Daily Motivations - MIND MASTERY

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

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Bet on the sports you love with BetRivers Sportsbook. Take a chance. We'll be right back. life is not always easy there are times when it feels like everything is going against us when we face obstacles that seem insurmountable so many people out there fail not because they don't have the ability it's because they don't have the heart to go through adversity. Every time you face disappointment, you face heartache, you face defeat, it's preparing you for what this world has in store for you. Many dreams die while suffering. When you're suffering, you give up on the very things that you wanted the most. Stuff happens that are completely out of your control.

And when we make plans, it is impossible in our finite state to be able to predict the unusual, unprecedented circumstances that will dramatically affect our plans. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard changing your life. There are moments when you're going to doubt yourself. It takes a lot of guts to get up. You don't have nothing but lead in the corner of your pocket.

You're out here talking about living your dream. And people laughing at you. And they're doubting you. It takes guts, ladies and gentlemen. No guts, no glory. You can experience enough pain in life that it can clobber you to the ground and you believe you can't do it. You believe that this is it for you.

No, it's not. Everybody's got big plans, but the plans out the window when they get punched in the face. Life is going to test that will every time. Life is going to see how bad you want what you say you want. It's a choice. You just have to wake up. You just have to break through. You have to be relentless. You have to never let off the gas, never stop, never quit. Never allow anyone to talk you out of the dream, division, and ideas that God has sent you. Welcome to Daily Motivation, where you get motivated and inspired. Life is rough. You can

allow it to destroy you, or you can allow it to build you up. Draw the line, ladies and gentlemen, and just say enough is enough. See, a lot of us, because of our limited vision of ourselves, a lot of us who begin to focus on problems and enable them to overwhelm us, we begin to think that we have no options. We begin to believe that there's no way out. Well, guess what? There's always a way. Where there's a will, there's a way. A real man in the dark, when nobody's watching, he put me in work. Because he loves the process. Life doesn't happen to you.

We all think that life happens to me. Life happens for you. It happens for you. I mean, opportunities will come to you every day. It's either for you, you can remain scared of the opportunities, or you can embrace them and take them. But I finally realized that if you give up on your dreams, if you give up on your dreams, what do you have left?

Nothing. I can't live that way. I gotta breathe it, I gotta to, I got to breathe it. I got to eat it. I got to sleep it. And until you get there, you'll never be successful in life. But once you get there, I guarantee you the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want. What is the common denominator of failure? You never say, cause of me, oh, it's the competition. It's the economy. It's the president. If you wake up tomorrow morning and blame your failure on someone or something else, you have no reason to change, do you? But if you woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror and said, I am failing because of me. The decisions that I make, the energy I put in,

I'm not passing the blame. If you look in the mirror tomorrow and say that, you will change. Because nobody likes thinking of themselves as a failure. You've got to focus on you. And as you convince you, as you sell yourself, every day, every day, you will begin

to see a difference in the things that you're doing. Telling yourself every day, here I go again and I got what it takes. This is my day and nothing out here is going to stop me. Listen to me very closely. Y'all running from obstacles when in fact it's the obstacle that's going to take you to the next level. Y'all running from pain. Y'all running from challenges. You telling me how difficult your life be. Do you understand it is the difficulty that's going to prepare you and take you to that next level? 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 tests. And if you have a dream and you commit to it, it will come to pass. What do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you want? What if you're not the only one that wants what you want? What if there are thousands of other people who want what you want? You have to outwork them.

You've got to outbind them. You've got to get up earlier. You've got to stay up later. You've got to execute. And you've got to go from 70 to 120. You know how many times people say things like, Close your eyes. Visualize with me. It's five years from now. Ten years from now. You gotta go from 70 to 120. You know how many times people say things like, close your eyes, visualize with me.

It's five years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now. What does your house look like? What does your car look like? Imagine having a house with a swimming pool and it's a four-story. You got an elevator. You got this view. You got, okay, that's great.

But how about we do it in a different way? Close your eyes, go 20 years from now and you don't do nothing. You stay the same as you are today. How many divorces you got? What happened to your family? How about the people that said you're going to quit and they say, I told you. So every single time you have to appease to their opinion becoming factual because you gave up on your dreams.

See, that's the real exercise. And if you're okay with that, keep living life the way you're living. If you are still alive, there's still room for improvement. There's still room for growth. There's still room to grow and be better. We turn tragedy into triumph.

