Absolute Motivation - YOU SAID YOU WOULD CHANGE THIS TIME - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

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I take what comes. If it leaves, I let it pass. I love a success story, but even more than a success story, I like a dude who fucks his life up and then gets it back together against Dory. Those are my favorite stories. And the way to do that, you got to write shit down. You're going to think that you are the hero in your own fucking moving, and then you're going to sit down, and you've got to write shit down.

Write down what you need to do. So the question you have to ask yourself is, who am I, where am I going, what do I want to accomplish? And there are three major areas of goals that you have to think about. The first is your personal and your family goals. These are the reasons why you're alive. What do you want to accomplish for yourself, for your family. Write them down. Define them clearly. The second set of goals that you have to ask is

your business, your career, your financial, your material goals. What is it that you want to accomplish in the external world? Where do you want to make your contribution? The third type of goals you have to ask about are your self-development goals. And in my estimation, your ability and your willingness and your tenaciousness in developing yourself is the key to accomplishing everything else. So the challenge is, at some point, you're going to have to have to be a lot of to learn to be disciplined. You won't have to learn if you say you're going to wake up at 8 o'clock, you're going to get up at 8 o'clock no matter how you feel. Like you've got to be disciplined. And to get to the next level of success, you can't just have energy when you got energy.

You cannot lose when it's your time to win. You can beat 99% of people if you can master the shame of rejection, the boredom of repetition, and the pain of feedback. And keep going long after stopped being convenient. 150,000 people died yesterday. Do you actually get that? And you are still here. And you can't find something to be grateful for? You're still complaining about teeny tiny little struggles.

But I bet that if it was possible to give an option to all 150,000 people, all of them would gladly change places with you right now. You're alive. Your heart is beating. You have food, water, shelter, clothing, a few people that love you, you have so much to be grateful for. You have to learn to stop focusing on what you don't have

and start focusing on what you do have because life isn't about having what you want. It's about being grateful for and wanting what you already have. Whatever is important to you, where your heart is, there is the mind. Where the mind is, so where the intention is, there is the energy. Where the energy is, there's the creation.

So if your heart is hanging on something, but your actions are doing something else, that just means your energy and what your heart really wants, they are not merging at all. So the universe doesn't know what do you want, what should the universe give you now. So for me, it's all about alignment. What I feel inside aligns with what I talk,

it aligns with what I think, It aligns with what my actions do. It aligns optimally with the proper circumstances. When everything is aligned, then the energy can just flow. Then it just flows and it just happens. If life was nothing but green lights and we didn't have yellows and reds, then what the hell would it all be for? We need the yellows and the reds.

That's how we evolve. Go fail more. Go fail more. Forget them. Those people on the sidelines that are saying, the thumbs down or calling you something or being snarky. They're on the sidelines for a reason. Freud said once, in retrospect, the struggle will strike you as most beautiful. Like the years of struggle will strike you as most beautiful. And it's true, you think about the worst moments of your

life from earlier. Now they're integrated into who you are. And in some ways we understand that we couldn't and wouldn't be where we are without those things. We know not only is that true in a positive way, but it's also just true in how the mind works. Like, the mind is really good at, this is what cognitive dissonance does. It works on you in a way that makes this thing for the best, even if it wasn't for the best. Like, we're still worried about, will I regret it? You won't regret it, because you actually don't have that many regrets at all. The mind is pretty good at minimizing that feeling of regret. We convince ourselves that what happened was for the best. So we know this is almost certainly where we're going to end up in six months, in a year, in 10 years, in 30 years. In 30 years.

And so why torture yourself in the interim, right? Why not give yourself some of that grace now? Anxiety is literally nothing more than you thinking about something in the future and thinking about it in a manner where it starts to sound an alarm in your body. First of all, if you catch yourself worrying, if you catch yourself out in the future catastrophizing, if you catch yourself in that, what if this, what if that, What effect?

If you let your thoughts spin, it will spin you out of control, and then you're going to start to feel anxious. And so you want to count backwards, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And one of the best, most effective things you can insert as a different pattern is this. What if it all works out? What if it all works out? What if I get on this plane, and even though it's bumpy, it still lands, and it all works out? Because you can't argue with that.

