Absolute Motivation - Transform Your Life with This Powerful Motivational Compilation

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

Discover a powerful motivational compilation designed to ignite your inner drive and propel you towards your goals. Featuring original speeches by our talented speakers and captivating music by NIMZ, this remixed collection will inspire change and boost your performance. Perfect for workouts, long runs, or as motivating background noise, our selected speeches promise to elevate your mindset and give you the energy to overcome challenges. Join us for an immersive experience that fuels success and personal growth. #motivation #motivationalspeech #goals #personalgrowth #inspiration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Look inside. You'll find something to grapple with. You have so much time to live. It's your time. So your goal in life is to realize that that is your treasure. So let's say you're working at that job and you have that horrible boss and you're miserable. You can turn that around and make those eight hours a live time. You tell yourself, maybe I can see that there are things that I can learn even from the worst possible job. So that's how you create a lifetime by saying it's mine. I'm going to create something worthwhile out of it.

I'm not going to give it away to others. This is my time I'm going to own it. What I'm saying is don't settle. Don't live lives of complacency because there is so much out there for us. We all have the right to live incredibly fulfilled, incredibly passionate, incredibly joyful lives, where you are siked it's Monday morning, where you are psyched that you're in quarantine with your family, where you are psyched that you get to do what you do every single day.

And if something doesn't line up that way, don't put it off. This is your life. No one is going to come and change it for you. Why couldn't we just be happy being who and what we are? Why is it that we're punished if we don't strive? Couldn't we just be rewarded for who we are? I can understand that. But I don't think that it works.

I don't think things function like that. And I don't think probably in the final analysis we really want them to. I don't know if anyone enjoys undeserved reward. It feels creepy, doesn't it, to be rewarded for something you didn't do? When else, the positive emotion that we find sustaining is experienced in relationship to an unachieved goal. If you want to begin to grow, you've got to put something out here that you can't reach easily. That has got to make you stretch, got to make you jump for it, got to make you get back a little bit and dig in so that you can take it. take a leap for it and then you jump up there and you're missing it and you extend your knees

and you come back again and you bust your lip next time. But you keep on and through that process you learn how to leap higher. You start challenging yourself to dig deeper and then you discover some things about you that you don't know right now, some talents that you have in you that you didn't know that you can do. Right? Most cats are somebody that worked hard. If the situation and the circumstances is what they want it to be, they're going to come

out and they're going to act accordingly and they're going to give you a lot. everything they got but a hard worker. Regardless of situation, regardless of circumstance, regardless of what happened, I'm gonna show up and I'm gonna give everything I got to it because I'm looking for something that's totally different. Like the question becomes this.

Can you be committed to the process of what you're doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you doing? Nothing's ever gonna be given to you. Everything's gonna be earned. If you don't go out there and put it in the work, you don't go out and put in the effort. One, you're not gonna get the results. But two, more importantly,

You don't deserve it. You didn't earn it. Do you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be? Like courage, do you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be? So anytime you've got to be courageous, let's look at it from the standpoint of dreams, goals, and aspirations. You got your dream, your goal, and your aspiration, and then you got reality. And oftentimes reality doesn't reflect the goal, the dream, and the aspiration.

When you think courage, like being courageous and following your heart because it somehow knows what you want to do anyway. Like, it's almost like instinct, right? It's almost like when you feel something that you should do. And for some strange reason, like your mind or your spirit tells you, nah, I don't want to do it because it takes you outside of your comfort zone and it puts you in a space in place that may be unknown or puts you in a space in place of uncharted territory. But you know you should do it. You can feel it.

right and then you go against it and all it does is make the route a lot longer that's all it does making promises to yourself that you don't keep it's saying I'm going to do this and not doing it because then what happens after that is the self-talk the self-talk that you create by not upholding the obligations that you make to yourself is ultimately the most destructive thing that you could ever do to yourself I'm gonna start on Monday I'm gonna start on Monday I'm gonna start on Monday I'm gonna start a Monday I'm gonna start a Monday I'm gonna start a Monday I'm gonna start on Monday. I'm gonna start after the wedding.

