Daily Motivations - Hard Work Pays Off

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

Are you looking for the ultimate boost of motivation to power through your day? You've come to the right place! In this episode, we delve deep into the mantra that "hard work pays off" and provide the best motivation you need to succeed in every aspect of your life. Whether you're seeking hard work motivation, school motivation, or even workout motivation, this video has got you covered. kindly follow us on Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please Kindly support this show  Support Us

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I'm the most brutal of them. Michigan, most ruthless champion has ever been. There's no one you out there. You have to think, I am the best ever. I'm the most brutal in Michigan, most ruthless champion there's ever been. No one can stop me. Links is a conqueror. No, I'm Alexander. He's no Alexander. I'm the best ever. I give you the map. You are willing to do that?

It's the main point because everyone wants to be Cristiano, but I give you the map. You think you will do that? It's difficult. It's a discipline. The discipline is the most difficult thing, not only in sports, but in life. We did not come this far to just break down and lose now. I'm a winner. I'm going to win.

Hard work pays off. Dreams come true like i see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends and or just take vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out like i i'm not i never did that why not why didn't you do that well because when i retire i didn't want to have to say i wish i would have done more i don't want that i'm already working all of the hours that i'm awake and i've already given up saturdays so the only thing that i have left is like Sundays and evenings. And so I am no longer going to be watching any football and I'm no longer going to have Netflix at all. Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning, but winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they're being lazy. 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. When people copy, they copy the wrong stuff because they don't know why it worked to begin with. And when it breaks, they don't know how to fix it because they didn't build it. So don't sweat it. Copycats will always be behind. Champions are broken. People look at champions and try and find something that that champion has that they don't have. He's like, but it's not that at all. He's like, they lack something everyone else has, which is an off button. They just don't stop. Because if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get to where you want to get, who's got the right to stop you?

I mean, maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something. And you're told no, even after you pay your dues. Who's got the right to tell you that? Who? Nobody. It's your right to listen to your gut. It ain't nobody's right to say no after you earn the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. And that's life.

The only thing I'm asking you guys to leave on the table is what's right. If you think the price of winning is too high, wait until you get the bill from regret. And that bill from regret is generational. From the social group that I had before I quit my job, before going all the way like ground zero to today, I talked to no one from that time in my life compared to today. And I was absolutely miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. And I would say that the majority of those people probably don't like me today because I changed.

I didn't do what I was supposed to do. He thinks he's so fancy now, et cetera, et cetera. And I think I'm just okay with that. And so I think coming to terms with the idea that I could be absolutely rejected by everyone I know, but like me, I was more okay with that because the alternative was I didn't want to live. Tired, 14 days, 13 days, whatever the hell it is. Don't mean nothing. Tired is only in the mind. You tell yourself you're tired, you're going to be tired. I don't get tired.

Lake Show, we coming home. I truly believe we are all equal as human beings. If we are obsessed with something and we truly pursue our passion with everything we have, regardless of anything else, if you are obsessed, work hard, put in the time, you will succeed. And that is a philosophy that I carry, my coaches carry. And to see LeBron James, a phenomenal, phenomenal athlete, share that belief is inspiring right back to me. It shows that we are thinking correct. You know, this is hard work.

This is an obsession. Nothing can beat hard work. Here's the truth. This is the reality, okay? Nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it. Nobody's going to come and celebrate with you until you've already done it. All right? The work is going to come before the belief.

Which means you're going to have to work for a long time by yourself with no applause, with no awards, with nobody telling you good job. And then once you start to build something and people start to see the momentum and they start to see the result and you start doing some things then you're going to get a little belief you have to sacrifice greater the sacrifice greater the reward this is so true and when you when you do these things you'll start seeing that okay well i used to do this and when you go out and you don't do it anymore, it's very, very clear that you've made the right decision because your friends will still be doing that and you'll find yourself that you don't fit in with that crowd anymore. You just don't fit in. Do you want to be the best?

Yeah. I read somewhere you said you want to be the best defender, best shooter, best player. How do you avoid complacency as an individual when everywhere you turn, you're're the man you're the number one sophomore in the nation what pushes you to continue to get better you know um every day you gotta go out there and work because there's someone out there working too and if you stop i think they can pass you up so every day my coaches push me i push myself and my teammates

push me my mother brought me up um real good and And it's pretty easy because the way I was brought up, she taught me so much things besides basketball. And that just helped me be level-headed. If all you guys are going left, it's that one person who say, you know what, left's not the right way. I'm going to go right. Who didn't follow the crowd.

That person who's not afraid of doing what they believe is right in their heart and not following someone else because someone else said, let's go this way. And they agree with everybody. I don't like yes men or yes women. If you're right, you're right. We're going to follow you. I like people who stand for something. They believe in something. And this is the way I'm going to go, whether you like me or not. And that's what it's about. If you want to kill a big dream, tell it to a small minded person. I told everybody at 10 years old, I was going to be on TV. I had a little problem when I said that. I had a severe stuttering problem. I could not talk outside of my house.

So when I wrote on that paper, the assignment was write on a piece of paper what you want to be when you grow up. I'm 10. I wrote, I want to be on TV. That was that faith, the belief in things that you cannot see. I ain't see no way I could be on TV, but I wrote it down. I didn't know no better. I just, I'm 10. I wrote it down. And she just said, why would you write something like this on your paper? And I'm standing there. I'm trying to get an eye. She said, who in this school ever been on TV? Who in your family ever been on TV? Who in this neighborhood ever been on TV? She said, look at you standing there.