If you can stabilize your thoughts, your body settles down, and it doesn't escalate. So you're going to interrupt the worry, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. and then you insert something else. You can also say this moment will pass. You can say, I can handle this, but you've got to interrupt those thoughts and insert something else. And familiar feels safe.

We are programmed every day to seek safety. Programmed to avoid discomfort because it's safe. Programmed to stay small because it's safe. Programmed to play victim because it's safe. Programmed to seek validation because it's safe. Programmed to repel money because it's safe. We are programmed from the moment that we were born to our childhood environment, to the people that we hang out with, to the music that we listen to,

to the news that we watch, to the television shows that we binge, we are programmed to seek safety. But it is your responsibility to take ownership over your programming or else you're going to live life asleep. And what's the point of that? The energy that you give is the energy that you get. That's what everything, you know, that's what your mentality, that's the thing that you say, that's for the people that you hang out with. So it's so important that you surround yourself with people that's going to feel you with life and things that's going to feel you with life and don't do things that's going to take life out of you make sure make sure make sure that your vibration is how your energy is how your energy and efforts and your mentalities in a great

spot i mean and most days are going to be good and bad right you have to learn how to embrace where you are with the bigger vision and the bigger picture in your heart and in your mind right that's what that's the point of a vision a vision is to help you see past the current source circumstance, right? So if you're in a tough situation, right, or in a tough circumstance, what having a vision for your life does is it helps you to see past that. I know that where I'm at is just a stepping stone. It's just a moment in time in a greater vision. Exercise more, push more magic into the marketplace, give more valued people, read more books. It's harder to keep on pushing. But that's what legendary is. See, the great legend.

are the ones that are at the top of the mountain and they keep on trying to get better. So I suggest to you with great respect that nothing fails like success. Just a friendly reminder that sometimes, a lot of the time, self-love is just doing things you don't really want to do but you know are good for you

and then trying to be kind to yourself in the process over and over and over and over and over again. She uses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you, if you let them. The ability or the belief to believe in yourself, to accomplish any task, no matter the odds, no matter the difficulty,

no matter the adversity, the belief that you can accomplish it, self-confidence. You wait to be perfect before you start. You may never start. Excellence. is a process. It happens when you do your best over and over again.

You don't have to be perfect to begin. You don't have to be perfect to appreciate yourself. You don't even have to be perfect to be loved or to love. You can all tight road walk. You can walk down a straight line without worrying about anything, but you take that exact straight line and put a 20-story high and you remove the balconies, you're going to be so concerned about the idea of falling

that it will make you fall, and that's where the superpower is in removing the fear. We'll get frustrated, not achieving what they want, because they assume that they're going to jump across a cavern in one leap. But if you picture your goals, like you're trying to build a bridge across that crevice, and every brick that you put on that bridge

is progress. And each one of those bricks represents a skill that you need to learn along the way. It just takes all the way until you get to the other side that you can actually walk across. And so the walking across is the outcome, it's the external perceived achievement. The best way to avoid burning out is to stop living someone else's dream, is to stop waking up every morning to help them fulfill their vision and their goals and their dreams. and you start working towards yours. To be a human being in this world means inevitably we feel pain.

We all go through this. We all have moments of loneliness, of depression, of feeling like we don't have a purpose in life, of being aimless, of not having energy, of being depressed, etc., etc. And when we have these moods, we try to explain them, yeah, maybe it's because I woke up this morning

this morning or because something happened earlier the day before or something in my child, something's wrong. But I want to tell you the source of your pain is the fact is your social life. It's the fact people are the source of your pain, that you misunderstand them, that you misread them, that you're constantly bumping into them and having these problems and these issues that I mentioned. That is why you feel lonely. That is why it's draining you all of this turmoil, all of these emotions are draining you

of your energy and it's making you listless it is making you confused and people might say yeah but what's the point of of this growing growing what do you mean by growing why would i always need to accept every challenge just for the sake of growing because this growing is the opposite of something is decreasing something is dying something is closing up to grow To open up is the same as to bring light into the things. Every decision matters. With every decision you make, you are either moving closer or farther from your destination. Every single one, no matter how small it may seem.

