Absolute Motivation - NO MORE EXCUSES. STOP WASTING YOUR LIFE AWAY. TAKE YOUR LIFE BACK. - Powerful Motivational Speech

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

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Every day I wake up, I say to myself, you have two options right now. Keep dreaming with your dreams or wake up and make it reality. I choose the second option, always. But it's that 1% that we sleep on. That's why it's so easy to be great nowadays because most motherfuckers are weak. It's a blessing for people to doubt you. It's a blessing for people not to believe in you. It's a blessing for people to disrespect you.

if you know how to use it as fuel. It's not what happens to you, but how you respond to what happens to you that counts. In the final analysis, your response to the adversity of life is the real measure of who you are and what you're made of. Pretty soon you'll fuck God.

You have the courage and the heart and the dedication and the minds of it. Everybody can go f*** themselves. I know what I know. I've listened to myself enough to know. I know what I know. None of you can hear what I'm here. In order for something new to come, something old must go.

And that old can sometimes mean let go of what you know until now. Empty the cup and start from the beginning. If you plan on being successful, you have to change this here. The difference between successful people and non-successful people is right here. It ain't no difference. It ain't none. I ain't got no more than none of y'all got. When you persist, your self-esteem goes up.

Each time you force yourself to stay in there, your self-esteem goes up. You like yourself more. You respect yourself to that. You feel more confident. You feel better about yourself. In fact, in the ultimate end, you don't even mind losing because you're persistent. And here's the second thing. It's persistence is self-discipline in action.

There's been many, many, many, many, many, many days where I didn't want to work out. I just didn't feel like I had the energy. And I just forced myself. And I think there's very few people out there that know how to force themselves. The key to winning, the key to development, the key to progress is intentionally putting yourself in uncomfortable situations, intentionally putting yourself in uncomfortable and difficult situations. Just work. And if you don't get what you thought you were going to get, show up and still go to work. Because along the process, what's more important, what you acquire or who you become? And a lot of people think what they acquire is the thing that makes them who they are.

No, it's who you become in the process of chasing what you want to acquire. Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That's what makes you great. It's about the grind. The sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whisper when nobody was watching. It's all about those moments when you could have folded, but you didn't. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is.

Because when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different. You love different. And you lead different. I really think the biggest cheat code in life is just going after it and not being concerned of whether or not you fail at one specific task. Instead, understanding the big picture, what your long-term goal is,

and knowing if you keep driving forward and never fight it, in the end, you will succeed. You've got to pay a price to be the best. the best pay a big price. You've got to work harder. You've got to commit more. You've got to take more responsibility. You've got to deal with more ups and downs.

And if we can deal with that question, how much are you wanting to suffer? No one's going to save you. No one's going to come out of the woods and say, hey, I got you back, man. I want to take you from all this shit. What do you want? Because a lot of people are unclear

what they want from life. They don't sit down and think through. We are writing our own life story every day, and yet we don't think about it. Who do we want to be? Where do we want to live? What life do we want to mean? When we've finished our life, come to the end of our life and look back, what do we want to say that we've done? So what do you want is a very powerful question.

How badly do you want it? People won't want to hear this, but what you avoid controls you. If you avoid tough conversations, your relationship suffer. If you avoid risk, your business will suffer. If you avoid failure, your growth will suffer. If you think having uncomfortable conversations is hard, wait until you see the result of not having a comfortable conversations, much harder. At least for me, I just try and face the thing that I'm avoiding and constantly ask myself,

like, what is that thing that I'm trying not to look at and then force myself to stare at it? usually the thing that scares you the most is the thing that you need most to face to move forward. People always talk about vision, seeing your vision, seeing somebody else's vision, other people seeing your vision. Let me tell you something. Before you could see your vision, before anybody else could see your vision, the first thing they have to do is deal with what's visiting them in their night bears. That you have to deal with before you or anybody else could see your vision. he said the ideal situation for a man or woman to die is to have family members praying with them as they cross over

he said but imagine if you will being on your death bed and standing around your bed the ghost of the dreams the ideas the abilities the talents given to you by life and that you for whatever reason You never went after that dream. You never acted on those ideas. You never used those talents. You never used those gifts. And there they are standing around your bed, looking at you with large angry eyes, saying,

we came to you. And only you could have given us life. And now we must die with you forever. And the question is, if you died today, what dreams? What ideas? What talents? What books? What music? What leadership? What voice will die with you? Said, the wealth is placed on the planet. It's not in a four-east where there's oil in the ground.

It's not in South Africa where they're diamond-nized. He said, the wealth is placed on the planet is the cemetery. Because there you find greatness that we've never seen. There you find talent and genius and potential never actualized. Maybe that's why some unknown writer wrote. own writer wrote the words, what if you live your whole life, only to discover that it was wrong, that it was wrong, that you were chosen to do something else and you didn't do it. You want to know the secret to achieving everything that you dream about, don't quit. See, when you know what the destination is, there's a million paths to get there.

