Daily Motivations - STAY COMMITTED TO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:34 Keep showing up when no one else will. Keep doing the things that aren't thankless. Keep texting back even when they don't respond. Keep running. Keep going an extra mile. Keep bringing the coffees. Keep smiling when you could be complaining. Keep giving it best.
Starting point is 00:00:50 Keep getting better. Keep learning. Keep encouraging people. Keep praying. Keep calling. Keep trusting. Keep being the kind of person. not give up on other people.
Starting point is 00:01:02 Why? Because when you do that for the long haul, to wake up one day and you realize you've become the kind of Percy who built more than just a resident, you've built a reputation that others can always count. I don't know who needs to hear this right now,
Starting point is 00:01:19 but since you're here, odds are is probably you're behind, and you know it. But you're not behind everybody else. You're not behind your family. You're not behind the people that doubted you. You're behind the man. that you promised yourself you'd be.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I know how badly you want to quit. And I know how badly them voices in your mind are telling you it's not worth it. But let me ask you something, bro. What hurts more? The pain of letting go of what is or the pain of not knowing what could be. You've been sugar-coded your whole life.
Starting point is 00:01:46 Let this be a reminder that life won't do that for you. Like Rocky said, this shit will beat you to your knees if you let it. Now get up and hit that motherfucker back. I believe in you, bro. I'm going to tell you this right now. consistency will be talent 99.9% of the time
Starting point is 00:02:03 99% of time if you can just show up every day my dad used to tell me when I was growing I used to say son you can just show up that's half the battle right there can I show up every single day not for him not for her not for them but for myself
Starting point is 00:02:19 why because I owe it to myself why because I have something inside of me that needs to be watered every single day it's called greatness and when this greatness seed is watered every day. That book, it's got to grow at some point. No, bro. No, like, I sat there and really believe in you, bro. I really believed you. You told me you was going to prove them wrong. You told me you
Starting point is 00:02:39 going to be the hardest worker in the room, but look, if you ain't even doing shit about it, man. You won't disappoint me and all the people that believe in you, all because you don't want to get your shit again. Day is go by. Nothing's happening. And a year from now, it's going to happen like that. And who is your future self? One year from now, who is it? Tonight will be able with two. tomorrow I'll be stronger for it. Another day will go by. 365 of them happened so fucking fast.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Who are you going to be in a year from now? And in a year from now, does that future person hold regret or cried? idea how great you really are because you are using such minimal of what you have everybody has the ability to do it but they just don't want you there's no hacks bro it's you against you the problem is you and you don't want to fix it the hardships the losses they make the good times way better first of all everybody you're never starting over you're always starting from experience this is so important for you to understand just because
Starting point is 00:03:57 you got laid off, just because you've ended a relationship, you're not starting from scratch. You have all the experiences good and bad in your life that you can now use to reinvent and reimagine what the next chapter of your life looks like next. What are you going to do? How bad do you want it? What are you willing to sacrifice and what are you willing to give up to find every bit of who you are as you to be. Delusion is only delusioning when you don't accomplish the goal of making a delusion of the reality. Losers let it happen. Winners make it happen. Losers see thunderstorms, when you see rainbows. Losers see icy streets. Winners put on their ice skates. Losers take
Starting point is 00:04:46 chances. Winters make choices. It's all in the way you choose to think. You might be frustrated, you might be spinning your wheels, you might be ready 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.
Starting point is 00:05:30 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. And you've got to learn out of thick day. in your life. Things are going to happen in your life.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Parents die. Adiddle dies. A lover, a wife, a good friend. You decide when you don't want to fail anymore. You wake up when one and go, you know what?
Starting point is 00:06:11 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 or times that you fail. So, raising your time, doubt in whether you're going to be successful or not. It's pointless.
Starting point is 00:06:28 It is. You just put one front of the other. You control what you can't control. And then you see what the outcome is. 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 have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again.
Starting point is 00:06:44 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.
Starting point is 00:07:13 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 a work in progress. Growth has no end. Your story is still being written.
Starting point is 00:07:43 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.
Starting point is 00:08:05 It's not just 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, it determines what you can be. 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
Starting point is 00:08:36 grow and grow and grow into bigger accomplishments. Believe in yourself, stay strong, stay focus. 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've got to want it enough to do the work.
