Daily Motivations - From the Ground Up

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

Speakers: Damson IdrisMarcus A TaylorLes BrownAlex HormoziBobby MaximusChris WilliamsonGreg PlittCoach PainDavid GogginsEric ThomasBrian BullockJocko WillinkGary VeeMatthew McConaugheyDry Creek WranglerChris WilliamsonJocko WillinkTim GroverRobert GreeneNick CannonJason PrallScooter BraunChen LizraMel RobbinsJim RohnJordan PetersonJosh AdriftLisa NicholsWilliam HollisDan "Nitro" ClarkMike TysonJeremiah JonesInstagram - @daily_motivationsorgFacebook- @daily_motivationsorg

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Work day and night. You're not going to burn out. You're doing what it takes. You cast a shadow. Then no one even can see them behind you. I am the one who knocks. When you walk on that court, you have to think, I'm a winner. I'm going to win. One, two, go in.

All of us who have been in tune by fear have the capacity to resurrect ourselves. I'm done letting my old bullshit get taken. my future. I promise you there is nothing I'm not prepared to do. Say my name. Fortify your mind and meet the fuck in. I'm fucking out. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Because I can keep going brick by brick. I don't move. Better have a part about you that's tough, a part about you that can break down situations and get better. And when you have that kind of consciousness, when you have that kind of spirit, nothing. can stop you.

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Pretty spiffy. Shop online, read reviews and book appointments easily at caltire.com. Proudly Canadian since 1953. Tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. I always felt like I had a ticking clock, but the ticking clock became more apparent that I got to make the most out of today

because tomorrow's in promise. What are you going to do with the time that you have on this planet? what impact are you going to make? Because things change, and I think the key is recognizing that each moment is what matters. Today is all there is. There is no tomorrow, there's no next year. Enjoy today for whatever is in front of you.

But sometimes people got to feel the pain themselves and they got to go through it themselves. And I just think that when we say inspire the world to try, that's what it is. Like, go after it. Go after it while you can, because tomorrow is not promised. I take situations that are the end of the world, and then I find inspiration in them.

And then I live it full out like there's no tomorrow. 150,000 people die every day. Tomorrow is not promised. So if I'm not going after it, then I'm going to die incomplete. I'm going to die being a person that I wasn't created to be. Like I want to meet the greatest meet. I want to meet my full potential. Literally, you cannot play this forever.

not play this forever, but while you're in it, you're in it. You got to grind like there is no tomorrow. I do it tomorrow. Then I do it tomorrow. It can wait. It can wait. I have to give it everything I have like I know. There is no tomorrow.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. Ain't no such thing to tomorrow. We only got today. Tomorrow is not from us. That's the dream. It's not the destination. It's the journey. Kobe was something else.

He was the guy, like I said, when we're in the club, that mother's in the gym. I'd rather go too far than not far enough. The only reward that you get from taking it easy is the fact that in the moment it's easier. But if you want results and then you basically just catch yourself slacking off and don't do anything about it, then it kind of sounds like you don't really want those results. I looked in this one guy's eyes who was ringing the bell to quit to put his helmet down out of the Navy still training, and I saw myself. And I saw what everybody said I was going to be, which was nothing. This is when I realized I was alone on this earth.

I have God alone on this earth, and I have to fix everything. I was sick and tired of not facing the fact that I have allowed life to make me feel like a loser. That voice became haunting. The only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you'll forget they exist. Success is the only revenge. It's not the best revenge.

It's the only one. There's no other revenge. If you will be a champion, if you will be a beast, you're going to have to go through something. If you're going to 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. over leverage yourself. Don't over leverage the decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe. I think I'll try it out. Now think if you're going to try it out beforehand, but when it's time to go, dive. And for the people who are listening who, that doesn't feel like they can change the circumstances with the way they think or they feel, just hold on. Just endure. Look at things differently. Challenge yourself to look at things as the glass have full. Challenge yourself to think four steps ahead. The people who doubted you, good. They're fuel. The ones who left good. They cleared space. The ones who talked behind your back. The ones who laughed at you. They just gave you something to smile about when you prove them wrong.

You're sitting around watching people progress in their lives. And you're sitting around thinking to yourself, why can I be like this person? Why do you need to be like anybody else? why can't you just be you? Why can't you just be true to who you are? Don't listen to anyone. Everybody's full of shit. Nobody knows you or what you're capable of doing. The hardest thing in life is figuring out who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life.

It's a big decision. It's impossible for you to fail. If you know who you are, what you want to do, and you wake up every day and work toward it. Finish it, find out. Come out the other side. Don't leave it and go, if I just want it, uh-uh, that keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night.

