Daily Motivations - AGAINST ALL ODDS II

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

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but you do need yours. You do need to look at yourself and declare who you are and you need to believe it. You think my dreams are too big I said absolutely not you just telling them to the wrong person for some of you the reason why you're not taking advantage of this opportunity is not because you don't believe in it you don't believe in you in order to achieve greatness you must first believe you can Because I get to decide I'm running my life now I'm finally in control of my life I'm finally the boss of my life. Are you ready to be the boss of your own life?

Are you ready to be in control of your own life? Are you ready? And you deserve to have everything you want. You deserve to live your best life. You deserve it. And stop listening to the people who tell you you don't. Kill the noise. What do they know? We're gonna do the hard work now. So here's the hard work.

I need you to confront you. I was created to be great. I was created to do great things. I was created to have great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission. That person who is your hater, they thought they defeated you. That person who told you you'll never amount to anything, they thought they defeated you. You want told you you'll never amount to anything They thought they defeated you You want me to tell you to give up? Huh? You want me to tell you to quit? Huh? Is that what you want me to say? You want to hear ET say

It's alright to give up It's alright to surrender That's what you want me to say? But listen to me, I can't tell you that Some of us just grind Some of us don't make excuses Some of us just grind. Some of us don't make excuses. Some of us don't surrender. Some of us don't give up and give in.

It's our dream. Nobody's going to see it like you do it. It's your dream. Nobody's going to feel it like you feel it. It's your dream. Nobody's going to be as dedicated to it as you are. It's your dream. And they don't have to understand.

And they don't have to like it. And they don't have to do it. It doesn't make a difference. It's your dream and they don't have to understand and they don't have to like it and they don't have to do it it doesn't make a difference it's your dream and you my friend have been given the task to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do what we do with the pressure is we say i gotta take it I gotta take it to another level once you start questioning yourself you already lost all of us will be successful in life if we don't quit I gotta believe in me before anybody else believe in me you can't have excuses you can't play the blame game, because great people don't make excuses, they make up.

You still must grind. I'll never be in the Olympics, I'll never be a professional athlete, but still I grind. I feel that most things I do, but still I grind. I don't want to do half the s*** I do, but still I grind. I don't want to do half the shit I do. But still I grind. When you're working at your dream, somebody said the heart of the battle, the sweet of the victory. Oh, it's sweet to you. It's good to you. Why? See, when you win it's hard, there's a struggle. See, what you become in the process is more important than the dream. No more will I be treated like this. No more will I be overweight. No more will I be in a job that I hate.

Just decide, man. What you need to do is to train your mind and focus on the pain you'll get if you don't act. Listen to me. You are in full control of your destiny, of your future, of your dreams, nobody else is responsible for it. Don't you give up on your life. Don't you give up on those reps. Don't you give up on giving it what it takes to get the most of yourself. Still I grind. And that one day, you see me down a dark alley, running at one o'clock in the morning, know one thing. I was grinding. I didn't get here making excuses.

You got to get to the point where it hurts. I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. But I'm not going to cry about it. No, I'm not a part of the country club. No, I'm not. I don't hang out with them. But I'm still going to be successful. I'm still going to cry about it. No, I'm not a part of the country club. No, I'm not. I don't hang out with them. But I'm still going to be successful. I'm still going to get to where they are.

Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me. You will not destroy us. You will not defeat us to the day I die. It's your mental toughness. Your mental strength. We can. We will. and we must get through this.

This is what's so sweet about success. That as long as you stay in failure, that like, you know, you get satisfied with that when you actually come over to success. It's the same thing. Like you got to have more and more and more of it. Just like when you're in poverty, you can keep doing it you become successful so i went with the master degree then when i went with the phd i just kept we came out with an album i wrote three books are you hearing what i'm telling

you now i'm at a point where i'm i have this sensational desire for more success so after i finished with the degree now i start working, I'm ready to hit this marathon. Now I got another book coming. Now I'm trying to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Now we trying to do a reality show. Telling you a gift from the dark side. The gift from being a loser, low self-esteem, doubt and fear that you can find your way on this side, guys, is sweeter on this side.

Many of you have not activated who you are because you don't know what you want. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. You get away with a lot of stuff when you start executing. And I'm telling you if you execute you're gonna be on the whole other level what do you

want and there those of you in this room you are great you were phenomenal and you're not walking in it acceptance and now let's walk in it the dream is yours but you're saying i'm not worthy of the dream you're probably not but it's been given to you anyway for many of you you're just not tired enough yet you haven't hit rock bottom. You're not desperate enough. You're not hungry and thirsty enough for it. And this is why you can't show up in the world of consistency.