Starting point is 00:09:27 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 were going to do? You know where all that talking has gotten you? You have not moved the needle once.
Starting point is 00:09:47 I know it kind of feels like you're going to do. 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.
Starting point is 00:10:23 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, it 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.
Starting point is 00:10:57 So live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and 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.
Starting point is 00:11:23 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 defy 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.
Starting point is 00:11:59 It's not a loss if you learn something. So take accountability for the damage that was done and just keep moving forward. Hey fam, real quick. quick. If you've been rocking with the podcast and you're serious about leveling up your health, fitness, and mindset, I've got something special for you. I just opened up my private school community, where I share exclusive content you won't find anywhere else, behind-the-scenes lessons, deep game on consistency, and access to me and other high-performing members who actually walk the talk.
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Starting point is 00:13:22 Because you are. People struggle to do things a lot. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not the people. Don't let other people tell you what you can and can't do. If you feel like you should do it, go for it. Life's not perfect. Not everything has to work out,
Starting point is 00:13:46 but the window of opportunity is getting smaller every day. Nobody sees the world like you see you. So just do what feels right today and worry about the rest tomorrow. We all get exactly the same amount of time. Exactly. Now here's something interesting. The sand and the bottom of the glass represents the past.
Starting point is 00:14:10 The sand in the top of glass represents the future. You have no idea what's in the top of the glass. You only know what's in the bottom of the glass. The only thing we've got anything to do with is what's right here in the center right now. Everything else is an illusion. It's a message God. If we want to enjoy more of life, we've got to give everything we've got right now. It's not what happens that determines your future. It's what you do about what happens. Direction determines death. Destination. When you make mistakes, they add up.
Starting point is 00:14:57 One mistake compounds and leads to another, which leads to another, and they can lead you to a downward spiral of destruction. Here's the thing. You know what else adds up? the positive things the good moves the small sacrifices that you make to do things right so put in the daily effort
Starting point is 00:15:23 let that be your reward reward yourself feel gratification from knowing that you move the needle even just a little bit and whatever it is you want to do isn't going to happen in one day you have work to do you cannot change your life unless you go inside first, you figure out who you are, what your own wisdom is telling you to do,
Starting point is 00:15:49 and you start to actually leave it and follow it. I think when you're on the start path, you can't look at the outcome as the only positive because you will never make it. The positive frame that I've always used is thinking about who I was becoming as the asset that I was building. So in real time, whenever I finished a long day's work, I was becoming more like the type of person who could work for five years without reward. And that would be part of the story I would someday tell. Let's say you want something really bad,
Starting point is 00:16:25 and you keep trying, and you keep trying, and you keep trying, and on the 10th try, you don't get it still, and then you say, uh, okay, it must be a sign that I need to stop doing what I need to do. But what if you didn't know that on your 11th try, you would have made it, you would have made it happen and got what you wanted to get. So I feel like resistance is important because if you really truly love something and truly believe, you should just do it for the love and you don't get the way you're going, you're still doing something you love.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Visualize it, but also feel it. Like feel yourself there. Close your eyes, smile to yourself and feel yourself there. There. And believe me when I say, you can manifest that. The only people that criticize you for trying to be exceptional are those that have already accepted the fact that they're going to be mediocre forever. They look at you trying to better your life as an attack on them because they know they're not doing what they should be doing. They know they're not trying as hard as they can. And they know that they should be a much better version of themselves than they are.
Starting point is 00:17:37 You and I both know that you're just trying to better yourself and it has nothing to do with them, but they don't see it that way. They feel they have to defend themselves because they see you doing something they know they should be doing. So when they make comments or make fun of you or try to make it seem like it's about them, understand that it is about them. It's about how they feel about themselves, and that is not your problem. When is it going to be, when is it going to be that you are finally not full of shit? Make the change that you need to make. Become the person you need to become. This is about becoming a person that can control their external environment
Starting point is 00:18:13 and make decisions that serve them, no matter how hard those decisions might be. No matter how inconvenient those decisions might be, that's the only way you're going to solve this problem long term. Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. An obsession comes in the small details. that nobody pays attention to. Don't listen to people that are going to tell you that you can't do it.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Don't listen to haters. Don't listen to haters. Don't listen to people to give you advice that tell you to slow down or you shouldn't do it or you can't do it or the time's not right or any of those other things. Those are dream stealers. They were sent to you to see if you'll overcome them. They were sent to you to test your resiliency. And if you can overcome that, if you just discard all that stuff and you get clear on those other things, you've got a really good chance of doing something great with your life.