Deciding whether to sleep in or not, go to the gym or not, eat at McDonald's or not, it all contributes to either progression or regression. It is important to note that the more consecutive good or bad, decisions you make will exponentially increase their impact. If you continue to make bad decisions, your state of being will decrease drastically. Likewise, if you continue to make good decisions, your life will drastically improve. Therefore, do not underestimate the power your gift of choice bears. Every season has an expiration date on both sides. With grief, that will come to a close and you'll be okay on the other side. But then also your good times

will also have an expiration date. So learn to be really grateful for those good times. That's been the biggest lesson for me. Let go of control and accepts the things that happen to you and then learn to love them. I have to learn to love it. I don't have to understand what happened, but I have to learn to love that this is my experience

and it's a part of it. And all I can do is move through it to the other side. Wish you think is more important, more positive thinking or less negative? think, which is more important. Where do you get the most mileage? It's less negative thinking. About 70% of our negative thinking goes unperceived loss. It is so embedded. Positive thinking is important. You keep it up, keep it high. But if you want to get your real knowledge, just cut down on the negative thinking. Cut it down, cut it down, cut it. That's the villain

voice. That's the critic in your head. That's the demotivator. That's the discounter. That's the one that raises the doubts. It takes practice. It takes some discipline. But you can shut it up. And you be committed to the process of what you're doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you doing.

In other words, if the outcome changes, does it change who you are, what you said, and what you seek to accomplish? Because for most of us, when we don't get what we want, a champion is made on the other side of I don't feel like. Right? Everybody that gets up every single day, they might not feel like. But there's certain cats that's going to embrace it and figure out a way to get better. There's other cats going to retreat, they're going to quit, and they're going to settle in the mediocrat.

The thing that they all have, all the great ones have, they have this unstoppable belief in themselves. And even if they lose, they just, they learn. They lose, they learn, they come back, they get better. You have these like missions that you have to complete to get to the next level. And when you go through your day, people destroy, you. There's loads of distractions. They're everywhere. You know what I mean? They're just there to sway you off your path of what you woke up in the morning to think and to do to get you to the next level of your game. This episode is brought to you by Accenture. When your advertising

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What? Do you dream, Elliot? You're scraping so hard like you ain't never access out this before. I said, do you want to be here right now? Along the way, you're going to need to do things you don't want to do or might not think you can do. It's okay to be. be scared. That you are now at war within your own mind and body. You are going through our metamorphosis,

my nephew. It will not be a pleasant experience. But when you come out of it, you will be the beautiful prince you are always meant to be. You're going to see this video right before you enter a winning stage in your life. I don't know why, but I just have a feeling that you've been in a rut. You've been off. Things have been feeling maybe out of alignment for you for some time. But that's going to change very, very soon. You know, I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. And I believe that you have a purpose that you are destined to fulfill in this world.

But in order to get there, in order to fulfill that purpose, you must go through a process. You must travel along this long. and beautifully treacherous journey. With that comes a lot of hardship, a lot of adversity, a lot of discomfort, whether we like it or not. It's just part of the process. But I want you to know that although things

may not have been going your way recently, you've been in this rut, you've been hitting dead end after dead end, repeat failure after repeat failure, the reason that you are going through this is because you are destined for something great. You know, extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny. Something greater than you could have imagined.

Please stop making it so easy to be extraordinary. This world is so lost, but all you have to do is be an honest person and keep some promises and people think you're a superhero. I mean, if you open your eye, the lessons are right in front of you. Listen to what makes old people regretful and ask yourself why you're doing the same exact things. Copy the people you look up to, and it freaking works. My God, all people ever want is some free pass.

Well, the blueprint of other people's successes and failures is the closest thing you're ever going to get. And if one is passionate and committed in the noble pursuit of excellence within their chosen field, be that the arts, technology, science, humanitarianism, conservationism, then I would say one has a moral obligation and an ethical duty to be of service. and to always strive to be part of the solution of the problem. Out of all, it's a world that that children would inherit. That's worth being a part of.

That speaks to me. Passion, action, noble intention, creates progress. Do you think that everyone has purpose? The way I look at it is, you, Theo, will born with a DNA that will never be replicated. in the past or in the future. It's a unique marker of you, right? So genetically, there is something

different about you. Weird, odd, great, whatever you want to put it, okay? And it's like something that's planted at your birth. It's what makes you different from everybody else. It's like a seed at your birth. If you cultivate that seed, if you cultivate your uniqueness, it gives you a purpose in life. It's what you, it's why you are unique. It's what makes you, you, it's your energy, it's your character, it's your awareness, it's your sense of humor. It's what draws due to certain things, what you hate about certain things. It's you. If you listen to that, it's like a voice inside of your head.

