Daily Motivations - BEST OF 2025

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

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And in that process, that's where I get better. When you half-assed something and you just don't know whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going And half acid I went all the way I found out and that ain't for me or I found out and you damn right That is for me That's a great place to get to Do not settle Do not think that where you are and what you see is all you will ever have

There is more but change doesn't always come to you. It comes from you. Not everybody's going to believe in you. There are going to come times where you're going to be broken all to pieces and you're going to feel like you cannot get it all together. You can't seem to bring your life back or track But get that mess out of your ears and listen to the words that I'm saying you can put your life back together Again, you have the faith you have the strength you have the knowledge you have the ability now go to work

And do your business? But I just want to ask anybody listening to me why not you? Why not you? Why can't you be the person that changes everything? The innovator, the troublemaker, the disruptor, the person that makes a decision that I will not be the weakest link in the chain of a dynasty. How much time do you think you have left? Don't live your life as if you're gonna go on forever. You don't have to start over. Start up today. I'm here to tell you that once you get started,

you can't stop until you get there. I'm telling you when you get in the boat, you make a commitment, it doesn't matter if the gale comes. It doesn't matter if the winds and the waves come. It doesn't matter if the storm comes. Just keep rowing. Am I willing to see it, dream it, count up the cost and then pay the price? Most of us are not willing to pay that price.

I like to think about it as this. You can be two things at once. You can be jealous of somebody and you can also allow that to inspire you at the same time. You can be afraid, which is true, and you can still find the willpower to push yourself or discipline to push yourself forward. Human beings are very complex, and when you start to understand you're not just one thing, it gives you freedom to ride the waves of feelings to ride the waves of experience and

To kind of go down and go. Oh, this is a terrible thing and know That you will be able to come out the other side of it Every single good thing that happens in our lives, everything comes at a cost. There's nothing for free. Somebody with an incredible career has no relationship with their kids. Everything comes at a cost, but at the same time, everything we struggle with has opportunity and lesson that goes with it. It's always balanced. And when something horrible happens in someone's life or something goes sideways, I always ask,

but what did you learn? Life is about the pain of being alive. And when you know that, I find that very helpful to me. When I come back to that, I'm like, I'm struggling, I'm disappointed here, I wish this outcome had been different. But when I can come back to like, oh, but that's what life's all about.

So what do I do now? You breathe it, you experience it, and then you move on and you heal in the doing. You've got to learn to be more resilient about these things because that is life. It's not a bed of roses. Life is tough. And there's just a part of you, I think,

in anything you're doing when you're struggling, is this really for me? Is this my destiny? Should I be doing this? And we misread failure from some sign. Is this a sign I shouldn't be doing it? Is this a sign I am not cut out for this? Instead of looking for signs that you can win, right right and so I spent the first five years literally trying to

find ways to quit trying to find ways to get out struggling struggling and struggling and I went broke I lost a car I had the water turned off in my place I people don't realize that there were just years and years of of grinding and struggling and worrying in the beginning and then I made some mental changes, some shifts that altered my life then again. I think you can win. I'm positive you can win. You just need to start changing your mindset.

It means that you need to look at yourself and figure out who you are. What are you good at? What do you like? How are you gonna get to the place that you wanna get to? Success is waiting for you. Winning is waiting you wanna get to. Success is waiting for you. Winning is waiting for you. Achievement is waiting for you

because you are a winner. You are focused. You are determined. You are a fighter. One of the hardest things which became one of the greatest realizations is truly coming face to face with myself and realizing that even though I have done

extraordinary things in terms of my own thinking patterns, that there was a level to which I was still on the run, that I was darting off to a coffee shop, or darting off to an airplane, and all of this racing around kept me from having to truly stop and stand with the woman in the mirror and just be still and figure out what do I really want. You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday.

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You got a long journey ahead of you, because you're going to find out that while your dad did a lot of sh-t to you, you're going to have to make it on your own. Because this world we live in is tough. It's tough, it will beat you down. The world and the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor.

The world's tough. The world and the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor. The world's tough. The world's tough. It will try to take you out. It will find your weakness and it will just hammer you. So it's time to get back to work. Get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk. Get off the podcast. Don't be on social media too much, cut out all the fucking noise, get back to the fucking mental lab because that's where the knowledge came from. You need to get to a point in your life where there's nothing can hurt you because you know exactly who you are. You've faced your demons, you were able to hear all your past traumas, you were

able to listen to them, you're able to say okay now I can now talk to people about what I went to. I'm no longer embarrassed. I'm no longer ashamed. Being ashamed is one of the biggest things that kill people nowadays. In their minds, kill them from moving forward. I'm ashamed of myself. Don't ever be ashamed of anything you've done in your life. Face it, fix it, make it better. Everything I need is in my mental lab. Everything, because I'm in constant study of myself. And I know what needs to be conquered because I'm constantly going through what I don't like,

what I'm not comfortable with. I know, and only I can fix these problems because I have to face these problems. Unchosen suffering is going to happen, right? So the only thing that you can do is have some chosen suffering to prepare for it. It's the only thing you can do. That's the only thing you can practice for the unchosen suffering is have chosen suffering. Do something that sucks every day. I'm not trying to send a message of run 200 miles, be the baddest mother-fucking world, but be tough. You better have a part about you that's tough, a part about you that can break down situations and get better, and break down situations very quickly

within some trauma in your life, some devastation in your life because it's gonna come The devastation the trauma is gonna come and you can't allow that to become a Jersey barrier It can't be a Jersey barrier has to be something that you can maneuver through very quickly and move forward that takes a lot of toughness To a lot of people when you die They figure out why you die and figure out how you die in the autopsy but we never do live autopsies to figure out why we're dying while we are alive and I was dying I was living every day but I was really dead and so I figured it out and once I figured it out. And once I figured it out, I was able to be reborn. I was able to be reborn.

You must take this knowledge that you learn from all this shit is knowledge. So I'm just trying to give people that strength to go in the archives of your life. Because while you're probably fucked up, it's probably something happened to you in your life. Go through the archives, dig it up, study it, and then use it for yourself. That's the main purpose for me right now. You need to be better here, you need to be better here, you need to overcome this, overcome that.

And I, you know, people need to have purpose to get up. They need purpose to perform. You need to get to a point in your life where there's nothing on the docket. There is no 5k, there's no I'm going to get into school to be this or that, and still perform to the highest level. Because what people don't get is one day that thing's going to come up and if you're not constantly performing without purpose, you're not going to be ready when the time comes. It's this magical thing, purpose that we're all looking for. But what's funny about it all is that we need these things to perform.

But we don't take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose like you are always the purpose. There may be another purpose like being a seal or going to college or whatever but the main purpose in life is you. So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something you don't care enough about yourself and that's what you need to really research is why am I not doing this for myself because that is the number one purpose in life, is to better oneself. So that's the only purpose I fucking need. So the reason I get up every day,

even though there's no race, or there's no school, or there's nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself. I was born David Goggins. David Goggins wasn't good enough. He was a scared, bullied, abused kid who struggled in life.

And that kid, whenever something got tough, you know how hard I trained, you know how ready I was. Whenever something got tough for me, David Goggins, the real David Goggins would come out and he would quit. So I realized this over a period of time. So I had to build Goggins would come out and he would quit. So I realized this over a period of time. So I had to build Goggins. And in that process, that's where I get better.

That voice that says, oh, I can't do this. I can't do that. It's not possible. I shouldn't do this. Just do it. Just do it in the name of moving to your potential. You were not born to lose, you were born to win. You're a winner.

You were born to be great. Believe it. I need you to focus on why you were born in the first place. What are you doing here? There are dreams and there are goals and there are things that you were born to achieve and that you were born to do. Get up! Are you listening to me?

Get up right now! Get up right now from your misery! Get up right now and start climbing! Get up right now and recognize who you are! Get up right now and recognize who you are get up right now and climb This is that new year's energy To put that battery in your back to push you to get up To make the necessary changes don't tell me you want to go to the next level if you're not willing to roll your sleeves up

Are you gonna let life beat you down for another year? Are you gonna let life beat you down for another year? Or are you gonna get up and stand up is enough? It's time to listen! It's time to focus! Man, let's go! It's time! So no more resolutions. We about that action. We about following through. As a matter of fact,

your motto for this year and the rest of your life is follow through. You got one life to live. It's time to get it done. Your motto for this year and the rest of your life is follow through. You got one life to live, it's time to get it done. Today I want to talk about a force so profound, so transformative, that it can change the very fabric of our lives. This force is gratitude. The two emotions that destroy your relationship, your business, your life, it's fear and anger. Those are two extremes. What's the emotion I want to train? Gratitude.

You can't be grateful and fearful simultaneously. You can't be angry and grateful simultaneously. So what I do is I start my day and make those changes. I close my eyes or I look out at the water and I of three things that I'm grateful for for just a minute each. I find 10 things to be grateful for before my feet hit the ground. And especially if I'm feeling strained and stressed, I go over my gratitude list, because gratitude will reduce stress all day long.

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often overlook the power of simply being thankful. But let me tell you, gratitude is not just a feeling, it's a way of life. There's nothing you'll ever accomplish that's more remarkable than that you have a chance to accomplish something. When you're so grateful for the at-back, you're hacked. When we unpack the architecture of a winning mentality We're dealing with somebody that every single day they're beating on their crap and they're closing the gap They are crystal clear about where they are and where they're looking to go This is the type of person that's got tunnel vision. They move in the dimension of mindfulness and gratitude

Say thank you for your heart that knows how to mend when it's broken. Show gratitude for your composure that helps you control your emotions. I stand here. In my greatness. I own my light. I own my brilliance.

I am bold. I am courageous. I am bold. I am courageous. I'm perfect in my imperfection. This is my time. This is my time. I'm bright enough. I'm old enough. I'm young enough. I'm young enough. I've experienced enough. I'm wise enough. I understand that

I am enough. Breathe. Own it. Own it. Own it. If you're in a state of gratitude, it makes total sense then you will accept, believe, and surrender the thoughts that are equal to that emotional state and you could actually program your autonomic nervous system to make a pharmacy of chemicals that causes growth and repair to happen in the body. You start feeling gratitude, you start feeling more gratitude, you start feeling love, you start feeling more gratitude, you start feeling love, you start feeling more love, you start feeling kindness, you start feeling care, you start feeling appreciation, you start feeling creative, you start feeling inspired. You practice feeling those emotions and you get that part of yours back into balance.

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And then the last three minutes I call 3 to Thrive where I focus for a minute each on something I really want to make happen. I get thanks for it as it's done. I see it as done. I experience it as done. I wire my particular activating system. So now it's going to notice anything that relates to that but it has a joyous feeling to it as well.

And I'm done in ten minutes and I'm ready to rock and roll. I'm trying to get people to practice reframing their perspective. I practice gratitude every day. If I wake up in the morning, and nobody I love passed away, or came down with a terminal illness, then my day starts off great.

When I wake up today, every single day, I wake up grateful. I wake up happy. I wake up grateful. I wake up happy. I wake up excited. Pause and reflect on what you're grateful for. This simple act can turn darkness into light, struggle into strength. Embrace the power of gratitude and let it be the foundation of your journey. Be grateful for life. Be grateful for your children. Hug your loved ones.