And you half-assed something that 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 and get in the mirror and going, I didn't half-hast 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.

You don't want someone else's fate. Man, your fate's enough. And your adventure's enough. It's plenty. It's more than you can ever fully realize. And if you're in dire straits and dire circumstances, just look at how much opportunity you have to make things better. You can get so scared and you can be so easily lulled into the idea that good is good enough, that feeling safe and comfortable is what you should always be looking for. That way of thinking in your 20s in particular, dead fucking wrong.

taking risks, you know, in a non-naive way, well, then you have something that you can comfort yourself with at night when you're wondering what the whole damn point of is, of your futile and miserable life. Doing what you mean to do and wanting what you want to want is so hard to do and so rare, because we're built to conform. If you're going to get any further, you've got to reinvent yourself. You know that thing that you really want to start doing, but you're worried what everyone might think about you if you do? You should do it. You should definitely, definitely do it.

I want you to start to create this mindset of taking risk and going big. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. It was a big risk. It was a big chance. And it was no guaranteed return ticket. It was a one-way ticket possibly to, I'm a head coach of high school football to this day. Take the biggest fucking risks of your intention.

life right now. Remember, you have time. I figured that if I didn't make the entrepreneurship thing work, I would have a hell of a story for business school. And that was actually like the reasoned argument that I gave myself for being willing to quit. Because your DNA, who you are as a person, is wrapped up in your dreams. And what this world has done in you is take that from you because they know if you know who you are and you get your dream, you probably not going to work for most of them. You must have faith. You've got to believe in yourself. You've got to believe in your abilities. You've got to believe in your service, your company, your ideas, unquestionable. You've got to have faith, and that faith gives you patience. You've got one

life to live, rain, sleep, or snow. The time is now. This is not the time. This is not the time. to get the job mom wanted you to. This is not the time to try to maximize as much money so you can buy a fat whip. What you should do is go and travel and learn. Go and start that business that you've always wanted. This is the time to be

massively risk, massively risk-oriented. But boy, if you're lucky enough to be graduating today with not a fucking idea of what you're going to do with your future, nobody's ever been luckier than you. Please recognize. I'll tell you how risky life is. You're not going to get out alive. That's risky

And so the first thing I want you to do today is I want you to keep saying to yourself I am, I am, I am, I am You're standing at the precipice, the edge of the greatest move in your life And the time is now like never before To take a leap of faith

It takes faith to jump up in the edge It takes faith to step into your purpose It takes faith to step into your purpose It takes faith to step into your destiny. It takes faith to pull away from everything that is familiar, to step in the uncharted territory to become the person you were born to be. It takes faith. The first person that needs to be influenced in your life is you.

If you want to make it happen, it's you. But you've got to take personal responsibility to make it own what it is that you want to do. To get something you never had, you have to. to do something you never did. Are you bold enough? Are you radical enough in your hunger and your thirst to go after what it is that you believe is yours? Are you crazy enough?

Are you courageous enough? Hey, you know, at any given moment, you could be one decision away from an entirely different life, different place, different people, a different experience, and maybe a different you. Because sometimes in the process

of completely losing yourself and losing expectations of who you are, you might find that there's more to you than you thought. So in my opinion, sometimes it's worth taking action. It's worth trying that new experience just to find out. Do something big. I know that there is something inside of you that you have always wanted to do.

Just one time in your life. But guess what? You would never feel this level of happiness if you don't go for something in your own life when they knock you down. where they're trying to you, when they talk about you, and they try to put their foot on your neck. If you stay down, you will never ever get that resolve,

fortify your mind, and feel this level of happiness that you rise. Why not you, with good self-esteem? Why not you starting to change and setting goals? Why not you starting to make progress toward financial independence? I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk. like that but I want to be one of the greats. I'm inspired by the greats. I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. I want to be up there. If we can read, you can read. If we can change,

you can change. If we can figure it out, you can figure it out. If we can turn it around, you can turn it around. There isn't anything you can't accomplish. That's what those testimonials would say. And so I want to say it to you personally. Why not you? You've got the brains. You've got the stamina. You've got the vitality. You've got the interest. You've got your life ahead of you. You've got the future. You can do it. If anybody can do it, you can do it. If one of us can do it. Hey, we all can do it. 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. And now here's my last question. Why not? This is a good time. Set your goals, work on yourself, work on your skills. What a good time to get it together. What a good time to start this process. Personal development, growing, changing, developing, having a good plan for your money and for your life and for your future.

Why not now? No, I'm not a part of the country club. No, I'm not. I don't hang out with them, but I'm still going to be successful. I'm still going to get you where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me. You will not destroy us.

