-doubt, you become. complacent without self-belief you cannot succeed the magic you're looking for in life is in the work you're avoiding there's something that you know you should be doing whether it be working on yourself losing weight writing something working on your career the magic you're looking for in life is in the work gear avoiding. Everybody wants to be a star, everybody wants success. You gotta work at it. If you really want to be successful, you have to work at it. You don't need visuals. You need to have that internal clock that says, get up. You need to have that eternal alarm that keeps telling you,

don't stop, don't quit, don't keep hitting snooze, go after it. And after you go after it, you'll find that it's been waiting just for you. Your destiny awaits you. No one else can rob you of it. No one else can take it from you. If you lose absolutely everything, you still have you. If you have breath, you can win.

If you can get up again, you can win. If you cannot throw in the towel, you can win. If you can get up and fight one more round, you can win. You see, that's what you're here for. to find out what is your destiny, and then you chase it down and introduce yourself to it. You are mine, and I am yours. Destined. True change is actually not behavior change, it's not results change, it's not process change, it's identity change. And the way to being something or becoming someone is through doing something.

So every time you sit down to write, every time you practice that habit, you are being a writer. Every time you play a sport, you're being an athlete. Every time you practice painting or music, whatever you're being an artist. And habits are not only the method through which we achieve external measures of success. They are also the path through which we achieve internal change and actually become someone new. They're the path through which we forge the identity that we have, the deepest beliefs we have about ourselves, our sense of self. And so if you can change your habits, you can change your life. The keys to success have only been two.

Number one, he said, decide exactly what it is you want. and write it down and make a plan to achieve it. And number two is determine the price you're going to have to pay to get it and then resolve to pay that price. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly,

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. What changes do you want to make? There's something special about the space between where you are and where you want to be. Because that's where people stop. When it gets hard, most people opt out. They settle for comfort and life moves on. But for some, they lean in. They step into the fire of their own transformation

and surrender to the metamorphosis. because they know that on the other side of the challenge is where you get your power. One of the greatest relationships you will ever have is your relationship with the dark moments of your life. Because in those moments, you will discover that your eyes can adjust in the darkest of moments. That means you can find clarity and have vision even when there's division and emptiness around you. You see, greatness is inside of you. But it won't come out unless you step into the light. We're all hurt.

We're all going through something. Yet how do people still succeed? They say, I'll limp to the finish line. I will carry my wounds to the finish line. I will not allow this pain to stop me. I'll bring it with me if I have to, but it's not going to stop me. It's not going to distract me from my destiny.

In our life, our decisions shape our destiny. This is just a fact. What we decide shapes our destiny. When's the last time you made a significant decision? What's the decision that you've been sitting on right now you're hesitating on that you know you need to make? That like right now could be a defining moment for you. Or at least something that alters a trajectory or maybe just a course correction. I really believe we look back and our lives is a collection of moments.

And there's a handful of moments that really can define our lives that are the most magical ones. And you create the moment by making a decision. So, if you want to alter your destiny this week, or alter your destiny this week, or alter you. the direction you're going to have this week, so they come down to a decision. I have got to decide what it is that you want the future to look like. And the more specific and the more clear you are, the more likely it's going to happen.

The more you understand of what that moment is that you're trying to create and while you're trying to create it, and then you now can build the plan and the strategy to get there. As you make all these plans and as you make all these goals and as you say you're going to do this and that and all these amazing things, I want you to realize, unless you develop the skill set of mental toughness, unless you develop the ability to adhere, unless you develop the skill of discipline, you will never do any of those things. They come out of your dark moments. Stop feeling like you're in this thing along. You are not. You are a leader and there is greatness in you, but it cannot come out unless you are pressed. Because when you get oppressed, when you get pushed into something, you fight back. You find out that you're resilient. You find out that you can overcome something.

And if you overcome it, you become something. And the moment you become that, everyone comes to you to figure out what's your formula. And that is the secret source of success. You don't need to be gifted. You just need to be committed to being bad at something for as long as it takes to get good at it. It only seems like it happens overnight for most successful people because you didn't know who they were for the years they were struggling and putting in the work when nobody was watching.