And it took me a long time to learn that the great, moments of growth and success happen right after you feel like quitting, but you don't. That's the secret. Keep going. If you're trying to do something exceptional, if you're trying to do something that's difficult, you don't get the luxury of kind of wanting to do it. If you kind of want to do it, you're going to lose because you're not just competing against people who kind of want it.

You're not competing against people who want it bad, but you're competing against people who need to do it. You're competing against people who have their back against the wall who have no other choice but to succeed. That's your competition. And so if you're sitting around here saying, oh, well, you know, I want to do it, but like, I have this to do and that to do, it's over. You're not going to win. The guy that has his back to the wall is going to destroy you. There comes a time where people need to see a beast. You've been passive, you've been kind, you've been gentle, but there's a time for the beast inside to come out. I'm talking about the one that's not in the zoo that's been captive and lost its skill set and instinct. I'm talking about

the wild instinctual you that has been wrapped up in the idea of what can be, but been held back because of what others have told you. It's not time yet. But don't be like those who had dreams at 25, but died to those dreams and were buried at 75, wondering what could have been. You see, if you become the beast that is, if you unlock everything that is within you, imagine what could happen. The very thing that you've dreamed of can become a reality, the very reality of you becoming unstoppable, the doors that you will shove open that others can step in. Because the rule that you make, your world will open up doors and those who follow your lead

will become a part of your tribe. And that tribe is while you'll have pride. But is up to you either unlock the beast or be a captive to what could have been. The choice is yours. Losing strips away your ego. It forces you to face the parts of yourself that need work in the truths you've been unwilling to accept. But losing isn't the end of your story. It's where the real work begins.

The chance to analyze the cracks in your foundation, and build something stronger. Growth happens when you fall flat, feel exposed, and have to decide whether you'll rise again. The lesson is in the loss, the win is in the comeback. If you want to go big,

you can't run from failure because it's a ticket to every breakthrough you've been chasing. If you're seeing this, that means you're not dead. And if you're not dead, that means you woke up today. And if you woke up today, That means you were handed a goddamn gift.

Because others weren't lucky enough to get that gift. And some took their last breath last night. So today, you're not wasting the day. You're making it count. Because you know you're not getting it back. So you're not taking it for granted. Today, you're doing something today that makes you happy. You put it off long enough.

Stop being scared what others think about you. You're not in high school anymore. So act like it. And grow up. Their opinions, they don't matter. It's your life, not theirs. Today is your day. So make the day count.

Do something today that makes you happy because you may not be lucky enough to get the gift of tomorrow. We're taught to believe that control is the key to a good life. That if you can just plan everything perfectly, prepare for every outcome and hold on tightly enough,

you can avoid the chaos, the pain, the uncertainty. Control feels safe. It feels powerful. It feels like the only way to keep your world from falling apart. But here's the paradox. The tighter you hold on, the less control you actually have. The more you try to force life to fit into your expectations, the more it slips through your fingers. Because life isn't meant to be controlled. It's meant to be lived.

And sometimes, the only way to truly gain control is to let go. Letting go doesn't mean giving up. It doesn't mean apathy or passivity. It means surrendering to the flow of life. Trusting the process. And understanding that you don't have to micromanage every detail to create something beautiful. Control feels comforting, doesn't it? Like if you can just hold onto the reins tightly enough, nothing bad will happen.

But the truth is, control is an illusion. You can't control the weather, the economy, other people, or the... random twists and turns of life. What you can control is how you respond, your attitude, your effort, your choices. That's where your power lies, not in trying to control everything around you, but in mastering what's within you. When you stop chasing the illusion of control, you free yourself from the anxiety of trying to predict the unpredictable. You stop wasting energy on things you can't change and start focusing on the things you can. So much of our desire for control comes from fear, fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of things going wrong.

We play the what-if game in our minds. What if I fail? What if they leave? What if it all falls apart? But here's the thing. Worrying about the what-ifs doesn't change the outcome. It doesn't prepare you for the future. It just robs you of the present. Letting go means. acknowledging that the future is uncertain and that's okay because no matter what happens you have the strength to face it trust yourself enough to know that you can handle whatever comes your way let go of the need to have all the answers and focus on what's in front of you right now think of life like a river you can fight the current exhausting yourself as you try to swim upstream or you can

surrender to the flow surrender doesn't mean your powerless, it means you're choosing to work with the current instead of against it. When you surrender, you open yourself up to possibilities you might not have seen before. You allow life to surprise you, to show you paths you never would have chosen on your own. And in that surrender, you find freedom. Some of the most incredible moments in life happen, not because you forced them, but because you allowed them. You let go of your expectations, your plans, your need to control, and made space for something greater to unfold. Letting go isn't weakness. It's strength. It takes courage to release your grip, to step into the unknown, to trust that even if you don't have control, you still have power. Power to adapt. Power to learn. Power to rise, no matter what life throws at you.

When you let go, you stop trying to control the uncontrollable and start focusing on what truly matters. You become more resilient, more flexible, more capable of navigating life's challenges. Identify what you can't control. Take a moment to think about the things you're trying to control right now. How many of them are actually within your power? Let go of the things that aren't. Release the weight of trying to fix what isn't yours to fix. Focus on your response.

