Daily Motivations - THE POWER OF HARD WORK

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

THE POWER OF HARD WORK! Success is equal to the days you stack with hard work. Keep going and never give up! Speakers: Marcus “Elevation” Taylor Coach Pain Cole "The Wolf" DaSilva Dr. Jessica Houston Walter Bond Eric Thomas Tom Brady

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Bet on the sports you love with BetRivers Sportsbook. Take a chance. We'll be right back. If you've got the talent and you can work on the hard work and put them both together, then you give yourself the best chance of becoming a top athlete. When you start to build yourself up and start to have real, authentic confidence from hard work, everything else is going away. What's the secret to success? Hard work, hard work, hard work. The key with me is just always finding what the anchor is. And the anchor is getting up at four o'clock in the morning every day before anybody else and grounding my thought process in the no one will outwork me.

No one. The true secret of success is to accept the truth that the only path is the path of hard work and productivity. You understand that if you struggle now, you stand tall later. You understand that if you suffer now, you smile later. You understand that if you sacrifice now, you will succeed later. When I realized that I can learn through hard work and I can beat the valedictorian in school, but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does. You know what kind of strength comes from that?

When you're sitting down and that guy, that valedictorian's on you for an hour and you know I caught you. I caught you and I caught you. And I am dumb. But I have the work ethic to catch you. That's where David Gagas got really invented. How can a champion be a champion

without hard work? How can you get that promotion that you know you deserved without hard work how can you be the best father or mother you can be without hard work consistency sometimes you beat people not because you're better you just wear them out you just wear them down that's gonna be the year with some team you're just gonna wear them out how can you get to the next level without hard work i'm telling y'all y'all gotta get to the place bro when you execute when you get it done and when you come out they just scared because you out when mike tyson came out he didn't have to fight 80 of his fight he just came out and because people knew he could execute, boom, boom, boom. When you get results,

when you execute, man, it's a difference. Don't wait for Sunday. There are seven days in the week. Sunday isn't one of them. When God has blessed you with the talent, he's given it to you to play ball.

He gave it to you. You just got, you just was blessed with it. Now you got to put in that work. Listen up. Guess I'm talking to you. If you can hear my voice, you've got work to do. This is something you all need to understand. If you want to be the best in whatever you do, you got to start acting different than everybody else. You don't have to compare yourself to anyone because you have the ability to create the life you want. You've been put in a position

where you ultimately doubted yourself. You started to believe you don't belong here. You're not that good. You don't fit the criteria on what the rest of the world is looking for. I didn't want to be like everybody else. I wanted to be the best at everything I did. Do you realize how difficult it is to be different? Winning requires discipline. Commit to making things happen. You've got a destiny to fulfill.

You've got a purpose to walk into. You've got dots to connect. I want to be remembered forever. And in order for that to happen, I realized I needed to act like it. So don't just talk about what you want to happen. Be an action taker and recognize that you don't have to be jealous of anyone. We all want to do something. We all want to be somebody. We all want to go somewhere. You can't be doing the same that everybody else is doing. If you want to be the best, you achieve your goals only when you are disciplined enough to keep showing up when you don't feel like it. The best of everything comes with a f***ing price. Success stories have a humble beginning. You'll put a smile on your face

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You shouldn't feel guilty. It's your turn. It's your time. You've blessed everybody else. You've set everybody else for success. You've compromised you for them and look where you are. It's time for you

and so for a lot of you you're not doing nothing because you don't have any purpose right now you don't have a sense of purpose you're not waking up for nobody and I need you to get that engine I need that drive because you know what to do you're the right person to do it but you just can't seem to get out of bed you can't seem to do what you're supposed to do every time you come up against a trial or a tribulation you let it stop you got to find your why and your why is what's going to start you and the problem with some of you in this room you don't have no tribe you ain't got nothing pushing you you ain't got no reason for waking up in the morning you ain't got no reason for pushing past that pain you have no

reason you better find one before you get out of here today you better go inside you still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside you still looking for someone to save you when you already your superhero you looking for some information from somebody when you already got what you need in your head it's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you it's not an option and the reason why some of you are not where you're supposed to be you've given yourself an option you've given yourself an out you've given yourself an excuse you've given yourself room not to do it

But you have what it takes Give me some energy. I can I will I must Come on. I can Come on. I will I must I can let's go. Let's go. Let's go Let's go, let's go, let's go! Let's go! I can means I have the ability to do it.