You will not defeat us to the day I die. And I just want to ask anybody listening to me, why not you? Why not you? Why can you be the person that changes everything? The innovator, the trapblazer, the disruptor, the person that makes a decision that I will not be the weak. 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 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? Why not me?

People doubted me. I doubted myself sometimes, too. But you know what? I watched Arnold fall down. nobody remembers when he fell down. Arnold wasn't the glorified winner as he was in the first 70-75. He got up. I'm become a famous film star. He became governor. He kept getting up and getting up.

That's what it takes. To do anything successfully in life, you've got to want it as bad as you want to breathe. And if you want it that bad, if you're willing to give it that much, You get a big piece of what you want. And dreams do come true. Anything you want can happen and become a reality.

I believe that sincerely, and I'll die on that thought. I said, I made a full commitment that I'm going to go and be a bodybuilding champion. I made a full commitment that I'm going to be in America. I made a full commitment that I'm going to get in the show business. And I'm going to be a leading man. No matter what it takes, I would do the work. I would do the work over and over and over until again. it. And the same was in politics and everything like that. So to me, it is very dangerous to

have a plan B because you're cutting yourself off from the chance of really succeeding. One day I made a decision that enough is enough. I'm tired of being average. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired of being good. I'm tired. I want to go to the dealers shipping by the best car. I want to move to the nicest neighborhood. I want to fly first class. I want to go to Hawaii. I want to go to Australia. I want to go to Australia. I made a decision enough is enough in Showtime. The hour is now for game changes to emerge. Road of obscurity and end to victory. Take the throw with everything that you have in you.

That if you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it, if all that your dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and work, without it. And if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it, and lose all your terror of the opposition for it, and if you simply go after that thing that you want, with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope, and confidence, and stern pertinacity, if neither cold poverty, famished or gall, sickness, of pain, of body and brain, can keep you away from the thing that you want.

If dark it and grim, you besiege and beset it with the help of God you'll get it. The only thing you care about when you're trying to breathe is to get some fresh air. That's it. And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. And I'm here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kind of want it. You don't want it bad than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool.

Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you've got to be willing to give up sleep. The hour is now. I am your replacement. I am coming for the throne. I'm coming for every room that you locked me out of. Every realm that I step into, I will dominate.

You cannot listen to the naysayers. Imagine. You go from studio executive to studio executive from agent to agent, from manager to manager, and they all said exactly the same thing. Now, that's very encouraging, isn't it? But you know something? I didn't give a shit. I didn't.

Because I believed that I can be a leading man. When you get to the edge, your brain will always tell you to step back. It's always going to tell you to step back because you can fall. Always. It's going to tell you step back. Because before you fail, the last time you did this, you saw someone else fail, you could hurt, you could be off work. It's going to tell you, it's designed to keep you safe. So you have to be willing to play between your brain and your soul.

And on some days, you've got to just listen to your soul. And you've got to say, I'm a leap. I'm going to get to the edge. Most people are at the edge. And you're standing at the edge and you're watching everyone else fly. watching someone else live, wondering what it's going to be like when you jump without ever jumping. And I'm just here to tell you, jump. Because only three things can happen.

You're either going to jump and fly. Are you going to jump and fall on something soft? Are you going to fall down hard? Either way, you're going to get back up. You already know you got what it takes to get back up. Your greatest fear is not that you will fall. Your greatest fears that you will live a full life and never fly. That you never leaped.

You're not afraid. of dying, you're afraid of dying before the world sees who you really are, before they really get your fingerprint, before they really feel your breath, before they really get your contribution, before they really feel you. That's what you don't want to happen. You don't want to leave this place without us knowing you were here. All I'm doing is give it my dream a chance. And I'm not extraordinary. You don't get off the hook. I'm an ordinary woman who chooses every day to make one more extraordinary decision. It's called the language of the poor.

What if this happens? And on top of that, if this was to happen, look at the fix I'd be in. I better not try. Then I'll tell you what changed my whole life when I finally discovered. It's all risky. The minute you were born, it got risky.

Getting married is risky. Having children is risky. Going into business is risky. Investing new money is risky. It's all risky. Why are you here? And what are you? going to do about it. Because the truth of matter is we have a purpose, we have a destiny, we have

fulfillment, we've got connections to make, we've got people to meet, we've got rooms to walk in, we've got tables to sit. When you're working at your dream, somebody said the heart of the battle, the sweet of the victory. See, when you win it's hard and there's a struggle, see what you become in the process is more important to dream. That's far more important. The kind of person you become, The character that you built, the courage that you develop, the faith that you've manifested. Oh, it's something that you get up in a morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit. You know it was hard, but you did it hard.