I'm gonna start after the hop-after this trip. After summer, after this next holiday, after the holidays, I'm gonna start. Sound familiar? Yeah. That's why you feel like, because you know that you didn't do none of the shit, you told yourself you should have done. That's here in the straight line. And when you think you figured that maze out, you hit a wall,

and you got the fucking round start again. Stay hard. Take ownership for your life. Nobody can live your dream for you but you. Nobody's gonna take care of your business like you. Stop coming up with excuses. Don't give yourself permission to continue to live a small life. You can't fit a big dream into a small life.

Give yourself permission to go for it, to test yourself, to challenge yourself, to live full. I want to be, until adversity in opposition hits, you judge your true character and caliber of a person by what is standing time of challenge. what is standing in times of challenge and opposition. Things that are robust, that are strong, that are tough, that can take just a lot of abuse before they break. They are still ultimately defined by their breaking point. Something that is anti-fragile, on the other hand,

is something that the more you attack it, the more it is pounded on, the stronger it gets, we're tied to something that is truly anti-fragile, that the more somebody comes after it, the more robust it becomes. Being a learner is that answer. Because when it got hard or when it rained or when you got hungry, whatever your boys wanted to go out to the club or whatever fucking was,

you did it and you didn't stick through. And that's it. Our life success comes down to little bitty tiny decisions that we make consistently over and over and over again. And if you're making consistent decisions to break your momentum over and over and over again, you never fucking having it. You're about being an individual. As an individual, you have a light that you have to bring into the, the world and that if you don't bring it into the world the world is a dimmer place and

that's a bad thing because when the world is a dim place it can get very very very very dark and so it's necessary not just so that you feel better you need to take care of yourself because you're in the best position to do that and it's necessary for you to take care of yourself don't be afraid to reinvent yourself and don't be afraid to be different man you ain't got to fit in the crowd why are you following everybody when you were clearly meant to lead It's always better just do your thing. And I don't care what situation you've got your life in, you can turn your life around, because it ain't ever too lazy.

Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. The hard choices, what we most fear doing, asking, saying, these are very often exactly what we most need to do. You know, sometimes you get that feeling in life in life that things aren't going my way. Listen, things just don't go your way. That's not the way the world works. You got to make them go your way. It's not just going to happen. You've got to make it happen. Situations that happened that was out of their control. And when you think about when

things happen, the first thing we try to do as individuals, how can I control it and how can I manage it? And if I can't control it and manage it, now I'm frustrated in a matter. And the words of an older gentleman, he told me one day, he said, young man, you can't speed up the river and you can't slow it down. At a certain point, you've got to have some faith. Can't ever give up. Most people on the planet today are not living in the present, and they're certainly not living in the future. They are stuck in the resentments, the bitterness, the pain, the frustration, the disappointments of the past. I don't know where you align with what you want to do in terms of your life and your goals and your dreams. But I say what Dr. Miles Monroe said, live full.

Die empty. And so during the adversities of where we are and what we are facing, you want to have some things that you're doing. And that will give you the tools, the mindset, the mental resolve to handle what ever life throws at you. Why less? Because whatever life throws at you, you have in you. Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. You have in you to handle it. Perverts between winning and losing in life and everything and being a great mother and not, a great father and not, a great leader and not, wealthy and not, a big business and not, making a difference in not. It's so small. It's almost too scary to talk about.

In that small thing all my life, I've been trying to figure what's the thing? What's the separate? I know what it is. They do exactly what everybody else does and one more. They read one book a month, they read one more. They do 30 minutes on the treadmill. No, they do 30 plus one more. They do 10 reps on the bench press. No, 10 reps, one more.