I got what it takes. I have the ability to do it. I will! I have the willpower to make it happen. I must! My wife needs me. I must! My son needs me. I must! My daughter needs me. We can, son needs me. I must my daughter needs me. We can we will and we must get through this Let's go I'm gonna ask you a question seriously This is gonna be hard because some of you young and you like still worried about what people think about you So you don't want to be honest in front of people i want you to think about what level you want are you giving 90 80 70 let's see what i'm saying for a minute it's like i gave everything i got i have no more to

give like i really put 120 into this so raise your hand if you're giving 120 like i ain't got no more to give E E I'm giving I'm giving 100 E I know I got I'm just doing at least what coach want me to do I'm doing everything coach want me to do

I'm giving about 90% E I'm giving about 90% let me see your hand of my effort let me see your hands I'm giving about 80% let me see your hand 70% let me see your hands I'm giving about 80% let me see a 70% let me

see hey I need you for you to admit where you are what is it gonna take for you to get every single thing you got what is that gonna take it's consistency and so I gotta go to bed at a certain time I I got to wake up at a certain time. There's certain things I can't eat, certain things I can't watch, certain things I can't do. And I'm talking about that grind. I got an opportunity. You got an opportunity. So here's the deal. When you have an opportunity, why would you give 80% when you have an opportunity?

Somebody answer that for me. Y'all talk. Why would you give 80%, 70%? Why wouldn't you always give 120%? This right here, for a lot of y'all, y'all ain't got no discipline. It's killing you. It's killing you. And you don't even realize it's killing you. It's killing you.

If you're not giving 120, I'm not mad at you. My job is not to dog you out. Because once we go back out My goal is to come here and take you to that next level From today on you play whatever your best game is you play that level every single time It doesn't mean you gonna score every time but the effort has it you can always give a hundred and twenty percent effort Life can go on regardless. Mental toughness. It is in those times we have to be stronger than we've ever been before. Why? Because they need us more than they ever need us before. I just want to make sure that the life we got left

that is sweeter than the life that if I wasn't focused and I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do and we're gonna make it the best possible.'s your life. You got it. What you gonna do with it? I Want to ask you a question seriously how many are in this room you like your heat is my life But I ain't been in control of it as much as I should be in control of it and after the day I'm taking more control of it. Let me see your hand be honest with me. Come on. Let me see your hands. Be honest with me. Come on. Let me see your hands And so you looked up to who when you play ball like who were the people you looked up to Colby Colby LeBron CP

D Wade Colby I was the same thing with me with dr. Martin King In Washington like all those people, I got a dream. When I saw Malcolm, like, boom. And I saw hundreds of black men, boom. Like, let's go. I'm like, like, I could do that. And then when I found out I could make money doing it and I could take care of my family,

I was like, showtime. Like, you only got one shot, E. So hear what I'm saying. Opportunity. You have an opportunity of a lifetime when you understand you have an opportunity you just you play a little different here's what I want to tell you if you're gonna get it you will have to have that dog you're gonna have to have that dog you're gonna have to be that

dude that say I'm not just going with skills There's a there's a one type of dude who feel like because he's gifted that it's just automatic rope him Let me tell you out something you are gifted, but you better humble yourself You got skill and you got will to total different things You were born with certain things but to get to the next level and not just get to the next level To stay at the next level. You gotta have will when you get to that next level So when you play you have to compete It's sports it's basketball. Why wouldn't you give 120%?

Talk to me what wouldn't what would make you not give 120% you got to answer it you play that level every single time it doesn't mean you gonna score every time but the effort has it you can always give 120% effort you can't dictate if the ball gonna always go in you can't dictate what kind of game you gonna have you can't dictate how your body is gonna respond to moving around but you can dictate your what you can dictate your good you can dictate your you can always give 120% effort like here's the deal when y'all go play tonight tomorrow my goal is for you to go 120.

So you're going to have the right people in here helping y'all. But if you're giving me 70, 80, 90, you ain't giving me 120. You're not going to get out of this experience what you're supposed to get out. That's my job. Why don't you always give 120% effort? It's your turn.

You can't push yourself forward if all you're thinking about is the doubts and the negative things that people are saying. Because you're relying more on their ideas and their dreams of you instead of you relying on your own dreams and ideas of yourself. Why would you want to surround yourself with people that don't have ideas that are great?