That's what lions do. Lions don't cry. Lions don't give up. Lions don't quit. Lions hunt. That's what lions do. Lions don't cry. Lions don't give up. Lions don't quit. Lions hunt. That's what we do for a living. When you are a true hunter, you don't go by time. You go by the gazelle. You hunt until you get a gazelle and you don't stop until you get one. 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? When they tell you you're not gonna make it, don't believe them, man. Don't believe them. you got to be relentless sometimes you gotta start all over again sometimes you gotta refresh and you're so worried about your bills you're so focused on everything else but you and you don't rely on you

you are what's gonna blow you up you are what's gonna change your situation you you are what's going to blow you up. You are what's going to change your situation. You are what's going to take you to the next level. At some point, you've got to be tired of not being number one. And you've got to complain angry. And I play angry. I've got to work every day. It doesn't end. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year.

But eventually, it will subside. and something else will take its place if i quit however it will last forever get back to fucking work it's time to get back to work stop hearing yourself talk get off the podcast don't be on social media too much cut out all the fucking noise get back to the fucking mental lab because that's where the knowledge came from i think success first of all is knowing my purpose in life as i have watched and observed successful people. What I have discovered about them is they really have figured out why they're here. They really do have their act together. And knowing their purpose in life

is a stability for them. Know why you are doing what you are doing and then get out there every day. The fight, the daily fight is a challenge. You will not always want to do what you need to do. You will not always feel like doing something you need to do. That's the thing. Success and failure are generally slow processes. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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were so immature that you let that moment dictate the rest of your day I have spent my whole life scared Frightened things that could happen might happen might not happen 50 years I spent like that Finding myself awake at 3 in the morning Fear that's the real enemy. So, get up.

Get out in the real world. And you kick that bastard as hard as you can, right in the teeth. I'm the one. I'm the one to make this happen. I'm the one to become successful in this business. It's possible. I can live my dream.

It's necessary. I work on myself. It's me. I've got to make it happen. While you're over there watching me and talking about me, I'm working. I'm working hard. I'm taking things to the next level. You keep gossiping and I'll keep working. You keep talking smack and I'll keep working you keep focusing on everything and everyone else and I'll keep working and when you finally look around at where you are and where I'm at you realize that you have nothing left to talk smack about if If you will lose, then I will win. But I tell you, there are some times in life where you fall down and you feel like you

don't have the strength to get back up. And fear comes in. Just that fear paralyzes you. And I just want to ask you today do you think you have hope it was hard ladies and gentlemen it was very difficult to pick myself up each day believing that I could do it there were times that I doubted myself I said God why why is this happening to me I'm just trying to take care of my children and my mother. I'm not trying to steal or rob from anybody. How did this have to happen to me? Nothing's ever going to be given to you. Everything's going to be earned.

If you don't go out there and put in the work, you don't go out and put in the effort, one, you're not going to get the results, but two, and more importantly, you don't deserve it. You didn't earn it. I don't care if you have to inch your way day by day. Even if you have to get down. And it hurts, and it's hard, and nobody can see what you're really going through.

If you don't quit the pit will become your platform don't complain don't talk negative that's average people talk normal average people talk problem the greats talk solutions average people use their time to whine and complain average people say it's their boss's fault. It's their mother's fault. I used to be average. I used to say, when is my daddy coming to get me? When is my biological father going to come in my life? And when I would talk like that, I ended up getting kicked out of school. And when I talked like that, I ended up being homeless. And when I talked like that, I was broke. And then one day I woke up and said, Eric, nobody's coming to save you. Nobody's coming to get you.

But you can go to the library and get yourself. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place. And I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. When you're in that darkness, you want to sit there and wait for the light to come. But you can't wait. The only way out is to step forward, to face your fears, to become your own life. People need to have purpose to get up. They need purpose to perform. But we don't take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us because the very purpose is you.

