Daily Motivations - Stick To The Plan 2

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Stick to the plan - the discipline, patience, and unshakeable commitment to stay locked in when progress is slow, doubt is loud, and everything around you says to quit.Everyone has a plan until life gets hard. The ones who win are not the most talented or the most motivated - they are the ones who showed up anyway and refused to abandon what they started.Featuring words of wisdom from David Goggins, Jocko Willink, Alex Hormozi, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Chris Williamson, Steve Harvey, Steven Bartlett, Jim Rohn, Matthew McConaughey, Conor McGregor, Michael Phelps, Bruce Lee, Kevin Hart, Kyrie Irving, Lewis Hamilton, Simon Sinek, Denzel Washington, Jay Shetty, Ed Mylett, Gary Vee, Mel Robbins, Inky Johnson, Bedros Keuilian and many more.Instagram - @daily_motivationsorgFacebook- @daily_motivationsorg

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Waking up early, so there's a quote that I live by, early to bed, early to rise, makes a man young, wealthy, and wise. Little rooms. Great things start in little rooms. That's it. To achieving your dreams, you must apply discipline, but more importantly, consistency. Because without commitment, you'll never start, but without consistency, you never finish.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. For anyone who needs a reminder, no one is going to hate on you for doing worse than them. Every day I wake up, I don't want to do something. I'm like, okay, man, do you want to be here today? Do you want to feel like a little,

do you want to walk around all day knowing that you could, but you didn't? On your journey to self-mastery, you will lose 99% of your friends. Now, I know that sucks, especially if you're young, you think like, man, in high school we were tight. Now in college we're tight and we're hanging out with boys, we're always doing the thing. But I'm telling you, the moment you truly decide to commit to self-mastery, to becoming your 2.0 self, to really elevating to the highest version of yourself, you will lose 99% of your friends.

And the reason for that is you will scare them because they will not understand why you're so committed to self-development, self-actualization, making more money, becoming a business. becoming a better human, stopping the alcohol. You won't have things in common anymore. If you risk nothing, you become nothing. You are nothing. Because nothing ventured, nothing gained. You're not going to get what you want by never risking what you have. Because everybody has bad breaks.

I've had a ton of bad breaks. But you know what I did? I stayed up. And I thought through it. And I figured out what I did wrong. And then I went back. It's like, I've everything I've ever done a hundred times. There's no other way to do it.

And I've had a bunch of shitty breaks. Everybody has. But you've got to realize when you have those shitty breaks what that is. It's an opportunity for you to reassess, reboot, get better, figure out another way, find another way through. And if you don't have a high, if you don't have lows, it doesn't come. If you numb the bad, you numb the good. Doing the thing, in spite of not wanting to do the thing, is discipline, right?

You don't need motivation to get yourself up to go and do a thing. Make the promise small, build it up step by step, know that you are going to have setbacks, and this is my favorite rule from James Clear, which is a habit missed once is a mistake, a habit missed twice is the start of a new habit. Never missed two days in a row. What's holding people back from excelling beyond average?

Do you think it's talent, belief? I think people don't do very much. I think people do a lot of talking about doing, and not a lot of doing. And I think it's the doing that does everything. And I think that's the, And whether it's lack of motivation, lack of focus, lack of, like, lack of 100 different things, it just comes down to a number of actions taken pre-unit of time.

And I think the vast majority of people just wildly underestimate the volume that's required. What do you want in your life? We have so much influence coming at us that we are so lost. We don't know what we want to do because we don't spend enough time with ourselves. You have to learn to shut off a phone. shut off a computer, shut off a TV. And it's okay to sit in a room by yourself in a chair and just think about you, where I want to be. Where do I see myself tomorrow the next year, the next year from that?

And it takes a lot of self-discipline to be able to do that nowadays because you want to be so attached to everything. You want to be so caught up with the world. The world's moving too fast. The world's moving so fast that you're trying to keep up to the point where you lose yourself. in the world. Try to find a thing that you really enjoy. Try to find a thing that you're passionate about. Everybody thinks they're a loser. Every young person thinks they're a loser. At least a young person in the situation I was at. I didn't know I wasn't a loser until I started winning, until I started doing martial arts. Martial arts taught me that I could get better at stuff, that it wasn't,

I wasn't really a loser. Victor Frankel has this famous quote where he says, When a man can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. So Frankel is arguing that a lack of meaning causes people to seek temporary relief in superficial pursuits rather than addressing the underlying existential void. And perhaps for many, maybe, maybe even most people, this is a big issue. But there is another group who suffer with the opposite problem. And this is Frankl's inverse law. When a man can't find a deep sense of pleasure, they distract themselves with meaning. suffer, we suffer every day. It's what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck

stuff comes, you're ready for it. Spend so much time on self-improvement that you have no time to criticize others. If you talk about work-life balance as a 22-year-old man, you're hanging around with the wrong people. That annoying feeling when you realize you've outgrown your social circle isn't loneliness. It's your ambition, finally speaking louder than your need to belong. And there's a narrative that we should not criticize ourselves. We should not say the things that we could have done better. But I believe that that voice isn't an insecurity. I think it's a version that wants you to chase your potential.

