Motivation Daily by Motiversity - DO IT ALONE - Powerful Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

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The link is in the description. Do you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinded. The shadows prey you because they belong to me. It's pushing the water and there's a jogger actually.

Look at this. Wow. It's a Florida man right there for you, Blake, jogging in the hurricane. I've trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. You had nobody anyway, mother fuck. Look around you.

There was no team. It was you. There was no weight loss programmer. Mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it, you can be better trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. I'm going to stop this thing. No, I've got to prove it.

Proof what? I'm not a mistake. When you're built different than everybody else and you have this desire for more and the desire for achievement and the desire to win, everybody else looks at you like you up. In the end, I don't care whether you love me or you hate me just as long as I win. This is my life, man. Do you know how hard I worked to get here? I built this shit.

Me! Brick by Brit! I fought for it because no one gave it to me because it was just me. Me alone in the gym. Me alone in the mirror. Me alone in my head. No one did it for me.

I worked for it and I'm never going to let someone else take that from me. Listen up. Today isn't just another day. It's a chance to break limits. Stop waiting for permission. Stop saying. Second guessing yourself, the opportunity is right in front of you. Take it, own it, and don't look back because legends are built, one bold move at a time.

What no one else does. You run 3 o'clock in the morning because no one else is running 3 o'clock in the morning. If they're training in 3 hours, you train four hours. You train when the gym is closed. You know, whenever the gym is closed and you already train, you train again. You know, you have to do what no one else is doing. You know, when they're sleeping, you're running. You're working out.

And that means the harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story, and by consequence, the more epic the hero. If you pan it down here, you see it's about 3 o'clock in the morning, and there's not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places. But right now this morning, I'm getting it from, there's not a motherfucker that's up. There's not a car. There's not a person. Everybody's in their bed, sleep, dreading that it's a Monday.

day, hey this a Monday, and I'm loving it. I'm loving that. Where everybody's getting weaker, I'm getting stronger. There's certain good things about being alone. You have time to do the things you want to do, like study and plan. The superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think it's critical, and I do think that these times where you just think about things, just be alone and think about things are so rare these days. And I think, During those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don't believe. You go higher, you go even more alone. Why?

Because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy in going higher. Because it's becoming more difficult. Along this way, the higher you want to go, the more likely you're going to walk alone. That's why this has helped me coming out here and being, locked in an apartment on my own. Because there was no outsiders. It was isolation. It was visualization.

It was motivation and it was dedication. There was nothing else going on in my life. You know what I mean? And you don't like people too, right? I mean, it's not that I don't like people. It's just that to get to the level, to get to the pinnacle. It needs to be like that. It needs to be no outsiders.

It needs to be, you need to have your team and your focus and that's it. I don't need friends. Believe in yourself. Don't fear. failure dream big work hard stay positive enjoy the journey there is a period in everybody's journey where they are so different because they've started to do new things that they no longer fit in with their old set of friends but they're not sufficiently developed that they've gained their new set of friends and they're unsure should i go back should i lean back into getting a bag in with the

boys on a weekend is that the highest you know way that i can live my life passion forward because that's what everybody else does and all of my friends are taking the piss oh not drinking again too good for us are we not going out again this week oh okay well like enjoy staying in home and reading nerd so you're going to feel the pain of being ostracized from the group of friends that you used to have but you're stuck in this messy middle where you haven't yet worked out who you are on the other side of this and that lonely chapter that's in the middle is something that i would say almost nobody that i've ever met who has gone And from a place where they are to a place where they want to be hasn't gone through.

It is hard. It's hard when you're young to wake up in the offseason at 6 a.m. to go train and work out, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. But understand this, life is hard. The only thing that you can do is win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you. And then you'll forget they exist. Success is the only revenge. It's not the best revenge. It's the only one. There's no other revenge.

Like, it feels so painful because you're like, you look around to see who can help you, and then you're like, it's me again. You're going to lose sleep. You'll doubt whether it'll work. You'll stress to make ends meet. You won't finish your to do list. You'll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for yours. This is what hard feels like, and that's okay. Everything worth doing is hard. And the more worth doing it is, the harder it is. The greater the payoff, the greater the hardship. If it's hard, good, it means no one else will do it.

More for you. To be successful at anything, the truth is you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't. Consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts. They say, yeah, it's already okay here. Why you still want to move up there? The air is getting thinner over there.

