Daily Motivations - I WILL BE THE EXCEPTION

Episode Date: December 21, 2025

Powerful Motivational Speech Video is a bold and defiant motivational video created and edited by Daily Motivations. This powerful motivational speeches compilation is a declaration of separation—refusing to live by average rules or follow comfortable paths. Being the exception means thinking sharper, moving differently, and holding standards most people won’t. It’s about choosing discipline over comfort, focus over noise, and action over excuses. This is the mindset that sets you apart. Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg

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please contact Connix Ontario at 1866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Hey, listen, I don't think anyone, not even me, is ready for how I'm coming in 2026. I had to fall back for a minute, not because I was lost, but because I needed to get myself together. Some days I was quiet, some days I was tired, but I never stopped. I learned how to move without announcing it. How to stay consistent when nobody was checking for me. Everything I went through changed how I thought, how I moved, how I protected my,

energy. So when 2026 hits, they're not meeting the new me. They're meeting they healed me. Stop running from the potential of what you can be. It's inside of you. It's always been there. 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 and get older and over and order and order, and the winners of our twins start to close. And you knew it could have been, but you never did it. I promise you, it will haunt you. It's a living nightmare, dude. You can continue to beat the shit out of yourself. You can continue to tell yourself that it's too late, screwed up, you're never going to get out of debt, you're never going to figure this out, you're 41, your career is over, you can do all that, or you can change.

If you want things in your life to get better, prove it. And the person you're proving it to is yourself. If you can imagine a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow, as soon as the tree appears, a shadow is going to appear. The tree is your dream, whatever it is, right? A book, a movie, whatever. And the shadow is the resistance you're going to feel. And they're directly proportionate to each other. The bigger the tree, the bigger the shadows.

So when you feel that shadow, you feel that massive reason. Oh, I want to quit. I'm not good enough to do this. That's a good sign. And then it says that the tree, your dream, is really big. And so you've got to do it. You don't want to take a little tree. You want to take the big tree.

This slow chapter was the turning point This was a chapter that made you resilient The chapter that forced you to grow Into someone that doesn't break when life gets heavy You are not running late I promise you You're arriving exactly on time You might be frustrated

You might be spinning your wheels You might be ready to be to quit. But you also might be one day from that one moment. Every morning, every day it relies. We have choices to make. You have the choice to stay in bed to say, forget it. I'm not going to work out today.

Or forget it, I'm not going to work hard today. You always have a choice every single day of your life. The universe rewards resilience. And the signs of it are. all over the world. You just have to know where to look and what to look at. Become that. Become that river on that rock. Over time, you can achieve any goal if you stick with it. Then you've got to learn how to dig deep in your life. Things are going to happen in your life. Parents die. Animal dies. A lover, a wife, a good friend. You decide when you don't want to fail

anymore. You wake up in the morning and go, you know what? These are all things I cannot control. Doubt is such a strange thing. I mean, it's, you know, there'll be times where you succeed and there are times that you fail. So wasting your time, doubting whether you're going to be successful or not, it's pointless. It is. And you just put one friend of the other. You control what you can't control. And then you see what the outcome is. Right. If you win, great. You're going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again. If you lose, it sucks, but you're going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again anyway.

You're not going to get around the rise and fall and the rise and fall. Endure when it's time to endure. Enjoy when it's time to enjoy. You know, but you're not going to get around the ups and downs of that. It's not because I'm weak. It's not any of that. It's like, that's what life is. And if you stop right now, all you've done is guarantee that you never reach that moment.

When things get hard, it's very easy to question what you're doing. It's very easy to start looking for a new path. It's very easy to quit. And that's why most people do it. No matter how much you're struggling, no matter how long you've been working, keep going. We're all work in progress. Growth has no end. Your story is still being written. You're the writer and the narrator. There's no limits to self-improvement because no one can ever truly reach a state of perfection. Everything around us is always changing and so we must evolve to. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking that you're finished. It doesn't matter how far you still need to go. All that matters is that you're still trying. about what do you want it's especially about what are you willing to sacrifice for this this is the question what type of sacrifices are you willing to go through what type of suffering are you willing to

take and based on that determines what can you reach if you have a dream if you have a goal in life that you want to accomplish i can tell you hard work dedication determination take small steps and sooner or later, they will continue to grow and grow and grow into bigger accomplishments. Believe in yourself, stay strong, stay focused, no matter what, the bad times don't last forever. If someone tells you, you can't, you prove to them that you can. If someone fires you from a job, when one door closes, another door opens. Always believe in yourself. Don't try to be like anyone else.

