Absolute Motivation - YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE...THAT'S WHY IT'S GETTING TOUGH - Motivational Speech

Starting point is 00:00:05 Imagine that you're in a movie, and imagine the movie begins now, and you're the hero of the movie, what would that guy do? What would that guy do right now? Because you are. People struggle to do things a lot. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. Don't let other people tell you what you can and can't do. If you feel like you should do it, go for it.

Starting point is 00:00:40 Life's not perfect. Not everything has to work out, but the window of opportunity is getting smaller every day. Nobody sees the world like you see it. So just do what feels right today and worry about the rest tomorrow. We all get exactly the same amount of time. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:01:02 And here's something interesting. The sand in the bottom of the glass represents the past, the sand in the top of glass represents the future. You have no idea what's interesting. in the top of the glass. You only know what's in the bottom of the glass. The only thing we've got anything to do with is what's right here in the center right now. Everything else is an illusion. It's a myth that's God. If we want to enjoy more of life, we've got to give everything we've got right now. It's not what happens that determines your future. It's what you do about what happens.

Starting point is 00:01:39 Direction determines destination. When you make mistakes, they add up. They add up one mistake compounds and leads to another, which leads to another, and they can lead you to a downward spiral of destruction. Here's the thing. You know what else adds up? The positive. The small sacrifices that you make to do things right. So put in the daily effort. Let that be your reward.

Starting point is 00:02:23 Reward yourself. Feel gratification from knowing that you move the needle, even just a little bit. And whatever it is you want to do isn't going to happen in one day. You have work to do. You cannot change your life unless you go inside first. You figure out who you are, what your own wisdom is telling you to do, and you start to actually believe it and follow it. I think when you're on the start path, you can't look at the outcome as the only positive

Starting point is 00:02:59 because you will never make it. The positive frame that I've always used is thinking about who I was becoming as the asset that I was building. So in real time, whenever I finished a long day's work, I was becoming more like the type of person who could work for five years without reward. And that would be part of the story I would someday tell. Let's say you want something really bad

Starting point is 00:03:23 and you keep trying and you keep trying and you keep trying and on the 10th try, you don't get it still. And then you say, uh, okay, it must be a sign that I need to stop doing what I need to do. But what if you didn't know that on your 11th, If you would have made it, you would have made it happen and got what you wanted to get. So I feel like resistance is important because if you really truly love something and truly believe, you should just do it for the love and you don't get to where you're going, you're still doing something you love. Visualize it, but also feel it.

Starting point is 00:03:54 Like feel yourself there. Close your eyes, smile to yourself and feel yourself there. And believe me when I say, you can manifest. that. The only people that criticize you for trying to be exceptional are those that have already accepted the fact that they're going to be mediocre forever. They look at you trying to better your life as an attack on them because they know they're not doing what they should be doing. They know they're not trying as hard as they can and they know that they should be a much better version of themselves than they are. You and I both know that you're just trying to better

Starting point is 00:04:37 yourself and it has nothing to do with them. But they don't see it that way. They feel they have to defend themselves because they see you doing something. They know they're not. They know they're should be doing. So when they make comments or make fun of you or try to make it seem like it's about them, understand that it is about them. It's about how they feel about themselves and that is not your problem. When is it going to be, when is it going to be that you are finally not full of shit? Make the change that you need to make. Become the person you need to become. This is about becoming a person that can control their external environment and make decisions that serve

Starting point is 00:05:13 them no matter how hard those decisions might be, no matter how inconvenient those decisions might be, that's the only way you're going to solve this problem long term. Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. An obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention to. Listen to people that are going to tell you that you can't do it. Don't listen to haters, don't listen to naysayers don't listen to people to give you advice that tell you to slow down or you shouldn't do it or you can't do it or the time's not right or any of those other things those are dream stealers they were sent to you to see if you'll overcome them they were sent to you to test your resiliency and if you can overcome that if you just discard all that stuff and you get

Starting point is 00:06:01 clear on those other things you've got a really good chance of doing something great with your life and just remember what you were put here to do you're not a mistake you're not here by an accident you were born to do something great with your life you were born to make a difference with your life this is a fact

Absolute Motivation - YOU'RE GETTING CLOSE...THAT'S WHY IT'S GETTING TOUGH - Motivational Speech

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