So just stick to the script. Trust that what you're doing right now is going to pay off in the long run. Don't ask when. Just keep showing up and doing your thing. When you start living your life and start falling in love with the process and the journey, the journey in the process starts to love you back. Right now you're not even focused on certain goals of that's the here. You're just focused on moving in this direction, taking the necessary steps,

and understanding that if I keep myself open, good things are going to happen. Potential is not what you can achieve. It's who you can become. There's a saying if you're too focused on results, you'll never change. But if you're focused on change, then the results are inevitable. If you achieve success without changing, you will not hang on to that success. Because maybe everything on the results are inevitable. Because maybe everything on the outside changed,

but nothing on the inside changed. Whatever I'm afraid to do, I do it. Anything I'm afraid of, I confront it. The world is not changed by your words. The world is changed by your example. But oftentimes people try to cater to words, right? Because the words oftentimes impact the mind. The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be one.

You win the heart with your actions. The mind can be convinced by what someone says, but the heart must be one. You win somebody's heart with your actions, not by what you say. The world is not changed by what you say. The world has changed by what you do. People tell you to take the stairs, the slow route to break this.

No, you just have to know your route. There are elevators that can escalate you from one area and advance you to the... You can accelerate past all those levels. that people have rested. You don't have to sit in middle management. You just have to manage the moments of your life where it felt like darkness is all you had.

And then all of a sudden you realize, you was what darkness needed to get rid of it. Self-love is doing hard things to build a better future for yourself. That is the ultimate form of self-love. It's having discipline to do the hard thing today that's going to make your future. future better than your present. It's doing the things that make you feel like a winner and create the

future of the winner that you know you are. That is what self-love really is. You always directly approach what you want is the wrong way. Why? Because it is one side. You want freedom, face the structure, face the heart discipline. Because if inside this heart structure, you want freedom, because if inside this heart structure, short form you are able to have the freedom you feel free inside this heart form that is the freedom 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 it here 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 automatically, you only get better because you intentionally, 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. 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. I'm 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 over the way I'm so glad that you're

mindsets 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 off. I'm glad you haven't changed people's lives or make enough impact yet. I'm glad you got comfortable and 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 something you're gonna 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 you 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 gotta have a strong desire, and when you have a strong desire, that outweighs all other people.

And every single person who's opinion you're afraid of is also going to die one day. 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 see 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 no one tells you when. And that's the, 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 shortfalls.

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 want in 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

find out who you truly are. Everything you do, every choice you make, 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 darkest hour.

Note it, night don't ask for help. There's a morning coming in your life. down until you come up. Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down and not going the way you wanted to. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one that's to come? The quality of self-discipline is the quality that will make you a big success.

It's the ability to force yourself to do what you know you should do. And here is the wonderful discovery. This persistence is self-discipline in action. time you persist, you build your self-discipline. Every time you practice self-discipline, you build your ability to persist. And the two of them are tied into your self-esteem. So the more you persist, the more you like yourself. And the more you like yourself, the more discipline you have. And the more discipline you have in practice, the more you like yourself as a result, the more you persist. And eventually you get under an upward spiral where you become

absolutely unstoppable. You reach the point where you know you can achieve the goal and nothing in the world can stop you. At every step that you take forward makes you stronger and stronger and stronger until finally people say, I know one thing about him, I know one thing about her. You cannot stop him or her. Once they decided they want something, they will not stop until they get it. And when you develop that quality, there will be nothing that is impossible to you. Go do something that's hard. Go try and accomplish something that's hard. You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I'll tell you what, you'll be better. If you avoid those things that are harsh, if you don't accept that challenge, if you don't step up and step up and

step into that cold water, I can tell you this is not a good move. Just get up. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. And you may be successful, and you may not be successful, but you will be better. You have to discipline yourself. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice.

It's not going to be perfect, and it will change along the way. But it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser. And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. Sometimes you just need to admit to yourself that you have no idea who you are or what you're doing. Everything is changing all the time. It's normal to have weeks where you feel lost. Months where you don't recognize yourself.