Starting point is 00:19:06 And just remember what you were put here to do. You're not a mistake. You're not here by an accident. You were born to do something great with your life. You were born to make a difference with your life. This is a fact. The greatest version of you? It's not the I can do any.
Starting point is 00:19:36 version of you. Greatest version of you is the disciplined version of feet. The greatest version of you is the version that has parameters. No, I don't do that. I don't drink that. I don't go there with these people. I'm focused. I have a prize that's in front of me. I know what I'm supposed to do. And that ain't it. I have to stay right here. Like when you say something to the extent of not in, but just a person. I'll get to it tomorrow. I'm like, who promised you that? Right, I'll get to it a month from now.
Starting point is 00:20:11 I'm like, who promised you that? Right? Because light changes so quick, right? And as people, we're all in arrogant. I was one of them. We live our lives and we feel as if for calm or something. Right. But when you think about it's like, well, we try to control things.
Starting point is 00:20:25 But when you really think about the mackle of life and the grand scheme of light, we really don't have any control. We can control what we possess, emotions, thought process, perspective, how we speak, how we respond, but just light in general, we have no control of that. You judge the true character, incalib of a man, not by way he stands in times of comfort and convenience. You judge the true character and caliber of a man, but what he's standing in times of challenge and controversy. And so the question remains, and I ask people all the time, man, who are you when it goes south, man? Not when you get what
Starting point is 00:21:05 you want. We know when the sun's shining and you get what you want, you're going to smile. Babies do that. 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? Right. Right. 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
Starting point is 00:21:41 affect the impact the world who are you and I don't want that for you I don't want you to waste your life living a settled life I don't want you to waste your life living a less life I want you to live your life
Starting point is 00:21:57 with your best self and what your best life That's why That's why the clocks say Tom to me wall Y'all look at your watch The clock say time to boo all right
Starting point is 00:22:14 Why is it that you deserve your goal What are the five reasons that you won't give up When life catch you on the blind side When the messenger of misery visits you What are you going to do What will keep you in the game when life knocked you to the canvas. So you've got to have some reasons that when life knocks you down and it's going to,
Starting point is 00:22:40 it's going to knock you down. When people disappoint you and that's going to happen. When they betray you and that's going to happen. When they lie to you and that's going to happen and that's going to happen. And they say, oh, you can count on me and they won't show up. And that's going to happen. When you want to find the towel and give up your sap and that's going to happen. When life collapsed on you and catch you on the blindside.
Starting point is 00:22:59 Drop me to your knees and start choking you. You got a dream, though, I got to leave. And that's going to happen. What reason can you remember that you can call on, that you can reach home that to make you get back up? Find that reason. Who I am is being redefined date because new things come. And I've got to keep you involved.
Starting point is 00:23:25 I will not be a VHS. in a world that's all dead here. Your dreams, your talent sure gets. Enough for yesterday. People's lives aren't what they would like them to be. And so then you ask, why? But one of the main reasons that people don't get what they want is because they don't actually figure out what it is.
Starting point is 00:23:59 the probability that you're going to get what would be good for you, let's say, which would even be better than what you want, right? Because, you know, you might be wrong about what you want easily. But maybe you could get what would really be good for you. Sometimes when you're following your own path, it takes a while for the world to catch up with you. You might look at the journey others have been on and think that's what I should do. But instead, you kept moving through the dark on your own. And maybe you would have gotten there a little faster if you just followed everyone else. But now you can say you did it your way.