You know, tomorrow's that promise. We all gotta fight. Because winning is not just an exterior thing, it is very much an interior thing. Winning has everything to do with your mentality. It has everything to do with how you talk, how you walk, how you think, how you overcome conflict, how you navigate a room, how you talk, how you walk, how you think, how you overcome conflict, how you navigate a room, how you navigate relationships, how you manage your time, how you manage your money. Winning is not just an end thing, it's not just a crown or a trophy, it is the process. It is not just what I want, it is who I am becoming. Carry the power of gratitude with you. Let it illuminate your path, strengthen your spirit, and deepen your connection.

The most important decision of your life is deciding whether you're truly committed to being happy no matter what. Because life is going to throw all kinds of curveballs at all of us. So the greatest gift you could give yourself is, I believe, to make that decision and say life is too short to suffer. It doesn't matter what happens, you're gonna find something to enjoy and appreciate. You find what you're looking for.

You wanna get sad? Go read all the negative stuff. It's there, unlimited. You wanna be happy? Go find all the free content around happiness, self-fulfillment, positivity, it's all there. You find what you're looking for. I'm not an advocate of toxic positivity

or rose colored glasses necessarily, but I do believe that you get to choose the thing that you're gonna go looking for and if you can get up and say, I'm gonna go out and find some evidence of a good day, the likelihood of you having one is just higher. That gratitude allows me to have perspective at the end of the day, as opposed to focusing

on all the horrible things or the bad stuff. It brings me back to perspective that my life is amazing, even if it's horrible. My life is amazing, even if it's the worst day ever and everything's against me, I lose all my money and something else bad happens, it's still incredible. You focus so much on the negative that you forget all the positive.

And then when you do think about the positive, you're not putting the energy in the positive like you put in the negative. I know how to talk negative just like you know how to talk negative, but it don't work. It don't help nobody. Because if I put my energy into something negative, automatically my body's gonna respond,

and I'm gonna start doing negative stuff. I was homeless too, my father wasn't in my life too, I've been in struggles too, but I've come to realize that when you think optimistically and you speak positively, you can speak those things which are not as though they were. You can say certain things out your mouth and make it happen. Positive thinking is not about being delusional. Positive thinking is about learning how to take control of internal processes and understanding

that that will shape your external environment. But it's about remaining in control of the internal landscape. It's about knowing that despite shifts in the external landscape, you're going to be okay. This wave of betrayal, this wave of fear, this wave of grief, this wave of frustration, this wave of feeling stuck, this wave of feeling hopeless, it's temporary. It will come and it will go. And when you realize that emotions are temporary,

it also gives you perspective to know that something better is coming. One of my mentors, she had this business card that she used to give out to people. And it said that her greatest regret in life is trading in what she wanted in the bigger picture for what she wanted in that moment. And I always think about my life in that way of, is this what I want for the greater good, for my story to be, or am I acting at a place of desire?

Am I acting at a place of desire? Am I acting at a place of wanting to change the way that I feel right now, knowing that that will hinder me, that's not really what I want? What place am I coming from? Smart people like the idea of being cynical because it seems like you've considered all of the options.

Only somebody that's a smooth-brained idiot would believe that things are going to go well, but it fails to recognize that your experience of your life is largely determined by the story that you tell yourself about it. Well, I think it's the idea of going, look, you can change the way that you think about things. So I was thinking about things in, I can do this narrow bandwidth of things, my belief

system, the assumptions I've made about life, where you can get a job and you can work for someone and after you get a job and you work for 40 years, you get a pension and then you get the pay. I was on a conveyor belt. And suddenly I went, oh, I can believe anything. I can believe that I can do anything. I can believe that I can be the guy on the TV show telling jokes.

And you can. What you believe dictates your life. You'll be the barrier. You'll be the thing that stops you. Life itself is what we deem it. That's exactly right. It is what we deem it. And so you have to be relentlessly protective of the information that you take in,

the thoughts that occupy your mind, the people that you surround yourself with. Because all of those things are influence factors. Another stoic philosopher once said that, you know, when you leave your house and when you come back that night, you come back as a different man, you're never the same man coming back, right? Well, you were either coming back as a better human, more transcendent, more aware, more connected or not.

So every single day for me it starts at ground zero. I'm humble and I'm listening and my mind is open and this is what I've seen and this is what I can tell you about. Everything that I look at I try and look at from a humble perspective and if you don't do that it's going to be a problem. Perspective is everything. Let's go. I need you to hear me loud and clear. How you see this thing is everything

I just limited envy and jealousy and I leaned into Optimism and gratitude if you're deeply unhappy instead of blaming everyone else for it Put in the work to get out of it because you can I believe in people I fucking believe in you How will you see the rest of your day? Because how you see the rest of your day? Because how you see the rest of your day will oftentimes determine the way you see the rest of your life If you're gonna do it Do it Say what you can do

Do what you say you can't do it. don't say you can do it. Don't over leverage yourself. Don't over leverage your decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe. I think I'll try it out. Now think if you're gonna try it out beforehand but when it's time to go dive. Finish it. Find out. Come out the other side. Don't leave it and go, oh if I just would've, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-ass something, you just don't know whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want.

Finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn't half-ass it. I went all the way. I found out and that ain't for me. Or I found out and you damn right that is for me. That's a great place to get to. I think part of the challenges in life, a lot of us are running around half-assing ourselves, half-fooling ourselves, not full of ourselves, not studying ourselves enough,

not holding ourselves to task enough, not patting our own self on the back when we do get what we want enough, not cracking our own whip on our backside when we do get out of line even though we knew better. I wish we were more full of ourselves that way. Someone said this to me before, Matthew, you're so full of yourself. And I, without thinking, I was like, well, who else am I supposed to be full of? That's a good line.

And I stopped there and I was like, that's exactly what I meant. And I wrote that down. I wish more people were more full of themselves. I think we should take some time to be able to look in the mirror and own that thing that we pulled off and go, good job, that's what you wanted, that's what you got. At the same time, be able to, as we do more often, look in the mirror. When we fail and go, bogey, you did not want to let off.

Give others and yourself more credit. Happiness, you can't guarantee it, but there is a science to satisfaction. There you can look at habits that engineered less pain in your life, maybe more pleasure, but at least less pain. And that's, that's a win. So much easier to be supportive and gentle of other people than of ourselves.

You know, you will happily bestow this sort of gentle, reassuring pat on the shoulder when somebody succeeds or falls short when they tried their best. Yet given the fact that you tried your best, you give yourself a kick on the shoulder when somebody succeeds or falls short when they tried their best. Yet, given the fact that you tried your best, you give yourself a kick on the way out of the door and a harsh word to follow you. Yep. Because I got myself in the pickle. Because things didn't go how I wanted it to go or how I believed it could go. Life's the ironic tragedy. Life is pain. I'm the reason that I stepped in, which is also an asset.

Even if someone goes, why are you giving yourself so much credit for screwing that up? We're going to make mistakes. You got to own them. Then you got to make amends. And then you got to move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. So turn the page. get off the ride.

You are the author of the book of your life. There are habits that I notice of things I take care of in my life, health-wise, faith-wise, father-wise, husband-wise. If I'm doing that consistently, there's less valleys. The ironic tragedy is that life has to be lived forward but only makes sense in reverse. When you look back, we can all connect every single dot. It's mathematical, scientific, how we got to this table right here. It's all connected if we go back and look at it. And there's a whole lot of, I thought that was the end well it was the end but it was the beginning of this thing. What you're leaning into is that mystery going forward right that ironic charge that you have something to

push off the well I don't know what I do want but I do know I don't want that. You have leverage. Yes. You know it's there. You know we always say well who are you you know what she? Figure out who you are. And we ask, I try to ask my kids that now. Why won't you know who you are? Now part of that who's helped me is Bob Dylan's lines like I don't know what all this talks about who we are man we are all just what we create ourselves to be and that gives me a little oh that's relaxing. But the it's so much easier to figure out who you're not Then if you start eliminating the who I'm not by sheer mathematics you end up

Moving towards who wore of what feeds you and who you are and it's a hell of a lot easier thing to go How can I get rid of some bullshit my life than it is to to go, well how do I go to my true self? Do I want to press the accelerator more quickly or do I want to take my foot off the f**king brake? Sometimes the hard work and the endurance and the elbow grease, the work harder, we were talking about that hustle, is not the way out. Sometimes it's, I need to back up, laugh, have a sip of my favorite whatever, and dance my way through the raindrops out of this sun. And even looking at the things that are bad and going, oh thank you, appreciate that. I know many of you saw this game. They were down by 20. They were down by 20. Down by 20 in Golden State? No. Down by 20 away. But before this happened, if anybody's been

studying him closely, what happened before this game happened. 77 three-pointers in a row. This boy made 77 three-point shots in practice. They were down by 20 points. He came back and won the game but you might have missed it. Do you see it? He's shooting a three-pointer with his eyes closed. They showed it on Sports Center. The boy's eyes is closed with the three. Boom. Muscle memory. His eyes is closed. What was he thinking about? he was thinking about in practice one in practice 277 and he starts saying to himself we down by three points three times seven is 21 let me give him a business one defense two defense God don't worry about just give me me the rock. You sure? Remember what I did in

practice? Seconds left he's not even at home he away from home he got his eyes closed. Boom! With one of the best defenders checking. This kid didn't take his team to the most wins this year because of what he does in the game This is your year, this is your moment if not you who would have not now win this is you baby Ain't nobody stopping you but you Can't nobody stop you but you you not average average, stop acting like it. You not average. Why you being average? You not average.

Why you being good when you not good? You great. You phenomenal. When you gonna step up to the plate? You gonna let a high school drop out? Somebody that lived in abandoned buildings? Somebody that ain't out of track outdo you? I couldn't hardly read when I got to college.

You gonna let me outdo you? I couldn't hardly read when I got to college. You gonna let me outdo you? You're greater than that. So I need you to give me a huge favor. I need you to dig, dig. If you've got the talent and you can work on the hard work and put them both together, then you give yourself the best chance of becoming a top athlete. When you start to build yourself up, you start to have real, authentic confidence from hard

work. Everything else going away. What's the secret to success? Hard work, hard work, hard work. The key with me is just always finding what the anchor is. And the anchor is getting up at four o'clock in the morning every day before anybody else and grounding my thought process in the no one will outwork me. No one. The true secret of success is to accept the truth that the only path is the path of hard work and productivity.

You understand that if you struggle now, you stand tall later. You understand that if you suffer now, you smile later. You understand that if you sacrifice now, you will succeed later. When I realized that I can learn do hard work And I can beat the valedictorian in school But I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does You know what kind of strength comes from that when you're sitting down that guy that that valedictorian is ready for an hour And you know I caught you I

Caught you and I am dumb But I have the work ethic to catch you. That's what David Gagga's got really invented. How can a champion be a champion without hard work? How can you get that promotion that you know you deserved without hard work? How can you be the best father or mother you can be without hard work? Consistency! Sometimes you beat people not because you're better, you just wear them out.

You just wear them down. This is going to be the year where some team, you just going to wear them out. How can you get to the next level without hard work? I'm telling y'all y'all gotta get to the place bro when you execute when you get it done and when you come out they just scared because you out. When Mike Tyson came out he didn't have to fight 80% of the fight he just came out and because people knew he could execute boom boom boom boom. When you get results when when you execute, man, it's a difference. Don't wait for Sunday.

