Daily Motivations - THE POWER OF PURPOSE

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

We dive deep into Jim Rohn's motivation and the undeniable power of discovering your “why.” If you’ve ever asked yourself, “What’s my purpose?” or wondered how to find your purpose in life, then this video is for you. It’s not just another motivational speech — it’s a wake-up call. This message will remind you that a strong enough why bears any how. When you’re connected to your purpose, when you truly understand what your why is, then no challenge can break you — only build you. This isn’t about hype, it’s about alignment. This content is perfect for those who resonate with Hopecore, need grounding in hard times, or want to reconnect with deeper meaning and legacy. Whether you’re a dreamer, entrepreneur, creator, or just seeking clarity, this message will meet you where you are. Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Kindly support us Support Us

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He who has a why can bear almost any how. It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions. Who are you? And what do you want? Work on your list of whys. Here's what we learn, if the why is powerful, the how is easy. You're going to realize it one day.

That happiness was never about your job or your degree or being in a relationship. Happiness was never about following in the footsteps of all of those who came before you. It was never about being like the others. One day you're going to see it. That happiness was always about the discovery, the hope, the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself.

It was always about embracing the person you were becoming. One day you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself. That your happiness was never in the hands of others. One day you will realize that true happiness comes from within and no external factors can define it. It was always about you. It was always about you. I say chase your dreams man. Do that thing man that keeps you up at night. That thing that bothers you man, that makes you trip. You can't quit thinking about it. You always, that thing man that you wake up in the middle of the night, you got a new idea. That's what you got to chase. Because anything else, you're gonna forever be sad man. If you

don't chase that dream, you're gonna forever be miserable man. To get anything of value, To get anything of value you have to sacrifice. Paul, what is your purpose? Why are you here? It's just too hard. Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. You asked for strength and you received challenges to become stronger. You asked for a positive mind and you were thrown into darkness to find your own light. You see everything has its purpose so only focus on improving yourself.

That's all you can ever do. Figure out what you want. Ignore the opinions of others. Do so much work, it would be unreasonable that you fail. Realize it never mattered to begin with. Help others once you get there. You've already achieved the things you said would make you successful.

You get all you have, you're gonna get max potential back. And then who knows what can come. things you said would make you successful. investment of a greater life. You only got one life guys. Again, if you work it right, you only need one. He said, Jim, if you had enough reasons, you could do the most incredible things. I never forgot how he put that. If you have enough reasons, see reasons will change your whole life. Mr. Shove said to me, he said, Mr. Owen, reasons will change your whole life. Mr. Chosnekami said, Mr. Ohn, I think you've got plenty of intelligence, you've got plenty of talent, you've got plenty of ability. Probably what you lack is plenty of reasons. Nietzsche said,

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it. That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk? The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges. I don't really understand what my life's task is.

I call that a master your life's task. Please help me Robert. You have to be patient. It's not gonna come like a light bulb in your head. Ah, I was meant to do this. I was meant to write the 48 Laws of Power. That's not how it works. So I like to tell people to go back

to their early childhood memories of things that really excited them before they got mixed up with parents and teachers and all that other people telling them stuff. Because what people don't get is one day that thing is going to come up. 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. But if the why isn't strong, if your goals aren't powerful, if the vision isn't clear, the old prophet said without a vision we die, without a vision we perish, without a dream we're nothing.

Now is the best time to start. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not until next month. Not next year. You have to start. Right now. Get out there and chase your dreams. adventure fall in love take risks because trust me But have anything you want if you want it badly enough You can be anything you want to be anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose How come you're up so early say if you were headed where I'm headed you'd be up early If you were gonna meet who I'm gonna meet you'd be up early If it was gonna stack up for you like it's stacking up for me you'd be be up early too. If you were gonna meet who I'm gonna meet you'd be up early If it was gonna stack up for you like it's stacking up for me, you'd be getting up early You should basically be that the person that your younger self wanted as a role model

brave courageous earnest honest Virtuous like on fire There's this quote from the ancient Greeks that says, "'Live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.'" You gotta find your why, and your why is what's gonna start 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. What is the antidote to worry? What do you think it is? Well, it's simply this. It is purposeful action. The only real antidote to worry is purposeful action. Everything that gets you to the point where you can take purposeful action,

where you can move, and as Shakespeare says, take arms against the sea of troubles, and by so doing end them, anything that gets you to the point where you can take purposeful action will eliminate the worry. Why? Because of what we call the law of substitution. When you hit this day when you have reached the hilltop and you are deciding on next jobs, next steps, careers, further education, you would rather find purpose than a job or career. Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill. Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose. The only way to discover what your why is, or what you love love is you must experience as many different things as you can.