You can't even talk. How are they going to put somebody like you on TV? So every Christmas, I send her a flat screen TV. Because I don't want her to miss me. I want her to see what God had done for me. You know, I know lots of people who never became successful, that worked really hard. Do you? Do you?

Do you really? Because I don't think you do. I don't think you actually know anybody like that. I don't think you know anybody like that. I think people are where they deserve to be. People only root for people who don't need it. Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path, where I was too different from the friends that I had, but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with. Time to train, train at that time. Set a time to go to sleep, go to sleep at that time. Set a time to get up, get up at that time.

Don't tell yourself you need to do something, and then don't do it. That's what I was talking about with Ariel. I said, I knew in my head I was saying, get up at this time. I didn't get up at that time train at this time. I didn't train at that time Don't eat this I had that don't drink that I drank it and these all just infiltrate my mental strength Just little kind of defeat exactly Instead of wins and it just culminates into oh, I just don't want to be here.

So I'm just feeling myself like I've never felt himself before. No matter what it is, many times you say to yourself, I got to lose weight. I got to lose weight. I'm too fat. And then you know what? During the day you eat, you eat at night and the next day you get mad at yourself. Well, what do you want what do you want you got to change something you cannot change your life unless you change something if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got but i think my main strength it's my mind i think it's my strongest point it's my mind peace the numbers they don't like if you see during the last 15 years my level is always kind of the same so effort dedication work hard because the talent is not enough anymore. And if you don't dedicate it 100%,

you're not gonna reach the level that you want. Just work like hell. I mean, you just have to put in, you know, 80-hour, 80 to 100-hour weeks every week. I'm sorry. And then all those things improve the odds of success. Okay. I mean, if other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks then even if uh you're doing the same

thing you know that in in one year you will achieve what they achieve you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve and so like i used to tell this when i was selling weight loss to people i'd say like, I used to tell this when I was selling weight loss to people, I'd say like, who cares if you get in shape for six weeks out of 80 years? And like, right. As they're about to sign up for a membership, I was like, you want to sign? And then this is how I would sell longer memberships. But like, it's also true. It's like, you want to sign up for the six weeks, but like Susan, like who cares if you lose 20 pounds and you're still overweight six weeks from now,

and then you gain it back the next six weeks and you're still the exact same weight for the rest of your life. And so I just, I think the absolute dedication to maximization. So that becomes a part of your identity and your character has been one of the outsized returns that I've gotten in my life. And just being absolutely willing to suck. Like I'm pretty violent about this, but like list all the things that you aren't willing to give up for the dreams that you have. And that is what the person who will beat you is willing to give up. More work is always going to result in better results in everything we do in life. The more you put into something, the more you're going to get out.

Don't do so much. You're doing too much. Bullshit. Bullshit. I'm 33 and I've dedicated my whole life for this. I had no youth life. I had no teenage life. I had no young adult life because guess what? While all my friends and people who I knew were out drinking and partying and enjoying life, what was I doing running 10 miles down the road in the rain? Or killing myself in a boxing gym? And then people say to me, you know what, you're lucky. You're a lucky man, you are.

I'm lucky because I fucking worked all the hours that God gave me. I'm lucky because I pushed it further than everybody else would dare to do. I'm lucky because I've trained so hard that I can't be beaten. That's a lucky man. I don't think so. I'm not lucky, I'm blessed. I'm blessed to have that determination, that drive. And it's not for success. It's just to be happy today, tomorrow and the next day.

But most importantly, be happy for today. Because, you know, tomorrow ain't promised to nobody. As we all know quite clearly, tomorrow is no certain gift at all. But today we have. But where do you go to? You wake up on a morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark, you've got no cartilage in your knee, you've got shorts, whatever it is that's the issue today. Keep talking. You've got these problems, right?

I need you to keep talking about what you were just saying. It's warm on the couch. Your missus says stay in bed. It's comfy. It's cozy. You've got work later on. You had an argument last night. You're slightly hungover. God, I know every motherfucker ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do. The life we live, guys, is a differential of margins

that's almost unmeasurable. What is successful and what is failure, the differential are so small. We're talking about seconds. We're talking about seconds. We're talking about reps. We're talking about the finest echelon of measurement that will make or break someone's life to be successful at that moment.

And once at that moment successful, that gives a birth of a lifestyle that's unbeatable second to none. But in order to have that first success, you must ensure yourself that you're giving it all you can today. Because the future, we don't know, do we? We're training for that. And when I hear people say terms like good enough, it bothers me to an nth degree because they are saying something that is justified at the moment but not quantitated

into a future endeavor of life so therefore they are passing judgment on now for a future event that they knew nothing about they're bullsh**ters good enough, if you think about it good is a positive, enough is a negative that's an oxymoron right there

It's hypocritical in it's own sense There is nothing that's ever good enough The only thing that's enough is at the end of the day The end of the hour, the final hour Whatever you're going for That your hand is raised victoriously That's when you know it's enough And you're in the gym right now

To ensure that that event goes your way And it will never go your way guys If you're saying the gym right now to ensure that that event goes your way. It will never go your way, guys, if you're saying today is good enough. If you never say good enough today, I promise you tomorrow will always be enough. Whenever good enough is enough, you can bet tomorrow you'll have enough. I say it all the time. You have to suffer. You have to make that a tattoo on your brain. So when that hard time comes again, you don't forget it.