In years that leave you with more questions than answers. Don't see it as a step backwards. Humble yourself because that's life's way of redirecting you. letting you know that you have the chance to find yourself again, seize the opportunity. All of us nobody's perfect. We failed too many times. We have so many uncertainty in our life that we have to be capable when we are down to stand up.

It's part of the journey, it's part of the process, it's part of our education. In my case, I learn the most when I'm down. And it's good that... that these certain moments happen. Because when you are in the top of the wave, you don't see under what's going on. It's good to have problems. It's the only way that you can improve.

How do you overcome the fear of failure when trying something new? By far the easiest thing I found to deal with this is to think of every single thing in life as an experiment. It's just an experiment. So everything in life is an experiment. And therefore, failure isn't really failure. Failure is just another data point.

Don't let complaining conquer your life. See if you can't drive it into a small corner. That's the season of summer. Nourish your values like a mother and fight your enemies like a father. Even if you have to fight the enemies that are within yourself. Make this note. Don't become a victim of yourself.

It's possible to become a victim of tragedy. It's possible to become a victim of gossip. It's possible to become a victim of the things happen out there but here's the most important thing don't become a victim of yourself forget the thief in the alley that's after your purse what about the thief in your mind that's after your promise people say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing and it's totally true and the reason is because it's so hard that if you don't any rational person would give up so if

you don't love it if you're not having fun doing it you don't really love it you're gonna give up and that's what happens happens to most people actually. If you really look at the ones that ended up, you know, being successful, unquote, in the eyes of society and the ones that didn't, oftentimes it's the ones that are successful love what they did so they could persevere, you know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn't love it, quit because they're saying, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don't love it? So it's a lot of hard work, and it's a lot of worrying constantly. So you got to love it, you got to have passion.

You have to become the kind of person that can push through the hard times. Most people can't do that. No matter how long it takes, keep going. No matter how much it hurts, keep going. See, you was placed on this earth for a reason. You weren't meant to be average. You were meant to excel. You're going to understand that this grind is meant to make you who you're supposed to be, a dog.

A little grind ain't never hurt nobody. Stop being solved. Let's embrace it. Most people cannot push through the challenging, the draining, the frustrating times that make everybody else quit. So you have to build yourself into someone who has the discipline, the fortitude, the grit, the perseverance,

to push through the hard times, to become someone who is literally fucking incapable of quitting. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say, why are you only giving 50%? What's wrong with you? You need to put yourself on punishment. You need to tell you no more TV,

no more snacks, no more disease. No more, no, we're working out now. No, no more alcohol. Not right now. Not no, I can't handle it right now. You need to tell you that you owe you so. I look at failure's failure. I look at failure as your first, second, third, fourth, fifth attempt. I look at them as attempts. Because if you're trying to do something that's bigger than you, whatever you are, you didn't fail. Mother, that's your first attempt. We give so much power to words. I don't. I take the power right away. I didn't feel. People will tell you things based on their experience, but they don't know anything, because everything is subjective. They don't know who you are or what you've been through.

They tell you they tried for their dreams, but it didn't work out, so they gave up. And they discourage you to chase yours. But you need to do that for yourself, because nobody knows what will happen. And even if it doesn't work out, there's still something to be learned in the process. Stay true to yourself and do your thing.

You need to understand that for 90% of the journey, you will not see the port. But you can trust that if you do the right actions, you'll eventually get there. And it's the same thing with life. You must understand that most of the time you won't see the fruit of your labor for an extended period of time. But then, once you're at the 99% you begin to see the port of destination, the port of arrival, and then you catch the second wind to maximize on the momentum. For 99% of the journey where most of you guys are at right now, you will not see the port of destination, but you must trust it. Well, what if things work out, and everything turns out better than you imagined?

What if things change? Life has a funny way of unfolding sometimes, so don't give up. Wake up every single day, knowing that you're one step away from success. Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it. Just stick with it a little longer. What do you have to lose? Study yourself, make yourself better. Don't worry about what anybody else is doing. Learn from her. Don't change who you are to become somebody else.

