Motivation Daily by Motiversity - BEST OF ERIC THOMAS - BEAST MODE | Best Motivational Speeches

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

ERIC THOMAS'S BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES 2.0! These are the Best Motivational Speeches featuring Eric Thomas of all time! It's time to leave your comfort zone, activate beast mode and go all in on your dreams! This is our 2nd compilation of all the best Eric Thomas speeches we've made with Motiversity and Motivation2Study over the years.Speaker:Eric Thomashttp://etinspires.com/Eric Thomas, Ph.D., is a critically acclaimed author, World-renowned speaker, educator, pastor, and audible.com Audie Awards Finalist. ET, as he is better known, has taken the world by storm, with his creative, common-sense approach to living a successful, satisfying professional and personal life. Through a significant social media presence and regular domestic and international tours, "ET, The Hip Hop Preacher" has become a global phenomenon!Follow ETYouTube: http://bit.ly/2ua2os4Twitter: http://bit.ly/2XxzLnvInstagram: http://bit.ly/2Tpp5ICFacebook: http://bit.ly/2UiUp91http://etinspires.com/Music:AudiomachineAudiojungleReally Slow Motion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. One day I made a decision that enough is enough. I'm tired of being average. I'm tired. I'm tired of being good. I'm tired. I want to go to the dealers shipping by the best car. I want to move to the nicest neighborhood.

I want to fly first class. I want to go to Hawaii. I want to go to Australia. I made a decision. Enough is enough is enough. It's showtime. Will the real Eric Thomas please stand up? Some of you in the room right now, you are where you are?

You're giving 60% when you have 120 in you. Why? Because you've never made a decision. Sh, those of you in this room, you're already there. Your problem is, it's stuff. You don't want to give up the corner. You're talented. You just don't want to give up sleep.

Listen to me, power for pile, any agent in the room, power for power, motivational speaker, power for pile for power, entrepreneur, power for power, athlete, power for pile for power, weight lifting, power for power. Whatever you do, I guarantee you, when you do it, nobody can do it like you do it.

The problem is you don't hardly do it. You love sleep too much, you love that alcohol too much, you love that substance too much, you love that vice too much, that's something that you love more than yourself. Then your dream, then your goals. Watch what happens when you have a goal that only has two reasons.

See how long that lasts. Watch your goal that has 50 reasons and see how... There's somebody called me the other day on the interview. Stupid question. E.T. What do you feel like on the days that you don't feel like? Ask the question again, please. What do you do on the days that you don't feel like?

So I'm going to be honest with you. I'm way past that every day I feel like. Every day I feel like eating. Every day I feel like giving my wife the best life. Every day I feel like driving in a nice car. Every day I feel like flying first class. Every single day of my life, I feel like giving 100% every single day. Somebody said yesterday, ET, you gave 120.

What you gonna do tomorrow? I said, I don't know. Get 140. I don't know, but I don't have days where I don't feel like it. Why? Because I'm counting on me. My wife's counting on me. on me. I don't have days to waste. No more 50% no more. No more 70% no more. I want us an 85

climb. If you're 80 I want you at 90 and I mean moving rapidly. It's not rocket science. And the universe is not responding to correctly because your body level sucks. Here it sucks. I need you to give me that 120. I need you to give me that everything you do. I need to start giving me that 120 and everything you do. Bring it all all together, bring all the energy, all the passion, bring it all together and dominate. I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. You have to give it everything you got.

No more TV, no more parties, no more plan. If you don't have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying. Get off the phone. Sorry, I'm not available until the end of this year. No, I'm for real. You've reached the right number, but you call me at the wrong time. Call me back January 1st. I'm about to get busy now.

Stop being this high school dropout. Stop giving up. Stop sleeping on the street. Stop walking up and down Finko Avenue like you ain't got nothing. And get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test. I got to commit my very being to this thing. I got to breathe it.

I got to eat it. I got to sleep it. And until you get there, you'll never be successful in life. But once you get there, I guarantee you the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want. 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. Don't go to sleep until you succeed. There are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen.

Now what you're going to do about it? about it. We're getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the question, what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well, it's so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say, well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers, but as everybody knows, you can't earn any money that way. or another person says well I'd like to live an out-of-doors I said you want to teach in a riding school

let's go through with it what do you want to do when we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him you do that and forget the money because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time.

You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don't like doing. Which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you're doing,

it doesn't matter what it is, you can eventually become a master of it. It's the only way to become a master of something to be really with it. And then you'll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't worry too much. Somebody's interested in everything. And anything you can be interested in, you'll find others who are.