You may forget it for a second, but you can go back in the cookie jar, I call it. It's something that we've all endured. I call it the cookie jar. And we often forget how hard we are. But you got to reflect back. Take a couple seconds to reflect. I've been through this. I've been through that.

And then remind yourself, I'm a bad mother. And then you can get through this. But if you don't believe it, you haven't endured it, you're just blowing smoke, man. And you're not going to get through anything. You're willing to shoulder more than your responsibility of life because you expect and demand something more of life. Champion's mentality, man.

Hoping for a good result. You're demanding a motherfucking result. You're going above and beyond what's expected in the gym, what normal people do. You do more than what's normal because you want more than a normal return of life's investment. Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable. Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don't be afraid of being hurt. Don't be afraid of a second price of some blood. I tell you, the harder and harder you work in here, the harder and harder it becomes

to accept failure out there. Second place isn't an option anymore, guys. The more you work in here, the harder and harder it becomes to accept failure out there. Second place isn't an option anymore, guys. The more you give in here, the more you get out there. Why would you not want to give it at all? What else are you going to do? Are you going to come here and kill it right now? Or stay home on the couch? You know, watching the light pass you by.

What else would you be doing right now? Taking the time off? Or taking the time to get ahead? If it doesn't seem so easy to you, it's because you don't believe in yourself. You believe in yourself. You want to be in here killing it. Because it's giving you that much more of a chance because you believe you can't come that.

Because they don't believe they can ever get there. So therefore, why take the precautionary steps to sharpen and hone the arsenal to really go to battle? Because they don't even want to go to battle because they know they're going to lose. How do you want to look in the mirror? Every single morning, do you want a positive reinforcement

or do you want a negative one to go about your day? How do you want people to see you? It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. One thing important is that we all have these moments, these moments in time that either make you or break you, that can determine the rest of your life. The rest of your life can be determined by one simple decision. I had a decision to make. I wanted to quit. I wanted to give up.

There wasn't some inspirational quote. There wasn't nothing. It was me, myself, and it was freezing out here. I had to make a decision. The decision I made was to get up and keep on going. That one moment changed the rest of my life. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. What if? you never had you have to do something you never did what if a lot of times I'll be in a 200 mile run or something like that and I'm all jacked up body's broken mind's broken spirit's broken

I start to say what if I could pull this off it's the what if I can pull off a miracle. What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? And just that, just me talking about that, I have the hair going up on my arms. Because it makes me just like, what if? So in this job, you're looking for cockroaches, looking for rodents and stuff like that. And this next morning or this next night, I went to work and I hit the, I don't like cockroaches too much. I hit the mother load of cockroaches and this restaurant got full of cockroaches and rodents and everything else. And I sat there and said, this is my life. I said, this is my life. You are exactly who the, this is it. And I said, this ain't going to be it for me so in that restaurant I quit my job

left my canister in that restaurant my spray canister got back in my eco lab truck and I went home and I started working out like somebody I was I became the most obsessed person on the planet earth and I was basically I had to invent a guy that didn basically, I had to invent a guy that didn't exist. I had to invent a guy that can take any pain, any suffering, any kind of judgment,

be called whatever the fuck in the world and be able to stand in the room and say, go fuck yourself. I had to build this callous mind and I built it through suffering. I built it through downright

and just crushing myself. If it was raining outside at 3 o'clock in the morning, if it was snowing, the first instinct is don't go out there and do shit. My instinct was we got to go out there. Anything that was fucking horrible in my life that I would normally say no, that was inhumane to most people, I had to go do it. And I started callousing my mind at this point in my life.

It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. People need to hear the story. This is an exciting story for people because there's a lot of people out there that feel trapped and they feel stuck and they feel like they can't do anything and this is who they are. You're a guy who felt that exact same way but figured out how to not be that person and be a person that you would admire.

How did you, what were the first steps? Like you had some slips before, right? Because you quit because of the water thing. Right. But then when you went back the second time and you decided you're going to lose all that weight you quit that job did did you was it just straightforward from there or were there some days where you just failed and then you picked it back up again so my first run when i decided to lose the weight i was like i said 297 i was about 32 body fat and i went my idea was to run four miles for my first run.

I didn't know how bad it was going to fucking hurt me. I used to run before I was fat, and I was like, I can do this. I ran a quarter mile and walked home. I walked home and sat on my couch and cried. I went to my mom's house, who was about maybe 20 minutes down the road, and cried again in her couch saying, man, I can't do this shit. I don't know what I want to do. I just got somebody pregnant.

My life was just, I was making $1,000 a month. My rent was $8,000 a month. And my mom just kept f***ing with me. And kept, you're not good enough, man. This isn't for you, man. These guys are the best. F***ers on the planet Earth, you're not that. And what it was, and it's kind of funny i was obsessed with

rocky rocky one in particular and when i was a kid i come home every day and i watched this show rocky and i would fast forward with the little vhs tapes to round 14 round 14 me up like nobody's business why this song came on right so when i bought the pull-up record i listened to the song for 17 hours it's 2 minutes and 13 seconds and i'm able to visualize and dream like nobody's business and i know that i can create a vision that many people can't and And I work for it. So the vision I had was when Apollo Creed beat the f***ing s*** out of Rocky. Beat the s*** out of him.