Think about the time that you spend in your life trying to be somebody you're not. If you put that time and effort and energy into being who you were and who you are, how much farther along would you be in life? Six months. You got six months left in the year. Why don't you take those six months and donate that time to your future self? Why don't you commit to something that you're going to thank yourself for doing six months from today? Because when January 1st rolls around, you can either be six months close.

to your goals, or you can be exactly where you are right now, if not a little further away. You can either get to January 1st to be so pissed off about what you did the previous six months that you feel like you have to change your whole personality with a whole list of resolutions, or you can get to January 1st and have things be going so well

that you feel like you don't have to change anything at all. Consistency compounds. When consistency compounds, you get a good way. Many times people want to rush, they want to accelerate, but they don't understand that the journey is lifelong. There is no end goal, there is no end destination. You are in this journey from the moment you were born until you die.

So today is just another what brick that you're laying to build your ideal house. What's that deep rooty reason? So when fear shows up, when failure shows up, when haters show up, when the numbers ain't going right show up, what's going to keep you committed? What's going to keep you consistent? You've been consistent in a lot of stuff in life. And you're trying to say that you can't be consistent at something that you love. You can't be consistent at your dreams.

You can't be consistent at something that means the world to you. You've been consistent at the wrong things. You've been consistent at pleasing people. You've been consistent at working for somebody else. And you're telling me you can't bring that same energy to what you call to do. Come on. I'm gonna tell you this, bro, there is no getting out of the word. There's no shortcuts.

There is no easy route. And there is no quick fix to become the greatest version of your cell. The longer that you're not, that you avoid the hard work, the more comfortable you get in life. It's stay comfortable in the depression. Stay comfortable in the situation that you're in right now. Because when you're comfortable, you lose motivation. You lose focus, you lose sight of your goals,

you lose sight of where you want to be at in life. You have the ability to make those changes. There is no difference between you and successful people. The difference is what they do. Your life is created by what you. by what you do, your daily habits, your daily habits determine what your life is going to look like. Who you surround yourself with determines what your life is worth a long way. That tomorrow wouldn't promise, what would you give for today?

Forgive everything else. Forget everything else. Forgive that there was any sunlight left. What would you spend today? Think about, we get one opportunity in their life. One chance in life to do whatever you're going to do. To lay your foundation to make whatever hard we want to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave.

Leave your legacy. And it's proud to do that. Where's the loaves that's coming down with us? But effort, nobody's in charge. A network that's between you and you. You can't have had to do with nobody else. Pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Go for the discipline because it weighs ounces.

The regret weighs times. 95% of our decisions are made by how you feel in the moment. And that is the problem. Do you feel like making that cold call? No, you don't. Do you feel like doing that third set of reps? No, you don't. And if you accept the fact that you may never feel ready

and you may never feel motivated and you may never feel courageous and that's okay, but you can see you can see that you can see ready. But you can still push yourself forward as you start to see yourself becoming the person that takes action Guess what happens to build the skill of confidence and courage You think that everything the mind tells you I need to follow that means freedom No for us it's the other way around To learn and not follow what the mind tells you This is the first step towards

freedom. You have to constantly rewrite your book every day of your life. These are conversations I have of myself. And I say to everywhere I go, the most important conversation when you have it yourself. You live with it every single day, but most of our conversations are not the right ones. They're not the ones that are going to push us to the place we need to go. They're the ones that keep us sitting in that toxic environment that you've helped create and everybody else help to create. living it in that conversation that plays in your head, that becomes you. Working on yourself, talking to yourself, that's so very important. Overcoming the negative conversation that inner dialogue is going on all the time, all the time.

Even when you don't want it to be there, you can't stop yourself right now from thinking, you can't do it. It's going on. And so learning how to empower yourself, part of doing that is standing up to yourself. You get scared sometimes. Your mind will go blank on you. Some people you will allow to unnerve you. And you wonder, what's wrong with me? I'm like crazy. That's why you've got to learn to make a conscious, deliberate, determine effort

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I've made some questionable decisions that didn't end up the way I planned. And today, I'm still feeling. figuring it out. Somehow things usually get worse before they get better. Apparently, that's how I roll. So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC Gem. We all know when we're relaxed exactly the person more become. The question is, do we believe we can become? 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 of the same, 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 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 task. 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 on 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 gotta get okay that there's gonna be some people that want to see you fail.