So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something, man, you don't care enough about yourself. I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. And that's where I gained the advantage. You can write everything down if you want to. Be brave enough to write every one of your goals down, but I'm gonna tell you something. Life's gonna hit you in your mouth and you gotta do me a huge favor. Your why has to be greater than that knockdown. And I love it. Buster Douglas got knocked out. Nobody ever got knocked out by Mike Tyson and ever got back up It was almost a 10 count. He was stumbling they were four three two

One ding ding ding saved by the bell He goes to his corner the whole world is like that. That's it. Once he comes back out That's it. Mike's gonna just hammering and exactly that Mike Tyson came out like I got him I got this kid up against the rope listen to me many of you right now life's got you up against the rope you can't give up you can't give in listen to me if it was easy everybody would do it and if life's got you backed up I need you to do what Buster Douglas did Buster Douglas start fighting back what messes you up is you focus on the thing that's not happening and that causes you to get discouraged if you get wrapped up into what ain't happening it get ugly man the one way to combat discouragement is with gratitude Some days, of course, I'll get tired.

Some days I will get beat up. Some days I will get knocked down and drained and I will have some bad days. But I will not stop. To me, every day is a beginning, a new day, a new week, a new shot at life. An opportunity to come out of the gate like a man possessed and attack the day without mercy. I am going to win. You have to decide to live a life where excuses is not something that you're going to do to give yourself a pass. You've got to say, I'm going to do this because it has meaning for you.

Do what you know, not what you feel, and you will manifest your greatness. The most important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. Most of you won't be successful because when you get tired, you quit. I've never met a person who was not successful that didn't have a great amount of self-discipline within their life. Self-discipline and being able to perform and being able to keep your life on schedule and being able to keep commitments and promises and meet deadlines is essential to success. So often the easy path calls to us to be weak for that moment, to break down for that moment. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you, you are not going to do me like this no more.

You're not going to keep procrastinating. You're not going to keep thinking like that. I need you. You're not. You're not going to continue to sabotage me. You're not. There's things that you know you're supposed to do as a human being. Things that you know are going to improve your life. Do those things. There's things that you know are going gonna make you a worse person and make your life worse don't do those things get up early do some kind of workout eat good foods clean your room make a list of things that you're supposed to do in your life and then wake up in the morning and do those things and no it is not easy you're not gonna get it from anyone else but you what do you do when somebody's not there

watching you what do you do when you have to either do what it is you know you're supposed to do or you get to take the playoff because no one's going to know the difference because it's really easy for anybody to come to work on the days they feel like killing it and killing it. But what happens on the days that you don't feel like killing it? What happens on the days that you don't feel like getting out of bed? Because those are the days that are going to find where you end up your life when you're uncommon get ready for the criticism when you're uncommon get ready for the opposition when you're uncommon get ready for the common people not to understand you when you're uncommon have

uncommon ways get ready for people to try and block you and conspire against you. Develop the interior core where it doesn't matter if people call you crazy. One of the things limiting you from your income, your impact, a world-class life. You care too much about what people think about you. Everyone has an opinion. Why let the opinions of other people deny you from a life that will make history? Haters motivate me. Because when they're talking about me, that means I'm doing something.

You see, while you're over there watching me and talking about me, I'm working. I'm working hard. I'm taking things to the next level you keep gossiping and I'll keep working You keep talking smack, and I'll keep working you keep focusing on Everything and everyone else and I'll keep working and when you finally look around At where you are and where I'm at, you'll realize that you have nothing left to talk smack about. And you will lose and I will win. Discipline your body.

Free your mind. Get up early and go. Get after it and you'll become the person you want to be. And you become that person through one small decision at a time. Losers always talk about how they hate to lose, but they don't do anything about it. Winners will do whatever the f*** it takes. Winners will show up and stay late every f***ing day until they're winning. Winners will talk to anybody they can that can help them and take the lessons to heart and put them in play.

That's what winners do. You don't stop when you're tired. You stop when you're done. You stop when you're completed, when you're executed. Execution is worship. Great greatness is in you but the problem is somebody's got to push you the problem is somebody's got to give you a reward somebody's got a project the problem is you're not self-motivated you have to stay in beast mode and so i'm looking at the clock and i'm saying technically you can go back to sleep technically

but eric thomas if you go back to sleep you might you go back to sleep, you might not wake up to 3.30. You might not wake up to 4 o'clock. And if you wake up at 4 o'clock, Eric, for 30 minutes of sleep, you might be pushing your goals back a week. You might be pushing your goals back a month. You might be pushing your goals back an entire year by sleeping for two hours because you missed an opportunity. Every single day in a safari, a lion wakes up. And every single day in a safari, a gazelle wakes up. If you wake up and you're a gazelle, you realize if you're going to survive, you must outrun the slowest gazelle. Because every single day when the lion wakes up, it's only one thing on that lion's mind. And that is catching the gazelle that couldn't keep up. In your mind, you're thinking you got to outrun the fastest lion. That's not the truth. You just got to stay ahead of the slow gazelle.