He kept fighting. He was a dumb fighter. Couldn't read. Couldn't f***ing. That was me. Couldn't read. Couldn't write. Just punchy.

Everything about him. And Rocky beat, or Apollo beat the s*** out of him. He was in that corner. Everybody was saying, stay the f*** down. And him getting up, him getting up, Apollo Creed raised his arms up in the f***ing air, turned around, thought he won the fight. He turns

around and sees this guy getting up, and it was the face of Apollo Creed that changed my life. The face of Apollo Creed. It was like just by that motherf***er getting up, not winning, just by him getting the f*** up, Apollo Creed. It was like just by that mother getting up. Not winning. Just by him getting the up. Apollo Creed was his champ.

His best. Rocky had taken his soul. Had literally taken his soul. His head goes down. He looks at him like, what the are you? I wanted to be that. Not Rocky. I wanted to be the guy that people looked at.

I don't care if you like me or didn't like me. I don't care. But I said, this girl's going to keep coming after whatever the fuck is in front of them. I wanted that. I wanted that. I wanted that worse than anything in the world. I tell you, the harder and harder you work in here, the harder and harder it becomes to accept failure out there.

Second place isn't an option anymore, guys. The more you give in here, the more and harder it becomes to accept failure out there. Second place isn't an option anymore, guys. The more you give in here, the more you get out there. Why would you not want to give it at all? What else are you going to do? You come here and kill it right now or stay home on the couch, you know, watching the light pass you by. What else would you be doing right now? Taking the time off or taking the time to to get ahead if it doesn't seem so easy to you it's because you don't believe in yourself you believe in yourself you want to be in here killing it because giving you that much more of a chance because you believe you can come that because they don't believe they can ever get there so therefore why take the precautionary steps

to sharpen and you know and hone the arsenal to really go to battle because they don't even want to go to battle because they know they're going to lose. How do you want to look in the mirror? Every single morning, do you want a positive reinforcement? Or do you want a negative one about today? How do you want people to see you? If you didn't withdraw in fear from anything, from everything that life threw at you,

who could you become? And I would say that's the central religious question in some real deep sense. Are more things thrown at us than we can manage? That's a tricky question because pretty dreadful things are thrown our way. And you might say, well, that just presents an insuperable barrier to progress.

That's not very helpful because you're alive, here you are, you've got these problems to contend with, and if it's an impossible task, then how could you be anything but hopeless and desperate? But then you think, well, wait a second,

how would things transform if I took this on as a voluntary adventure? To get through where I became, to get through where I'm at now, there's nothing but pride I have for myself that I can't really show people. Because I have this face, I have this face that they see like, are you happy? What's wrong with you? I'm driven. I'm obsessed. And that's what you see. What's wrong with you? I'm driven. I'm obsessed. And that's what you see. That's it.

You have to pick a path of discipline. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes, and it doesn't matter whether it's there or not. Discipline is infinitely more important so no matter how you feel get up and do what you're supposed to do that's it and that's discipline it's not motivation if you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it that's leaving it to chance but if you're

disciplined you go do what you're supposed to do. That's the way it works. And this thing that people do, they avoid discomfort. It sounds ridiculous, but then it just creates more discomfort. You don't realize that in embracing discomfort and forcing yourself to do something very uncomfortable that you can control, like an ice bath, like a sauna, like a run, like a workout, you are eliminating another form of discomfort. I torture myself physically. I'm always working out. I'm always exhausted. I'm always taking ice baths. I was in the sauna before I got here today. I'm always doing something. Always. I never have a day where there's not some kind of struggle. If I have a day where I just lay around, I'm like, this is weird. It's one of the things that I have to do on vacation. If I have a day where I just lay around, I'm like, this is weird. Like, it's one of the things that I have to do on vacation. When I get up in the morning,

whenever I'm on vacation, the first thing I do is work out. I'm like, I got to do this. Otherwise, I'm not going to be able to enjoy this time off with my family. I got to get up before everybody else and I got to work out hard. Look, when you're a kid, you're all potential. It's chaotic potential. It can manifest itself in any number of ways. And maybe you don't want to give that up. So you're like Peter Pan. You want to be a kid forever because you don't want to give up the potential. And you look out in the world and all you see are Captain Hooks, you know, who've lost a hand, who are chased by death because that's the clock in the crocodile.

It's already got a taste of him. He's terrified by death and he's a tyrant. Well, I don't want to grow up to be that. So I won't be disciplined at all. Well, that's no good because the way the potential transforms itself into actuality is through discipline. Our minds are like a garage. And the garage, if you open a garage and it's all cluttered up, it's all dug, you can't put your car in there.

You got fucking boats and you got kids' toys and shit everywhere. But if you organize that fucking garage and you put everything in its rightful spot you can pull that car in there you put two cars and you put bikes in there and that's like with the mind people talk about discipline and determination and you know repetitions and all the consistency why people fall off the wagon so often is because their mind is full. There's no room in that mind for discipline. There's no room for consistency. They may do it once or twice, but then the mind takes over and that cluttered fucking garage comes in.