You can't just read about something. You can't just hear someone talk about something. You must experience as many different things as you can. That is the only way. Otherwise you fall into the trap of doing something you don't love because you never actually tried it before So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something You don't care enough about yourself

Man, why am I not doing this for myself? Because that is that is the number one purpose in life is To better oneself The great line is the you know, if you if you want to find out what you should do in life, what do you think about all the time? That's your God. See, you can do anything. You can get up any hour, read any book, take any class, make any change, develop any skill, do any discipline. And my personal question to you is why not you?

You might think that bed's warm Feels all comfortable you come here you kill it keep it everything you have leave it all here The warmth you feel after that Second to none second to none no she can provide that comfort for you When you give it all here guys, and you leave all here, you are your weakest state, bottom of the barrel. What's about to happen? Your greatest triumph. You kill yourself on pride in here.

Leave nothing to spare. What's going to come? The growth of opportunity. I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests and if you have agreed and you commit to it, it will come to pass. What's your why? If I don't give y'all nothing else you better start that. What's your why? Hey, if I don't give y'all nothing else,

you better start that. What's your why? You know why I do what I do and I do it so passionately? Because my grandfather was a high school dropout, my father was a high school dropout, I was a high school dropout, and we about to break the cycle. I do what I do so my son won't have to go through

what I went through. I'm about to give everything I got, and I will know if I don't get another gig, it won't have anything to do with the fact that I didn't put everything on the field. What's your why? Why do you wake up in the morning? You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. How can you find amazing candidates fast? Easy, just use Indeed. Stop struggling to get your job posts seen on other job sites.

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Then you're left with nothing. So you need to pursue something that's deeper than happiness. And if happiness comes along, well then, hooray for you! You don't want to despise it because it's fleeting. But it's much better to pursue things that are meaningful than things that make you happy. It's deeper and it orients you more appropriately and it keeps you centered in your own life. It makes you more useful for your family and your community. And it's a relief to young people to know that the baseline conditions of life are difficult. But then you can still prevail.

Your purpose in life is something that you're born with. It's like your destiny. This is what you were meant to accomplish. But we humans are not born with that purpose engraved in our heads. You know, animals don't wake up and go, what am I gonna do today? I can go here, I can hunt for this animal, I can hunt for that animal, I can eat this. No, they don't. They operate by instinct.

They have a purpose. It's automatic almost. We have to find our purpose. And because it's so deep and so important that if we don't find it, we'll find it somewhere else. We need something to live for. You know what I want you to understand? Everything you say yes to is you saying no to something else.

There is nothing you say yes to that doesn't cost you something. And you need to pay attention to what you're saying yes to because you may actually be saying no to your future. Because people who achieve greatness make a decision to live a life that is self-sacrificing and that has deferred gratification. Just because it brings you pleasure doesn't mean it gives you purpose. If you keep living your life for what you want today, you will not be creating the life you want tomorrow. One of the major reasons for setting goals is for what they make of you in achieving them. easy. And hey, it might feel improbable, it might feel impossible, but you gotta do it. Trust me on this one. Now think of the born and the day you discover why you were born.

It's why you get out of bed in the morning. It's why you get up and get going. You have a purpose in life. Now, without a purpose, you're just wandering around. No direction. See, I honestly believe every one of us are hardwired to do something. There's something, we've got a talent and ability within us that will just blossom when we find it. You know you should risk it. Do something crazy. Take a chance because I know that

comfort is great and the couch is great and your bed is great but I promise you somewhere, somewhere far, somewhere wild, somewhere you feel lost, you might find yourself. I don't know. Let's try. What's the one question you can ask yourself to help you find your purpose? The one question to ask yourself right now, the only time to ask it is right now, that will find your purpose in life is what is the next right thing in front of me? Now, we do not figure out our purpose

by trying to project ourselves years into the future and coming up with some grandiose plan. That's not how it's done. You have to understand that it's constantly orchestrating everything perfectly to put you on the path that will lead to that ultimate goal. But the way that you get there is step by step. The next step, the step in front of you. So don't ask yourself what am I meant to be doing

five, ten years from now. Ask yourself what can I do to be useful at this very moment. As small as it seems, as mundane as it seems, but that is the direction. That's the step that will get you to the end goal where you will be able to look back in retrospect and see that you've lived a life of purpose. Is there a version of yourself that's better than you are right now? And most people hopefully would say yes. It's like great, accept that person. To me, when we talk about the authenticity, accepting yourself is accepting the ideal that we can live up to. And that's, that is what we accept, not the shitty version of that that we can live up to. And that is what we accept,

not the shitty version of that that we are today. I need you to confront you because you the one holding you up. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you, you are not gonna do me like this no more. You're not gonna continue to sabotage me. You're not.