That's it. Whatever it is that you do professionally, you better make sure you're not in the back of the pack. To develop yourself, you have to go from being a person of good intentions to a person of good actions. You've got to get out of the intending world and get into the doing world. No one will outwork me. No one. You've got to be the hardest workers in the room. Don't fuck the opportunity up. You gotta work every fucking day.

It doesn't end. You can do whatever you want to do. You guys know that. At some point, you gotta be fucking tired of not being number one. You have to be. And you gotta fucking play angry. And I play angry. You have to realize. You have to be and you gotta can play angry and I play angry You have to realize you have to know

You have to accept that all your excuses are lies Think about the things that you tell yourself The lies you use to rationalize taking the easy road And leaving discipline behind Think about them You don't have time. That's a lie. You don't have support.

That's a lie. You don't have the equipment or the gear. Lies. And you're too tired or you're too sore or you're just plain not feeling it. Lies, lies, lies. And there's, you're too busy. Sure you are.

That's a lie. You can't just say you want it. You can't watch the video and say, I want it as bad as I want to breathe. It's true to say it. But when it's showtime, when the sun comes up, you've got all the books, you've got all the tapes, you've got all the access. Now it's time to hunt. Everybody's got lions on their profiles.

Everybody talks positive about themselves. Everybody talks like you're a beast. You dress like you're a beast. Your image, everything about you says, I'm a beast. When it's beast time, you've you gotta get up and make it happen. And these challenges that you face, they're gonna do their best to take you down. And I'm gonna tell you right now, it won't be easy. It will be hard because life is hard. That's what life is.

Everybody wanna win but everybody don't want to work. Everybody want the reward, but everybody don't want to work. We all got to work. All I'm saying is don't quit. I didn't say don't rest. I didn't say don't recover. I said don't quit. Mentally, you ain't got to take off. Mentally, you can stay connected. And most people will not be successful. They will not reach whatever they want. Because when there's not anything emotionally attached to it, they're can stay connected and most people will not be successful they will not reach whatever they will because when there's not

anything emotionally attached to it they don't give up most people were closer they ever thought they were to finishing that big thing but they never finished it because they didn't feel like finish what they were doing it was playing and most people quit in the play because the pain hurts so bad they don't know if they want to keep going to get to go because you're gonna wake up most days and not feel like it you're gonna wake up most days and not feel like it. You're going to wake up most days and not be pumped up. You're going to wake up most days and not feel like doing it.

But when you can get to a point that you do it anyway, then there's no way you won't reach any of your goals. Man, stop bullshitting. If you really got a problem with your life, you'll change it. You're not tired of being broke. You're not tired of being broke. You're not tired of being stuck. You're not tired because if you was tired, you would actually do some shit about it. I'm tired of everybody running around complaining as if you're on the receiving end of whatever this world wants to dump on you and you don't have a choice.

It's time to grow up, man. Excuses sound best to the person that's making them up. Anybody who is determined to do something, who wants something to be different, it will eventually be different. When things go wrong, they always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other and it's pretty easy sometimes to feel beaten when you're faced with all those issues and all those problems and they all hit you at the same time. I don't care how good you are, I don't care how talented you are, there are some times when things aren't going to go right and you have to deal with it

you can experience enough pain in life that it can clobber you to the ground and you believe you can't do it you believe that this is it for you no it's not don't you quit unless you get out every single month in day and put in the work inch by inch by fucking inch, you will never get there. Isn't it about time you become that person you always could be? How do you do that? You break the fucking mold, guys.

You get the fuck out of bed when it's cold, when it's early, and go for a fucking run. Commit to one day and see how you feel. Eventually you'll feel like, wow, man, that was fucking alive. You can't talk it all the time, you gotta walk it. Commit to one day, try it, see how it feels. Getting up that f***ing early when everyone else is asleep or in sack holes.

When everybody else says, no this is not comfortable, we shouldn't do this. You say yes, mother f***er, I'm gonna introduce myself to it. Let me teach you something. How many of you have ever had a dog that had a flea on it? You ever seen a flea? One of the smallest insects. But for his height and size, the flea has the highest vertical leap in nature for an insect. A flea man can come 36 inches off the ground. His vertical is 36. The average person can't do that. If you capture the flea and you put him in a mayonnaise jar and you put the lid on it, he starts jumping.