But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending things you don't like, doing things you don't like. Wake up from your dream and make your dream of reality. Wake up. wake up and understand the significance of the purpose that you have within yourself understand that if it's something that you are truly ultimately seeking in your life then you got to go after it there are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen now what you're going to do about it how are you going to go about doing

the things that are necessary to get you where you need to be in your life everybody has a dream but how much are you applying to that dream How far are you pushing that dream? When are you going to realize that the dream is not going to work by itself? I have the ability to rise up and push yourself and believe in yourself and make that dream a reality. 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 is so passionately? Because my grandfather was a high school dropout. My father was a high school drop out. I was a high school drop out. and we're about to break the cycle. I do what I do, so my son won't have to go through what I went through.

When I was at the football game, my old dude went with me. I saw other kids where they fought, I said that'll never happen to me. I do what I do because my daughter says she's going to Harvard. It ain't even about y'all. I'm about to come here and blaze y'all. Why?

Because I'm trying to get you all the NFL. I ain't about to miss this opportunity. This is the first NFL team I've ever done in my life, and I'm about to lick it. I'm about to give everything I got, and I will know if I don't get enough, It won't have nothing 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? Why do you put on that jersey?

Why do you go out and practice? Why? I got to commit my very being to this thing. I got to breathe it. I got to eat it. I got to sleep it. And until you get there, you'll never be successful in life. But once you get there, I guarantee you the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want. I'm a grind. I'm going to fight. 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. Let me tell you this, the wolf that is on the hill is never as hungry as the wolf that is climbing the hill. And so you got to get hungry and you have to stay hungry. You have to guard your hunger. I need you to develop a healthy dose of self-assurance. When you feel like you can't, when you want to let go, when you are surrounded by doubt, fear, and anxiety, you are going to have to pull up your resume

and remember all of the things that you have made it through. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse. What do you want? Somebody told you to just graduate high school, graduate college,

get a job, work that job, the rest of your life, have kids, get married, and die. Somebody told you that. What do you believe you were destined to do? And then you've got to spend every single solitary thing,

for the rest of your life going after that dream what do you have to have what is your dream and when you think there's nothing left in the tape look yourself in the eyes and say I can I will the nightmare is to reach our 60s our 70s or 80s or even our deathbed and to talk about everything we should have done. I should have done that. I should have invested in this. I should have made the relationship work. I shouldn't have got a divorce.

We sit around and talk about all of our shoulds. We talk about all the things we wanted to do, but never got it done. That's the nightmare. That's the nightmare that we all must avoid. This is the time to establish your dream. All of the pain, all of the trauma, everything you have experienced, the turbulence, you have to garner up all of that hunger. I'm talking about you've got to think of everything you've ever wanted in your life, and you've got to put it toward that goal.

And there are things that you have been called to do that no one on earth has ever done. This is important. Seasons are always temporary. Everything has a season. Crisis is not a permanent condition. And crisis is a human description. It's just a season. And the key to life is outlasting the season.

The key to life is outlasting. This is if you can stay warm long enough, summer will come. In other words, the season for you to leave the job you are all, has come why there's a better one up ahead he got to prepare you for that so we got to close out one chapter to open a bigger chapter get ready for something big big big big god than what you had what will you do with your pain will you let it break you or will you let it redefine seasons of crisis everybody say it with me overcoming seasons of crisis that no one can do it for you but you and even though you face disappointments even

know you will experience some setbacks. It goes with the territory. You must understand that. Life has taught me that you will grow through. Life has taught me. For every level, there's another devil. Life has taught me. The depth of your struggle will determine the height of your success. What will you do with your pain? Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine? And hear me, everybody's got a dream. Everybody's got to go. Everybody wants something in life.

But many of you in this room right now, your beast mode is idle. Your beast mode is not turned on. And when you leave this place, I'm telling you, your life is going to go to a whole other level if you can learn to turn that switch on and keep that switch on. I need you to recycle your pain. I want you to recycle your pain. Now, many of you, when you get this water bottle, you might be thinking this is the first time

that this is the very first time this particular plastic was formed. And we don't know, this could have come from anywhere. Right? So you got to do me a huge favor. Because what you're going to discover, as you're going towards your dream, as you're going towards your goal, they're going to be, man, so many distractions. There are going to be so many people that, haters,

so many people that come up against you. So many obstacles, so many trials, so many tribulations. When people ask me, E.T. like for real, for real, E. I know you can give me 20 things that you've done to help yourself to become successful. But E.T. I just need like one or two.

