Daily Motivations - MORNING MOTIVATION - Wake Up Early, Start Your Day Right!

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

"Be 1% better every day." Speakers: Les Brown Coach Pain Lisa Nichols Simon Sinek Marcus "Elevation" Taylor Nathan Harmon Coach Pain Brian Bullock Simon Sinek Dr. Jessica Houston William Hollis Walter Bond Tyrese Gibson Gary Vaynerchuk Music: Really Slow Motion Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg

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to bring to the planet. That only you can do that, only you can perform that, only you can initiate that activity. And if you don't do that, if you're not filling in your life with your life work or your mission, then there are gaps in your life. And what we do when we're not living out our true identity, we begin to fill the gaps. We fill the holes with garbage.

Success is getting what you want. Fulfillment is living what you're made for. This is dreams we're talking about. We're talking about dreams. Can you train your brain to appreciate? Because in the middle of whatever you're pissed off about or frustrated or fearful about or worried about, you're deleting all the things you

can be grateful for, you can appreciate that are absolutely real. Be your own motivator, and you build yourself up. And that's the problem with the mind. I want your listeners or viewers to really think about this. You do not experience life. You experience the life you focus on. That's it. And understand that even your emotions can play tricks on you.

So take advantage of your life, take control of it. Reason takes time. Understanding it. Being able to deal with the do's and the don'ts, the ups and the downs. There's a reason for it and sometimes we may not like it. But when that purpose starts to knock on your door That's it. That means you have made it Whatever the situation may be that purpose has been fulfilled It is already here. It was already meant to be it's it happened. It's there. So do the best you can Leading to your purpose because one thing for sure

We are never gonna with none of us are gonna be here for long sooner or later you got to leave this planet but make the best of the life that you have on this day and the day after so if tomorrow comes for you tomorrow comes for me let's get out there and make the best of it. Because tomorrow is another day. And if you're a part of that day, that means you got work to do. Success doesn't own you.

You own success. Success doesn't work for you. You work for success. And that work takes time. Everything that we do in this life takes time. It's a process. But are you prepared for the test? Are you prepared to fight?

Are you prepared to live? Are you prepared to push through it? Even when you feel that you can't. We need faith. And we need power. and we need gratitude, and we need to be humble, but we must always stay hungry and keep going. One of your superpowers is a made of mine. One that is fully persuaded to get it done every single day, no matter the task. See, each day we are presented with a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way.

You can't have the throne until you are willing to remove yourself from the seat of convenience. For some of you, what I want you to do is throw something on a wall. Every time I see you, I say the same thing because I think we overcomplicate it. It's the power of the choice, the power of using the people around you and not being afraid of failing, but being afraid of not trying. And maybe your dream's big, good, go after it, and maybe you don't make it because it was way out there, but you pursued it and maybe there was something that happened that you didn't quite get there, but I promise you this, if you shoot for a star and you're

all in with your effort and your heart and your attitude and your energy and your commitment, you may not land on that star, but I can guarantee you, you'll land on the moon and the truth is you're still in space. Don't allow your emotions to control you. We are emotional, but you wanna begin to discipline your emotion. If you don't discipline and contain your emotions, they will use you. If you gonna get to the next level,

you gonna have to give up something, right?'re gonna have to give up something, right? You're gonna have to give up something and I'm just gonna keep it real with y'all. When I say give up, when I talk about sacrifice, I'm saying give up your current blessings. Like this is gonna be hard. Give up the current blessings. Are you hear what I'm telling you? I had to make a sacrifice. Can you hear what I'm telling you? I had to make a sacrifice. Can you hear me?

I said get back up! Because this life is not done with you. Your dream is not done with you. Doubt is not bigger than your purpose. Fear is not bigger than your purpose. Insecurity is not bigger than your purpose. Your purpose is everything. than your purpose. Fear is not bigger than your purpose. Insecurity is not bigger than your purpose. Your purpose is everything. Take full responsibility for your life.

Accept where you are and the responsibility that you're going to take yourself where you want to go. So once that we have two primary choices in life, we can either accept conditions as they exist or we can take the responsibility to change them. When you want a bet on sports, played on a field or ice or courts, Bet Rivers is the place. Over, under, money, lines, same game, polys, it's all fine. You put a smile on your face. Bet on the sports you love with Bet River Sportsbook. Take a chance. Must be 19 plus, available in Ontario only.

Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. This world needs you to achieve everything you got on the inside of you. This world needs you to be you. got on the inside of you. This world needs you to be you.

