Daily Motivations - STOP BEING WEAK

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

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Fuck your tired body. Fuck that unmotivated mind and get out there and do it anyway. I'm tired today. I'm lazy. I don't want to do it. It's too hard. No one else is doing it. It's a weekend. It's too late. These are already off hours. Oh, exactly what I want isn't happening right now. like okay great you know who that's great for your competition you're getting in there and you're overthinking and all these things come in too much of like after this this after a four second negative oh my god that's going to be so hard i should drop the weight then like no just can get in

there know what you can do bust your ass and get out of there yeah sometimes overthinking it holds you back people want to they want to jump from day one to day 10 by getting some big seed money or big investment and dude i don't care how much money i made i try to pretend like i'm broke every single day in the way that I think because it forces me to create new solutions and innovate in my brain. I had one of my sales guys who I said, dude, I don't see you at the gym

and he said, you know, I'm just really busy and I just like, look to him. And I was like, you will never have more time and less responsibility than you do now. So, I kind of use the James Clear thing. I said, hey, if you can't make it work now, except that you're never going to be in shape for the rest of your life.

It was like, whoa. I was like, think about it. Rid yourself. right yeah i was like you're just never gonna be in shape it was like well i mean that i was like right so do it or don't but stop wanting it i promise you you don't want to be that old person sitting on your deathbed looking back at your life filled with regret because you always made the easy choice stick it right now whatever the f*** you have That's go all in, embrace it, let it mold you, shape you into what you've always wanted to become.

You've got to lock in. You have to put the hours in. You may have to raise children, cultivate your marriage, and work your side hustle all at the same time. Everybody knows if you don't go to the gym, if you don't get on the treadmill, put the cardio in. If you don't hit the weights and lift, you're not going to walk around with the physique that you see in your head. It's going to remain a conversation, a vision, a dream. Lazy people don't know how to start. Weak people don't know how to finish.

Successful people don't know how to stop. People demand success, but refuse to work weekends. People want opportunity but won't talk to strangers. People claim ambition but sleep in every day. We are the result of our actions, not our aspirations. Let's say we have a circuit breaker, okay? And I'm loading everything up to one circuit, just load it up. It's going to fucking blow.

And once that thing blows, man, the circus all fucked up. You got to have each thing plugged into the right spot. Like a fucking crowded garage. You can't put anything in it. Once your brain is crowded, discipline is great. Motivation is great. But if you can't fit shit in your brain because it's all fucking cluttered with shit, there's no discipline.

You may have it sometimes. when it fits in that crowded garage of your mind, but you don't have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline. There's actually two human beings in the bathroom every morning. There's you, and there's a human being in the mirror. And that human being is trying, and they've been there a long time, and they've been waiting for you to wake up and to see them.

They're tired of your constant negative, they're tired of you beating them down they need you to be more encouraging they need you to be more celebratory they need your support and when you finally wake up and create a moment with yourself every single morning where you look yourself in the eye and you see yourself and you forgive yourself and you honor yourself and you say, I believe, with this gesture in you. It is this remarkably deep and spiritual feeling of connection that you've been longing for for a very long time.

Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you if you let them. It can seem like a friend, just like your friend that keeps feeding you drinks at the bar can seem like a friend. But are they really helping you in any way, shape, or form? No, they're not. They're not.

So when your excuses make you feel a little bit better about the fact that you didn't execute on what you needed to execute on, then they can make you feel better. But they're not helping you. They're not helping you at all. 400 trillion to one. The odds of becoming a human being. You know, being successful takes several different variables.

I think self-awareness is number one. If you don't know yourself and you don't know what you're good at, you've got no shot because you're going to be spinning your wheels. I think work ethic is at the top. Nobody, nobody watching this right now knows anybody that's successful at all that hasn't put in serious amounts of work. You cannot grow mentally, physically, emotionally, or financially in your comfort zone and when avoiding pain.

It doesn't work like that. If you want to build an ultra-successful business, you're going to take two by four after two by four after two by four to the face before anything becomes reality if you want to build an amazing body you have to break down the muscle fibers in order to rebuild them back up how are you going to choose to show up like i was talking about before there are things out of your control what's in your control how can you take that power back into your own hands and what are you going to take from it what kind of meaning can you find from taking power out of what you feel powerless Feeling stuck is a signal that you've stopped growing.