Can you give me one or two? And one of the things I tell people is, I outlasted the pain. I outlasted the pain. When I was sleeping in those abandoned buildings, I kept telling myself, one day you'll be a homeowner. Every time I walked into that abandoned building,

I told myself that this might be your country. This might be your current circumstances, but this will not be how the story ends. All you have to do, ET, is to survive today. To survive today, when they kick me out of school, I knew that I would not be a high school dropout for the rest of my life. I knew I got to get through this one day. For those of you who didn't meet my mom last year, me and my mom have been through a lot. My mom and I have gone months and almost years of not talking to each other, but every single day I kept telling myself,

One day I have a great relationship with my mom. One day. I didn't grow up with my biological father. He wasn't into my life until I was 30 years old. But I told myself, today, your father is not in your life but one day. And so every single day when I wake up homeless, one day. Every single day when I woke up in that abandoned building, one day. One day is going to be E.T.'s day.

But that day can't come if I give up today. So every single day when I woke up, I can't. telling myself today might not be today but soon it will be my day and I will recycle my pain what will you do with your pain will you let it break you or will you let it redefine i outlasted the pain i just want you to do me a huge favor because i'm this is uh this is a serious moment for me and what makes this moment serious for me is that i'm sitting in a room of people who have the ability to make their dreams become a reality. And we live at a time and live in a country

where we can make that dream or reality. And you have to understand that there are times that I speak, for instance, in prisons. And I'm talking to individuals who will spend the rest of their lives in prison and they don't have options. They don't have a lot of choice. That what I do when I come in is I provide a sense of hope and I provide some inspiration but I'm not able to help them to bring about the

change that they want to see at. And I'm so excited to be in this room because the words that I say in this moment can fuel the rest of your life. Right. So I'm so excited like that for me this isn't a like I won't I won't ask you for anything over the next hour other than the things that are going to take you to the next level. But I'm excited because when I leave, I literally have, we may never see each other again, but I have the ability when you walk out of this room to make you operate in a way you've never operated before.

And once you do that, because I know if you're in this room, I know there's something special about you, that once you leave this room and you go from 70 to 120%, there are going to be some things that happen in your life that didn't happen before, not because you didn't have the ability. So this is not an ability room.

Like this is not we're not talking about ability we're talking about activating this greatness that's in us your abilities are your abilities I'm not going to be able to today I'm not going to be able to help you to do anything that you do better like I'm not going to be able to give you a gift that you don't have But what I will be able to do is help you today operate in a way you've never operated before Right I will I will help you to operate in a way you've never operated before I'm gonna help you to do some things that you've never done in your life before and as a result So you're going to be able to go to a whole new level. So we have to start here. We have to start here.

Just write down those, those things, one or two or three things that you have to desperately get done before this year ends. It's desperation. I don't have a choice. I don't have an option. You got to get that done. Got it.

I just want you, we're not, and I'm not talking about stuff that's kind of important. I'm talking about the stuff that has got it. the ball's dropping and you can't keep talking about it, like you will not be able to rest. You didn't get this done. I want you to write that down. I want you to write that. That's where we're starting.

I want you to write that down. E.T. Like, I got to get this done, E. Like E, this is no option. This is not like a vacation. This is not, you know, just making a couple more dollars for the sake of buying a car, a house. Like E, this is some life and death stuff.

E. Like, this is some change, the trajectory of my life stuff. E, this is like, this is like, it's going to put me in a place, like, where I'm just going to be able to get to that place that I've been trying to get to. I want you to write that down. And it was, look, guys, I'm being honest. It was like random. It was like just totally random. It was out of nowhere.

It was the Christmas holiday. And Carl, our videographer, had his family over. And we live around, at that time, we lived around the corner from each other. Now we live on the same block. Random, right? Christmas was over. We just going to the house, just eating dinner. It just was a random night.

And somehow we got to talking and Carl's wife is from Barbados and she didn't have citizenship. So unfortunately she was in the States without citizenship. And so she had to stay in school in order to eventually get her citizenship. So she did her master's degree, you know, she was in her Ph.D. And it was weird. It was just like, yo, E.T. I don't know how it happened. But it was like, yo, E.T.