But he's going to hit himself on that lid. But after a while, the flea makes an adjustment. So now the flea only jumps just to where he don't get knocked back down. His environment got him now jumping nowhere near where he came. You're gonna be attacked, betrayed, exposed and humiliated. And you'll survive that. A lot of people can climb that mountain. It's the way down that breaks them. Because that's the moment.

When you are truly alone. And what will you do then? Can you summon the will to fight on through all the pain and rise again? Who are you? That will be the defining question of your life. A shoe is just a shoe until somebody steps into it. The most powerful tool that you have right now

in your life, in your body, is your mind. That's why the enemy fights you in your mind. He fights you in your life, in your body, is your mind. That's why the enemy fights you in your mind. He fights you in your mind. For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. The devil doesn't have to tie you up for you to be bound. He just has to tie up your head with stress, with worry, with aggravation, with low self-esteem, with pettiness, with anger, with hostility, with rebellion,

and he can make you physically sick because your mind is sick. You just have to get your mind out of trouble. It's going to be some challenges. It's going to be some tests, but even the struggles are an opportunity for me to show off the victory if my mind can handle the chain it's impossible to respect yourself until you grow those mental teeth and when you grow those teeth you realize that you're dangerous it's not what they say about you that matters it is what you say about you that threatens your destiny you will never be defeated by what they say about you you will be defeated by what you say about you and it's not going to come to you and it's not going to fall in your lap and it's not going to be something that oh my god it just was so simple it's not going to be something that, oh my God, it just was so simple. It's always going to be difficult.

Your perception has everything to do with how this year is going to work. It is not what you perceive about me. It's what I perceive about me. Look, I'd love to sugarcoat this thing for you. I'd love to tell you, look, you can go out here and get rich, do a couple of things, but it ain't happen. You got to get real dollars. You got to get downright funky if you want to make it. Most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad.

You just kind of want it. You don't want it badder than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. And I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, rise and grind. Success is not a comfortable procedure. It is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt. If you want it to happen, get your butt up and make it happen. And sometimes if you're going to be successful, it's not how smart you are.

It's not how strong you are. It's how much you can outlive stuff. So you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful. Don't cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Don't cry to quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it.

Start putting some pressure on. Put some pressure on yourself. Get out here and get about it. You have to put your everything, your everything, your mind, your energy, your effort, your discipline. Nothing is going to jump out the fire if you don't throw something in there. It's not going to happen. I want to win so bad. My hunger and appetite for success is intimidating.

It scares the shit out of people. And people around me say, slow down, stop. You're doing too much. Your appetite is too big. I can't help myself. I want to win. When they fight against you in your dreams of the future, that hurts. They won't see it like you do.

But they don't have to. Only you do. You're the only one who has to see it for yourself every day is a beginning a new day a new week a new shot at life an opportunity to come out of the gate like a man possessed and attack the day without mercy today I'm taking scouts I'm putting the pressure on. I am the aggressor. I am on the attack. And of course I will get tired. I will get beat up. I'll get knocked down and drained and I will have some bad days, but I will not stop. There's some things in life you don't need

no degree for. You don't need no money for it. You don't need no support for it There's something like you just don't get through when you tell yourself I'm gonna get through this if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do on the other side is greatness I can I will I must I can I will I must It's pretty easy to get the mindset that there's nothing you can do about it that you're overwhelmed that you can't change the world Well, you know what? You can change you can change you you can change your world And if you change your world and you make yourself better and you make your part of the world better The rest of the world will follow People that don't have any dreams for

themselves, they tend to be dream killers. Nobody's interested in you, nobody's checking for you, they'll laugh at you, they'll call you names because they have no dreams, they have no hunger for success, they don't have an appetite. They don't want it. But I want to remind you to continue to dream and dream big. Whatever your dream is, whatever your goal is, you're not going to be able to make it happen if you don't have a dream party every day. You've got to have a dream session. You've got to take out 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, however much time you have, and you've got to actually go in a room, close the door, and you've got to see yourself doing it. You've got to decide right now,

am I willing to fight every day? Am I willing to be called stupid or a dreamer or insane by all my friends and family? Am I willing to constantly be questioned by the people that I respect and care about, about my intentions and my work ethic and my dreams? Am I willing to deal with that sort of life to get the life that I truly want?