You can't control the storm, but you can control how you weather it. Shift your focus from what's happening around you to how you're showing up in the midst of it. Trust the process. Trust that life has a way of working out, even when it doesn't go according to your plan. Some of your greatest growth will come from the moments when you had to let go of what you thought should happen and embrace what actually did. Practice presence. Control often comes from living in the future, worrying about what might happen. Letting go means bringing your focus back to the present. What can you do right now? What beauty can you find in this moment? Find freedom in surrender.

When you stop fighting against life, you find peace. You stop wasting energy on things you can't change and start using that energy to grow, to create, to live. When you let go, you don't lose control. You gain clarity. You gain the ability to see life for what it is, not for what you want it to be. You gain the freedom to adapt, to grow, to move forward without being weighed down

by the need to micromanage every detail. Letting go doesn't mean you stop trying. It means you stop clinging. You stop forcing. You stop living in fear of what might happen and start living in gratitude for what is. The paradox of control is this. The more you let go, the more power you gain. Not power over life, but power within yourself.

To thrive no matter what life brings. So loosen your grip, surrender to the flow. And trust that even in the uncertainty, even in the chaos, you are exactly where you're meant to be. Let go. your life expand. Doing the same things hoping to be a better person. Expecting same things out of the externals, hoping that would be different. Only way that you can conquer yourself in the moon past us is the renewing of one's mind. In order for a man to gain his life, he must lose his life. So you've got to be willing to die to who you are now,

to give birth to who you are to become. Understand Just how hard it is to work every single day to try to be great. Everybody is excited in the beginning. Like New Year, everybody started in January, jams back. Every year, you get to February and March, habits matter. Habits matter. Principles matter. How you view what you're doing and trying to accomplish matters.

If you want to achieve success, you're going to have to pay the price. And it won't be cheap. It'll be tireless nights. Long days, isolation, loneliness, tribulation, heartaches, headaches, and a lot of pain. But on the other side of pain is pleasure. On the other side of pain is success. Those who have left their mark in this world believe that they were chosen for something great. And a lot of us think that it's just the special ones who get to live out their dreams.

Those who are special. It's those who believe. It's not those who are magically chosen. It's those who choose to be chosen. The other Tidis' question was, how much longer are you going to wait to demand the best of yourself? We all know we have potential. We all know we have things we need to stop doing. We all know we have things that we should start doing, but we tell ourselves we'll do it later.

But will you? So tell yourself the truth about the situation that you're in. what we need to do. And it should hurt a little bit, by the way. It should hurt a little bit. There should be aspects of your life that you know you can improve upon. That should hurt a little bit. Here's the cool thing. Take ownership of those things and guess what? Doesn't hurt at all. Now guess who's in control? You are. But if you're having trouble finding discipline, start by telling yourself the truth about what's going on. You can have what you want in five years. but there's two conditions.

You have to know what it is, and you have to aim at. Figure out what you want. Write it down. Figure out what you could do to start moving towards that. Develop a vision, and you have to do that in dialogue with yourself, right? It's like, if I could have what I wanted, what would satisfy me? And you might think, well, I could never get that. And I could say, well, maybe not, but I'll tell you one thing, man.

You can move towards it. And I know almost all the pleasure. is in the moving toward. Let me tell you a secret. No one does when they begin. Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.

Yeah, of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate, because we feel like we haven't had ours yet. And it prevents people with seeds of good ideas from ever getting started in the first place. place. Be prepared to be misunderstood. Anyone working on a big vision is going to get called crazy, even if you end up right. In our society, we often don't take on big things because we're so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing. People should know that you never will be able to go through life without failures. Failures make us learn. Failures make you stronger. Pain makes you stronger. So I think all of that

he's good. Write everything you want on a piece of paper. Everything. I don't care. Use your wireless imagination. If you can think it, you can achieve it. Write it on a piece of paper. Read it every morning and every night. Come back here one year from today and see how much of that stuff than came true.

It's easier to live a life you hate than it is to live a life you love. Doing what you love can be hard because we live in a world that encourages the opposite. But that doesn't mean it's right for you. No one can decide what struggle or success looks like in someone else's life. You get to choose that. And if you don't, then society will decide for you. People will belittle your plan. People will tell you

that you have the wrong vision. People will tell you that it will not work. But here's the thing, it's not their vision. It's your vision. It wasn't given to them, but there will be people who will try to tear it down, who will tell you don't have what it takes. Who will tell you that this is impossible? Who will tell you that you need to be realistic, but nothing great has ever happened from being realistic in their own hearts. Small minds do not see a big plane. The higher you fly, the deeper you fall.

Okay? So if you want to fly high, do it. But if you fly high without somebody telling you before you're starting to flight, that there will also come to descent, Then I think it's kind of blind. Just keep it in mind that there is something in our lifetime which is always balancing out.