Starting point is 00:24:36 You aren't living someone else's life and calling it enough. You stay true to yourself. And that, my friends, is real success. It's easy to look around at other people and think they have it better. They struggled too. At some point, they stood with their head in their hands or got down on their knees or slumped to the floor
Starting point is 00:25:01 not knowing exactly where to go or what to do or how things were going to work out every single successful person I know has gone through a struggle where they didn't know the next step they had to step out in the darkness
Starting point is 00:25:20 so to speak before the next step was illuminated they took the chance not knowing what the end result would be they took this step even though they were afraid that's what courage is that's what faith is about no one's coming
Starting point is 00:25:39 no one no one's coming to push you no one's coming to tell you to turn the TV off no one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise nobody's coming to tell you to apply for that job that you've always dreamt about nobody's coming to write the business plan for you it's up to you why would you not go for what would you not take a chance at one point in time
Starting point is 00:26:07 you got to take a chance on you this year you can't allow anything or anyone to get in the way of your growth your success or your inner peace you have to stay focused on developing who you are so when you look in the mirror you feel proud fail big that's right fail big today's the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be it's a new world out there it's a mean world out there and you only live once so do what you feel passionate about take chances got to figure it out if you really have an obsession to figure it out you will figure it out and every puzzles constructed differently. Everybody has a different puzzle. You just got to figure out your own puzzle.
Starting point is 00:27:04 You can walk through the fire complaining along the way or you can walk through the fire and create an example for everyone else so that the trials and tribulations of their own life seem trivial because they're comparing themselves to the way you handle things or the way you handle things with grace and dignity and discipline can show other people. that they can handle their own life this way. And there's beauty in that. There really is. There's so much inspiration to be gathered from other people.
Starting point is 00:27:39 This is why I say stay hard. Because when you weren't given the gifts, the only thing you can do in life is stay hard. There's no magic pill or a magic potion. All you can do is outwork the man that God created or woman in you. you. The person you have to spend the most time listening to in your life is yourself. Try not to lose their respect.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Self-respect and self-esteem, I think, largely comes from having faith in your own word. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, as far as I'm concerned, that's all talk. You know, actually get in there. get yourself some results, that's what you should really be focusing on, you know. Start betting on you and become the kind of person worth betting on. Trust and follow your dreams and desires. Do what you say you're going to do and hold yourself to a higher standard. Living in the certainty,
Starting point is 00:28:56 that everything is always working out for you, gives you courage and confidence to take risks, to feel comfortable in the unknown. Sometimes you just need to focus on the small battles first. Ignore other people's progress and focus on yourself. Sometimes the small wins are the big wins, the ones that build momentum, and the ones that give you the confidence to fight another day.
Starting point is 00:29:25 The only standard you need to hold yourself, Two is your own. Just put your head down. Take one small step and then another. And don't stop until you get there. Don't worry about next week, next year. Just focus on every 24 hours that you get. And that's done a lot for me.
Starting point is 00:29:45 It's this magical thing, purpose that we're all looking for. 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 you are always the purpose so if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something you don't care enough about yourself
Starting point is 00:30:06 and that's what you need to really research is man why am I not doing this for myself because that is the number one purpose in life is to better oneself and are you going to be able to do everything in a day? No you're not but what an opportunity you have to just take one step at a time and that's that's
Starting point is 00:30:31 really where the beauty and the treasure is in the journey it's in the steps that you get to take each and every day we become different people on the other side of change what we're capable of what we value and how we define ourselves these things can all shift and if we can learn to take close attention to these internal shifts we may just find that rather than limiting us, change can actually expand us. It's a good feeling to lose. The people who follow you are going to lose too. You've got to set an example of how to lose.
Starting point is 00:31:14 This way, they can see how I lose. Muhammad Ali. No matter what in life when we will, We are trying to accomplish something great. When you are stepping outside of your comfort zone, when you are throwing yourself fully into something, fully down a path, fully into 100% invested in any endeavor,
Starting point is 00:31:38 any high level endeavor, any meaningful endeavor in life, you're going to encounter setbacks, and you will most assuredly lose at some point. You will collect scars, both physical, external, and internal scars, but the scars remind you of why you started and what you are trying to accomplish. And most importantly, the scars show them your onlookers, the great crowd of
Starting point is 00:32:08 witnesses that you will have on any endeavor, any platform that you gain in life by trying to accomplish something great. You show them that you are still there. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can learn to appreciate them when they're right. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Always waiting for everything to be perfect before. before I live my life.
