Absolute Motivation - YOU MUST WAKE UP AND GET IT DONE - Motivational Speech

Episode Date: August 13, 2026

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When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. Now let me tell y'all something about dreams.

Listen up, because this is something I found out a long time ago. that goes against everything you see in a movie on TV or what your great grandma may have told you when you were a kid. See, dreams don't happen overnight. See, they come to you in the daylight. You got to be awake. You got to run dreams down. You are about to enter a winning stage in your life.

And I know for some time, you may have been feeling down, exhausted, lost, like you've been in this rut that feels like it will never end. But I promise you if you are seeing this video right now, you will start to see shifts in the momentum. Doors are about to open up for you, but it is up to you to take advantage of those opportunities. You must look for the signs. You must look for the shifts in your life and you must follow them. Because at the end of the day, ultimately you have the choice to stay exactly. where you are. But if you take the initiative and you make the decision to break out of the cycle

that you've been in for so long, you are about to enter a stage of winning and prosperity and fulfillment like you have never experienced before, my friend. You ever had those days where your mind is so cluttered with unresolved emotions? These days are always the toughest because it's almost like the emotions where you've been opened out of your day. It's very hard to fight your emotions and still try to win today. You're pretty much fighting two battles I'm honest. One thing I do know, sitting in these emotions,

is never a good option. Humans flourish out movement, not idleness. So if you're able to manage to get up from the quicks end, you're going to get stuck. And I've been showing up every single day of my life,

and it's been hard. It's been, you know, it's the repetition, guys. It's the same thing over and over and over and over again. And that's why people give up. That's why only the select few are willing to put everything on the line to make it. Because what you guys have to understand about this journey is that this journey is going to be hard. This journey is going to be one the hardest things you ever commit yourself to.

To whatever dream and whatever goal you have in your mind, you guys have to realize and you guys have to understand that no one is going to hand it to you. You're going to have to work your ass off to get it. And if that's going to be late nights, if that's going to be early mornings, if that's going to be sacrificing the weekends in order to make those dreams become a reality, then it will definitely be worth it at the end, guys. There are a lot of people who say, but I tried once or twice, and it didn't work out. And so they use that as an excuse not to ever come out again. You know, I heard something, a giant question. And it says, why is it that people prefer known hells to unknown heavens?

You know why? Because it's comfortable, ladies and gentlemen. Just don't give up. Just don't give up. Even if right now it doesn't make sense. One day, I'm very, very sure when you start to see the connections and things fall into place, you will maybe also realize that it couldn't have been different. See, that chase, that chase, that chase is what we learned the most about ourselves to take that extra step.

That extra mile, that extra rap. That look, look here. You don't never know how long it's going to take. Or exactly what it looks like when you get down. The only thing you know is you can never stop. So, question time. Are you willing to do what it takes? To make that dream a reality.

No, no, no, no, no. See, not while you're sleeping, but every darn day you wake up. It starts when you put one in front of the other. If you're going to use the excuses, sure, it's high shit outside. Now, I'd be too much for a lot of people. But for a lot of other people, you know,

what's to be is more exciting and overrides whatever today's trials and tribulations are. And when you're going to do that, man, when you start seeing the future, willing to sacrifice today for that kind of opportunity to mature into a reality, and you're really thinking the right way. I don't care how dark it looks for you.

I don't care what they've said to you. I don't care what the verdict is. I don't care what the haters say. It ain't over. No matter what happens to you, it ain't over. Ain't no such a thing that's over. Do you know, man, that you can actually mess your life completely up? You can jack it all the way up.

and you can turn around and get it right. Do you know that you can be divorced multiple times and still be okay? Do you understand that you cannot have a degree and still be just fine? Now, whatever you've been through, whatever that is, guess what?

You steal you. You have a great life in front of it. But your great life is in front of it. It's not behind you. Offender doesn't come from me telling you you can do it or your best friend saying you raw. It starts with you first.

You have to prove it to yourself. The person you have to prove to is you. So those times when you're tired and you get up anyway and you show up and you perform and you execute. You can be confident in your work. You get your confidence from the work that you put in. You know what I'm saying? If you ain't putting it on work, what are you confident in?

Yes, you can be confident, you know? So at the end of the day, man, you gotta get up and do it every single day. The greatest test that anything could withstand, it's time, just give it time. It'll reveal itself. setbacks, problems, adversity, opposition, challenges are expected but never permanent.

Like, I want you to pick up what I'm telling you, man. Setbacks, adversely, opposition, challenges, problems, is to be expected. When you're trying to do something hard, what your brain does is give you something else hard to do that's not quite as hard so that you can feel justified and not doing the thing you're supposed to because you're doing something else useful.

And if you give in to that temptation, which you often will, then it wins, and because it wins, it gets a little dopamine kick, and it grows stronger. Anything you let win, the internal argument, grows. 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? We all going to go through something.

Like, I love a quote that say, we all got problems. What makes us different is how we solve them. It's expected, but never permanent. You always have to be the person who roots for you before Ivoas does. One day you'll wake up and realize the potential you had, knowing you've chosen comfort over effort. Fear is overcome.

Hesitation is overcome. It's not overcome by motivation. It's overcome by discipline. I'm scared, I'm afraid, I'm nervous, I'm hesitant, I'm not sure if I want to do this, I'm second guessing, all those little things. They're just overridden by one thing and one thing only, discipline. And that's where it's going to take.

That is the discipline. When he lost courage, he would recite it. And it would give him what he needed to keep going. Out of the night that covers me black is the pit from poet, I think whatever God there may be for my unconquerable soul, the failed collective circumstance, I have not cried it. under the bludgeonings of fate, my head is bloody, but unbound. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the shadow of the shade,

yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how punishment charged the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain, Laisal. What got me to this point was I was just the opposite of the day. I was that guy who ran away from Absolutely everything that I got in front of me What pain have you gone through that is turning to suffering? It's the relationship with someone's unfaithful and you end a relationship that you thought was great. That is painful

But suffering is three years down the road and still saying can't trust a man can't trust a woman It's the same thing when it comes to money. It's the same thing when it comes to business what pain? Have you experienced in your past that you didn't process that you didn't learn from and now it's just this suffering mechanism that wakes you up keeps you thinking is when you're when you're alone in your thoughts it pops up It's like hey suffering here let's spend some time together. It's like no screw you I'd learn from that I'm no longer suffering Declar today decide today that suffering will end Pain is a part of our life more pain you have that means the bigger you're playing the game We don't have to suffer you have a choice

Things are hard in life because this is the way that your soul evolves and grows. Think of it like a weight room. When I lift weights, and I lift weight that's easy for me, I'm not going to make any growth in my muscle. It won't. But when I start to lift things that are heavy,

that are difficult, there's a lot of resistance, that's going to create tears in my muscle that eventually will start to grow back and it will develop muscle. I will increase my strength. Life is the same thing. The weight room is a microcosm

life. So I have to go through hard things. I have to go through things that put me under tension that make me uncomfortable, that create resistance to ensure that my mind, that my soul will continue to evolve and grow. But just like with lifting weights, if it gets hard and I drop it, I let it down, I'm not going to get out of it what I could have gotten it. Gotten out of it. So instead, when times get hard, there may be times that you have to take a break, but do not give up. It doesn't get any easier. Wins don't come easy. Wins are earned. The score matters. We live in the world where everybody thinks of, you know, hey, showing up is half the battle. No, showing up is none of the battle.

It's none of the bad. The showing up is half the battle. You're so far away from winning and being limitless, you're never even going to get there. So I know it might not seem this way, but life is so much more exciting when you're disciplined and working towards something. It doesn't have to be some huge life goal. It's anything that just gets you out of bed in the morning. Something that gives you a reason to want to chase each day. Because if you're just a few, It feels good to improve, man. There's a purpose for a change. I don't know you, I don't know your current situation,

but I do know if you constantly feel lost and unmotivating your life, it's because you haven't been in motion, and objects at rest stay at rest. The problem isn't that it's hard. Problem isn't that you're scared. The problem isn't that you want to give up. The problem is you thinking it's not supposed to be like this.

Because it is. These obstacles are the tests you must pass to become the person you want to be. They were in the terms of conditions you didn't know you signed when you started chasing this dream. this dream of yours. So embrace the struggle. Smile at the pain because one day you'll look back on this time as the good old days. The differential between the people that are achieving in

life and don't achieve in life isn't really the potential. What they're born with or gifts or anything else is our perseverance, always showing up, always giving themselves a chance. Getting out of bed coming here in the morning, going for, and around sweeping. Put yourself in the opportunity to get that break, to give you some a chance. The end of the day, I tell you what you do. The more Phil gets the wall, something will eventually stick. I just wanted to be a better version of myself, and I kept looking in the mirror and envisioning

what I could look like as long as you're alive and you're strong when you can keep pushing and you stay motivated and disciplined and just stick to the grind. And most importantly, you have a plan. And as long as you work, you get their own things. Something that everyone lacks nowadays is just having the consistency and the will. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere,

and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to West Jetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us. us at westjet.com slash 30 years. To stay on the path, your own. It's not what you do is who you are.

No, it's not what's going to get you there, it's what's going to keep you there. Do what's right, not what's easy. You know what I'm saying? It's not what you do. It's who you are. Like how you operate, how you treat people, how you do things. It's not what you do. It's who you are.