And then it's like a circuit breaker, man. A circuit breaker just overloads and sparks. And our minds, that's our mind, man. It's like a fucking circuit breaker that has so much. You keep on loading it. You can't put any more into it. Clearing space in your mind. So then you have room for all those discipline, waking up early, taking those because they, they do mean something, but we don't get to that dark matter that is keeping you from clearing out that mental garage. Well, I don't know what to do. It's like, that's okay. Nobody does go do something, do the best thing that you can think of, put the best plan you have into practice. It's not going

to be perfect and it will change along the way, but it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser. And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. There is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. I'm sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on. Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey. But I never understood that concept. Having something to fall back on. If I'm going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything.

I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit. The thing is with me is I don't give up. I don't give up. When anybody says or when anybody thinks, I have this mindset. I know exactly who the f*** I am. I have my circle of people that I hang around with who know me and know what I'm about and whatever. And anybody else who doesn't like it or doesn't want to, it's bad.

There comes a day where push comes to shove. Where being mediocre, being like average, just burns and sucks so much. You can't deal with it one more day. And you get off your... And you create something that's always been there. It's always been inside of you trying to come out. But you've never wanted to unwrap it because it's too much pain and commitment. You were scared you were going to fail.

You were scared if you started, you'd never finish it. You didn't want to tell anyone about it. You knew it was there, but you never wanted to embark on it until something hits. You get fired or somebody else gets success remind you what you could have been and then the spark is born and no matter what happens i'm never going to be in this boat again and you get up and you go even against knocking you just keep going keep going you're a wild man

and life has never been so sweet and you know you learn from those mistakes those those failures that you have just so consequential. And then you don't want that to happen again. So you've got to be either quit or get way better. And then the next day comes and you're back playing again. And you understand that life has a cyclical nature where it's what you do on Monday. It's fantastic. But then Tuesday is a bad day. But guess what? There's Wednesday. So we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? You know?

Versus just staying like this and understanding that it's really just a journey of evolution every day. It's just constant improvement, constant curiosity, constantly getting better. The results don't really matter. It's the figuring out that matters. Yeah. And we all get obsessed about the results. Now we get obsessed about like the output, not the input of not figuring it out and not like changing things. What you said,

trial and error, like the experiment. If there's potential inside of you, which you know, it's there, but you're too scared to tell anyone else about it. And you go on and on, get older and older and older and older. And the windows of opportunities are to close.

And you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it. I promise you, it will haunt you. It'll be more, it's a living nightmare, dude. That fact that you had the ability to do something and you're too weak to 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 sacrifice.

All that is just nothing compared to a life where you're burdened by regret, guys. Emotions come and go. The important thing is to accept them all. To embrace them all, to embrace them all, and then you can choose to do with them what you want versus being controlled by emotion. You know, a lot of times I've seen players, even myself, when I was younger, being consumed by a particular fear and to the point where you're saying, okay, nah, it's not good to feel fear. I shouldn't be nervous in this situation. And it does nothing but grow versus stepping back and saying, yeah, I am nervous about this situation.

Yeah, I am fearful about this situation. Well, what am I afraid of? And then you kind of unpack it. And then it gives you the ability to look at it for really what it is, which is nothing more than your imagination running its course. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I love that because what you're saying is that when you're dealing with something, it's almost like,

how can I get to the root of it? Yeah. Because sometimes what we're dealing with, like you're saying, it's an imagination, an illusion. It's not really...

It's not really a thing. Next time you're facing a fear, next time you're going against something, do that. Like, literally unpack it. Don't just settle for your first answer

because the first answer is rarely the right one. Don't hide from it. You know, you've got to be able to look at it and deal with it head on. Yeah, I love that, man.

Man, me and you are going to do this together. And you're going to be on my ass before I start slacking. I'm going to be on your ass before I start slacking. And I'll never accept mediocre again. I'm always going to give it my 110%. That's the only thing I can ever say, solid days work.

That's all that I'll ever find peace in. If you guys do not do that, I promise you, your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. I hope you guys get what the f*** I'm saying. I'll tell you what, man. Once you get it, come on over to this side of the fence,

you don't see f***ing problems anymore, man. Uh-uh you what, man. Once you get it, come on over this side of the fence. You don't see problems anymore, man. You see situations, you see possibilities, and you can't wait to get them started, man. You're like, why did I wait so long to engage? It doesn't matter about the past. It's today. What are we doing today? What are we going to engage now? And once we engage, we commit. There's no half commitment. There's no quarter commitment. There's no third quarter. It's full commitment. Once we engage, it's every f***ing day we engage. Because that's the better life.

And the people you surround yourself are like-minded. And they're better friends. Friends and family for life, man. They have your back. They're solid individuals doing solid tasks, leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That's a f*** a solid life, man. It's your option now.

What are you going to do? Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better tuesday get better wednesday get better right and you do that over a period of time you know not like one month or two months i mean it's three four five six seven eight nine ten years and then you know you can get to where you want to go consistency doesn't guarantee that you'll be successful but not being consistent will guarantee that you won't reach success. An easy productivity hack, instead of spending time getting in the mood to work, just start working. Confront the work. People think they need perfect conditions to start when in reality, starting is the perfect condition. One day in the gym is basically imperceivable. Two days in the gym, you don't recognize any change whatsoever.

A hundred days in the gym and you're almost a new person. One day of playing guitar, you can barely play one chord. A hundred days of practicing guitar and you can play literally almost any song. So take the small steps every day. Do what you're supposed to do and don't expect some incredible results in one day or two days or 10 days. Worthwhile things take 100 days. They take 500 days. Maybe they take 5,000 days. They take time.

