Absolute Motivation - Start From Nothing, Relentless Motivation to Succeed

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

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The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. It says that death is not waiting behind that door right now. Every second you are between life and death. One day it just stays with this, then this is going to happen. So in the moment where you realize it could be my last action right now, action right now that I do.

Having this type of thought on the mind, it could be your last. Hopefully, it makes you wake up to really focus on the things that are important for you. Because many things are starting to fall away when somebody tell you, look, you only have one more week to live. Many problems that at the moment people are caring about, they would just disappear. Then they wake up and realize this shortness of the way.

shortness of life. How precious it actually is that we are able to be here. One thing I've noticed about you is you are in a constant state of fear, worry and doubt. And I need you to remember that where gratitude exists, fear cannot. You need to wake up every single morning and re-root yourself and what you're grateful for, the trials that you've had to overcome. You can be grateful for the goals that have yet to be achieved. See them in your mind. Give gratitude as if they've already happened and watch how your life changes. Genius adores isolation. You want to get into flow state and do beautiful work.

Vincent Van Gogh. He only sold two paintings, but he's Vincent Van Gogh. I would say it's absolutely essential to leave the world regularly to do your best work to get into flow state. You can be in the world or you can do your finest work you can't do both. Master imagination. Be capable of closing your eyes. closing your eyes and transporting yourself to an alternate reality in which you can immerse

yourself at any given moment. Explore this alternate reality. Identify every detail of every aspect within the environment. Make it so vivid, so real that you can smell the misty air, feel the chill breeze, and see each blade of grass that blows with the wind atop the rolling hills. Bring this mission back and write it down every last detail and bring it to life. Create a mood board. Listen to music that matches the environment.

Light a candle that matches the scent of the environment. Wear clothes that you could see yourself wearing in that environment. Do everything in your power to bring yourself closer to that vision. And sooner than you believe, your vision will be your reality, I promise. Everything that you want that you don't have is outside of your comfort self. What I have learned in my potential path journey is that there are trade-offs all along the way. At every critical juncture in a person's life,

if they want to go to the next level, they don't go to the next level by just stepping up. They go to the next level by realizing they've got to give something up to go there. And the way this works is, the higher you go, the higher the price. Afraid of what other people think. In meditations, Marks really says,

You know, we all love ourselves more than other people, but for some reason we care about their opinions more than our own. The great British writer Cyril Connolly said, some people are afraid even to kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors might think. And the idea is we're held back by the opinions of people we've never met, the opinions of people we don't care about, the opinions of people we don't agree with on anything else, right? We are held back on what they might think of what we might think. of what we might think or say or do.

And this holds us back from the things that we're capable of doing. We are way too obsessed. And chances are you're way too obsessed with fixing things. You want your life to be different. Right? You're saying, this needs to change.

This needs to change. But that's only one part of you. There's another part of you that doesn't want things to be different, right? That wants to stay at home. That wants to hit the snooze button. And if you want to master your life, you need to take control of all parts of you. You need to understand all parts of you.

And we spend way too much time trying to fix our problems without even understanding where did this come from. How does this manifest? How does it affect me? So spend a little bit more time or a lot more time with yourself understanding your conflict. Don't even try to fix your problems. Just understand them. That's the one thing that needs to change. And if that changes, then you will be amazed at how easy everything else will, it'll be like dominoes,

where once you understand yourself, then a lot of things will start going positive in your life. You've spent so much time trying to meet everyone else's expectations, trying to fit into their idea of who you should be. But what would your life look like if you lived it for you? Not for their approvals, not for their applause, but for the quiet moments when you could, can say this feels right. Because when it's all said and done, you're the one who has to live with your choices. So make them count for you. When things come to an end, we often feel it's final. But it's actually the chance for transformation. I was reminded of this the other day when I was

going for a run through the woods, admiring the fallen leaves on the ground. Those leaves were not at end of life. They were going back into the earth. They were nourishing the soil. They were giving the chance for new life, for new growth. And like the leaves, we have to be able to embrace change. We have to let go of what no longer serves us. Give yourself the chance for renewal.