Right? It's not what got you there. It's what's going to keep you there. Do what's right. Not what's easy. Right? Just how you live your life. It's certain people that live life a certain type of way. It's certain people that do things a certain type of way.

If you risk nothing, you risk everything. Risk is scary, but regret is terrifying. The safe harbor of success is an illusion. In life, your rewards rarely exceed your risks. Results, respect, resilience are all on the other side of risk. Be bold in the face of your fear. Never abandon. Take risks and take what's yours. You only got one life, guys.

Again, if you work it right, you only need one. You get it all you have, you're going to get max potential back. And then who knows what to come. That's the beautiful thing. If you don't show up, guys, you know the outcome. You'll never get the job, never get the part, never get the girl. If you don't show up, if you show up, you put yourself a situation to create those opportunities.

Failures are a prerequisite to who we want to become. I cannot suggest that enough. So sometimes something that seems to be a negative thing, seems to be a bad thing that is happening to us, or even a season of dormant, or even a season where we have to sit back and start to recalibrate, recoil the spring, so to speak, reconfigure where we're at,

Sometimes that's right where we need to be. Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice. Life is the most brutal endurance sport of all time.

And that's what you have to love about it. We have to flip it on his head and love the fact that life continues to attack us through our fucking timeout. We have to know that when we die, we die with some need and some purpose in this world. I don't want to live at the level of feelings. You settle too low. You settle for what you see. You settle for what people say. You settle for old templates.

You settle for old scripts. You settle for emotions. You can't have a victory without a battle. God is raising you up right now. He's doing it through a process. The level you will settle on is the level that you see yourself. Because what the enemy is sent to stop you is not going to have its intended purpose. When that snake fights, don't.

panic don't fall apart just shake it off and keep moving forward keep thanking god that he's fighting your battle keep thanking him that what was meant for harm he's turning to your advantage if you don't stand up and decide to live and survive and move forward and find a way into the next season of your life you will pass along the same spirit that has tormented you and that's not just if you're on the edge that's anybody who feels like quitting acquitting the thing that God has called you to it's not small side of your destiny what is successful and what is failure the differential are so small we're talking about seconds we're talking about you know reps we're talking about the finest esplan of measurement that will make or break someone's life to be successful at that moment

at that moment successful, that gives the first of a lifestyle that's unbeatable, second to none. But in order to have that first success, you must ensure yourself that you're giving it all you can today. It's time to stay focus. It's time to decide gloves, part in, find out to fit in and socialize, rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. Why are you so anti-social? because I'm trying to get it. Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun when ain't nobody else out there? Because I'm trying to get it.

The more weird you are is a reflection of how committed you are to focus on your molding and shaping and developing your ideas and your craft so that when it's time for you to make your rounds, you're going to fly. Between the acting of a dreadful thing, between the moment when you are waiting to do something

that you don't want to do. End the first motion and the moment when you initiate the action. All the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream. Life ain't about medals. It ain't about certificates.

It ain't about houses, money, cars, fame, all that. Shit. It's about scars. So when you get judged and everything is sitting done with, you won't get judged in your medals.

to get done to your star, the scars show your willingness to get to their side. They show your failures. They so your willingness to start from scratch. They so when you're willing to do, to go the distance, to see what you're capable of. So make sure that like, don't be afraid to get scars. Stay hard. Everyone has their disabilities, let's say.

And I know that some people are far away. some people are far more terribly affected than other people. I'm perfectly aware of that. But the question is, what do you do about that? And what you do is you set yourself up on your damn crutches and you struggle up the bloody hill. That's what you do. And you struggle up the hill towards the kingdom of God. That's what you do. Because the alternative is to descend into the abyss. That's the alternative. And then so to say, well, do you believe? It's like, I believe that you should struggle uphill towards the city of God. on your crutches. That's what you should do. That's the opposite of the descent into the abyss.

So the battle, the struggle, the hesitation takes place in that moment, that moment when we must step into the unknown, that moment filled with fear and horror. And that fear is what causes hesitation and hesitation causes defeat. Hesitation is the enemy. Hesitation allows the moment to pass, the opportunity to be lost, the enemy to get the upper hand. Hesitation turns into cowardice that stops us from moving forward, from taking initiative, from executing what we know we must. Hesitation defeats us, so we must defeat it. And it's possible that I can bring my greatness out here in the universe. That I can do what I want to do.

It's possible. I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life. It's possible. Regardless of where I am, the things can get better for me. Get your feet on the ground. Step forward. Do not hesitate. Do not wait.

Go forward and win. It says character is not a product of circumstances. It's the thing that survives. Those people are so distracted, they're so busy being busy, they're so exhausted. It's very easy because there are so few people doing the things required of world-class. There's very little competition at world-class. That hunger to be more, to do more, to give more, that hunger that never ends. If you can, I think everybody has that hunger, but for some people it's been asleep for a long time because they're afraid.

They're afraid that I'm going to get hungry, I'm going to try, I'm going to fail. And so it's human nature to protect yourself from the fear by just lowering your expectations. You get when you tolerate yourself, you get rid of you tolerate your life. And sooner or later, we sometimes get a point where we say, not another day, none to the hour, this is done. I'm not walking this way. I'm not walking this way. I'm not living this way. I'm going to change it. And when people do that, that's the beginning of a breakthrough. Every next level of my life demands a new version of me.

Oftentimes we got goals, dreams, and aspirations. and want to acquire you and do certain things, but you're still the old version of you. And having grown, in no sense of the world. You haven't experienced enough. That's the great thing about experiences. People are so afraid of experiences, but the great thing about experiences, you learn.

Who you are, what you possess, what you will do. You learn from different situations, different scenarios. When you fail, you learn. When it doesn't go the way you want it to. When it goes to the way, you learn, right? How do you grow? You learn. How is character formulated and sustained? You learn this, right?

And so when it says, let the hard things in light break you and affect you, it's not saying let it break you to the point that you crumble. What it's saying is let it affect you. And every single one of you out there have the superpowers necessary for greatness. But until you're backed into a corner, like an injured, hungry, thirsty dog, you don't really realize how much you have in you. That is something that no test can measure. Go after your dreams.

I never allowed anybody to tell me what I was capable of accomplishing. I never let anybody tell me that I can't do. Pain is real. Pain is so real that it has measurements to it. Pain is unavoidable and that it will come. But pain is also a place of all. alteration of your life. You see you're cut from a different cloth and because of that there will be times where you'll be pruned through the trials of life and pain comes. Pain can come by way of

divorce. Pain can come by way of bankruptcy. Pain can come by injury. Pain can come in motion. But don't run from pain and you can learn from it. It is there so that you are reminded to go a different direction this way is not the way embrace it if you've been hurt before you've been broken before if you've been betrayed before it hurts yes it's painful well that pain is a lesson teacher the other side of temporary pain you meet your other self if you can survive the temporary you'll meet another version of you what actually keeps you alive does not make you successful and so our proclivity is to avoid pain and discomfort and when we're going through it we try to get through it in such a way

that it doesn't cause us much pain. If you can survive the temporary, you meet another version of yourself. They wish, and they're not willing to work. And the great thing about life, life has a funny way of testing all of us and seeing how bad we really want what it is that we say we want.

Because the thing I know about people, people can talk to talk, and people do it very well. And life is going to say to you, you said you wanted it, now let's see how bad you really want. And I said, most people underestimate their abilities and their capacity, and then they overestimate other people's abilities and capacity.

It's almost like you'll put yourself in a position to think that greatness is somehow reserved for special people, and that you don't belong in that category of special, like, almost like you don't have what it takes. But the great ones understand is you got to, you're always going to be guaranteed success. You're always going to be guaranteed fulfillment when you're doing it for the process and not the product. If you're doing it for the product, then it's a hit a miss. But when you're doing it for the process, when you're doing it because it's in your heart, when you're doing it because you got, you're doing it for compassion and passion

and you're doing it for somebody bigger than you. Come on, man. You're going to be successful. There's no way you can fail. That's the promise that was made for you to be born. You want a goal that you can never attain, right? So you could always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it.

You think, well, that's frustrating. It's like Sisyphus, pushing the rock uphill. But it's not, because as you pursue that goal, you put yourself together, and your life does get better and richer and more abundant. That's why the highest levels of virtue and goal are in some sense transcendent. You want them to be above everything you're doing

so you can continually move towards something that's more sublime and better. That's what you are. You're here to live, not to, not to sleep. You have everything that you need to achieve greatness, and you've got a duty and a responsibility to the world to demonstrate greatness, the highest version of yourself, the 2.0 version of yourself, the most self-actuized version of yourself.

You must become the man that you love, that you respect, that you admire. That is your duty. That is my duty. You've got the next six months ahead of you. You can either be a loser and say you will wait for the new year to come to reset your expectations and a resolution, or you can start today and reprogram yourself for greatness. Why do some people end up courageous when so many don't? It's easier. It's easier not to be.

