Daily Motivations - MAKE IT COUNT

Episode Date: August 25, 2024

5 months left of 2024. Make them count. Discover how to focus your energy and prioritize what truly matters.  Speakers: MIGUEL MENDOZA JIMMY CARR RICK RUBIN ALEX HORMOZI MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY FRANCIS NGANNOU ROD DIAL JR RYAN HOLIDAY QUINLAN WALTHER TRENT SHELTON  LUKE BELMAR JONATHAN BRISCO

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Now it's time to find out what you were destined to become. You can't have an easy life and a great character. Show me a trust fund kid that inherited a bunch of money and I'll show you someone mentally tortured. It's not the pursuit of happiness. It's the happiness of the pursuit, the journey or the destination. It's who you become on the journey. If you're not getting past this today, this week, this month, this year, often a decade goes by and you're still hung up and you can't get rid of that thing. If it's holding you back from going where you want to go, maybe you should just deny the thing ever going to happen.

Kick it in the head. Kick it off the curb. I'm done with you. I'm sick of you. I'm tired of hanging out with you. I'm tired of that thing, whatever it is, holding me back from going where I want to go. Never say you can't do it. Say I haven't done it yet.

I haven't done it yet. And that's true with everything. It's like there's nothing that you can't do. You may not have done it yet. We don't know if you can do it or not until you really practice and then you find out if you can do it or not or how well you can do it. You have to kill your current self for your new self to have room to grow. And so it's this constant appraisal of your skills and activities. Which of these makes me stronger? Which of these makes it more likely for me to hit my goal? And I just want to give you that frame because that like that single frame of

is this person being in my life make it more likely or less likely to hit my goal? Is this activity or this behavior that I do make it more or less likely to hit my goal? And I consistently just ask that question over and over and over again. Imagine a competitor that you'd never want to go against. Focused, persistent, always learning, always improving, relentless, says no to everything but that which makes them stronger. You know what he looks like, you know how he acts, you know who he associates with, that's future you. Now become him. A dream is so big when you have something, it's hard to give up. You get to the point that you're capable of risking more for just a dream, which is something that a

normal person will not understand. You know, right now the goal is just to focus on myself, you know, everything growth. I'm not worried about the mistakes that I made in the past or anything, you know. I'm in competition with myself. So I'm just getting better and better and better. That's it. You want to know when your life will really change, though? The truth is, your life will change when you realize that some people are gone and they ain't coming back.

Stop trying to breathe life into something that died years ago. Some people are in your life forever, but most people are only passing through. That chapter is in the past. So instead of reading the same chapter over and over again, it's time to make space for people who actually deserve your time and attention and who are presently here with you right now. Remember this when life gets tough. Life is a lot like driving. Sometimes you get lost and sometimes you have to take streets you don't like. Maybe they're full of traffic or maybe they're too bumpy, but they lead you where you need to go. Each rough patch

has a purpose that will teach you a lesson and make you stronger. You might not get why you're on a hard road, but trust the process. Every path, no matter how hard, is needed for your growth. The bumps in the road are steps to where you need to be. Keep going. Even when the way is unclear or crowded, you have a place you're meant to reach. The funny thing about life is that we can have so much and still feel something's missing. There's always that empty spot making us wonder why. We make excuses, looking for reasons for this feelingondering if there's a fix. It's because we can't let go. Holding on to a dream of a perfect life.

We forget that good things take time. Pleasure passes quickly, but the shame remains. That's the harsh, stoic truth. But the positive side of that is the reverse. When you work hard for something, when you put in hard labor on something, that passes quickly. But the pride, the virtue, the good that comes out of it, it remains.

And it's about accepting the seasons. Weather can never be the same. It can never rain all day, every day. So maybe you're in a season, but the weather always has to change. What can you be learning? What can you be doing in this season, but the weather always has to change. What can you be learning? What can you be doing in this season? Because it's definitely not going to change if you're not figuring out what lesson you need to have in this season.

If it never rained, the plant's not growing. Have you ever realized that both fear and faith require you to believe in something that you cannot see? Think about that for a second. Both include uncertainty. Both require discomfort. One keeps you small by anticipating danger or pain. The other wants you to grow by anticipating joy or love. So if you're stuck between the two, doubt or hope, fear or faith,

maybe the simpler question is, which of the two do you value more? Once you have your answer, start acting from there. Most people, when they fail, they don't like to look at themselves in the mirror and say, you know what? Maybe I have to change. People want change to happen to them. They don't want to change. And when you realize that change isn't going to happen to you, you need to actually proactively determine your future. Then and only then can you actually take not only full accountability for your good actions, your bad actions, but for your full life. If you feel like you lost your way, I would say congratulations. If you're lost, that only means one thing. You're about to be found.

And sometimes you need to lose your way in order to find a better way. Sometimes you need to lose certain things to gain better things. Sometimes certain doors have to close that you want to keep open so a better door can come into your life.