Listen to that voice clearly. It directs you, it gives you a purpose. What is your why? Why did you even get out of the bed this morning? Why did you eat what you ate? Why did you wear what you wore? We are here to connect. Life is about people.

Love, time, death. Now, these three abstractions connect every single human being on earth. Everything that we covet, everything that we fear not having, everything that we ultimately end up buying, is because at the end of the day, we long for love, We wish we had more time and we fear death. Love.

Time. Death. Natural to doubt yourself. But if you can push through that and do what needs to be done, you'll do just fine. Reminder that if you want to be exceptional, you're going to be different from everyone else. That's what makes you exceptional. You can't fit in and also be exceptional. Both have discomfort.

When you fit in, you have internal conflict. because you're not being 100% you. When you're exceptional, you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different. Pick one. When your friends start to say, you've changed, remember, it's because they don't know how to say you've grown. If you were anything like me,

you have to feel the pressure. You have to be challenged. You have to be put into uncomfortable scenarios because it wakes something up within you. something that craves life, that part of you that lies deep down, will live again. It will live again. And it is when you are reconnected with this part of you, that you realize that you can really do anything. No matter how hard it gets or whatever challenge you face, there's nothing that could ever stop you.

As long as you were connected with this energy and your remaining. focused in your pursuit of legacy and fulfillment. There's nothing you cannot do. It doesn't get any simpler than that. How many promises have you broken to yourself this week? Take a second and really think about that. Maybe it was the alarm you snooze this morning. Maybe it was the workout you skipped yesterday.

Now, here's the real question. How do those broken promises make you feel? You see, every time you tell yourself you'll do something and then you don't, a small part of you loses faith in yourself. And the scary part? You probably don't even notice. It's about the tiny defeats that stack up one after another. You think you're just skipping the gym?

But what you're really skipping is the opportunity to prove to yourself, that you're capable. You think you're just snoozing your alarm, but what you're really doing is training yourself to break your own word. These defeats, they don't happen all at once. They creep in slowly, infiltrating your mind, making you feel weaker, making you doubt yourself. But here's the thing. It doesn't have to be this way. What if I told you there's one decision you can make today that will change everything. What if I told you that keeping the promises you make to yourself could unlock a level of mental strength?

You didn't even know you had. This video is not about motivation. It's not about hyping you up or telling you to just do it. This is about building discipline. Because discipline isn't about punishment. about freedom. Let me ask you something. When was the last time you felt truly proud of yourself? I'm not talking about the big moments like landing a job or finishing a degree. I'm talking about those quiet moments, the ones no one else sees, where you showed up for yourself, when it

would have been easier not to. For most of us, those moments are rare. Why? Because we're losing the small battles every single day. And every time you break your own word, you're telling yourself, my promises don't matter. I don't matter. You might not realize it, but this is what's slowly draining your mental strength. It's why you feel unmotivated. It's why you feel stuck. It's why you feel like you're not enough. I've been there. I know how it feels. Let's just. Talk about motivation for a second. Everyone's obsessed with it. I just need to find the motivation, they say. But let me tell you something. Motivation is a liar. It's unreliable. It's fleeting. And if you're waiting to feel motivated, you'll be waiting forever. Discipline though. Discipline doesn't care how you feel. Discipline says, get it done anyway. Here's the truth.

Discipline will take you places that motivation never could. When you build discipline, you don't need to rely on some magical burst of energy to get things done. You just do them. And every time you follow through, you're casting a vote for the person you want to become. Imagine this. Waking up every day and knowing you can trust yourself completely. knowing that when you say you'll do something, it'll get done. It's not about being perfect.

It's about showing up day after day and proving to yourself that you're stronger than your excuses. Let me share a story. There was a guy, ordinary, like you and me. He wasn't the strongest or the smartest, but he was disciplined. Every morning he woke up at the same time. He trained at the same time. He ate the same meals. People called him boring, even obsessive. But you know what? He won. Not because he was special, but because he refused to lose to himself. That's what discipline does. It makes you unstoppable. Now you might be thinking, okay, I get it. Discipline is important.