You're not gonna keep procrastinating. I need you, You're not. That if you don't get busy and work on it sure enough the time will pass. And sure enough five years from now you'll wind up where you don't want to be, wearing what you don't want to wear, driving what you don't want to drive, being what you don't want to be. Now's the time to fix it. You must be able to see it Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting.

Why Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist? Because I'm Tuesday. In 2017, Charles Leclerc lost his father and in these final days, he told his father a white lie. that he'd made it to Formula One That he'd signed the contract It wasn't true then but his driving has made it true now and look what he's done with the opportunity The grandstands he saw built as a kid growing up now rise for him and for the first time a kid growing up now rise for him and for the first time in 93 years this fabled race is won by one of their own chow leclerc wins the monaco grand prix we won it finally yes yes

there's that quote about uh the ironic tragedy is that life has to be lived forward but only makes sense in reverse? Right, yeah. Ironic tragedy, who would've said that? You can't quit, man. You got to stay with it. Somebody's having it way harder than you and they didn't give up.

We all think about quitting when shit's hard. There's gonna be days when you're aching and tired and sore and there's people in your family that are sick and you're cynical and bitter and you need a reason to get up. The purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us. Because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose.

I don't really care what you do. It doesn't matter what you're doing. It's you that counts. And the more you understand understand you the better your results you're going to get You have to be crazy enough to think that it's possible Sometimes you have to create a delusion even if you have to lie yourself into believing that that's how you do something worthwhile You have to believe it's possible complete delusion You got to believe the delusion because it's only delusional until it works. Your mind is designed to help you get what you want.

You just have to be willing to believe it's possible. And when you believe something is possible, everything else will figure itself out. Now we come to the final question. What is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of your life? Why are you here? Why do you exist at all? Why do you get up in the morning? Why do you have a life? Why are you on the earth? Is it simply to be born, to grow up, to work, to reproduce, to die, or is there something else? In my estimation, there is something else, something far more important. In this session, I want to talk to you about my discoveries and my thoughts about what

the true purpose of life is. The true purpose of life, in my estimation, is to find a mission. Some of the wisest men and women of this century and of previous centuries have looked at this whole idea of why a human being is put on this earth and they've come to the conclusion that we have put on this earth to fulfill our potential by finding our true mission in life. Emmett Fox calls this your heart's desire. If you don't know where you want to go or who you want to be you eventually just float around then you will eventually crash. Most people walk around with no goals, no ambition, they don't know where they're going.

It's like a ship with no destination. If you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there. Ask yourself this. I had a gun to your head and I said, pick the one thing that you want to do in life that would just make you absolutely happy, would give you a sense of fulfillment and peace of mind.

Nevermind that it's not gonna make you money. The thing that you would do if money was not an issue, what is it? Once you know where you want to go, then you direct your time, your energy, and your attention to the execution and the achievement of that goal. It's all about intention. But most people walk around in life thinking that life is just a big fat lottery. And it's just not that case. Those that live by the lottery of life most likely end up losing. Now here's the next exercise

now I want you to answer this question what kind of person must I become to achieve all I want and I'll give you time to write that down now what kind of person must I become to achieve all I want what you become helps you to achieve and what you achieve helps you to become and the more you become the more you can achieve and the more you achieve, the more you can become. Who knows which affects the other the most. So now just write this exercise. Start with a few sentences.

Your concept of the person you think you must become to achieve what you want. Time for a little truth here. Maybe you need to become much wiser than you are at the moment. You need to become stronger. You need to have better health. Maybe you need a little coaching to really become the person I want to become. I'm going to have to have some coaching, physical coaching, spiritual coaching, developing skills coaching. To be the influence you want to be, you've got to build an incredible reputation. What kind of person must I be to attract all that I want in my life and the people that I want and the opportunities that I want?

Jimmy Carr broke my brain with this one. Everyone is jealous of what you've got. No one is jealous of how you got it. The man says, I will climb the mountain. They've told me it's too high, it's too far, it's too rocky, it's too difficult. It's never been done before, but it's my mountain, I will climb it. Pretty soon you'll see me waving from the top. Or dead on the side, because I ain't coming back.

That is the definition. Promise yourself you will never give up. I ask the kids, how long should a baby try to learn how to walk? How long? How long would you give your average baby before you shut him off? How long? See, any mother in the world would say, you're crazy. My baby's gonna keep trying until it learns how to walk. What a magic What if you did it What if you actually did it? How do you think you'd feel?