If you go to the gym and you work out and you come back and you look in the mirror, you will see nothing. And if you go to the gym the next day and you come back and you look in the mirror, you will see nothing. Clearly there's no results, can't be measured, it must not be effective.

So we quit. Or if you fundamentally believe that this is the right course of action and stick with you commit yourself to the regime the exercise you can screw it up you can eat chocolate cake one day you can skip a skip a day or two you know it allows for that but if you stick with it consistently i'm not exactly sure what day but i know you'll start getting into shape i I know it. Going to the gym for nine hours does not get you into shape. Working out every day for 20 minutes gets you into shape. It's not about the events. It's not about intensity. It's about consistency. But more

importantly, consistency, because without commitment, you'll never start. but without consistency, you never finish. So this guy just passed me. He said, guys, just be average today. Some of you just don't understand. Some of you have been average for so damn long, you don't know what it is to do hard work. But there's a lot of you out there who want to be much more than average but just don't know how to do it every single day the grind you need to find someone to oil those fucking gears up so check it out this is a mindset maybe it's true maybe it's not but there's a you're out there who wants it

you have who wants the position you are who wants the job you have who wants the wife what you have? Who wants the position you are? Who wants the job you have? Who wants the wife that you have? Or the husband? There's someone out there hungry. They want everything you can have. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. But if it is, it's going to be your ass.

So make that a motivation for you. Stay hard. Some people, it's attractive. And they go, I want to do that too. Like, you seem pretty happy despite all the stress you're under. Like, how are you doing that? And I'll tell people that because I create my own bullshit, and my own bullshit's way harder than whatever I'm facing in the world,

and that's how I mitigate the stress of success and pressure and criticism and all that stuff. Like, I do to myself way worse than they're ever going to do to me. So that's how I mitigate it. Also, I calm my body. I calm my body through, I calm my mind through calming my body. And I calm my body through work. I make it work. And I make myself do things that are very uncomfortable,

that I don't want to do. And by doing that, I develop this strength and perseverance. And some people hear that and are like, I don't even want to do that. You're exhausted. I'm like, I'm not you. I don't want to do that. And it just takes them away from that. And I'm like, you don't even have to do that.

Just go for a walk every day. It sounds like it's easy to do. But when that walk comes and look at your clock. Oh, it's eight o'clock time to go for that walk. You're like, I don't want to walk. I was just trying to play video games. I don't want to walk. I'd rather like read emails. I don't want to walk.

I'd rather like scroll through TikTok. But if you just force yourself to go for that walk every day, you will develop mental perseverance. You will develop some tenacity. You develop the ability to force yourself into work. It doesn't have to be grueling. It just has to be a thing that you have to do. Or it's when you get fired from your fifth job, you know, when your wife and kids are on your ass,

so you don't have support anymore. There comes a fucking day where push comes to shove. Where being mediocre, being like average and shit just fucking burns and sucks so much you can't deal with it one more day and you get off your fucking ass and you create something that's always been there it's always been inside of you trying to come out but you've never wanted to unwrap because there's too much fucking pain and commitment you were scared you're gonna fail you're scared if you started, you'd never finish it. You didn't want to tell anybody.

You knew it was there, but you never wanted to embark on it. Until something fucking hits. You get fired or somebody else gets success to remind you what you could have been. And then that fucking spark is born. And no matter what happens, I'm never going to be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even if it gets knocked down, you just keep going, keep going, you're a wild man. And life has never been so sweet.

That can happen at an early age, it can happen at a later age. It's going to happen to somebody every, you know, no matter what's going to happen to you. And when it does happen to you, thank you. Look at these stars that finally you're alive. It's time to unwrap the potential you need. Superior, man. It's within you.

It's within every single one of us. And the people that have risen to that level were no different than any one of us. It's just they believed it and they were willing to work their fucking ass off to get it. It wasn't about the potential. It wasn't about the potential. It wasn't about the genetics. It was about the perseverance. And it was about being the hardest fucking worker in the room. Do you ever have a day where you just think,

yeah, I can't be asked to do anything. I'm not going for a run. I'm not stretching. I'm doing nothing. Every day. So you have the thought, but you don't have the day. Every day. Do you ever let yourself have a day where you just watch Netflix? Never, because you don't have the day every day ever let

yourself have a day just watch netflix never because you're on netflix i'm haunted no i can't do it i can't do it there may be some days i get up with poopy pants and i'm like you know what man fuck this man like what am i training for yeah i have no race in the docket. Why am I having this, this such a structured life? Why? And I'm like, you know what? I'm good. I'm done.

I retire every day. I'm done with this shit. And I sit around and say, okay. And then this is my thought process. So you want to be normal. So you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that's in them.

Being fine with being mediocre. You want to go back to who you were, huh, David? to be like everybody else that roams the world not knowing the power that's in them being fine but being mediocre you want to go back to who you were huh david like fuck that man and you have that conversation with yourself every day not every day it's those bad days it's those bad days gotta see a whole bunch of people walking around out here we have no idea how talented they truly are now And I'm talking about talent like some God-given ability. Talent that sometimes you have to hold, you have to work on, you have to harness yourself. And they just walk around on their phones clueless to how powerful.

Sun don't stop for nobody, man. Sun don't stop. Sun going to be up in the morning regardless. That sun is going to be up in the morning regardless. That sun is going to be up in the morning regardless. Regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am, the sun is going to shine in the morning. And at nighttime, the moon going to be there. And you're going to look up. These days going to keep going by.