But where do I start? Start small, start today. Step one. Set one non-negotiable goal. Just one. Maybe it's waking up at 6am. Maybe it's drinking a gallon of water. It doesn't matter what it is.

What matters is that you commit to it, no matter what. Step 2. Eliminate decision fatigue. Don't give yourself options. If you've decided to train at 7 a.m., there's no debate. You're not asking yourself if you feel like it. You're just doing it. Step 3.

Track your wins. Every time you keep a promise to yourself, write it down. Watch the list grow. Those little victories. They add up. But let me be real with you. You're going to mess up. You're going to miss workouts, hit snooze and break promises.

And that's okay. Failing doesn't mean you're a failure. Quitting does. The key is to get back up. To refuse to let one bad day turn into a bad week. Discipline is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. And the stronger it gets, the easier it becomes to win those battles. At the end of the day, discipline isn't about being hard on yourself. It's about freedom. When you're not going to be hard on yourself. When you're not going to be able to win those battles. When you're you're disciplined, you're free from the guilt and regret that comes from breaking promises. You're free from the endless cycle of excuses and restarts. You're free to live the life you've always wanted. Start small, but start today. When you're next battle, and then the one after that, because every time you keep a promise to yourself, you're proving to yourself that you're capable, that you're strong, that you're enough. You've got this. Feelings all. when it comes down to you want to be better.

What that means is when that long clock goes off, your feelings got to go away if you want to achieve greatness. The person that you have to spend the most time talking to in your life is yourself. Try not to lose their respect. The quality of your life is determined by how you choose to deal with your boredom.

Do you scroll or do you focus? or do you focus? Do you drink or do you train? Do you binge watch or do you read? Do you consume or do you create? Do you choose comfort or challenge? Do you choose pleasure or your goals? Where everything on the surface in life is loud and chaotic and noisy and out of control. It's people who go inward, who go deep within themselves and get quiet and calm, tranquility under duress. And most people operate on the surface in their lives. So the condition dictate their temperament, their emotions, their behaviors. The happiest people, the most productive people, the people who make the best decisions, they can stay calm and quiet like the bottom

of the ocean. When it gets noisy on the surface and chaotic, things are crashing around you. Go inward and go deep and find that calmness, find that equanimity. People that struggle in life get way too high when things are good and way too low when things aren't so good. And it's your ability to stay even, especially during tumultuous times that makes the difference in your life. Too many of us run our families or our lives in such a chaotic fashion with things crashing all the time, that not only does it affect our own decision-making, our own emotions, but it's affecting the people around us. These problems keep coming because of the way we respond to them. Are you somebody who's cool, calm, and collected under pressure, or are you somebody that succumbs to

their environment? They'll live on the surface. Live in the depths of your emotions, the depths of your relationships, the depths of your conviction, the depths of your character, the depths of your decisions, and you'll be a whole lot happier and more productive. I will ask you go higher you go even more alone. Why? Because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy and going higher.

Because it's becoming more difficult. You'd only know that I was having a bad day if I told you because I show up till it's expected of me regardless of how I feel. Now you might think this is a pursuit of ignoring my emotions but really it's quite the opposite.

When I feel that pit in my stomach, of fear or sadness, I work so hard to recognize that the self-sustained difficulties, the run that I'm on right now, are the deepest forms of self-love. I am not immune to bad things happening that are out of my control, but when they do and the lonely moments come about, I am there to pick myself up despite the pain. You see success, yet you hesitate. I feel blocked, yet the path is clear.

It's like the universe is saying it's not my time. The universe doesn't block. It reveals, and why does every step feel heavier? Because you're on the edge of change. You're not meant to tiptoe into success. It demands a cost. Cost of feels impossible to pay. You're afraid.

No. I'm ready. I've worked too hard, yet your heart races as you near the finish. Your feet falter. You don't understand. I want this. It's not fear. It's life.

Life is unfair. You don't fear failure. You fear your own power. Feel it. Own it. You are not born to be small. I've been the one holding myself back. Yes.

And now you see. Keep your foot on the accelerator. The wall breaks for those who do not flinch, shattering. It's easy to show up when momentum is on your side and everything feels effortless. It's harder to show up when the climb gets deeper and progress feels invisible. But those are the moments that define you, the moments that separate the ones who say they want it from those who mean it.