No growth comes from being comfortable. And you know what else happens when you take big wrists? You grow. You grow into the person that you're meant to become. Yeah, keep on me, baby. You're too. We live in the heat. We train the year. It tells us that we're ready. We're at a home. Flames don't intimidate us. What do we do? We remove the planet.

Are you bold enough? Are you radical enough in your hunger and your thirst to go after what it is that you believe is yours? Are you crazy enough? Are you courageous enough to disappear for 30 days? Come back and shock the world. you're gonna you're gonna fucking hate yourself in the morning why are you pulling back no go tell me yes why

beaming far and wine here's our promise it's the name of my the gates will we this will be the story that I will one day tell and that means

the harder it is the bigger the dragon the more epic the story and by consequence the more epic the hero nobody could beat this guy and to Buster Douglas prove he could get beat

And what people found out was, Mike Tyson's strength is if you can last at least to five rounds with this gap, he ain't got no more juice left. And if he can't get you in five, he can't get you. And all you got to do is outlasting. There's some things in light that all you got to do is outlast. And if you can just out, you ain't got to swing. You ain't got to be going through it. You just got to learn the secret of how can I survive these next couple rounds? Because if I can get past this, then I can knock him out.

As Mr. Duggins at the end, they say, How in the world did you meet beat Mike Tyson? He said, because I promised my mama before she died, I was going to beat him. Because I'm a stud. I'm bossy. I don't take no shit from anyone. I smoke my stogie anywhere I want.

I don't have to find a hideout place like you. Before you get your feelings hurt by that bully at school or that boss at work, take time. Take that one second to pull back. and study them. Because most people who are in good places, they don't care about what you're doing. Stop letting things dictate your life.

You are the one that's in the driver's seat. If excuses is the passenger, open up the door and kick them out. And keep on driving down your path. The difficult part of the lonely chapter is that the Rocky cut scene last year, 90 seconds in the movie and the last five years in reality. What's the matter with you?

There is no tomorrow. Ownership and credibility behind your actions and your words. Mean what you say, do what you say. Follow through for something for one time in your life. One time, follow through what you said that you've never felt before. When you follow through of things in life, guys, you achieve the confidence, the mentality, that anything's possible. everybody wants to be praised and celebrated but nobody wants to sacrifice

nobody wants to put into work nobody wants to let go of every single distraction can you learn how to say no to what's hurting you no to what's stopping you no to the people that don't believe in you the fakes and the phonies and the people that keep saying that they'll support you

when you get there but they leave you when you arrive claim what's yours own what's yours you are a unique individual everybody is never going to be where they want to be in life because sometimes they focus too much

on the bad things and not claiming the good times not claiming hey no matter what struggle I go through I am going to make it don't think like you they don't walk like you they don't sacrifice like you they're not willing to put in the blood the sweat the tears behind

closed doors, a man is rewarded in public for what he does in private. If you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen, and losers define themselves by what happened to them. Cromby and Fitch last names. Armani is a last name. Baskin-Robbins is the last name. Chrysler is a last name. Fisher Price, Gucci, Hennessy, Harley, Harley, Harley, Harley, Harley, and, Harley, and, and,

Davidson, Hilton, Honda, Coals, Kraft Foods, Lowe's Movie Theater, Marriott is the last name, Maybach is a last name, Nordstrom is a last name, Pillsbury is the last name, Porch is the last name, Proctor and Gamble, two last names, Rose Royce, Charles Rose, Henry Royce, last names, Turner Broadcast System, Ted Turner, last name,

Versacee, last name, Wells, Fargo, Henry Wells, William Fargo, last name. Walgreens, last name. Grigley's, last name. Welch's, Greglis, Greg Juice, last name. What if you started thinking about your kids? What if you started thinking about your legacy? What if God started dropping Canaan and opening up windows of heaven? Because now you're not just thinking about you, you're thinking kingdom! So I started making these mix tapes with all of these hate messages about people talking shit. And, and, It became such a source of fuel that it was amazing because I know why you hate me. You hate me because you're probably in the bed right now.

You're probably an underachieve. You're probably somebody who doesn't want to do anything with your life. So I make you question everything about yourself. So I'm going to continue making you question yourself by coming out here and being even more successful. I'm talking to the one that's been through hell. You got to fight, you got to push, you got to give everything you have because I tell you this, weakness won't save you. You got to be willing to sacrifice, you got to be willing to hurt, you got to be willing to yell out, whatever it takes, keep pushing forward. Don't you give up on your life, don't you give up on those reps, don't you give up on giving it what it takes, whatever it takes.

to get the most of yourself. I've got all that work up to now. The best I can fucking be at this fucking moment. I know that. I'm serenified that through all this shit. It's wherever it happens. It's the best I can be at that moment.