Absolute Motivation - YOU CANNOT COMPLAIN, YOU MUST CONTINUE WORKING - Motivational Speech

Starting point is 00:00:03 Every time you faced a setback, the truth is, you were truly facing a setup. A setup for you to become better. A setup for you to become more. A setup for you to overcome a sense of shame. Everyone falls. And when you fall, those who are still standing have a tendency to point in you. But if they're pointing in you and you feel a sense of guilt or shame that everyone knows every time you've ever made a mistake, you look again. Because those who are standing and pointing that you are going nowhere.

Starting point is 00:00:39 If you're on the ground and they're staring at you, you're in the same place. If you can get up again. If you can stop focusing on what they think, don't worry about the opinions of others. Because the opinions of those who stand in the stands pointing at those who are gladiators in the arena, they're fans. If you're choosing pleasure over purpose, you are struggling in life. got to put purpose first. And you may not know what your purpose is. I can tell you this. I want to find my purpose and I have to remind him that purpose is not something that is lost and therefore you're not just going to find it. You have to develop your purpose. And the place

Starting point is 00:01:26 you start is putting off pleasure and putting off desires and focusing on purpose and duty first. Ask yourself this. I go, if I had a gun to your head and I said, pick the one thing that you want to do in life that would just make you absolutely happy, would give you a sense of fulfillment and peace of mind. The thing that you would do if money was not an issue, what is it? And most people can quickly come up with an idea, or at least a place to start. There is where you start developing your purpose. Enthusiasm and joy that people associate with happiness manifests itself when you're moving towards a value goal. So if you don't prioritize your goals because you don't exist within a structure of value, then you have no positive motive.

Starting point is 00:02:07 The embodied manifestation of positive emotion is the movement towards a valued goal. That's what it is. That's why you have the positive emotion. Because you are a creature that can move towards goal. And the emotional signaling of that is positive emotion. No goal, no positive emotion. Dream and they give up on it. No, no, don't do that. Work your dream until it get hot.

Starting point is 00:02:51 See, most things don't know. happen as soon as we think they should happen. The messenger misery might drop in on you and say hello. Murphy's law might come by and thump you on the head. Any number of things can happen to interrupt your flow. It's okay. Don't take it personal. Just acknowledge what's going on is called life and keep on working on your dream. Continue to keep on knocking, keep on knocking, because this is your life. This is what you love. This is your passion. Yes, I've made mistakes, but look at me now. Yes, I messed up, but look at me now.

Starting point is 00:03:27 I will not walk around with the rest of my life feeling like I've messed up so bad that I'm unlovable. No, in fact, I am lovable because I have rebounded from everything that should have wiped me out. I have rebounded from everything that tried to take out my life. I have rebounded and I've redefined myself and I will not sell it. I'm not going to give them the pleasure of him seeing me fail. I'm not going to give them the pleasure of them seeing me stop. I'm not going to give them the pleasure of them seeing me quit.

Starting point is 00:04:00 I'm going to allow that thing to build me. That adversity is going to work for me, not work against me. That setback is going to work for me, not work against me. That hurt is going to work for me, not work against me. I just want you to remember that average is the enemy. Success is your responsibility, and change can take place in an instant. If you are willing to flip the switch. The nation go forward into the fray, into the storm, into the heat of the battle.

Starting point is 00:04:52 It's forward. Making an impact in life and leaving a dent on this earth. Don't you worry about the times you fail? It is those moments that you were proved to be a human. It's in those fall downs. You also got up. And it's the footprint. that we follow. It's not the falls. You are becoming amazing. When people can't get up in the morning,

Starting point is 00:05:28 I'm going to tell you why, because they can predict the feeling of everything that's going to happen in their life. And their bodies resign to the familiar. It says, oh, another mundane day. But remember when you were a kid and you were going on a field trip? What happened then? You were up and dressed and ready to go before your parents were up, because you knew something unexpected was going to happen. That's how we should live our lives, waking up with the understanding to expect the unexpected and something unusual should happen in our life as a result of our efforts. Can yourself, mind yourself, why you are doing what you are doing. Remind yourself that this struggle, this temporary pain, this fight, this fight that you're in,

Starting point is 00:06:31 this is what will make you stronger and faster and smarter and better. When your setbacks, look for the movie setups. With Guston, you go after everything with passion, you go after everything with a sense of purpose, and when you're willing, you keep your own when the second wing kicks in. You know there's extra power there because there is the foul of the normal thing. That it takes challenges to pull out. Don't you dare to set that setup? Get up and chase down your greatness. your rightness.

Absolute Motivation - YOU CANNOT COMPLAIN, YOU MUST CONTINUE WORKING - Motivational Speech

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