When you set that standard, your entire life begins to shift and change. About the impossible task, nothing is impossible. The more you believe in something, the more you believe in something that one can do this, another one can. Another one can. You think things are going to just go your way? Well, they're not going to just go your way. You got to make them go your way.

You think things are going to just happen for you? Well, they're not just going to happen for you. You've got to make them happen. Go make things happen. We all have that monster, that monster that lives in our head. And that monster is the thing. These are the things that keep us up at night. These are the things that discourage us and cause us anxiety and cause us fear.

If you don't slay the monster, the monster will eat you to f*** a lot. You will live a life of anxiety, of fear, of confusion, of frustration. If you don't make a habit of slaying the monster, the longer we allow that monster to live in our brains, in our minds, the bigger and stronger it gets. the scarier it gets. You have built in greatness. You have built in power, authority, and dominion to handle whatever life throws at you. And life is going to be throwing a lot of stuff.

Nobody's going to be spared. That's why Victor Franco called it unavoidable suffering. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind. When you can't control what's happening, control how you respond to it. That's where your power is. Control what you can control.

I can control my attitude. I can control my words. I can control my perspective. I can control the lens in which I see it. Because if I can control what I can control in the moment, what's happening externally is not going to affect and impact my true potential and my true advancement as a person. If you let people's perception of you dictate your behavior,

you will never grow as personal. But if you leave yourself open to experience, despite what others think. then you will learn and grow. You don't work through what happened in your past, you are resigned to spend the rest of your future stuck in the past. If you want to play it mastery in your craft, you want to play it mastery in your thinking,

you want to play it mastery in your performance, you want to play it mastery in your income, you want to play it mastery in your service to humanity. You owe it to yourself and the best within you, in you and the talent that resides within you to do the work required to let go of the past. How much long? You're going to wait another 30 seconds? You're going to wait another minute. You're going to wait another hour.

You know what? How about I just wait till tomorrow? You're going to wait till tomorrow? You're going to wait another week? You're going to wait another month? How much are you going to wait? I say no more waiting. Actions echo into eternity.

Long after we're gone, lives also have an echo. All the criticism, if you really want to avoid all the critics in your life, then do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. And you'll never get their attention. But if you are something and you're doing something, you become something, guess what? You'll get their attention. And that pisses them off because they can never be what you are now. So the only they can do to make something feel good,

let's try to bring you to f*** down. bring you the f*** down. I say thank you for that. Thank you for acknowledging the fact that I'm doing something. I don't know who the f*** you are. You seem to know who I am. They respond negatively because they've never done anything in their life. That's why they're a critic, never a player. Because they've never done anything, all they can do is cast votes and negative negativity to someone that has done it. Because they're mad enough to ever do it in the place. You finally made it to the big leagues and now you want to chill! Now you got the big head! Now you can't grind, you're here now.

You finally made it. And this is where you break up. This is where you start chilling. This is where you get comfortable. Watching you now. This is where you make it permanent. Yeah, I saw it. I saw it perfect, perfect.

Nope. Practice don't make perfect. Practice make permanent. There are winners. There are losers. And there are people who have not discovered how to win. You from your income, your impact, a world-class life. You care too much about what people think about you.

Now we're in the modern age and we are frightened. We are terrified. Our amygdala goes crazy. Cortisol, the fear hormone, starts to pulse through our system if we leave the crowd. Everyone has an opinion. Why let the opinions of other people deny you from a life that will make history? to me, your life matters, what you do in your life matters. You were born to do something great with your life.

You were put here for a reason, which is to make a difference in the world, which is to change your own family's tree, which is to do something great with your life. I promise you you were putting for that in little ways and in big ways. And there will be an echo for your life. The actions of your life will echo into eternity. The question is, will that echo for you be a whisper into eternity or a roar? Every single person who has ever done anything worthwhile or exceptional or difficult or extraordinary, anyone, whether it's great artists or authors or mathematicians or whatever the f f it is. Everyone encounters difficulties.