Why would you want to surround yourself because of a number? You know, a lot of people tend to wonder, oh, how many friends they have and how many people in their corner. Well, I have a million followers. I have tens and thousands and thousands and thousands of people that support me. How many of those people do you actually know? Do you realize the power that you have right now? Even the people that don't like you, they are drawn to you. They see you, but they don't see your greatness.

They don't see what you truly have inside. They are afraid of it. They don't lift it up. They don't encourage it because they're not happy. So they want you to come on their side. They want you to believe in their ideas of what you think of yourself.

They doubt you and you believe what they doubt. Instead of you waking up from your slumber. Instead of you waking up from your slumber instead of you waking up from this nightmare of despair and letting your opportunities come to life it's going to be a tough time

ladies and gentlemen it's going to be rough it's going to be some tough times and tough days ahead for you. But that doesn't mean your ideas are going to die. That doesn't mean that you stop. It doesn't mean you stop believing in yourself. You just got to keep on working. When you got people looking at you from the left side and the right side,

from the front to the back, and you in the middle, just remember, everybody's watching. Just give them something to see. Let them see it. Are you watching me? Watch this. Oh, you want to stop me? You can't stop this that's the mentality

that you must have in yourself don't you dare give up now I know what that pain feels like I know how to absorb that pain and I know how to keep marching and I know how to keep moving and I know how to absorb that pain. And I know how to keep marching. And I know how to keep moving. And I know how to get productive in my life. Can't stop what you didn't create. You can hate it, but you can't dominate it. Because it belongs to me. Your ideas belongs to you.

So many people dream big dreams, but they never take any action. So listen to me carefully. If you don't believe in yourself, you've already lost the battle. Not believing in yourself is a losing battle because either you won't try at all or you will convince yourself that you can't do it. And when will convince yourself that you can't do it.

And when you convince yourself that you can't do it, your results are going to confirm what you believe. You fall short of your goals when you predict that you're not going to hit them. And sometimes you're too focused on probability you're asking yourself well what's the likelihood of this happening versus focusing on the possibility asking yourself how would my life change if I accomplish this ask yourself that question and don't wait on approval from anyone outside of you And don't feel bad Because you feel like no one is cheering for you

No, you've got to decide that you are your biggest fan You've got to decide that you're going to finish what you started If you don't have one person supporting you If nobody acknowledges you, acknowledge yourself. If nobody supports you, support yourself. This is the thing. If you keep showing up, if you keep going hard, if you stay consistent through your valid moments, your results will turn those who ignored you into fans. It's not that you don't want everything that comes with the path that leads to your true potential, but you are too hung up on blaming the past and the present.

You are too hung up on blaming your mom for how she treated you when you were younger. You are too hung up on blaming your teachers for how she treated you when you were younger. You were too hung up on blaming your teachers for how they spoke to you. You're too hung up on the shitty thing that happened to you years ago. I'm not trying to discredit your pain, but you got to let that go. And because of that, you aren't able to appreciate the strength and power you have today. You aren't able to step into that power because you are choosing to justify excuses every single time you open your eyes. It's time to take responsibility. Understand that you are in control of how you feel every day, what you do every day, how you act every day. So don't get it twisted. The excuse that these outside sources control how you feel,

what you do and how you act is just a justification that has been drilled into your head since you were younger. Break out of it. Understand that we have the power to change our lives. Stop putting the power in other people's hands by blaming them for your current situation. Take that back. Choose to shift the trajectory of your life so you can live up to your true potential. And don't for one second think it's going to be easy.

If it's important to you, you're going to find a way. You won't have to look for a resource. You will become resourceful. It's not always about the accomplishment. It's about the effort. If you can just keep the effort going, the excuse is irrelevant. You got to be stronger than your excuses. Excuses don't get results. We get one opportunity to come this way. We get one shot. We got one life to live. Life is too short to make excuses.

Life is going to be hard. No one said it was supposed to be easy. Life isn't fair. Sometimes you just got gotta do it alone What do you do? How do you live? How do we get through it? You got to stand up You gotta get up

The path that you have chosen Was never designed to be easy. Some people want it easy. But I dare you to go the hard way. What do we do with the life that has been given? How do we face the circumstances that have been brought before us? Do we give up? Do we stand up?

