Absolute Motivation - Stop Wasting Time: Focus on Yourself - Motivational Speech

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

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There isn't a better way to live your life. There's no right way and wrong way. There is only the way that gives you more energy. There is only the way that gives you fulfillment. When you have those things, when you're fulfilled by what you're doing, and it's giving you the heart of you pursue it, it's giving you more energy, you're on the right path. As the Greeks would say, Sego Lodromo, which means you're on a good road. And that's what I want people to understand. But I don't think that it is a universal path. And so the only universal path is to do you. the things that give you fulfillment and energy. So if spending time with your friends gives you that, then you should be spending more time with your friends. If dating gives you that, then you should be dating. So you don't need to want to be the best in the world of something. You don't need to make a lot of money. You don't need to want to be an entrepreneur.

They're literally just stand-ins, they're proxies for fulfillment and energy creation. That's it. So those are the punchlines of what's the meeting of life and all of that stuff. is to do something that makes you feel a deep sense of well-being, which I'll call fulfillment, and something that gives you energy where you're literally excited to attack the day. I start with identity is because I think that's the root of all our challenges. It's starting at the root, not starting at the symptoms or the superficial or the surface level, but let's go to the root.

If you're playing a role, if you're wearing a mask, if you're dressed in a, if you're in clothes that are not yours, then you end up living a life that's not yours. Because guess what? When you fake being someone for so long, you think it's your reality. And that's what happens to all of us. We play a role at work, we play a role at home,

we play a role with our family, play a role in our friends, and then we think that role is us, and we lose ourselves. And to me, that is the core reason why we're chasing things that are not important to us. A lot of you that are running from things, instead of running to things. And that's a huge difference, running from something

versus running to something. And so I want you to think about that for a minute because you don't have to move across country to change your life. And you don't have to do something drastic to experience drastic positive change. And here's the thing about running away from your problems, running away from your past. Have you ever noticed that when you run away,

it tends to follow you? All we have, which everybody talks about, is this moment, this precious second right now. So the more I could be here right now, the more I'm living, you know, the life that I want to live. Too much about the future, too much about the past, that can use those as something to, you know, hope for in the future

as a guiding post from the past. But right now is the moment that every one of us has. I never really aspired to happen because happy is usually determined by external factors. I go for the joy. Because when you have joy at home, when you have joy inside, it don't matter much what's going on out here. You understand? You got your joy. And you can come home to your joy no matter. Far too many of us have our happiness, our peace, our joy, our value, our worth hooked into some external stimulation. And then we wonder why we're stressed out and overweight and can't sleep. You have those scars in your brain from life. But what we don't do is we try to hide those scars. We don't want to go back and revisit it. So I started realizing that my life was causing a whole

bunch of scar on my brain. And I had to go back and really break open that scar and let it bleed. And that was a very painful journey for me to go back. Who are you letting ruin your dreams? What scorecard are you judging yourself by? Screw that. This is your time. This is your opportunity. This new world that we live in with access like you listening to me right now. Access to so much knowledge. We have access to information. This is your time. There's no better time there's no different time this is your time only way it'll happen is if you change the story in your head if you say change the scorecard change your desires find your passion don't when people tell you stop dreaming tell them I'm

sorry you gave up on yours I'm not quite there yet that's the response you need to share every day I'm winning every day I'm winning the the other voice in my head so I'm I'm very I'm at peace of myself The things I do for fun are like me bettering myself. But I also love accomplishing and overcoming myself every day. Because every day is a battle. Every day is a battle because your mind wants to choose the path of least resistance. Every day.

But you don't become better by ever doing that. You become normal. And I don't want to be normal. So it may not be a life for everybody, but I find a lot of peace and not being normal in my life. are just dreamed and they ultimately fuel disappointment. Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

As Shakespeare noted, there is nothing good or bad that thinking makes it so. There's nothing good or bad, right? There's just stimulus and then there's response. But people think that it is objectively a certain way. So now because they think it is an object-objectively objectively a certain way they feel they are supposed to react based on those emotions that are getting kicked up in their mind. If you want to always be

moving towards your goal, you want to be optimized, you've got to learn to get control of your emotions, you've got to learn to understand to tell yourself a narrative that isn't predicated on necessarily identifying what is objectively true because I don't think that we experience the world that way. It's identifying what's going to work to get me to my goal. Your joy, your sadness, your happiness, your misery is just. determined by something or somebody around you, the chances of you being joyful in your life is remote.

Is it true that human experience, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, madness or sanity, everything is created from inside? At least if you're a manager, if you're going to be a manager, at least what is happening from within you must happen your way. Because essentially management means having situations the way we want it. Yes. Management is what?

Having situations the way we want it. Well, if the world is not happening your way, at least this one must be happening your way, otherwise what kind of management is this?