We get deeply immersed in the whirlpool of another version of ourselves every single day. For me, it's deeper than get up at 2 a.m. and grind. Because I can get up, get dressed, get in my car, get to the gym, and sit on my phone. And so really the question we have to ask ourselves is, are we implementing the information that we know, what we've written down, what we're listening to, what we know to do? Are we doing it? Are we implementing?

Many of you are too ambiguous with your future. Not only are we not aware of who we are, but we have no idea where we're going and why we're going there. Once we get identity, our why and our where, our mission, our purpose. I do this thing effortlessly. I do this thing at 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the morning. I can lose sleep. I can miss a meal. You can step out of my life and I'm just

going to keep going. When it seems as though life has not only got me sliding down a wall, but it's knocked me flat on my back. All of a sudden, I've got a bounce back in me because I'm disciplined, I'm calculated, I'm principled, I'm aimed. I know who I am and I know where I'm going. I don't know how many of you need to hear this, but this is the hour that you climb out of the depression. Walk out of this thing, run out of this thing, claw out of this thing. Run out of this thing. Claw out of this thing. Crawl out of this thing. But today, you come out.

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I don't care how good you are in anything. You don't have discipline. You ain't nobody. Because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. You might not know this now, but you're this close to igniting your inner champion and reclaiming your destiny. It's just that I want to be up more than anybody on the planet want me to be down.

Be champion before you become champion. Wanting to get the best out of yourself. Not competing with anyone else but you. I don't back down from anyone. And that's what got me in trouble. I don't play games, I don't kiss anyone's ass and I'm a real man. And that's why, regardless of being a fighter or anything, I'm a man and that's why I want to be a man. And if I die, I want to die a man. When you're really focused, you hear everything.

When I come to the ring, I notice everybody here breathing and he had talking I hear everything I come out have supreme confidence. I'm scared to death. I'm totally afraid. I'm afraid of everything I'm afraid of losing I'm afraid of being humiliated, but I'm totally confident close. I get to ring more confidence I get closer and more confidence closer I get to the ring, the more confident I get. The closer, the more confident I get. The closer, the more confident I get. The closer I get to the ring, the more confident I get. Once I'm in the ring, I'm a god. No one can beat me. There's no one who's stopping you. The world will know my name until the end of time.

They call me the greatest. Because I'm a savage. That's who I was. I didn't want nothing until I got something. And when I said something, I mean the crown. You knew from the beginning the world was going to know who Mike Tyson was. A hundred percent%, yeah. At what age did you know that?

14. Why is that? Because I was beating everybody at 14. More than my skills, I had the mindset. To kill, destroy, break them down. It's just, I'm the greatest. You know, success is all about a lifestyle. I lived a lifestyle as a champion at 14. In order to be a champion, you have to live a lifestyle as a champ.

It's all about discipline, doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it. That's what it's all about discipline, doing what you hate to do but doing it like you love it. That's what it's all about. If you don't have discipline, I don't care how skillful you are, you're nothing. If you don't want to be the best ever, why are you here? Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. It's all about the belief that you can do it. Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. It's all about the belief that you can do it. Belief is more powerful than anything. Only thing we can do is just have that focus and believe in ourself and believe that I want to be up then anybody in the world wants me to be down.

And it's all about, like I said before, self-belief. My whole success is from belief. I just believe in me. And I'm going to overcome all my adversity. The truth sets you free, but it's going to make you miserable first. And that's how we improve as a person. Impro improving ourselves. You have to first have the aptitude to do what you claim you want to do.

And if you have that, and the determination, and the will to win, there's nothing that you can't do. Impossible is nothing compared to anybody that tries. Nothing's impossible then. Confidence breeds success, success breeds confidence, and confidence applied properly will supersede a genius. Life is just a circle. They're gonna hate me again one day, and then God willing they're gonna respect me again one day. Because in God willing, they're gonna respect me again one day.

Because in order to be a master, you have to first be a fool, I guess. You have to believe in yourself before you believe in anything else. God, we live and you have to believe in you. And once you believe in you and have a relationship with you, there's nothing that you can't do. You have to be the champion in have to be the champion in this to be the champion in this. I really don't know what I want.

I am not walking in my greatness. My esteem is not where it should be. I am accepting things that I probably shouldn't accept. And when I leave today, I'm ready to embrace the true me listen to me as you're trying to get to that next level of success you legitimately have to know what that is if somebody's gonna be able to help you out listen to what I'm saying I knew what I wanted and the first thing some of you in this room have to do

You've got to get to the place where you know what you want And then once you find out what you want spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it That's what I do. I wake up every single day and I go after what I want But if you don't know what you want, what are you even waking up for? ET, why am I not fired up? ET, why am I sleeping in? Because you don't have a reason to get up. You don't have a reason to wake up early in the morning.