There is no easy road. It does not exist. It is impossible. Everyone has issues. Stop begging. Put forth the effort. Because one thing I know about life, whatever you sow, you're going to reap. If you put a million apple seeds in the ground, you're going to get a million apple trees back. I want you to see yourself doing what you want to do, experiencing what you want to experience.

Having what you want to have, doing what it is that gives your life some meaning about you. Operate out of your imagination, not your memory. Because whatever you look at where you want to go, I'm wanting to warn you, you will have some meaning to you will have some meaning of you. you will have some conversation back here after you go through the data that you've experienced in life saying you can't do it and so what you want to begin to do is ignore that inner conversation does not take talent you don't have to be talented right you don't have to be gifted you don't have to be the quickest the strongest you don't have to be the most intelligent that's what you got to do you just got to grind though you're grind you got to outgrines and here's one way you never be

better yourself. When you come up with excuses for why other people are successful and you're not. The key point, our hearts at also is all the suppressed emotions that we pick up as we go through life. The shadow side. All of the suppressed emotions that we do not feel like guilt, anger, shame, disappointment, frustration that we pick up as we go through life. If those are not dealt with, they come back in ugly ways. It's not about any of that. But what it is about is a lot of us give total control to life. We don't have any control of it.

We just give all control to life. I do it every morning to prepare my mind for what life's going to throw at me. A healthy body gives to a healthy mind. That's what it's about. So if you're going to battle, you're not going to battle to the right mindset. the right gear in combat you wear body armor but what we do wrong is we're on strength in our minds you got to strengthen your mind take control of that so then when you get out in the real world they get you up you got protection everybody

want to be a beast and tell us time to do what beast do if you shrink if you play small if you don't take risks if you don't take those actions, if you don't keep improving, you don't keep growing, then your life will just whisper and you weren't put here to be a whisper. You are put here to be a roar into eternity. I know that for you. When something happens to them, what they do is they begin to believe that that's the way it is. Listen to me, you better grow up and get to the point as a man that if you ever get beat, you better get beat by somebody that's just purely more talented than you You better not ever get beat by somebody because you beat yourself.

Stay focused. Don't listen to nobody because what's destined for you, you're going to get it. Faith is the substance of things hopeful and the evidence of things not seen. Your imagination is the evidence of things not seen. You know why they say is not seen? Because your imagination, you are the only one who can see it. who can see it. So you know what that means? All that stuff you've ever imagined. It's just been God showing you a preview of a coming attraction he has for you. The problem with your imagination is you tell it to the wrong people. The people that are going to change their lives, the people

that are going to recover their hell, the people that are going to build their lives and start all over again from scratch are people who believe it's possible. The people who fail are the people who suffer from possibility blindness. It said the people that are successful in any area of life, you must be willing to do the things today others won't do in order to have the things tomorrow, others won't have. I said dominate. So if you think you're going to dominate in your industry,

dominate in this world, and be one of the best of the best at what you do. When I say dominate, I need you to make some noise because I'm talking about you. So everything that you do is habit forming. And that includes hitting the snooze button. That includes sitting on the couch. That includes eating donuts. It's all habit forming.

You know what else is habit forming? Discipline. Setting the alarm and getting up. Going and working out. That stuff is all habit forming too. I recommend you form some discipline habits. So of course you feel lost. Of course you feel confused. Of course you feel frustrating.

Because you haven't been developing any of the skills that are necessary for you to live a true life that you're proud of. How about this? How about you work on developing your discipline this year? And so I want whatever dream you have, I want you to expand it. I want you to increase it. Don't ask yourself how you're going to do it. How is none of your business? Gertrda says that which does not kill you will make you stronger.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is to find something that you're naturally adept at and figure out a way to make a living at it. Because if you do that, every day will be a play day. You're never battling upstream. You love what you do. And if you love what you do, if you love what you do, why do you want to stop doing it? And then go out and try to find something that you like better.