So do you let the days go by and look up and you don't waste a year doing what? Or do you just pick it up? All right. Got to figure it out. Made some mistakes. Life goes on. Let me figure out life from this point. You want to become best. You want to become champion. And now you want to say like you're tired. Who cares? You're tired or not. Nobody cares about you. He was tired. He had personal problems. Nobody cares. We're all writing a book what's your book look like what does your book look like like your life is a book you got a bunch of chapters in your book but

when they close that book how good was the book how good was your book what was the ending to your book what was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined um well i mean i mean every day i mean since you know 20 years it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses for example jumping ability now my vertical was a 40 wasn't a 46 or 40 45. My hands are big, but they're not massive. So you've got to figure out ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to palm a ball and do the things that you need to do. Quickness, I was quick, but not insanely quick. I was fast, but not ridiculously fast. So I had to rely on skill a lot more. I had

to rely on angles a lot more. I had to rely on angles a lot more. I had to study the game a lot more. And it just never changed. What I found is that winning doesn't happen on show day. It happens in the early mornings, painful workouts, long cardio sessions, and hungry nights. It happens in those moments of fear

we all have when faced with a difficult goal. And then more so, in what you make of that fear it happens in every second of every day before you win if you can take every opportunity you have to bring yourself closer to your goal win every one of those opportunities all while becoming more resilient in the process, how can you lose? That is an exciting opportunity. I became obsessed with being the baddest that God ever created. Am I that? I don't care. I believe it.

And I was trying to tell him, once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it's okay to be unbalanced for a while. It's okay. Don't be all this stuff. People say you gotta be balanced. To be the best in the world at what you do. It's not about being a Navy SEAL, people. The best at what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of

energy and strength that you have to pull it off. How bad do you want it? There's two options. To continue forward. Pushing upward. And if you do, that dream is given birth. And forever you will live in the reality of it.

If you stop, quit, throw in the towel. I promise you there's no distance you can travel far enough to find that dream again. For it is dead. And in its death, death is replaced by regret what's the least amount of sleep you play the game on no there's a story where it's like you know no one knows about where you went and played a game and it was so insane for whatever reasons no sleep you played a game with no sleep zero sleep feel asleep Zero sleep. It's like, you know, kids, you know, Natalia had a certain health situation, what have you, and you stand up all night and then you got to go out and perform because fans don't know nor do they care nor should they that you've been up all night you gotta perform like i see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends and we'll just take

vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out like i i'm not i never did that why didn't you do that well because when i retire I didn't want to have to say I wish I would have done more all week he was work hard end of the week if you don't tire it this is good question you have to worry about yourself but this is Saturday your sixth day you work so hard of course you're gonna tire it tomorrow rest and Monday we're gonna begin one more training if you don't want go back to Dagestan and stay with your mom. She's going to give you everyday good breakfast. You don't do nothing.

Stay there. But if you come here, don't complain. You want to become best. You want to become champion. And now you want to say like you're tired? Who cares? You're tired or not? Nobody cares about you.

He was tired. He had personal problems, family problems. Nobody cares. A lot of people tired, he had personal problems, family problems. Nobody cares. A lot of people live their entire lives not fulfilling their purpose. One time in my life I felt that. What was my purpose? Until you find the center of your being,

you will continue to walk, going through the the motions the one companion that's always going to be with you is yourself yourself is what you have and you need to encourage yourself you need to look around and you need to be able to say look i'm not stuck here unless i choose to stay here if you don't have somebody who's going to do that, become that somebody. What's something difficult you're going through that people don't often see? I mean, my mind is a storm. I don't think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me, but they don't.

They don't know. They don't understand. There's 24 hours in a day where you're alone in this brain, and your brain is talking to you in all kinds of ways. And it wants to control you, pull you in these different pockets. You got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to get there. If you can't control your own brain, it's over. Every day when you get out of bed, life's standing right there to kick you in the face man life is going to throw all kinds of crazy and you have to be ready for it you got to deal with it you can't curl up into a ball you can't run away from it you can't hide you have to take all this head on great things happen and

really bad things happen and you got to take it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day strap your shoes back on and get out there and go to war again. It's that mentality. It's the mentality. Bring it on. I can take it. You can't break this. I'm stronger than you think I am.

And everything you throw at me and all the hardships you throw at me, you might knock me down, but I get that. I'll be stronger for it. It's that mentality that builds an iconic status that centuries from now people still talk about. Nobody cares. At the end of the day, nobody cares. What we're going through, how your body feels, nobody cares. We've got to do our job. And we emphasize that to each other again today. You know, hey, I got your back.

You got mine. Nobody cares, man. We got to go. Is it fair? No. Life is tough sometimes, and it's not fair. And it doesn't care sometimes. But you're going to hold true to what you believe, and you're going to hold true to who you are,

and you're going to be that person whether it's easier or it's not. I go to such places in my mind, and I study the darkness. There was no team. It was you. There was no weight loss programmer. Mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. I lived alone for so many years in this misery. I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose. I've trained 99% of my life alone.