Leave your ideas to the fullest. And always believe that no matter what happens in your life, it's for a greater purpose. Like, I can't say this enough. Stop waiting. Do not waste your life, waiting, worrying, or wishing for things to change. You got to want it enough to do the work. Your dreams have a brick path that will get paved every single day, One brick at a time. How many times have you told yourself you're going to do it?

How many times have you told yourself tomorrow? How many times have you told people what you are going to do? You know where all that talking has gotten you? Ficking nowhere. You have not moved the needle once. I know it kind of feels like you're doing it when you talk about doing it, when you think about doing it, when you plan to do it. But the reality is, you have not done anything.

So when are you going to do it? At what point does the talking stop and the action begin? If it's at any other point than right now, you are not serious. You don't want to do it. You want to keep indulging in the that got you in the position where you want to change instead of just actually changing. Nobody who is that serious about change knowing how hard it is to change waits until tomorrow to do it because they don't want to spend another second being anything other

than what they could be. Consistency is having to go and when you wake up that day and you don't feel like it, you still do what you told yourself he was going to do. That's all consistency is. It is the days you don't feel like doing it And you realize that I am where I am because of other people's sacrifice I got to get up and make it happy even though I don't want to get up and make happy Make your future dream a present fact by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled

So whatever it is that you would like to experience in your life You must be able to feel it So live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that that you shall be. Every feeling makes a subconscious impression. And unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature, it must be expressed. Greatest people on the planet have suffered the most. Suffering is not bad. I'm suggesting suffering is awesome. The ego runs from suffering because it's the death of the ego. But I believe pain, Difficult times. Failure, loss is purification and preparation for personal heroism.

You are not your losses. One misstep doesn't define who you are. If you've lost or failed, so what? Stop being the victim. Feeling sorry for yourself isn't going to get you any closer to your goal. It's not a loss if you learn something. So take accountability for the damage that was done and just keep moving forward. I've all heard it. It's always darkest before the dawn. You have to push through the hard to get to the place you're trying to get to.

You have to understand you are on your own unique journey and your truth is going to be unique to you. So as you go down that journey of trying to be authentically who you were made to, to be and find your truth. There's going to be so many people that do not agree or do not align with that path. Here's what I know. I know that until you make a decision that you no longer want to feel how you feel,

or you no longer want to think the way that you think, or you no longer want to have the kind of results or no results that you have, until you make that decision that, you know what, I know I don't feel great, I know I doubt myself. I know I've had a lot of bad things happen. I know there's a lot that I regret.

But damn it, you've got to start with wanting something better for yourself. And then I personally think the most important thing is to start acting like the person who has the things that you want right now, even though you don't feel like it. The reason why a lot of people won't become who they want is because they're too attached to who they're. bet. So I was willing to let go of everything and everybody. See, another reason people won't get there is because the doorway is for you to fit through. You're trying to carry everybody else through because you're trying to be rescued 9-1-1, and you've got to rescue you first.

You're going to have some ups and you're going to have some downs. But during those down, That's where the growth takes place. That's where the work is. You may have a lack of confidence because you just haven't been showing up for yourself. Your words have no meaning. You don't have to stay in the past. We don't even have to go too far into the future or not mind. We come back to this present moment.

present moment we say you know what my presence is perfection and my presence has purpose and yeah I have a bit show enough for myself yeah there's been a lack of accountability but you know what I have another step I have another breath and in this next step and then this next breath I make change the quote goes like this one day they want One day, or day one. How do you know what you're used to is better than a life that's to come? When life starts changing, when life starts moving, when things start evolving, when people start changing, when you start growing, oftentimes if we've had a set of great experiences in our past, when it says, how do you know the light that you're used to, it's better than the light that's to come? And so when you think about the light that's to come, new normal, right?

A transition, having to pivot, having to make different decisions, having to make a new career choice, having to close the door and a chapter on another career. How do you know the light that you're used to is better than the light that's to come, right? Embrace it. It goes together. One is glorious. One is rest, right? It goes together, man. And when you feel the highest pressure, the highest stress, and the highest anxiety when you're in the pursuit of something greater, it's a good indication.

that you're actually on the right path. It's a position that you want to actually be in because once you push through this time of extreme stress, pressure, and anxiety, on the other side is the promise land that you've been looking for. The biggest mistake a person can do right now, no matter in which situation you are, is to give up.