There are seven days in the week. Sunday isn't one of them. With God has blessed you with the talent he's given it to you to play ball. He gave it to you. You just got, you just was blessed with it. Now you got put in that work. Tired, don't mean nothing.

Tired is only in the mind. You tell yourself, be tired, you're gonna be tired. I don't get tired. I'm going to beat you. I'm going to let you know I beat you. I'm gonna want you to reconsider your professional life choice. My father who raised me, his thing was, son, you may not be the best, but leave everything on the floor.

You put 120%. I'm just asking you to do 120. Like every day when you come in, 120. You gotta want it so bad. You gotta give all of yourself to get it. You gotta be obsessive. Because I didn't grow up with things being handed to me. I had to work hard, I had to dedicate myself, and I had to be determined, and I was. The bottom line is that if you're talking about beating everybody else on the planet to a thing,

what you're actually talking about is what are you prepared to sacrifice psychologically, physically, existentially, relationally, socially, in terms of your self-esteem your comfort and everything right all of that that pain you feel That's a pain in success. You must be willing To shoulder that pain to get success success is something that's a very lonely path in this world There's few willing to make that down payment of pain that future men have success with better life. Very few are. So if you want to be the top, you gotta move different. There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with me out there.

There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with Michael Jordan. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Tiger Woods. Even when I watch sports today and see these guys on the range, like they're all buddies and I'm like that's not the killer instinct. That's just not. I don't think Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson were trying to be friends with anybody. I think they were going out there on a mission and if there was someone in their way they had to crush them. There's never any doubts in my mind because I'm the best in the world even though a lot of

you don't like to hear it. I just it's fast I'm the best. You know me. I sometimes I don't want to believe in myself, but it's the truth I'm the best You can love me You can hate me I'm not here to make friends I'm here to win At the end of the day even Alexander one of his famous his famous quotes is, I have met the enemy, it is I, right? And although that is one element of an enemy, that's great, we need that.

Michael had it, Brady had it, Kobe had it, but there's a crazy psychologically, you can call it, you know, psycho competitor that they're constantly in the search of recruiting their next enemy. It's like, you know, life is boring if I don't have my next target. You know, I'm almost, you know, bad for myself if I don't have the next target, the next enemy. And if I choose it the right way, then I'm able to bring out a side of me I've never seen before. Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them. You don't beat them. You cast a shadow so big, no one can see them to begin with. And that's what it comes down to, like, what are you

willing to sacrifice at the end of the day? You know, people don't understand the level of sacrifice it's going to take. And there's been moments where I realized that I compete because I want to win. I love winning. I love being the best in the world. I've sat many times trying to find the balance of what I want within all this. If I was losing, I wouldn't be competing. I'm here to win. It is hard. It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in

and eating pancakes. It's hard when you're on your way to practice, weighed down with all your gear, and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach. No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way. And my advice is to prepare yourself because success and achievement come from overcoming adversity. When the rest of the world

says no to you, you say yes to yourself. You say yes, I believe. You say yes, I can do it. You say yes, nothing can stop me. If you want to be a great player, if you play every single day, two, three hours, every single day, over the course of a year, how much better are you getting? Most kids will play maybe an hour and a half, two days a week.

It's not gonna get it done. You have to be obsessive. You have to be obsessive. You have to be addicted. You have to be disciplined. The key there is you. Everyone else is looking for other individuals to do stuff for you.

Stop looking for fucking help from everybody else. Okay, it starts and it ends with you. Your identity starts and it ends with you. Every day is an opportunity. Based on your choices, on how you look at things. The choices you make every day. That is what you are in the mirror to that. From the captain to the cashier, there is more in you.

Stay at home father, stay at home mother, lawyer, doctor, hygienist, author. I don't know who you are, where you're from, but there's more in you that becomes a part of who you are That changes how you think that changes how you move that changes how you behave If you could become an executor if you could execute I'm come on learn it I'm come on put it deep with it. Not you hear it. You have to realize that there's always work to do and You want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do and you put yourself in position to be successful. Mahaman Ali said suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion because he knew that the training wasn't killing

him the training was making him it was forging him in fire. I got to trust that nothing out there can stop who I am inside. You got to stand on your faith. You got to stand on your strength. You got to stand on who you are. I will rise again and I will push. I will be the victorious one. I will conquer. Listen to me, if you work forward, if you will put in that sweat, that blood and those tears baby, I'm telling you, you can have what you want, be what you want, do what you want. Are you hearing me? Don't give up, don't give in. You hang in there, you hang in there because if you quit right now,

you ain't gonna never see it, you ain't gonna never get it, but if you hold on baby, ha ha ha, but if you hold on, if you hold on, everything you dreamed of, everything you envisioned, everything you worked for, it's coming. If you work hard, you can't have it, it ain't nothing you can't have. You deserve it, it ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to work for it. It ain't nothing you can't have. You deserve it. It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to work for it. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself how much more can you take? What tried to kill you only made you stronger. So what are you waiting for? You have greatness within you.

I'm here. Send me a message. Like location, location. I'm gonna come. Whatever you want. Doesn't matter. Ireland, New York, Brooklyn or Moscow. Doesn't matter. Tell me. Where? Where? That's not fucking good enough! That's not fucking final! Think the fuck is! Right fucking out! What's the matter with you?

Kumar. Enjoy, Kumar. There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! There is nothing to save myself for or give myself to. There is nothing to save myself for or give myself to. I fight because I know nothing else.

I fight because I know nothing else. Oh, you think darkness is your ally. Oh, you think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted a dog. I was born in the dark. I was born in the dark. Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted a dog. I was born in it, molded by it.

I didn't see the light until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding. You're a coward, you're a coward! You're a coward, you're a coward! By then, there was nothing to me but blinding. You think you can get away with this? You think you can unite me? Call me son of a bitch! Though you may fail, you refuse to tolerate it. Though you may fall, you refuse to stay down. I was going to rip this heart out, I'm the best ever.

I'm the most brutal of the Michigan, most ruthless champion that's ever been. Who's one more gonna carry the bull? Please wake up! Stop sleeping on yourself! The welcome to Ramadi is you're gonna go and pay your respects to some guys you just killed. And there's firefights in the city. So we're just across the river from the city. There's firefights in the city all day. There's firefights in the city all night. It was legit combat. So you may lose the battle, you refuse to lose the war.

Reach the point of no return, my friend, where you're always willing to give more. That fact that you have the ability to do something and you're too weak to fucking turn the key and start the engine on it is a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any of this physical sweat equity or pain in the gym or sweat or sacrifice. All that is just nothing. When no one's watching, I work harder than when they're watching. And thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever-present scorecard or third party that's like, no one's watching, which means now you have to work because otherwise you're full of shit. The sign of success is the hate that you get along the way.

The only person who can judge you on your success is you. You're the only one who knows how much left in the tank you really had. When you're stagnating in a business and your plateau and you don't know what to do, it's very painful. When you're declining and you also don't know what to do, it's very painful. And so that means that all conditions of reality are painful. If pain is a prerequisite for reality, then it means it's just a signal that we are painful. If pain is a prerequisite for reality, then it means it's just a signal that we are alive.

Rather than pain is a problem, it is a signal that I'm breathing. It just doesn't matter. You can work every hour of the day. The person who loves walking walks further than the person who loves the destination. I work all the time. That's all I do, and I work until I can't work.

They're like, that's not healthy. I'm like, define healthy. I do as much as I can of the thing that I want to do every minute of my day. And I work harder now than I did when I was poor. And I think it's because I've learned to enjoy it. And most people say I wouldn't live my life that way. You're always working, you're always doing these things. But it's like, I'm actually always spending my time in pursuit because in pursuit is my button for enjoyment. I will do enough work that there is nothing left to be done. Everyone believes in the American dream until it comes true.

And I remember because what had happened was, everybody when I was sleeping on the gym floor, right? Like, you know, I was the underdog. You know, my clients were all like, oh good for you. You know, you're going after your dream. They'd see my blanket and my pillow in the corner of the gym and they knew I was sleeping there and it was evident. You know, I lived there and that everybody was like pro me and then people come in. They sign up like I'm gonna support you, right? And then within nine months I had hired people and I had a manager and I pulled up and I

walked in the lobby and all the same people were like, ah, boss man's here. Oh, you're not too good for us now, right? And I remember being so jarred by the experience and I was like, you guys rooted for me. And I was like, and now I did what you said you were rooting for me to do. And that was when I realized that people want you to do well but not better than them. The reason the goal isn't coming at you fast enough

is because every person you've seen accomplish the goal, you only see it the moment they accomplish it. And the reason that it hurts so much when people are like, must be nice. Oh, that happened overnight is because every time you fail, no one cares and no one sees. But when you finally win, people take notice. Disgrudged. But it's the only time they notice is when you actually win. And so to even further reinforce the point, the fact that everyone looks like an overnight

success means that the 10 years where they sucked, no one saw. And so the fear that you have about people noticing the fact that you fail is ridiculous because they're barely going to notice when you succeed. The difficulty with personal development and entrepreneurship is that you don't know when the end is coming, but you still need to fight. And the only certainty that I can give you is that it's the same thing that every other person who got through that period went through. But I think the thing that everyone who's listening lacks is the context on how hard hard work is, not in that it's complex, but just in that it's a continuous and unending

focus on one thing and noticing the details that separate mediocrity from greatness. And if you're like, I don't know what the difference between those two things is, that is the opportunity that hard work reveals. And most people expect that is hard work because that's the hardest they've worked, not the amount of hard work that is required in order to get the level of outcome that they say they want or that they expect. at the level of outcome that they say they want or that they expect. And until you get great, because as soon as you get great at one thing, you realize just the tremendous amount of hours and work

that it takes to be great at one thing. And then there's this oh shit moment that I can express personally, which is you realize that there's so few things that you can be great at. And then the discipline comes down to saying, what are the two or three things that I can be really good at in my life? Because it will take me five to seven years to be exceptional at this one thing. I am okay being a beacon of relentless

hard work. And that's the never-ending cycle of excellence. Oh, I just have to figure out what to do. When I wake up every day, there's only one voice I have to listen to. And so then it's like, just do it for me. Yeah, we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught. It's one of my favorites. There have been so many times in my life where I knew I needed to do something and then I filled all this extra time not doing that thing. And then the moment I did it, I was like, wow, that took way less time than I

thought it was going to take. And not only that, it took way less time than I thought it was going to take and not only that it took way less time than it took Me to delay to actually get to this point And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point Waking up and then trying to shrink the time between when I wake up and when I start working and Shrinking the time between one task and the next task. You don't need to take 30 minutes of getting ready to start working. You can just start working because as soon as you get into it,

you start pulling the thread and you're like, oh, here it is. And all of the time that I was getting ready to work, I was just using up my best brainpower time on things that truly don't move the needle at all. The vast majority of business owners work a fair amount. They just work on the wrong stuff and they do it the wrong way. And so they get so little for their effort that they wonder when they're at home empty-handed in bed, why isn't this working when I am working?

