Daily Motivations - YOU OWE IT TO YOU IN 2025

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF! This is the year you finally be more disciplined. You're already in pain, get a reward for it! The Steph Curry Motivational Speech and Interview with Eric Thomas Speaker Eric Thomas Don’t forget to LIKE, SHARE, and Follow for more Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please Kindly support this show  Support Us

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Down by 20 in Golden State? No. Down by 20 away. But before this happened, if anybody's been studying him closely, what happened before this game happened? 77 three-pointers in a row. This boy made 77 three-point shots in practice.

They were down by 20 points. He came back and won the game, but you might have missed it. Do you see it? He's shooting a three pointer with his eyes closed. They showed it on SportsCenter. The boy's eyes is closed with the three. Boom.

Muscle memory. His eyes is closed. What was he thinking about? He was thinking about in practice. One, in practice, 277. And he starts saying to himself, we down by three points. Three times seven is 21. Let me give him the business. One, defense. Two, defense. Guys, don't worry about it. Just give me the rock. You sure? Remember what I did in practice?

Seconds left. He not even at home. He away from home. He got his eyes closed. Boom! We're one of the best defenders checking. This kid didn't take his team to the most wins this year because of what he does in the game. This is your year. This is your moment. If not you, who would have not now win? This is you baby.

Ain't nobody stopping you but you. Can't nobody stop you but you you not average stop acting like you not average why you being average you not average why you being good when you're not good you great you phenomenal when you gonna step up to the plate you won't let a high school dropout somebody lived in abandoned building somebody ain't out of track Ido you? I couldn't hardly read when I got to college, you gonna let me outdo you? You're greater than that. So I need you to give me a huge favor.

I need you to dig deep. It's the mindset. Like I had a victim mindset. Like everything was about somebody else you know it was like the outside inside theory you know i'm saying which is terrible it's like everything that's supposed to blow me up and take me to the next level has is somebody else's responsibility when i look back all the anger and the frustration and the hurt it was all blaming everything was about this person or that person this part I never even realized I was where I was because of

who I was and I was actually getting the physical manifestations of my thoughts of my feelings my emotion like I was creating this hardest thing I've ever done was look in the mirror and tell myself I'm sorry. Sorry for what? I was sorry for what I got myself into, choices that I made. That dude is the dude that looked himself in the mirror was like, yo, you owe yourself an apology.

And not only that, you owe yourself correction. You owe yourself change. Wow. That was one of the most difficult days of my life, was looking at myself, correcting myself, telling myself I was sorry, and then moving forward saying, now what are we going to do from this point?

One of the dangerous things is the outside-inside theory. It's dangerous. Because what you're doing, whether you know it or not, you are comparing your journey and your life to somebody else's journey and somebody else's life. Let's just be honest. You don't need to have the right context to do that. You don't know why they're doing what they're doing. You don't know like what their strengths and weaknesses are. So you compare yourself to somebody. They're nowhere near who you are. Yes. And so you're comparing yourself. So this is why

I believe it's the inside out. Like everything we do starts from the inside so i'm using the information you're giving me to build my journey now i'm trying to be you what are you doing wake up greatness is in you and going back to kind of your story of the victim mindset yeah you know your your mom lies to you about your dad you You don't see your dad. You know, abandoned warehouses. You know, all the problems. Inner city kids, struggle, getting kicked out of school, struggles. You had everything against you,

right? No, no, no. See, I'm glad you said that. You had everything against you. No, the greatest problem was I was against you. Oh. Nobody ever told me I was my greatest asset. I'm my greatest asset. It doesn't matter where you come from.

If you don't activate you, the environment doesn't matter anyway. Great environment, bad environment. And anything you activate, anything you do for you, it's going to blow out. But at the end of the day, you have to be the first thing that you invest in. And if you invest in you i just believe there's nothing that can stop you i'm telling you we can't lose our hope because once you lose your hope you lose everything i'm here to tell you that once you get started you can't stop until you get there i'm telling you when you get in the boat, you make a commitment. It doesn't matter if the gale comes. It doesn't matter if the winds and the waves come. It doesn't matter