But in order for you to be you, we got to have you to rise up. I'm here to rise. I came here to conquer. It takes guts. You got to dig down deep to get it out. Keep on going again and again and again. Until you make it happen because you know that it's possible. Now what do you do during the hard times, Les? Here's what you must do. Number one is you must have faith. Paul said you must have the faith to call forth those things that be not as though they were. Judge not according to appearances.

Don't judge your circumstances and the possibilities for your future based upon what you have now and because of what's going on now. No, no, no, no. That's not the real reality there. What you're going through, if you're going through some hard times, it has not come to stay, it has come to pass.

It's alright Now second thing is repeat this after me something you should affirm to yourself every day repeat this please no matter how bad it is Well, how bad it gets? I'm going to make it Say that to yourself every day. As I used to say to myself, when I would get up in the Parnasco building and I had to go into the bathroom and bathe in the bathroom sink, I had written on the mirror that I put up, I just pasted it and I read, no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it. So you've got to have faith. You talk to yourself. You say that affirmation. The

next step is you must have patience and engage in consistent action. Patience and engage in consistent action. So everything does not always happen ladies and gentlemen when we want it to happen. It doesn't happen quickly. So in that process they have something in the forest called the Chinese bamboo tree. The Chinese bamboo tree every day it has to be watered and fertilized. It's a very hard nut and it takes five years of watering and fertilization every day according to American Geographic before it breaks through the ground. At any time if the watering process

anytime if the watering process and the nurturing and the fertilization process is stopped, the Chinese bamboo tree will die in the ground. Now once it breaks through in that fifth year, then in six weeks it grows 90 feet tall. Now the question is does it go 90 feet in five years or six weeks? The answer is obvious it takes five years. That's how long it took to grow it, to build that foundation, to nurture it, to water it, to build the reputation, to build the credibility, to learn the market, to learn people, to learn yourself, to learn how to do it, to figure it out. That's why you must have patience and engage in consistent action. We live in a world ladies and, where people want instant gratification. They want it right now.

But they're not willing to pay the price to do what it takes. They think it was easy. No, no. It's simple, but it's not easy. It's a system that if you work the system, it works if you work it. But make no mistake about it. It's a system that if you work the system, it works if you work it. But make no mistake about it, it's hard. You are the determining factor. Here's something else.

It's possible you can live your dream. No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it. I'm going to make it. It's necessary that you have goals, that you write them down, that you surround yourself with a support team, that you are creative. It's you that you must take personal responsibility to make it happen. The people that make it in this world look around for the circumstances that they want and if they can't find them, they create them. It's hard, no easy is not an option. However, ladies and gentlemen, what you will discover is that it's worth it.

It's worth it. I suggest to you, if you want to become diamond, write down five reasons or why it is worth it for you to become a diamond, to experience that level of achievement. What is it that will give you the drive? What is it that will ignite the courage in you to get up and come back again and again and again? How is it that you would be able, what reasons that could tap into that deep down feeling that goes to your gut? That no matter how many times you get knocked down, that you're coming back. What is it? Write it down.

When I started in Left Miami pursuing my dream, because I knew that as long as you work for someone else, they are controlling your destiny. I didn't want anybody signing my paycheck, but me. I knew that it was going to be difficult. I knew it was going to be hard. But every time I thought about giving up and there were times I did. Because where I am ladies and gentlemen it's a long shot. You think being a diamond is a long shot. This is a miracle. It's a long shot. And I had people laughing at me,

excuse me, last, you're talking about being a motivational speaker? You failed twice in school, they put you back from the fifth grade into the fourth grade and you failed in the eighth grade? You've never worked for a major corporation? And you are going to become independently wealthy. Right. They laugh. They're going to laugh at you. People are going to laugh at you.

But let me tell you, I believe in revenge like Prince Ranafri. He said the best revenge is massive success. It's a long shot being here with you today in this dome in Atlanta. It's a long shot. But I kept running toward my dream. Don't stop! Don't stop! Don't stop running towards your dream!

You can live your dream as you hold on to that dream. There are moments when you're going to doubt yourself. There are rough times that are going to come, but they have not come to stay. They have come to pass. It's not going to be easy. As you go toward the future, begin to know that you have greatness within you. Begin to envision yourselves, to reach your goals. If you want to think bad enough, go out and fight for it. Work day and night for it. Give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it. What if we have that kind of attitude? The cause repossessed, nobody believes in you, you've lost again

and again and again, the lights are cut off, but you're still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself it's not over until I win. I want you to know that you are beautiful. I want you to know that you're beautifully made. I want you to know that you're worthy. Understand that yeah you are worthy, you are deserving of the good things, the You're worthy. Understand that yeah, you are worthy. You are deserving of the good things, the final things in life. And that's not just on a financial aspect. I'm talking about, you know, great healthy connections and all of that.