You don't have a reason to work out. But you better stop making excuses and find a way to win. Because once you start winning, I'm telling you, I can't explain it to you. But doors start opening. Opportunities start happening. But what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process. You cannot give up because it ain't what you see. You cannot give up.

And when you become a winner, they start seeing you with winners. And so I need you to create a culture of winning and do me a favor. You don't have to win at a whole bunch of stuff. Just win one day at a time. You cannot give give up what you got to do is you heard it you heard it champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank that's the difference between the greats that's what separates them when they don't have no more when it's over when they're tired when they're frustrated when they're ready to give up when they spent their last dime That's when they get started. Are you hearing me? It's when you have nothing left It's when you depleted all your money when all your energy go when you have nothing left

That's when it's showtime When you find a way out of no way when you find breath that you don't have when you find energy that did not exist When you want this thing as don't have, when you find energy that did not exist, when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. I wish I could tell you, you tired, go take a break. I wish I could tell you it's going to get easier.

I wish I could tell you that if you just keep going, it's going to get lighter. The weight is going to get lighter. I wish I could tell you that, but that's not the truth. The truth is you got to find something within. So I need you to do me a favor, guys. I need you to win. Until you know what you want, you will not get good rest. If you don't know what you want, then you've not begun to live yet

you gotta find something within and that's gotta push you and that's gotta elevate you and that's gotta drive you and that's gotta move you and when you find out what your why is and your why gotta be deeper than you when you find your why you don't hit snooze no more when you find your why, you don't hit snooze no more. When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen. There's no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse. And I can't explain it, but you better feel me. Winners win and losers lose.

I can't explain it any better than that. What changed? I changed. And I stopped being a victim. I stopped saying, I've got to wait for good things to happen to me. And I said, I'm going to grind. I'm going to fight. I'm going to work.

I'm going to press toward. I'm going to learn. I'm going to do everything in my power every single day. I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. Do not say this is going to be a part of my life because somebody told you it was going to be a part of your life. You need to start rejecting some of the stuff people telling you. You need to stop embracing it just because they said it. It't mean it's true for you just because you don't believe just because you're going to be in poverty just because your marriage ain't going to work out

just because your kids aren't going to be successful i'm not owning that that's not my life and the reason why i say it's my fault even when it's not my fault because when I say it's your fault I give you power I give you control over my life and I will never give another human control over my life. It's my fault It's my problem. I'm coming up with a solution for it Can we try are you hear what I'm saying some of y'all you're not even trying You don't even try to do it. You've given up before you even tried.

I'm taking ownership. You get to determine how you live. You live life on your terms. Go again. Wheel your way through. Some things you can skill yourself through. Some stuff you got to wheel your way through some things you can steal yourself through some stuff you gotta wheel your way through and where there is no struggle there is absolutely no progress I will come on I will come on I will I must The Mamba mentality simply means

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When you have a dream, the one thing you have to watch out for are those out there that will try to crush your dream. I once had a guidance counselor tell me that I shouldn't play basketball, that it would never amount to anything for me. That's good. The Black Mamba strikes again. One of the NBA's all-time greats. There it is!

Job's not finished. Job finished? I don't think so. If we want to get to that elite level, we really have to put in the work day in and day out. This man played with a broken finger and won a championship game. I play games with the flu. I play games with a 102 degree fever, man. Bryant has not sat tonight. He is literally on his last leg right now. When the game is more important than the injury itself, you don't feel that damn injury.

Every time I step on a basketball court, I'm going to put a strong effort out there on the floor. I'm not going to leave anything on the floor. You have some toughness that you need to get in there and get the job done. Are you getting better every single day? That's the question. The key factor for me was wasn't whether or not I was ready. It was the fact that if I wasn't ready, I was determined to figure out how to get ready. At the end of every day you look yourself in the mirror and you ask yourself did I get better today? So I challenge you to have your dream, go after it with all you have and be legendary in your own right. My name is Kobe Bryant. Don't you ever forget it. It's a great feeling to know that you set a goal and you were able to reach that goal and to knock it down. Those times when you get up early and you work hard,

those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. That's the dream. It's not the destination It's the journey And if you guys If you guys can understand that Then what you'll see happen Is that you won't accomplish your dreams

Your dreams won't come true Something greater will It's an amazing thing about passion something greater will. It's an amazing thing about passion. If you love something, if you have a strong passion for something, you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it.