But if you define work, at least the way I do, which is output, and in order to get output, it's volume times leverage. So how many times you do the thing, times how much you get for each time you do it. And so that is the, do you work smart or do you work hard? It's you do both. You do as many reps as you possibly can, and you do it with the most leverage possible.

So if I make a hundred phone calls, the leverage that I can have there would be how skilled I am. So if I make a hundred calls, I might get 10 times more. And so I worked more, I had more output than somebody who has less skill. But the only way you get skilled is by working more. And so it's this virtuous cycle of doing more and getting better and then you get more for what you do. I talk about the rule of 100 on steroids, which is something that I learned from a guy who owned 13 or 14 really successful gyms. And he called

it open to goal. And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah.ms, and he called it open to goal. And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, my managers work open to goal. And I was like, what does that mean? It's like, so they work open until they hit their goal. And so sometimes that means they hit their goal by noon and they can cut out, or that means that they have to go from 5 a.m. until midnight that night,

because that's how long it took them to hit the goal. And so I've seen this across a lot of high achievers across domains. So like, I'll keep shooting free shots until I hit 100 free shots. I will run until this happens. I will practice my presentation until I do zero mess ups, right, or whatever that output is

that you want for quality or quantity. And the more times you do what is required to get what you want, the more times output is that you want for quality or quantity. And the more times you do what is required to get what you want, the more times you get what you want. When no one's watching, I work harder than when they're watching. Thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever-present scorecard or third party that's like, no one's watching, which means now you have to work because otherwise you're full of shit. And so it's this continuous reinforcing cycle of me and other me holding the whip behind me

to see how much I can take. But with each lash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on. As long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of. And I find that incredibly satisfying in the trenches of misery when you have to go through it. Hard work is the goal. And so it's not like work hard, sow that X, because as soon as you have a sow that, then the X is the thing. But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have

is who we become along the way. Then it's something that I can win or measure myself against every day in real time throughout the day, which is how hard am I working? Because that is the goal. Because I know that when I look back on my life, the days that I loved the most were days when I had nothing left in the tank. And so then the goal becomes to empty the tank, not what where I drive, but just to drive the car as hard as I possibly can. And that means that in the beginning, it's just straightaways and just seeing

how high I can rev the engine. But as it becomes more advanced, it's like, all right, well now we've got turns and then it's turns and elevation, and then it's turns and elevation without guard rails because we have risk. And so when I think about how hard I want to work, the interesting thing about that is that the only person who can judge you on your success is you you because you're the only one who knows how much left in the tank you really had. There's this huge time delay between when we start behaving in a way that a winner behaves and when we start winning. And the problem is that the bigger the mountain you're trying to climb,

the bigger the W you're trying to get. typically the more delayed it is along the lag. Yeah between when you start behaving like a winner and when you start being a winner. And most people don't get the fast enough feedback loop to know that they're on the right path when they are taking these first steps in the right direction because they have this really big goal but they forget that with that really big goal comes the even longer delay that it takes to get there. Every day when you wake up you have choices. Life is about choices. We all have the same 24 hours in a day.

You can hit the snooze button and you can stay in the bed where it's safe and it's comfortable. Or you can get up and face the world. You can stay at your phone scrolling on social media endlessly. Or you can create habits that are going to help you become the person that you want to be. The person that you are destined to help you become the person that you want to be, the person that you are destined to be. The power lies in the decisions that we make every single day. Show up!

Make the choices that your future self would thank you for. Don't just let life happen to you. Create the life that you want. One choice, one action, one day at a time. Because in the end, your life is nothing more than the sum of your choices. You have the power to decide right now. Today, not tomorrow. So choose wisely. Choose powerfully.

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on this podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Hiring Indeed is all you need. That's the game, right? Like either you're right or you're wrong. Either you win or you lose. But if you're gonna come to me and tell me you don't have time,

in a world where I work every second for 18 hours a day, right, you're gonna have a tough time making me feel bad that it's not happening for you because that's part of it. It's simple. It's now or never time. What would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride? Okay, maybe stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say, I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7am and when the option comes to hit the snooze button,

don't do it. There's one win that you've got for the day. That's action. So it all comes down to this moment. This moment is the only time we can transform. And I say, join now or never. Don't miss the opportunity of this moment. Because the days are going to be long, but the months will be short. You have an opportunity. Seize the opportunity. We all get wake up calls. We get wake up calls in our relationship. We all get wake-up calls. We get wake-up calls in our relationship. We get wake-up calls in our finances. And some people, the phone's ringing off the hook right now.

They're getting wake-up calls on a bunch of things. They're at home with their family, and they're starting to realize, I was disconnected from my family. I haven't been plugged in. They've got a wake-up call on their relationships at home. They've gotten a wake-up call on, you know, I don't have any savings and I've got I'm deeply in debt. This isn't working. And so the cool thing is when you get the call then you have to make the choice. Are you gonna answer the phone? If you pick the phone up that means baby it's time to change.

Are you gonna answer the phone? Are you gonna change your life where you say never? Again, maybe it's time to increase your quality of life. Maybe instead of Staying in the middle backseat right it's time to upgrade to the exit row Right business class business class or maybe it's time to eat at a different restaurant Maybe it's time to really think about your money dial and say hey I always claim that wellness is important and yet I'm still eating like the same old thing I used to eat 10 years ago.

Maybe it's time to upgrade what I eat and where I work out and all that kind of stuff. My gear. You can do that. You've made it. You already won the basic game. So now you get to benefit from it. I believe if you're the kind of person

that has spent too much time thinking about where to go That it's time to get in the car and start driving and and you you have to be able to pivot quickly You have to be able to adjust fast you have to constantly Be aware of the changes around you and you don't have time to kind of say well I'm going to give it six months and think about it. You know you give it six days and hit it. The fastest person doesn't win the race it's the person who starts first. Be the now what you want to be later. It starts right now. If you're not doing the now don't have respect for later.

Be the person you want to look in the mirror. Everyone's like, oh later in life I want to do this, later in life I want to do that. Later in life is turning around looking in the mirror right now, that's later in life. Unless that turnaround is something impregnating, later in life, it ain't gonna be anything different. and progression later in life, it ain't gonna be anything different. Absolutely you do whatever it takes, okay? Even if it risks your life, that's your dream. I made the decision that, look, this is what I wanna do.

Somebody has to give me an opportunity, I'm gonna take advantage of it. I have 24 hours in the day. I try to take advantage of every hour. Yeah, most days I just wanna wake up and make the most of the time I have. I realize it's finite and that I think I'm here for some purpose. That's what I was trained to believe in my own family spiritually, like we're all here

for some purpose to give. Then mostly I'm just like constantly worried that I'm not fulfilling that promise. I was like, wow, if I'm not pushing myself to do more and to have more impact, then I'm not really taking full advantage of why I'm here. Because if you spend your time learning too much and never acting, you're gonna fail, right? If you spend your time acting, acting, acting, but you're never learning what you're doing,

you're gonna fail. If you spend your time chasing opportunity and never doing anything, you're gonna be at best in some famous person's entourage, right? I think that's how those people end up there, because you see opportunity, but you never act. As humans, I realize we all have these reservoirs of this untapped potential inside of us

and can achieve these extraordinary things when we're focused, when we shine positivity and light, when we lean into those that we love and uplift and co-create together. But we usually don't pay attention to what's here right now. Right now, you and I are here. Everything we think our story is, our accomplishments, our problems, are BS.

We're just this moment. And everyone watching this, if you really understand the highest truth of what's going on, we're all even. There's no, this person is better or less, and there's none of that. We're just this space that's here. Now from here, you have sky's the limit possibilities.

I chased opportunity, like viciously chased opportunity. Then I learned once I got there and then I didn't hesitate to apply it. You know the worst thing you could ever do is if you're pursuing the wrong dream or if your dream changes and you don't change with it. I know from a personal level what that feels like to be in pain or to feel like you're not worthy or that you're never going to be anything. And I was like, you know what? It's time for me to free my mind. Yeah. And resentment and anger and all these things that I kind of will just keep internally.

It's time to rewrite this story. If you're about to make a change in your life and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can have. Because for the first time in your life, you're making a decision that's going to be best for you. Now is your time. It's your moment It is your day

now is Your time to win now is your time to make a difference Now is your time to have an impact now is your time to make straight A's Now is your time to be noticed now is your time to make straight A's. Now is your time to be noticed. Now is your time to be heard. Now is your time to be seen. Now is your time to do this thing. It's your moment. The only belief that matters is that if you put time and energy into getting better at

something you'll actually get better and that those skills have utility and typically when somebody learns something easier we say oh they were born with it. But the reality is they get a disproportionate return on the amount of time that they spend studying that thing. They still have to study that thing and so you don't find people achieving just levels of greatness. You know, even take a LeBron, who the amount of time that he spends working on his craft, making sure that his body's in peak physical condition, reading the game, all of that.

He has to do all that, even though he has also incredible natural talent. So it can be useful to look for areas where, hey, I have a love for this thing and I'm good at it. I get a disproportionate return. That's a better way to think of it. That when I put energy into learning this thing, I get maybe 1.3x return on that versus somebody else who might get a 0.7 return. But what I want everybody to understand is you get a return. And so once you understand that you get a return, it may take you longer. You may have to work harder than somebody else, but if you love it enough and you want to be that thing, then you can become that thing. But now is your moment. Now is your time. Now's the time where the talking is done. Now is the moment. Now is your time. Now is the time where the talking is done.

Now is the moment where you gotta make a decision. And the decision is simply this. Are you ready to take the next step? Are you ready to start the new chapter? Are you ready to go and build a legacy? Are you ready? Are you ready? There is no tomorrow.

Sometimes, it's just you and God. It's just you and God, where you gotta put the work in alone. And you have to identify your strengths and your weaknesses and you've got to become self-aware and you've got to identify where you are self-sabotaging and you've got to train your body and your mind. You've got to bring yourself to peak condition.

You got to develop your strengths and increase your capacity and your endurance and you've got to stretch and you've got to push and you've got to pull and you've got to leap and you've got to run and sometimes you will grow weary and there will be days where you don't want to get out of bed where you don't want to eat you don't have the energy to think and nobody calls you and nobody checks you and nobody checks on you and very few believe that you will ever come out of this darkness. You will never come out of this hole. You have to believe. Here's one of the number one keys to your future. Faith. Man, you gotta believe you will need night vision. You gotta be able to see in the dark.

It's you and God. Until my team shows up, I will fulfill my destiny. I will be undefeated. I will be unstoppable. I will be a force to be reckoned with. No weapon that is formed against me will be able to prosper. I am destined, I am determined, I am devoted. I am dangerous.

I gotta wipe the blood out of my eyes and start to see that it's possible that I can come out of this place of misery. I can come out of this place of self-doubt and self-sabotage and fear and anxiety. And this idea that my industry is saturated, that there's enough people, there is only one you, to face the adversity with a fierce determination, a hunger and a resilience, and a devotingness to your destiny. I am devoted to my purpose. I am committed to the journey, the process, the pruning, the shaping, the reforming, the preparing, the conditioning.