if the storm comes. Just keep rolling. You need to be more disciplined about your minds. What do people need to be thinking about with their minds? So here's the deal. You're already in pain. Get a reward for reward for why would you let them destroy your lightning? Let's go. Why would they why would you let them own you? Why would you allow that thing? They did to hurt you now define the rule your life. Yeah, it's like no I was in pain It's real but get a reward for it. Don't just think about you Listen to me like I didn't give up. That's what I'm saying everybody We all go through pain

some of us go through pain and it becomes our tombstone some of us go through pain and it's a it's a scar and we and we live a life of reward so i'm just gonna say again 2025 do me a favor check you so you're in the ballot box and you're looking at all these options doctor lawyer teacher whatever you see president mayor, do me a favor. Before you check off any of that S&P 500 real estate, before you check any of that, check you. Before you check anything, check you and go look yourself in the mirror and go,

yo, I'm my lottery ticket. You got to figure out who you are and love you and feel good about you and not care what nobody think about you figure out your north star and wake up every single day going after your north star it's like you got to figure out what makes you happy you have to find the thing that wakes you up yes at three o'clock or six o'clock or ten o'clock like you got to find the thing that brings the life out of you, the joy out of you, the happiness out of you.

And you can't do that following somebody else's lifestyle. So my last one would be, man, figure out what you was put on this earth to do. And I mean, every single chance you have to do it, do it. And when you're not doing it, enjoy your life. So however much time I have left, I need to work hard and I need to enjoy that time. Absolutely. Do you think anyone can have a beautiful, amazing life if they live in a blaming mindset? No.

No. You know why? Because what I didn't realize as a young adult is that when you say it to somebody else, whether you mean to do it or not, you give them the keys to your life. You give them power over you. They got your whole life in their head because you said it you said it they didn't do this and because they didn't because they got the keys now i'll be honest the reason why we don't want to take the keys because we got to drive we got to drive and i told you today i was like i got too much to do i normally drive i'm like i got too much to do and it felt good to be in the car driven.

While it's more responsibility, it's more freedom. It's more independence. Anybody, anybody could be successful. But as long as you play in the blame game, you have given permission, the license, registration, the keys. You give it all over to somebody else. And the day you take it is the day that you can start deciding which direction you want to go wow so that sounds like step one take the keys back to your life take the keys back what would steps two and three be for setting people up for their ultimate life step two be your first best friend you know like get to know you We're so busy wanting to be in a community that we don't realize we are a community.

Because all of us think we have to have somebody to be somebody. So I just think the first step after the first step is you got to figure out who you are and love you and feel good about you and show up in the league. You and not care what nobody think about you. And I just think if you be, if the Eagles aren't trying to, they just are, they're not trying. Lions aren't, what do you think about me? What do you think about my roar? You think I'm too loud when I roar? They're not concerned. And so I think step two, figure out who you are, love you.

And step three, figure out your North Star. I'm not just saying find your North Star in terms of what you've been called to do for others, but there should be a healthy amount of time that you spend enjoying your life. I want you to think about your life instead of the life. Because that's what you've been thinking about, the life. Now think about your life. Do you want it? What does it take to do it?

And then am I willing to do what it takes here's the thing i believe if you think about it it is only because somewhere inside of you you have what it takes now capacity is there willingness is something totally different you wouldn't be watching or listening to if you didn't believe you were great so you wouldn't be watching you wouldn't be locked in something your spirit has you tuned into this bed because you know you're great now you got to say to yourself am i willing to cooperate yes with the greatness that's in me and then once you do and you start consistently operating in that you're gonna feel good about here's what you have to do you have to understand hundred the shields I think said the top of one mountain is the bottom of the mix Wow

So so so you get to the top of the mountain, but you understand the the G the GED was just one The foreign degree was just one the master just after the PhD was the New York Times But after that is the assessments is the training is the the coaching. I'm in masterminds. I get coached, right? And so it's this idea of yesterday's greatness can't be enough because I'm alive today. So if I'm alive today, it must be some more greatness in me. I didn't realize at 12 that I was great. And that's why I said, you got to check in 2025, you 2025, right? Because I didn't know I was great. And once I checked in and realized how great I was, I was like, bro, we're going to keep doing this.