Starting point is 00:32:56 I'm always waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life. There's only one way. If you're at the bottom, there's only one way. But you got to look up. And when you look up, there's somebody there waiting for you. You truly believe that you have the power within you to change. The first step would be saying,
Starting point is 00:33:22 I have to take responsibility for my life. responsibility for myself right now, because I've got to start thinking differently, I've got to start acting differently, I'll start feeling different, it's going to be hard. If it was easy, everybody would be doing this. But how is self-love born? When a person sits through the fire and sits through all of that anxiety, all that hatred, all that anger, and keeps lowering the vines sooner or later, the body's going to release it. It's dangerous to dwell on past mistakes.
Starting point is 00:33:51 People sort of define themselves by the world. worst moments that they've ever had. You know, they're stuck in failures that they had like when they were first getting jobs and they always think that they're a loser and they don't like the feeling of failure so they keep low expectations so that they never have to feel that. You've got to get through failure. It's very important. And you get through it by just picking yourself back up and moving forward and going.
Starting point is 00:34:15 Whenever you feel negative or unhappy about anything, you say, wait a minute, I'm responsible. I'm responsible for my life. I'm responsible for what happens. I can't change the past, so I'm not going to spend a second worrying about the past. I'm going to become so busy working on my future and my goals that I don't have time to think about the past. Most people let what's happening now control what they're thinking. They don't like it, and they're waiting for it to change. It'll never change.
Starting point is 00:34:43 What they don't understand, what's coming is a reflection on what they're seeing inside. Every thinking about it is coming to you. It's all about the mind and it's going to happen inside first if you wanted to happen outside at all. It isn't easy to keep going, especially when you don't believe that things can get better. You never know for sure what's coming, but you can choose to believe. Even if there's no guarantee, hope and belief might be all you need to keep going. to give you something to look forward to. So just know that even if it's hard right now,
Starting point is 00:35:25 it won't always be, because it can get better. Don't waste the failure. Because oftentimes what do we do? When things don't go the way we wanted to go, we throw that experience away, right? But we learn more in moments of defeat than we do when we get the victory.
Starting point is 00:35:42 Because when you get the victory, nobody can tell you nothing. But when you lose, you listen it. The task is to recognize that you are uniquely special. You have something to give, some talent no one else shares in quite the same way. And the second one reads, wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The most fundamental and major decision that you have to make in your life is this. Do I live in a friendly or a hostile universe?
Starting point is 00:36:20 Which is it? Is it a universe that is filled with hostility and anger and people wanting to hate each other and people wanting to kill each other? Is that what you see? Because when you see the world that way, that's exactly what you will create for yourself in your life. Quality of my life is controlled by two things, meaning and emotion. The meaning you give to things controls the emotion that you feel. People come up with different meanings, and that produces different emotions. And those emotions make you make different decisions. When your anger, you're going to decide differently than when you're playful or grateful or excited. So the secret to life is controlling meaning and emotion. Why? We all ask why we should work this hard. Why take that many classes? You know, why take the notes?
Starting point is 00:37:08 Why read the books? Why work that hard? Why? Good question. What? Best answer to why, I think, is the second question. Why not? Why not see how many books you can read, how many classes you could take, how many skills you can develop.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Why not see how valuable you could become to the marketplace, to your friends, to your family? Why not see what you can make things? Why not see how far you could go, how much you could see, how much you can earn, how much you can share? Why not? Wouldn't you want to know what would happen if you spent just one year giving it your absolute all, giving everything your absolute all. Giving your diet, your absolute all, giving your workouts, your absolute all,
Starting point is 00:37:57 giving your career, you're absolute all, giving your relationships, your absolute all. How much different would your life look? How much better would you feel on a daily basis? Would you still be depressed? Would you still have anxiety? Would the problems that exist in your life now still exist in a year if you gave it your absolute all?
Starting point is 00:38:12 I don't think so. I think one year of uninterrupted focus is going to lead to a completely different life. A completely different version of yourself. One that is unrecognizable. The next year of your life is going to happen one way or another. Time is going to pass anyway. You can come back and tell me that I'm wrong, that your life is exactly the same.