My wife is going to get her degree before you get yours. I'm an American citizen. Like I had already been in the program for a few years and, you know, she, and it was, I don't know, but have you ever heard, like, you know when it's your time, like, you know it's that moment. It's like, enough is enough. I can't tell you. People have asked me for, Eric, when you get your PhD? I'll get it done.

E.T., how far are you in the process? Finish all my coursework. I just got to write the dissertation. But it was something about that night that was different. It was almost the end of the year. And I remember Carl, listen to me very close. See guys, I'm being real with you. I didn't even have a conversation with Carl.

Like, we never even talked about it afterwards. I never said anything to him about it, but I felt like I felt this guilt. I felt, I felt like this embarrassment. Like, and for real, he wasn't like speaking directly to me. He was just saying, you know, A.E, I think my wife's probably going to finish her degree before you finish your own. And I'm talking about like it pierced. Like it pierced. And I just remember like we were talking afterwards.

I didn't hear anything. Like, really, have you ever been in a conversation? and it just shifts and somebody's talking to you and like you can't hear the words that are coming out of their mouth I didn't hear anything he said I just kept it like eat when are you going to get this done he like yo E are you ever going to finish this and it's not about a degree but are you ever going to finish this like are you going to get it done and I remember excusing myself like all right Carl hey great time love you guys got to go I to get up in the morning And I'm telling you guys, it's not even a five minute walk and it felt like an hour. All I can think about when I was going home was like, enough is enough.

Like, I'm through. I'm going to get this done. Okay, just help me out. You're in the room. You ever had that enough is enough moment. Ray J. I'm for me. You had that.

Enough is enough moment. Right? So I need you to be there. Like the next 30, 40 minutes, I need you in that space. That enough is enough. I'm not dumb like I can get a PhD has nothing to do with that it has everything to do with the fact that I just didn't say all right this is the year right and so that thing you wrote down I need you to me a huge favor I don't know if you have a pen or piece of paper I don't even know if you can do this on your phone but I want you to kind of put a year next to that for me put a year

I want you to just put a year on that for me like don't make up like don't do it for me a real number just give me like a real real solid number right And I remember saying to myself, like, yo, if we come back next year for Christmas and your family's here, I remember saying to myself, we come back this time next year. I'm going to be Dr. Thomas. We come back to your house next year. As a matter of fact, I will pay for your parents to come. Like, I want to reinvent this whole, like, scenario again next year. Like, I want everybody here. Let's do the same meal.

Let's sing the same songs. Let's twilight zone is thinking out. I want it to be exactly like it was, except for this time, I want you to say Dr. Thomas. Like, this is going on to my mind. I'm not having a conversation with anybody. And I'm saying, like, this is it, guys. This is it. So I put a date on it.

I put a date. I said, 2015, we're not going to have this conversation. 2015, this time next year, I'm finished. It's done, right? Good. So now I need you to do me in favor. I need you to put a month next to it. Yeah, I need you to put a month next to it.

do it now. You got January all the way to December. I need you put a, I need you to put a month on it for me. Give me a month. You need you put a month on it for me, right? Right now, now as you're writing the month down, what I want you to think about is, okay, so write this down too. I'm sorry. I know you came to listen, I do a lot of writing. I apologize, but I really need this. I really need this. I really need this. I need you to write down three people you love next to those goals. Three people you love. Just three people. Right. Give me, you know, write the names down. I don't put son, mom, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, right? Write their names down. Now, this is what I need you to think about.

What I need you to think about is how this goal for these goals will revolutionize their lives. Like I really want you to think about, okay, you can do this later. When you get home, you can do this later but I want you to write down for each one of them give me three ways please do this when you get home if you really love them like you say you love them when you get home I need I need you to write their names down and I need you to write down when you get to this place when you finally make this thing happen how is it going to empower them how is it going to change their life and all I can think about is wow if I get this PhD like I can just like change the zeros change the zeros I just remember thinking like there were doors that were closed to me in the United States of America, right?