Do we push through? Those are the questions that we ask each and every day when we are faced with adversity. Hard times create tough mass. Tough mass creates tough characters. But you got to carry on. So when it gets tough, you got to get tougher. When you're standing on your own two feet and the storm is coming in,

you still gotta stand. And sometimes you just gotta stand alone. Greatness requires work. And hard work is how you get it. You don't give up because it's hard. You don't give up because it's challenging. You don't give up on you.

Let the hard work begin. So when you're standing alone, make sure you stand with a pure heart, with a great mindset because there's no one like you there's nothing that can stop you no one can do the things that you do no one can stand

like you do you have to keep going you have to be truthful to who you are inside. It was never go for it. The question is, how hungry are you? How much are you willing to give of yourself? Because it's really ultimately up to you. You can't sit around and waste time. You can't sit around and determine

that everything is going to go your way because it will not go your way and waste time. You can't sit around and determine that everything is going to go your way because it will not go your way all the time. But I tell you what, if you keep laying around wasting time, time is going to continue to carry on with or without you because you have already decided to lay in your bed because you were just too tired to get up. It's up to you to make a difference. So that you can be a difference maker. It's up to you to be a solution. And not a problem.

That means you got to be serious. And you got to be willing. And you got to be serious and you got to be willing. You got to be dedicated. You got to take that leap of faith. I understand it will never be easy. I understand that I got to work. I understand that sometimes I want to give up. But I will not give up. So while you're sitting around, moping around, blaming everybody for what you're not doing.

Guess what? Nobody's going to sit around and wait for you to do the right thing for yourself. Because it's all up to you so just get busy you are on your way success doesn't have time for your excuses success doesn't have time for your laziness success doesn't have time for the person who doesn't truly want to change. See, I

know you are scared. But turn that fear into fire. We've all been there. We've all been afraid of something. But don't give up. You keep trusting. You keep up. You keep trusting.

You keep believing. You keep going. Embrace the suck. And keep on fighting. It's okay that you failed. But don't think you don't have what it takes. Don't doubt. don't have what it takes don't doubt don't be ashamed trust

and who you are i must work i must believe i will fight i I will work. I will push. And I will never quit on me. I know that I have to work. I know that I have to believe. I know I have to trust in me. You got to show up. Sometimes we are going to have to just deal with the circumstances And the challenges that we face You can't be soft

You can't be weak And expect the greatness to come out of you You can't expect anything good to come out of nothing If you're not giving nothing you get nothing You can't expect anything good to come out of nothing. If you're not giving nothing, you get nothing. Now get up and do your work. When it comes to the work ethic, that's when you have to dig deeper. That's when you have to work harder.

That's when you have to shut out all the noise and all the naysayers sometimes ladies and gentlemen you just have to be quiet and listen to your passion listen to your heart. Listen to your truth. It's okay sometimes. Because these things are going to happen no matter how hard you work. But you don't have the right to give up. You don't have the right to give in. And stop playing the blame game. And go about your business.

When you have been pushed back, pushed back even harder, I dare you to go down that path that many refuse to go. Pain, passion, focus, faith, you. Put it together you will be an unstoppable force no one's good at everything I mean that's just not the way life works what you know is very limited and what you don't know is limitless

the man who led us to six Super Bowls. Those who stay will be champions. War number 12, the greatest of all time, right here in Tom Brady. If I want to be the best, I got to beat the best. 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 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. But I had to take it to a new level that the other guys wouldn't. Nothing was given to me. So I'm going to go out there and compete as hard as I can. And I'm going to treat practice like a game. And I'm going to gain the respect of my teammates every day through my work ethic. I'm going to work hard in the weight room. I'm going to work hard in the film room. I'm going to work the respect of my teammates every day through my work ethic. I'm going to work hard in the weight room.

I'm going to work hard in the film room. I'm going to work hard to be a good student. Whatever they ask me to do, that's what I'm going to do to the best of my ability. I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. I'm just a story like everybody else. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. And I said, be proud of the man in the glass. Be proud of that man that wakes up every day

and does the best he should do with his priorities. We're all talented at certain things, but we can really continue to improve our weaknesses if we're humble enough to identify them, and we can build on our strengths. Focus on what you can control. Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting.

Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of it. You treat it like it's the Super Bowl. You treat it like it's game day. Go out there and treat practice like no one else does. And you have an opportunity every day to surround yourself with people to help you grow. You know, I always said we play for the name on the front of our jersey, whether it's the Patriots or the Bucs. And I play for the name on the back of the jersey, which was my family and the people that encouraged me.