You might not reach the problem. the best, best version of yourself in this lifetime, but the better one than you are right now. I have got to decide what it is that you want the future to look like. And the more specific and the more clear you are, the more likely it's going to happen. The more you understand of what that moment is

that you're trying to create and while you're trying to create it, and then you now can build the plan and the strategy to get there, now you look at that end and the result and what you wanted to be and how you're going to feel and what it's going to mean to you and you just keep visualizing yourself there the entire step of the way. The entire step of the way. And it is going to eventually reveal itself all the things that you need to do in order to get there. Self-confidence is self-trust, and it's self-confidence is the process of keeping the promises that you make to yourself. So the way we begin to build our self-confidence up is we start setting promises up with ourselves that we keep.

You need to begin to make promises to yourself, set up the game early where you can keep them, stack that stuff and create momentum. And what happens is you will begin to build a reputation with yourself that you can trust you. What does it mean to live an infinite life? Clearly, our lives are finite. We're born, we die, we come, we go. But life is infinite. The game of life will continue with us or without us.

Which means every single one of us has a choice. We don't get to choose the nature of the game. Life is infinite. We don't even get to choose if we want to play in the game or night. Once you're born, you're in it. We get one choice. Do you want to play with a finite mindset? But do you want to play with an infinite mindset?

To play with a finite mindset means waking up every day and say, I'm going to be the best, I'm going to be better than everybody else. And when you die, you take none of it with you. Or we can choose to live our lives with an infinite mindset. Which means I'm going to leave this world in better shape than I found it. It means I'm going to devote my life to see that those around me rise. And we know that we're living with an infinite mindset because our obsession is seeing that we have an impact on the lives of the people around us. You were born to do something great with your life.

When you were a little boy or a little girl, there was probably one person who made you feel that way. And you ought to give yourself the gifts right now. Who is that person? When you're a little girl or a little boy, they made you feel special. There was probably only one, maybe two. Maybe it was your parents or your grandmother or grandfather, a coach, someone that was in your life and you felt something about you because of the way they looked at you or spoke to you.

And the amazing thing about that is they were right. We're not victims of this like. You know, we wake up every day with choices to make. And you get a choice every day. And like I said earlier, I think whether or not you're going to look back on your life as a success is going to be determined by what your values and priorities are and how often you're willing to wake up every day and make the choices that are going to fulfill you

and bring you the joy that you're looking for. Human beings, our nervous system is hardwired for comfort, whereas the essence of what makes us, someone to say our soul, is hardwired for growth. And it's managing that dynamic tension between how good a comfort zone feels and the innate calling of our potential that lies outside of that. Be challenges in your life, if the challenge is too great, like you're going to fail because it's too far above you, you're never going to reach it. If it's too low, you're never going to have the energy, it's too easy, it's not going to motivate

you. But there's a sweet spot, like here, where it's a challenge, it's above what you can do, can do right now. It's not so far above that you can't possibly do it, but it's enough of a challenge to mean, I better get my act together. I better get the energy together. I better change my habits. I've got to get up earlier. I've got to work harder. It's this challenge that's a little bit above my level.

That's a powerful way of motivating yourself. You need challenges. You need constant challenges in life. Or you're going to stagnate. It's just the law of nature. Here's a harsh truth. It's not your lack of time or energy that's holding you back in life.

It's your lack of desire. We make time. We create energy. for the things that we really want to achieve. So the next time you're starting to blame your time or your energy for not doing the things that you need to be doing, what you really need to do is put your desire on blast. The greatest version of you demands that you are extreme.

There's going to be plenty of times where you don't feel like waking up, but you do it anyway. You don't feel like getting your workout in, but you do it anyway. You don't feel like eating clean. feel like eating clean, but you do it anyway, because that is what greatness demands of us. Procrastinate because your results are about to exceed your identity and you're turning the air conditioner on. So if right now you're getting 72 degrees of, you believe in yourself at 72 degrees of wealth or abundance or productivity, and you've started to heated up to 85, 90, 100 degrees,

you subconsciously turn the air conditioner on of your life to cool it back down to what you really believe you're worthy of and you deserve. So the deep work is you got to raise that identity of what you believe you're worth to 85, 90, 100 degrees. How do you do that? Typically proximity to people who live at that thermostat setting. They will heat you up to theirs. 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 that 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. Big difference between 99% and 100. I always thought that I was given 100%. I wasn't. But I was only 1% from making that money from being where I want to be, from having everything in life that I've ever dreamed of. But it's that 1% that we sleep on.

That's why it's so easy to be great nowadays because most motherfuckers are weak. If these guys can do it, why not me, you know, my mentality, you know? If that should be your mentality in life, you know, and anything. If those guys can do it, why not you? You know, why not you? Don't listen to your haters. Keep telling me you can't do it, and I'm going to keep telling you watch me.