It's getting more hard to breathe. It's getting more dangerous, whatever. So that means along the way to mastery, you walk the way alone. And if you think about the difference between winners and losers, winners define themselves by what they made happen. And losers define themselves by what happened to them. I really don't have regrets. I am a person that says, you know, as soon as you look back in your hearing,

history and you come up with something that you feel like you want to change, something else has to change. You know, disappointment to me, to win, you got to lose. To be successful, you got to have something that's not successful. To be happy, you got to have this appointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have for being who I am. I found out through this path of life who is David Gagans to going through all I did it alone there was no trophy on the wall the mantle that trophy's in my brain no one helped me get to no way paid my bills no one did something you know no one ran those miles lost that but with you

look I suffered on my own and developed this man who said it's who I am man that's important man and most people struggle their whole life to find out who they are struggle their whole their whole life to find out what defines them, what they actually enjoy and what they don't. You start putting yourself in situations that suck. You'll find yourself. It's the only way to find yourself. And I promise you, every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're going through. And it's the lonely chapter. It's the chapter where you, you don't fit in with your own friends, but you don't have the outcomes yet to fit into a new group of friends. And you're doing this thing, you're consuming

content on the internet, you're doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and what do I host this thing? And then there, and you're going through this and you're like, am I, is this even worth it? Because you have no signs of success, right? But if there's anything that you can take away from what we're saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get along the way. And what you can't do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the conformity because it's comfortable and it's warm because like in the Matrix, when Trinity he opens the door when, when Neo's about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of the car, she says, Neo, you've been down that road and you know exactly where it leads.

And I know that's not where you want to be. And then he closes the door. Like right now, this moment that you're going through is Trinity opening the door and being like, you could go back. But then you'd have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with, just because you listen to this podcast and you consume this constantly, you're like, I can do more than this. Like, because you are starting to live in some of that.

where you look in the mirror and you're like, I can do more. And you start to see the person that you could be. And you're like, this does start to feel like hell. I wanted to read you a quote from 2013 that you said. I've lost my mind there on this game, yeah? Like Vincent Van Gogh. He dedicated his life to his art and lost his mind in the process. That's happened to me.

Look, it. And that gold belt was around my waist. My mother has a big mansion. My girlfriend has a different thing. car every day a week with my kids kids I've everything they ever want then it will pay then I'm happy I lost my mind yeah can you just reflect and talk to me about how that makes you feel hearing that you know yeah I it's been some real I've got it done and I'm up here I've been through with all my friends you know it's been a world

right for me it's not been easy at times but what a life last but not least I want to thank me I want to thank me for believing in me. I want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I want to thank me for having no days off. I want to thank me for never quitting. I want to thank me for trying to do more. You know, if you're going to create anything of value in this life, you're going to, even if it's with other people,

you're going to have to be willing to be on your own for a bit, to forge on your own, to take walks alone, and then return to people to your tribe, so to speak. and share with them what you've learned or maybe even just show up with whatever energy shift has occurred while you were off. Everybody when I was sleeping on the gym floor, right? Like, you know, I was the underdog and everyone, you know, my clients were all like, oh, good for you. You know, you're going after your dream. They'd see my blanket and my pillow in the corner of the gym and they knew I was sleeping there.

And it was evident. You know, I lived there. I didn't have a shower. It didn't have a shower to go to the YMCA to go shower. And everybody was like pro me. And then people come in, they sign up like, I'm going to, I'm going to support you, right? And then within nine months, I had hired people and I had a manager and I pulled up. And I remember I walked in the lobby and all the same, the same people were like,

ah, boss man's here. Oh, you're not too good for us now, right? And I remember being so jarred by the experience. And I was like, you guys rooted for me. And I was like, and now I did what you said you were rooting for me to do. And that was when I realized that people want you to do well, but not better than them. There's no luck in this game. It may be a little bit of luck, but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation.

Luck doesn't happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might happen. And that's what people don't know. But to get there, luck ain't going to happen. You have to put yourself in that situation, man. It takes a lot of work. I don't care if you're tired. I don't care if you're sad.

I don't care if you're sleepy, if it's raining, if the markets are crashing, if the sky is falling, if your girlfriend just broke up with you, you're going to get it done, no matter what. This is the level of discipline that I'm expecting from you. You think you become a champion on the field? You don't. You've become a champion when there ain't nobody watching you. You're doing your own drills and your own way. You're doing what coach tell you do and you're doing your own stuff. When you said, I'm all in.

Were you really all in? Let me tell you what the cost of being all in is. early mornings, late nights, being misunderstood, having very few friends, being your own cheerleader. Are you those things? People always talk about, man, I'm a hard worker. Everybody in this room is a hard worker. That's not going to separate you from anybody else. What are you working hard on? People always look for one thing for the other. Oh, you got to work, you know, you got to work smarter and not harder. No, you got to work smarter and you got to work harder. There's times where you can go without your friends. You can go without going out. You can

go without other people around you. You have to separate yourself from the pack. You have to be willing to spend time with yourself. You have to be willing to start cutting things out of your nutritional program. Eat healthy, you know, get enough rest, get enough sleep. All of these things come into play of finding your purpose. And it's almost sacrificing. You have to sacrifice. Greater the sacrifice, greater the reward. This is so true. And when you when you do these things, you'll start seeing that, okay, well, I used to do this. And when you go out and you don't do it anymore, it's very, very clear that you've made the right decision

because your friends will still be doing that and you'll find yourself that you don't fit in with the crowd anymore. You just don't fit in. Nah, I got something to do. You know, you'll start getting away from people that are negative. You only want to be around positive. You'll start like not wasting your time on things that aren't, productive and you will start taking your time and energy and put it into things that you enjoy

doing that are productive for yourself. Admit it, you aren't like them. You're not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider. This isn't for the masses. This is for those who are leaving normal behind. Those who are a source of a new realm. It's a lonely journey. You're isolated.

Those who used to keep pace with you will fall off. They'll see what their world ends and yours begins. Your ability to suffer, endure. Our work must be greater. You must be willing to extend yourself to the limit. With no guarantee of success, every day you must ask yourself, did I do enough? Stay hard. The biggest thing you have to do is shut off technology.

You have to go dark. Remember about that is you have to be quiet in your mind. Get away from people. We love being around people. We love talking. We love parties. We love all that. It's okay to be alone.

It's also okay to be unhappiness. It's okay to be unhappy sometimes, man. It's okay to see, you know what, man, I'm f*** up. So you gotta go to the truth first. Who are you? Get really accountable and say, okay, who am I? What's the truth about me? Get to that dark place in your mind.

Figure out, it may take months, may take years. Figure out your purpose. Figure out what you want to be in life. And then from there, okay, I have my purpose. It may take a long time. No one knows their purpose, because it's a purpose. it's too loud, finds your purpose. From there, all right, you got to start planning. People love the planning phase because it's very comfortable. Then from the planning phase,

you've got to go to execution. So the execution phase would we all hate because that's where the real work begins. And that's when the failure happens and the failure and the failure. So that's that's kind of how you have to do it. Yeah. People want to find their passion, but you don't find it. You create it. And you create it by getting good at something. And to get good at stuff, you start by doing something you suck at. Then you get good. Then you like it. Then people ask how you found your passion.

Answer. By starting when you sucked and not giving up. You fall into the trap of what is called Parkinson's Law. Now Parkinson's Law says that work expands to fill the time allotted for it. If you have two hours of work to do and eight hours of time, you will stretch that work over eight hours. Parkinson's law also says that work contracts to fill the time allotted for it. If you have eight hours of work to do and because of an emergency you have to have it done in two hours, you will get it done in two hours. Highly effective people are always setting tight, stringent,

disciplined deadlines on themselves so they get more work done in a short period of time rather than less work done in a long period of time. Does this make sense? If you committed the next 365 days of your life to the persistent pursuit of your potential and you were grinding 24-7 and you didn't cheat yourself imagine what you would become you would become a ruthless killer you would become such a G that nobody would say nah this person ain't doing it you'd be undeniable 365 days if you committed to that you would win where do you go to you wake up on a morning it's cold it's wet it's dark you've got no cartilage in your knee it's warm on the couch your misses say stay in bed it's comfy

cozy you've got work later on you had an argument last night you're slightly hung over kind of every month this is how you level up that's how you level up I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there that fires me up that makes me happy what you this said that brings joy to my life right there why because I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch refused to study a few more hours refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that's where I gain the advantage.

It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don't want to go to that extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely. You talk about that you were kind of lonely by yourself. I was the same way.

And that used to hurt me growing up. Now I... That's the only place to be. That's why when you think about the mentality of greatness, there are no breaks. I hate to tell people that, because if Friday wants it fast, to be great, Monday on top of Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, on top of Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, on top of Thursday, and Thursday. It start over. And true greatness is always evolving. It never stays the same.

Your comfort zone will stay the same unless sometimes you're forced to come out of it. You will never touch a level of greatness until your comfort zone. is disturbed. The mentality is what's going to make things happen. You know, is having that mentality and never give up, keep pushing forward. People don't like to think, they like to ask. They don't have enough confidence in their decisions that they make on their own. The truth of the matter is, you really have to believe what you're doing is working. There was a kid who everyone underestimated too small, too quiet, too ordinary. But every day while they laughed, he worked in the gym, in the books, in the shadows.

He knew one truth. Effort beats talent when talent doesn't try. Years later, they asked him how he did it, and he just smiled because they never saw the grind. It's the quiet hustle that makes the loudest impact. How loud do you want your success to be? My biggest fear in life is not rich in my fault in terms wrong, and not being able to be in the same camp.

because everyone has a choice in life. Everyone has a choice everywhere. This person up here or this person down here. Hey look, let me guess, new year, new you, right? New Year, New Year, New You've been saying that every year, but it's always New Year, same you. You know, I just don't understand why you go every year remaining the same when the person that you are, they have just been destroying your life.

You're mentally killing yourself every year and you don't even realize it. I mean, it's time if you look yourself in the mirror and make some change before it's too late. One day in the gym is basically imperceivable. imperceivable. Two days in the gym. You don't recognize any change whatsoever. A hundred days in the gym and you're almost a new person. You've seen those before and after pictures. One day of playing guitar, one day of playing guitar you can barely play one chord. A hundred days of practicing guitar and you can play literally almost any song. People only root for people who don't need it. Like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I

had but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with, that's when that's when you want people to root for you. That's when you want people to support you. Once you've already won, people are like, he's amazing, he's so good, but like that's the time when you need it the least. And so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everybody else does. And it's usually a. single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you. And that visual, I think, is one that you can kind of take people struggle to do things alone. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you

are not with other people. Look at the past. Look at who you've become the progress that you've made. And if you haven't made a lot of progress, just be happy at the fact that you're living alive. because you have the chance to make progress and live in the present moment here now and use your time, energy, and attention, my friend to pursue your goal. One of the most important things that I learned from my dad is that regardless of your circumstances,

even if things are around you, you can change that by going to work. It's wanted so bad that I told the universe, excuse me, this is my destiny. I know it. And you know what? Because of that belief system, it happened. But you know what gives me strength? The fact that I was able to hear squat here and go to the point where I couldn't do five more and I got five more and got even five more. It was always five more. The fact that I could do that gave me so much strength in life. I'm in total respect and honor the squat rack forever. It's my altar. That's what taught me how to get there. I used to care so much about what people thought of me when I was competing. I wanted to be the best and I wanted to be the best and I wanted to be the best. And I wanted to be the best. And I wanted to be. I

wanted everyone to know that I was the best, I had the biggest ego ever. Then I realized something that it's not so healthy to think that way because you cannot please everyone. They're always going to be haters. And to the scale of the universe, for the small time that I'm here in this world, it's better that I spend it with people that I care about and who care about me. I will have a better eternal on my investment. So for the New Year's resolution, think about it. small thing that can change your entire world. Time alone again will make you see first of all who

God is second of all who you are and the third thing it lets you see what will fit you what's suitable for your life where is your sweet spot what works for you all right guys so that's my tip and that's it so stay focused don't be afraid to be by yourself and spend time alone okay the most important thing is the mentality self-talk positive I think it's all the details depend of you I am cold I am emotionless I am zen at peace ready for war everyone is jealous of what you've got no one is jealous of how you got it people see the trophies but not the training ground everybody wants the view but no one wants to climb now I'm going to

repeat something which a clergyman perhaps shouldn't say, but nevertheless it's a fact and it will cure many of them. You are not going to get anywhere in this world. You're not going to get anywhere financially, spiritually, socially, or otherwise until you get to that point where you don't give a damn about what other people think about you. My philosophy is why be normal when you can be the best? want to be normal. I want to make the difference. So everything I do, I want to make the difference. Because when I make the difference, I'm the best. And that is not arrogance. That is confidence. Dedication. Hard work. Dedication. All work. I want one male army. One their army. The world can go against me. I'm still come on top. I got God on my side.