Because discipline isn't about perfection. It's about persistence. Keep showing up. even when you're not at your best, you don't need to win every day. You just need to keep going. The most important question is people get to where they want to go because they know where they want to go.

Most people go know where they want to go. A lot of people are going and being driven by what they think they should do, what other people say they should do, what they have carried in their mind for a long time they should do. But the most important question you can ever ask yourself is what do I? really want and the answer to that once you can establish for yourself that the answer to that is

and have everything you do every choice you make move you in the direction of what you say your vision is and when you do that the the forces of life rise up to meet you the reason why most people have such chaotic lives is because they're living in chaos in their head and as soon as you get clear it clears up he's by peace and it's the consistency of the work when so like the consistent consistency of words. Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better. Wednesday, get better. And you do that over a period of time, you know, not like one month or two months. I mean, it's three, four, five, six, seven, eight, not ten years. And then you, you know, you can get to where you want to go. Once you take that first step, you've looked a beast in the face and you'll start progressing, not linearly, but exponentially in speed. It doesn't really matter how small that first step is. Because it'll start doubling. And anything that doubles grows

unbelievably quickly. And so that's a very useful thing to know too. Walk up to the plate and swing. Ain't no striking out in this game. Purpose is stronger than object. What you want is important, but what for is even more important. So decide what you want. Decide what you want it for.

Keep working on that. or instead down quietly by yourself for 30 to 60 minutes. Most people in our society had never sat quietly for 30 to 60 minutes in their entire lives. And I will tell you this, this method works 100% of the time. Any problem that you have, any difficulty, any challenge, any goal that you want to accomplish, if you'll go into the silence and sit quietly and then listen to the still small voice within. This is the key. You will find that a certain point, probably at about,

25 to 30 minutes your mind will go completely clear and then a flow of ideas will start to flow into your mind you'll feel energy well enough inside you and at a precise moment as you sit there in complete silence your mind will go clear and wham exactly the answer you need will come at exactly the right time limits don't let the world ever put limits on you you can do anything you want to do but make sure if you have a vision make sure the vision is written you know make sure you have something to actually chase and not just hoping and wish and put your plan together and then work the plan. Don't work somebody else's plan.

You have to create your own brand yourself. And your brain is whatever you feel like going, whatever you are, is passionate about. Chase it. Most people will not understand your obsession, your drive, and your determination. Success is a lonely journey. That's just a reality. And most people are not going to understand why you're so driven, while you're so obsessed. And if you try and make them understand, you're going to end up frustrated.

The best advice I can tell you is go on the journey by yourself. It is the best journey, man, leveling up, becoming the best version of yourself, the most awesome journey you will ever go on. Stop scaring yourself. How often do you terrorize yourself with your own thoughts? You get into absolute terror. And it's only coming from your thoughts. Nobody out there is doing anything.

You know, we find so many ways to scare ourselves. Make a list of your fears. And then give yourself the opportunity to turn each fear into a positive affirmation. Turn each one into something positive. And remember, always you are in charge. One sleepless night, I know you can take, but I recognize that your mind isn't fixated on the one.

It's on the many that you feel. Fear will continue to happen, and for that I am sorry. I know the pain of each one continues to compound, but I need you to recognize that you cannot allow the sleepless night to define you. It is simply an obstacle that involves you, and an eventual way through is inevitable. If you can find even just a second of okayness in your day, I need you to remember that that second will be there tomorrow. And just maybe the night will not be so daunting. World will see you as you see. People think that the world sees you a certain way,

and that that's how you are, and then you have to change it. That's not how it works. When you see yourself a certain way, the world respects that and sees you that way as well. And that goes for your habits, your lifestyle, or anything you're trying to work on. We create the image that the world accepts, and other people think that the world tells us what to... There's this thing about people, and they talk about manifesting.

This is real man. When you figure out who you are and what you want to do and you devote your life to it like a maniac, like you're all in on this thing, and you manifest, most of these people end up doing what they say they're going to do and being who they say they're going to become. And there's no excuses. There's no fucking days off. There's no not willing to grind. And everybody's against me. And this didn't happen for me. Because these people who dive in and they're hardcore and they're focused and they know what they want. They know what they are. And they lay out. These short-term goals and this roadmap on how to get there. Most of those people make it. When you look at someone and you say that man or that woman has something that I don't have, you're telling yourself a justification as to why you can't do it. You're talking yourself out of it. They didn't have that ability either. They got it from showing up every day and execute it.