This idea of being happy is this concept that people have been sold, right? That life is about happiness. But what if life wasn't about happiness? What if life is about experiencing every aspect and every emotion that life has? Wouldn't you want to experience the full sudden range of emotion that life has to offer you the sadness, the heart breaks, the joy. When you have butterflies and you're feeling anxious and you have anxiety or nervous, that's when you're most powerful, I believe.

A lot of people, instead of homing this power and using it, they allow it to just consume them. A big challenge or big pressure is like a fire. It's like a raging fire. Either you can allow this fire to consume you and just take you over completely or you can gain control of this fire and harness it. If you can dream it, it can potentially become yours with the right energy input, the amount of work ethic necessary, and a good attitude. Understand that you have one life.

How you live it is your choice, but life will pass you by. You don't want to be the person that weeks up 30, 40, 50 years from now and regrets what they did. I never like to look back because it just there's really not much in it for me, right? It's just I always like to look forward. Do I want to look out the windshield? I want to look through the rear. I'd rather look forward because I know where I'm going then rather than I was looking at the back.

If you think the price of winning is too high, wait till you get the bill for regret. And that bill for regret is generation. And the only way that bill gets paid off is you've got to be willing to make the hardest decisions. The energy requires to start doing something is way more than the energy required to continue doing the thing. And that the beginning of doing anything

results in the lowest amount of reward, both internal and external, than when you've been doing it for ages. The only reason why you're not living the life that you actually want to live is because you keep on feeding the life that you don't want to live. Day by day, keep on feeding the life that you don't want to live. That's a lesson that people need to hear and learn.

It's so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable. Everybody wants to sit in the car, I don't want to go outside. It's cold. I don't want to do this. It's hot. Like, you've got to do things that you don't want to do because you show your body that your mind is the boss. Just telling your body what to do and then you have control. You got to do something, man.

If years and years pass and you're just the same dude, you're not really living in a way. I kind of feel like you're just being pushed through life. I think people are where they deserve to be. And if you look at what they did over the last 10 years, their life is going to look exactly what it should look like. If you can't become aware of your own internal dialogue, and you can't start to have control over your own internal dialogue, and you can't start to tell the bitch voice that you have in your head

to sit down or shut up, you're going to have a very hard time making any year your year. In failure and in suffering, all the answers are in there. All the answers to all the test questions, the test is your life. All the answers are in there. You have to live in suffering and pain and failure all the time. You have to learn, I need to visit it. I'm not going to negotiate with my goal.

I've been negotiating sometimes with my goal. The time in my life where I'm most successful, there's no negotiation. A friendly reminder that in three generations, everyone who knew us will be dead, including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along. Imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have. Years later, they get old and die. Two years after that, how much do you care? About as much as everyone else will, if you accomplish your goals and dreams, do it for you. Consistency, consistency, man, that's the name of the game, bro.

Don't get much simpler into that. if you keep going every single day and don't stop. They ain't ready for prime time. They ain't trying to really get right. Grind every day one foot in front of the other burn. I promise you, let me lap in these boats, bro. Give it a year.

Watch what happens. Just dude, you're living. How do you want to live? How do you want to die? How do you want to be remembered? That's it. Nobody can destroy you if you won't let them. Whenever I get to a low point where I think,

Why do I even bother? I just remind myself, this is when most people stop, and this is why they don't win. Got to fight. It's hard. It's hard as... You're going to have days where you don't want to do anything. You're going to have days where getting out of bed is the hardest motherfucking thing you ever did in your life. You've got to get the fuck up, and you've got to get in the fucking fight.

Get serious. That's number one. I don't know any substitute for that. You've really got to get serious. You don't have to be grim, but you must be serious. Go from average to fortune, you must get serious. And you must get serious about two very important things. Number one is setting your goals and where you want to go.

Designing the next five, the next ten years is so vitally important. What do you want to do economically? Where do you want to go? What do you want to be? You gotta keep working. Your time's gonna come, trust me. Just keep working. They're not getting what you want, keep working. You are getting what you want, keep working. You gotta work. Your time is gonna happen. You're here for, for you.

reason but you gotta be ready because if you're not it's on you the reinvention occurs in the micro actions that you're taking every single day the tiny little things that that perhaps no one even notices that are creating muscle memory around new behaviors that perhaps are very uncomfortable to you tiny little things repeated over time is what produces dramatic change I'll get to it tomorrow I'm like who promised you that right I'll get to it a month I'm like, who promised you that? Right?

Because light changes so quick. We live our lives and we feel as if we promise something. Right, but when you think about it's like when we try to control things. But when you really think about the macro of life and the grand scheme of life, we really don't have any control. We can control what we possess, emotions, attitude, thought process, perspective, how we speak, how we respond. But just life in general, we have no control of that. How bad do you want this? If it's as bad as you want to live, breathe, or sleep, I can work with you.