Capacity. Because people oftentimes think it's about skill and talent. It's not. It's about capacity. The things you have to endure. The things you have to endure. have to encounter the things you have to go through in order to be in this space in place in order to be a blessing it ain't a lot of people got the skill a lot of people got the talent a lot of people got the articulation a lot of people

got the vocabulary but it's some of the most intelligent people in the world they can't fight themselves out of a paper bag baby I've never been the most talented but I've always had the capacity You deserve this. Everything coming your way, you deserve it. Blood, sweat, tears, all the focus, all the energy, all the passion, all the everything that you have to what you're doing. You deserve it. You're in this place where you can finally step into everything that you wanted for your life. Everything that you've been searching, praying, open, crying, behind closed doors, doing the dirty work for. You are in that stage to take advantage. Don't be shy, don't tip, toe, go. You reserve this time. have also happened for you. What is this here to teach me? And how can I get that lesson as soon as possible? And this, I guarantee you, the moment you have the conscious realization of,

oh, this is why this is here, showing up to allow me to see whatever that is in your life, it changes for you. Maybe it's all going to work out for you. Maybe everything you've been through and everything you're going through right now on the journey, now on the journey is leading you to a place more beautiful than you could ever imagine. What if you allowed yourself to live one day as if this were true? How would things change for you?

Regret is our most transformative motion, if we treat it right? Because regret does two things for us. It clarifies and it instructs. So regrets clarify what matters to us and they instruct us on how to do better. It's so easy to lose ourselves in the midst of a storm, especially when it feels like we haven't seen a sunny day in months. And we think because this storm is so powerful that all of our dreams are going to be washed away with it. But what if the storm looked at? at you and said if you stay true what's for you will find you this is the comeback maybe you're in a rut maybe you've just experienced failure or maybe you're just lost but this is the part in

your story where the momentum shifts this is where you find the drive that you've been looking for it is now this is the start of your comeback the vision that you have for your future everything you so desire is begging you to pick yourself up and begin your journey because the window is closing and if you pass this one up you very well may solidify your eternal existence within the dreadful cycle of stagnation when you find that sense of purpose when you find what I call your life's task everything has a direction everything has a purpose your energy is concentrated it's not like you're just going down a single narrow pathway it's not like life becomes boring

and it's just about discipline and solving problems. It's actually the most exciting thing that can ever happen to you because you never have that lost feeling. You wake up in the morning, you go, yeah, this is what I need to accomplish. People come at you with all kinds of distractions and boring and irritating things. You're able to cut it out. It's just the most marvelous piece of internal radar that you can have. So I genuinely wish that everybody can find that kind of internal radar.

You are the creator. You are creating every aspect of your life, you're creating time, you're creating memories, you're creating bad habits, you're creating good habits, you're creating good relationships, you're creating bad relationships, you're creating everything. You're creating things that you don't like. You're creating things that you love. You are a creative being and you need to be continuously creating in order to maintain momentum and energy. The undisputed first law of personal growth is this, that people will never rise above the opinion of themselves. And when we commit to self-mastering, we give ourselves the best shot becoming the best and greatest versions of ourself that we can be. And then we get to become the example and the invitation to others be the change you wish to see in the world. You know, in this life, in your own personal journey, you're going to go through so much. any ups and downs, ebbs and flows, twist and turns, and it's so important to just embrace them all with an open mind and an open heart, you know, and understand that, you know, you're in a constant

state of evolution and growth, and growth sometimes is amazing, and it feels great, and it's beautiful, and on the other end, growth sometimes is also incredibly painful and uncomfortable, and it's the ability to be able to embrace all those seasons, all those facets, understanding that through it all, you're growing and it's all serving a greater purpose. Forward is progress. They all matter. Don't fall into the trap of comparison. If six months slip by without you achieving your goals, it's okay.

As long as you're here, time is your ally. You are enough. You are deserving. You are capable. Life is in race. Your journey matters. You'll get there when you get there. Your life in the journey you put yourself through, there's nothing more than that.

And that's all I want people to do is realize that you have to struggle. You have to struggle. The bigger the struggle, the bigger the peace. Bigger the suffering, the more peace. I really hope that you know that you are going to overcome the things that feel impossible to forget. Because here's the thing. very soon you are going to start making new

beautiful memories that are going to find a home in that place in you that's empty right now and I also hope that you know that what is coming for you is going to be way better and way more amazing

than what's left and what's gone you can reinvent and rebuild and rethink what you're going to do next any moment you choose. You're not too old. You're not too young. You're not too late.