It's all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. 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. And in every family there's a Neo. There's a the one that eventually shows up in a family and changes the whole family forever.

They rise up and they change it all. Inside a treadmill, can't let conditions. They can't take your outcome. They can't train. Whatever conditions they get you because it's too natural. You're going to do the same. Stay home. If you can believe it, you can achieve it.

If you can believe it, you can achieve it. This is something that you hear alive, and I get it. But guess what? Belief of by itself doesn't get you anything. You gotta impose your will, you gotta be disciplined, and you gotta make things happen. Don't worry about failing. You're going to fail.

You're going to make some mistakes. You're going to look stupid. Why it's called life. Make it okay to fail. See, I found that as the saying goes, most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss. Most people fail in life

because they aim too low and hit. You have to be willing to grid it up. You have to be willing to push through discomfort. Nothing that you're about to try or do or achieve that is worthwhile is going to be comfortable for you during the process of creating it. So stop with this fucking hope shit. Stop with this I wish it when it comes to your own life and start replacing those terms with I will fucking do no matter what. It's a fight for territory. And once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want

will automatically take over. Gotcha, I'll seek, and outwork the competition. You can have, you can be, and you can do whatever you want to do, but you cannot do it if you're not willing to make the sacrifice. And for those of you who are willing to make the sacrifice, I'm willing to make the sacrifice. That life is short and every second is precious, so put your freaking head down and keep getting after it.

The reason most people fail, is because they give up what they want most for what they want now. Because you might ask yourself, like, if for 10 years, if you didn't avoid doing what you knew you needed to do, by your own definitions, right, within the value structure that you've created to the degree that you've done that, what would you be like? A hard thing to accept, but in our lives,

we are getting out of our life right now exactly what we believe we're worthy of, exactly what we think we deserve. Our life is a direct reflection of our identity, which is the thoughts, concepts, beliefs, values, and worth we hold true to be about ourselves. We're getting out of life right now what we believe we're worth. And we believe we're worth it because of these patterns and our identity and our lack of choosing to have what we want.

Not just the material things, not just the body weight, not just the amount of money, not just having the relationship, but choosing the emotion we want. Well, you know, there are remarkable people who come into the world from time to time. And there are people who do find out over decades-long periods what they could be like if they were who they were. If they said, if they spoke their being forward. And they get stronger and stronger and stronger. And we don't know the limits to that. We do not know the limits to that.

And, you know, I find that so many of us think that our dreams are unreachable or unrealistic. And it's just so sad. I mean, people think that their dreams disappear. And if that's what you think, congratulations. Congratulations, you're officially stuck. And the truth is that our dreams are always there, and they don't ever give up on us, we give up on them. But I learned along the way, everything that's happening to you is God is processing.

Every difficult moment you're having, he's just processing. That's all he doing. Everything you're going through is preparing you for what you ask God for. And if you need to be tough, when you get through. where you going, then he'll toughen you. If you got to be more caring along the way, he'll let you have some trials coming your way that's going to have to produce that in it. And so if your life isn't everything it could be, you could ask yourself, well, what would happen if you just stopped wasting the opportunities that are in front of you?

You'd be, who knows how much more efficient, 10 times more efficient, 20 times more efficient. You have no idea how efficient, efficient people get. It's completely off the charts. See, there's a book being written about your life, isn't there? Someone somewhere has taken inventory of your life. Don't compare your chapter one to someone's chapter 10. You write your own book. And at any moment in your life, you can decide that you want to make this the new chapter.

Literally in your life, you can turn the page. And those previous chapters are your old book. It's like Old Testament, New Testament. Old story, new story. They're connected, they're related, but you can flip the page and you can have a whole new story. If you decide right now,

I am literally turning, my breakthrough is I turn the page, and in this second, I start to write the best chapters of my life. That's the life to live. That's the life. Like to say, I care about this. It matters.