How bad do you want this? If it's as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep, whatever hell it may be, I can work with you. But a lot of people, most people, don't want it that badly. Which is why they always ask the question, man, how do you get to where you are? You know how to do it You know exactly how to be you or how to be me You don't want to do it

Like I'm gonna see what you do when you're tired Let me see how you push yourself Come on man get up get up again tomorrow Get up again tomorrow get up again tomorrow The next day get up get up get up get up keep going How long can you maintain a positive attitude It's so easy to be great nowadays my friend Because most people are weak

Most people don't want to go to that extra mile Most people don't want to find that extra Because it sucks It's miserable It's lonely. The life you want is on the other side of a few hard conversations, and you're living a life you hate because you're too afraid to have them. Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times.

Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. We are now around soft men and hard times. Everything is possible in your life when you believe. When you believe, everything is possible. You have a tool. It's possible. And now here we are in front of that arena.

You know, if you have a clear picture in your head of something that is going to happen, and a clear belief in that it will happen no matter what, then nothing can stop it. You know what? It is destined to happen. And that's what happens. You know what I mean? It's perfect.

You have to be open mind into the possibilities that I can do this. Once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved, there's no way it can happen. If you want some kind of a good outcome, you're going to have to work hard for it. And if you don't work hard for something, you're not going to get an outcome that's really worth much. There's a payoff for bad eventually. There's a payoff. It can't be bad but for so long.

If you got the strength and the understanding to realize that, it would change. You need to get on it. You need to be in here every day. You're almost out of time. You're 22. You're late. Stop being driven by reward. Stop being driven by outcome. Stop being driven by if I get this. I'm going to do this. Just work. And if you don't get what you thought you were going to get, show up and still go to work. Because along the process, what's more important? What you acquire or who you become.

I've had quite a few people on that have that same message and it resonates with people because we're all trying to improve ourselves. No one's perfect. I'm not perfect now. I never will be. You're not and you never will be, but you're better than you were yesterday. And you're going to be better tomorrow. You have to attack. You have to keep attacking. The enemy has to know he is not going to give up. You must break the soul or whatever the fuck is in front of you. Imagine that you're in a movie and imagine the movie begins now. And you're the hero of the movie. Yeah. What would that guy do? Yeah. What would that guy do right now? Yeah. Because you are. Well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable. It's like the first thing you want to do is dispense with the idea that you get to have any permanent security outside of your ability to contend and adapt.

It's the same issue with children. It's like you're paying a price by sitting there being miserable. You might say, well, the devil I know is better than the one I don't. It's like, don't be so sure of that. The clock is ticking. Through this, through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, through tons of rights. repetition is the same thing that you don't want to do, you develop armor for your mind. You have to understand this next five-year window is when you don't go practical and safe.

This is not the time to get the job mom wanted you to. This is not the time to try to maximize as much money so you can buy a fat whip. This is the time to realize that you have a five-year window, and it's three for some, it's eight for others, but there's a five-year window for you to attack the life that you want to to win every single good thing that happens in our lives. Everything comes at a cost. There's nothing for free. Somebody with an incredible career has no relationship with their kids, right?

Everything comes at a cost. But at the same time, everything we struggle with has opportunity and lesson that goes with it. It's always balanced, right? And so whenever anybody tells me this great thing, I was like, yeah, but at what cost? And was the cost worth it? Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes the answer is no. And when something horrible happens in someone's life or something goes sideways, I always ask, but what did you learn? I went through depression. I never want to go through that again, but I'm really glad it happened.

Because look at what it's given me an entirely new life view. And I think of strengths and weaknesses the same way. You know, I think it's hilarious when people say, what are your strengths and what are your weaknesses? Well, it depends. Life is balanced. And it's always contextual. And everything that we have that's a strength has liability attached. and every weakness we have has strength that's attached. And greatness is not intelligence, as you know.

Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered. And so that's kind of the, and so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it, but for all of you, Stanford students, I wish upon you, you know, ample doses of pain and suffering. When you half-assed something, you just don't know,

whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn't have acid. I went all the way. I found out. And that ain't for me. Or I found out, and you damn right, that is for me. Or I like to think about it as this. You can be two things at once.

So you can have the feeling of being really frustrated with somebody. And that can be true. and you can also love them at the same time. You can be jealous of somebody and you can also allow that to inspire you at the same time. You can be afraid, which is true, and you can still find the willpower to push yourself or discipline to push yourself forward.

You can be deeply in a state of grief having experienced one of the biggest losses or betrayals of your life and still experience a moment of joy as you're standing on the ocean and watching some bird dive into the sea. Human beings are very complex and when you start to understand you're not just one thing.

It gives you freedom to ride the waves of feelings, to ride the waves of experience and to kind of go down and go, oh, this is a terrible thing, and know that you will be able to come out the other side. of it. If you don't work hard enough, things in your life will not go well. If you work too hard, things in your life will not go well. If you work just about the right amount, things in your life

will probably go great. And working out where that line is is the task of the perennial overthinker. The insecure overachiever has to always be asking the question, do I need to put my foot on the gas more or less? And if you find yourself, regularly outworking all of the people around you and then not choosing to do it, I think that maybe you should consider just lifting that foot off a little bit. There's no compassion, there's no motivation. There's no, oh my God, man. This is, no.

It's every day of your life just doing. Someone's sitting in the room by themselves and they figure themselves out and say, God, this is going to. Where's passion? when you're 300 pounds? Where's the motivation when you can't read and write? Where is it? So how did this happen?

I just did. I just did. Every family deserves to have a winner. I think it should be you. But you also have to disconnect. Unplug your ambilical cord from the belly button of average and plug yourself into the mindset of a winner, which is a winner does more than expected every single time,

no matter how they feel, no matter the circumstances. You said that discipline eats motivation for breakfast. And discipline is good too. But without a clear headspace, there's no discipline. There's no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck. But the luck happens after you and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn't happen.

You put yourself in that situation where luck might happen. And that's what people don't know. You should be a monster. You should be ruthlessly ambitious and then learn how to control. control it. And it's that old expression. It's better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war. There's a moment when every boy realizes no one's coming to save him. And that's when he becomes a man. And some boys never get there and stay children forever. I fail to be at the pinnacle of any game. In any, whatever you do, you've got to be a little bit gone to it.

You're not all there. You've got to be almost insane to your craft. Not a lot of people can understand that. That's why I don't know about nothing else. Go for it, guys. You gotta say, you know what? This comfort zone I'm in is a danger zone. It's a danger zone because what is it doing? It's stopping you from your true potential. It's comfortable.

I don't want to step out here because I don't know that area. Don't let anyone say you can't do something. Don't let your mind say, oh, I can't do it anymore to your body. You can. You just gotta push past it. At the end of my life, my tombstone, one thing will have on it. No regrets.

And that's a good life, man. I'm going to give a shot to help us some support. They get behind you, you know, and then you go for it. And you, bam, you overcome that step. The next step's even bigger and bigger. Next step, then you're on top of the mountain, man. You ain't got one life. I'm not going to go for, right?

It's all about focus. I don't care who you are, where you're from. Doesn't matter. It's having a focus and having a purpose. You wake up every single day to get better today than you were yesterday. It doesn't matter with you. Are you basketball player or hockey? player, golf player, painter, right?

Nothing matter. Right. You try to reach your full potential by getting better every single day, and that's the question. I never forget one time I was running by a graveyard. I'm just trying to become I was fat. And I ran by a graveyard. And I look out there,

I'm like, man, I wonder how many you guys in there are so upset with how you lived your life. And you just regret how you lived and I'm running a 300-pound man. I'm thinking, man, don't die like this, bro. I go back to the months and years of preparation to get to that day.

And I'm telling myself, the 3.30 in the morning, and I'm looking at my shoes, and I want to go out there and run 30 miles, I have to in that second, in that moment of this self-talk of mind saying, you've got to find more, you got to find more. I once again, calm down, go back into my mind in my cookie jar, I call it, and I have to reflect back on what I did to get here. Everybody has that voice in their head that says, hey, could you really do this? Is it going to happen? Whatever reasons that we usually give ourselves in the beginning for why we can't achieve something, you can almost always find not only just someone, but someone who's achieved world-class levels of success with worse conditions than you currently have, which then means it's absolutely possible. And then the only thing that it takes to get there is work.

