Motivation Daily by Motiversity - BECOME MENTALLY TOUGH - Powerful Motivational Speech | Eric Thomas

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

BECOME MENTALLY TOUGH! With mental toughness, we can overcome obstacles, stay committed to our goals, and keep moving forward, no matter how difficult the journey may be. It empowers us to stay calm in stressful situations and bounce back stronger, making it a key trait for personal growth and success.Speakers:Eric Thomashttp://etinspires.com/Follow ETYouTube: http://bit.ly/2ua2os4Twitter: http://bit.ly/2XxzLnvInstagram: http://bit.ly/2Tpp5ICFacebook: http://bit.ly/2UiUp91http://etinspires.com/MusicTwelve Titans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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New episodes are being released every week. The link is in the description. You need to be more disciplined about your minds. What are the people need to be thinking about with their minds? So here's the deal. You're already in pain. Get a reward for you. It's just like, look, do we in favor?

Everything you say, you're right. But why go through life with whatever people did to you when you were younger or a young adult? and then you have to live with it for the next 40, 50 years. Why would you sit here and all the stuff that you said was absolutely right. My daddy wasn't there. My mama didn't. Why would you let them destroy your life? Let's go.

Why would you let them all of you? Why would you allow that thing they did to hurt you not get fined your life? It's like, no, I was in pain. It's real. But get a reward for it. I didn't give off. And so I'm saying to 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 scar. And we live a life of a reward. So I'm just going to say again. 2025, do me in favor. Check you. You're in the ballot box

and you're looking at all these options, doctor, lawyer, teach your weapon. Whatever you see, president, mayor, governor, do me in favor. Before you check off 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. I'm my ticket out of the neighborhood or, you know, I'm the broken curse. Like, whatever you want to call yourself. But the day I stopped saying, my mom, my dad, this person, the police, the time, the day I stopped doing that, the day I said, you. And so I took the keys in my life and said, my, thanks. Dad, thanks for not being there for me. You gave me a dog. You gave me a

passion. You gave me resilience. You taught me how to make it when the very thing that's supposed to be there for you isn't there for you. And I tell people, you, you know, People. What I want, some kid asked me the other day, he's like, man, when you say your son is lucky because you're in his life and his mom is in his life, I said yes and no. I say yes, he's blessed to have his mom and dad, but he ain't got that dog. He doesn't have the hunger. He ain't got that. Oh, man. My son is a great kid. But he doesn't have a drive. He ain't got the same drive I got. And that drive came without some stuff that I like. That stuff came from lack. Greatness is in you. The greatness is in you. And now it's time to go to school. It's time to go to work and bring that greatness out of the soul. So just anybody, anybody could be successful.

But as long as you plan to 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. I learned early, like, yo, it doesn't matter if you grow up rich. You still got to play your hand. It's not like life says, all right, you're rich, so you're not going to have any, your parents will never get cancer. You know, nobody, your family will ever have multiple squirrels. Like, you'll never get COVID. You're rich.

It doesn't work like that. Like, you still have to do life regardless of how you come into life. And I think some people feel, well, if you come into life and everything is great, then that's the way you live life. But no, it doesn't matter. If you come in great, if you come in poorly, it does not matter. You have to do life. And if you're smart, you do life on your terms and you don't let life make you do it on its terms. Guys, you got to understand the opportunities that you have.

You know, I've been to third world countries where it does not matter how early you wake up. It does not matter how long you stay up. It doesn't matter what your skill sets are. It doesn't matter. You don't have opportunity. You have people all over the world who are dying to get here, literally dying to get here. you have an opportunity of a lifetime and where much is given, much is required. So it's like, yo, instead of you looking at everything that's not, look at what is.

So absolutely, is there some stuff to complain about 1,000 percent? It's a whole bunch of stuff I can complain about. It's a lot of stuff that I can be angry about. But, man, my grandmother died at 93 and a month later, my other grandmother died at 90. I didn't realize how quick life was. I'm like, yo, my grandmother was 93. I spent 51 years with both of them, they're gone. It's over.

I will never be able to talk to my grandmother again. And I'm next. So because life is short, I don't have time to focus on what's not. I've got to focus on what he is. Then get up and go get it. And for me, it's like, guys, some of you in this room have opportunities that I don't have. Some of you in this room have connections or network I don't have. And I'm killing the game.

And you're not. So I need you to understand where you are. America's not perfect. I don't know if there's a place on planet Earth that is. So we're not looking for perfect, but we are looking for opportunity. And we have it. So it's like, yo, say it because I need you to understand what you have. And then I need you to appreciate what you have.