Every decision that you make has consequences. Are you making yourself better? Are you making yourself better? Are you making yourself worse? Are you moving forward? Are you moving back? Are you making progress? Or are you stagnating?

Every little decision you make counts. Albert Einstein said, imagination is everything, it's a preview to life's coming attractions. Everything you imagine is a preview to a coming attraction. Once you understand that and quit looking at your imagination as hocus pocus, it opens up a wide range of things and possibilities. Life happens. The unexpected. The uncalled for. The unintentional. We've been damaged emotionally.

Damaged spiritually. I am great and I don't owe anybody an apology. I am phenomenal and I don't owe anybody an apology. I am going to do great things and I don't owe anybody an apology. I am phenomenal and I don't owe anybody an apology. I am going to do great things and I don't owe anybody an apology. Stand up for your dream. Stand up for what you want in your life. You've got to talk to yourself day in and day out. You've got to say, yes, I can make it. The last chapter to my life has not been written yet. If you judge me now, you'll judge me prematurely. I'm still in the process of transforming my life.

I'm still in the process of becoming. Yes, yes. I want you to say I can beat it. I will beat it. I must, I got a family to live for. I ain't through yet, my life ain't over yet. And I'm not retreating, I'm not running. I don't care what they say on paper.

I don't care if you say we outnumbered. We live by this and we die by this. We don't retreat. We don't run. We gonna stand. We gonna live. We gonna die by what we stand for and everybody gonna know what we represent and what we're part of. A person's character is not judged when they ride the wave of success. When everyone chants their name and you want to be their friend. No, your character is put to the test when your back is against the wall. The key is what we do in our times of pain. Pain will change us. Now how the pain changes you is up to you. You want to let up.

You want to just throttle back a little put your body and your mind on coast for a little while and just kind of go through the motions that's what you want to do there's going to be certain seasons in life to where you're in a season of just enduring no matter how much things go well you're going to be in some seasons of your life to where you feel like ain't nothing working you coming down down to court, clear shot at the basket, ain't nothing falling. Man, you're not crazy. This is life. There's nothing wrong with you. These are the ups, the downs, successes, failures. This is the totality and the process of life. You live life long enough, you're going to have some extreme stress. But what you do with that

stress is what your life is about Anybody can do well when things are going their way What do you do when everything is unjust? What do you do when it's unfair? What do you do when your own control of things is taken from you? You have to get to that place where you let go of what is or what was And you've got to create anew But what you've really got to do is decide

I am the creator of my life I'm not the manager of my circumstances anymore it's your dream nobody's gonna see it like you do it it's your dream nobody's gonna feel it like you feel it it's your dream nobody's gonna be as dedicated to it as you are it's your dream and they don't have to understand and they don't have to like it and they don't have to do it. It doesn't make a difference. It's your dream. And you, my friend, have been given the task to make it happen. And you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do. Hey, it's really hard right now, dude. You're really struggling right now. But here's the thing. Right now is when everybody else quits. Right now is when everybody else is going to fall behind. Right now is when everybody else quits. Right now is when everybody else is going to fall behind. Right

now is when everybody else decides to do something that's easier or faster or not as hard. And that's what gets you ahead. That's what gets you to have pride. Because those struggles, those feelings, those things that are difficult, they are there to test you. Struggle is a privilege. Hardship is a privilege. So if you want to create super high confidence, super high self-esteem, super high momentum, that feeling I'm super powerful, I'm invincible,

I'm the f***ing man or I'm the f***ing woman, you have to take pride in not quitting when other people are going to quit. You have to take pride in executing your job to the very best of your ability. Because you're going to have sometimes low moments when you won't want to get out of bed. You just want to stay there. At times you won't want to come out the house. There are some times in life where you fall down. You feel like you don't have the strength to get back up. So sort of

put a mask on your face and pretend that everything's okay when it's not and you go home and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself and fear comes in. Maybe you have doubt in your life, maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future and it scares you. Maybe you're worried about what people think of you, what people say about you. It's that fear paralyzes you. And I just want to ask you today, do you think you have hope? Thanks for listening. Kindly support the movement of this podcast by supporting us or subscribing to our premium content for more exclusive stuff.

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