That's it. And when most people feel stuck, since they don't understand that it's tied to a fundamental need for growth, we believe it's an existential crisis and we blow up our lives. Learning anything gets you back in touch with a fundamental need. It makes you start to feel like things are moving. And from that place of feeling a little bit more empowered, you'll be able to to make better decisions about what big things need to change in your life.

You get to live life one time. And this is the time right now to understand what's actually happening and actually map your behavior to something that will impact you for the next 80 years. Pay the attention to who's giving you the advice. Who's giving the advice. You should only take advice from people

whose dreams for your life are bigger than yours are. Yeah, learn to pick yourself up on your own. A lot of times these fights and these battles, You got to be your own coach You got to be your own motivator I could have saved myself Tons of mental agony Because I could have reassured that

Hey look this is just the way it goes And this is just this is just part of the deal And you signed up for this And nobody ever tells you this You know what I'm saying Like when you're getting your face beat in In business right Like it's nobody comes along

And says hey it's going to be okay You don't feel like it's going to be okay You feel like the world's ending It could be a painful day emotionally It could be a painful day relationally. It can be a painful day financially. Are you going to complain or are you going to use it to your advantage? It doesn't matter if you go the hard path or the easy path. Both paths will make you suffer. But at least the hard path leads to your ultimate goal. The easy

path leads to you suffering in silence and then dying with regret. Imagine if you can use pain as a fuel. Imagine if you can use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you could use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on. What if the pain can make you better? What if the pain could build muscle? What if the pain could cause you to retire to leap farther, to run faster? What if the pain could help you? You got to lock in? There's a lot of thought behind a person being a born loser becoming who I am today. You know, just wake up and just rocky this shit.

You gotta wake up and think about, you know, there's a process to getting better, and that process is never finished. Like a lot of times, If your back is hurting, it may not be your back. It may be something else in your body that's making your back hurt. For me, I'm like, man, why can't I get past this fucking hurdle? So like I said, I'm always examining myself every day. What is it?

What is it? Well, there's only one thing you haven't examined yet. And it's going back to the beast, going back to the demon. All the fucking times that I was like, I'm not going back. and I went back. I'm not going back and I went back. I'm not going back and I went back. It showed me even more of what we have as humans.

If we're willing to go there and we're willing to push that extra step, I'll be with, man, how do you do what you do? At the day, I asked myself one question, can I take one more step? And usually the answer is yes. So if you can answer that question and not take another step, that is real failure. That is real quitting. So a lot of people can take one more step if they choose not to.

I don't know if you can take two steps. You got to answer that question after you take the first step. But I can always take one more steps if I choose not to. That's on me. I got to live with that. I had just climbed a mental wall that was amazing. And I didn't want anybody to take that pain away from me at that point. Because that was all confirmation.

so for me this was the new level you don't need a lot of things sometimes only thing that kept me with that one step forward was one thing let's not quit yet god because let's think about your options where are you going to end up if you quit this where you're going to go and when i got done with that race it's the worst pain i can't even describe the pain of that pain of that last 30 miles to anybody. No one, it's very hard. So when it ended, and I'm laying there in the worst pain of my entire life, I'm shaking, I'm jacked up, and all I could think about was I can't believe what I had just done. To me, it was humanly impossible to even think about going 30 more miles in that shape. And once you do it, what came over me when that shower hit me,

And the reality hit that I just went 101 miles. And that last 31 miles was something that I can't even describe to people. And what's amazing about the human mind is that it becomes your new norm. Like to think that I can run 200 miles, 240 miles, and that becomes like running 50, I never thought that was possible. This is why I'm always pushing that limit because I know that within pushing these limits, limits, there's always more. Did that set the tone or the rhythm for what you wanted to try and achieve and feel again,

each time you're pushing further? I never wanted to feel it again. I never want to feel it again. But what it did was it showed me what is possible. And that's what set the new stage for me. That's when I realized, oh man, I've really been underachieving my entire life. but it taught me when it's possible. It taught me like, okay, I got it, check.

What about action? And action means less talking and more doing. So that's where I've been. It only takes one second for you to lose the whole thing. So the one second decision is just that, you're in a situation where life is sucking. Let's say you're in extreme cold water and your life is,

flashing before your eyes. Every time that wave goes over your head, your thought process is, I got to get the fuck out of this water. And you're in hell week. And you're hour one of 130 fucking hours. It's cold. I can't be cold this long.