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

It takes a lot of work. Stay focused, don't listen to nobody. What's on your mind, just do it. Because what's destined for you, you're gonna get it. An ode to people who don't believe in themselves. What comes first, belief, our action. Do you need to believe that you can do a thing before you can do it? Fake it until you make it is one option,

but incredibly hard if you're introspective and have low self-belief and high standards. So what about make it until you believe it? Here are some lessons that I've learned. You can believe you're not worthy of a thing and still attain it. You can be adamant that your efforts are going to go badly and still succeed. You can grip and grasp and fear and it ruin the enjoyment and be totally unwarranted and things still go well. You can have no self-belief and show up anyway.

You can want more for yourself without knowing exactly what that looks like. You can doubt the process, question your talent, be uncertain that you're making progress, disparage your accomplishments, permanently feel like you're not working. hard enough no matter how hard you work never give yourself a break fail to fully feel gratitude be terrified of never reaching your goals and still end up in a place that your 20 year old self could not imagine you'd ever get to self-belief is overrated generate evidence now you're starting to believe yourself starting to believe that inner voice you're starting to believe in your actions

you're starting to believe in who you are you're starting to believe in your words you're starting to believe in your dreams You're starting to believe in your thoughts. You're starting to believe in your actions. So what happens after that? What's the next step? Doubt. Listen.

Believing. Ha-ha. Now you start to trust the one person that you should have always trusted. That other individuals told you not to trust. And that's you. Because you're finally listening to that voice. You're finally starting to have self-belief. You stop doubting yourself for the moment, and you start to grow.

You trust yourself. You trust your actions. You trust your words. Now what happens after trust. You start to grow. You've worked way too hard to let one season of darkness convince you that there's no light at the end of the tunnel. As consistent as I try to be at my job, my workouts, my own personal improvements, each and every week is still full of ups and downs. Some runs, even just a few miles, feel like pulling teeth.

Other longer ones, I feel unstoppable, like I could go on forever. Some days, it's so easy to get into a flow state, and I feel like I'm on track to achieving everything I've ever hoped for. And I'd be lying if I said these highs and lows didn't use to discourage this shit out of me, man. But recently, I've just been embracing the fact that nothing lasts forever, good or bad. No success or accomplishment is permanent, but it also means that no failure is permanent either, not unless you let it be. So if you feel like you've just been against the wall, like you can't break out of a bad cycle, like you've been trying everything, but nothing's fucking working. Like you wish you could control everything that you can't control that season of darkness.

Just keep on knocking because you're getting exactly what you wanted. So dedicate yourself to all of it. The dreams, the work, the suffering, the hopelessness. When you signed up for all of it, you knew exactly what was expected of you. So you'd better meet the standard. Or you can turn temporary into permanent. Convin yourself that this bump in the road is a life sentence. That's just too hard.

Let one season define your year and let one year define the rest of your life. Or maybe now the clay's just finally starting to get warm and something's about to happen. Something's about to change. but that's entirely up to you to stick out to find out. Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems. Wish for more skills.

The same wind blows on us all. The difference in where we arrive at the end of the week, at the end of the month, at the end of the year, is not the wind that blows. And the wind is blowing around the world. And it's important because otherwise you can be afraid of pursuing the things that you want to pursue, right? And that's very common.

And so then the fear inhibits you as the promise pulls you forward, but it makes you weak because you're afraid. You want to get your fear behind you, pushing you. And so what you want to be is more afraid of not pursuing your goals than you are of pursuing them. It's very, very helpful. And lots of times in life, and this is something really worth knowing, you don't get to pick the best thing.

You get to pick your poison. You have two bad choices, and you get to pick which one you're willing to suffer through. And every choice has a bit of the best thing. that element in it. And so if you know that, it's really freeing because otherwise you torture yourself by thinking, well, maybe there's a good solution to this, you know, compared to the bad solution. It's like, no, no, sometimes there's just risky solution one and risky solution two. And sometimes both of them are really bad, but you at least get to pick which one you're willing to suffer through. And that's, that actually makes quite a bit of difference.

It's easy to be a victim, bro. It's easy to believe that the world just happens to you. It's easy to believe that the state of your existence is entirely the results of other people's decisions or it's just luck falling short and then blaming everything else but yourself is the easy path it's the path that hurts the least but what you're not thinking about is the fact that there's no reward at the end of it your life is going to be shh-de-nothing is going to go the way you want then you're going to get to the end of your life you're sitting on your deathbed and once again you're going to blame everyone else you're going to look back at your life and say at least it wasn't my fault

Is your dog life simply not being your fault worth having a dog life? The best path forward is the hard path. The path where everything is your fault. The path where no matter what happens in your life, you find what you did wrong so you can do it better the next time. The path where there's always something for you to learn. That is the path that hurts the most. But it's the path that's going to make you the best person. And it's the path that's going to lead to the best life.