Because of the nationality that I come from or the part of town that I come from. And I specifically remember people picking other people over me for speaking engagement that weren't as good as I was. I remember I remember people using the excuse of you're not you're not qualified enough. And I remember the PhD, we're going to solve all of that. Like no more E.T. ain't qualified. No more like we're going to pick this bird over the birth. Like no, no, no. This PhD is going to open doors for me that were once closed, which means it's going to open doors for my daughter, which means it's going to open doors for my wife, which means it's going to open doors for my mother, which means it's going to open doors for CJ. Which means it's going to open doors for Carl. And so every day when I woke up, I remembered the people that this degree was. effect and so the days I did not feel like studying the days I did not feel like writing the days I wanted to sleep on the play I thought about CJ and his family

I thought about Carl and his family and I said ET keep going listen to me very closely the reason why you stop and start and you stop and you start and you stop and you start is because the goal is not meaningful enough that's something about the goal that if you quit is not going to hurt nobody If you quit is not going to change nothing. If you quit is not that deep. Look, this is what I need you to do. So immediately when I left that house

and I made up in my mind that I was going to get the PhD, I remember immediately doing a TGIM saying, all right, it's over. It's over a year from now. I will be Dr. Thomas. And I just didn't speak it into the atmosphere. I spoke it to people who would hold me accountable. Write it down.

Write it down. Who's going to hold you accountable? Who's going to hold you accountable? Who's that person? Who's that person? And some of you've been part of the real estate program, some of you just come to hear me. When you leave, when you leave, I need you to call that person, that guy, that young lady, that mother or that father, like, I need you to call that person and say, yo, I got to do these three things before, this month and before, yep, and this is who I'm doing it for, and this is why.

So just somebody real quick over here, because I got to, we got to make this real. Somebody over here real quick. We got to make this real. Somebody tell me who's that person you're calling over here. Who's that person you calling? Who's that person on this side? That person who's going to hold you accountable? Who's that person? You've identified that person and you raise your hand for me. Tell me who that person is. Yes, sir. Who's that person? Good, good. Look, I need you to hear me. Here's the last step and we're moving forward. The last step is I need you to identify that person and I identified that person. After I went on YouTube and said, hey, guys, I'm marching.

May. Matter of fact, I turned it into an event. Listen to me very closely. I rented out of space. I put the deposit down. I tasted the food that we didn't taste it. I decided what food we were going to eat. The linen. We had to decide what linen.

This is eight months before I even graduated. Never forget, one of the professors came to me and said, E T, there's a lot of paperwork to fill out. We got about two or three months left, but I'm just going to be honest with you. You waited on some things because you weren't in school and now you're back, but I just don't think you're going to be able to make it happen.

And I laughed. I chuckled. She said, no, no, no, I'm serious. There's a format and there's a way and there's some, and you didn't, and it takes this month for this long, 30 days for this, six weeks for that. And you just didn't put your paperwork in time. And I said, ma'am, I'm sorry, but you don't get it.

I call my grandma and told my grandma, was graduating. Like no, I'm being serious. Like I called my grandma and my grandma said, baby, you know I'm going to fix income. So if I buy this ticket, grandma can't get her money back. I said, ma'am, I told my grandma that I was graduate and my grandma already called her hairstylist and told her how she wanted her hair to look. Grandma went out and bought a dress. My grandma bought a dress for the graduation. And you got to hear what I'm saying, because you're listening to me, but you're not listening to me. Listen to what I'm trying to tell y'all. I'm being real with y'all. My biological father wasn't in my life.

Hear what I'm saying. My mother heard from me who my biological father was, yet my grandmother's always been in my life. That don't go together. My grandmother said to my mother, if you want to hide the identity of his father, that's cool, but you can't take my grandson from me. And so ever since I've been a kid, my grandma been to everything. She's never missed anything. And when my grandma called she said you better make sure you graduate baby because I'm coming and so what I'm trying to tell you is I didn't get the degree to get the degree I got the degree because I call my

grandma I'm trying to tell you the reason why you're not doing it is not because you don't have what it takes to do it not because you don't have the ability to do it but but whatever it is you say you're going to do the meaning is not strong enough somehow the meaning is not strong enough you've not put enough value in it. You don't have enough skin in it. I'm with so much that you don't have none to lose if you don't do it. What I'm telling you is you got to create the type of scenarios not to go. The type of scenarios that if it doesn't work, you lose everything. And because you cannot lose everything, you've got to make it happen. Glenn came all away from Australia. You can't plan. You can't plan your graduation in two weeks. You can't buy a ticket from Australia

and then call somebody and say, Glenn's not going to happen now. Was that a refundable? Did you get a refundable ticket? So I need you to put some value because if you put 120% value in it, 120% meaning in it, and you get 120% accountability on it, every single goal you write down, it's going to happen. Every single dude that I knew that was about it, about it, in business, they were disciplined, right?

Discipline. Now this one right here is spooky because I met a lot of men who were very successful financially and they thought because they had money they didn't have to be disciplined and they end up losing everything. They end up losing everything. They weren't disciplined. Right? They became alcoholics, right? Sex addicts, right?