You know, it's easier to cut corners. not bear your responsibility, not take the opportunities that manifest themselves to you, not pay for your sins in the moment, it's easier. And so there's a thousand or a million ways that you can be dishonest. If I'm not great at it, it must not be my thing. Did you know that only 1% of people are naturally extraordinarily gifted at something? Think genius, think savant. Do you know what that means for us?

the other 99 plus percent of people, if we're going to do anything great in this life, it is going to require discipline. That's the truth. If you are going to accomplish anything extraordinary, it is going to require you pushing through the discomfort and embracing the grind. Success is a strange thing. Presumably we want success because we think a more successful life will bring us more happiness, meaning and fulfillment. Here's the problem.

We sacrifice the thing we want, happiness, for the thing which is supposed to get it. Success. Failure can make you miserable, but I'm not sure the success will make you happy. Through that struggle, I will now have a better day, and I better than do it again tomorrow. Or do something else, because if I just think, well, tomorrow, I'm just going to coast and eat Twinkies and watch TV. Oh, hello, sadness, my old friend. Hello, depression. Because when you're not doing anything, you feel like shit.

And that's just a part of being a human being. Just be calm. When things are going well, be calm. Don't think you're on top of the world. In the sense, you always got to be wary, because I've seen it. I've seen people come. I've seen people go. I've seen them come.

I've seen them go. You've got to be chilled. Just take what's good in your life and move forward cautiously and carefully. And thank God that you have that. It's very, very important not to overextend yourself when you think you got everybody's dispensable. You might be tempted to think that laziness is the lack of a desire or the lack of drive. It is not that. Lazyness is an intense drive.

It's an intense desire. The reason that you hoped that the roads would freeze last night is not because you don't have a desire. It's because you had a desire to what? Stay in your PJs all day. Sit by a fight. and binge on Netflix. You have a desire for to be comfortable.

Laisiness is driven by a deep desire for comfort. It's that I don't want to do anything that I don't want to do. And we can pretend that we're something other than what we really are. Human reward systems are carved deeply into your DNA.

And if you don't respect that, if you don't respect the mechanism of happiness and fulfillment and what you really need, need to do in order to feel satisfied in life. Comority, love, family, friendship, struggle, testing yourself, learning. All those things are imperative. They're all a giant part of being a person. Why can't I just do whatever the hell I want, whenever the hell I want to do it with whoever I want to do it with? And the answer is because everything goes to hell if you do that, including you.

And you say, well, I don't believe in hell. And I say, well, keep acting the way you are. and you will. If you're motivated by the whim of the moment and you place that above all else, that is now you're gone. Here's what you should know about winning before you chase it. Winning's now loyal to you.

It doesn't care about you. Winning doesn't care how sore you are. Winning doesn't care how much sleep you get. Winning doesn't care how hard you work at times. Winning requires all of you and then more and it promises you nothing. It's a mastermind of creating fear and down your mind. It causes setback after setback.

So the question is about winning, Are you willing to sprint when the distance is so don't? You won't need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the downward path. You aren't giving any breaks in life. You make them for yourself. We are all being a test in life.

While my test is different than yours, you will be tested. And how you face that test and how you'll open it. how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life. The one mentality that you must have in life is that regardless of what's in front of you, you still must grind. Is what's your life? What are you giving up? Not by your words.

Not by what you say. Not by what you, the perception of you. Not by what you type. Not even necessarily by how you're in. living with the truth about you if you want to know something about yourself sit on your bed one night and say what's one thing i'm doing wrong that i know i'm doing wrong that i could fix that i would fix you'll get an answer and it won't be one you want but it'll be the necessary one

i'll never be in illypics i never be fresco actions but still i glide i feel that most things i do but still I grind. I don't want to do captives that I do, but still I grind. And that one day, you see me in the dark alley run at 1 o'clock in the morning, no more thing. I was gliding. Stay on.

As a child, my parents always told me you could be whatever you want to be. You could do whatever you want to do. And it was something I heard my parents saying it, but I didn't totally believe in. Yet I went out in the world, and I carried myself, and I held my head high, and I stood there and I looked people in their eyes and I talked to people as if I was

deserving of everything that this planet has to offer. He who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right. You see all these people that are great things in life that you look up to? It's because they were sacrificed and disciplined long before you ever knew them. When Westcham first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s,

one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof

that you are who you say you are. Outwork yourself, Dad. A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure or dream about being a seal or dream about being an astronaut and all it is is a motherfucking dream they don't put the work behind the dream that dream has become their master when you become the master of your freaking dream the dream was the one thing i thought about and the dream was now gone now what comes in the dream goes away in the laundry list of in details and tasks come up got to do this got to do this got to do this

gotta do this, gotta do this. That's when you become the master of your dream. So a lot of people out there dreaming. When you spend your life looking for scapegoats, you take away your own responsibility. You remove your own power. You steal your own strength. Nobody who has chosen the easy path of hate

has gotten to the end of that road and say, oh, what a life. No, they die as miserably as they lived. No matter how far you've gone, how would you to know that you still have the chance to choose a life of strength. Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind. How important. Stand guard at the door of your mom. It is easy to be motivated to succeed in the beginning of an endeavor and when you are close to the end. The most difficult part and the part where people are people are going to be motivated to succeed in the beginning of an endeavor and when you are close to the end.

The most difficult part and the part where people is, quit is when they are in the thick of it and it is unclear whether they have the strength and stamina to make it the rest of the way inner monologue rationalizing why it is okay to quit or to not push myself to the goal that I have written down on paper the hardest part of working toward a goal is when we are either making slow progress or negative progress and having the patience and confidence to know that the improvements we make over the long periods as opposed to the short periods are what matter. Milestones are what remind us that we are making progress even if it isn't apparent every

day. A quote that has helped me immeasurably is a boy and a horse are in the woods and a boy says to the horse I can't see your way through and the horse says can you see your next step and a boy says yeah and a horse says then just take you that all of the time we look at the goal we look at the future we look at the end game look at how long a journey is and we feel overwhelmed with each step you'll get close to that all I need to focus on right now is my next step you know the what that you have to really fight is to war against yourself you have to fight the war against yourself now it's that easy to look in the mural and to change your own lives it's hard as hell

You have to take responsibility. You have to learn these things. You have to feel uncomfortable. Good, because this council is how we grow. That's how we become strong. If you run away from discomfort and resistance to your all life, we will always be weak. Pretend there's a documentary crew filming your success story and they're following you around right now. What would you do? What would you do if you knew that there was a crew following you around with cameras documenting your future incredible success? and they want to catch you in the act of it all. You would do all the right things you would have to do. Think about that, organize it.

So one of the things in order to make this your decade, in order to reach your goals, you've got to find some reasons that make you strong, some reasons that will make you hang in there when times get rough, because they're going to get rough. It's going to be very challenging. Whenever you decide that you want to grow, whenever you decide that you want to go to another level,

all hell will break loose. Everything that will happen, the girl that can happen, happen and at the worst possible moment they call it Murphy's Law so whenever you decide you want to go to another level you've got to fasten your psychological your mental and your spiritual seatbelt because it's going to be a while before you experience a comfortable altitude my biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world and there's a final judgment you talk to something much

bigger than you I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone that says you're in heaven this is what you should have been on earth I want God to be up there right now, as we're speaking, writing stuff down and saying, my God, he exceeded even my expectations. That's how I live my life. I now know that there is no cap on the human mind. There's no cap. We cap it ourselves. You can't wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not do. pursuing. That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk? What's the secret to happen? I always say one word. Progress. Progress equals happiness. If you ever achieved the goal and then went, is this all there is, you know it's not getting it. Or even if achieved a goal and we're thrilled, how long were you happy for? A year, nine months, six months, three weeks. Because we're not made to just sit here and be satisfied. Everything in the universe grows or dies.

Everything in the universe either contributes or is eliminated. So when you're making progress, you feel alive. The fruit of everything grew in life begins with a challenge. Everything is uphill that's worthwhile. And for many of you, this is your chance. This is your shot. This is your moment. This is your time.

This is your opportunity. This is your place for you to really begin to live an intentional life. Ask yourself this question. Is this action going to make me stronger or weaker? Will this action move me toward the strategic long-term goals I am trying to achieve in my life? And do not lie to yourself. Embrace the journey and the process of life. Wisdom comes from experience and experience takes time.

The more experience you have, the more you learn from that experience, the wiser you can get. In life, people emulate the end of itself. and not the process. The end result is what they see and they emulate that. Are you willing to put in that sort of commitment? Are you willing to practice your whole life? Yeah, I'm sure you want to be on a jet and all that, but do you want to put in that work? Guess what it takes? But something great, that amount of time, that level of commitment. The rarer you are, the rarer the people are who share your perspective. In this way, the greater your success, the fewer people you can share it with. Loneliness is a kind of tax you have to pay to atone for a certain

complexity of mind. Have to grow as a person. You have to constantly challenge yourself to be a better person and a better person. You got to keep becoming a better person. You have to keep visiting your demons. You have to keep challenging yourself. You have to keep growing as a human being, and that's the hardest thing in the world because nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to face their ownership. And if you're not constantly performing without purpose, you're not going to be ready when a time comes. It's this magical thing, purpose that we're all looking for. But what's funny about it all is that we need these things to perform. But we don't take a second to realize the purpose is always there.