And especially when they don't feel like it. Our minds are morphic from minute to minute if we let that. If you are not paying attention, if you are on cruise control, then your mind is not under your own control. We can't be in cruise control. You can't let your mind be in cruise control. You have to be cognizant of what you're thinking. You have to be aware of how you are being enforced. Because in this day and age, right now, if you aren't careful, you can slide down the path of least resistance, the path to weakness.

And the path to a lack of control as to what is. happening in our lives, in your life. Life will happen to you instead of life happening for you. Do not allow that. You have to say control. You've got to do something to get control of your brain. You got to check yourself. Control the things you think about. You can actually control how you feel. You can control what you think and you can definitely control what you do. You've got to be the master of your mind. The formula for failure. A few errors in judgment repeated every day for one month, starts the weakness, starts the disaster process. We can imagine what happens in six years.

Now here's a formula for success. A few simple disciplines practiced every day. Eliminate the errors and replace it with disciplines practiced. I'm telling you to start this process of light change immediately. After today, you don't ever have to be the same again. Only by choice. The fight within. a reminder to keep going.

You've heard it before, maybe too many times. Life is a fight. But I don't mean that in some cliche bumper sticker way. I mean it in the way that only someone who's been pushed to the edge can understand. I mean it. In the way that life itself sometimes feels like it's conspiring against you. When the weight on your chest feels unbearable. When every step you take feels like it's only living.

leading you deeper into the darkness. But the thing about the fight, about this life, is that it's not meant to be easy. It's not supposed to feel like a victory lap. Because when you're in the thick of it, when you've hit your lowest point, that's when you are at your most powerful. There's a strange paradox in life.

The moment you feel like you've got nothing left, that's often when your breakthrough is right around the corner. And I'm not saying that to all. offer you false hope. I'm saying it because this life is about resilience. It's about enduring the storm. Not because you know for sure the sun is coming, but because there's nothing else left, but to fight.

There will be days when everything feels heavy, too heavy to carry. There will be moments when you're convinced that you can't keep going, that you're done, that maybe, just maybe. This time life has beaten you. I've been there. and so of you, if you're being honest with yourself.

And in those moments, we have a choice. We can give in to the darkness, or we can keep moving however slowly, however painfully. Think about it. What has quitting ever gotten anyone? Comfort, number peace, not even close. The only thing giving up guarantees

is that the battle will remain unfinished, that the thing you most want, We'll stay just out of reach. You know, this life we're living, it's short. It feels long when we're in it, struggling. It feels endless when we're at rock bottom. But if you look at the grand scheme of things, at the time we've been given,

it's a blink, a flash, and it's over. And I think about that often, about how we're all running against the clock, fighting to make something of ourselves, fighting to matter to leave something behind but here's the truth your fight isn't just about legacy

or success or material things it's about surviving the hardest moments and choosing to stand back up when life throws you down there's a saying that it's always darkest before the dawn at the worst moments

the toughest battles are always right before something gives but that dawn it's not promised is it sometimes it feels like it'll never come. Sometimes it feels like the night stretches out endlessly, like there's no light in sight. But I'll tell you this. I have seen people hit what looked like their absolute rock bottom,

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there's always something on the other side. Maybe it's not the life-changing event you were hoping for. Maybe it's not the perfect sunrise. But it's progress. It's growth. It's the chance to be a little stronger, a little tougher, a little more ready for the next battle. The key is to keep pushing through the dark. To fight for that dawn even when you can't see it.

Even when you doubt it'll ever come. Because that's the human spirit. That's the fire inside you that refuses to be snuffed out. And maybe, just maybe, that's what this whole thing is about. Not about winning, but about enduring. I'm not going to stand here and tell you that the road ahead is easy. It's not. It's brutal.

Life is unfair. It doesn't care if you're ready or not. It doesn't care if you're tired, if you're on your last breath. It will keep coming at you with everything it has, but you, you have something life doesn't. You have choice. You have resilience. You have the ability to keep fighting, even when the odds are stacked against you.