It gives me purpose. I'm going to fight for this. This is a group of people I want to serve. And I'm going to go all the way out every day. And look, you're not going to hit it every day. There's going to be days where you're off. There's going to be days where you're weak. Weak.

But if that day, instead of bull's-shitting yourself, instead of saying I wasn't weak today, what are you talking about? If that day you f***n't own it and you say, yeah, I was weak today and I'm not going to be weak tomorrow. But I'm not afraid to face that. I'm not afraid to accept that I'm not perfect. I'm not afraid to look in the mirror and say, today was a bad day, that I didn't make myself proud today.

They know they should adopt. It isn't merely that your fate depends on whether or not you get your act together and to what degree you decide that you're going to live out your own genuine being. It isn't only your fate. It's the fate of everyone that you're networked with. But that shouldn't diminish who you are. I shouldn't diminish your view of yourself. Why?

Because it wouldn't serve you. Because if you beat yourself up to day, you make it harder for you to be rad tomorrow. It's a game that has to be seen in total. It's not a game where you can take a snapshot. And so that's how you're connected and the things you do, they're like dropping a stone in a pond. The ripples move outward and they affect things in ways that you can't fully comprehend. And it means that the things that you do and that you don't do are far more important than

you think. But I mean if you really ask yourself, wouldn't you be so sure if you had the chance to choice. I can live with no responsibility whatsoever. The price I pay is that nothing matters. Or I can reverse it and everything matters. But I have to take the responsibility that's associated with that. It's not so obvious to me that people would take the meaningful path. When you have doubt, when your faith becomes weak, your reasons will fortify your faith. When you have an inner conversation, say, no, don't do that. Your reasons will become your rod and your staff to comfort you. to take you through those challenging moments. So write down your reasons.

And what you will find, that when you decide to act, when you decide to take life on, and let me warn you, it can be painful, it will be uncomfortable, and that's where the growth is. When you're uncomfortable,

when you're stretching out, when you're taking life by the collar, you're going to get thrown to the ground again and again and again. But when you have determination, and you know that what you're doing is right, it gives you your life, it gives a special meaning and power to you,

you will have some power from on a heart. You will discover some things about yourself that will begin to electrify your personality. Like there is no excuse whatsoever for not getting at what it is that you should be doing. It's the what if I can pull off a miracle, What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? So really what it comes down to is what are your skills?

Like if you've got skills that can be used to build something beautiful, to do something wonderful to the world, to help people move towards their goals, that will excite the masses because they want that thing that you're going to create, that it's going to improve people's lives. But only thing that mattered in all of that was you got really good at something. And somewhere along the way, we lost that the punchline is,

no matter what you do to the system, You, you as an individual need to get extraordinary. It's very important as you hold on to that dream. There are moments when you're going to doubt yourself. There are rough times are going to come, but they have not come to stay. They have come to pass. There is another level.

The only reason you keep seeing there isn't is you feel so exhausted about where you are. But life, the universe of God, is just testing you because there is another level. If this is good, start good, poor to good to excellence. There's a level where all your dreams are realized. There's a level that you've always dreamed about.

It is real. It has not gone away. But it takes that extra burst when you think there's nothing left. There's no way. You've tried everything 10 million times. It's almost like God is saying, if you keep hitting this wall enough times, I will see that you will not stop,

You will not stop, that you are filled with that level of determination, faith, and courage, and then the door opens. It's important for you to know that. Don't say I'm having a bad day. Say I'm having a character building day. The one thing I know about emotions is that they change. One hour from right now, you will not feel the same way. And I want to encourage you tonight that you might be in your darkest moment.