The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you. The human brain cannot comprehend the negative. It is incapable. And so what happens is we very often reinforce things when we put things in the next to the negative. things in the negative, right? I can't get apart or I can't do this versus I'm going to keep doing this. It's such a huge thing to convert things into the affirmative. It's the same thing for you. If you focus on the obstacles, all you will see is obstacles. It's your choice how you choose to perceive your own career. It's literally prospective. Life is hard for two

reasons. It's hard because you're living in your comfort zone. It's also hard because you're trying to live outside of your comfort zone. So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something, you don't care enough about yourself. And that's what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is the number one purpose in life is to better oneself. So that's the only purpose I fucking need. Moment you find what you love, you'll understand.

There's a difference between a skill and a calling. You've been called to do something great. It's about answering that call and discovery. But there's something unique about you from the time you were born. God embedded inside of your will, a desire to fulfill your purpose. But how do you find your purpose? It's by dialing in, focusing on the things that you love to do. That's how you answer the call to your purpose.

Are you controlling the things that you are capable of controlling, okay? Because if you were to control the things that you could actually control, you would have far less chaos in your life. Because I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours. refuse to go deeper to go further. And that's where I gain the advantage.

It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don't want to go to that extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. If you find yourself an anxious time, if you find yourself frustrated and angry and mad because you feel like they're continuously spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere,

you're probably not controlling what it is that you control. You're not understanding that we actually control the momentum and you're frustrated because other people have it and you don't. The reason you don't is because you're not executing past the point to where things that are uncomfortable become a little more comfortable. It's not about your resume. It's about resuming your calling. A resume is just going over a study of where you've been, but that's already in your past. You're not focused on your past. You have to focus on your future.

Who do you want to be? and who are you when no one else is watching. That matters more than anything else. Hit Resume. Take your life off of Paul. Stop doing things just because it was easy. Don't do it just because someone else told you to. Trust that God has called you to do something.

Answer that call, then chase down everything that goes along with it, and believe that there is a reason why you're the one who got the number to God in the first place. A pine tree grows and matures very fast. An oak tree grows and matures very, very slow. But which one lasts longer and which one's stronger? Which one shelters more critters and more birds? Which one, when it's done and over and it's cut down, which one was more valuable for the lumber? People don't go out and say, I'm going to spend extra money.

for some pine furniture. They want old furniture. If you fake bravery when you're terrified, that is bravery. And I kind of feel like motivation is the same thing. If you do the thing when you're feeling and motivated, that is motivation. 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? Stay focused. Don't listen to nobody. What's on your mind you do it because what's destined for you you gonna get it

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 playday If you love what you do why do you want to stop doing it if you wake up in the morning you start having negative thoughts Man, this ain't my day. I walk up on wrong side of bed. I'm tripping. I just don't feel myself. In the middle of the day, if you feel yourself doing that,

stop, just stop for a second. And start going over in your mind everything you have to be grateful for. Not everything you want. Everything you already have, because what you have is substantial. Life is not easy. It is not.

Don't try to make it that way. Life's not fair. It never was. it is and now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not. Get over it, get on.

And yes, most things are more rewarding when you break the sweat to get them. You should never have to question something that's real. All right, you go through it to grow from it. You go through it to learn from it. You don't go through it just to go back to it. That's like putting your hand on a hot stone that you know it's hot and expecting it not to burn.

Wake up. Stop teaching you. yourself the same lessons that you should have learned from. You will never move forward with your life living your life through the rear view mirror. We had experiences where we were working on something and we knew it was possible and we did those things that were necessary to bring it into a reality. We took the responsibility to make it happen. Other people couldn't see it. A lot of people didn't believe it. You were attacked, you were criticized, people were opposing it, but you kept on doing it. It was hard,

it was rough, it was difficult. But to you and you it was worth it. And eventually you got to a level, do you know? Can't nothing stop me not. I don't care where you come from. I don't care where you were raised. Plus one is always going to equal two. 10 years of motherfuckin' work when everybody else is partying,

making excuses, doing the cool thing on the weekend, is going to pay off. You can't do this. Small minds. Discuss other people. Gossip. Good minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas. Of failure. Fear of failure can keep you from taking risk.

It can leave you sitting there paralyzed into not taking action. And that is obviously bad on you to be afraid of failure. Fear of failure is good. Fear of failure will keep you up at night planning, rehearsing, going over contingencies. Fear of failure will keep you training hard. Fear of failure will stop you from cutting corners. Fear of failure will keep you working, thinking, striving,

and relentlessly trying to be more prepared for battle. Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. Think about every poor decision you've made in your life. There was more emotion that was involved in it. involved in it, and there was mine. Every single one of them. Think about it. Your feelings keep you in bed. Your mind tells you, get up. Practice and practice and practice. Practice makes what? Practice makes improvement. You can always better your best. You can always go beyond anything that you have ever done. You're never hit a state of perfection.

You're always bigger than what you do. And so all you're looking for, new breakthroughs through practice and practice and practice. You'll get better and better and better. First thing to do is to forsake what's in front of you, because the attitude that you bring to what's in front of you will color your entire experience, it will change your character into that of negativity, and you'll never ascend, you'll never get more, you'll never expand, you'll stay stuck.

You can think about it, you can wish for it, you can hope for it, you can think all about it, all as long as you want. But unless you get out, you can get out, you can think about it, you can hope for it, every single motherfucking day and put in the work inch by inch by motherfuckinch you will never get there empty your mind be formless shapeless like water you put water into a cup it becomes the cup you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle you put in a teapot it becomes the teapok that water can flow how it can crash

He water, my friend. You have the guts to fail. If you don't fail, you're not even trying. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. Imagine you're on your deathbed, and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential. The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn't use. and they're standing around your bed, angry, disappointed, and upset.

They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes? We've got to be excited about the future. We've got to do things that make us want to live. It cannot always be about problems every day. I mean, do you want to wake up every morning and everything is just a problem? or what inspires you and what makes you excited about the future.

There's got to be some things like that. You need to make it a habit to start every fucking day validating yourself, caring for yourself, because life is a marathon. And this might be a challenging leg where you're like, I'm just going to throw in the towel. I'm not going to do that thing. No, if you're standing in front of that near, you deserve to feel the support and empowerment and encouragement

that you need. You are doing so much every single day that you don't give yourself credit for. You don't anything, you don't have discipline, you ain't nobody. And nothing about discipline, because you give up a slightest struggle without discipline. Discipline to do what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. A gym cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. A plan is better than no plan. That's a really useful thing to know, especially if you're kind of driest. kind of drifting. It's like, well, I'm going to find myself. It's like, no, just pick something

and move towards it. And as you move towards it, you're going to succeed and fail specifically. And then you're going to learn something about success specifically. And you're going to learn something about failure specifically. And then you can learn what you use to fix your plan. And have your successes and failures along the way and learn from it. And then you can re-you can re-jake the goal. You can move the target. I mean, and the sun sets, and you're the same thing. I want exactly what you want.

What if you're not the only one that wants what you want? What if there are thousands of other people who want what you want? You have to outwork them. You got to outpiring them. You've got to get up earlier. You've got to stay up later. You've got to execute, and you've got to go from 70 to 120. Stay focused.

Don't listen to nobody. What's on your mind just doing? because what's that's there for you you gonna get it I say as you look into the future while the people are giving up feeling like victims feeling powerless becoming negative turning on each other rather than to each other feeling that they can't make it being you not conform to this world but be ye transformed with the mindset of that it's possible it's possible that I can find a new profession a new job it's

possible I can create a new light and it's necessary from the jaws of defeat and it's worth it yes it's worth whatever we have to do and once we know that it is done your biggest enemy is you people don't understand is you against you the only person that gets in your way is you nobody else is you i need you to confront you because you don't want all of you up i need you to confront you I need you to look in the mirror and tell you you are not going to do me like this no more You're not going to continue to sabotage me you're not you're not going to keep procrastinating I need you you're not I am one decision away from a totally different marriage a totally different life a totally different job a totally different income Your life comes down to your decisions and if you change your decisions

You will change everything be in life and listen to me at some point in light. You just, you have to tell yourself because you don't make the adjustment. You don't make the ship in light until you get to the point where you say enough is enough. And listen to me, you deserve better. Whenning before you chase it, winning's not loyal to you, it doesn't care about you, winning doesn't care how sore you are, winning doesn't care how much sleep you get, winning doesn't care how hard you work at times. Winning requires all of you and then more, and it promises you nothing. It's a mastermind of creating fear and doubt your mind. It causes setback after setback. After

So the question is about winning. Are you willing to sprint when the distance is unknown? And why chase this thing called winning? Because the only thing that's guaranteed in life, if you don't chase it, it's losing. It's one thing to be hungry. It's another thing when you're starving for greatness and starving for success. I know what it's like to operate every single day, regardless of the success that I've been a lucky son of a thing to achieve. I operate every day as if I'm starving. Self-confidence is really someone who keeps promises of themselves. Because self-confidence is, you know, really like your reputation with yourself. If you've got a great reputation with yourself, you know you can trust you, you're not so concerned about your reputation where other people

think about you. But more important, I want you to be horrified, terrified of sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing. That is what I want you to be afraid of, waking up in six days or six weeks or six years or 60 years and being no closer to your goal you've made no progress that is the horror that is the nightmare that is what you really need to be afraid of being stagnant so get up and go take the risk Take the gamble, take the first step, take action. Let another day slip by. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere,

and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at WestJet Dock, com slash 30 years. How of the mind. Realizing how powerful our minds actually are.