You're gonna have to get okay that there are gonna 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 gotta get to a season and a space and a time where it's okay. I wasn't doing this for you anyways. Nobody 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 a lot of 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 on and so. So we could have done it. Someone I couldn't get out of here.

Man, the bus runs every day. You 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 are 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. 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 in 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 some 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 want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of it. life. Let me give you the best of ancient script. Here's what it says. Whatever your hands fine to do, do it with all your might, do it with all your strength, and do it with all your power. What a good for luck. Some people can't handle your success. They'll make remarks trying to bait you into

conflict, trying to get you upset. Here's the key. Don't get involved in battles that are not between you and your destiny. Most of the conflict we engage in is a distraction. Your job is not to change people's mind about you. Your job is to run your race and not worry about the critics and the naysayer. Can't keep doing what you're doing and get more. You have to do something different.

If what you're doing now was enough to get you what you want that you don't have, you'd already have it. Oftentimes, if it doesn't go our way, we don't see it as a blessing. If something happens and experience, if it doesn't go the way we wanted to go, oftentimes we don't consider that to be a blessing. But some of the greatest blessings in our lives are things that didn't turn out or work out the way that we wanted it to. And Yang shows you light and dark.

Here's the thing with success. Every time there's success, you have to be prepared for the darkness. So anytime something happens good to you, you have to sort of now look out for what's going to anchor that because you can't have sunshine without darkness. You cannot invent and pioneer if you cannot accept failure. To invent, you need to experiment. And if it's, if you know in advance that it's going to work, it is not. an experiment. You have to be willing to do that. And it's embarrassing to fail. You know, it's

always embarrassing to fail, but you have to say, no, that's not how this works. If I said to you, you have a 10% chance of a, with a particular decision, a 10% chance of a 100x return, you should take that bet every time, but you're still going to be wrong 9 out of 10 times, and it's going to feel bad 910 times. If you went through a real bad experience, it's a good experience because these are invaluable. What you learn through unpleasant moments in your life is invaluable. If you forget that experience, you are a fool. Only a fool will try to forget. If you are smart, you must remember every unpleasant experience you had without resentment, without anger, without unpleasantness, just in your memory always so that you never ever

get into the same situations again. If you've had any thoughts about quitting or giving up on something lately, please keep going. Your potential in life is unlimited. The only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself. If nobody's told you recently, let me be the first. I believe in you. Even the word hopeless still has hope in it. Why you're not doing it?

What is holding you back? Are you afraid failure? Or are you scared at other people might judge you? How would you feel about the things? thought that you might die without achieving this one thing or just one goal. The only person that is holding you back is yourself. And that is the main problem that we have. If you fail, the pain of failure is short and fades fast.

But the pain of regret will stay with you forever. I want to make sure everybody knows but they're enough. No matter what they go through, what they've been through, that they are enough. The number one cause for anything is people not knowing that they're enough. They feel like they're not enough. Just because you have some bad chapters doesn't mean your story can't end well. And every story has bad chapters.

It's about you find the strength to turn the page. And so hold on to that in your struggle, in your journey, in your pain. And then turn your pain from your worst enemy to your best friend. Do that. Use pain only to use you. When you are rejected, you feel a lot like giving up and stopping. But I think what's really important, is to persevere and continue and continue again and get rejected and rejected again,

which feels completely outrageous and like the exact opposite of what feels natural. Because rejection is hard and trying again and being told that something isn't working, that you don't have whatever it is that you need. It doesn't really feel like you should try and try again, but what I want to do today is to show that rejection perseverance are two very critical ingredients to succeed literally any goal that you put your mind to. Difficulties in life is nothing that stops you because it is so heartbreaking, because it goes so deep. It carries the potential for the highest transformation.

If you want to see it bad, it's 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? And this is based on the source, on the mental redirectioning of yourself. Elevation requires separation.