Didn't move with integrity. That's the one thing, man, I love about, man, you know, man, for real. I'm telling you all, y'all got to get with the right crew. Y'all hear Ma talk about getting up and working out. It don't got nothing. Man, I promise you. They don't have nothing to do with like, I ain't following no man because he got muscles. I'm following Maul because he got muscles that come from discipline.

Like I promise you, you call Maul like, your Maugh, the podcast, you heard the podcast. Your Ma'am, we want you to go see this. You know what I'm saying? Get Ma'am to see his billboard that's out there trying to trick Maul. Mall like I can't do it. They're like, we need you to come right now. He's like, this is my workout time. whatever you're trying to show me work out i got to work out i'm trying to get on this scale and be the

same height the same uh weight i was when i was coming out of college that's discipline i was like you're on a scale when it's like every day i's like that's my that's my problem how you've been on the scale how even on scale about five years i'm just guessing i'm uh 189 you know what i'm saying see i feel 1809 i'm saying the way my parents fit 189. All right, let's go. Here's where me and my wife get into it. So my wife was like, first she said, you know, you need more structure. I was like in my company, I don't need more structural. Structure ain't the problem. I can go show you a whole bunch of structure. I said, I got it, sweetheart. I'm not willing to make the adjustment, but I don't run the type of company where I want to get up every day and what's the way I'm looking for a seat. Like, I don't want to get up every day and be nobody boss. Does that make sense? Like, I don't want to get up in micromatic. body right so the challenge is at some point you're going to have to learn to be disciplined you're going to have to learn if you say you're going to wake up at 8 o'clock you're going to get up at

8 o'clock no matter how you feel like you've got to be disciplined and to get to the next level of success you can't just have energy when you got energy I want to make sure y'all catch that if you run in a business and it's 365 then 365 you got you got to wake up every day and you got to go get it you got why because if you don't hunt you don't eat so here's a deal If you hunted in January and you got enough food for January, you don't get to chill February. You got to get up in February and go get enough food. And so what a lot of us do, we aren't disciplined. Like we're not self-motivated.

We're not self-regulated. We need outside people to push up. And that's not how the creator made us. He didn't make us for all the people to be over us. So here's what I told my wife, sweetheart, if another human can tell you to get up and go to work and do what you both do, why can't you pretend like if you need another human be, be the human. You be that human. If you need somebody to tell you, you need to lose $100,000, be your own voice to tell yourself you need to.

Don't go pay nobody $50,000 to lose weight when you can do it yourself. And I'm not saying don't get a person, but at some point you got to cut that person off. Why? Because if you don't have personal discipline, you'll never get to the next level. The next level is not something that's far away. Like Maul said, the next level is execution is not something that, you know, we do. It's something that we are. And most of us aren't disciplined.

I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. You have to give it everything you got. No more TV, no more parties, no more plan. If you don't have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying. Get off the phone. Sorry, I'm not available until the end of this year. No, I'm for real.

You've reached the right number, but you call me at the wrong time. Call me back January 1st. I'm about to get busy now. Stop being this high school dropout. Stop giving up. Stop sleeping on the street. Stop walking up and down Finkle Avenue like you ain't got none and get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test. The nature of love is self abandonment, not clinging to oneself. Throwing yourself out, as in, for example, in basketball, you're always getting rid of the ball. You say to the other fellow, have a ball. See? And that keeps things moving. That's the nature of life. I gotta commit my very being to this thing.

I gotta breathe it, I gotta eat it, I gotta sleep it. And until you get there, you'll never be successful in life. But once you get there, I guarantee you the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want. 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 got to have hearts. Don't go to sleep until you succeed. There are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen. Now, what are you going to do about it? We're getting out of college and we have the faintest idea of what we want to do. So I always ask the question, what would you like to do if money were no object?

How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well, it's so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say, well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers, but as everybody knows, you can't earn any money that way. Or another person says, well, I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses. I said, do you want to teach in a riding school? Let's go through with it. What do you want to do?