And then I need you to go after everything that's got your name on it with no excuses. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest. potential, no excuse. I told you I didn't get a new daddy. I didn't get a new mama. What changed? I changed and I stopped being a victim. I stopped saying I've got to wait for good things to happen to me and I said I'm a grind. I'm going to fight. I'm going to work. I'm going to press toward. I'm going to learn. I'm going to do everything in my power every single day. I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. Guys, I need you to do everything. to spend a considerable amount of time dreaming every single day.

Let me tell you why. I've noticed that the people who dream and those people who dream big have a different kind of life than the people who don't dream. So if you were in here and you're like, I'm scared. Whatever you do, do this for me. Do not sabotage yourself with fear. Fear is not real. That's something in your brain.

It does not exist. How do we get over it? You get over it by dreaming of what you can be. Come on. Y'all got to hear what I'm saying. There are those of you in this room. You spend a majority of your life doing what other people want you to do. You don't even know who you are.

And so even what you're doing, you're not doing at 120% because you're doing what somebody else wants you to do. And you're not good enough to be somebody else. You already know that job. Your boss ain't about to catch you out. You're just scared to quit and start your own business because you don't know if you're going to do well or not. You know you shouldn't.

Come on. Be honest. You know you still shouldn't be at that job right now. Let me see your hand. Let's just be real. Let me see the hand. You know you shouldn't still. Raise it high.

Don't play with me. raise it high you still shouldn't be at that job but you're delusional the dream will destroy you right let it the first version of eric thomas would never be able to stand in front of you guys the first version of eric thomas the high school drop out that guy would have never been able to stand here and help you i had to destroy that eric thomas that eric thomas that grew up in detroit and had like that detroit mentality while i love it it doesn't transfer to every community let the dream destroy you Let it strip you. Let it remake and mold you.

Don't be afraid. Some of you are afraid. Listen to me, wherever you're from, if that's where you from, if you leave, you can always come back. I promise you. I promise you when you come back, you can get right back into conversation. Ain't nothing going to change. I promise you, whatever world you're from, if you go to other worlds, you can always go back to that world. Are you listening to me?

Let it destroy you. What matters is you have to find a thing that wakes you up at 3 o'clock or 6 o'clock or 10 o'clock. You got to find a thing that brings the life out of you, the joy out of you, the happiness out of you. 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. The next question becomes, what does it take to do it?

And then am I willing to do what it takes? Yeah. That's it. Because it's a lot. It's a lot. But 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.

Williness is something totally different. Yes. That's different. But I want every human to know you wouldn't be watching or listening to the school of greatness if you didn't believe you were great. Let me say this before I move forward. And I can't explain it, but you better feel me. Winners win and losers lose.

I can't explain it any better than that. I don't know how it happens, but winners win. And if you create a culture of losing, if you keep being a victim, if you keep letting losing happen to you, if you keep letting people do you and treat you any kind of way, it's going to become a culture. I didn't know I was great. And once I checked and realized how great I was,

I was like, bro, we're going to keep doing this. And to the day we died, I grew up the day I realized you owe you, Eric. I remember being homeless high school dropout. My daddy didn't. My mama got pregnant at 17, south side of Chicago. If they just would have got together and got married, if they would have been. You're 20 now. How long are you going to keep talking about your daddy?

You're 20. Come on. How long are you going to be talking about your mama got pregnant or something? You're 20. You owe you, Eric. You owe you. Your mama don't owe you nothing at this point. Your daddy don't owe you nothing.

at this point, you need to get that GED, you need to go to college, you need to handle your business. Are you hearing me? You owe you. The reason why I speak with so much passion, E.T. Why do you speak with so much authority? Because I'm talking about my life, not something that I read. I ate out of trash cans. I had no business eating out of trash cans. I lived in abandoned buildings. I had no business living in abandoned buildings. But E.T., your daddy wasn't in your life. Your mom was a teenage mother. You grew up, come on, eat, look at your search. That's not an excuse. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse. You know what's so funny? We want people to make guarantees to us, but we're not willing to make guarantees to

ourselves. Now, I'm going to say it again. Like you, somebody gave you a 30-day guarantee. In 30 days, you don't make what they told you was going to make. In 30 days, you got an attitude, you want your money back. But you've never demanded your money back from yourself. You've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said, you let you down. Until you get to that point, you let you down. You've never, you're not brave enough. You want to put it on somebody else. The reason why I'm not successful is because of my boss.

Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said, I'm not getting up on time. I'm not going to work on time. I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work. I let me down. I value myself enough to give 120% or don't do it. That's the problem with some of you. You always want to blame other people. I want to hold other people to the fire, but you're not holding yourself to the fire.

You just said you're giving 50%. You owe you an explanation. You owe you an explanation. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say, why are you only giving 50%? What's wrong with you? You need to put yourself on punishment. You need to tell you no more TV, no more snacks, no more desserts. No more, we're working out now.

