Daily Motivations - WHY NOT YOU

Episode Date: August 4, 2024

WHY NOT YOU! Today I want to ask you this one question. Why not you? Why not have or do anything you ever dreamed of? It's time to believe in yourself and believe you are deserving. Speaker: Eric Thomas

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You're somebody now. Do you understand? Yeah. That's the game. I was somebody long before people knew who I was, and I believed that. You're somebody now, Adisha. Why? We all ask why we should work this hard.

Why take that many classes? Why go to school that many years? Why take the notes? Why read the books? Why work that hard? Why put yourself through the push-ups and the disciplines? Why? Good question. Why? Best answer to why, I think, is the second question. Why not? Why not see how many books you can read, how many classes you can take, how many skills you can develop? Why not see how valuable you can become to the marketplace, to your friends, and to your family?

Why not see what you can make of yourself? Why not see how far you can go, how much you can see, how much you can earn, how much you can share? Why not? I hope all of you can feel how happy I am just one time in your life. But guess what? You will never feel this level of happiness if you don't go for something in your own life when they knock you down, where they try to you, when they talk about you, and they try and put their foot on your neck. If you stay down, you will never ever get that resolve,

fortify your mind and feel this level of happiness that you rise. Why not you with good self-esteem? Why not you starting to change and setting goals? Why not you starting to make progress toward financial independence? I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. I'm inspired by the greats. I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. I want to be up there.

If we can read, you can read. If we can change, you can change. If we can figure it out, you can figure it out. If we can turn it around, you can turn it around. it around. There isn't anything you can't accomplish. That's what those testimonials would say. And so I want to say it to you personally. Why not you? You've got the brains. You've got the stamina. You've got the vitality. You've got the interest. You've got your life ahead of you. You've got the future. You can do it. If anybody can do it, you can do it. If one of us can do it,

hey, we all can do it. This is why the dark room is so important. Like, if I don't put the work in, if I don't do what is required behind the scenes, I'll never step in public. authority. If nobody's told you today, let me be the first to tell you. Every single person listening to me is standing at the precipice of the greatest decision they could ever make in their lives. And now here's my last question. Why not now? This is a good time. Set your goals, work on yourself, work on your skills. What a good time to get it together. What a good time to start this process, personal development, growing, changing, developing, having a good plan for your money and for your life and for your future.

Why not now? No, I'm not a part of the country club. No, I'm not. I don't hang out with them, but I'm still going to be successful. I'm still going to get to where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me.

You will not destroy us. You will not defeat us until the day I die. And I just want to ask anybody listening to me, why? Not you. Why? Not you. Why can't you be the person that changes everything? The innovator, the trailblazer, the disruptor, the person that makes a decision that I will not be the weakest link in the chain of a dynasty. Why? Not me. Why can't you be the one that makes history? Why can't you be the one that wins? Why can't you be the one that breaks cycles? Why can't you be the one that overcomes the demons that have haunted a family for generations? Why not me? So I always had a piece of me that felt like the risk's worth taking.

Why not try to make your dreams come true? I'll be honest with you kids. One day you die screaming like my father did. You might as well go for it. You might as well do the thing that you dream about doing for heaven's sake. Why not you? You got to drink in an Arizona sunset. You got to see the world.

You got to read the books. You've got to do the enterprises. You've got to be involved in commerce and love and travel and experiences. You've got to do it all. Why not you? You've got to know the results that come from splendid discipline. There's nothing like a view from the top. The kids are like, oh, the boomers.

There's unlimited opportunity. Cheney! You make so much money because it's so easy with TikTok and Shopify and Instagram. Like, no era ever. You have nothing but opportunity when you're 20 to 30. We grew up where you had to eat for 15 years before you could even say something. We couldn't talk. Kids didn't talk until they were 35 in the company.

This is the greatest era to be 20 to 30, but these are in their TikTok feed, and they've got somebody saying, it's the boomer's fault. They took out of all the money, and we all got, and if you're a loser, you believe it. Three most common traits of very successful people, superiority complex massive crippling insufficiency and impulse control so superiority complex

I can achieve this thing that's the cheese crippling sense of insufficiency I fear the cat impulse control I'm in a tube there's only one direction that I can go

I don't need to make a choice how do I attack today how did I attack yesterday and if I didn't do something I was proud of I'd write down a sticky note and I would fix it don't postpone your better future any longer get at it tomorrow with new vigor get you some new books

ask some new questions set some new goals get you a new journal start your projects book get a game plan going do some more reading start to make changes have conversations make contact and do it now you're talented enough you're hungry enough so do it you're the first pick you are the only option and there will never be another way

believe that is you it's always been you I feel in order to get to where you're going requires a reasonable amount of unreasonability not like hey man

I'm going to jump off a building and fly without the aid of a jetpack unreasonable unreasonability reasonable amount is just like you know why not me why not you some people have done the most incredible things with limited start why not you some people have done so well they get to go they get to see it all they get to do it they get to be there they get to have it they get to enjoy it why not you why not you Why not you watching the morning mist rise over the mountains of Scotland? Exploring the mysteries of Spain, soaking up history in London.

Why not you? You got to take a stroll through the palace of Versailles. Why not you? You got to have lunch in one of those neat little sidewalk cafes in Paris. I mean, Denny says, okay, but you got to try Paris. Someday you got to gaze directly at the Mona Lisa. I can show you where to find the most exquisite seashells in Miami and the Bahamas.

