Daily Motivations - BECOME A SAVAGE

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

Stop whining. Stop complaining. Stop blaming. Take ownership of your life. Speaker: Eric Thomas Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please kindly support us Support Us

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You know how you get good at your job? You worry about your own fucking shi- You know how you get in good shape? You don't worry about how many reps the other motherfucker in the gym is doing. You worry about how many reps you're fucking doing. If you're gonna run a business, do you think I sit in the fucking back room and talk to my key guys about what everybody else is doing? No, I don't fucking care. I don't care what anybody else is doing. I care what we're doing.

I care if we're making the calls. I care if we're providing value. I care if we're making the best products. I don't give a fuck if anybody else is doing that. I care if we're doing that. And you know what? That's how you become a leader. That's how you become the industry leader because you're not following anybody else's lead. You're innovating a unique path of your

own. When you spend your energy focusing on what other people are doing instead of executing on your own opportunities you are setting yourself up to fail time and time again. And this goes against what society is, right? Society is all about gossip. It's all about talk. It's all about who's doing what. And it's never about worrying about what you're doing. Go to a f**king bar. What's everybody talk about? What their company's doing? What their boss is doing? What their co-workers are doing? What their aunt's doing? What their mom's doing? What their dad's doing? Nobody f**king are doing what their aunt's doing what their mom's doing what their dad's doing Nobody fucking cares and doesn't fucking matter

That's why you don't see successful people hanging out with people like that because they worry about their own shit They were about their own actions They were about what they execute on and they were about how they can get better at You should be grinding and you looking at the score the score is what it is The score ain't about to change because you looked at it keep playing the game keep grinding keep working and that other stuff will take care of itself everything has to do with you intended to win if you make that shift I'm going to win we're gonna play to win now we're not playing to play we're not playing to see how we do

we're not playing for fun once you decide to win once you start getting some winning you start changing you talk different you walk different You can change you you'd be surprised how good you'd be if you just decide to win be number one in your office Number one in your region and don't get caught up in well I've tried it four or five times and things didn't work out. If there's something that you want and you're hungry for it, you've got to do what is required. Successful people stop negotiating the price in their life. You know what's stripping all your success? You keep negotiating the price you're paying. Man, all the work I'm putting in, it's not paying off. I don't see my family as much.

I've got to do all this. You start negotiating it all the time, and it's sapping all your damn energy. Successful people don't negotiate price, they negotiate worth. Could this be worth it to me to pay this? And once you decide it's worth it to win, it's worth it to be somebody, the negotiation stops. It might be year two, three, four,

before you get your big win, but you can decide now, I'm going to walk, talk, and be a different person. You decide that. You're the lead character in the story of your life. That's the decision. Decide now. You're going to keep negotiating the price or can you not be bought? There's 86,400 seconds in a day.

The separator between me and you and people that win and lose is what we do with those seconds. You want to win? You want to be a millionaire? You gotta quit being so casual. You walk slow, you talk slow, you implement things slow, you talk a good game like you're gonna be somebody. Wake up! You're gonna get your ass kicked, dude. You gotta get focused and get in a hurry. The separator's gonna be who takes massive action quickly. And that's why most people never realize their personal greatness, because they're casual about life. And when you are casual about life, you will end up a casualty.

You've got to develop a sense of urgency. Start working and developing yourself now and prepare yourself for what it is that you want because you expect to get it. You meet somebody wealthy, their family at one point was not wealthy and then the one shows up. The one. One person changed the family tree forever. In my family I'm the one and it wasn't because I wanted it or I hoped for it. I fought for it. I want to win. I want to fight for my family.

I want my mom and dad proud of me. I want my kids proud of me. I want me proud of me. I want to look in the mirror and be happy with the man I look back at, that he gave it everything, that he went for it. You got to focus on you. And as you convince you, you will begin to see

a difference in the things that you're doing. Selling yourself on your ability to perform a job, telling yourself every day, here I go again, this is my day, and nothing out here is going to stop me. And let me tell you something, I don't know if I'm number one or not, and I won't know, I won't go look at that list. Why, because I'm too busy grinding,

and some of you should be busy practicing, and you staring at yourself in the mirror. And many of you cannot get to your level of success You cannot get to dominance because you are worried about everything that's coming in your ear guys You gotta learn to kill the noise who cares what they say dominance who cares what they think Dominance listen to me nothing succeeds like success. You want to kill your haters? You want to shut them down? You want to kill the noise?

Nothing succeeds like success. And I'm telling you, if you can learn to kill the noise and dominate your space, your lane, stay in your lane and dominate your lane, I'm telling you, not only will you compete, not only will you dominate, not only will you dominate, but you, my friend, will leave a dynasty. I dare you to dominate. I challenge you to find your space, stay in your space,

and create something in your space that has never been created before. Control your lane. I dare you to believe in your uniqueness. I dare you to believe in you. I dare you to believe in your uniqueness? How dare you to believe in you? How dare you to stand up for yourself? How dare you to dominate your space, your world, and to leave a legacy?