I mean just for a minute think about what your life would look like if you hit every goal that you have if you actually Went out and did everything you said you were going to do What would your life look like? When you get to the point where it hurt real bad, when you get to the point you can't take it no more, when you get to that point, you cannot quit doing the process. You cannot give up. But once you realize you're not going to be around forever, I think that's what makes life so magical. One day you'll

eat your last meal, smell your last flower, hug your friend for the very last time. You might not know it's the last time. So that's why you should do everything you love with passion, you know? Treasure the few years you've got because that's all there is. Inside we grow. We start from here and it comes out. This workout is called Victorial Pride. Chest workout, the pride from within. It's going to give birth to the strength and the capability of the fundamental structure. That we can achieve this stuff.

From within, we're not worried about the sun, the clouds, the fucking people in the parking lots. We're worried about our mission at hand. And we're going to achieve that mission. I believe you are purpose. I believe you are purpose. I believe you are purpose. You're created for a purpose. Like we know the statistics, it's like a 0% chance of you being you.

You are that. So when you operate from there, it gives you that confidence that I am that. It's not something I would search for. You can take your life wherever you wanna take it. What you're looking for is placement, right? It's like, so for me, rehab time is not my purpose. It's my placement. I can take Trent to

down the street and go impact lives because I am purpose, right? Football, if my mom was right back then, I could use that platform to be who I am. So, you can take your life anywhere and I want people to know that because some people think when you lose a dream or you lose something that it's over. But you didn't lose who you are. You lost that thing, that placement. What shall I do? Well, for progress you must decide. The best advice I can give you came from a wealthy friend of mine who said, If it's easy, do it easy. If it's hard, do it hard. Just get it done.

If you went home tonight and in the next few days cleaned up a whole list of decisions, that might furnish enough inspiration for the next ten years. I found this out many times after you've decided getting on with it is easier than deciding. Sometimes decision is the toughest part. Here's the next emotion, desire wanting too bad enough. And I don't know how to tell you to want to that's something you've got to come up with. There's two things I know about desire. Number one, it comes from inside, not outside. You don't send off for it.

Your heart's desire is something that is placed deep down inside you, maybe even before you're born. And it's something that calls to you and sings to you and lures you on throughout your life. And the reason that we say that only one or two or five out of a hundred people fulfill their potential in any given generation is because most people ignore the callings of this heart's desire. They push it aside, they ignore it, they pretend it isn't there, they get involved in bills

and families and business and careers, and this tugs at them. Sometimes they don't get into it until later on in life, But every single person has the ability to establish for themselves a mission. And on my list of things, now I put everything. Little things as well as major things. It doesn't matter how small it is, it goes on my list. I used to just put major things, cars, homes. I don't do that anymore. I now load my list with everything. Everything. See we all grow from two experiences. One is called the pain of losing. The other one is called the joy of winning.

My coach told me, Coach Smith told me I'll never be nothing. From that day forward, I made a promise that I will give it everything I got. I'm ready to die for what I had to succeed. I have to give it everything I got. that way I'm a winner no matter what. They say the greatest achievement of somebody comes right after their worst defeat. When they hit rock bottom, hit the bottom of the barrel, they got nothing left. Everyone's given up on them. They've lost all their worldly possessions. They're dead broke on their back. It's at that point guys when everything's lost That everything can be gained

There's no more ego there is there they let go of you know, you know, what if I fail if it doesn't work? What if I don't like what this person rejects me the animosity the pressures of society? Let it all go because they've lost it all they're just now left with the intestinal fortitude, the pride within. Do I want to stay on the bottomless barrel or do I climb the fuck out of this hole? Check the size of your goals and the kinds of goals. How big they are, what kind they are, affects you. And here's one of the important phrases of the evening. Your goals are affecting you whatever they are.

Your goals affect your attitude, personality. Your goals affect the way you walk, the way you talk, the way you dress. All day long we're being affected by our goals. Now some people have goals but they have such lousy goals. I asked a guy one time, what are your goals for this month? The guy said look if I could just scrape up enough money to pay these lousy bills. That was his goal. I'm not saying it isn't the goal. It's a goal, but it's such a lousy goal the effect is bad.

So what is it we say we're all trying to achieve in life? What are we pursuing? Happiness is usually the word. I propose this, forget happiness, how about go for joy? Happiness is usually a destination, a place we think if we get there, then I will be happy. But joy is different. It's not a destination. It's the process of living, of finding joy in what we're fashioned to do.