And that's what will make the difference. So the next time you feel like giving up, the next time it feels like it's all too much, remember that it's in those moments, the darkest ones, that you're closest to breaking through. Remember that this life, this short, unforgiving life, is yours to fight for. Don't quit before the dawn. Don't stop before you see the other side.

It's coming. It always is. Keep fighting. You owe that to yourself. How true it was when Goethe wrote. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. A person hears only what they understand. Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do.

Nobody has all the answers, but the answers will come to you if you're available. And I think you need to make time to accept the answers and to figure out the answers. Life is a challenge. Life is hard. It's not easy. But the message is that you got to keep moving forward, you got to keep getting up, and pretty soon people look at you,

God, they're so successful, they're lucky. No. If you work hard, the answers will come. Only thing separating you from a dream is putting it on paper, writing it down, having the plan and taking action. That is the only difference. Us as humans, our human nature wants to be lazy. We want to do as less as possible, but have as fun as possible with most pleasure and avoid

pain. We're that simple, but then we overcomplicated things with the systems and all this other stuff. So just acknowledge that, write it down, have the plan, and be the person to decide your schedule and what you want to do rather than someone else giving you a task that you're working and helping them build their future more than you building your own future remain focused you are in the process of building a legacy your potential is not even close to being that it's all they're waiting for you but you have to remain focused and i know how bad you want it you have a gut feeling that is telling you this is not it don't ignore it is there because

it is your purpose and far too many people get distracted and end up wandering down in different Don't let that be you and it's not hard. This is a beautiful process. Invite failure. Be excited for challenges Get lost a little bit because when you find your way back, I promise you you will be more knowledgeable, more disciplined, and more focused. It's fearful. It's fearful. You know life gets more and more difficult as we get older. We think it gets easier. It does it. It gets more competent and layered. I've always said the life is kind of like from one to 40. It's all about. about addition and from 40 on it's about subtraction. You have to say, you know what? How do I make myself happy? What is it going to do?

Like I try to make everyone happy. Now, what is the thing that's going to make me happy? But in doing that, you may have to change your life drastically. And that takes a lot of guts, but it's going to be worth it. You know, because sometimes we follow a path that wasn't the right path and you don't, oh, how do I turn around? It's not easy. The real win is the process.

It's not the trophy at the end of the day. It's not the awards. It's not the glory. The win is that you put in the work when you didn't want to, when nobody was watching, you did it for you. That's the biggest win you can ask for. Never give up. As humans, we tend to define people by their choices, by their actions.

But then what motivates their actions? Well, often it's how they feel. And in what motivates how they feel about certain things, it's their perception of what's valuable and what's not. And so that's kind of how I drilled down to to this idea that essentially what we are is just an aggregation of what we choose to value in this world because everything else will flow from that. The biggest battle isn't with the competition, it's with yourself. It's in those moments when you hesitate, let excuses win and allow distractions to derail your

progress. The real competition is in the choices you make every day. Every decision either brings you closer to your potential or keeps you stuck. Master the discipline within and nothing out there can stop you because the only person standing in your way is you. You can't afford not to face this fear, not to face what's holding your back, not to face this thing that you're so afraid of. Your future is way too important. It's way too important, way too important.

We need you. We need that out of you. We need you to face that fear to grow out of this stage. In the end, you realize it's just you. No one is coming to save you. No one can understand you at the depth you want them to. No one can lift you up other than yourself. No one can be there for you all the time and no one else can overcome the thoughts that are weighing you down. It was always you and it will always ever be just you. I don't think you realize just how limited time you have on the cert. A hundred

years if you're lucky and even then it's such a gamble because you never truly know what's going to happen. So this is why every single day matters. Every single moment matters. So you should be living every moment to the fullest. You should be really working on yourself, working towards your dreams, working towards your goals, working towards whatever it is that you want, because this is your one shot, so make it count. And if you do that, if you really put in the work, you put 100% of your effort in, you could achieve everything that you want to achieve, but nothing is guaranteed. So at least try your best, because if you try your best, you have the best shot at succeeding. You must that you already are what you want to be and then live by faith in this assumption.

Living from the end means that you call the things which do not exist as if they did. It will chase after you if you can place into your imagination what it is that you would like to attract and begin to feel it. that which you feel yourself to be, you are. And you are given that which you are. So assume the feeling that would be yours. Were you already in possession of your wish? And your wish must be realized.