The reason people are afraid of the word obsession, and they like to stay in the interested area. Because when you're interested about something, when you're passionate about something, it's this beautiful daydream. It's this beautiful, euphoric rainbow. But you know what the obsession is? The obsession lives in your nightmare. obsession lives in your nightmare that's why people love to work with passionate people oh they're so passionate they're so easy to work with individuals that are obsessed their nightmares to work with you know why because every detail matters because you have probably dealt with everything that

life has thrown at you so far do you think that it's because of the way that you grasped and controlled and feared and ruminated or could it be because you're a capable, competent, gifted person and the world is fundamentally fair and over a long enough time horizon, most people get what they deserve. You're doing this for you. We judge people based on how much life they can tolerate, how much feeling they can deal with and carry and enjoy and that's something that we should all try and have more of in ourselves, being that person that your youngest self wanted as a role model. It says facing fear isn't about being fearless.

It's about being brave enough to move forward despite the feeling. That's what courage is. Courage is not the absence of fear. It's deciding to do it afraid. Right? We look at these people, man, they're so courageous. They have the same emotion that you have. they're just deciding to act through it

rather than allow the emotion to stop them from moving. Go into the unknown because you already know what you know and so and that's not enough unless you think you're enough and if you're not enough and you don't think you're enough then you have to go where you haven't been

you can't make yourself interested in something interest manifests itself and grips you that's a whole different thing and so what is it that's gripping you And how do you conceptualize that? Is that a divine power? Well, it's divine as far as you're concerned

because it grips you, and you can't do anything about it. And so there's a calling in you towards what you're compelled by and what you're interested in, and sometimes that might be very dark. And sometimes not, but you're compelled forward by your interest.

And so the idea that what moves you away from your country and the comforts of your child at home is something that's beyond. you that you listen to and harken to, that's exactly right. If you do not listen to that thing that beckons you forward, you will pay for it like you cannot possibly imagine. You'll have everything that's terrible about life in your life and nothing about it that's good. And worse, you'll know that it was your fault and that you squandered what you could have had. Fear and doubt, not the same.

How many times have you felt pressure and how alive you've felt underneath that? pressure when pressure was a privilege when it excited you that's fear fear is is about the pressure it's about embracing the pressure it's about wanting the pressure it's about not allowing the pressure to get to you but to propel you you thrive on it you look for it you can't live without it and what does doubt do in a pressure situations you You panic. You panic.

Fear is an ally. Doubt is an enemy that you created. One of my favorite quotes that I try to live by each day is, a man who procrastinates his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. Because the only thing we ever have on our side is the time we choose to take advantage of right now. The opportunities of possibility in front of us at this very moment that only require a down payment of today's effort, which honestly isn't even as big of a cost as it seems, considering how good you'll always feel knowing that you give it to be a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of effort. knowing that you give it about yourself by actually trying today.

So I'd rather do all the hard now. If it means I have to run further, lift harder, work longer hours, day in day out, it's not easy. I get it. But that's the whole fucking point. Because it's a smaller price you have to be willing to pay today to avoid a life sentence of questions you'll never be able to answer because you kept intentionally putting things off even when you knew your future self would hate you for it. If you keep skipping out on your daily opportunities, which are honestly the greatest ones

you'll ever have in your life, don't ever let yourself be just a default decision from never doing anything that needs to feel worthwhile. They'll say you're doing too much, that you need to slow down. But what they're really saying is your effort exposes their lack of it. They'll question why you're up before the sun, why you push when it hurts, and why you don't just take the easy way out like everyone else. And one day, when the results they didn't believe in start showing up, they'll ask how you did it and wish they started.

when you did. The world doesn't reward those who seek approval. It rewards those who stay in the game long enough to prove they never needed it. Motivation is garbage. It's garbage because it's not there when you really need it. Because knowing what you need to do, it's not enough. It's just not enough. The clock is ticking. Waiting for motivation to strike is basically saying it's never going to happen. So most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality, and it doesn't work. We literally have to become someone else. In other words, thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body.

And how you think and how you feel creates a state of being. So then the person says, I am insecure. And whenever you say, I am anything, you're commanding your mind and body towards. a destiny. So then most people's biology is, for the most part, they're past. And so if you're not being defined by the vision of the future, some new possibility in your life, you're only left with the old circuitry in your brain and the old emotions of the past. So the question then is, can you believe in a future that you can't see or experience with your senses yet? But you've thought about enough times in your mind that your brain is literally changed to look like the

experience has already occurred every single day you one step closer and you don't know how many steps away you are from your goal or from where you from where you want to be and you know me personally i want to tell you don't give up because because it could be a mental switch that's all you need to whether the next six months of your life it's going to be the best six months in your life thus far. It's so easy to quit, bro. That's what everyone was doing, and we're not trying to go out everybody else. I always remember that. Choose just one part of your personality to develop

that would virtually guarantee your success. Persistence would be your choice. DePolion Hill suggested that there may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but he said that quality is to the character of the human like what carbon is to steal. Persistence is going to keep you going in the face of almost every obstacle that you can imagine. It is based upon your focus being directed towards the positive polarity in life. You see, it's not difficult to find an individual who's persistently doing what they don't want to do

and achieving results they don't want to achieve. A lack of persistence is not their problem. How they're using their persistence is. ignorance and paradigms are the enemy that we must have been. Everyone is persistent. Our objective must be to put persistence to work for us rather than against us. You're not going to hit it out of the park on the first shot. But the crazy thing about how success works is that you only need to win once.