And then this is that one second decision comes in. You forgot every reason why you wanted to be there. You don't care about seals. You don't care about any of this. You don't care about fighting for your country. All you want to do is go back home. You want the warmth. You may want something to eat.

All those things of comfort are there in that one second. And this is where people lose. So what I do in that one second, because we all think about quitting when shit's hard. But what you have to do in that one second is hard to process information during pain. Because that pain takes over and you can't think rationally.

You're thinking about fight or flight, save yourself. That's not a rational thought. It's not a thought that's going to get you through hard times. Most people fail that one second. So what happens is what I do.

I start thinking logically. I calm my brain down because your brain just wants to get to fuck out. It's about gaining control of your mind, putting things back in the proper perspective, and then saying, I really do want to be here. And I'm going to have a bunch of these ones

seconds and i have to learn to control these because if i fail one of these one seconds i will not be a seal i will not be a doctor i will not be a lawyer i will not be whatever the it is so that's how important that one second decision is it's all about your mind takes control of you you have to say you i run this motherfucker there's no other way to make it out here i mean you can't just always be you know head down in the sand you got to learn to pick yourself up on your your own. A lot of times these fights and these battles, you got to be your own coach, you got to be your own motivator. Because there's a lot of people in this world who don't want to see you make it because they think you can take a piece of their pie. But I've learned to

study people before I react. Because there's no successful person in the world who's in a good headspace that's going to ever attack anyone in that kind of manner. There's always going to be something wrong with them. So you got to always dive a little deeper before you get your feeling hurt take time take that one second to pull back and study them because most people who are in good places they don't they don't care about what you're doing they don't care about what you're doing they don't try to destroy you they actually will try to build you up versus destroy who you are as a person so that's where I'm at now in life is most people who do that do in a very dark dark place as you get bigger as you get more successful you open the door for people to critique every

thing you do and most of the people who are critiquing you usually aren't where you are and all their critiquing comes from people who are really at a low level of life which is sad but what we do people who are on the upper level hearing the haters at the lower level like I said you'll never to hate her doing better than you. True statement. So I started making these mixtapes with all of these hate messages about people talking and it became such a source of fuel that it was amazing because I know why you hate me. You hate me because you're probably in the bed right now. You're probably an underachiever. You're probably somebody who doesn't want to do anything with your life. So I make you question everything about yourself. So I'm going to continue making you question yourself

by coming out here and being even more successful. So what happens is there's days where I'm like, you know what, I really don't want to do this today. I'm like, oh, hang on. So I listen to that where I run. I sometimes played in the house. It's half comical, it's half inspiring. I'm actually inspired by it because I know I'm going to get hit in the mouth there's a there's an art to get hit in the mouth and that is why these things are important you have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief you have to give yourself confidence so that it starts with that run belief is like there's an after school special belief where the mom says believe in yourself and that's all great, but there's also a built belief. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put

myself through. So that's proof positive that I can. You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are, outwork yourself doubt. Yes, because a lot of people, you say when you wake up in the morning, pounds your chest look at yourself in the mirror and do all this fucking bullshit I hope it works what works for me

is that everyday resume the things I know of accomplish the things I know I've done real hard work the real calluses on my mind the real calluses on my hands that's that's it you must build belief

you must build confidence and say I can knock that shit out it is hard it's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes it's hard when you're on your way to practice way down with all your gear and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach it's hard to throw catch block and tackle and hit kids when they're way bigger and way more developed than you only to go home that night bruised

and battered and strained but no one you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again but understand this life is hard no matter who you are there are bumps and hits

and bruises along the way And my advice is to prepare yourself because football lessons teach us that success and achievement come from overcoming adversity. I remember being downstairs for like the fourth round and I came and gone. And the fifth round, you know, was coming and going

and all these other guys were getting picked. And it was hard. I remember taking a walk with my dad and mom around the block. Sorry about that It was just a tough day You know You know Finally when the Patriots called

I was so excited You know I was like I don't have to be an insurance salesman You know All those experiences That We think are the hardest things

In our life End up being The best experiences In our life Because if you approach it With humility And you look inward They become the best

opportunities for growth and learning. Because I developed this work ethic in high school and I realized, man, if I want to be good, I got to wake up in the morning and I got to do the extra work and I got to show up when other guys aren't and I've got to learn. I've got to continue to be open to learning. To be successful at anything, the truth is you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't. Consistent, determined, and willing to work for it.

integrity, purpose, determination, and discipline that it takes to be a champion in life. No shortcuts. It was a tough battle for me. It was a tough go. It was tough in high school. It was really tough in college. If I want to be the best, I got to beat the best. And this is where the best are.