You need new goals. When you've been at this for a while, the goals that you had a decade ago are not the goals and the things that are going to motivate you right now. So instead of beating yourself up for not achieving those goals, why don't you flip your attitude and say yourself, maybe those goals weren't the ones that are meant for you? What is it that you want?

in this moment of your life. Why is it that we need to run from the chaos? Why is it that we need to run from the pain? Why is it that we want to run away from the things that hurt our feelings or hurt us inside or scare us? Why are we trying to run away from that stuff? Because we both know that our biggest lessons, your biggest lessons that you've ever experienced in life have come from the darkest times.

You ever noticed that like we spent a lot of time and, a lot of energy trying to keep ourselves out of trouble and keep ourselves away from the pain and away from the darkness yet that is actually where the gift lies is inside those places when you're at your lowest you realize a lot everything is raw everything is simplified it feels like everything's been lost and all that you're left with is the foundation of you. But these are the perfect ingredients for a rebirth and a rebuild.

You may not realize it now, but you're going to look back and realize that rock bottom gave you the gift of being able to start over. And not many people get that gift. The pages are blank, and you are the author.

There is a version of you right now that exists, that has it all. Everything you could possibly think of, the version of is living it right now. And the fastest way to experience that is to connect to that highest version of you. So here's how you do it. It's before going to bed, imagine this white light coming down from the sky, filling your entire body up with this white light. When you're ready, I want you to follow this light up as far as you can go. And your intention is, I want to connect to the version of myself that has the life that I want.

So follow this light up as far as you can go, beyond the country, beyond the earth, until you're there. And when you're there, bask in everything that you experience. You might even say to yourself, I fully receive all the lessons, all the guidance in this space. I am ready to be one with the version of me that has it all. I am ready. I am ready. I am ready. And then fall asleep to this energy. Do that and you'll be shocked at the things that you're going to attract and experience when you wake up in the morning. It's the lonely

moments that expose how you treat yourself because if you find that nobody's around and the fear of being with your own mind starts to creep in, you haven't built enough evidence that you can trust yourself. Shouldn't be afraid of you. You are the only thing in this world you actually control. and I promise to be in good company with yourself is very possible even in the painful moments you know your heroes are heroic because they never default on who you'd expect them to be so keep all of your promises to yourself

and watch you become your biggest hero nothing happens to you take action nobody ever fought their way to success nobody ever hoped their way to success nobody ever wrote goals on a planner to success they acted the moment that you and i act the moment that you and i move the moment that you and i take action action is what attracts it's the action it's the movement that people say oh my look at them look what they're doing look where they're going and the moment that i begin to take action i began to attract people i begin to attract resources

I began to attract opportunities. All this stuff, it doesn't, it doesn't come to you. Quit waiting for it. It isn't coming. You go to it and you make it happen. Nothing more motivating than the knowledge I'm going to die. Think of the prisoner in a cell and they put in an X through everyone because every X is one day closer to getting out.

Well, let's do that for your life. Every X you spend doing nothing, that's a day you could have done something and you're going to die one day. Stay around the calendar, okay? This would so motivate me as it does to be as productive as I can, as helpful as I can. Try to make a better world for your privilege of having lived in it. So if knowing you're going to die brings meaning to your life, then live. living forever, it is a life of no meaning at all. If you decide that you want to achieve a goal, you start moving toward it,

and what is the first thing you're going to experience? Obstacles, difficulties, failure, setbacks, disappointments, they come over and over again. You may fail nine times for every tenth time that you make a step forward. Well, if you have high levels of ambition, like an engine, a car with a powerful engine, and you go over the bumps, you'll keep driving forward. If you have low levels of ambition, what will you do? You will quit at the first failure or disappointment.

We spend a lot of time in our life chasing success. Well, what really is success? What does it mean? What does it mean to be successful? Have you ever sat down and figured out, if I accomplish what I'm going after, that goal or that dream or whatever that is, does getting that make me successful?

What about the people that I have with me along the way or the people I need to help me along the way or the people I help along the way? What about that? Does that play into my success? Do you think about the people that surround you and that you surround and the difference that it makes in your life and theirs as you go on this chase of achievement? Success is cool. Success is something we should go after, but significance is better. I want you to be successful, but I want you to understand that if that success has no significance to anyone but you, then it's not going to have that kind of feeling that you think you're going to get from that success. There's no secure path forward. Give it up. It's risk everywhere. Oh my God, that's terrible. It's like, yes, except for two things. You can pick your risk. That's the first thing. So you get to pick your poison. That's something. And second, you're a lot tougher than you.

So even though there's risk everywhere, if you confront it forthrightly, what you'll find is that you can actually handle the risk, and that's the security. You've heard that the eyes are the window to the soul, but you haven't heard that they're also the bridge to your goals, and that the reason you aren't able to achieve them is that you're looking at the wrong things, constantly scrolling to guard your eyes. The way to do so is very simple. Stop looking for pleasure and start looking for growth. Realize that the second you start protecting your eyesight is the second you start making significant progress towards your goals. Treat yourself with utmost respect or what. Settle for nothing but the best life you could possibly imagine or what?