When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time you'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living that is to go on doing things you don't like doing which is stupid better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you're doing, it doesn't matter what it is, you can eventually turn it, you could eventually become a master of it. The only way to become a master of something to be really with it. And then you'll be able to get a good fee for whatever

it is. So don't worry too much. That's everybody's, somebody's interested in everything. And anything you can be interested in, you'll find others who are. But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending things you don't like doing things you don't like wake up from your dream and make your dream of reality wake up wake up and understand the significance of the purpose that you have within yourself understand that if it's something that you are truly ultimately seeking in your life then you got to go after it there are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen now what you're going to do about it

How are you going to go about doing the things that are necessary to get you where you need to be in your life? Everybody has a dream. But how much are you applying to that dream? How far are you pushing that dream? When are you going to realize that the dream is not going to work by itself? When are you going to realize that if you're not hungry enough, then you are not going to be able to satisfy the hunger that you have within yourself? So if you're a dreamer, sooner or later, you're going to have.

to wake up from that dream and while you're walking down that path concerning yourself about things that you may not be able to control at that moment focus on what you could control within yourself because that will come a time on while you're applying yourself and you're going after that dream this reality kicks in bam I have the ability to rise up and push yourself and believe in yourself and make that dream a reality 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's so passionately?

Because my grandfather was a high school dropout. My father was a high school drop out. I was a high school drop out and we're about to break the cycle. I do what I do so my son won't have to go through what I went through. When I was at the football game, my old dude wasn't with me. I saw other kids when they fought. I said that'll never happen to me. I do what I do because my daughter says she's going to Harvard. It ain't even about y'all. I'm about to come in here and blaze y'all. Why? because I'm trying to get you all the NFL. I ain't about to miss this opportunity.

This is the first NFL team I've ever done in my life, and I'm about to lick it. I don't believe in the word procrastination. Like, I don't really believe in that word. I told a young lady in Australia who told me she was a procrastinator, I said, look, if I told you to meet me here tomorrow at 5 a.m., and I'm going to give you $3 million,

where would you be? She said, I'm going to be right there in $4.59, ready to get that $3 million. And I said, so there's no such thing as procrastination. What it is, it's not important to you, right? It's not meaningful to you. It's not something that's urgent to you. And when something is not urgent, you put it off.

So, yep, you're in school, yes. You probably are getting grades, et cetera. But if it's not meaningful to you, if it's not important to you, then you're not going to make it a priority. So what you have to do is find out how can you make it meaningful? How can you make it purposeful? How can you make it stick? And when you can find that out, I promise you, you'll get up early,

you'll get there, first and you'll do whatever it take to make that goal or reality. So for me, no such thing as procrastination is a such thing as it's not a priority to you. You said that you were going to graduate this year. You were going to finish college this year. You said you were going to run a marathon, right? This is what you said out of your mouth. All I'm doing is I'm saying, listen to me, I'm not telling you what to do. I'm not telling you should do this, you should do that, you should this. I didn't tell you all year what you should do. But what I did tell you is don't talk about it, be about it.

You should be tired, right? You should be tired of talking about it and you should be at a place where you're doing something about. All right. The reason why you have not become successful, the reason why you are not like a locomotive, the reason why you're not having success in your life is because every single day you got an excuse and I need you to do me a favor. I made my last excuse yesterday, my last reason, I came over my last reason yesterday of why I can't do what I'm supposed to do.

And so I need you to do me a huge favor. All your excuses, all your good. your good reasons, everything, everything that's keeping you from doing what you're supposed to do. I need you to put it behind you and say yesterday was the last day for that foolishness. Yesterday was the last day to say, I don't have enough money to do this. I don't have enough money to go to school. I don't have enough money to get a computer.

I don't have what it takes. I'm not smart enough, right? I don't write well enough. I don't sing well enough. That's why I didn't do my CD. I didn't write my book because I'm not on that level. Listen to me. You better hear what I'm saying.

Yesterday was the last day that I want to hear an excuse. It's over with you. I was embarrassed. I said, listen to me, no more defeats, no more defeats, man. No more. I was tired of feeling defeated. I was tired of talking about I was going to do it and didn't do it. I hated the feeling of when somebody asked me,

Yo, E, where the book? I ain't got it. I was tired of getting beat. I was tired of defeat. I said, I'm going to get it done. Every time you set this big goal, you never get it accomplished because you never break it up in manageable pieces. This is it.