In order to grow and become the person you want to be, you need to distance yourself from the habits, people, and situations that are keeping you the same. It can be hard to admit that what feels good in life isn't serving you. But having the awareness to do so is the first step towards transformation. It might feel lonely and scary at first, but letting go makes room for everything else you deserve. Keep going. Stop waiting for life to be easy. Stop hoping for somebody to save you.

You don't need another person behind. Face some hard facts. You could have an incredible life. Every day you have an opportunity to be a new person. person. You can just wake up tomorrow and decide, I'm going to be totally different. I'm going to act different. I'm going to talk different. I'm going to behave different. Don't get so caught up in the sun-cost fallacy of being you that you never change and you never evolve. Don't let the amount of time that you've spent being who you are stop you from being who you could be. I'm here to tell you right now,

you're going to make it. I know it doesn't feel like it. I know you look around and see nothing but despair and defeat. You look at the scoreboard and see that you're down by 25 in the last quarter. But I'm telling you right now, you're going to make it not because of what's on you, but because of what's in you.

What's in you is somebody who doesn't give up. What's in you is somebody who knows what the feet tastes like, who knows what it's like to go through the trials and the tribulation, somebody who knows that they want to leave a legacy for the people to come after them. Somebody who doesn't live their life,

inspired by ego or fame or accolades, but somebody who wants to make a genuine impact who believes that leaving all people places and things better than they found it is a life worth living. That's why you're going to make you. So don't give in. Don't you quit on me. See this race all the way through the end.

You would never know what's inside. What's inside of you or what can be pulled out of you until you're tested. The one thing about being tested is that it brings out the best of you. You should embrace any time that people are challenging, testing you, coming up against you. Because what it does is it forces you to grab something on the inside and pour it out in front of it. There's more inside of you than you've ever imagined. So welcome to test because it brings out the best.

The only way to become more successful than most people is to be willing to do something most people aren't willing to do. You have to believe that this moment is preparing you for something amazing that hasn't happened yet. Keep going. And so I repeated that over and over and over and over and over again as I wanted to throw in the towel,

as I would start to bash myself, as I would start to feel sorry for myself. I'd be like, nope, there's just no way I'm going to believe that something amazing isn't going to happen. I've worked too hard. Something amazing. that hasn't happened is coming. Don't let the amount of time that you've spent being who you are

stop you from being who you could be. Just because you've been a certain person up to this point and people know you to be a certain way doesn't mean you can't change all of that right now. It's got to be the mindset that you wake up with. Test me, bring out the best of me. Every time you come through a loss, use it as a lesson learned. Test me, bring out the best in me,

and you'll see what I become. You need to be tested. Welcome it, embrace it, and understand that everyone that comes up against you helps you pull out more within you. And once you pull that out, the whole world will see what greatness looks like. You'll never know it. You'll never have it. You'll never possess it unless you're willing to be tested. And that way, you'll never best it. When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most. but never stop fighting

no matter what anyone says, no matter how they try to compromise your vision, if it's in your gut, if it's in your soul, there's nothing, there's no worldly possessions that should come between you and your expression. In my life, I've learned that success has three components to it. The first, you must be diligent to get there. It requires waking up every morning, right on time with your alarm, going to the gym, reading the books, hammering away at your craft, day in day out.

You must be diligent, knocking on its door until somebody answers. And second, you must be consistent to stay there. Because it's not enough just to knock on enough doors, get to the top of the mountain, and look out at the view and say, wow, what a beautiful sight. You must be consistent if you want to continue to see that vista. but third, that's only one vista. There are many more peaks for you to climb. And if you want to climb more peaks, then you must be grateful. Don't waste time chasing butterflies.