Whatever it takes, I will get it done. One man We'll get it done! One... Man... Wrecking... Machine. There are going to be seasons in your life where you're going to have to learn how to hunt alone. This is the beauty of a soldier and solitary, a man or woman who does not lose their identity because they're in a wilderness. There are seasons where life

will summon you to march to the beat of your own drum, to trailblaze, to innovate, to adapt and create, to do something nobody's ever done in your family, and for some of you to do something no one has ever done in the earth. Goliath had the audacity to speak against the children of God, and one man out of an army became a one-man wrecking machine who have faced very dark hours in this journey of building, of trailblazing, of innovating, of creating something, of manifesting it, of birthing it, of innovating, of creating something, of manifesting it, of birthing it, of transitioning. This version of yourself has to die.

You gotta learn how to put God first, eliminate all distractions. He will be your strength and your shield. People are always looking for the everything must go signs and store closing soon and sales. And we pack these stores out because everything must go and some of you man you need to get this mentality that says man everything that doesn't serve the vision must go everything

that does not line up with my level one priorities must go come on one man wrecking machine I got stuff to demo I got stuff that needs to get out of my mind, out of my heart. I need to stop living in the past. Come on, is this helping anybody? There will be seasons where you will need to be self-sufficient, where you're gonna have to learn survival skills.

It's your time to gather intelligence, to master strategy. You gotta learn how to strike while the iron is hot. From the shadows, out of obscurity, out of the ashes of where people left you for dead. Come on, you gotta dig yourself out of that place with the help of God. Come on. I need you to believe that you are good enough to adapt, to innovate, to improvise, and to bring creative solutions to your place of pain.

I know what it's like to feel like you are losing your place and losing your mind. And everything around you is crumbling. You are being challenged on every level. And life would knock you on your back and dare you. Yo, get up. I dare you to get up. One-Man Wrecking Machine. There are people that you walk past every day that are dying on the inside because they

don't know who they are. They don't know their value. They don't know their purpose. I don't care if you're an athlete, a musician, an entertainer, an innovator, a philanthropist, a poet, a singer, a filmmaker. I don't care who you are, if you're going to be scratching your head, sliding down the wall, asking yourself, are you still called? Where's my audience? Where's my tribe? Where are my followers?

Why am I even doing this content? Why show up every single day? Because eventually, the tide will begin to change. You still waiting on that alarm clock to wake you up. You're still depending on a sound to get you up and get you moving. You depend on it so much because you're too lazy to get up out of that bed and get on with your life. That alarm clock ain't got no business for you. You live in your lifeiness to control you. Because you don't want to get yourself up?

Enough! Hit the reset button and get to work! Rebuild your life! Your life is precious! Fight for it! Get out of the abyss of misery! Get some air in your lungs and start living again. Tell weakness to shut up.

Tell excuses to be quiet. Pity won't save you. You looking for a way out? I'm telling you to find a way in. Stop looking for help all the time and help yourself. Find a way to win your life back. Don't you dare say you're done. You don't have permission to give up.

I never said it was gonna be easy. You're gonna be judged. You're gonna be put down. Not everybody's gonna support you. Not everybody's gonna believe in you Not everybody is going to believe in you There are going to come times Where you're going to be broken all to pieces and you're going to feel like you cannot get it all together You can't seem to bring your life back on track But get that mess out of your ears and listen to the words that I'm saying you can put your life back together

and listen to the words that I'm saying. You can put your life back together again. You have the faith, you have the strength, you have the knowledge, you have the ability. Now go to work and do your business. No more of saying that you're not strong enough. No more of saying I tried. Stop trying and start doing it. Your life has meaning. Your life has purpose. Your strength is within you. You were born with it. There's something internal inside of you that has more power than your flesh. Whatever circumstance that you are dealing with right now in your life,

Whatever circumstance that you are dealing with right now in your life, I am telling you right now, it is only going to last for a short time. Everyday something is changing in somebody's life. Your life is changing, my life is changing, your loved one's lives are changing. Stop wasting time doing nothing with your life because you only got so much time people. Keep in mind ladies and gentlemen there's one thing that we cannot escape. The inevitable is coming for all of us. Death is something that we cannot escape. Life is no joke, ladies and gentlemen, but it is such an amazing gift. What we do with it depends on how we live it. Think about what you're doing with your life. I get it. People are hurting.

People are miserable from time to time. People are angry from time to time. I understand it. You know why? Because you're a human being. And being human is hard. Being human is tough, but guess what? Nobody can do you better than you ladies and gentlemen Find a way to understand that your life does matter And it is not over You can put it back together again With passion with conviction with purpose with purpose, with will. But if you're sitting around being miserable, looking for a pity party, looking for someone to save you,

you're going to be in a world of hurt. Stop with that madness of being pity. The world is what it is. People do what they do. Not everyone is decent. Not everyone means you well. And the world don't stop because you having a bad day. You having a good day because you're still alive. That means it's a good day. Maybe it wasn't a great day, but it was a good day because you made it and you're still alive Everybody's gonna fall everybody's gonna get knocked down

But you don't have to stay there ladies and gentlemen as I always say get back up and keep pushing forward Nobody's coming down there to get you. You gotta get up Stop looking for someone to pull you out of a situation that you did not have to be in I'm looking for this person. I'm looking for that person to bail me out. No bail yourself out Figure it out Don't look for everybody to save you and get you out of your mess get yourself out of your mess sometimes mess get yourself out of your mess sometimes don't depend on others to make you happy don't depend on others to give you a better life than what you have today you depending on other people instead of depending on you have some integrity about yourself stand on your morals and your principles stop selling yourself out you don't have to start over start up today do something and do it today

how much time do you think you have left don't live your life as if you're gonna go on forever. Don't live your life and assume that all you're good for is being miserable. Let me let you know right now ladies and gentlemen, those that have had it easy don't know tough. Those that have had it easy do not understand the significance of toughness! Don't you dare look to them for strength! That's not how it works, ladies and gentlemen. Put it aside and do better with your life. Rebuild it. Let your actions speak louder than your excuses. Let your actions speak louder than your weakness.

Let your actions flow through your veins. You reconstruct your life. But if you're not applying yourself to better yourself mentally, physically, or even spiritually, then you will remain broken. Enough with the weakness! You put more effort in excuses and weakness, but you refuse to find a way to be strong. If you're a man, you better be a better man. If you're a woman, you better be a better man. If you're a woman, you better

be a better woman. We are fighting for our lives every single day, people. Don't kill your life, people. Sometimes when things get broken, it doesn't mean that they're broken forever. Find a way to stand and push through life and keep going forward. Be productive, stay strong, never quit. And from the bottom of my heart, ladies and gentlemen, conduct your business. Where's my focus going? I can always be upset about something. Where do you tend to focus more?

Your past, your present, your future? We all spend all three, but where do you spend more of your time? Most of us who are achievers tend to focus on the future, but all the joy is in the present. The majority of people spend a lot of time in the past, and the problem is you can't change it. You're constantly focused on what's missing versus what you have. You're focused on what you can't control and there's two worlds right? The external world, the

internal world. We can't control the external world, we can influence it. The part we can control is what's going on inside of us and that we can control what we focus on. We can control the meaning, we can decide the meaning. We're the meaning makers and we can decide what to do. And when we make those three decisions we're in control of our life and all the anxiety and bullshit tends to go away, especially if we're trying to do that to serve something more than ourselves. Because you can't serve something more than yourself and not benefit. When you want some self-esteem, do something worthwhile beyond just yourself.

We all know the two emotions that destroy your relationship, your business, your life, it's fear and anger. Those are two extremes. You can't be grateful and fearful simultaneously. You can't be angry and grateful simultaneously. But you look at somebody like Steph Curry and you you see this guy, you know, shoot the ball from almost half court. So he doesn't even look.

He turns around and just waves because he knows it's in already. And there's swish and the crowd goes crazy. And people look at him and go, he's unbelievable. He's the greatest three-point shooter in history. There's no one like him. But what they don't pay attention to is that isn't like a little gift. He shoots 500 shots every single day. Never less than that.

Seven days a week for more than 15 years. It's 15 year professional career. He's been doing it since before he was in college. His dad really trained him. So think of that 3,500 shots a week, 168,000 shots in a year, 2 million shots in his 15 year in NBA career. So he can make 3,600 shots. Not even one tenth of one percent.

I tell people you get rewarded in public for what you practice in private. I think everything happens for a reason. I think there's a higher purpose. I think it's my job to find it. I think that life happens for us, not to us, but it's our job to find it. I think that life happens for us not to us, but it's our job to figure it out You know, you're gonna battle with internal things within you and external things But if you keep going you're gonna eventually slay your dragons and you come out in the hero of your own life and you have Something to share it isn't bullshit. It's not something you read somewhere

It's something you've lived and you want everybody can feel you've lived it because it's a different level of ownership, you know? And then, by the way, as soon as you do that, it happens again. You're called on another journey of a new level of challenge that you need to go on. It just never ends, but it makes life really, really beautiful. How can people who are always very hard on themselves learn to build up their self-esteem a little bit more? I don't know if self-esteem is the answer You know

I think I don't think it's bad to be hard on yourself As long as you also celebrate when the victories happen But you know so many people will tell you I have poor self-esteem because when I was a kid people said this to me And that to me it's convenient that we remember those things and not the positive things that also occur obviously I It's convenient that we remember those things and not the positive things that also occur, obviously. I think it's more important to realize that self-esteem is earned. It's only earned by you with yourself. You're not going to get self-esteem because everybody praises you. Someone can tell you your whole life that you're brilliant, you're a genius, you're beautiful, you're handsome, and you not believe it.

Someone can tell you, you know, you're a piece of crap and you're never going to become anything. And there's a part you can say, I'll show you, as many people have and then they develop drive out of it, right? So it's really, self-esteem comes from doing incredibly difficult things where you know you pushed yourself. It's not virtue signaling, it's not telling people about it, it's what you know inside your soul is true. And the more you do things that are incredibly difficult, especially things that are meaningful,

meaning they're not just about yourself, the higher that esteem would be. I think the most important thing for self-esteem is to find something you care about more than yourself. If you find something you care about more than you you won't be thinking about yourself all the time and all your self-esteem just goes out the window. The real question is what do you want? If you want an extraordinary life, my definition of that is life on your terms. Some people it's three beautiful children, a white picket fence. Some people it's building a multi-billion dollar business. Somebody else it's writing poetry. Instead of looking for somebody else, it's like, okay, what do you really want from

your life? And aligning yourself with moving forward towards what you really want. If you can do that in a way that also you feel is serving others simultaneously, there's a sense of meaning in life that can't be replaced by self-esteem or praise or compliments or being nice to yourself. And I don't think it's bad to be tough on yourself. I'm pretty tough on myself, I'll be honest with you. Being overly tough on yourself usually comes by making comparisons that don't make sense. You compare it to somebody else's life that has a totally different path, a totally different experience. We all develop in different stages and different things.

We all want different things. But eventually you wake up and say, it's good to be strong with yourself, but beating yourself up just lowers your energy. Eventually you wake up and say, it's good to be strong with yourself, but beating yourself up just lowers your energy. And when your energy gets lower, you produce less and you don't have the same level of joy. You don't have the impact that you want to have, nor do you have the excitement that you really want to have.

So I look at it as something that it's worth earning your own self-esteem, but it's really not the secret. The secret is to find something else you obsess about more than yourself and you'll have a level of energy that will compel you over the long term. When I began, I began with a fuel which was like, I'm going to show them, you know, it was anger that drove me. You know, I'm just going to show you type of thing. But that fuel doesn't last.