You know what I'm saying? I'm talking about peace. I'm talking about sanity, all that good stuff. You know what I mean? And I want you to know that if you still right here, then baby, you still got some purpose. Hello somebody. You still got some purpose. A lot of times we walk around and we feel like we are worthless. We walk around and we feel like we don't have anything to offer.

We walk around and we feel like, you know what I'm saying? The whole entire world is against us. Hello? Yeah, let's just be real about it. Some of us, we toyed with it all night long some of us we struggle with it And that's the one of the things that you know we battle with the most is the fact that we feel like you know We're not there, so we're not dead I Want you to know that you got purpose as long as you got breath in your body as long as you got a clove But with your right mind, you have some purpose. Stop letting the enemy trick you into thinking that you're not supposed to be here.

Stop allowing the enemy to trick you into thinking that you don't have anything to offer or that the world would be a better place without you. Stop allowing the enemy to come in and trick you up out of your position, up out of your spot. I want you to understand that if you're still right here, sweetheart, whether they like it or not not you're supposed to be here whether they are bored with you or not you're supposed to be here one of the things

that I want you to jot down real quick is I want you to one I want you to write down baby I still got some purpose in me hello somebody I want that's a note for you I want you to understand that you still got some purpose in you baby hello somebody I need you to write that in your red pen real quick I got some purpose in me might not look like what you want me to look like understand that you still got some purpose in you baby. Hello somebody I need you to write that in your red pen real quick I got some purpose in me. Might not look like what you want me to look like. Understand that I might not look like greatness right now. That's right I might not look like it right now. I might look like I'm struggling right now. Are you in a place in your life where you can honestly say that you're living up to your fullest potential? Are you waking up every single morning and giving you the best that you got?

I'm not talking about what you're doing for other folk You got to get to that place in your life where you become selfish with yourself You got to get to that place in your life where you understand that you deserve more you deserve better You got to get to that place in your life where you're willing to go to war you want all the smoke about you Baby, I want you to understand that when it comes down to me and the person that I am when it comes down to me Being able to live up to my fullest potential when it comes down to me being able to live the life that I deserve to live Then baby, I want you to understand something about this here, baby. I'm willing to give it all that I got I'm willing to do it all by myself. I'm willing to do it with one leg and a kickstand

I'm willing to do it with what sweat in my eyes. I'm willing to do it with one leg and a kickstand. I'm willing to do it with sweat in my eyes. I'm willing to do it with tears falling down my face. I'm willing to do it if I got a crawl on my belly by any means necessary. I am going to do what I gotta do in order for me to make sure that I am setting myself up for success. Don't be so loyal to other folk that you're disloyal to yourself. Every morning when I wake, I see that sun rise up and I want you to be just like the sun. Every morning, I want you to rise up, follow through, and finish.

If the day's going to be good, I got to heal from the mistakes that were made yesterday. And I've got to believe that I don't have to make the same mistakes. It's time to heal. Today I heal. Today I heal. From every mistake that is made, today I heal from everything that I said that I could have said better

and everything that was said to me that I wish was never said. I heal today from the people that pushed me verbally but did not support me physically that were never present. Today I heal, I heal, I heal. I heal from what I did not have. After we heal, we have to acknowledge coupled with that healing is what went wrong.

You don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively, to be depressed, to hate somebody, to want revenge, to want to get back at somebody, to beat yourself up over the head, to feel loaded with guilt. You don't have to make any effort to do that. Your mind is on automatic. It will do that by itself.

But if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness, if you want to begin to really enjoy your own personal greatness, if you want to begin to really enjoy a happy, successful, healthy life, you've got to be willing to go against the tide. You've got to be willing to harness your will and say in spite of this, I'm in control here. I'm not going to let this get me down. I'm not going to let this me down. I'm not gonna let this destroy me.

I'm coming back. Get back up. You gotta fight for the baby that lays in your soul. That burns your chest. Because if you don't feel this fire, then it's not a dream. You feel like you'll do 120%. You'll give everything you have and it still won't be enough. I feel you. I was there. A part of the milestone is, what if I give everything and it ain't enough? What if I put my whole heart, my whole mind, my whole soul into a DC and it's not enough?