Whatever you have a love for, if you have to walk, you will go get it If you have to beg someone, you will go get it I don't think you guys understand how present you guys were with me You know, you guys were there with me at 5.30 in the morning When I was running the track and I was midway through my workout And I didn't know if I could make it through And I thought about the expectations you guys had for me

And you had for our team, and it pushed me through. It got me through those 800s and 400s and 100s at 5.30 in the morning, so I thank you. We're not on this stage just because of talent or ability. We're up here because of 4AM. We're up here because of two-a-days or five-a-days. We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us strong.

We were never satisfied, never finished, we'll never be retired. My high school English teacher, Mr. Fisk, 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, but for me, that time is not now. Thank you for this tremendous honor and acknowledging my basketball career, but I'll be far from done. My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle. Rest at the end, not in the middle. Be yourself. That's it. Be you. Be you. There's no gimmick. There's no... You don't have to contrive anything. Who are you? Where are you today? What is your story?

Where does that come from? And if you guys can understand that Then I'm doing my job as a father Thank you guys so much I love you Mamba out Light was given for a reason. We exist for a reason.

We were put on this earth to do great things. But the challenges, ladies and gentlemen gentlemen the challenges had to happen they must happen but we must carry on what do we do with the life that has been given how do we face the circumstances that have been brought before us?

Do we give up? Do we stand up? Do we push through? Those are the questions that we ask each and every When we are faced with adversity. No one said it was supposed to be easy. Hard times create tough mass. Tough mass creates tough characters. But you got to carry on. So when it gets tough. You got to get tough. We are born to do great things. Not everybody is going to stand with you.

Not everybody is going to support you. Not everybody is going to be by your side. So when you're standing alone, make sure you stand with a pure heart that you do have something that you must do. Learn to walk alone sometimes. Learn to be strong when you need

to be strong. Learn to understand that not everybody will be with you. I dare you to go down that path that many refused to go. I dare you to show up and show the world that you have something that is special and unique about you. I dare you to show the world something they ain't never seen before about you. I dare you to show the world something they ain't never seen before about you. I dare you to stand up.

I dare you to breathe life into your purpose. I dare you to do it. I dare you to be strong. I dare you to be a man. I dare you to be a woman. I dare you to be the one that they never even knew existed. All you got to do is just stand for what you do. Pain.

Passion. Focus. Faith. You. Put it together. You will be an unstoppable force everybody's great when they're not tired this is when they tired that's when the real champions come out that's when a real dog come out that's where I think the real truth comes out because I think there are a lot of people who are very talented who

can make it there there are very few people who can deal with the pressure and the stress that happens when we're there. I feel I'm the best ever. It's not bragging or boasting. The proof is in the pudding. In my mind, I'm always the best. I am the greatest fighter of all time. And when I hit you with a hard right hand, you will fall. You gotta win tomorrow. You gotta win right now. If you're passionate about a hard right hand, you will fall. You got to win tomorrow. You got to win right now. If you're passionate about what you're doing, keep going, keep believing, reach for the stars. Everything is always impossible until someone does it. Maybe it has never been done before. That's perfectly fine with me.

But I'm going to do it. Never say never. that's perfectly fine with me. But I'm gonna do it. Never say never. Because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. Hungry dogs run faster. And let the big dogs eat. If you look at the greats in any walk of life, the greats do things when they don't always want to.

And that's the separation. It means you have to be more disciplined than not disciplined. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I was waiting for you to smile at some of the compliments. You didn't. Smiling doesn't win you gold medals i'm too fast i'm too skillful and i'm gonna show everybody out there watching the show and the whole world and the world will bow and admit that i am the greatest of all times when you see what i do to george fulmer i believe that whatever i put my mind to and if i was willing to make sacrifices and i was dedicated that I could achieve absolutely anything.

I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and most vicious and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one could stop me. I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. Maybe someone's here, they don't like me because maybe I'm too good. You win some, you lose some. But you live, you live to fight another day. You've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said,

you let you down. Until you get to that point, you let you down. Tell me what you complained about. Winners complain. Winners want to hear themselves talk. Champions do not complain. Why? Because they're focusing on what they said they wanted to do as a goal. So the only thing you're missing now is are you willing to get up and do the work?

Well, we're going to complain, y'all. Weall we're gonna work you have a chance to control your destiny that my friend is the american dream not a cadillac i need you to give you your best come on please with you look i'm gonna say it one more time i need you to give you your all. I didn't say your kids. I didn't say your spouse. I didn't say your best friend. I need you for the next 30 days to give you every single thing you got. So do me a favor. Do you want it or not?

The truth is you got to find something within. You got to find something within. And that's got to push you. And that's got to something within. And that's gotta push you. And that's gotta elevate you. And that's gotta drive you. And that's gotta move you. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said, I'm not getting up on time.

I'm not going to work on time. I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work. I let me down. You are a champion. Think like one I value myself enough to give a hundred and twenty percent or don't do it