And then the next fuel that people tend to use is, I got to succeed. But there's a little fear underneath that that's driving them, which is like, what if I don't? Versus a knowing, you know, it's like, if you give your all every day, your gifts will make room for you. And it's like, having a knowingness that things are going to be fine. And then there's the next level, which is you start to know who you are, you're not trying to prove it to yourself or other people. And it's just, and you just wanna help. It's a difference between what I would call push motivation and pull, right?

Push is I'm gonna make this happen, and it takes tremendous willpower, and I know you have plenty of willpower, I do as well, but there's a limit to willpower. But there's no limit to pull. Pull is when there's something magnificent that you want to serve, something that you've got an obsession for to create or to do or make happen and that doesn't it you know you don't lose that energy you

don't lose those components and you're able to laugh and enjoy along the way. I think it's important to realize wherever focus goes energy flows it's corny but it's true, right? In fact, maybe an easier way of saying it is, we don't experience life. None of us do. We experience the life we focus on. So in any moment, what's wrong is always available. So is what's right.

So it's not about being positive. It's about being intelligent. You know, you got to look at the impact of what you're believing and you got to look at and say, you know, where gotta look at the impact of what you're believing and you gotta look at and say, you know, where's my focus going? I can always be upset about something. I can always find something to be joyous or at least grateful for which leads to joy. And I think it's learning to discipline your disappointments, you know, not allow them

to grow and to move on and to use whatever life has given you. You can make some simple patterns and change your whatever life has given you, you can make some simple patterns and change your whole life, a focus. The minute you focus on something, your brain has to decide what does it mean? And meaning is what creates emotion, and emotion is where your life is, right? And so the quality of your life

is the quality of your emotions. We all have a pattern of focusing on what we have and at times on what's missing. Which one do you think most people spend more time focusing on what they have or what's missing? You can engineer your life to have more happiness, but I think the real challenge is thinking so hardly about being taken seriously just represents your fears. It's like, I think spiritual development,

when people talk about spiritual, not religious development, spiritual development is the level of comfort you can have with just being your real self. And I think that's not an easy task, because we all are trying to be something, but we already are that something we're trying to be. That doesn't mean you can't be better, but it's like accepting and appreciating what you really are and instead of projecting you know something else takes a lot of pain in your body takes a lot of wasted energy out.

It gets a lot of fears to just disappear and I don't have an easy path for that I think it's the hero's journey. I feel if I work my ass off now I've've done my part, okay, now come through me, let's do this, and it tends to flow? Life happens to me or I happen to life. But life happens for me. Yes, not to me. Yeah, is a wonderful reframe. Yeah, I really believe it.

But you gotta dig for it, it's not easy. It's gotta be earned, right? Like, wishing for confidence without competence is just delusion. You have no evidence to say that you can do this thing. If you want freedom, if you value freedom, you can't possibly have it as long as you play the victim role. None of that makes you who you are. None of that controls where you are in your life. It's like if you ever had something happen in your life that was horrible, I mean it was painful, you'd never want to go through it again in a million years, you wouldn't

want anybody else to go through it that you care about. But after five or ten years you look back and you say, I never want to go through it again, but now I see the wisdom in it. I'm glad I did. It's like it made me care so much more, it made me so much stronger, it made something in me more. I mean I'm sure you can relate to that, can't you? Yeah, for sure.

I mean, you don't really realize it's just life. And then you learn a little bit more about yourself and you start to realize, well, look at all of the ways that I've had to compensate for that. Look at all of the ways that it's held me back. Look at all of the beliefs that I have about myself. And God, if only that hadn't happened,

then I would be here or I would be there. And then you realize, well, the light side of all of that dark stuff is usually the stuff that I'm most proud of myself for. So the fact that you were maybe a little bit alone in childhood means that you're very self sufficient when you're an adult, or the fact that you didn't have any to support you means that you have no concern about working on your own and continuing to take a bet on yourself, so on and so forth. So you end up having this really strange loop where you

go from unconscious incompetence and that you've somehow been through something that you really hate to this sort of awareness of how it's held you back to this awareness of how it's propelled you. And then you have to get to this really difficult place, which is okay, so this is a thing that I kind of wish hadn't happened and yet I'm grateful that it did and it's a it's like a it's like a psychological superposition that you need to hold in your head at the same time you can't collapse it down into one you need to hold both of these things it's like yeah that's like that shouldn't have happened like I really wish that that and had you have been able to see you had you at 36 have been able to see you at

12 you'd have picked them up and given them a hug and said I believe in you and you don't deserve this But it needs to happen to you it was meant to be now I don't believe like everything's meant to be I think Situations are meant to be and then it's our job to choose how we're gonna use them or be used by them Right, I think that's the difference, but I think, you know, we get easy times and tough times. Why is that important? It is incredibly peaceful if you've done the job in the beginning because you know who you are.

Now you have an amazing life. It is hard. It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6am to go train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It's hard when you're on your way to practice way down with all your gear and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach. It's hard to throw, catch, block and tackle and hit kids when they're way bigger and way more developed than you. Only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained, but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again.

But understand this, life is hard. No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way. And my advice is to prepare yourself because football lessons teach us that success and achievement come from overcoming adversity. I remember being downstairs for like the fourth round and that came and gone. And the fifth round, you know, was coming and going and all these other guys were getting picked.

And it was hard. I remember taking a walk with my dad and mom around the block. Sorry about that. It was just a tough day, you know. You know, finally when the Patriots called, I was so excited. You know, I was like, I don't have to be an insurance salesman, you know. All those experiences that we think are the hardest things in our life end up being the best experiences in our life. Because if you approach it with humility and you look inward, they become the best opportunities for growth and learning. Because I developed this work ethic in high school and I realized, man, if I want to be good, I got to wake up in the morning and I got to do the extra work. And I got to show up when other guys aren't. And I've got to learn. I've got to continue if I want to be good, I got to wake up in the morning, I got to do the extra work, and I got to show up when other guys aren't,

and I've got to learn, I've got to continue to be open to learning. To be successful at anything, the truth is you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't. Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it. Integrity, purpose, determination, and willing to work for it. Integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life.

No shortcuts. It was a tough battle for me. It was a tough go. It was tough in high school. It was really tough in college. If I want to be the best, I gotta beat the best. And this is where the best are. Said I wasn't the prodigy.

I learned about work ethic. I learned about resilience. I learned about gaining the trust and the respect of my teammates and coaches. I learned about how to dig deep within myself, a long way from home without a ton of support to still try to find a way to succeed in this situation that I really wanted to be in

because it was the best for me anyway. Focus on what you can control. Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting. Go out there and treat practice like no one else does. And I did that every single day. I didn't care about going to all these different places and doing those things.

I just wanted to be my best. The team believed in me, I didn't want to let them down. What's the choice you get to make every day to wake up and say, all right, this is where I'm going to focus my best. The team believed in me, I didn't want to let them down. What's the choice you get to make every day to wake up and say, all right, this is where I'm going to focus my time and energy. How disciplined are you to maintain that routine over a period of time? And I think that will determine your level of success.

Be proud of that man that wakes up every day and does the best that he can do with his priorities. Did you always have an absolute killer instinct where I'm going to show you, I'm going to prove the way to see what I'm going to do, I'm going to kill this guy when we face him? Was it always like that when you were in high school or that kind of developed later on? Yeah, I think it developed over a period of time and I think there was a work ethic that was in me, but I was never, I would say, like a prodigy. I didn't have the arm that could throw the ball 80 yards. I didn't have the speed that Michael Vick had.

I didn't have the size that a lot of guys had, but I did have something inside of me that no one could see from the outside. This level of discipline that I could accomplish something that was really important and really special. I wanted to be a great football player. If I was gonna be a great football player, I wanted to compete against these other guys,

and they were all better than me. Don't worry about all these things are out of your control. Focus on what you can do. Focus on the two reps you got. Fuck your tired body, fuck that unmotivated mind, and get out there and do it anyway. And the mindset is me versus me, it's no bullshit. It was all about not making excuses.

It was about how do we go out and get it done. I was so motivated to be the best I could be that it wasn't I wasn't motivated to be the starter. I wasn't motivated to win the Super Bowl. I just was motivated to give my best, do the best with the opportunity I got and to never let my teammates down. Those were my motivations.

I think you wake up every day and hopefully you can look at yourself and say Did I give it my best I? Wanted to be the best I could be period That's all I wanted. I just think winning Super Bowls was the result of a lot of Great process like my view is like you can't control the outcome all the time right? Like the ball is gonna bounce the other team's way like shouldn't always go your way so you get motivated by the losses you stay motivated through the

winning what you can control is your process you can control those intangibles you can control the work ethic the consistent discipline your attitude your culture how much you care all those things are you. They just need to be drawn out of you. And really when you're in that position that you feel like you've got those pretty well under control, then you start passing those on to the other people that you're working with that are parts of your team. Because I don't care how good any one of you are sitting out there. It doesn't matter unless you got a great team around you. You know, you could be great. You probably are great.

You need a lot of other great people to support you. It takes so many people to get to where we get in our life. Yeah, I was there doing some of the work, but couldn't have done it if I didn't have them. When I was a quarterback, I was just playing quarterback. Yeah, it was me, the person, but it was, it was me the quarterback that was out there because I was doing playing quarterback. Yeah, it was me, the person, but it was me, the quarterback that was out there because I was doing a job. I wasn't the father, I wasn't the dad out there.

I wasn't the husband out there. I was the quarterback out there on the field. I was the quarterback when I went to work. Nothing was gonna get in the way of that. You've gotta create a lot of different emotion to heighten your sense of awareness and focus. For me, anger was good. Anger was good because it was motivating.

The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go and kill those guys. Now, I knew I was going to kill them physically, but man, if I could just... What did they say? what did they look like? Did they disrespect me at all? Those are little, little, little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran out on the field and I said, let's get go, it was really, let's go kick some ass.

That's what we were doing. This is the moment, right now. Let's get to work. The fundamental belief is I'm giving myself to something greater than myself. Something greater than me as an individual. If I look at that journey from where I was as a kid, I had my parents that were in my life

to support me every step of the way. I had my junior varsity football coaches, my throwing coach and mentor. I went to Michigan, I had Coach Carr challenge me to say, those who stay will be champions. So I stayed. But don't think that you're going to have a lot of success if all you do is care about yourself. You don't work that hard. No one's that accountable.

But in the end, what does culture mean to me? Do we care about each other, and do we care about what we're trying to accomplish? Most people just care about themselves. Well, that's a lot, that's a lot of consistent discipline. It means that you gotta do a lot more right than wrong. It means that you gotta make a lot more good choices than bad choices. It means you have to be more lot more right than wrong. It means that you got to make a lot more good choices than bad choices.

It means you have to be more disciplined than not disciplined. Physically, mentally, emotionally, all those little things add up. The man in the glass, that's the one that motivated me. He's the guy I was accountable to. Nothing that anyone did took away from me. The only person that could take away from me is me.

Why is it that most people don't pursue their dreams or don't do better than what they're doing if they're capable of doing it? I think that many of us don't go the next step because we don't know what to do yet. next step because we don't know what to do yet. And I say that the reason that we don't even explore the possibility of what to do is because subconsciously we don't believe that it can happen for us and we don't believe that we deserve it. So here's what I'm suggesting. How much time do you spend working on you? How much time do you spend working on you? How much time do you spend every day working on your dream? In the last 90 days, how many books have you read? In the last year, what new skill or knowledge have you acquired?

What kind of investment have you made in you? So I'm saying that as you begin to look at where you want to go, if you want to make What kind of investment have you made in you? So I'm saying that as you begin to look at where you want to go, if you want to make it today, and things are changing so fast you have to literally run to stand still, I'm saying that you've got to make some conscious effort to begin to work to develop you. Here's something else. Most people are not living their dreams because of fear, ladies and gentlemen. Fear, limited vision, and lack of self-esteem is what keep most people doing things they don't want to do.

The same reason that people stay in relationships where they're abuser, they're unhappy, or it's unfulfilling. They can't see themselves beyond that relationship. They can't see themselves enjoying life without that person. They think that this is all that they can do. The same reason that people get stuck at a certain level in life. They can't see things being better for them. And they think that this is it and this is all they deserve. This law they've ever seen has been passed on to them. And they think that this is it for them. Fear kills dreams.

Fear kills hope. And I asked you a question. What is the benefit? What's the benefit of allowing fear to hold you back? What's the benefit of giving up on yourself, of not stepping out on life and taking life on? What is the benefit for you? What's the plus in that? What do you want me to tell you that it's gonna be a picnic? No, it's not It's gonna kick your butt. Yes. It is Are you gonna want to die? Yes. Yes, that's a part of it But that's just what you must go through in order to get where you want to go and guess what you are strong enough to do it

You're strong enough and your life is worth whatever you have to go through To get past this addiction Whatever you have to do this dream you got whatever you want to do Will it be easy to just run out there and do it? No. Will it happen overnight? No. Will it be a struggle?

Yes. Will there be times when you can't make ends meet? Yes, that's a part of it. Will there be times when you won't know what to do? Yes, that's a part of it. So deciding as you look at your life, as you look into the future and say, what fears am I holding on to? What fears that I'm allowing to imprison me that's keeping me from breaking out?

That's keeping me from living up to my true potential? That's keeping me from really being happy? That's keeping me from having a sense of adventure and excitement in my life. What's keeping me from controlling my destiny? Whatever you've done up to this point in time, your life is working. Whatever you have produced, it came out of you as a result of the kind of person that you have become as a result of your choices It's a result of your consciousness now. You have to ask yourself. Are you satisfied with what you have produced? Is this what you want? Would you like for things to be better than this?

Do you believe that you deserve better than this? Are you content? This is it you don't have to do everything anything else. That you already resigned yourself in life and say, well I'm happy. Are you allowing yourself to get off the hook like that? Or do you believe somewhere in the back of your mind or in your heart that there's some other great work for you to do? There's something else that life has for you and that's why you are here. How do we handle this fear factor? How do we increase our self-esteem? You have to begin to fortify yourself. How do we do that? I believe that you have to begin to consciously monitor your inner

conversation and start talking to yourself. Start building yourself up. Sometimes the only good things you will hear about you are the things that you say to you. So I'm saying learn to be your own booster. Start building yourself up. Start encouraging yourself. Start saying, I can do this. I can make this happen. Go forth in a spirit and a knowing

that there's a way that you can begin to handle this. There's a way out here somewhere there's a solution. What it is that you're seeking. That you have the capacity for whatever comes up to handle it, to face it. And rather than feeling powerless, you begin to feel powerful. Your dream and your gifts have so much meaning and so much value for you, till your hunger for them will begin to push you past the fear. Your hunger to have them will give you a special drive.

As you work on yourself, as you begin to acknowledge your true identity, the true power that you have, the true capacity you have to bring about change, the miracle working power that you have within yourself to do the things that you want to do. Do the things that you want to do. When I started thinking about becoming a speaker, I said, yes, I can do this. I can make this happen. When I start trying to convince myself I can be a businessman after flopping and failing and losing thousands of dollars and feeling stupid and dumb and having people take advantage of me because of what I didn't know. I had to talk to myself because people were saying to me that I was dumb and somewhere in the back of my mind I was saying, you're right, look at what I've done.

I had to say no, no, no, no, no, no, no less. Hey, hey, come on man, get yourself together. You can handle this. You just haven't figured it out yet. It's all right. This is your training period. This is the tuition you have to pay for what you don't know. You can do this, other people have done it.

It doesn't take an Einstein. Get you some people that can teach you some stuff that you don't know. Get you some people that have done it successfully and learn from them. Take some seminars, workshops, read some books on how to manage a business. Change the way you see yourself and begin to tend to the personal details. Understand that nobody's going to take care of your business better than you. See we all have some stuff that we've been given. I don't think that it's optional for us to sit on what we have. See if you're sitting on what you have, what you've been given, I think everybody's been given something

To bring to the planet that only you can do that only you can perform that only you can initiate that activity and If you don't do that if you're not filling in your life with your life work or your mission Then there are gaps in your life and what we do when we're not living out our true identity, we begin to fill the gaps, we fill the holes with garbage, alcohol, drugs, worry, self-destructive behavior. So when you begin to look at your life, and you know that you're not doing what you can do because you have allowed yourself to be held captive by your fears.

Now, when you don't have a true appreciation and acceptance for who you are, and you allow yourself to be immobilized by fear, what happens in the process is that you begin to abuse yourself. You begin to sabotage your life, you begin to sabotage your dreams, you begin to unconsciously work against yourself. You become your own worst enemy. So what do you do about that? There are few people who have decided within themselves, I'm going to make it. Some people aren't waiting to be cut. Some

people are moving on their own because they feel within themselves I've got what it takes to make it. They're not afraid about tomorrow because of how they see themselves, because of what they feel that they deserve, because of what they feel that they can create for themselves because these people have decided as they look at the future as they look at themselves there's a way where there's a will there's a way for me to begin to create a way out of no way and when you have that kind of consciousness when you have that kind of consciousness, when you have that kind of spirit, nothing can stop you.

Nothing. I think courage is the quintessential trait that leads to everything else. You have to first have courage. You have to have courage to quit your job. You have to have courage to get rejected. If you don't first have courage, nothing else follows. Again, it's not, are you courageous or not, it's how courageous are you? It's not a binary. I have courage because I have done things that have required it.

It takes courage. It takes courage to have a difficult conversation. Growth takes courage. Learning takes courage, like this takes courage. Courage isn't for somebody else for for medals, applause or moral debts. Courage is what, at that moment, feels most right for you. One great philosopher says, cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once. What does that mean? That valiant people aren't afraid?

No, no, no. It means that they experience that fear and they move forward. Move forward anyhow. Many people are dead now. Many people are lying their dreams to die. Many people are lying their ideas to lie dormant and collect dust. Many people have all this talent and ability that they align to be in there inside of them that they will take with them to their graves because they didn't have the courage to be who they are. And I say as you begin to look toward the future and manifesting your greatness it's going to take everything in you

everything in you that your life deserves the concentrated effort to begin to look at how is it that I can express more of me? How is it that I can bring my ideas out here now? How is it and start living with a sense of urgency because you're here today, you're gone today. Life is unpredictable, it's uncertain, there are no guarantees, no guarantees out here at all. So holding back, what are you waiting on? Ask yourself, what's the benefit of your waiting? What's the benefit of your not living your dream? What's the benefit of not listening to yourself? And for many of you the reason why you haven't gotten up yet is because you still think failure is final.

Fear sedates us. Fear immobilizes us. Fear imprison us. You gotta break out of that prison of fear and see yourself winning in the same place that you lost. Show me somebody who has achieved greatness. And if you pull up their past, I promise you, you'll see some failures and some lessons learned.

If we can change our perspective on failure, our lives will never be the same. Stop telling yourself you're not good enough. Stop telling yourself you don't have what it takes. If you want your future Get off now I'm getting up And I'm gonna do this again I'm getting up and I'm gonna try this again

And I'm gonna try it again. I'm gonna try it again. I Was made to walk on purpose and to fulfill destiny. I was not created for the prison of fear. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. It's an emotion that you can't fake. If you fake bravery when you're terrified, that is bravery. Well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable. Winning will cost you everything, but will reward you with so much more. It's going to cost you everything.

Courage is something that rubs off on other people. I think it's enormously to be desired, to be around courageous people. And there might be different types of courage, some of it physical, some of it mental. Surround yourself with courageous people, or at least not cowards, not cretins, not the sort of people who just say the same things that everyone's meant to say. There's many ways people can get out of this non-life that they are being shunted into. Can you do what is required to fulfill your purpose? Can you do what it takes? Can you implement? Can you execute? Are you disciplined? Are you principled? Do you possess courage to walk in purpose and to

fulfill your destiny. What would your life be like if you decided to become courageous? What would your life be like if you decided to act on your dream, if you did what you felt in your heart? You know what courageous means? Courage comes from a French word which means of the heart You know it takes courage to live since most people go through life Not allowing themselves to step out because they don't want to let go They don't want to be blown around They don't want to be moved the courage to face life's whirling wind of contradictions the courage to love yourself The courage to take a chance, the courage to be who you are. Be steadfast, immovable, always

abounding. Be brave, be strong. Come out of the dark and into the light with everything that you have. Run after it. And you keep giving and you keep pouring and you keep believing and you keep pushing. It is not the critic who counts nor the man who points out how the strongman stumbles or whether doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who comes up short again and again and again, who in the end knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails a daily basis.

If there's something that you have been given, if you've heard something within yourself that you know that that what you're doing now doesn't fit for you, it doesn't work for you, it's not giving you what you want. And there's something else that you want to do. Don't allow that inner doubt in you to talk you out of it. To build a case on why you can't have it. To tell you why you're not good enough. You ignore that inner voice. And all of the external voices.

Don't judge the possibilities for what you can do based upon the circumstances. Because the circumstances won't determine who you are. Don't determine what you're able to do based upon your resources. Don't determine what you're able to do based upon your resources. Don't determine what's possible for you based upon where your life is right now. Where your life is right now is not you. That's just what it is right now. But the possibilities for you are unlimited. If you're in a rebuilding process, it's unlimited. If you're coming back from adversity and devastation,

it's unlimited of what you can do. That's the capacity of human beings. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you've made. Doesn't matter how many flops you've had. Doesn't matter how much money you've lost. In fact, I see it only as an investment of what you learned from life, not losses, but investments of what's

possible for you. Once you start listening to yourself and as you begin to act on your dream as you start just trying to find your way, doing what you can, what you have, you will start seeing things opening up for you. You'll start attracting people. You say, where do you come from? Things will start coming together, clicking for you. You say, whoa, you start brainstorming. Ideas will come out of nowhere as you focus on it. The key to it is to begin to focus, because as you focus on

that which you want to do, that which we focus on, that which we give our energy to, it will to multiply it will begin to expand it will begin to develop your consciousness and out of that comes your greatness out of that comes a commitment out of that comes a passion for life out of that comes a special power that you have in you that you haven't even called on yet see the the powers that we have will never reveal themselves if we don't challenge them. If we don't put ourselves in a position where we have to use them. And the guy said put yourself in a position where you can't retreat. Where

it's do or die, sink or swim, here's what you'll find out. You'll develop incredible swimming skills or swallow half the pool of life. You'll find yourself stroking on like you've ever seen before. Through the inspiration of desperation, you'll become more creative than ever before. All you can do is all you can do and all you can do is enough. Make sure you do all you can do. So as we look at the future, we can decide that from this day forward, as I look at my personal relationships, if I look at my professional relationships, if I look at my professional relationships, if

I look at my family relationships, if I look at all the dimensions of my life, looking at myself mentally, emotionally and spiritually, I'm going to do all I can do to develop me, to bring my talent out here, to make a contribution to life. Here's what I know about you. You've got greatness within you. As you look toward the future and developing your greatness, begin to know that your life is worth the effort. Is it easy? No. Is it worth it? Yes. Yes, your life is worth it. You might have failed in the weight room and you might have failed financially and you might have failed in school and it doesn't matter where you fail, I need you.

I need you at this moment to get up and try again. Can I ask you a question? Are you that person who sits there on the couch for hours just scrolling through social media? Are you that person at work there on the couch for hours just scrolling through social media? Are you that person at work? You just looking at the clock and you can't stand your boss Are you that person that's always making excuses and always justifying and you're expecting this big life You're expecting big money. You're expecting to go to that next level and then everybody's fault with yours

You talking about your mama, you're talking about your daddy, you're talking about your neighborhood and how you grew up. You had all these excuses to justify exactly where you are. I'm talking to you right now, is that you? You could have changed, you could have transformed your body, you could have better your relationship, you could have changed your career, you chose the life you're living right now. My question to you is are you going to choose to do it again for another year? Are you gonna take action or are you gonna waste another 365 days?

It means staying dedicated to your mental. Because you know that when you have the mental fortitude, nothing will break you. that when you have the mental fortitude, nothing will break you. This year is your year and I need you to eliminate any doubt. I need you to eliminate any fear and go get it. Focus. Lock in. In your life, stop being a spectator and start being a participant. Whoa! Stop being a spectator in other folks' life and start being a participant in your life.

Stop being a social media groupie, being a spectator in everybody else's life and become a participant in your life by doing two things. Trust me, read a book once a week and that could be a powerful transformation. Go and get a certification. Go back to school, man. Get smarter, get brighter, become an expert. You choose the two things you need to do. You probably already know, but you can do these two things consistently, my friend,

and lock in this next year as your year. It doesn't matter if you feel like it. It doesn't matter if you enjoy the task or not. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it.

You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. It doesn't matter if you feel like it. It doesn't matter if you enjoy the task or not.

If you want the results, show up and do the work. The only thing you have ahead of you is a bunch of blank pages. Your story is still waiting to be written. The best part of that? You are holding the pen. So get writing and get doing. Get building. It's never too late to start creating the life you always wanted.

Are you ready to stop procrastinating? To let go of self doubt and push through rumination? Are you ready to move through every challenge and become the person you were always meant to be? And once you create this mental fortitude, you'll find out that you're capable of anything that you want to achieve my friend To push past that diagnosis to make it through school to push past and pursue your business Despite what anybody has to say Stop waiting on outside forces external forces to write your script, to write your narrative. No, that is up to you.

What you don't change, you choose. So if you are going into 2025 and you don't like your body and you don't do anything to change it, you are choosing to live there. If you're going into 2025 and you don't like your relationship, you don't feel fulfilled, loved and happy and you don't change it, you are choosing to stay there. If every day you dread going into work because you hate what you do and you want to pursue a different passion but you don't change it, you are choosing it. And the beautiful thing is that you have all the power within you. You don't need me, you don't need anybody else to tell you what you're capable of. You just need you.

Lock in, focus. If you keep talking and never doing, you're gonna get exactly what you got each and every year before, nothing. If your if ain't strong enough, you'll never get to your then. Lock in. You can get anything you want. No breakdowns, only breakthroughs.

Keep pushing, keep grinding, keep striving and you will see where your life takes you. Heights you never thought you would reach. Places you never thought you would go. Your bank account on extra large, your life on inner peace, your life on serenity, your life on get up, get out and get after it. This is a great year to win. Lock in.

Stop wasting your time being a spectator in somebody else's life and start becoming a participant in your own life by having good habits and good rituals and simply doing the two powerful things that can be transformational for you because I know this is your year. The life you want isn't out there somewhere it's here it's in your power to create it. You need to understand what you don't change you choose. Are you gonna yell at that morning person that makes you sleep in

every day and say it's time to change? Are you gonna go into your work with a different mentality to get that raise or get out of that situation and start your own business? Are you going to step up or are you going to fall down? Right now you are faced with a choice. Change or remain the same. You see my friend, there's no such thing as negative self-talk when it comes to mental fortitude. Because all you think is finishing. All you think about is persevering through.

All you think about is achieving what they say you won't achieve, my friend. Because you created that wire. You created that mental toughness within yourself and it won't break you. Nothing will break you. All gas no breaks. That's the way you live your life. Maximum effort, maximum heart, maximum soul. If you want to grow up, then you got to do two things.

You choose the two things, but trust me, two things can be powerful. One thing might be some new friends. One thing might be getting up early. One thing might be working out, get your mind right. One thing might be reading books. You decide your two things. Start believing in you so you can go into 2025 with an elevated mentality. So you can go into 2025 with a driven mindset. Do what you need to do on a daily basis.

Matter of fact, do what you need to do the night before to make sure you get up when you say you're going to get up. And you do the things that you say you're going to do. Absolutely no excuses. This is your year. This is your time. This is your moment. I just need you to own it. This next year

is your year. All you gotta do is lock in. What do you believe? Because it is our beliefs that determine our behavior. Your destiny is linked to your identity. Everything that's coming in, everything that I believe, everything that I see will determine what I do. This is why the dark room is so important.

Like if I don't put the work in, if I don't do what is required behind the scenes, I'll never step in public authority. If nobody's told you today, let me be the first to tell you every single person listening to me is standing at the precipice of the greatest decision they could ever make in their lives. For years, decades, generations, families will struggle centuries go by in a bloodline and people fathers and mothers make the same mistakes until The one and so all of a sudden within a bloodline somebody makes the decision to press a reset button And I just want to ask anybody listening to me why?

not you Why? Not you Why can't you be the person that changes everything? The innovator, the trailblazer, the disruptor, the person that makes a decision that I will not be the weakest link in the chain of a dynasty. Why not me? Why can't you be the one that makes history? Why can't you be the one that makes history?

Why can't you be the one that wins again? Why can't you be the one that breaks cycles? Why can't you be the one that overcomes the demons that have haunted a family for generations? Somebody drop it in the comments. Why not me? What is your purpose? What is your destiny? What is your assignment in this season?

Are you completely sold out to it? Are you all in? Are you willing to lay your life down? Are you willing to die to achieve it? There is no tomorrow. There is no plan B. I am completely devoted to my level one priority I've been in the comments. Why? Not me You're talented enough you're hungry enough, so do it You're the first pig You are the only option and there will never be another way believe That is you You are the only option and there will never be another way. Believe that it's you.

It's always been you. You've got everything you need to go to the next level to obliterate glass ceilings and move forward. It is possible that if you could just focus and stay committed and be determined and direct your attention to what it is that you've been destined to have. You can't have it. Do not settle. Do not think that where you are and what you see is all you will ever have. There is more. But change doesn't always come to you it comes from you decide That you want to change your life Decide that you know it's time

Decide that you've been here long enough come to the resolve that you understand you are aware And you have accepted that you have been broke and broken and weary and annoyed long enough. The problem with many of you is that you are surrounded by people who ask you the wrong questions. This is why when you're making decisions to change your life you can't talk to people who are on your level because they're going to tell you it makes sense to stay here and just make here better when you know there was something higher that is calling you there's a better quality of life there is an abundance there is an expectation a passion a new life that is calling you and everybody on your level would try to convince you to stay here with them because they're stuck in a place called comfort

Are you willing to be? uncomfortable I remember back when I was cleaning toilets for a living and I would run into wealthy people every now and then and Oftentimes the reverberating theme that they would all seem to throw out is that markets you got to make investments. If you're going to be financially fit, fiscally disciplined, you got to pay to play, you got to make an investment. I knew that I wanted something more, I knew I was destined for more, but I didn't want to accept the fact that if I'm going to make money I've got to invest money. When you start making these investments it's not going to feel good. It's not going to make sense to anybody on your level. Whatever goal you have, your physiology,

your psychology, your relationships, your business ventures, whatever it is. So the question is, are you willing to leave this place called comfort? Are you aimed? Are you targeted? Do you believe that you have what it takes to pay the price but more than that can you handle the pain that comes with pain? It is not going to be comfortable. Are you willing to walk in not only uncomfortability but are you willing to walk in uncharted territory? This means that I'm going to a place I've never been and it's not going to feel good in the beginning in the Genesis when we're first getting started but eventually if

I stay committed I'll see a harvest. If you're gonna reap a harvest, if you keep sowing sparingly you will reap sparingly but the moment that you understand that there was a price to pay to get where you want to be it will cost you dearly it don't feel good right now I don't like it I want to leave it I want to throw in the towel I want to walk away from it all but I've got to be able to see the power of what lies ahead today Today's pain is tomorrow's power. The new life that you want, that you hold in your head, that you only dream of, it will cost you your old life. I got everything I need to go to the next level.

What is required to live the lifestyle that I see in my head? Because I no longer want to live vicariously through someone else. I'm no longer going to just sit around and like other people's pictures when I could be living that reality. So it's not that I want your life,

it's that I understand that there's something more for me. But the question is, am I willing to write it out? Am I willing to see it, dream it, count up the cost, and then pay the price? Most of us are not willing to pay that price. And so we just go on living in the mundane, living in the monotony, living in a place where our money's Unpredictable and our relationships are unpredictable. We're living in anxiety and stress all of you listening to me have the

Opportunity to be excellent in every sphere and room and arena that you walk in Do you know why you want to change because Because once you get a why, you become dangerous. You are a person of vision and valor and discipline. You got this thing. Why not you? Stop looking for everybody else to do it. Stop looking for everybody else to support it. Believe in it, to hand it to you, to point you in the right direction, you have everything you need right now in this moment to take a step forward. You've got to stop waiting for the opportunity to come along and you've got to learn to master the art and the privilege of creating the opportunity.

Stop limiting yourself to what can come to you and focus on what needs to come from you to create to pioneer to trail blaze the question that many people fail to access now where do I get the money to get the life but who must I become to attract the money to get the life and so we need to define who it is that we must become. Who do you need to become to start the business? To move into the new location? To start traveling? To make new friends?

To take up new hobbies? And new investments and endeavors? To impact? Who are you going to have to become? You gotta identify those things that are holding you back. The places, the people, and the mindsets that are telling you you're not enough, it will not work, turn back, go back home. Who you must become is directly associated

with what you have been called to do. Do you know why you want to change? Because once you get a why, you become dangerous. Why do you sweat? Why are you bleeding for it? Why are you sacrificing? Why are you pushing yourself and testing the limitations of your soul?

Why are you working so hard? Why are you changing your belief systems? Why? Not you!