So when life gets hard, when you start to feel weighed down, remember the beauty of fallen leaves. And when you feel like you're falling, Remember, it's your chance for transformation. It's your chance to create space and vibrancy in your life. Do you feel like you're constantly running, chasing something better, something bigger, yet never truly arriving? Like no matter how far or how fast you go, something's still chasing you? The truth is, you're not running toward anything.

You're running away, away from the fears that haunt you, the regrets that you. The regrets that eat away at you, the pain you've tried to bury deep down. And I'm here to tell you something you might not want to hear. There's only one way to truly escape. You can't outrun the darkness. You can't drown it out with noise. You have to turn around. Face it.

Embrace it. It's not going to be easy. It's not going to feel good. But the person you become on the other side will thank you. The strength, the clarity, and the purpose you're searching for. It's all waiting for you in the very place you've been avoiding. When was the last time you sat in complete silence? No phone, no music, no friends to distract you, just you and your thoughts.

For most people, the idea is terrified. In the silence, the truth comes out. The things you've been avoiding, the doubts, the failures, the mistakes, they all rise to the surface. And we've been conditioned to think that facing those things is weakness. Let me tell you something. The true weakness is avoiding them. Running from your demons doesn't make them disappear. It only gives them more power.

They follow you everywhere, lurking in the shadows, growing stronger every time. time you try to bury them. And the more you run, the more control they have over your life. But here's the thing. Those demons, that darkness, it's not your enemy. It's a part of you. A part of you that's crying out to be understood, to be acknowledged. And the moment you stopped running, the moment you turn around and say, I'm ready to face this, that's the moment you take back your power. Solitude isn't loneliness. It's freedom. Freedom from the expectations of others. Freedom from the noise of the world. It's a chance to connect with yourself, to understand who you really are and what you really want. And here's the best part. When you embrace solitude,

when you embrace the silence, you stop seeking validation from the outside world. You stop comparing yourself to others. You stop living for everyone else and start living for yourself. The darkness isn't just a place of pain, it's a place of transformation. When you go into the darkness, you're forced to confront everything you've been running from, your mistakes, your regrets, your fears, and at first, it's going to hurt. It's going to feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. But that's where the magic happened. Because in the darkness, you learn what you're really made of.

You learn that you're stronger than your fears, braver than your doubts, and more capable than you ever thought possible. The darkness strips away everything you thought you were and forces you to rebuild yourself from the ground up. And when you come out the other side, you're not just a better version of yourself. You're unstoppable. So how do you do it?

How do you stop running and start facing the things you've been avoiding? One, start with silence, turn off your phone, step away from the noise, find a quiet place where you can just be. At first, it's going to feel uncomfortable. You're going to want and to distract yourself. Sit with it. Let the discomfort come. Two, acknowledge your fears. Write them down, speak them out loud, whatever it takes to bring them into the light.

Because the more you try to suppress them, the more power they have. But when you name them, when you face them, they lose their grip on you. Three, ask the hard questions. What am I afraid of? What am I running from? What do I need to change? These aren't any easy questions, but they're necessary. Four, take small steps.

Facing your demons doesn't happen overnight. It's a process. Start small. Spend a few minutes each day in silence. Reflect on one fear at a time. And as you get stronger, take on bigger challenges. Five, be patient with yourself. Growth isn't linear.

There will be setbacks. There will be moments when you're not. you feel like giving up, but don't. Remember, every step you take toward the darkness is a step closer to your true self. When you turn around and face your demons, you don't just conquer them. You transform them. You take the pain that once held you back and turn it into fuel for growth. You take the fears that once controlled you and use them to push yourself forward. You take the darkness that once consumed you and turn it into your greatest strength. And here's the thing. Once you've faced your demons, once you've embraced the darkness,

you're no longer afraid of it. You carry that strength with you wherever you go. This isn't just about motivation. It's about transformation. It's about stepping into the person you were always meant to be. So stop running, stop hiding, turn around, face the darkness. because everything you're searching for, your strength, your purpose, your peace is waiting for you on the other side. People who have done phenomenal things, the journey that people go through,

what is the inner conversation that they have, the inner monologue, how do each of us navigate through our own insecurities, our own moments of doubt, then when you have those doubts, understanding where do those doubts come from in the first place? I think once you understand that, then really you can create anything you want.