I did all of the work alone. I never ran from anything because I never had nobody to go to. I've always had that, where I'm going? Home to get meat? Ain't nobody there. You know what I'm saying? So I've always been in a situation where i'm forced to deal with it myself you always have to be the person who roots for you before

everybody else does and it's usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time it is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. The superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it, these times where you just think about things, just be alone and think about things, are so rare these days. During those rare times is when you really get to understand

what you actually believe or don't believe it's a lonely journey you're isolated those who used to keep pace with you will fall off they'll see where their world ends and yours begins your ability to suffer endure our work must be greater. You must be willing to extend yourself to the limit with no guarantee of success. Every day, you must ask yourself, did I do enough? There's a moment when every boy realizes

no one's coming to save him. And that's when he becomes a man. And some boys never get there and stay children forever. No one's effing coming to save you. No one. No one's coming to push you. No one's coming to tell you to turn the TV off.

No one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise. Nobody's coming to write the business plan for you. It's up to you. Unless you understand that you've got to push yourself, you're not going to make your dreams come true. Largely, everyone needs to go through the same challenges that you're going through. Every single difficult thing that you do is kind of like a massive wall that you need to get over. And you go, wow, I'm so glad that i've got over that wall and think about how

many other people are going to fall at that wall what i've learned is to to always keep going always i've come to find out is that you know no matter what happens the storm eventually ends and when the storm does and you want to make sure that you're ready and so i've really learned to put one foot in front of the other, good, bad, or indifferent, because eventually that storm passes. If you don't show up, guys, you know the outcome. You'll never get the job, never get the part, never get the girl, if you don't show up.

If you show up, you put yourself in a situation to create those opportunities. And when you show up, how hard do you go? That's the faster the opportunity will come to life for you. It's up to you guys. Small down payment that you're willing to pay every day for the large investment of a greater life. You only got one life, guys. If you work it right, you only need one. I told myself I couldn't quit.

I told myself this was going to happen. This is destiny. Whatever is really burning in your heart, you got to really believe in yourself. Even when nobody else won't. You got to believe in yourself and say, I'm not stopping. And I told myself I'd die before I stopped. When you feel like giving up, don't. When you're thinking about giving up, don't. When you're thinking about giving up, don't.

When it look like you ain't gonna make it, keep going. When they tell you you can't, come on, man, who are they? You got to be relentless. I got to thank the man up top, G.O.D., because I'm nothing without him. Last but not least, I want to to thank me i want to thank me for believing in me i want to thank me for doing all this hard work i want to thank me for having no days off i want to thank me for for never quitting if snoop dog you a bad do you be yourself and make sure that you love being yourself?

It's going to be roadblocks, it's going to be tribulations, but always remember this is a life experience. Accept the experience, appreciate the experience, find your journey, respect your journey and love it. You're going to realize it one day. That happiness was never about your job or your degree or being in a relationship. It was never about being like the others that happiness was always about the discovery the hope the

listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go happiness was always about being kinder to yourself it was always about embracing the person you were becoming one day you will understand that happiness was always about embracing the person you were becoming one day you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself that your happiness was never in the hands of others it was always about you it was always about you just shut up and let me enjoy this pain. I don't want anything to numb it. I don't want anything right now.

Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. When they saw me in the gym in the pumping iron days they said why is it that you're working out so hard five hours a day six hours a day and you have always a smile on your face the others are working out just as hard as you do and they look

sour in the face and they told people all the time i said said, because to me, I'm shooting for a goal. In front of me is the Mr. Universe title. So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal, to make this goal, this vision turn into reality. Every single set that I do, every repetition, every weight that I lift will get me a step closer to turn this goal into reality. So I couldn't wait to do another 500-pound squat. I couldn't wait to do another 500-pound bench press.

I couldn't wait to do another 2,000 reps of sit-ups. I couldn't wait for the next exercise. But where do you go to? You wake up on a morning. It's cold. It's wet. It's dark. You've got no cartilage in your knee.

You've got shitty shorts, whatever it is that's the issue today. I know every motherfucker ain't going to do what I'm going to do. I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me fucking happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there's so many people that have the ability

and just refuse to get off that couch, refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that's where I gained the advantage. It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow. It's a selection effect. And I think if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this, then it flips from being this thing that you're like, oh, poor me, to oh, poor everyone else who's going to have to fucking try. Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable. Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable.

Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don't be afraid of being hurt. Don't be afraid of sacrificing some blood. There was probably a hundred days where I didn't want to do anything. I wanted to stay in the pool or stay in my bed and not get out. But those were the days where you have to. You have to get up and do something because I think that's really what separates

the good from the great. The greats do things when they don't always want to do them. Rich people don't sleep eight hours a day. That's a third of your life. I had 130 days in game, just sitting, looking at a screen, playing one character in one game. If you think ordinary is cool, ain't no problem.

But if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations, then you're going to have to do extra. Imagine if I could put this kind of focus into something in real life and just make that seem a little bit like a video game. Imagine the results I could get then. You have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category. You know, when you're kind of addicted to it, you can play at any time. You cannot be sweet eight hours a day.

You can't live in L.A. and wake up at 8 o'clock in the morning. It's 11 o'clock on the East Coast. The stock market's been open two hours. They're already making decisions about your life, and your ass was asleep. And again, so I was just like, imagine if I could feel could feel like that but in real life turn life into a video game the bible says he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night i have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and death and if you have a dream and you commit to it it will come to pass

a blade a blade does not become strong it does not become tempered until it's been through the fire. Until it's been through the fire. Nobody cares. You know, at the end of the day, nobody cares. What we're going through, how your body feels, nobody cares. We got to do our job.