What if I do it and I fail? You gotta face your fear and you gotta do it anyway. If you don't get up when the count is at nine, you're wanting enough. We end well so we can begin well. Every single one of you, you're a one of one. Some of you have got to begin to throw that thing against the wall. And some of you just got to begin to believe.

Even when it's painful, even when we're ostracized, even when we're excommunicated and ghosted, it may hurt, but that pain will subside. But I got to believe it, so I got to stay focused. Focus goes where energy flows. Every morning when I wake I see that Sun rise up and I want you to be just like the Sun. Every morning I want you to rise up, follow through and finish. When you want to change, it's not easy if it were in fact easy everybody would do it. But if you're serious, you'll go all out. I will be immune to the pain that is attached to my purpose.

I will not be stagnant. I will not stay stuck in the mud that you left me in. I will evolve. I will rise. There's gonna be days when it seems like it will never happen. The dream will never manifest. The money will never come.

The cost will never come. But you gotta fight for something. For the material. Look, I finished my coursework, it took me two years. Why? Because it took me two years to get over the fear Because it took me two years to get over the fear. It took me two years to get over the anxiety. It took me two years to finally say, Goliath, here I come! Goliath, you might be taller than me, you might be bigger than me, you might be stronger than me, but I'm coming.

And I'd rather die trying. I'd rather die going after this dissertation. I'd rather give everything I've got. I'd rather give a year. I'd rather put in work and fail and not try it all. I see all things working for good. I see you stepping into everything that God has called you to do. I see you stepping into purpose and stepping into the plans that God already has laid out for you. This is your day. Get up and conquer your day. Get up. Get up. Get up. You've got a day to conquer.

day to conquer. I left. I was like, I got to be in control of my life. And I wasn't mad at nobody. I'm not mad at nobody now. It's just I feel like I got to be in control. If I, if something go wrong, I want to go wrong on my dime, not yours. I don't want to play by your rules. I want to play by my rules.

Take control. Go forward. Please you have to hear this. When I say I need you to be intentional and deliberate, hear me I want to paint the picture. You have one team that has the ability to score. They have the ability to do well. They have the ability to score on the opponent. What their challenge is, is that they can't do it. They can't sustain it. You have one team that's good in spurts.

You have another team that's dominant. The teams that are dominant, dominant because they can do it from beginning to end. Right? Listen to me. And they can do it team after team after team. Right? They can do it over and over and over. They dominate because they put pressure on you from the time you start to the very end. Like, oh, even when they're up, they continue to dominate. And your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate. You wake up on Monday and you might be strong but by Wednesday are you here what I'm telling

you you're not intentional and deliberate you are hoping you are hoping that the best is gonna happen to you and the best never happens to you like and this is critical what don't you have because all these things gonna stop you from getting to that next level what don't you have? Because all these things are going to stop you from getting to that next level. What don't you have in terms of getting to that next level? What don't you currently have? Because what you don't have, you need to start doing your homework so you can what? So you can go get that.

You owe yourself. I didn't get here making excuses. It's your life. Only one person can stop you from making that become a reality and that's you And a lot of y'all scared just walk into it stop running from it because your life ain't sweet It ain't like your life sweet from running What's my north star? Why am I here? What's my purpose?

Like leave your mark. That's why I'm so happy. I ain't happy because of no house. I ain't happy because of no cars. I know my purpose. But with this right here in your skill set, this thing can take you wherever you want to go and then take your kids wherever you want them to go. And you complaining because coach wants you to work

and practice so you can get what you said you wanted. You mad at coach because he ain't gonna let you take no shortcuts, because ain't no shortcuts on the next level. Y'all think this hard, wait till you get to the pros. Most people were close and they ever thought they were to finishing that big thing but they never finished it because they didn't feel like finishing it or they were doing it and it was pain and most people quit in the pain because the pain hurts so bad that

they don't know if they want to keep going to get to go. But you've got to take your focus off of what's not happening and put your focus on what can happen so if you're focusing on the negative, that's what you're gonna get, that's what you're gonna see. No more blaming, no more, I don't wanna hear it no more. I don't wanna hear it, this teacher did me wrong, this professor did me wrong, my mentor didn't, my mama didn't, my daddy didn't, stop the blaming.

If it's your life, I need you to take complete ownership of it, it's your life. I need you to take complete ownership of it. It's your life. I don't want to hear no more excuses. You blame, that's what you do. You make excuses for why you broke. You make excuses for why you stuck. And it is easier to make it somebody else's fault than to man up and look in the mirror and say it was your fault.

It's easy to put it on somebody else's. Why? Because then you ain't got to do nothing. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse.