Motivation Daily by Motiversity - CHANGE WITH COURAGE - Best Morning Motivational Speech Compilation
Episode Date: September 4, 2026Courage is the spark that ignites change, It’s what allows us to face fear, push past doubt, and rise in the face of adversity. Embracing courage in your daily life can transform not only your minds...et, but your entire journey!Speakers:The Rock https://www.instagram.com/therock/Rich Roll https://www.youtube.com/@UCpjlh0e319ksmoOD7bQFSiw Chris Williamsonhttps://www.youtube.com/@UCIaH-gZIVC432YRjNVvnyCA Alex Hormozi https://www.youtube.com/@UCUyDOdBWhC1MCxEjC46d-zw Tony Robbins https://www.youtube.com/@UCJLMboBYME_CLEfwsduI0wQ Lisa Bilyeuhttps://www.youtube.com/@UCeir7Wbzzfg43c1eL7PSa3g Eric Thomas https://www.youtube.com/@UC1d28mrBqCQliL_N48tZZiw Music:Edward Karl Hanson - PhotocellsEmotional Background music - Two SoulsExperia - Deception UncoveredEtienne Roussel - Terrible SecretTwelve Titans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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When I wake up in the morning, I have got to be running towards the thing that I want to do
and not walking towards it, not, I really don't feel like doing this or why did I agree to do this
or why did I get into this? I got to be running to it. And I realize that if I'm able to do that,
get up in the morning and run to it, then I'm in that place of joy and happiness. It doesn't mean
that the work goes away, the work ethic goes away, you work even harder. For me, it always comes
back to perseverance, persistence, high pain tolerance, an ability to suffer through discomfort,
a welcoming of doing hard things, and willingness, really.
If you do the thing, in spite of being fearful of doing the thing, that is courage.
And if you don't do the thing, even though you felt like doing the thing, that is cowardice.
And I think that motivation and patience are exactly the same.
No one wants to say they're afraid, because if you say you're afraid, then it means you're a coward.
And I think that it only means you're a coward.
If you allow that fear to change your behavior in an aversive way, as in it not towards
what you want.
And so, you know, the inverse of that, many people have heard of the courage not acting
without fear, but despite fear.
And I think that when you allow fear to change your behavior the wrong way, that is when
you can give yourself that title of coward.
And I think that that is a title that I have feared my whole life.
What's the missing piece in your life?
What's the thing that brought you joy as a kid that you've pushed aside?
What is the most uncomfortable conversation with yourself that you've been running away from your entire life?
Do you have the courage to engage with that?
Are you willing to do a little bit more work?
Can you pull back another layer on who you are?
Are you man enough to do that?
True growth.
true expansion, and ultimately your highest expression and the manifestation of your greatest potential
is inextricably connected to and linked to that willingness and courage to do that stuff
that you don't want to do.
We don't experience life, the experience life we focus on.
What's wrong is always available, so it's what's right.
Whatever you focus on, you feel, even if it's not true.
If you imagine something horrible is going to happen, you feel it.
You're in your body, right?
So focus equals feeling, focus equals reality to the individual.
We decide every moment we're deciding what to focus on,
but most of us don't decide consciously.
It's based on habit.
So we're not in control.
But we can consciously choose what to focus on.
When we decide what to focus on, our brain has to come up with a meaning, like we said,
the end of the beginning, loving me or dissing me, whatever the case may be.
And that affects your emotions, which decides the third decision, what am I going to do?
And so a lot of people think that, like, it's not speed of activity, it's elimination of waste.
There's all these other things that people are distracting.
They're distracting themselves with.
And so if you were that young man, you have to recognize the trade-offs that you have to be willing to make.
You have to change your environment so you can change your behavior.
And you have to delete everything that's not the thing that you want most.
And if you can't decide what you want most, then that's what you need to do first.
But once you know what you want, then go get it.
And so people want the confidence before the reps.
But especially in confidence, the proof comes before the pudding.
I didn't know what I was doing.
So every day I'm struggling.
I'm trying to figure something out.
And I keep failing.
But I knew that I had to learn in order to get to the goal that we wanted to get to.
So I knew every day I had to get back up.
And then the same with him, with the skill sets.
What skillsets do I have to learn in order to get to the goal that we want to get to?
And that comes with a lot of freaking sacrifices.
The thing with excuses is sometimes they're very true.
But it doesn't serve you.
doesn't serve your goal. So are you going to let it sit with you or are you going to find a way around it?
They said if you really want to make it in Hollywood then you can't call yourself the rock,
you've got to lose weight, don't talk about wrestling, you have to and you have to look and walk
and talk and act like these guys and these guys are the biggest stars in the world at that time.
Johnny Depp, Will Smith, etc. If you don't know any better, you buy into that stuff like I bought into that back then.
But then you start to realize something starts to ease you.
at your gut about well this just doesn't feel right because I'm not being authentic
I'm not being myself so finally I said a few years later I said I can't do this
anymore I have to be myself then this unique thing happened when I was myself
and we can apply it to all of us here business life etc is Hollywood
conformed to me when I became authentic and when I became myself and then I
went I got it delete everything that is not getting you
closer to your goals.
Probably the two most often asked questions that I have
that I like mentally think, I probably think of 10 times, 20 times
the day is number one, does this action, this person,
this decision increase or decrease the likelihood
that I achieve my goals?
Does this friend who always wants to go out,
does you playing fitness football increase or decrease
the likelihood that you hear goals?
And that it's just, it's black and white.
It's pretty, like you know, if I had said,
I want to become the best.
business guy and then sung songs every day that's not going to be a line now I can
manifest all I want but that's not going to be the thing that makes me the best
businessman and so I don't get to set those rules but I can play by them and I think
a lot of people a lot of men specifically waste a tremendous amount of time stomping
their feet demanding that the world be different than it is and so to me that's a
loser's mentality and they then spend more time defending their excuses than
defending their ambitions mm and so if you if you put all of the effort into
how do I make this thing into reality rather than how do I excuse my behavior up to this point?
Like winners, winners think about
what they can make happen and losers think about what happened to them.
And it's one flip of a switch, which is I will judge myself on what I do and what I make happen,
not of what occurred.
Good times, create weak people.
They're not bad people, just weak because they haven't been challenged.
Weak people create bad times.
Bad times create strong people, strong people.
strong people, great, great times.
What I want people to get is
you got to know where you are in your life
and where you are in history
and you got to learn to take advantage of it.
You can't complain that it's winter.
During winter, if you start a business in winter
and you succeed, 60% of all
the Fortune 1,000 companies that are alive today,
the biggest some successful companies could have been born
in any one of those four seasons,
they're all born in winter.
Wow. Got a recession or depression.
Gotta love it.
From FedEx to Disney. Disney was depression.
FedEx was in recession.
I go walk you through them all.
So that process makes you strong.
There's no guarantees, but there's patterns.
And when you understand the patterns, fear disappears.
You're able to figure out how to maximize anything you're involved with.
And so I think it's important to understand these patterns.
And I help people see the patterns.
Whatever stage of life you're in, there's predictable problems and there's predictable opportunities.
And what changed my life was finding that part that's inside of all of us that will not give up.
Tiny little things repeated over time is what produces dramatic change.
And it's like this curve, you know, it's like this very slow curve until it hasomatotes up.
And everyone wants to talk about the pivot moment when it goes skyward.
But the truth is the real work is in the drudgery.
Correct.
And the difficult, anonymous work of shoveling shit every single day.
In sobriety, they say, don't leave before the miracle.
And I take that as a lesson in persistence.
Whatever it is that you're pursuing to achieve or create.
or express in the world, I think a lot of people back out before that happens.
The next question becomes, what does it take to do it?
And then am I willing to do what it takes?
That'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.
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.
And you can't do that following somebody else with North style.
So my last one will be mad.
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.
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I think courage is the quintessential trait that leads to everything else.
You have to first have courage.
You have to have courage to quit your job.
You have to have courage to get rejected.
If you don't first have courage, nothing else follows.
Again, it's not, are you courageous or not.
It's how courageous are you?
It's not a binary.
I have courage because I have done things that have required it.
It takes courage.
It takes courage to have a difficult conversation.
growth takes courage. Learning takes courage like this takes courage.
Courage isn't for somebody else for medals, applause, or moral debts.
Courage is what at that moment feels most right for you.
One great philosopher says cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never tastes of death but once.
What does that mean? That valiant people aren't afraid?
No, no, no.
It means that they experience that, fear, and they move forward.
Move forward anyhow.
Many people are dead now.
Many people allowing their dreams to die.
Many people are lying the ideas to lie dormant and collect dust.
Many people have all this talent and ability that they are lying to be buried inside of them,
that they will take with them to their graves because they didn't have the courage to be who they are.
And I say as you begin to look toward the future and manifesting your greatness, it's going to take everything in you, everything in you, that your life deserves the concentrated effort to begin to look at how is it that I can express more of me?
How is it that I can bring my ideas out here now?
How is it?
And start living with a sense of urgency because you're here today.
You're gone today.
Life is unpredictable. It's uncertain. There are no guarantees out here at all.
So holding back, what are you waiting on? Ask yourself, what's the benefit of your waiting?
What's the benefit of you're not living your dream?
What's the benefit of not listening to yourself?
And for many of you, the reason why you haven't gotten up yet
is because you still think failure is final.
Fear sedates us.
Fear immobilizes us.
Fear imprises us.
You gotta break out of that prison of fear
and see yourself winning in the same place that you lost.
Show me somebody who has achieved greatness.
And if you pull up their past, I promise you,
you'll see some failures and some lessons learned.
If we can change our perspective on failure, our lives will never be the same.
be the same. Stop telling yourself you're not good enough. Stop telling yourself you don't have what it
takes. If you want your future, get up now. I'm getting up and I'm going to do this again.
I'm getting off and I'm going to try this again. And I'm going to try it again. I'm going to try it again.
I was made to walk in purpose and to fulfill destiny. I was not created for the prison of fear.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
It's an emotion that you can't fake.
If you fake bravery when you're terrified, that is bravery.
Well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful, but you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable.
Winning will cost you everything, but we'll reward you with so much more.
It's going to cost you everything.
Courage is something that rubs off on other people.
I think it's enormously to be desired to be around courageous people.
And that might be different types of courage, some of it physical, some of it mental.
Surround yourself with courageous people, or at least not cowards, not cretins,
not the sort of people who just say the same things that everyone's meant to say.
There's many ways people can get out of this non-life that they are being shunted into.
Can you do what is required to full?
fulfill your purpose? Can you do what it takes? Can you implement? Can you execute? Are you disciplined? Are you principled? Do you
possess courage to walk in purpose and to fulfill your destiny? What would your life be like if you
decided to become courageous? What would your life be like? If you decided to act on your dream,
if you did what you felt in your heart, you know what courageous means? Courageage. Courage,
comes from a French word, which means of the heart.
You know, it takes courage to live.
Since most people go through life, not allowing themselves to step out
because they don't want to let go.
They don't want to be blown around.
They don't want to be moved.
The courage to face life's whirling wind of contradictions.
The courage to love yourself.
The courage to take a chance.
The courage to be who you are.
Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding, be brave, be strong.
Come out of the dark and into the light with everything that you have.
Run after it!
And you keep giving, and you keep pouring, and you keep believing, and you keep pushing.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
or whether doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who comes up short again and again and again,
who, in the end, knows the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Please listen to yourself.
You know the feelings. If you start listening to the feelings in your heart and I'm doing it now more every day,
I find that my feelings, I can trust them. And I say to you that as you look toward the future,
you look at life on a daily basis, if there's something that you have been given,
if you've heard something within yourself that you know that what you're doing now doesn't fit for you,
it doesn't work for you, it's not giving you what you want. And there's something else that you want to
do, don't allow that inner doubt in you to talk you out of it, to build a case on why you
can't have it, to tell you why you're not good enough.
You ignore that inner voice and all of the external voices.
Don't judge the possibilities for what you can do based upon the circumstances, because
the circumstances won't determine who you are.
Don't determine what you're able to do based upon your resources.
Don't determine what's possible for you based upon where your life is right now.
Where your life is right now is not you.
That's just what it is right now.
But the possibilities for you are unlimited.
If you're in a rebuilding process, it's unlimited.
If you're coming back from adversity and devastation,
it's unlimited of what you can do.
That's the capacity of human beings.
It doesn't matter how many mistakes you've made.
Doesn't matter how many flops you've had.
Doesn't matter how much money you've lost.
In fact, I see it only as an investment of what you learned from life, not losses, but investments of what's possible for you.
Once you start listening to yourself and as you begin to act on your dream, as you start just trying to find your way, doing what you can, what you have, you will start seeing things opening up for you.
You'll start attracting people.
You say, where do you come from?
Things will start coming together, clicking for you, you say, whoa!
whoa, you start brainstorming, ideas will come out of nowhere as you focus on it.
The key to it is to begin to focus because as you focus on that which you want to do,
that which we focus on, that which we give our energy to, it will begin to multiply, it will
begin to expand, it will begin to develop your consciousness.
And out of that comes your greatness.
Out of that comes a commitment.
Out of that comes a passion for life.
Out of that comes a special power that you have in you, that you haven't even called on,
yet. See, the powers that we have will never reveal themselves if we don't challenge them.
If we don't put ourselves in a position where we have to use them. And the guy said,
put yourself in a position where you can't retreat, where it's do or die, sink or swim.
Here's what you'll find out. You'll develop incredible swimming skills.
or swallow half the pool of life,
you'll find yourself stroking unlike you've ever seen before.
Through the inspiration of desperation,
you become more creative than ever before.
All you can do is all you can do,
and all you can do is enough.
You do all you can do.
So as we look at the future,
we can decide that from this day forward,
As I look at my personal relationships, if I look at my professional relationships, if I look at my family relationships,
if I look at all the dimensions of my life, looking at myself mentally, emotionally and spiritually,
I'm going to do all I can do to develop me, to bring my talent out here, to make a contribution to life.
Here's what I know about you.
You've got greatness within you.
As you look toward the future and developing your greatness, begin to know.
That your life is worth the effort. Is it easy? No. Is it worth it? Yes. Yes, your life is worth it.
You might have failed in the wait room and you might have failed financially and you might have failed in school.
It doesn't matter where you fail. I need you. I need you in this moment and get up and try again.