You might be going through hell in high water, but I want to prophesy over. your life. It is always too soon to quit. You have a reason to live. God declares your best days are in front of you. It's very important for you to believe that you are the one to make this happen. So focus on that. Go get extraordinary. Go become the best of whatever it is you want to be. But go become the best of it and see how the world opens to you. I love the idea of people taking time out of their lives to to themselves that if they're defined by the vision of the future, then they're not living by the memories of the past,

and that's where the unknown exists. So many people, the unknown is a scary place. So they don't see that future because they're used to seeing that future with evidence, with their senses. And you have to be able to get beyond that and stay in the unknown, stay in that discomfort, and then in that moment to begin to self-regulate,

Like, oh, I'm starting to feel a little anxiety. Ooh, I'm starting to feel a little frustration. That's the defining moment where your body's going back to the past. Those emotions are a record of the past. You catch yourself. It's a victory. And if you keep catching yourself, those victories add up. And it's not so much about your wealth or your health or your freedom or your new relationship.

It's actually about who you become. That you don't give up, that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats, personally that you keep on keeping on that you don't decide that I can't make it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel that you realize that's a part of the program and here's something you've got to resolve say this to yourself every day see as long as you're breathing you got a shot at your dream outstanding magnificent unstoppable extraordinary not excellent it's a different level and maybe you have failed but i want to remind you it failure is It is not final, it's formative.

It is not final, it is formative. It is part of the process. It's part of the journey. Your failure matters as much as your success. How do you think you're gonna grow if you don't ever fail? Yet some of you have failed and you have decided, well guess what, I'm a failure. No, failure is an event.

It is never a person. Just because you failed doesn't mean that you're a failure. In fact, failure is actually fuel for your future. The way that you grow, the way that you would have. You have to fail in order to succeed. Not over till I win. Not over till I get through.

Not over till I get over. Not over till I get what I want. Only execution matters. Burn that into your nervous system. Get a tattoo. Do whatever you need to do to remind yourself. Only execution matters. Thinking about it, feeling good about it,

those are awesome. But if you have a vision of something you're trying to vision of something you're trying to do, become whatever, and you don't execute against it, and I don't need you to want to build a big business. If you tell me you want to be the greatest parent of all time, then I'm going to ask you, what are you doing to execute on that goal? What are you doing? How do you define it? Revelation Day that the joy is not in the success. The joy is in trying. The joy is in the process. That I'm going to keep working. I'm going to keep going at it. See, failure is forming

my future. Failure is framing up the story that God's going to tell. Failure is just another in the ladder for me to go higher. Failure for me is a research project. I don't want to just know how to make it work. I want to know why it doesn't work. You've got to die as you are now. You've got to be willing to give up who you are now for what you can become. In order to do something you've never done, you've got to be someone you've never been... Let the sand in the glass represent your life. Let the The sand in the bottom of the glass represent the past.

The sand in the top of the glass will represent the future. The nobler the aim, the better your life. If you don't have a noble aim, then you have nothing but shallow, trivial pleasures. And they don't sustain you. And that's not good because because life is so difficult, so much, it's so much suffering, it's so complex, it ends, and everyone knows. and everyone dies and it's painful. It's like without a no blame, how can you withstand any of that?

You can't. You become desperate and once you become desperate, things go from bad to worse very rapidly. All of us have within us this amazing capacity to manifest and attract anything that we want into our life. So how we call it, what words that we use, we have to be able to say, You get what you want, you know, and what is missing.

Is that you say, I will attract into my life what I am, not what I want. And I am capable of attracting all things that the source is capable of attracting. The sand in the bottom of glass represents the past. Everything that has happened right up to this moment in your life has been absolutely essential to make you, the person you are, to prepare you to do whatever it is you're going to do. I'm of the opinion that we never really know what we're preparing ourselves for. But if we're using the right ideas, we can be absolutely certain it's something great.

We're not taught to love ourselves. We're not taught to look out for ourselves. We're not taught to take care of ourselves to become sensitive to our wants, to our needs, our desires. So make a conscious effort, make you number one priority. Your peace of mind. Your health is more important than your family and any and everybody. Because if you don't have peace of mind, if you don't have your help, you can't serve anybody. Don't neglect yourself.