I said, I wasn't the prodigy. I learned about work ethic. I learned about resilience. I learned about gaining the trust and the respect of my teammates and coaches. I learned about how to dig deep within myself a long way from home without a ton of support to still try to find a way to succeed in this situation that I really wanted to be in because it was the best for me anyway. Focused on what you can control.

Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting. Go out there and treat practice like no one else does. And I did that every single day. I didn't care about going to all these different places and doing those things. I just wanted to be my best. The team believed in me I didn't want to let them down. What's the choice you get to make every day to wake up and say, all right, this is where I'm going to focus my time and energy. How discipline are you to maintain that routine over a period of time?

And I think that will determine your level of success. Be proud of that man that wakes up every day and does the best that you could do with his priorities. Did you always have an absolute killer instinct where I'm going to show you, I'm going to prove the way to see what I'm going to. to do you. I'm going to kill this guy when we face them. Was it always like that when you were in high school or that kind of developed later on? Yeah, I think it developed over a period of time. And I think there was a work ethic that was in me. But I was never, I would say, like a prodigy.

I didn't have the arm that could throw the ball 80 yards. I didn't have the speed that Michael Vick had. I didn't have the size that a lot of guys had. But I did have something inside of me that no one could see from the outside, this level of discipline that I could accomplish something that was really important and really special. I wanted to be a great football player. If I was going to be a great football player, I wanted to compete against these other guys. And they were all better than me. Don't worry about all these things that are out of your control. Focus on what you can do. Focus on the two reps you got.

Fuck your tired body. Fuck that unmotivated mind and get out there and do it anyway. And the mindset is, me versus me, it's no bullshit. It was all about not making excuses. It was about how do we go and get it done. I was so motivated to be the best I could be that it wasn't, I wasn't motivated to be the starter. I wasn't motivated to win the Super Bowl. I just was motivated to give my best, do the best with the opportunity I got, and to never let my teammates down. Those were my motivations.

I think you wake up every day and hopefully you can look at yourself and say, did I give it my best? I wanted to be the best I could be, period. That's all I wanted. I just think winning Super Bowls was the result of a lot of great process. Like my view is like you can't control the outcome all the time, right? Like the ball's going to bounce the other team's way. Like shouldn't always go your way.

So you get motivated by the losses, you stay motivated through the winning, what you can control is your process. You can control those intangibles. You can control the work ethic, the consistent discipline, your attitude, your culture, how much you care. All those things are in you. They just need to be drawn out of you. And really, when you're in that position that you feel like you've got those pretty well under control, then you start passing those on to the other people that you're working with that are parts of your team. Because I don't care how good any one of you are sitting out.

there it doesn't matter unless you got a great team around you you know you could be great you probably are great you need a lot of other great people to support you it takes so many people to get to where we get in our life yeah I was there doing some of the work but couldn't have done if I didn't have them when I was a quarterback I was just playing quarterback yeah it was me the person but it was it was me the quarterback that was out there because I was doing a job I wasn't the father I wasn't the dad out there I wasn't you know the husband out there

I was the quarterback out there on the field I was the quarterback when I went to work nothing was going to get in the way of that you've got to create a lot of different emotion to heighten your sense of awareness and focus like for me anger was good anger was good because it was motivating

the more I could create an enemy the more I wanted to go on and kill those guys now I knew I was going to kill them physically but man if I could just what did they say you know and what did they look like do they disrespect me at all those are little little little things that can get me right in the emotional frame of mind that when I ran on the field and I said let's fucking go it was really let's go kick some ass that's what we were doing Let's get to work. The fundamental belief is I'm giving myself to something greater than myself, something greater than me as an individual.

If I look at that journey from where I was as a kid, I had my parents that were in my life to support me every step of the way. I had my junior varsity football coaches, my throwing coach and mentor. I went to Michigan, I had coach Carr challenged me to say, those who stay will be champions. So I stayed, but don't think that you're going to have a lot of success if all you do is care about yourself, you don't work that hard, no one's that accountable. But in the end, what does culture mean to me? Do we care about each other and do we care about what we're trying to accomplish? Most people just care about themselves. Well, that's a lot.