It's just a matter of first how to navigate the journey of the self. Once you have that, you can be dropped into any industry whatsoever and you can figure it out. Do not become a slave to your own mind. Your thoughts dictate your actions, and your actions dictate who you are. The first step to realizing your full potential is to think clearly and think positively. It's not that life is short, as Seneca reminds us. It's that we waste a lot of it. And why do we waste it?

Why do we waste this precious resource? Because we think that we have an unleashed. an unlimited amount of it. We think we'll get to it later. Mark Serrilla says you could be good today but instead you choose tomorrow, right? And we do that because we think we have tomorrow. We tell ourselves that lie. What you could say is the biggest lie in the world, right? I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it later, I'll do it when the kids are older, I'll do it when things go back to normal. You don't know that you have that. That's the power of this stoic exercise, Memento Mori. Memento Mori is the embracing of the moment that you are in and the acceptance that you might not get that many more

future moments. That's the power of momentum more. It's not supposed to be depressing. It's supposed to be clarifying, right? It's supposed to make you do that thing now to stop believing that you have time to waste. Whatever's in front of you isn't as big as you make it out to be. We start to make these very small things enormous because we allow our minds to take control and go away from us. We have to regain control of our mind. We've all overcome so many things in our lives. But we forget them. And a lot of times we don't spend enough time

like reflecting back in our lives, realizing how great we truly are. We go through something, we put it back, and we go on. And life is going to always challenge us, always challenges. And during that challenge the moment, we panic. We forget who we truly. are. Most situations usually we can find the strength to handle them just through having the right mental process. What exactly are you waiting for? Everything that you have been wishing for

is right there waiting for you. All you have to do is show up. If you make a consistent and honest effort in pursuing your dreams, you will succeed. You want to get to a level where you can't even believe that this is your life. That's how I feel. And I I also know that anybody can do it. That anybody can do it. You just have to begin to look at yourself as the machine in that you are not the person that created you, not the person that created the bad programming

that you were forced to learn to operate with, but you are the person that has complete control to reprogram it and start version one of you right now. You are now the platform and you are going to be able to continuously upgrade yourself, guide your evolution in a harmonious and peaceful way where you will continuously now achieve your goals, reach your milestones, become the person that you always dreamed you could be. And at the end of it, you've now developed the skill to continuously get better and better at operating you the machine till the day that you die.

How can you beat someone who cannot fucking quit? How can you beat someone who every time they go through a hard time, they get better and they get stronger instead of getting weaker and getting demoralized? How can you beat someone who looks back on all the tests that they've had and said, yeah, that wasn't shit, dude? Okay, as opposed to the person who's like, oh my God, I can't believe this happened. And then in two months, another thing happens. Oh, my God, I can't believe this happened.

It's going to be the person who has a stoic mentality, who looks at it and says this. Okay? All right, we'll get through it. And then the next thing happens. Well, won't do that again, but we'll get through it. You can't buy what you're looking for. Nobody can give you what you're looking for. What you're looking for is on the other side of thousands of days of unrecognized work

that feel like they won't pay off, but eventually do in the biggest way. the confidence you need to carry out the life you want is an earned characteristic, and that is why it's so valuable. Discipline exists only as a result of doing the things that most people are not willing to do. So recognize that what you're searching for is a tall mountain to climb, but there's no sense in letting that scare you. Just start taking the steps. When our brain starts to go through suffering,

When our brain starts to go through pain or starts to go through insecurities, when we start to feel uncomfortable with ourselves, our brain gives us a way out. And that way out is usually quitting or taking the easier route. If we're able to look at ourselves and face whatever we're running from, we can do a lot more than we think. You feel pain, you feel suffering, you feel discomfort, you stop right there. Everybody has a wall in their mind. It's a wall and it stops us from going further. Most walls have a door or a window. You have to find that.