I'm talking about procrastinators. You still have time. Don't quit, don't give up, you still have time. You can do it. You can make it happen, but you can't do it procrastinate. You can't do it talking about it, all right? So I just want to go back and recap because I want to make sure you hear what I'm saying. But I dare you, I double dare you to do exactly what you said you were going to do in

a year started because it's not too late. I'm going to say again, I'm going to hurt somebody. I'm going to hurt somebody. I don't believe in the word procrastination. Like I don't really believe in that word. She said, I'll be right there in 4.59, ready to get to get to do that. that three million dollars and I said so then there's no such thing as procrastination what it is is it's not important to you right it's not it's not meaning for you to you don't really want to

get up and get out of bed I get up and get out of bed I don't really want to work out I work out I really don't want to hammer on a project I hammer on the project As an overall rule, I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done. If you are going to rest, that is one thing that you should procrastinate on. That's the one thing I want you to put off until tomorrow. Now, these could be signals that you need some time off. And those signals might be right.

give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in you shut that down do not listen to that little voice instead go through the motions lift the weights sprint the hill work on the project get out of bed people are always wondering what the next step in life is and i say life's a little bit like a maze you know until you walk down one hallway and try to open the door you don't know if it's a dead end or not. And people are trying to sit back and that's where the procrastination comes in and look real far down the hallway.

And I'm like, just walk. Small and steady wins the race. What's the fastest way to change your life? For me, I think it's understanding how to set up daily routines with alternating brain and body training and killing procrastinating. procrastination.

The little win with your family when you feel like watching TV sets you up for another win the next day. A little win of getting up at 5 o'clock and running your morning routine sets you up for a habit of a 5 a.m. club morning routine. Small daily improvements over time will lead you to stunning results. It comes down to this office. I think you have to work hard. Like just so everybody knows we haven't gotten into this subject yet, working hard is the cost of entry to anything. You know zero people that are successful that don't work their face off. You know zero people. Now, they may have money because mommy and daddy made money and gave it to them, but people that actually built their own success,

you know zero people that have had success that did not put in obnoxious amounts of work. What's the most important key to success? I think it's hunger. It's, it's, It's not getting satisfied. A hunger that doesn't go. A hunger to learn. A hunger to grow. A hunger to serve. A hunger to give.

A hunger to great breakthroughs. Most people are hungry until they make a certain amount of money and then they get comfortable. And there's nothing wrong with that. But it's not about the money. It's not about the business. It's about your growth.

Because every one of us either grows or dies. People ask no time, what does it take to be happy? I say one word. Progress. Progress equals happiness. Because achieving a goal feels good for how long. A week, a month,

three months, and then there needs to be something else. And the reason for something else is because you've got to grow. Imagine a conversation with your future self in that, let's imagine that the you of 20 years from now shows up at your doorstep. And that you is stronger, smarter, wiser, wealthier, healthier, happier, happier. And that you shows up at your door. And it looks at your life. And it looks in the eye if that future you,

you was going to give you advice on what to stop, what to start. What's the first thing they would tell you to be or do? Take a step back right now and think about who we all admire in the world, right? They're all people that punted the system. There are people that practiced singing since they were five. There are people that shot 10,000 basketballs every morning. It's always that. It's always that. 99% of the people right now that are listening to this are playing in the middle. They're playing in a game that was structured for them. They're risk adverse. They fear. And most importantly, they fear what other people think. Look, I believe that we're all born with lots of goodness in us. But life throws curveballs. Life, the ambition of being alive helps us

dream. And if you've been given a dream, don't discount that because you're not good enough yet. develop yourself, weaponize yourself, teach yourself to be so good at something that is necessary to serve in the area of your dream that now you're never even thinking about your comfort zones. Your comfort zone is irrelevant. What matters is what are you trying to do with your life? How are you trying to contribute? The one thing that discipline definitely does help you with is it helps you get things done. And when you get things done, when you actually do, you actually do, things you you you have more success if you have more success and sometimes a big part of success is just not being lazy and just doing it yeah just get that's like 90%

of it is just showing up get there and start working like you're not gonna feel perfect every day if it's pretty much the same with everybody that if that actually gets good at something you get there's got to be those days you push through and they're they're probably gonna be more numerous than the days you don't and so So the benefit of discipline in my eyes has always been that through discipline I get things done. Those days when I'm tired or worn out or just basically sick of the grind to go anyways. I get it done even if I'm just going through the motions. I go through the motions.

So yep, you're in school. Yes, you probably are getting grades, etc. but if it's not meaningful to you, if it's not important to you, then you're not going to make it a priority. So what you have to do is find out how can you make it meaningful? How can you make it purposeful? How can you make it stick? And when you can find that out, I promise you, you'll get up early,

you'll get there first, and you'll do whatever it take to make that goal or reality. So for me, no such thing as procrastination is a such thing as it's not a priority to you.