Most people get a little bit of success, man. They are able to pay their bills. They're able to buy a car, they're able to live in a decent house, they're able to compete with their high school buddies or their circle of friends and they're doing okay in that circle of friends. And that's where they stay. Craftsman days are here at Lowe's with big savings on the tools you need. Save $100 on the Craftsman V26 Tool Power Tool Combo Kit,

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And they stay there until they die. And I want you to think about that. That's how people get in ruts. And the only thing, difference between a rut and a rave is the depth of the hole. The degree of which you're rewarded is directly proportional to the degree of hard work that you put in.

Your life is a monument to the difficulty and the pain and frustration and the sh- that you have to deal with on a daily basis and how good you are dealing with it. And not only how good you are dealing with it, how good you are at asking for f**king money. Being successful in life, building the life that you want is going to take constant evolution. It is going to take constant progression. It is going to take a constant discipline towards looking for the next hardest path. You have to make yourself uncomfortable on a consistent basis. The things that you're afraid to do, the action you're afraid to take, you gotta take it.

When you feel uncomfortable, you know what? I'm conditioning myself for success. Greatness is in you, but the problem is, somebody's gotta push you. The problem is, somebody's gotta give you a reward. Somebody's gotta prod you. The problem is, you're not self-motivated. You have to stay in beast mode.

And so I'm looking at the clock, and I'm saying, technically, you can go back to sleep, technically. But Eric Thomas, if you go back to sleep, you might not wake up to 3.30. You might not wake up to four o'clock. And if you wake up at four o'clock, Eric, for 30 minutes of sleep,

you might be pushing your goals back a week. You might be pushing your goals back a month. You might be pushing your goals back an entire year by sleeping for two hours because you missed an opportunity. What do you do when somebody's not there watching you? What do you do when you have to either do what it is you know you're supposed to do, or you get to take the playoff,

because no one's gonna know the difference. Because it's really fucking easy for anybody to come to work on the days they feel like killing it and killing it. But what happens on the days that you don't feel like killing it? What happens on the days that you don't feel like getting out of bed?

Because those are the fucking days that are gonna find where you end up in your life. There are two ways to be successful. And I don't subscribe to the first one. That's just natural talent. And I just don't believe people who are naturally talented are better than me. I believe effort. And you've heard me say it. Your mama might come from privilege. your mama might come from privilege.

Your daddy might come from privilege. Your daddy might own a company. You might have a father that can give you everything your little heart desires, but you will not outwork me. Why? Because I realize that the bigger the dream, the more effort you're gonna have to put in. I'm saying that some of you in this room,

you might have small beginnings. You might not have a lot of money, you might not have a lot of resources, and I need you to understand that the bigger your dream is, the earlier you're gonna have to get up. The longer you're gonna have to stay up. I'm talking about concrete commitment. I'm talking about the commitment that says, I am going to stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I've said it in his left Because I think we all know in this room characters not something that we inherit characters some we got to wake up every single day We got a fight and we got to build it. You got to begin with the end in mind So whatever your dream or your goal is you got to wake up every day to it

You got to go to bed with it You got to read stuff The music you listen to. Everything you do, gotta pour into that dream. I understand it is in the process that you get better. It's in the process that don't nobody know your name and five years later you're one of the best in the world. Why? It's the process. I don't get up at 3 o'clock in the morning because I'm broke.

Then why do you get up at 3 o'clock in the morning? Because I ain't finished yet. I am not phenomenally skilled, but I'm phenomenally real. My IQ may never change but my will changes every year. I get stronger and stronger and more determined. Why? Because it's in my DNA. I make the decisions every single day to be successful or to be a failure. We're not dealing with chance no more baby. This all choice. If you are not that talented, you can beat them with time. You can get to the spot before they get to the spot.

Get your butt up and get there. If you're not consistently congruent and if you're not consistently contributing each day, then of course you're not gonna be happy with yourself. It's that lack of daily consistency that ends up hurting our own self-esteem. Because listen, everyone can show up good or happy or joyous or nice or kind or give once in a while.

But those who do it on a consistent basis because they demand that of themselves every day, those are the ones who achieve true confidence, true self-esteem, a true life of greatness. Even if you're nervous, you gotta do it anyway. Even if you're the first one in your family, you gotta do it anyway. You gotta just do it anyway. Why? Because the people that are living on purpose, the people at the top, they don't make excuses, they make a way. Like you just gotta do that. Like with some people it's like if I'm not being

encouraged, I can't make... No, even if you're not being encouraged, do it anyway. Even if you're not being encouraged, do it anyway. Even if you're not being validated, do it anyway. Like can you just be faithful in the small things? Can you be consistent? Can you be persistent? Can you be faithful in the dark? Can you be said fast? Can you be unmovable?