This is yours. See yourself as high as you possibly could see yourself. Everything comes from the imagination. The only way really was in order to be happy is to create my own world. You know, I had to convince myself that I'm going to make it. If you can't visualize winning, then you will not win. And if you begin to think of yourself as the master of your own destiny. In I was 14, this is who I am, this is what I'm going to be out of talking, this is the guy.

People say it's like 90% mental, 10% physical. I just think it's 100% man. If I can see it, then it must be a reality. If you visualize before, you will be more prepared. In order to, it's a pain and bright future for yourself. You have to be able to see it. see it in your mind, you have to believe in it. And whatever I see in my mind, I can make happen.

So what I'm living in is my dream. We live in a mental universe. All causation is mental. If you wish to change your universe, you have to change your mentality. If you can see it here, and you have the courage enough to speak it, it will happen.

And he would say this is the greatest toy ever created. He realized the secret of all. the secret of all happiness. Your brain doesn't really know the difference between, say that again? Between something that happened in real life or something that you strongly visualize. Clarify and define your vision for yourself in the highest possible way that you can see it. Be as specific and see yourself as high as you possibly can, right?

That's your first job, is to see it as high as you can see it. Be delusional here. To the point where to your mind, right at the apex, the way you can see it, Right at the apex of which your mind believes is possible, maybe push past that even a little bit and define it. Everything originates in the mind. You know, the idea is what inspires the opportunity for you to get up and pursue a business.

The inspiration that you observe and you think about when you observe an athlete, when that inspires you to endeavor and work hard and become an athlete yourself, everything originates in the mind. So I want you to think about a goal or something that is just wildly in your dreams, right? A place where your deepest desires can become a reality. So I want to talk to that part of your mind, where you believe it's possible.

And the power I'm talking about obviously is the power of visualization. The person is successful. If they know where they are and they know where they're going and they're progressively moving in that direction, he said that success with the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Anyone that has a goal and they're moving towards it, they're successful. You become what you think about. You become what you think about.

And then the only thing that you can control is your thinking. If you change what you are thinking about, you will begin to change your reality. If you change what you expect, you change what you believe, you change your dominant thoughts, you change your inner workings, you begin to attract into your life, people, circumstances, events, opportunities, and everything consistent.

with your new thoughts. The reason people are unsuccessful is they think thoughts of unsuccessful or failure. All outsiders, it was isolation, it was visualization, it was motivation, it was dedication, there was no more than else going on in my life. Both them together. We've been a real. Three dream realized started in someone's imagination, it started in their mind, and with consistent practice and faith, Visualization will become your bridge between where you are now and where you desire to be. See it, feel it, and then believe in it. How is it going to feel when your dreams become a reality?

Go there. You go there, whatever it is. If you can get a mental image of the person you would most like to become, begin now to act with that person who would act in everything you do, gradually, imperceptibly, you will actually become that person. It goes back to what the great German poet and philosopher, Gertrude once said. Before you can do something, you must first be something. Before you can do what you would most like to do,

you was first become the person who could do it. And the average person, because we're programmed not to win, 99% of us are, we don't think anyone can. So when someone does, it's amazing. But it's just a program. As soon as you're born, you know, I've said this before. You don't know about fear or what to be scared of until someone tells you what to be scared of.

And a lot of what people tell you to be scared of is to actually be successful and dream and be independent and be on your own. Most people don't focus on their mindset. Most people are focused on exterior factors. They think that everything that happens to them is by chance. And they don't realize that a lot of things that happen to them are things that they attract.

Because you attract the things that you are and you are what you do and you do what you think about so it's all a cyclical loop most people don't understand the power of the mind that's why they haven't tapped into the power of the mind and the power of the mind is one very simple thing the ability to direct your attention towards a specific given objective and then to have the willpower to pursue it discipline your thoughts stop thinking too much don't go into the past don't go into the future in the present. Why? Because only then it's possible that the mind is free, the capacity is free, and now you completely immerse into whatever you are doing. And this means you have arrived.

Ask yourself, can I be defined by a vision of the future instead of the memories of the past? What do I want in my life? And take the time to answer the question. As you begin to contemplate and think about the answer to the question, you're changing your brain. The brain fire in new sequences and new patterns and new combinations, that's the beginning steps of changing your mind. You know what I mean? Like, like, see all the time and believe it, see yourself as high as you can define it. You can't sell yourself. This camp is busy with a lot of different people who did not want to answer that question. So for you, how's it gonna feel?

For me, the vision became a reality, so it was only then a matter of following through with the work. But it was pleasure. See, that is the great thing. When you go to work and you know exactly why you're working, that it becomes fun. The best piece of advice that I ever received is that you are what you think about. Everything that you think about, you become. You become what you think about. Thoughts lead to actions.

Actions lead to behaviors. Behaviors leads to lifestyle. Lifestyle determines your destiny. So everything begins in the mind. If you can control and wield your mind, you can very much determine your destiny. The power that's in it, being fine and being mediocre. Lost without dreams.

So find the time on a daily basis to dream and pursue your dream, whatever that looks like, be on the pursuit of your dream. You want in what you have now, because that way you're training yourself to extract meaning right now, which means in the short term, if you can feel what's coming from you, then that's going to lead you to discovering the power of it. Because life is essentially tragic in its fundamental essence, you need a sustaining meaning that's deep. and profound and deep and profound enough to get you through bad times because there will be very bad times in your life.

There'll be death and there'll be illness and there'll be disappointment of all sorts. And there'll be just the standard difficulties of life in the world to contend with. And you really must have something that's profound and powerful to set up against that. And I think that your voluntary adoption of the struggle to improve being is the proper antidote to that. Of this life, you can always make a different decision, which will lead to a different outcome. Success is not how much money or how much power you have. Success is how well do you do what you do? When no one else is looking and keep undoing it.

Successful people do all the things that successful people don't want to do. You've got to be realistically humble. You've got to be ambitious enough in your goals so that you're pursuing something that you regard as truly meaningful and worthwhile. So you want your goals to be of sufficient nobility so that you can live with yourself properly if you're pursuing them, but you want them to be small enough so that you have a reasonable probability of implementing them. Life outside of that one area, most of us, Most of us worried about suffering. We're afraid of it.

When we're suffering and sacrificing, we wonder whether it's worth it. We wonder whether we're supposed to. We wonder whether sacrifice or set max or suffering is a sign. It's not our real dream, don't we? And your body is a metaphor for the rest of your life. But the rest of our life, every time we sweat, every time we sacrifice, every time we suffer, we don't do what we do at the gym. We start saying, wait a minute.

Maybe I'm not supposed to be doing this. Maybe I'm not cut out. Maybe it's not my destiny. Maybe I just can't do it. We've faced it before as humanity. Changing the stories we tell ourselves, we can either look a challenging situation as opportunities for growth, as an opportunity to learn, as an opportunity to show. We can look at them and really fall down. Now that second part is okay. We can even feel like that right, but we have to recognize it's not permanent. We've got to accept that none of our feelings are permanent. They don't know.

We've recognized that those feelings are not. permanent and it will be amazing when we realize we are seized right that is the most powerful strength you get hungry by finding something that's you i believe that all of us are born unique but most of us die copies and and so the key to that hunger-driven life is a hard-centered life i didn't do what i'm doing for years because of my programming because of the culture and which I was raised learned. You have to work on yourself. You have to have an unstoppable attitude

and no excuse is acceptable. Constant vision of what it is you want to achieve. See it accomplished and go all out. Find a way to win. Take responsibility for your life. I got me here. I can get me out of this. And I'm getting out.

I'm not going to be a volunteer victim. Live in this bubble. What you got to do, to get the life that God want you to have, you got to put more air in your bubble. You got to blow your bubble up. Expand yourself. Take yourself out your comfort zone.

Do not live in your bubble. Put some more air in your bubble. If you stay in your comfort zone, that's where you will fail. You will fail in your comfort zone. Success is not a comfortable procedure. It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt. So you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

if you ever want to be successful. And what that shows is that if you turn around and you confront the suffering voluntarily, you find out that you are way tougher than you think. It's not that life is better than you think. Life is as harsh as you think. It might even be worse. But you are way tougher than you think

if you turn around and confront it. Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. The hard choices, what we are What we most fear doing, asking, saying, these are very often exactly what we most need to do. You see people who do big things, and you automatically say, that guy's so lucky, she's so lucky.

You don't know that. You're assuming that. Going to work every fucking day for 20 fucking years and grinding your ass off and then becoming a multimillionaire. That's a look. That's action and reaction. Quit using the word of luck, quit believing in luck, And start believing in work.

Start believing in results that come from your actions. Stop telling your visions to other people because they're not going to see it. Why you think you keep imagining opening a business? Why you keep imagining graduating, getting a better job? Why do you keep imagining buying a house? Why do you keep imagining getting rich one day? Why do you keep imagining that? Because God is talking to you.

He's showing you something that he has for you. It's okay to be unbalanced for a while. It's okay. Don't be, all this stuff. People say, you got to be balanced. To be the best in the world. And what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of, energy and strength that you have to pull it off.

Once you become great. And it takes being fucking obsessed to where people think you're crazy. Let's go. Let's go. You got money, but do you got that dog? Yeah, you got money, you got pricked, but do you got that dog? You have to lose your fear of failure. Failure is bartered the process. People who never fail, never try.