Mend your garden and the butterflies will come. All of us have this tendency to chase, to go and push for all those things that we want in life. And what the quote teaches us is that the better path is to mend our garden, to actually work on ourselves internally, and those things that you are seeking will come to you. If you mend your garden, you become the magnet that attracts the things that you want in life. There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that, but there is always the fantasy that sometime in future, the real thing will come about, that one day life's duties will be

out of the way, and that you can finally start doing the thing you want and living your life Phali is a myth. I think it's a lie. You know, when you're standing at the edge of a cliff and it's most scariest to jump, that's when you jump. And when you leap, that's when the net appears. You know, courage isn't the absence of fear. It's doing it afraid. You know, that's also faith. Like, if you saw the net and then you jump, that's not faith. You knew that was down there.

Faith is like, okay, I'm standing at this cliff. I don't see anything down there. I'm incredibly scared. I don't know what's going to happen and then you jump and then the net appears the power of faith that of huge steps

is continuity that one is your friend repetition is your friend not huge jumping it is the repetition of things that starts to embody something inside of you but ultimately it's repetition

if you don't fail you're not even trying I'll say it again If you don't fail You're not even trying To get something you never had You have to do something you never did You deserve everything you're going to

Because you'd rather become good tomorrow That 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 in 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, 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 four. 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.

Once 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 dream. they could hang, helping them to accomplish things. They never dreamed they could have come. 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 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 be saved? Because I can promise you, bro, that dream ain't going away. Most people dream of 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. A life worth 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. that night. Equalities in life is nothing that stops you because it is so heartbreaking, because it goes so deep, it carries the potential for the highest transformation. If you want to see it bad, it's 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 and believe. 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 has 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. 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 good. And as it begins to flicker and the days of our 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 trains. 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 coded 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.

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It's okay if you're scared. So am I. But we're scared for different reasons. I'm scared of what I won't become. You're scared of what I could become. Man, I've trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on my back. I did all of the work alone.

Over and over and over. So when you bugger off to the pub or you sit and watch your favorite TV program, I study charts. I go over the trading day. Just like Tiger Woods, he created a new wave of sincerity about golf. When everyone else hit the clubhouse, he went and worked out. And there's no shortcut.

You can't buy a book, you can't attend a course, you can't listen to anyone. You see, you can't be taught anything. I cannot teach you anything. teach you anything you have to decide to teach yourself I can guide you but ultimately you in any endeavor in life you have to want it yourself and that's what separate 99% with the 1% the ones that truly dream and dare and go for their goals and their vision I won't let myself in where I started I won't let myself

finished where I began I know what is within me even if you can't see it yet look me in the eyes I have something more important in courage, have patience. I will become what I know I am. We don't rise to the standards we have when others are watching. We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching. The only work that really matters is the work that no one sees. It shows you who you really are rather than who you say you are.

I ran today, I went to the gym today, I did this and this today. I studied today. I have it about eight hours off. And those eight hours are glorious to me. And every day you go back out and you start earning that. And every day you wake up, it sucks. And when it's over, you feel better. It sucks, you feel better.

And as you get going, every step you take in that journey, as you're like, but every step I take, I'm like, I'm like, I'm eating the demon again. Two key words, delayed gratification. I want to be, I want to be huge. I want to be big, want to look diced for any fucking endeavor at all. You've got to be kind of content with doing the exact same thing, basically, day after day after day, and making reasonable progress. The more impatient to somebody is, this is rocket science.

The less likely it is that they're going to stick to something for a long time. And like 99% of any cool shit that anybody does ever usually takes a lot of preparation and practice and just repetitive action to get good at. I don't know what to do, so what should I do? Well, nothing, I'll wait around until I figure out what to do. No, you should put together a bad plan and you should implement it because even if you fail in the implementation, you'll gather information and you can rectify the plan. Staying in that malaise until you know what to do

makes you get older and more miserable and you gather no information along the way. A bad plan is a good idea. Yes, it's going to take years. Yes, it's going to be really hard. But what the fuck were you planning on doing instead? Because here's the thing, you already know it's going to take years. You already know it's going to be hard, uncomfortable and slow. That's not the problem.

The problem is the deep down part of you is still hoping there's a shortcut. But there isn't. There is just the work, the repetition, the silence, the part where no one claps and nothing happens for a while. And the truth is, most people can't handle that part. So they quit or they stall or they start over again. And again, just to avoid sitting in it. The time is going to pass either way.