That's the crazy part, is you only have to win once. No matter where you're at your journey, you've just got to believe with all your fucking heart that you're going to make it. Because no one else is going to believe for you. You need to believe and know that you're one decision, one relationship, one meeting, one book, one thought, one something away from a completely different life. And when you know that, then you begin to look for them. If I were to leave this earth tomorrow, the one message I want to get across to everybody that sees this is that life is really short. When you get the opportunity to take a chance and bet on yourself, fucking take it. What most people do is when the struggle or the tough season or the adversity comes, they do every and anything to try to get away from it.

Anchor down and embrace it. Anchor down and embrace it. And I promise you the storm will eventually pass. But don't prolong the storm by trying to resist the storm. But your anchors down. Put your feet down, right? Like a tree that has deep roots and embrace the storm and eventually it will pass. And you will come out a stronger version of yourself. The biggest misunderstanding about passion is that it isn't something you find or something that just comes to you. It's something you create. Too many of us go our entire lives wondering where we are. aren't lucky or fortunate enough to have a natural purpose or to naturally be passionate about something when it isn't even a natural thing to begin with. True passion isn't naturally occurring. It only occurs through the action of building it. And that's the irony of it all. True passion, purpose,

it's never one specific thing, but it's found through the effort that you give in of itself working towards that thing or anything for that matter. So if you've always felt like you don't have a thing that others do, that get them all excited to get at a bed in the morning, then just start working on all different areas of your life and let that love of giving effort fulfill you. anyone can try anyone can get it anyone can invest in the idea of becoming that's the purpose and passion that you've been searching so long for why don't you think the highest of you said we all should think that we're great there's no reason for you to not think that you're great if you genuinely believe in yourself you are 75% already there towards your goals like you will you will accomplish

them if you believe yourself put in the work it's done nobody can make you successful but you if you don't believe in you why should i if you're not going to invest in you you Why should I? You are with you every single day. You know you better than anybody else, but you want someone to invest in you that haven't spent one moment with you? If you're not willing to do that? Of course you wouldn't.

You believe in you. Be the person that your mom thinks you are, or the person that your youngest self-wanted as a role model. Brave, courageous, earnest, honest, virtuous, like on fire. There's this quote from the ancient Greeks that says, live a as though all your ancestors were living a game through you. I really love that. We judge people based on how much life they can tolerate,

how much feeling they can deal with and carry and enjoy. That's something that we should all try and have more of in ourselves, being that person that your youngest self wanted as a role model. What would your life look like if you had the ability to adhere to every single plan, every single dream, every single goal that you have set forth for your yourself from the time that you were 10 years old to however you are now. What would your life look like? Life has a way of testing you.

Sometimes it feels like you're caught in a storm that just won't end. The kind of storm that leaves you drenched, battered, and clinging to anything that will keep you afloat. The kind that makes you wonder, how much more of this can I take? Maybe that's where you are right now, right in the middle of it. Maybe it feels like the universe is against you, like every step forward is met with two steps back, like no matter how hard you try, it's never enough. And when you're in that place, it's easy to think the storm will last forever.

But here's the truth, the storm will end. It might not feel like it now. It might not feel like there's even a glimpse of light on the horizon. But storms don't last forever. they can't. And no matter how impossible it feels, no matter how heavy the rain, the sun will rise again. It always does. The question is, how do you keep going until it does? When the storm is raging, you need something to hold on to, something that keeps you grounded when everything else feels like it's falling apart. That anchor could be anything, a goal, a belief, a memory, a purpose,

It's not about pretending the storm isn't there. It's about finding something solid within yourself to hold onto when the winds are trying to pull you in every direction. Ask yourself, what am I fighting for? What is worth holding on to? It might be your family, your dreams, your future self, the person you know you're capable of becoming. Whatever it is, let it be your anchor. anchor. Let it remind you why you're still standing, why you're still fighting, why you haven't given up. When life feels impossible, the big picture can be overwhelming. You look at everything

you have to face, and it feels like too much, too big, too heavy, too far away. But you don't have to face it all at once. You just have to take the next step. Focus on what you can do right now. in this moment. Not tomorrow, not next week. Right now. Can you make one phone call? Write one email. Take one step out of bed. Sometimes the smallest steps are the most important, because they remind you that you're still moving. They remind you that you're still capable. They remind you that the storm hasn't beaten you yet. This isn't the first storm you've faced. It might feel like the hardest, the longest, the darkest. But it's not the first time you've been tested.

And if you're still here, that means you've survived every storm before this one. Think back to those moments when you thought you couldn't go on, when the pain felt unbearable, when you doubted whether you had the strength to keep going. And yet, you did. You made it through. You're still standing. Let that be your proof. Proof that you're stronger than you think.

Proof that you faced impossible things before and come out the other side. Proof that you can do it again. One of the hardest things about being in the middle of a storm is the feeling that it will never end. That this is your life now. This chaos. This pain. This struggle. But the storm is not who you are.