You have to have the courage to find that. And once you open that door or that window, you realize how much further you can go. In psychology, there is an expression called a sense of control. People are happy when they feel they are in control of their lives. And people are unhappy when they feel they're in control of their lives. And people are unhappy when they feel they're

out of control or controlled by other circumstances. So the starting point would be to teach people to set goals. Setting goals is the master skill of success because from it everything else is possible and they can be personal goals, financial goals, but teach them how to set goals. So learn how to set goals first day. What are your goals for this week, this month, this year, five years? Where do you want to be in 10 years? You can change as you get new information. But start off. with an idea of where you're going and then make plans to achieve the goals and then organize the plans now each day you plan your day in advance and you use your time and you work on achieving the goals that are important to you you set

priorities and you do things of high value rather than things of low value you don't owe anyone an explanation for keeping your circle tight and your energy protected silence isn't weakness its strength that doesn't need an audience. Not everyone will get you, and that's okay. Those who resonate with you will understand without you having to say a word. Stay true to yourself, preserve your energy

for what really matters. In a world loud with distractions, be the calm that others need. The people we admire the most are the ones that stand alone. They're willing to take risks, they're willing to take chances, willing to be outliers that don't follow the rules, that understand what it takes to be great, understands you have to be different in order to succeed. You have to take a different path. You can't

follow what everybody else is doing. Who you are today is going to continue to be the person you are if you don't change anything about you or around you. You have to start looking and saying, who am I affiliating with and what level are they at? And if I'm at equal level, with them, I have to start looking for new people to affiliate with. If I'm going to become the average of the people I hang out with, then I want to make sure I'm leveling up in who I'm hanging out with. It's when I get complacent and I decide to coast. That's when I roll backwards.

So I want to keep driving. I want to keep driving to the next level. I want to find out what motivates me and I want to go after it. I have to define that. I have to figure out what it is that motivates me, but then I can go after it. And I can find the people. that have done it. I can find the people that have blazed that trail. And I can follow them. I can follow them to a certain point. But just like if I'm walking through snow and I follow the person in front of me and I walk in their tracks, eventually I have to go make my own tracks.

But by following through those tracks, I've realized I understand how to walk through that snow even better. So when I venture off on my own, yeah, it'll be slow at first. But I'll know what I'm doing because I've seen it done. I'm going to learn from others. I'm going to do what they did to get to where they are, and then I'm going to grow and do it even better. I'm going to level up by finding people who've been there before me. You're not failing because of the circumstances and situation. You're failing because mentally you let the circumstance and situation make you stop laying bricks. And you're not successful because you keep laying bricks, not laying bricks, not laying bricks.

If you would just lay bricks regardless. is the way I do it is I ask myself what's true you can write a narrative in your head and spin yourself down a negative path and beat yourself up and second guess and go back but what's true is you made what you thought was the best decision in the moment and then you leave it behind and I have a mentor of mine that says learn the lesson leave the event you leave the event behind and you learn everything you can from it and there's no going back do it yes you what are you doing? You stop hoping. You stop dreaming. You stop setting your expectations high. What are you doing? That's not the you that's always been you. What are you doing? You've let them get in your mind.

You've let them lower your expectations. You left trials, tribulations, nose after nose, bog you down. What are you doing? Even you until you believe in you and then the more you believe in you, the more the world will start believing in you. Another way to shape it is every visionary was initially ridiculed. before they were revered. So I want you to think about that. Believe in your vision, your mighty possibility, go out there and do the work required

to make your vision real. And if you do it, step by step, day by day, eventually the world will say, wow, you're a genius. Challenging times blow. I mean, when I think about periods of my life that were just an absolute struggle, financially, emotionally, and relationships, it's horrible.

And here's what I would always tell myself. This challenge is molding and shaping and strengthening me and ways that I didn't know that I needed. Because the thing about strength and life and character and resilience is those things like steel, they're forged in the fire of your life. And so you create that when things are hard. And so just keep waking up and doing the best that you can and know. And one of these days you're going to wake up, you're going to get through it. You're going to see a stronger, braver, and more resilient you staring back at you.

Everything in your life right now, everything you have, everything you do not have right now, are all results of your past actions. And that's hard to accept for a lot of us. But until you accept that, you will not be able to move forward. And when you do accept that, you take ownership and control over your life.