And when we do it well, it's more joyful. If we don't do it well, we can find joy in going, well, I'm gonna try it next time. Joy is a process. Happiness is a destination. I think we'd all be a lot cooler and better, truer people if we found the joy in the process and didn't

keep trying to pursue the result, the destination that we call happiness, which is really unattainable. I think we look down now to 16 year olds and say, where are you going to go to college? What are you going to do for the rest of your life? And it's like they're sick, they're not fully baked yet. How do they know? Give them a break. Just say, look, I think after high school, take a year off, take two years off, join the Peace Corps, travel, go figure things out. Or just enjoy yourself. For the first time in their lives, they're adults and they don't have to be somewhere. They're not told to be somewhere Get used to that freedom get used to having

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You have to grow into it Probably what you lack is plenty of reasons you've got enough Intelligence, but not enough reasons. Here's what else I found out. Reasons come first, answers come second. You don't get the answers to do well till you get the reasons. Life has a mysterious way of hanging on to all the answers and only gives them up to the people that are inspired by reasons. When you concentrate and work intensely on an important task, it gives you a feeling of energy and enthusiasm. When you complete an important task, it gives you a feeling

of energy and enthusiasm. When you complete an important task, your self-esteem goes up. You feel like a winner. You feel great about yourself. If you have a list of tasks to do and you choose to do your most important task and you complete it, you get a rush. It's called an endorphin rush and your brain releases endorphins which flood your system and make you actually feel exhilarated. You almost laugh out loud. You're happy. Your heart rate

goes up. You're smiling. Sometimes you will stay and work late at night to complete a task and you get it done at two or three in the morning and you finish it and even though you should be exhausted, you're happy. You can't sleep. You're walking around. You watch television. I mean, because you feel great. But can't sleep, you're walking around, you watch television, I mean, because you feel great. If you work away on low priority tasks, even if you complete them and do them well, you don't get any excitement or thrill from doing something that's not important. The very worst thing in the world is to do very well what need not be done at all.

Because we're meant to grow. If you ask people, what does it take to be happy? You meet millions of people, hesitate. So many people are unhappy. Well, relationships are one of the keys to that, but there is one key even within relationship. Progress. Progress equals happiness.

If you go and achieve some huge goal, I don't know if you've ever done this, and then you achieve it, you have one or two experiences. You either go, is this all there is, after you achieve it, which is horrible, it feels worse than failing, or you go, wow, this is amazing, and you celebrate. But how long do you feel good for after achieving some great goal? Five years?

A year? Six months? Right. Why? Because we're not meant to just sit at the table of success and get fat. We feel poor. We're meant to grow. And when we grow, we make progress, we feel alive. And what makes us feel most alive, and knowing your life and a mind to it is a person it's when you grow you have something to give and what makes life meaningful is not just a happy life it's not always happy but a meaningful life is a life where you serve something more than yourself something that gives you the energy to say would be serving your kids and family or your business or something in your community or something in the world 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 that we were created is when we feel pressure, we feel the necessity to get things done. We can mountains,

but when that pressure releases and we don't feel the need to get something done, we could become incredibly lazy because there's no necessity. So you have to create necessity in your life. You have to create the need to get things done. Unhappiness is when your expectations of how life is meant to be going go unmet. And this explains why a kid in Africa who gets rice, I was born in Africa, I was born in Botswana, a kid in Africa who gets rice can be euphoric. But a billionaire in a Michelin star restaurant in West London, if his three Michelin star steak comes without the sprinkle of dust, whatever shit they put on it,

he will be visibly pissed off and complain. Because his expectations of the world and how life should be going, go in there. So one of the ways that you can make sure you're happy, it's not Lamborghini's, it's just like having better expectations. Society becomes great when old men plant trees under the shade of which they know they'll never see. You gotta do something that's gonna leave something for somebody else's enjoyment that you know you won't even be there to enjoy. I know I won't be under that shade, man.

I know I won't. But I planted them so my grandkids will be walking through that forest. Man, these some big trees. That tree 50 years old. Your granddad, Papa Harvey, put them trees there. You know, why do I just keep getting up and going and going and going? But I had a purpose before everybody had an opinion. It's not about anybody else. It's not about anybody else.

It's just about going to do it because that's what you want. That's what you set out there to go do. So I've always been my biggest critic. You continue to stay that way. Maybe your purpose in life isn't related to your job. Maybe your job is your job. And the job is the thing that supports you and then the rest of your waking hours are devoted

to your purpose. Whatever that is. Yeah. And a lot of us are trying to make it the same thing. Yeah. And it's beautiful when it happens, but it doesn't always happen and it's out of our control. Also, we can decide. I would say if you need to have a job to support yourself, that's great. That's a noble thing to do. And follow your dreams. But I'm not saying they're one thing. They don't have to be one thing. And don't let following your dreams undermine your ability to support yourself.

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