It's something you're going through. It's not your identity. Except that the storm is here, but don't let it become you. You are not your struggles. You are not your pain. You are the person who is weathering them. Who is standing tall in the face of them. Who is learning, growing, and becoming because of them.

Even in the darkest storms, there are glimmers of light. Maybe it's a kind word from a stranger. Maybe it's a moment of laughter with someone you love. Maybe it's the simple fact that you woke up this morning and decided to try again. Those small lights might seem insignificant, but they matter. They're reminders that the storm hasn't taken everything. That there's still good in the world. Still hope.

Still something worth fighting for. Look for those lights. Hold on to them. Let them guide you forward. Storms are destructive, yes, but they're also transformative. They tear down what's weak, what's unstable, what wasn't meant to last, and they leave you with the raw materials to build something stronger, something better. This storm you're in, it's shaping you.

It's teaching you resilience, patience, courage. It's showing you what you're capable of, what you can endure, what you can overcome. And when it's over, you'll be stronger, wiser, and more grounded than you ever thought possible. This is the most important thing to remember. The storm is temporary. The pain you're feeling, the struggle you're facing. It won't last forever. It might feel endless now.

But every storm runs out of rain. Every night gives way to morning. When the sun rises again, and it will, you'll look. back on this time and realize that it didn't break you. It tested you, yes. It challenged you, pushed you to your limits. But it didn't break you. It made you. You can't control the storm, but you can control how you face it. You can choose to let it consume you, or you can choose to let it refine you. You can choose to give up, or you can choose to fight for the life you know you're capable of living. The storm will end. The sun will rise. And when it does, you'll be standing there.

Stronger, braver, and more alive than ever before. Keep going. You've got this. When the winter comes, make this note. Just hang on. You know, the winter cannot last forever. There's never been a double winter. Some are difficult and some are easier. There's never been a double night. The night only lasts for a few hours, and then the day finally dawns and the shadows flee away. Fear is always about that which does not exist.

You cannot fight or you cannot overcome that which does not exist. You want to know what true courage is? True courage is taking the test. True courage is finding out what you can, or can't do. You can't keep sweeping what's important aside for another day because the honest truth is you aren't promised another day. It takes courage to put yourself on the fringe of failure just to determine whether or not you will succeed. Two paths in life, this is the path I chose a long time ago. It's the lonely road. You're going to feel alone all the time. You can have team around,

you can have mentors. Trust me, you'll feel alone. You're going to wake up earlier and everybody else. You're going to go to bed later. Why do I tell you that? That way when these things are happening, you'll know, oh, these are signs I'm on the right road. Most everybody else will do this. The crowded road. It's well lit. There's navigational equipment. There's directions.

Really good roads. The lonely road? No navigational equipment most of the time. It's dark. It's not well lit. There's a huge ups and downs. Massive turns. Roadkill along the side of other people who quit on their dreams.

Do the thing everybody else does. Listen to the haters. All the stuff they tell you. What's so bad about where you are? It's okay. Any of that sound familiar? That's all the lonely road stuff. You're on the right road.

Don't yield. believing in your future more than you're believing in your past. Stop romancing your past. Start romancing your future. Stop telling the story of your past. Start telling the story of your future. Stop believing in your past. Start believing in a future.

That process is an unlearning and a relearning process. It's literally breaking the habit of being yourself and reinventing a new self. I want you to know that it's okay to leave your past behind you. Yes, you've had successes and failures. You've had difficult things and wonderful things happen. You've had things that you've learned and experienced that have brought you to this point right here, right now. And some of those things you had no control over. Some of those events in your past were completely outside of your control.

But you and only do you control what meaning and impact those things are going to have for you from this point forward. You get to decide. If we want to become a better version of ourselves, we have to do what heroes do. And what heroes do is they see something that they can't do. They accept that they can't do it, and they become the person who can do it. If you tell yourself the truth, and the truth is, I'm not happy with where I'm at. That's the truth. The truth is, I can do more.

The truth is, I can be in better shape. The truth is, I can work harder than I'm willing. work right now. The truth is I can't do more for my family. The truth is I can do much better than I'm doing right now. And if that's the real truth, if that's what you believe, if you believe that to be the truth, you won't have to find more discipline. Discipline will find you. It will wake you up in the morning. Anybody can sit at home and hypothesize about what they could have done successfully. It's easy to hypothesize about the success you could have had because it's safe. It's safe to do when you're not standing in front of the fire.

But there's no receipt that proves your success. That's why it's courageous to take on the challenge. And if you are taking on the challenge right now, that right there is a prime example of courage. Because you're being willing to put yourself out there in the name of success, in the name of becoming a greater version of yourself. That's true courage. you're out there actively pursuing it you are the definition of courage

yourself push yourself to that point where you feel that thought 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 all writing a book what's your book look like your life is a book you got a bunch of chapters in your book but when they close that book how good was the book it is also to condition myself to a certain vibe that vibe is i don't know what this life is going to bring but but 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.

Always believing yourself. Always be yourself. Always be grateful.