That's a lot of consistent discipline. It means that you've got to do a lot more right than wrong. It means that you've got to make a lot more good choices than bad. choices. It means you have to be more disciplined than not discipline. Physically, mentally, emotionally, all those little things add up. The man in the glass, that's the one that motivated me. He's the guy I was accountable to. Nothing that anyone did took away from me. The only person that could take away from me is me. You wouldn't have suffered enough. I've been suffering all my life. I'm sorry. It's not enough. The amount of suffering that you understand, the amount of pain

that you've gone through makes you appreciate the happiness and the beautiful moments with much more intensity. You know what it's like to be poor and you know what it's like to work hard and you will want so much for them to like you and they just won't and it'll break your heart and that'll make your heart bigger and open your eyes and finally you will realize that there's more to life than proving you're the smartest person in the world. This whole thing about suffering, yeah it sucks. Really bad.

Really, really bad. But we all live on this side of suffering. On this side. This nice box that's very comfortable that we know when everything is going to happen. We're in it. It's good. We know how everything's going to turn out. It's those few people who are willing to go on this side of suffering.

And once they get through that, ask him how he feels now. His mind. How far he grew. in that short period of time he grew so much more than the normal person because he was willing to go outside himself because on the other end of suffering is greatness. We're built to walk uphill.

And when you reach the pinnacle of the hill, you want to stop and appreciate the vision, but the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance because it's the uphill climb that it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value, and I mean this technically. So almost all the positive emotion we feel, that's experienced in relationship to a goal. And so in some sense, you want a goal that you can never attain, right?

So you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it. You think, well, that's frustrating. It's like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill. But it's not because as you pursue that goal, you put yourself together and your life does get better and richer, more abundant. You want them to be above everything you're doing so you can continually move towards something that's more sublime and better. That's what you are. You're here to live, not to, not to sleep. Because you wouldn't have prayed like you pray had you not been hurt. You wouldn't love like you

love had you not been hurt because you know what it's like to hate somebody. So you refuse to go down that path. Feelings has nothing to do with it. This is my dream. this is what I'm going to do and I'm going to do the things that I don't feel like going I'm going to do the things I don't want to do I'm going to do the things that don't come easy to me that do not come natural to me I'm going to get up and do it you can't live your life on feelings you cannot let your feelings dictate what you are or are not going to do today don't get that fire inside but make it happen out there I'll tell you folks with a fire in here.

Leaving it all here, expecting it all out there. That's how it works. When you leave it all here, guys, you then have the right to expect it all out there. It doesn't work the other way around. You can't half-ass here and expect anything but a half-ass life out there. You know, it doesn't get easy, my friend. Running 12 plus miles a day,

doing 800-plus bushels a day, lifting weights every single day working two jobs working out of my comfort zone at the club but it's worth it because if you think it's about fitness you're wrong

if you think it's about the money you're wrong because it all goes back to one point one important point my friend I'm waiting for the mentality the mentality to keep going no matter what happens Nothing should be easy.

If it's easy, it's not going to be worth doing. So many people love to have the opportunity to find the easy way out and celebrate something that they never really worked hard to get. It gives you an opportunity to appreciate the challenges more, the letdowns, the failures. It gives you more ammunition so when you do eventually get to where you want to be, just in case that moment comes and you get knocked back down you understand what it feels like

and you know you're not going to stay down for very long because you know what that ground feels like. This life is relentless. You better keep coming back from all your failures, all your doubts,

all your shit. You better keep fighting, keep getting up. Never fucking lay down for shit. That's one thing we should all agree on. If you've been brook, If you're broken once, you know how that feels. That means try and break me again.

One thing in life, suffering has no inspiration date. You don't give if you black, white, poor, rich, where you come from, how you were raised. And we'll keep coming after you. Stay home. It hurts. When we've lifted these whites and we're trying to accomplish a goal, it hurts is painful. It's daunting. It's cumbersome. I don't want to do it. I'm sweating. I'm bleeding. I'm crying. I'm suffering. But after I've suffered, there is a reward. So we spent too much time thinking about how bad it hurts instead of how good the future will be after the pain.