You have to fail. You got to get it wrong to get it right. God gives you a dream, and I believe that we all have a dream. If God has given each one of us something that's beyond us, and hope and aspiration that makes us look beyond us. look beyond. Sometimes the dream is so big it scares us but it should inspire us to believe that we can only do it with God's help. The dream is your dream and sometimes we make a mistake if we want to share our dreams with everybody. Dreams

can get you in trouble. You have dream busters as people who don't have a dream and they will try and help bring down your dream. God gave your dream to you. Everything that God gives you, God intends for you to achieve and accomplish. Don't have time to regret. We move on. Because we are acceptable for what we are, not what we think we should be. I'm accepted in myself by what I am, but not as I think I should be, because that's a lie. I'm a sinner, I'm an old sinner.

I've done some bad things, I've done some good things. So, you know, you just forgive yourself and move on. These people that you're comparing yourself to, you don't really know. don't really know you see their shiny outside but you don't see the reality of their life people have hard lives and the ideal that you're observing that makes you jealous and resentful is in large part an illusion that's created by your own mind don't give up don't let the world get you down what it does get you down get up and write what you want out of your life and don't fucking stop you know what I'm saying there ain't no vacation you get up every

day you look in the mirror and you tell that mirror I'm a bad motherfucker And one way or another, I'm gonna make it happen today. Guess what? If you keep writing down after a while the power of pain, you'll fucking believe it. If you don't have what you want, stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money over time. That's bullshit. It's because you haven't committed yourself where you would burn your boats. If you want to take the fucking island, burn your fucking boats.

And you will take the island because people, when they're going to either die or succeed, tend to succeed. Here's the truth. This is the reality. Nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it. Nobody's going to come and celebrate with you until you've already done it. Just stand. You keep standing. You keep standing, no matter how rough the sea, you keep standing. And I'm not talking about just water.

You keep standing. No matter what you don't give up. Difficult and challenging times to demoralize you. He said, in life you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities, brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. And I'm saying, in your hands, you have ideas. You have been given something to bring to the universe

that was not here before you showed up. A little bit more and a little bit more work. The results are gonna come more. More people are gonna believe. Nobody fucking believes in you because you haven't done anything. That's the reality. Today is the day that you let go of that hurt and release that pain forever. Your tears have served the ground for far too well.

It's time for you to practice that smile day. It's time for that smile to no longer be a stranger. And it's time for you to let go to things that are stripping your heart of this happiness. You can't heal by going back to the hurt. You can't receive your future by holding on to your past. So stop pressing replay on the things that need to be deleted from your life. He had this beautiful quote, and it read, Rest at the end, not in the middle.

And I took that to heart. I believe there's time for resting at the end. That time is not now. To have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never, ever rest in the middle. When people can get up in the morning, 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.

It doesn't matter. What is your level of intelligence? What is your level of capability? Introvert, extrovert, this, that doesn't matter. Do you have the courage and commitment to make the possibility into reality. There's an echo. What you send out comes back.

What you sow you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others exist in you. Do not judge so you will not be judged. Radiate and give love and love comes back to you. I will try 100 times to get up. And if I fail 100 times, if I fail and I give up,

do you think then I'm ever going to get up? No. But if I fail, I try again and again and again. For as long as I try, there's always that chance of getting up. And it's not the end until you've given up. You have to start living your life in expectation. You have got to start expecting great things to happen for you in order for it to happen. If you live your life in expectations, that's what happens to you. If you live your life in despair, that's what happens. happens to you. Disengage your sense of self, your sense of self-worth from achievement. Once you are wholly focused on sincere pursuit, everything changes. I'll never be rich, you won't. You won't.

The moment you change the frequency that your tower emits, different things come back to you if you change your attitude you change your altitude most of us go through life pretending pretending that we're satisfied where we are pretending that everything is okay pretending that that we don't have any special goals or ambitions or desires when really deep down inside we do really want more because you have to judge a tree by the fruit it bears not the fruit that it talks about say a lot of people pretend that they want more out of life. But all you have to do is watch their actions. So you really have to work hard for a set of skills that matter to you.

A fool never learns. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. So you've got to completely divorce yourself from this notion of outcome and become completely obsessed with the idea of, sincere pursuit. And so when you look at the night sky and that sense of awe grips you and calls

something out of you, right, to respond to your encounter with the infant, even your encounter with mortality, you're encounter with thinnitude and limitation, all of that in relationship to the infinite. That sense of awe is also the calling forth of something out of you that can respond to the challenge of that infinite. Well, that's the microcosm within. It's a reflection of the structure of the cosmos itself. That's the divine idea.

Only thing that's going to make you happy, my friend, and this year or any other, is to step up. It's to raise the standard, it's to discover what you're capable of and feel that incredible power pushing through, whatever's holding you back, and get to the other side of more of your true self. That's what this game's all about. So, life is real short. So yeah, up all your traveling, and up all your sleeping, out of all your school, at up all your entertainment, you've probably been half your life doing nothing.

So out of 30 years, I might have about 16 years to be productive. So it's how we can all break individual lives down. You've got to completely divorce yourself from this notion of outcome and become completely obsessed with the idea of sincere pursuit. Now, why is sincere pursuit? The reason to tie your sense of self, your self-esteem, your pride, your ego, your identity, all of that, the reason to tie that to sincere pursuit is it's the only part you can control. I cannot promise you that you'll ever be successful.

You cannot promise you that you will be successful. But you can promise and know if you actually did it to show you. show up every day and really pursue it. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel.

While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at WestJet.com slash 30 years. They always up and down, it's like your energy levels will go up.

and down and you'll be exhausted. Everything is tied around a story of this is bad, this is wrong, I'm in a bad place, I'm messing up, I'm going broke. That energy that will pull you away from service or creation or creativity of how do I get out of this place. Assuming that you have a certain intrinsic value, it's necessary for that value to manifest itself, for you to push yourself against the world,

to challenge yourself, otherwise what you're capable of, won't manifest itself. It has to be developed. It has to be called forth by necessity, right? You have to pick a hard problem and try to solve it and push yourself against it in order for, and you have to try to do that truthfully and responsibly, in order for what it is that you're intrinsically capable of and composed of to come to the forefront. Encourage people to be responsible for themselves and for other people and also to point out that that you have a moral response to do so for yourself just as you do for others. There's a gap between the world

and the things that trigger you and your response. And your entire life is that gap. And when you start to understand that your whole life plays out in this five-second gap, and that there's a gap that's five seconds long between fear and courage, and there's a gap that's five seconds long between seconds long between self-doubt and confidence.

That is your life. And what's super cool about understanding that your whole life is inside this gap is it's so small, everybody, that you have the ability to control them. Life's always gonna throw triggers at you, and there will always be all kinds of cool things that inspire you, your wisdom.

And you get to choose what happens in that gap. Do you succumb through an excuse, or do you push yourself forward? And so that gap is everywhere, and it's the same everywhere. And when you start to go to work in controlling how you live in that gap between stimulus or idea and your response,

that's where the magic is. Most of you guys focus on all of the things that you can see. A visionary specialized. Only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible. Sometimes when you have a vision for your life, Other people will not have that same vision, so they will pass on you. I'm looking to unleash these visions and ideas on the world. Because the world is an empty canvas, waiting on new thoughts to think.

A lot of us will go through a hard time in life. Some people have been bullied. Some people are just dressed out. Some people are insecure. Some people are fat and overweight. And the world puts a lot of this shit in your mind. I had to develop a mindset, a mindset that was indestructible. I had to armaclake my mind.

And it's about what you're saying to yourself, but it also comes to work. So whenever I was getting beat down, physically, mentally, spiritually, whenever I was going through, just saying, you know, you can't hurt me, you can't hurt me just became a message. I would say myself. I'm training people to get into their greatness, to begin to develop, develop the courage to pursue dreams beyond their comfort zones.

Because in order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. When you're pursuing your greatness, you don't know what your limits are so that you act like you don't have any. And one of the reasons that Bookerty Washington is that judge a person not by what they accomplished, but what they had to overcome for their accomplishment. You know what I think one of the best ways to crack ourselves open from a curse of self-obsession. self-obsession. I find that moments of like radical and sudden empathy, radical and sudden compassion, immediately dissipate all those gnawing thoughts of like self-doubt and self-loathing and self-pity and just desire. They're obliterated by this immediate communion with him. I believe that most

human beings are only living at about 40% of their capable of it. There's something about the mind. The mind has the tactical advantage over at all times. At all times of your life, the mind has a tactical advantage over. Why is that? It knows it's your frame. It knows your insecurities. It knows your deep, dark lives. And it starts to push you away from that shit.

It pushes you in a direction that is comfortable. If I fall about feelings, you want the happy feeling. We don't want that feeling. If this sucks, why am I healing? And you don't have any, you can't answer those questions, so you leave. I started realizing that if in that moment you can answer those questions, and you are now in charge of your brain versus your brain ruling you. I tell people, you're going to have to face tough times.

My favorite book says, think it not strange if you're faced a fiery furnaces of this home. But I affirm no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets. Not willing to risk, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't become your best. And if you can't become your best, you can't be happy. Beliefs dictate your thoughts, dictate your emotions, dictate your actions, which produce your results. And your results, when you look at them, then just reinforce the original belief. And so we're caught in that construct, right?