If you play it safe, you're going to exist. You only get to live when you take risk. ain't no living in safety. You can't beat a man if you're on jump. Ain't anybody fin to give you the championship. You don't win the title without coming to the fight. You don't win the fight without training. The jump is necessary.

It's like I said in the video. Every successful person I ever know has jumped. Why would you not? See, you have this opportunity. All of us have opportunities in life. It's going to require a decision that we have to make. Human struggle, worrying about other people's perceptions about who you are.

Like, why would you ever care about that, you know? And I think that I felt victim to that in my past of worrying about things that I can't control. You know, if the people understood what words could do to a human being, especially where we are in today's society, then they wouldn't be invested in that. So I don't, I'm not here to dispel anything. You can continue to ask other people around me about what they think about me and continue to write about mood swings.

Like, you know, human beings have mood swings. Like, you go home and you're not happy with things or you're mad at something or you're happy. That's a mood swing. It's okay to be human. Like, I don't have to be perfect for anyone here, nor do I have to be perfect for the public. So I'm not here to dispel any perception.

I'm just here to be myself. The man who never fail, the man who never fail has no glory. The man who fell and got back up. That's where his glory. The man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times, that man has even greater glory. Wow. That man has more courage, way more curse than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never failed.

There's no glory in that. Don't make excuses. Some of the best athletes, the greatest athletes in the world, do things when they're uncomfortable. Best people who can overcome when they're tired, sure. Never say never. because limits like fears are often just an illusion. Trees don't hang around with the grass, even though they all started from the same place. Learning is the beginning of wealth.

Learning is the beginning of life change. Some people want to start with motivation, but you don't start with motivation. Motivation, certainly. But here's the best motivation we've got going, the proof of our success. You are not ready. Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it.

So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying. The easiest thing in life is to give up. The hardest thing is to continue to keep going. But we have to. Like we have to continue to hold on and just continue to keep your head up, continuing to march on ahead towards your dream and never lose sight now. I think that's definitely for sure the most difficult thing, is keeping your goal and your eyes set on that and not being distracted, not giving up.

The bad days create the story that I'm one day going to tell myself about what I got through. You know what I mean? Yeah. Without the bad days, the story would be way more lame. There would be no glory in overcoming anything, because what did you overcome? It was all just 40 to 60, you know, vanilla ice cream, mush, gray existence. Quote that has helped me immeasurably over the last few years. It's something that hit me and it knocked me for six.

And it's so simple. And it's from a book called The Horsesians. horse, the boy, the fox and the mole. And it's basically an illustration book. And one of my favorite quotes out of the whole book is a boy and a horse are in the woods. And a boy says to the horse, I can't see a way through. And the horse says, can you see your next step? And a boy says, yeah. And a horse says, then just take that. Wow. And it hit me. Yeah. All of the time, we look at the goal. We look at the future. We look at the end game. We look at how long a journey it is. And we feel overwhelmed.

Instead of that, just go right. I'm not going to worry about that because that will come. With each step, you will get closer to that. So I don't need to worry about how far away it is. All what I need to focus on right now, all I need to focus on right now is my next step. Your laziness is something that has to do with you. You're not connected to something deep enough. You don't feel the necessity.

You don't feel the devil at your heels. You don't feel the fact that you could very well die tomorrow. that will impel you to get something done. There's no necessity behind it. And the human animal, the way we were created, is when we feel pressure, we feel the necessity to get things done. So you have to create necessity in your life.

You have to create the need to get things done. You have to give yourself deadlines. You have to remind yourself that tomorrow, everything could go kapoon. COVID could come back. You could be fired. You could die. You could have an illness.

Give yourselves a sense of urgency. that I need to get things done quickly. You don't have to feel good about it. You just have to keep going. The feeling will pass, but you will remain. You are greater than your feelings. Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won't kill you. You're not going to burn out.

You're doing what it takes. If you're one of those people that push work-life balance, just remember the people who like working a lot don't care. I've never regretted trying harder at anything ever. Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime. If you want to change your life, you must change your ways. You must develop discipline. You must develop strength.

Just get started. Just get started. The longest time in the world is the hesitation between thought and action. Not today, maybe tomorrow. Well, guess what? That's why it's so easy to be great nowadays because most are weak. Everybody just wants to be comfortable. Everybody wants to sit in the car.

I don't want to go outside. It's cold. I don't want to do this. It's hot. You've got to do things that you don't want to do because you show your body that your mind is the boss. Your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control.