And so after the blood, after the sweat, after the tears, after I've cried, all I'm going to cry. I want to hear some pain to my advantage. At what age should you have everything together? For us normal people, it takes time. Because not only do you have to mature and grow, there's things in life that if you have a big enough dream, you're not the person you need to be right now to fulfill that dream. Now, you keep moving towards it.

you keep doing what needs to be done but at the same time you realize that you yourself are gaining in knowledge and in experience and in personal growth do you still struggle with all of the shit that you talk about oh my God

yes that's why I'm so fucking relatable I do not have this stuff figured out I am shoulder to shoulder with everybody they look and see and then I quit to adjudge your ability but they weren't there

they weren't there through the struggle they weren't there through the sleepless nights they weren't there through the pain they weren't there through the trauma they weren't there through the tears they weren't there to pick you up you did that so what gives them the right what gives them the right to judge you

they don't know your ability my friend They don't know what you're capable of They don't know what you can do So you find a way to push through You find a way to keep going Because nobody can tell you anything When you're the one who dragged yourself out the dark When you're the one who dragged yourself

Back into the light, my friend They have no business in your business So you keep going We all gonna go through it We all have to go through it including myself, I'm going to tell you something, when you are doing everything in your power to be the best makeup of yourself, it's always going to be an adversary that's going to try to take that away from you. Now, the best way you can overcome this is having the faith. Now, it doesn't

matter what you believe in as long as it's something that's positive that's going to get you through it. Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel. Imagine if you can use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you can use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on. What if the pain can make you better? What if the pain could build muscle?

What if the pain can cause you to reach higher, to leap farther, to run faster? What if the pain could help you? could help you. What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help? I'm sick right now, my friends. That can't stop and run.

In a world where everybody is so comfortable and lazy, why don't you be the one to do I'm talking about? Why don't you be the one to take on the charity? Why don't you be the one to never give up? Why don't you be the one to never stop?

Why don't you be the one that never did? It's time to stay focus. It's time to decide clubs, partying, trying to fit in and socialize, rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. Why are you so anti-social? Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you staying on the basketball court so much because I'm trying to get it?

Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun when ain't nobody else out there? Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing? Like, every time I text you and invites you to go do some fun and cool, you always studying because I'm trying to get it. I'm just thinking how funny it is where I'm going to be tomorrow morning and my competition still drinking down their fears and they're trying to escape their current reality, you know, Friday night party.

So they're going to go out there and party it up and everything else. you find some relief to the stressful life they live in. That's a bullshit temporary relief. I'm working tonight for a permanent relief. That's why I laugh. I laugh on how much further I'm getting ahead of it. Mental toughness isn't something that you sample. It's something that you live in every day.

So when something hard would happen to these kids, like in Hell Week, it would draw on something that made them very insecure. And they look for comfort. whenever hardness comes and you don't know what it is it may be different for you than this for me but you go back to your insecurities and then when you go back to your insecurities you then look for comfort within those insecurities and we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you right when you were sad when you were sick we look for our wife or our husband we look for comfort it's in those moments you must retrain your mind to think

differently. What if I told you this was the last Monday morning of your life? How do you stay driven? I'm going to ask you a question. How don't you stay driven? Let me get this right. You won the lotto of the universe, which is you are a human being on Earth.

And you're not driven, and you're not fired up, and you're not going for it, and you're willing to sit like a lump and just wait until you die, you suck. It gets harder for anybody that's living. and breathing

so no matter what you do you got to keep moving forward strong in the trenches you don't know where you're going you're lost you know what I mean you have no direction so for me I felt like both of them together when you really when you have the vision

and you're able to manifest and you also put the work in magic happens man magic that's where the magic is but a lot of people never get there unfortunately a lot of people we're blessed that we can dream I got to get stronger

I got to train differently the weight training program that I'm doing I got to tailor it for an 82 game season so that when the playoffs come around my legs are stronger and that ball gets there so I look at it with rationale and say okay well the reason why I shot air ball

is because my legs aren't there I got on next year they'll be there that was it done done come on where are your values behind the scenes what do your hands look like behind the scenes come on what kind of work are you putting behind the scenes. Come on. Drop down and give me 50. Come on. Write it again. Come on. Believe it again.

Come on. Sing again. Record the song again. Come on. I'm talking to that athlete. I'm talking to that musician. Come on. Who are you out there? When you are committed, you give everything you have. Every single day, you are either losing ground or gaining ground. The choice is yours. This time, make it personal.