No more alcohol, not right now. No, I can't handle it right now. You need to tell you that you owe you something. I'm still going to get you where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me. And you need to get rid of them excuses.

And you need to stop pointing fingers at people. And you start pointing fingers at yourself. What did you not do? I'm just saying, I ain't even telling me. I'm not even asking you to do nothing. I'm just asking you to acknowledge that you can't let it go. And it's killing you. I ain't ask you to take no classes or I ask you to do nothing.

You just, it's killing you. And you wake up to it and you go to sleep to it. And it's killing you. You can't wait for nobody else to fix you. You can't wait for nobody else to mature. You can't wait for nobody else to get to that part in their life. You can't wait. I got great things in store for you.

All I'm asking you to do is let this go so I can give you everything you've ever won. So I can put you where you've always want to be. So I can put you where I adorned you to be, son. I gave you a gift, but I can't play like you play. Humans play. I don't play. You gotta fix this. It's something in your heart. You made up in your mind because of the way things went down. You made up in your mind to be bitter. You had options. You chose bitter. You chose angry. Now you hurting yourself. You then dropped out of school. You living in a band and building son. You're killing yourself. All my people that know me know me know, like, yo, he's been doing what he was doing. But, yo, when he came back from there and he forgave his father, he took off. You're ready to let that thing go. Finally forever. You don't know how much time you got left. I'm telling you, I've been there.

I've been there. I had to drive that 700 miles to go knock on my father's door to let it go. I said, God, why I got to go all the way down here and talk to my man? Why I got to ask him? Why I got to make it right? He said, because it's your life and you can't wait for nobody else to make it right. Most of y'all struggle because you don't know what you're here for and you're intimidated when you see other people

because you're not who you're supposed to be and that's why you feel intimidated. Once you figure out who you are, you're walking a room and look at anybody. Not down, but you look up because you know who you are. And you're still walking around here and taking the narrative that people said you were instead of creating your own narrative.

Write your narrative and make it plain to yourself. You hear me? Surround yourself with like-minded people. Stop hanging with people who still talking about people. You should be talking about yourself and how you try to blow up. You should be writing your vision, not talking about their vision. You should be looking at your own vision. You're running around here hanging with people who are going to jail.

No, you're running with people who are doing stuff that's going to take you to jail. You're listening to music that talk about death. Something bound to happen to you if you listen to stuff that's talking about death, start listening to life. I'm going to tell you this story. I've got to get out of here. Probably heard about this before. It was a young man who, you know, he wanted to make a lot of money and so he went to this guru, right? He told the guru, you know, I want to be on the same level you are.

And so the guru said if you want to be on the same level I'm on, I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m. He liked the beach. I said I want to make money. I don't want to swim. Guru said if you want to make money, I'll meet you tomorrow. 4 a.m. So the young man got there at 4 a.m.

He all ready to rock and roll, got on the suit. He should have wore shorts. The old man grabs his hands said, how bad do you want to be successful? He said, real bad, he said, walk on out in the water. So he walks out into the water. Watch this. When he walks out into the water, it goes waist deep. He said, walk a little further.

He came, dropped his head in, held him down, hold him down. My man getting scratching, holding him down. Just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up. He said, I got a question for you. Somebody answered the question for me. He said, when you were underwater, what did you want to do? He said, I wanted to breathe. He told the guy, he said, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to,

want to breathe, then you'll be successful. And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. And I'm here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kind of want it. You don't want it bad than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep. Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired, you quit. Don't cry to give up, cry to keep going. Don't cry to quit.

You already, in pain, you already hurt. Get a reward from it. Don't go to sleep until you succeed. Listen to me, I'm here to tell you today that you can come here, you can jump up, you can do flips, you can be excited when we give away money, but listen to me, you'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do. When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me. 4.0s, 3.0, they went to the Ivy League high schools, came to Oakwood from these great high schools. Most of them are not doing what I'm doing.

Why? Because it's not about where you come from. It's about hearts. You come to a place where, you know, being smarting enough. You gotta have hearts. The most important thing is this. To be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. Some of you, you can make sacrifice what you can.

you you can make sacrifices when Monday night football is not on you can make a sacrifice but when the game come on for some reason you just attached to it for some of you when your favorite show come on you you can be you can make sacrifices on Sunday when they're nothing going on but when your favorite show comes on Monday bear I'm saying to you today that there are some of you if you give up your cell phone you would be successful but your cell phone is more important to you than your success some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success.

The time you could be using to be successful, you're using it on the cell. And the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill. And somebody has told you you couldn't live without it. I'm talking about going deep now, giving up stuff. To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be.