But the linchpin is the belief system. So the question is, how do I actually change what I believe? If my beliefs really do dictate my destiny, right? Which is I'm not the only person suggesting. The question becomes, how do I change my beliefs? And in that is an inherent challenge because by definition, beliefs are that which are true. It's that collect ideas, not beliefs. If you collect ideas, right, it means that you're like, oh, that's interesting, and then that's interesting, and then this is interesting, and then that's also interesting.

And some of these contradict each other, but it's okay, because I don't have to believe any of them. I can just entertain their feasibility and find them interesting, so I can collect all these different ideas. these different ideas. The problem with beliefs is that when you collect one belief, well, knock offline any belief that contradicts that particular belief. And so if you get too stuck with your beliefs, you narrow your door of you. You know that at 40% I'm feeling pain. At 40% I'm feeling pain, that's where the 40% world kicks in. Now it starts. Okay, I'm feeling pain. My mind's saying all this to me is saying get out of here, run, flee, the fighter flight kicks in. Or Okay, we're done, we're not good enough.

It starts telling you all these things. You start to believe it, because the mind controls all. This is the time when you have to gain control back in the mind. It's okay, let me see if I can go 45%. And once you start giving yourself more and more hope and start realizing, okay, the mind starts to be, okay, what are you doing?

We're supposed to be going right and you're going left. You start then controlling your mind. I wish I had not waited. Somebody said, if you want to lose it, something, lose money. You can get that back, but don't lose time. There were 14 years I said on the sideline. 14 years I said, I don't have an investor in me like Tony Robbins. 14 years that said, I don't have an MBA and PhD and I can't compete with these guys. I have the complexion of rejection. 14 years, I silenced me silent. And so I regret that because there are some people that

that maybe if they'd heard my voice, their lives would have taken a different direction. And I can't get those 14 years back. I want to just trust, like, look, all the great things in my life have not happened when I was looking for them. All the great things in my life, all the success in my life always happened

when I was in my zone, doing my art, doing my thing, and the right thing showed up, and all I did was season when it was there. When I get stuck thinking, planning, what's worrying if I was the next thing, not flow and it's when literally I'm not thinking about it just trusting that the thing has showed up and I've seized it when people don't know how to achieve something because they don't know how they don't spend a lot of time getting additional clarity they don't spend time imagining what

the future would look like with that thing or being that thing or creating that thing because they get stuck on the happen and what I would suggest is that if you're willing to invest time in getting clearer around something or imagine you build neural networks that represent the memory of an experience that has not happened with you have greatness of you i don't know you but here's what i know based upon my own experience you have greatness that you have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine with that voice that allows us like you run away from we all have it you all have that voice to say hey man you know you're you're kind of whipping out right now Gagins is saying okay David Gagins you're a punk life made you this way we can't live like

this we can't live in fear we can't live in judgment cannot be afraid of that that's Godins Gagins saying all of you who don't like me who don't want to and that person then comes in but you have to be David Gaggans and say man I'm afraid of this I'm here life made me this way hear, you have to face that in that dark room. In that dark room is who you are. But in that dark room is where you have to create another human being that walks out of that dark. As you think about yourself, a reminder of the words of Howard Thurman and said, there's a presence in each and every one of us that waits and listens to the voice of the genuity person. It will be perhaps the only guide you will ever have or hear. And if you cannot hear it,

all of your life will he be spent on the end of strings that somebody else pulls. When you recognize your greatness, no one will ever pull your strains. You can either live your dreams or live your fears. What are the things that you fear that's been keeping you from living your dream, that's been keeping you from doing some things that you would like to do? You could either go back to your comforts though. There you won't find any growth. Or you must be willing to go forward and face your fears again and again.

Knowledge of fears, you embrace those fears, and then you move on. Giving with expectation is a devastatingly bad idea that 99% of people do. Tiny adjustments that have the most profound effect on people. And it's never too late to say, I'm enough, I can find love. And now if you give someone the power to make you feel good, you give them the power to make you feel bad. And if you do it to yourself, you feel so much better. It makes you slightly bulletproof.

If you still need other people, we all need other people. But the dialogue in with yourself and starting with, I'm enough. You see, strict pain builds down. I know it might be hard for you to feel that. But even in your darkest storms, there's a plan for you to still shine bright, please believe, though. I know because God did it for me. God would allow you to go through places you don't understand just to bring them to the place where he needs you to be. So don't let this season take your life.

You can win this fight. If it wasn't for my darkest storms, I would have never found this trip to shine my light. There's a purpose granted in your pain. There's no growth without rain. Sometimes it takes your hardest storms to birth through a greatest change. Your light is not finished. You keep looking. If you're creating a wonderful future and you feel the emotions of that future and you feel

like you're connected to the energy of your future, the moment when you get angry and frustrated, you just disconnected from the energy of your future and now you're back to the energy of your past and don't expect anything to change. It doesn't matter what happened in your past, you're just a choice away from a new beginning. Your perspective can either be your power or your prison. So no matter what, appreciate your life and build your testimony with the test you are getting. Listen, I get it. I get it.

I know depression is real, but so is deliverance. You can heal from those afflictions, overcome those addictions. It's time to put a semicolon where you're trying to put a period because your sense has an infant. You got more like to live, so don't give up. And put anybody or anything that's ever tried to make you feel like you're not enough. You're enough.

You're more than enough. So don't try to end their story just because this chapter sucks. If you understand the mind, it does what you tell it. That's its jaw. And if you tell it better stuff, you have an amazing life and you tell it mediocre stuff. You have a mediocre loan. You have to talk to the mind and say,

this is completely outdated. It's behind. People have a story and I can't be a success because I never went to university. I can't speak in public because I blush. Without understanding, when you describe why you can't, you keep it going. If you keep you talking about the symptom,

your mind keeps it alive because whatever you focus on, you get more. It's then, this is now. And so they have outdated stories, outdated language. Being insecure is a mindset that was put into you for a million different reasons. Figuring out how to get out of that hole by who you surround with, how you think, what you do, insecurity is the biggest poison in our lives. We as humans, if we don't have purpose and if we're not serving,

we begin to dig holes in our life and cause problems that weren't there, there, have anxiety and depression that shouldn't be there, right? And if you can make money, if you can focus on making money and then having some significance and meaning with that money, you've now developed service and purpose. It turns out that's kind of coded into our DNA. It's helping was that it's okay to not be okay, but it's not okay to stay like. And so I have processes and things in place where my mindset has changed when I go through things where in the past, I would be victory to those things. Now I look at it as like, how can this help me, how can this help me, how can this help with a Hebrew? And I don't.

there. People come in and go, I want this, you have to look at the blocks. The number one block is the fear of rejection. If I make, I might get rejected. If I find love, they might leave. If I make all that money, people won't like being worse. You've got to smash out the ballpark, the fear of rejection. A person's living by guilt and they don't know it's guilt because it just feels like them,

you've been feeling that way every single day or suffering. And those emotions are driving their thoughts. And if they can't think greater than how they feel, and feelings and emotions the record of the past are thinking in the past. Now, cast is going to be your future. I tell you we're out facing. That doesn't mean that you have to stay stuck there, but a lot of times we run from our reality, right?

We try to smoke screen it, and we try to hide from it. And we know reality will find you, regardless, you can sweep it under the rug, but it'll still be there. And so one of the course that I like to use is you'll never win your war by winning for your battles. And so it's time to face your battles. It's going to be hard. It's going to be tough. You will be judged.

be judged, but acceptance to me is one of the most powerful things you can do, because you can accept, okay, this is where I'm at with my life, and also accept that I don't have to stay there. As humans, aren't we top of the food chain? I think we are. As humans, we are top of the food chain, yet I was living well below my potential in so many categories, in love, in impact, in money, in self-growth, self-discipline, health. And so I was like, man, it's time to human up. So to me, human up is something it's not gender specific it's just with human stop making excuses take control of your situation and rise to the potential I have definitely suffocated excuses better than a lot of people which is really the biggest reason so many

people who are listening right now are not winning they are surrounded by people that are willing to accept their excuses on one very interesting insight it's because those people they give your friends and your family are letting you get away with your excuses because they don't care. I weirdly don't know you and I care. And let me tell you how to fix this. Excuse me to say you're not. Most people live by the same feelings every single day.

You know, people wake up and your brain is a record past. So you wake up and you start thinking about your problems and your problems are connected to certain people and things at certain times and places. The moment you start activating those circuits of memories related to past experience in the environment as thinking in the past. Your thoughts are the vocabulary of your body. brain or feelings of the vocabulary of your body, how you think and feel creates your state of being. So most people start their day every single day, reaffirming their entire state of being

in the familiar past. Then they rush to the predictable future, right? You have to look at your life and say, you know what, if you want to be here and you're doing things that don't get you there, you have to make those changes now. Those things get you to where you want to go, cool. But for me in my life, those things weren't transitioning me into my greatest, my greatest me, so I'd to let go. Stop playing the victim. Stop running around, acting as if you have nothing to do with the people, things, and situations in your life. Digging up the negative scenes in your life, or replacing those seasons, seize of positivity. And so that means going back. God put people in your life for a reason. Others are there for a season. And it's very important

that you recognize when people's seasons are over. If you want revenge for the bad things, that have happened in your life. Start with the version of you that hasn't lived up to your potential. You have no fucking how great you really are. Because maybe I'm not good enough. Your story may not have such a happy beginning. It's not okay for you to be a weak loser. But that doesn't make you who you are.