Your life, guys, is not about making money. It's not about having the titles. Your life is about a moment to come. It's inevitable. We cannot stop it from coming. Right now we have the most valuable asset on earth on our side. Time, but it's running out. And right now you guys are sitting there

and to make that first step towards greatness is the hardest step. But there is one thing harder than that, my friends. It's later in life. As you look back on your life, the windows of opportunity has closed. Your ability is no longer present. And you think back that you could have been great.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are ever after secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift and for all that it is painfully won. And it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned. The personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not not a checklist of acquisition or achievement.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life. Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control. And the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. And we can thrive under the difficult conditions that make up our lives and we can resist the malevolence that entices us. That's within our power. And we don't know the limits to that. And we also know that it's better to,

we all know this, that is better to live courageously than cowardly. I know that it's better to live truthfully than in deceit. And you can tell that too, because that's also what you tell people that you love. And we know that, that you should pick up your damn responsibility and move forward. The top of the glass represents the future.

There's absolutely no way that any of us can tell how much sand there is in the top of our glass. And to spend your time focusing on the past is to spend the only thing that you've got, and that's what's right here, right now, because the sand never stops running. As Nassim Taleb says, things that are robust, that are strong, that are tough, that can take just a lot of abuse before they break. They are still ultimately defined by their breaking point. Something that is anti-fragile, on the other hand,

is something that the more you attack it, the more it is pounded on, the stronger it gets. Now imagine being able to build a belief system, the thing that you build your self-esteem around, If all of that were tied to something that is truly anti-fragile, that the more somebody comes after it, the more robust it becomes, being a learner is that answer. I believe that if we are honest with ourselves,

that the most fascinating problem in the world is who am I? You don't know how the universe shines the stars, constellates the constellation, and galactifies the galaxies. you don't know. But that doesn't mean to say that you aren't doing it in just the same way as you're breathing without knowing how you breathe. That this now moment in which I'm talking and you're listening is eternal. That although we have somehow calmed ourselves into the notion that this moment is rather ordinary and that we may not feel very well and that we're some vaguely frustrated and worried and so on and that it ought to be changed this is it so you don't need to do anything at all what do you mean what do you feel when you say the word I I myself I don't think there can be any more fascinating preoccupation than that and so

Therefore, it's so important to consider this question, what do I desire? Because the moment you have a situation where you are really in control of things, that is to say in which the future is almost completely predictable. A completely predictable future is already the past. You've had it. That's not what you want. You want a surprise. You don't know what that's going to be, because obviously it wouldn't be a surprise as you did.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. And so therefore we speak of confronting reality, facing the facts. We speak of coming into this world and this whole sensation that we are brought up to have of being an island of consciousness locked up in a bag of skin. Facing outside us a world that is profoundly alien to us in the sense that what is outside me is not me. This sets up a fundamental sensation of hostility and estrangement. Existence requires always as it's third you can get the rocks knocking, the sun and the moisture, the tree crashing to the ground, the sun pouring out electrical energy, but none of these

things constitute existence until related with the neurological complex. Then you have to look backwards and say at the same time the neurological complex belongs to the same world as the sun. It's a physical pattern, physical behavior, physical energy. But it takes this complexity of pattern to evoke. You investigate yourself. What do you mean by you? How do you know you exist in terms of what?

What do you discover if you push that? Why, you discover everything else? That you thought wasn't you. You only know you exist because you reflect the external world. So investigate you and you get the external world. Music differs from say travel. When you travel, you are trying to get somewhere.

And of course, we, because being a very compulsive and purposive culture, are busy getting everywhere faster and faster and faster till we eliminate the distance between places. We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whole way along.

It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played. That existence is musical in nature. That is to say that it is not serious. It is the play of all kinds of patterns.