I know where they are. Why not you? You got a shop on Fifth Avenue in New York. You got to stay at the Waldorf Astoria. Have dinner at Luchow? sliced roast goose on a bed of apple struple. Why not you? What is your purpose?

What is your destiny? What is your assignment in this season? Are you completely sold out to it? Are you all in? Are you willing to lay your life down? Are you willing to die to achieve it? There is no tomorrow. There is no plan B.

I am completely devoted to my level one priorities. I've been in the comments. Why? Not me. Once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life, waking up and going after it. I wake up every single day,

and I go after what I want. But if you don't know what you want, what are you even waking up for? You can't have it. Do not settle. Do not think that where you are, And what you see is all you will ever have. There is more.

But change doesn't always come to you. It comes from you. And those of you in this room, you are great. You are phenomenal. And you're not walking in it. When you actually understand it, it's actually fundamentally true. You are capable of doing anything. you are capable of all of it.

But I can't activate something you, that you, you got to activate that. Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. It's the what if I can pull off a fucking miracle. What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? Okay, why not me? I've already overcome this. Why can't I go and start a company? Why can't I build something that's meaningful?

Because if I looked at it the other way and started to take, you know, the count of, okay, well, I can't do this because of where I come from, I can't do this because of how I look. I can't do this. I wouldn't start anything. Everybody would wake up each day doing subtraction. I look at my life as additional.

We have to decide, are you in a place where you are ready to actually shift and do and execute on why you're here? All of that is foundationally on your own self-awareness of who you are, being accountable, and most importantly, finally cutting out the cancer of insecurity out of your body on the things that have always been there by shedding light. This is what you believe is possible, is your mindset. It is what you believe you are capable of.

It is what you believe you deserve. Tell yourself that you deserve to be happy and you deserve to be fulfilled. You will start to see reasons for it. Ask yourself, all these amazing adventures came from somewhere. Why not you? Why can't you be the one that comes up with that next great idea? Ask the question when you're thinking big, why not you? And answer it.

I'm not just doing this motivational video. Why not you? Why shouldn't you win? No, no, forget motivation. Let's get logical. Why not you? Actually answer that. Why can't you be somebody that can do something in your business that's never been done before? Why not you? Answer it. If I want to change my life, it starts with my action.

It starts with me waking up every day having a plan and not just move off emotion. The greatest fundamental challenge in the world is figure out who are you. Who am I? Who am I and what do I want? Who am I? What do I want was important to me. then live that. What do I want today? What I want out of this day? What do I feel at the core? Because it's yours. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. And by the way, why not you? You know, why not you? Why can't it be

you? You know, what about you is less than, that you are telling yourself is less than? Why not you? This is so unique and so special, why not you? You are unique, and you have gifts to give. What keeps you from giving them? Fear. And what we are capable of doing is amazing. Just do it. You are able to do so much more.

Instead of saying, I can't do this, I can't do that, I failed at this, I'm incapable of this, you can do this. You can do this. Like, it's going to be okay. Don't let fear hold you back. Things can be scary and you can push through them. Are you going to have thoughts come to your mind of why you can't get it? you have the ability in your conscious mind to reject that idea kick it out of your mind thinking of why you can't do something is never going to do you any good

and keep thinking until you start to think of thoughts of how you can do it the way i look at it within myself why not why cannot be the MVP of the league why can't i be the best playing the league i don't see why not i need you to know that you're enough i need you to know that you're qualified I need you to know that you're called, you're armed, and you're dangerous. Talking about wisdom, knowledge, power, authority. I need you to know that all you have is all you need. Anybody is capable of achieving anything.

I actually believe that, because I think human beings are designed to change. You're capable of breaking any pattern. You're capable of getting control of your health. You're capable of launching a business. You're capable of making millions of dollars. You're capable of healing your trauma, of finding love, of doing absolutely anything that you put your mind to as long as you are willing to do the work for it and as long as you give up your timeline. Because I do believe that people who put in the work get rewarded. But you just might not get rewarded when you think you're going to be.

and it might not be the reward that you thought you were going to get. But you have something unique within sight of you. You have more to offer not only yourself, but the rest of the world. Know that you matter. Know that your purpose matters. Let me be the first to tell you, there is none like you in all of the earth. And I'm just wondering if you are bold enough and courageous, enough to believe what I'm saying. You are enough. So why not you? You can do anything.

And I think one of the most powerful things that you can cultivate with yourself is being able every single day to have a level of trust in your life, in the magic of things, in yourself, to know that this moment right now is also a dot on the map of your life. And five, 10, 20 years from now, You will look back on this moment, and you will know exactly why this happened. And why it happened is it was preparing you for something. It was giving you a skill or an experience or some wisdom or a relationship that you're going to need for something extraordinary that's coming. And when you believe that, it gives you the strength to face absolutely anything.

What are you going to do with what you have? I'm not talking about how much you have. Some of you are business majors. Some of you are theologians, nurses, sociologists. Some of you have money. Some of you have patience. Some of you have kindness. Some of you have love.

Some of you have the gift of long suffering. Whatever it is, whatever your gift is, what are you going to do with what you have? They say the true hell is when the person that you are meets the person you could have been. My biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world. And there's a final judgment. And you talk to something much bigger than you. I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone

with something that says, you're in heaven. This is what you should have been on earth. And are you really in heaven now? Are you in hell? Thinking about how much I left on a table for fear. Imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential.

The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn't use. And they're standing around your bed, angry, disappointed, and upset. They say, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say. And now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today, how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes? Why not see how much you can do, how far you can go? Why not you?

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