And the reason it's not okay is because you could be way more than that. This life is not here to make you suffer. Because you are using such minimal of what you have. This life is here to make you understand what is your potential. They say the true hell is when the person you are meets the person you could have been. It is the rest of your story. Who you choose to be. My philosophy is, why be normal when you can be the best?

And I learned the greatest gift of all. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Play full fucking out. If you're going to try, go all the way. You're not as far away from these dreams as you think you are. Is that so many people die with untapped potential because they think that someone else is better than them? All life forms thrive to the max of its potential except human beings.

If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now. You've got the makings of greatness in you. But you've got to take it. Take the hell and charge your own cause. We can be anyone. We can do anything. It's only a matter of going.

I forget one time, I was running by a graveyard, and I ran by a graveyard, and I looked out there, and I have all these epiphanies, man. I've always the moments of like, of, it's crazy, man, of this thought, because I'm always by myself, and always deep and thought about how to be better. And I look out there, I'm like, man, I wonder how many you mother, are there.

in there and just are so upset with how you lived your life. Regret how you lived it. And I'm running at 300 pound man thinking, man, don't get die like this, bro. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place. And that's the graveyard.

Everyone has the possibility to unlock something very, very special. about him or herself. And it's up to your actions. Ultimately, it's you yourself who also is able to unlock it. If you're going to try, go all the way. This can mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind.

Go all the way. Most of us don't use the stuff that we have brought into the universe. And we want to make a conscious deletious. deliberate, determine effort, to start living life with a sense of urgency and using what we've got, using ourselves up, sharing what we brought into the universe to share. Because if we don't, nobody else will. Stop wasting valuable time, knowing that if we begin to live our lives as if each day were our last, our lives will take on a whole new meaning, and take on a whole new expression.

I'm 54 years old right now. Like that. I mean, it just flew by. You think when you're young that you have all this time, you have no time. And the other thing that's so interesting about being alive is that you're all in. No matter what you do, you're all in.

This is going to kill you. So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting. Because do you have anything better to do? Really? Why not pick the best thing possible that you could do? You know, I don't have it. I can't do it.

Our natural tendency is to sell ourselves short. Our natural tendency is think of the reasons why we can't before we think of the reasons why we can. So the key to breaking ourselves out of the comfort zone and breaking ourselves loose of the shackle of helplessness, his courage and confidence. We neutralize the antidote to fear and ignorance, is desire and knowledge.

And the more we learn about what we want to do and be in half, want to do and be in half, the more we believe that we can do it, the more we believe that we can do it, the more willing we are to try. And the more willing we are to try, the more likely it is we will succeed. What is the first part of triumph? The first part of triumph is to try. It'll take time. It'll be a process. And sometimes you will have to convince yourself, right, that it's possible. And if you don't know how to change the way that you think, begin to digest new information and find those people that empower you, find those people, elevate your spirit and your soul, and understand that your potential, my friend, is limitless.

You, my friend, are libelous, but you must believe. And if you can believe, all things are possible. That the reason that you are doing this alone is because you are on the path, the greatness. You are on the path to achieving and obtaining everything that you've ever desired. It's going to feel so good at the end. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, but how much you really want to do it.

And you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds, and it will be better than anything you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There's no other feeling like that. You'll be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. Do it. Do it. All the way. All the way. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

A lot of people are afraid to even try hard because then if you try hard and you fail, you feel like a failure. The aspect of being a failure doesn't come from, the success in the end that come from if you really quit on yourself. Or if you don't put in the effort you know you can put in kind of holding back on your true potential. The unfulfilled potential is the story of most people's lives. If you make yourself more than just a man,

If you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else from diary. Jesus. Legend, historian. Far too many people abandon their path. And it's because they forget their why. Why they chose this journey in the first place. Please don't let that be you. Give him on a purpose and the ability to achieve it, and he will crawl over broken glass. of a broken glass from this in mind.

But you're cool with that, man. If you're cool with walking in the shadows of yourself and, you know, the only person you got with the man right there and the data, man, how you doing? Pretty good, how you doing? All right, man, cool, cool. You know, if you're cool with that kind of walk of life, don't tell you, man, the world is your playground.

I think the best way to prove your value is to work, is to learn, is to absorb, to be a sponge. You always want to outweigh. outwork your potential. As hard as you believe you can work, you can work harder than that. You have so much potential. You have a gift. And the purpose that you are put here to fulfill, people out there, real people are depending on.

You will share many great memories. You will be confident and proud of the person that you've become. That's what this is for. That's what's on the line here. And that's what's waiting for you on the other side, my friend. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel.

While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. I tell all the people that I love, you got to watch. want the best out of your life for you because we only have a moment on this other. And it's going to be people and look you in the face and tell you that they believe you. They're going to tell you from their lips they believe in you.

But when you look them in their eyes, you're going to know that they're not telling them true. That's the hardest thing for a man to take because belief, belief is what, and it pushes people through the stratosphere. And I can always tell people, I'm no bigger than me, but I tell people is the way you get to the next level of your life is keep going. Be going, keep running. Even when you don't even know, when you get tons into chaos, you cannot be great if you cannot operate in chaos.

That's my wife. Because if you can operate in chaos, the world becomes Disneyland. problems become scratches. Many people focus on a problem and not solutions. We spend a split second, 15, 20 minutes, tearing our body down, tearing our mind down over something that we can't control. Everybody talks about their faith, but do they really got faith? Do you got that halfway faith or do you got that whole way faith? Real motivation comes from the pain, the curve from the bottom.

Building yourself begins with intention, clarity. You have to know who you want to become. You can't just show up in the gym of the mind and do random stuff any more than you can show up in the gym of the body and do random stuff and think you're going to end up on the stage competing for Mr. Olympia. Because until you know exactly in what way

you are trying to serve people, you don't know what skills you need, you need to acquire in order to lead people in awe so that you may become extraordinary. Or you have to push yourself long past the point of boredom. Bortem kills more people in the pursuit of success than any hater will ever kill. Boredom is the great killer of dreams. Because people don't have the focus, they don't have the clarity of what they're trying to achieve. They've not built into their life, built into their life, an intoxication,

for what they're trying to accomplish. Why is it so many people have big dreams, but such a small number of people ever make those dreams a reality? And for those that do make a reality, what is it against them not only to follow through, but then to enjoy what they have. I don't know if you've ever had the experience of achieving something that you've always wanted,

and then afterwards thinking to yourself, is this all there is? It's one of the worst feelings the worst. It's almost worse than failing, because when you fail, at least you know, hey, I can still find a way to make it happen. But when you succeed, and you're not, happy, you're not fulfilled. Then you got a real problem. There's two things that control everything

in your life. Every thought, every feeling, every emotion, every action you have in your life, your beliefs and your values. Whatever you believe, if you think life is just a waste of time, doesn't matter what you do, beliefs control us, but so do our values. Some people value making it happen. Some people value their family the most. Some people value love. But you know what the real challenge is we have values and conflict when we have conflicts between what we want and what we think we can have or you know you have a goal of what you really want to make happen but then you have this other belief inside that says stand stuff never does work but then there's a time in which people begin to question they begin to look at

their life and they begin to say is this really what I want have you found yourself with that at any time and then they do one of two things they either recommit and they go for another seven years and they take it to another level or they make a strategic decision that shifts the direction of their life. Either way, your decisions control your destiny. And if you don't choose, that's a choice as well. Some people who kind of stay in the middle in that lukewarm place, not sure what they really want.

Maybe the question to ask is, where I want my life to be today? And where am I really going? What is my destiny? What's going to fill me up? What's going to give me the meaning for my life? That's going to give me joy in my life, not just achievement, but real enjoyment, a sense. of meaning and liveliness.

Human being on this earth has their own journey. And when you don't focus on yours, you will not bring the great gifts and things that you were supposed to bring to the world. Like the best gift come from the bottom. Like only in the womb of a woman can a man breathe underwater. Like God leaves a gift at the bottom of the stairs.

And it's up for you to climb up those stairs and get your gift. You get to build yourself in any direction you want, in any way to become anything you want. There will be an extraordinary price to pay, but you can go in any direction. When I say you're immortal, you're not actually thinking you're immortal, but you're not conscious of your mortality. If you're not conscious of your mortality, somewhere you think you're immortal, isn't it? How many moments in a day?

Are you conscious that you're most of your mortality? that you're mortal. If you just become conscious of this one thing, that always you're conscious that I'm mortal, just you know, one day I will die. If you're just conscious of this one thing, you will naturally become spiritual. Every day, every moment, if you remind yourself, this is a brief life. I'm motto. One day I will end. That's not what's needed. If you want to know the value of life, just know that it's a brief happening. I think people give up because they don't believe what they see. People don't believe the greatness that's in them.

And the real reason is, most people never get out the stands and get in the game. They stay fans in their whole lot. So I tell everybody, get off the stands and get in the game. Get in the game of life and leave your mark here.