Starting point is 00:38:31 But I'm willing to bet every single dollar in my bank account that you will look back and say that that was the best decision that I have ever made. And I have no idea how I was living my life before. It's easy to give up. It's the easiest thing in the world to do. All right, man, I'm done. I ain't going. It's very easy. But what's hard is going, yo, yesterday, I got nothing from working as hard as I could.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Nothing happened from that. I'm going to do the same thing again today, but I'm going to try to go harder. That's the hardest thing in the world. And give 100% and be in the same position that you were each day, but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying. That's a real, that's a real grind. Everything in life comes down to this. I'm telling you right now, you're matter how hard you train,
Starting point is 00:39:24 how hard you go out there and run and swim and lift weights, what you're doing and get in shape, it always comes down to this. Because when you're training and your mind is all jacked up, all you are is a bigger, faster, stronger quitter. Other than death, all failure is psychological. Now, this does not mean that you won't lose some battles because you will. We all will.
Starting point is 00:39:56 But it does mean that as long as you don't surrender, as long as you don't give up, as long as you don't quit, then you haven't failed. It just means you made a temporary tactical retreat. It means you've made a brief withdrawal so that you can. We group and be attack. So, as far as I'm concerned, if you get beat, unless you're dead, you are not defeated. When you have not failed, what you've done is you've learned. You've gained experience. And you're still alive.
Starting point is 00:40:40 And you have memories to make it. So get up and go get after it. there's a purpose to your pain there's a reason why you have had to endure you may not see it now you may not feel it right now but there is a purpose in our pain if you're failing repeatedly then there's probably something wrong it's possible that there's something wrong with the way that you're conceptualizing the world. Because you have a choice, right? If you keep making sacrifices and they don't work,
Starting point is 00:41:25 there's a binary choice. And one is, well, there's something wrong with the structure of reality. And the other is there's something wrong with your approach. And so then you might say, well, let's take the first idea. There's something wrong with the structure of reality. It's like, you're really going to say that, are you? You're really going to come out and say, I know enough to judge the nature of being.
Starting point is 00:41:48 And then the alternative is also quite frightening because then, you know, you, it's you that's making the mistakes and you might be wrong at a really deep level and that might mean a lot of you has to burn off and be transformed. Only those that can see the invisible can do the impossible, which means that if you see what's not there, that means that you have these bold, uncomfortable visions and intentions and ideas. and you're going to have all of these random people popping up in many forms trying to get you off of your path and you're so convinced that this is what you're supposed to do and where you're supposed to be and what you're supposed to be doing and the people that you're supposed to be doing with you're so convinced that this is what it is
Starting point is 00:42:36 you drive people crazy and you make people uncomfortable because their goal is to distract you and fuck up your plans live your life, make your mark don't wake up every day being consumed and everybody else's thoughts and their intentions you're not supposed to be another person that lived
Starting point is 00:42:55 and died and didn't do anything significant caught our true selves to the world because we're so afraid to be judged we're so afraid that people will walk out of their life we're so afraid to lose this and lose that I'm gonna tell you something I want you to hear me clear when you don't be who you are
Starting point is 00:43:10 when you don't truly be yourself and who you are you know what happens in your life, you attract the wrong things in your life. Some of us, we attracted the wrong jobs because to get that opportunity, we have to change who we were. And the opportunity might have been good at first, but now we're stuck in a place where we're miserable. Stop making excuses. Simple as that. You can make a million excuses why you didn't get that raise, why you didn't take that leap of faith. You can make a million excuses.
Starting point is 00:43:37 But you know deep down inside and consciousness is eating away at you, it's not a reason. It's an excuse. Then when you stop making excuses, the only alternative is then results. I'm not saying that everything you do you should be successful at, you will have periods of defeat. Let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow. So in the future,
Starting point is 00:44:05 you look back at these struggles and you say to them, Thank you. You made me better. Why not you? Why not you? With good self-esteem. Why not you? you starting to change and setting goal.
Starting point is 00:44:49 You are not your past. You're you. You're you right now. Like the past you did, you might have done some things you wish you hadn't done. Don't dwell on that. You learn from it. That's fine, but don't dwell on it. Just keep moving. Keep moving. You know, use it as fuel. Say never again. Now, I get what I did wrong, but don't think that you're that person that made those mistakes. You're the person who's learned. If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. If you're going to try, go all the way.