I was so blessed to have this discipline over a really long period of time. It was a lot of tough competition. But I was never, I would say, like a prodigy. I wasn't like the kid where you see Tiger Woods swinging on the Johnny Carson show at two or three years old, and his swing looks as good as it did at three years old as it did as he grew older, or certain players that had this unbelievable prodigy aspect to themselves. I saw myself as someone who probably had some other traits

that maybe were hard to identify, but that were really sustainable over time, which was, I would say, work ethic and discipline. There was this discipline that I had that even as 13, 14, 15 years old, where all these other boys were, I went to an all-boy school in the Bay Area, and I remember showing up my first day of freshman year. I didn't have much, you know, hair under my arms or anything like that. I was like, and these other kids came in shaving. I'm like, what the hell is this? I didn't know how to put the pads on in my pants when I tried out for freshman football. I mean, I had never played until that point, except in the street. So these kids came out there, they had, you know, helmets and shoulder pads that they had worn for

four years. I went on the field and I was like, I'm going to get killed out here. You know, and my freshman year, I didn't even play. I was the backup quarterback on a team that went 0-8. I couldn't get on the field and we never won a game anyway. I mean, it's one thing to be the starting quarterback and to lose. If they don't even think you're good enough to be a starting quarterback on a team that's 0-8, you must really suck. So naturally, I was like, oh, cool, I'll continue to, you know, work on my skill. A lot of it was even going into my second year in high school. There were workouts in the morning at 6 a.m. before school. And I was like, okay, I can get up at 6 a.m. and I can go do these

rope drills where you'd run through the ropes. You see a lot of people do that. There were these hills that we would run up. And there was probably less than 10 people there, but I was probably one of the three that were there almost every single day to try to continue to push myself to grow in these maybe physical areas that I was really behind a lot of other people at. And I went in there, competed really hard my third year, and I lost a starting job to Brian Greasy. So I go into my fourth year and I was like, now's my time. I worked hard to compete my first three years. Going into my fourth year and I was like, now's my time. I worked hard to compete my first three years. Going into my fourth year, I got a great opportunity to play.

And they recruited a kid named Drew Henson. And I was like, the competition's relentless. At first, I was looking at the guys ahead of me. Now I got to be looking down at the guys behind me too. And going into my fourth year, my teammates named me team captain. And I won the starting job. We had a good year. We finished 10-3, you know, beat everyone out, and then I showed up, and Coach Carr says, well, you're going to compete with Drew Henson to be the starter

going into your fifth year, and I was like, you got to be kidding me. You want me to compete? That's what we're going to do. I competed really hard again in my fifth year, took it to a new level, thought about my conditioning, my strength, thought about how I was doing, my making my decisions off the field. I was starting to play really good. And I thought, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to have a chance. Coach Carr called me and he said, well, Tom, this is what we're going to do. You're going to start.

Drew, you're going to play the second quarter. And I'm going to decide at halftime who plays the rest of the year. Coach Carr said, the platoon's off. Tom's playing the rest of the year. We didn't lose a game the rest of the season. It was a tough battle for me. It was a tough go. It was tough in high school. It was really tough in college. So of course, now I'm going to the NFL draft. And I'm like, all these pro coaches must have seen how good I was. Man, I'm going to be a second round pick.

Round one, two, and here we go. Six round, pick 199. And I was like, all right, I'm gonna make all those other teams pay. Like 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 to name me captain. I learned about how to dig deep within myself a long way from home without a ton of support. 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 all those experiences that we think are the hardest things in our life end up being the best experience in our life because if you approach it with humility and you look inward they become the best opportunities for growth and learning. But most people could say, man, I want to exercise for one day. I want to be more hydrated for one day.

Well, can you do it for a week? Well, that's more discipline, right? Can you do it for a month? That's more discipline. Can you do it for a year? That's even more discipline. Can you do it for a year? That's even more discipline. How disciplined are you to maintain that routine over a period of time? And I think that will determine your level of success. Fame didn't motivate me.

I didn't give a shit about any of it. I always took less money because I wanted a good team around me. I didn't care about going to all these different places and doing those things. I just wanted to be my best. I wanted to go out there and the team believed in me. I didn't want to let them down. If I want to be the best, I got to beat the best. Thank you.