So what were you planning on doing instead? Scroll, tweak the plan for the 15th time. Keep talking about your potential without actually doing anything with it. This is the trade. You either suffer now through the process or suffer later with regrets. That's it. Those are your options. One hurts, the other horns.

So no, it won't be fast. And no, it won't be easy. But it will be worth it. if you're willing to pay for it in advance. All those failures, they were great for me to examine where I was fucking up at along the way. Self-talk without real work is just a lie. If you didn't study for your big exam

and you go into it and saying, I'm going to pass it? Yeah. No, you're not. So my self-talk is me reminiscing back on the struggle to get to this moment. So basically you have to put yourself in the moment a million times. Here's how to achieve anything you want in life. A clear vision, daily learning, daily building, persistence, and iteration.

Those need to be the highest priority in your life. But most people don't know what they want because they haven't reflected on what they don't want for multiple years. And most people don't learn because true learning is very painful. It's not about memorization or grades. Most people don't build. They dabble. They try things over and over again only to get that small spurt of dopamine when they make initial progress, but when that flatlines, they quit.

And last, most people don't improve when they fail. They get discouraged and lose the internal mental battle between their lower self and their higher self. Don't be most people. Do you run away from something? Do you run towards something? Failure is a compelling protagonist towards achieving your goal. So use failure, be scared, be very scared of failure, and you will succeed. The most successful minds in the world, they are profoundly scared of going bust.

And they work double hard. If there is no magic pill. The only way you do that is through sheer grit and determination. If there's one message I want you to walk away with today, it's this. Your purpose does not have to be your job. Your purpose does not have to be big. Your purpose does not have to make you money. Your purpose does not have to make you famous.

Your purpose can be something you do on the weekends. Your purpose can be something you do in the evenings. Your purpose is something no one could take away from you. So find something you care about. Find something that breaks your heart open a little. And then get involved. You don't need a million dollars. You don't need a title.

Use your passion in the service of others, and it will become your purpose. The most important conversation you ever have is the one you have with yourself. You wake up with it, you walk around with it, eventually you act on it. You can't do nothing. Sitting around and thinking about what you want to do

is not going to get anything done. Despite the fact you don't have this big mission that you want to pursue, that doesn't mean there's not things that you need to get good at. We need to be preparing for when that opportunity arises. We need to be preparing and positioning ourselves for when the mission shows up. You don't get to choose when that inspiration shows up, when that idea shows up, when that problem that inspires you to create a solution shows up. You don't get to choose any of that. But what you can choose is how prepared you are and the skill set that you have to be able to climb that mountain.

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. I don't even, you know, we should constantly be working, maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally, working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us. So, you know, I get really afraid

of those little comfort, you know, those things that make us feel like, you know, we did something great. Because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. me and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can take. But with each flash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it, as long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of.

And I find that incredibly satisfying in the trenches of misery when you have to go through it. But everything is your fault. Everything is your fault comes back to like you are the CEO of your life. If a business succeeds, whose fault is it? The person in orchestrate, I was like, the CEO. He said, if a business fails, whose fault is it? And it's the CEO. He said, Rob, if you get to the end of your life,

and it's not what you wanted to be, and you didn't create the life that you wanted to, make the money that you wanted to, you have the success, the love, the happiness, travel to places that you wanted to, whose fault would it be? And I said, it'd be my fault. And he said, if you did create the life that you wanted to,

you had to love, the happiness, the abundance, everything that you wanted, whose fault would that be? And I said, it'd be my fault. And he said, the problem with you is you're treating this life as if you're the victim. And what you need to realize is that everything that happens to you is your fault and that your life won't change until you decide that you want to be the CEO of your life. Don't you wish you could just hit skip on the worst parts of your life? You know, the same way you can skip an ad?

I get it. I'm Siyaya and I live in Ice Cove. I've made some questionable decisions that didn't end up the way I planned. And today I'm still figuring it out. Somehow things usually get worse before they get better. Apparently, that's how I roll. So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC Gem.

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we follow the money. Learn more at Bloomberg.com.