Say it with me and say it like you mean it. I am determined, come hell or high water, to win. From this day forth, all I do is win. Start it. Make up in your mind that you're going to finish it. And if you can get to a point in your life where you finish everything you start, you are going to be miles ahead of everybody else. I don't care how difficult it is, I need you to finish. I don't care how you feel, I need you to finish.

I don't care if you feel defeated, finish anyway. Get yourself on the path to health, the path to happiness, the path to success, the path to freedom, and that path is the path of discipline. It is the way of discipline. Get on it and get after it. Discipline equals freedom. You know, sometimes you get that feeling in life that things aren't going my way.

You hear people say that. Things aren't going my way right now. Listen, things just don't go your way. That's not the way the world works you got to make them go your way You think things are gonna just happen for you? Well, they're not just gonna happen for you. You gotta make them happen Go make things happen Do what you need to do to get up to make yourself get up and get going And I know you just want to get five more minutes of sleep, just five more minutes.

And I'm telling you, no. Rise up and aggressively move forward, down the path. Get yourself in the game. Shut down all those pathetic excuses and get after it. It doesn't matter how I'm doing. It doesn't matter how I slept last night. It doesn't matter how I feel. It doesn't matter when the last time I ate.

It doesn't matter. I don't care how you're feeling and neither should you. It's actually not that complicated. Are you going to work out today? Yes or no? Are you going to eat out today? Yes or no. Are you going to eat the doughnut? Yes or no. Are you going to win? Yes or no. Don't allow for any gray area in there. Get rid of the debate. Make the binary code decision. Yes or no. And you know the right decision to make so go and make it

get up act like you play basketball act like you play football compete that's what bothers me many of you are not competing I need effort compete act like you play football go on that dog on classroom compete many of you have lost your competitive edge get your competitive edge back. I'm not against no other motivational speaker. I'm just competitive. When you dedicate your life, you don't care anything about the odds. When the dream is big enough, the odds don't matter. When you're working, you have a wall to break through. A friend of mine who runs a marathon, he says when he's running the 26 mile marathon he said let's say that hypothetically that

eighteenth mile is the wall he said less when you get there and you're running he says everything in you is telling you to stop to give up every muscle is 80 and you're saying to yourself I can't do it I can't do it, I can't do it. And you just keep on and you keep on and you keep on. It seems like you're moving at slow motion. And then eventually when you break through that 18 mile wall, then you know it's like done and you're on automatic and you glide on in. And you know it's there.

You know you're gonna get to the finish line. And we've all had experiences where we were working on something and we knew it's there. You know you're gonna get to the finish line. And we've all 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 reality. We took the responsibility to make it happen. Other people couldn't see it.

Lot of people didn't believe it. You were attacked, you were criticized. People were opposing you, but you kept on doing it. It was hard, it was rough, it was difficult, but to you it was worth it. And eventually you got to a level, you know, fear nothing, stop me now. I'm on the move. There's another kind of instinct that you need to be on the lookout for and this one is a liar. This one is a saboteur. This one is a backbiter. This is the instinct that says you've had enough. You've given it your best shot. You can stand down. You can back off. You can rest now. Do not listen to that instinct. Do not listen.

And that is the instinct you need to fight. You need to push back to smash into the ground. Train that instinct. Train it to say, get up, go, fight on. You don't punish yourself, it's never gonna happen. You don't punish yourself, somebody say gonna happen. You don't punish yourself somebody say eat you lose and wait I punish myself. I don't eat meat no more that's a punishment. I had to give something up to go up. What do you give up? Do you not watch TV? That's your problem. You're

getting to watch TV and not make money and still survive. The reason why you broke is because you're getting a reward and you ain't working. You gotta stop playing. Most of you what happens is, when everything is favorable, you're a beast. But when the conditions ain't right, you get smacked in the face. You gotta grow up. You gotta be a morning person, afternoon person,

night person. You gotta be when you feel good person, when you sick person, when you tired person. And you don't get here by quitting when you tire, you get here by quitting when you finish, when you done. You don't stop when you tire, you stop when you done. You stop when you completed, when you executed. Execution is worship. Systems don't win for you, IQs don't win for you. You win. The difference is you.

If you have a habit that you do things on a consistent basis that you don't usually do, it makes you scared. It scares the f*** out of you. It makes you stretch your comfort zone. And if you do that, not time not two times not three times but hundreds and hundreds of times on a consistent basis that is the habit not just to be successful but to stay successful. Life don't give you what you want life gives you what you'll accept if you'll accept being average and ordinary that's exactly what you've got to look forward to if you'll accept being average and ordinary, that's exactly what you've got to look forward to. If you'll accept having financial problems, that's exactly what's gonna happen to you.

If you'll accept being unhappy, you're gonna be unhappy. See, winners expect to win. Winners show up and fight. Winners demand for themselves success and happiness and fulfillment. Folks, there ain't nothing you can't do if you want it bad enough.