Starting point is 00:45:24 Imagine where you would be in the year if you actually focused on the things that make you better. If you actually start doing things and you actually take action. Imagine how far you would be, bro. If you really locked in, if you really stay focused. Your mindset is not on the things that you want in life. The fastest way to losing yourself is to try and make everyone else happy. The best thing you can do is be a true north.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Be you. Shine your light. Know what your core values are. Know what your belief system is. Know what your morals and your character should be. And live by that. The road to paradise starts in hell. You have to take that bus ride, that walk, that crawl,
Starting point is 00:46:10 that flight, whatever it may be, back to hell consistently. Because here's the thing. If hell comes, visits you, and it visits a lot of people, it's not going to leave. And your hell is what you're willing not to acknowledge. You're not willing to acknowledge who you are, what your darkness is, what fuels you. If you're not engaged in your life, it's because you haven't picked a dragon of sufficient merit. Is that if you haven't found meaning in your life, it's because you haven't taken on a big enough burden. And that's a strange thing.
Starting point is 00:46:41 It's a strange thing that that's true. But I think it is, it's the closest to truth that we have. Purpose of life is not just to get your goals. Your goals or you're getting what you want doesn't make you happy. It makes you happy is who you become in pursuit of those goals. So the growth, the progress, even if you don't achieve it yet, but you start losing weight, or you start building muscle, or you start making a relationship better, or you start to build a business. The building, the progress is what makes you feel alive because we're all made to either grow or die.
Starting point is 00:47:09 If your relationship's not growing, it's dying, if your business is not growing, it's dying. There's no in-between ship. That doesn't work. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is, as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you.
Starting point is 00:47:36 But someday, not too long from now, you will grab it. gradually become the old and be cleared away your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking don't let the noise of others' opinions drowned out your own inner voice and most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition they somehow already know what you truly want to become it's not like you're guaranteed kill it. Nobody is ever guaranteed to kill him. But if you don't try, then you definitely
Starting point is 00:48:14 won't. If you get after it, you have a chance. You got a chance, but sure. But if you never do, then what's the point of even thinking if you'll expect any sort of results? It all starts with who you are, because who you are is your character. And your characters There's an accumulation of your thoughts, your habits, and your priorities on a day-to-day basis, because those three things determine the choices you make, and the choices you make make you who you are. Good guy, bad guy, hardworking, lazy, responsible, irresponsible. And it takes a certain amount of discipline to do what you're supposed to do, when you're
Starting point is 00:49:00 supposed to do it, the way it's supposed to get done. How long can you stay in that pool? How far can you run? How much can you push yourself past the part where you want to quit? Or how far can you keep going? There's a purity in that. They dissolve social order, all that shit. What people think about you goes out the window.
Starting point is 00:49:18 Who are you right now? Who are you right now? But I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. And if you do that and you don't allow the shame and the regret and the heaviness of what you just went through, if you don't allow that to stop you and you just keep going, all that crap that you're covered in, it starts to fall off of it, right? It starts to fall away.
Starting point is 00:49:46 And eventually, you're good again. You cannot allow that to stop you. And that is what stops most people. It's regret. It's shame. It's the pile of crap they had to walk through 10 years ago that they created. And because of that, they never do it. thing with the rest of their freaking life, man.
Starting point is 00:50:09 The only way to mitigate not being successful is to not quit. If you don't quit, you might make it. But there's a hell of a lot more to you than you think. Like, way more. Enough to cope with the trouble of the world
Starting point is 00:50:27 inside you. There is enough to cope with the trouble of the world. If you had enough courage, you could let that out. Enough courage and faith. You could let that out. And everything be better because of it. Really, really. Don't resent tough times. When life hands you adversity,
Starting point is 00:50:49 it's not to expose how weak and vulnerable you are. It's to push you to become more resourceful and show you that you're capable of making it through what once felt impossible. Your battles are intended to build your character, not destroy your spirit. There is growth in your, struggle so just keep pushing with our thoughts we create the word that means
Starting point is 00:51:12 there is something powerful about you if you are disciplined if you do the proper things if you stay determined stop the laziness chances are very high that many of the goals that you're setting to yourself will become true What are you willing to sacrifice and what are you willing to give up to find every bit of who you are as a human being? Thank you.

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