I mean, is there seriously another option in your mind? Would you actually be willing to give up the purpose? potential of your life to an uncertainty of your ability to get it. I'll be honest, you're not better than anybody. But guess what? Nobody is better than you. The people with your dream life are not better than you. Your family is not better than you. I am not better than you. So if anybody can have what you are looking for, it's you. Time doesn't lie. It reveals, the truth about how much you've given, how much you've endured, and how much you're willing to fight for what you say you want. Time isn't your enemy. It's your greatest ally,

but it only works for you if you show up. How often have you felt stuck in the routines of life? The same mornings, the same faces, the same paths you walk day after day. There's comfort in knowing exactly where you are and where you're going, but let me ask you this. Is comfort all there is to life? The truth is, comfort zones are illusions. They make us feel safe, but they also trap us. You see, the magic of life doesn't happen in the places you already know. It happens in the unknown. The messy, the unpredictable. There's a quote that goes, if you never get lost, how will you ever expect to find yourself? Think about that for a second. If you always know what's next, if every step is planned and calculated,

where is the room for discovery? Where's the room for growth? Let me tell you something about being lost. Those moments when you don't know what's next, when the map you followed all your life suddenly tears apart. Those are the moments when life truly begins. Those are the moments when you stop walking a straight line and start exploring. This isn't about staying safe, avoiding risks, or sticking to what you know. No, this is about embracing the chaos. The kind of chaos that makes you question everything you thought you do, the kind of chaos that scares you, but also sets you free. Because here's the truth, you'll never discover the life you were meant to live if you're too afraid to leave the life you already do. So let go.

You know, let go of the isolation, the hesitation, and the fear. You know, it's time to break free, to try, to fail, and to get lost. And in doing so, find a version of yourself that's braver, brighter, and more alive than you ever imagine. let's start with why we're so terrified of getting lost yeah somewhere along the way society taught us that uncertainty was a bad thing from childhood we're handed a map go to school get good grades get a stable job safe for retirement stay in your lane play it safe but let me ask you who wrote that map did you or was it written by someone else society your parents or your fears Think about the life you're living right now. Are you walking your own path? Or are you following someone else's? Are you chasing dreams that are truly yours?

Or are you stuck living out expectations that were placed on you? Now, imagine throwing that map away. Scary, right? But here's the thing. When you get lost, you don't just lose your way. You lose the limits you've placed on yourself. You lose the narrow perspective that's been holding you back. When you get lost, you stop living on autopilot.

You begin to notice the opportunities around you, the ones you've been too afraid to see. That's why getting lost matters. It's not a failure. It's not a setback. It's an awakening. It's the universe telling you there's more out there for you if you're brave enough to explore it. Fear. It's the number one thing holding us back.

Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of looking foolish. But let me ask you this. What's scarier? Trying and failing or never trying at all. Failure isn't the opposite of success. It's part of the process. Every step forward begins with a stumble. Every masterpiece starts as a rough draft.

Every strong person was once terrified. But here's the secret. Fear isn't your enemy. It's your guide. Fear is like a compass. It points you to the places where you need to grow. Think about the things you're afraid of. Are you afraid to speak your mind?

To step into the spotlight. To pursue your passion, that fear isn't telling you, to stop is showing you what matters most to you. So what if you fail? What if you look foolish? So what? You'll survive. In fact, you'll do more than survive. You'll learn. You'll grow. You'll become stronger. Picture this. Years from now, when you look back on your life, will you be proud of how you lived? Or will you be haunted by the chances you didn't take? The life you want is waiting for you. But you'll never find it if you let fear keep you in place. There's another reason we stay stuck, isolation.

We convince ourselves we don't need anyone else that we're better off alone. Let me tell you something. Independence isn't the same as isolation. We were built for connection, but here's the thing. True connection requires vulnerability. Require stepping out of your shell and saying, this is me.

Will you meet me here? So reach out, join that class. Go to that event. Say yes to the invitation you've been avoiding. Life isn't meant to be lived alone. Here's the thing nobody tells you. Getting lost isn't just necessary. It's fun.

Think about the last time you tried something completely new. Maybe you got lost in a new city, stumbled upon an incredible cafe, or ended up having an unforgettable conversation with a stranger. Life is full of surprises, but only if you're open to them. When you let go of control and embrace the unknown, you invite magic into your life. Do you want to know the secret to happiness?