And to the day we die, it's in you. And it's time to stop being lazy. And it's time to activate. I love that, man. This is the time to get control of your mind and for most of us our mind is in control of us this is a habit of the greats emotional wouldn't let me think rationally it had me irrational so i would say when you make emotional decisions you get emotional consequences yes but it takes meditation it takes controlling of the mind to say how should i behave how should i think in this situation

and what's going to give me the best outcomes when it comes to being a leader and a decision maker we're not doing emotions we're doing empirical evidence wow we're doing facts what does the fact say what does the research say what does the evidence say okay and based on the research and the evidence this is the game plan let's go it doesn't matter how you feel listen to me coaching is everything why because think of michael jordan without phil jackson right think of venus and serena without Richard Williams. Like, yo, I just want you to picture Kobe without Phil Jackson.

So, coaching is critical and here's what's going to blow your mind. When you get to our level, you really need more coaching. Because we didn't exhaust it all the stuff.

You really need coaching. After Jordan won his first championship, he didn't say, I think I've got it figured out on my own. I don't need a coach. He said, let me find Tim to train me.

Let me find the mindset coach, the recovery coach. You know, make sure we're getting to the next level. They said that LeBron, look at LeBron, what he's doing right now. It's amazing, man. Bro. 40, a 40 checking Duncan. Whoever had the arguments, you know what I'm saying? Because there were those of us who was alive.

Yeah. We watched Jordan do his thing. But bro, what LeBron is doing right now, but when I do my research and not emotional about, oh, how is he doing this? Hey, no, when I do my research, he's spending 1.5 million on his body, in the recovery coaching.

And so you see the decision he made and you see, okay, yeah, he was great. But that investment that he made in himself these decisions are based on facts of experts and then we're seeing the outcomes of yeah and so from 16 to maybe 25 you know it was like okay i'm gonna come to coaching some days some days i'm not some days i'm going in some days i'm not and then my son was born i was almost 25 years old jaylen was born and um jaylen was born in 1995 and when jaylen was born it was the day cope said to me this is why i've been trying to train you because i wanted you to be the best father you could be. And so you miss him.

You miss him classes. You miss him lessons. Your son is here now. He needs the best version of you. We can't repeat the mistakes of the past. And so I need you to hurry up. And so when Jalen was born, from that day forward, I remember when he was born, I held him.

It was kind of like he looked at me like, you're the person that's going to take care of me you know and that was the day and this is what a lot of you are running from it's the r word and i get it because it's tough responsibility oh that was the day where it's like oh you got to be responsible for somebody else yeah you you cannot you got i've never played a video game since jaylen was born wow i've read more books since jaylen was born that first year or've read more books since Jalen was born that first year or two that I ever read in my life. I took my career seriously speaking.

I went deep. I went heavy. And I read everything. I was in the library like an addict, just studying and studying and studying. And it was because I didn't want some of the consequences of the past to come in this generation. And so for me, it was like, yo, your son's here. You got to handle your business. want I didn't want some of the consequences of the past to come in this generation you know and so

for me it was like yo your son's here you got to handle your business and I just heard I was more attentive I started getting up at six and then I played this game daylight saving times would come I would okay say don't follow it stay up at five is the new and then the next year the four and then I got started getting up at three and I started getting up at three o'clock in the morning because it was still there was no dogs outside nobody was driving around the family was asleep and I was like okay coach I'm sorry let's go back over the lessons I didn't get and let's go over the new lessons like coach me you alluded a little bit about you know this version of you was kind of speaking to your 16 year old self and saying like,

here's what you need to do. Stop doing that. Start doing this. Like whether that was you in the future or God speaking to you in the future, in the future, like, Hey, this is what your higher self needs you to do right now. Yeah. What do you feel like your future self is saying to you now for the wisdom you need to hear to take you to the next? This, this, this. You spent all of your mature life pouring into people who can't do a whole lot for you. You spent some kind of way in your soul.

You feel like because of where you were and all these people that helped you get to where, so it's like you, like you feel like you owe people to not be in mutual relationships. Like you feel like you owe people to not be in mutual relationships like you feel like you're so blessed and you have so much it's almost a survivor guilt and now you just got to be with people who you got to pull and you got to be with people that you got to beg to and you got to be with people who you just got to bless and you may not get nothing back you're like no no no in season, these relationships have always been there for you.

But you haven't taken advantage of them because it's like, I got to help and I got to fix and I got to help you and help you and help you because somebody helped me. But you had to want it. You're helping people that don't even want to be helped. They want a handout. They don't want to be helped. Now, the rest of your life, son, be in relationships. What's mutual?

Racism. Get in these mutual relationships and get something.