It's not about having everything figured out. It's about living with curiosity and wonder. It's about waking up every day and asking what amazing thing might happen today. So start saying yes. Yes to adventures. Yes to risks. Yes to the things that make your heart race. The more you let go, the more you find yourself.

When you step into the unknown, you discover strengths you never knew you have. had. You realize you're braver, smarter, and more resourceful than you thought. Getting lost strips away the labels and expectations that have been placed on you. And it forces you to ask, who am I, really? And in the process, you find the truest, most authentic version of yourself. So, where do we go from here? That's up to you. The life you want is waiting for you. But you'll never find it if you're too afraid to get lost. So go. Try, fail, explore. And remember, Getting lost is at the end. It's the beginning.

If you have enough reasons, you can do anything. If you have enough reasons, you can go as far as you want to go, cash in on all that you want to cash in on. If you have enough reasons, enough reasons to get upward. Enough reasons to stay up a little late. Enough reasons to buckle down and learn the disciplines. Enough reasons to put yourself through the paces. Enough reasons to develop the language.

Enough reasons? to pay the price I hate it when people say fake it to you make it because that sounds to me like you're lying I like I am future me I'm walking into this room right now as future me I have written down very clearly

who I want to be one year from today I'm going to be that person now that's what I'm going to be I'm going to start acting like that person today the only thing standing between you and the life that you want is the ability to grieve grieve the past potential

mourn the fantasy of what could have been, the life that you thought you'd have by now, the people who chose not to stay, the mistakes that you're still beating yourself up for, grieve it all. Let go of your comfort zone and the desire to be chosen or approved of because your new life will hosch through your old one. And remember that in the process of building this life that you want, you'll only ever lose what was meant for a person that you no longer are. You need to understand this. Everything in your life is a reality. reflection of a choice you've made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.

You have to demand it. You have to promise yourself. This is it right here. You have to promise yourself that you will not ever be a failure. You have to marry this thought matter. I don't care if on your deathbed, it dying, hurts, anything you have to promise yourself before you get there that you are not going to go almost lose. And it's like the things that we need to work on that are calling us, that are the portals into evolution and greater awareness and self-understanding are the things that we don't want to look at because they're uncomfortable. If you don't confront them or look at them, they only grow stronger and at some point reveal themselves in your life and in ways none of us want. Right, so that the solution is always to move towards the thing that you know you're avoiding or don't really want to deal with. Once you decide to be all in, you are going to be misunderstood by every individual out there, including yourself.

You will no longer recognize yourself because being all in requires you to show up differently at different scarce people. Whatever you want in life, you're going to have to have to be able to. have to work hard for. And if it's huge, you're going to work 10 times it's harder. I would get so jealous of people who could get it easy or get some form of it without having the difficulties that I had. I'm like, how did you just walk into this and get that and how I'm struggling? I would get so angry. Then I had just like, you know what, I'm never going to be jealous if anybody can. What I'm going to do is I'm going to understand why my path is different. Why do I have to work much harder than that person? And when I tell you, as I look back,

at all of those people, I kept surpassing and surpassing and surpassing and surpassing every time. I'm like, wow, the very person that you were jealous of because of what they had, look at where you are now. Now they're looking at you going, wow, how did you do that? Well, instead of being jealous, I started working and focus and working harder and harder. Nobody could outwork me. All of us have this conflict going on at all times inside of us. And it's between two forces. And the first force is your voice of fear and your inner critic.

There's another voice, the second voice, your soul, your true self. That voice is a little quieter, and that voice isn't in your head. A lot of times this shows up in your body. Feel that. The voice of fear will lead you to a life that's too small. If you want to reach full power, it's in the second voice. This contains your dreams, your path, contains your energy. Energy is the language of your soul.

If you want to feel the full magnitude of what you can do in this one life that you have, there's really only one decision. Which voice will you listen to it? Every limitation you have in this life is self-imposed. You don't have to be special or talented. All you have to do is believe with every fiber of your being that you can make it work. And sooner or later, it will. If you believe you have what it takes, then your mind,

will do whatever it can to prove your right. So be delusional. Go for that thing that seems like it's so far out of reach. Because the only thing that's stopping you is you. I ask people all the time, man, who are you when it goes south, man? Not when you get what you want. We know when the sun's shining and you get what you want, you won't smile. Babies do that.

I give them a bottle. I give them a bottle, they're going to smile. I give them what they want, they're going to smile. I give a puppy a snack, he's going to smile. But when you don't get what you want, when it doesn't go the way you want it to, even if it affects and impacts you on a physical level, who are you?

Because that's the person that your kids are going to learn from. That's the person that your parents raised. That's the person that will go out and either positively or negatively affect an impact of work. progress over perfection you do know that if you're making progress most people are going to try to nail you with not being perfect so don't even try to be perfect just embrace your weirdness embrace the fact that you're different i think i'll give yourself a little credit for being that way but if you're going to do it you can't give into the criticisms you're going to be hearing you're going to get critics all the time you're going to live in discomfort most of your life remember this growth over destination expansion over stagnation fraud over perfection. You've got to lean in to progress. You've got to lean in to who you are. You've got to fully celebrate and embrace the fact that you're trying to do something great with your life, and that should be acknowledged.

Bird doesn't land on a branch, trusting that the branch won't break, but rather trusting in its ability to fly away. You are the bird. Life is the branch. Don't waste your entire life over-analyzing the safest place to land. Make a decision, enjoy the view while you're there, and trust that you'll be able to move on if and when the time comes. If you want something bad enough, you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something. I'll repeat that. If you want something bad enough,

you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something, not even yourself. You need to work on yourself. If you just try to be pampered, and if you're trying to be soft, and if you're trying to be the victim at all, we're not going to go anywhere. We need to get stronger. We need to get tougher.

We need to not be afraid of failure. We've got to go and do the work. We've got to face adversity. Adversity breeds character. There's strength. We have to be willing to go through hardship, through suffering, through pain, through crying. All of that stuff, don't shy away from any of that because it just makes you stronger. There will be days when you give every ounce of yourself, every ounce of your soul, blood, sweat, and tears, early mornings and late nights,

and not see any result from all of your hard work. And the most difficult part of all of that is knowing you have to show up the next day and do it all over again. And you may not see the result immediately. It may not come next week. but believing that eventually the result will come is what makes a champion. There's going to be days where you don't feel like showing up. There's going to be days where you're paralyzed by self-doubt. In days where the distance between where you are and where you want to be is overwhelming.

I'm here to tell you that the only way to keep inching forward when those days happen is to be committed to the process. Because the ones who stay consistent, whether they feel like it or not, are the ones who see the results. not the ones who have conditional commitments on their goals. Keep going. I think when you feel stuck or dissatisfied in your life, it's a signal.

And it's not a signal that your life is broken. It's a signal that one of your most basic needs are not being met. Your need for exploration. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself, To be uncomfortable. Why is life so hard? Life is never easy.

If it's easy, it would be boring. Life should be hard. Embrace the hardness of life. Because through those hardships, you're learning, you're molding, and you're becoming a person. So, life should be hard. When you accept that life should be hard, then nothing is hard.

everything is easy because everything is a lesson that you can learn something from every day is a new day to learn something new so what are you going to learn today sometimes growing and breaking feel the same i think that sometimes growing and breaking are the same thing and here's something to keep in mind in this uncomfortable season of growth you are not the one that's breaking What's breaking is everything that isn't you. And sometimes that hurts. Sometimes you have to go through that adversity and that challenge and that setback to activate the passion in the drive. You know, sometimes it takes the sting of defeat.

Sometimes it takes the sting of heartbreak to activate something within you that was needed for you to start moving in the direction that you're meant to move, to get to where you need to be. The right path is often going to be the hard one. It's going to be the one that requires you to believe in something with no guarantees. The one that asks you to let go of all control and walk forward in blind faith.

But you know you're not walking blindly. Because you can see it. You can feel that there's no other choice but this. Everything you've been through has prepared you for this moment. Lean into it. Trust it. You're ready.

You know, you have a decision-making. Am I going to stay right here? Am I going to live my life and be happy? Which, by the way, if that's what you want, there's no judgment. But what I'm saying to you is, if you're that ambitious now and you don't keep moving, you're going to feel bad about staying in the same spot. So it's important that we set bigger goals and that we continue to progress through life. Because we have to have a purpose.

We have to have a drive. And the reality is, is our pursuit of a business. Bigger goal produces a lot of good for people outside of ourselves. So what gifts are you suppressing by staying in that place and being content where you are? How many lives changed? How many new ideas? How much good is now being capped in your jar because you've decided to stay right where you are? That's something to think about.

Now stay after it. If you're maybe feeling down or you're not feeling. as motivated, that's where your discipline has to really kick in because the motivation is not always there. The discipline, that's what's got to be your backbone for progress. Even if you don't want to do it or you're not feeling motivated to do it, the discipline will keep you, you know, on that steady upward slope. Each and every day, I'm trying to be the best I can be in that day. I'm trying to maximize that day, just that day.

And I think if we all can shift into focusing on the small, integral steps that go into the big changes, that's when we'll see the most growth and the most evolution in our lives. Thank you.