My mind is absolutely bulletproof, solid as a rock. I am number one. Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. And obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention to. And I have a saying, interested people, watch obsessed people change the world. Then there's the athletes who train to win. They train every day, every session, so they win on match now.

And then I remember saying to Adam's group, there are just those very few players who train to dominate. They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night. And Adam said, that clicked with me. I decided I was going to train to dominate. So I said, when I go into the Olympic final, I know, I know I'm going to win. When you ask you, like, why do you do it? It's because there's a possibility that you can, and that's enough. Like, I think I can do this if I know I can be something.

And so, why would I not? The best line I've ever heard in my life. Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually, you've been planted. But here's what you should know about winning before you're in. chase it. Winning's not loyal to you. It doesn't care about you. Winning doesn't care how sore you are. Winning doesn't care how much sleep you get. Winning doesn't care how hard you at times. Sometimes a guy doesn't outwork you and he still wins. It isn't fair, man. Sometimes

there is no justice. Winning requires all of you and then more and it promises you nothing. It's a mastermind of creating fear and doubt in your mind. It causes setback after setback. So the question is about winning. Are you willing to sprint when the distance is unknown? And why chase this thing called winning? Because the only thing that's guaranteed in life if you don't chase it is losing. Since with 11 years old, I always make pressure to me. Christiana, you are the best player in the world.

In my mind, I'm always thinking in that way. And I put a lot of pressure to myself. You have good sides when the things go good, okay? But when the things go wrong, you feel that too because you make too much pressure to me. I make pressure to me. But I love that. I know to deal with that. I hate losing.

I mean, it's not even question. But I mean, I have to respect losing because losing is a part of winning. Yeah. And you never would just, you know, win. You got to lose too. When losing is going to hurt. Absolutely. You know, to a point where you would look at how can I do things different?

How can I change? Before you can look at someone else, you got to look at yourself in the mirror because that's how things get started. Whatever I'm afraid to do, I do it. Anything I'm afraid of, I confront it. And that's my personality. Like right now, I'm scared to death. But as the fight gets closer, the less nervous I become

because it's reality. And in reality, I'm invincible. Do not give up. Do not feel like you tired. Were you tired? Think of last year. And think of that fucking record. Every time I get tired, or I think I can't go no more,

I think of that fucking record. We can make it. We got to believe. We got to be mentally strong. When we're tired, that's when we got to put our fundamentals together. That's when we got to be more focused. When we're tired, look across the field and see how tired they are. That should give you more effort, be like, I'm going to beat it.

I'm going to get fundamentally strong. Everybody's great when they're not tired. The champions is when they're tired. That's when the real champions come out. That's when that real dog come out. I wasn't invited to parties or, you know, friendly, friendly gatherings on a weekend. So on Fridays and Saturday, I would go to my rec room with my basketball and basically dribble myself to sleep.

Doing those lonely hours in the rec room, I discovered the hunger, the motivation, and the desire to be the best possible basketball player that I could be. And, you know, here I am today. You know, you do your own thing, you know, especially when everyone else isn't doing it, they call you crazy, whatever else. Oh, you're in here when people driving by being like, the fuck I got doing up so late? Well, what's up so late mean? I don't know. When people don't understand you anymore, you're in that spot of obsession and drive.

When people are like, what the f*** is wrong with this guy? You will never understand what is wrong with me. And that's why I'm so glad you don't because I'm in the right spot. Mediocre people don't like high achievers. And high achievers don't like mediocre people. Yeah, what's the central part of your training? Is it running? Is it sparring? Central part is dodging?

the nightclubs and the parties and the girls. You want the truth? And being in the bed by yourself at 9 o'clock at night. If you can get by that, you'll make it. That's the truth. I tell you the truth. If you stay in bed, if you stay on the couch, if you stay in your comfort zone,

if you only do what is easy, your life will be hard. But if you do what is hard, if you get up, if you grind, if you are relentless, if you work as hard as possible, When other people are slacking off, your life will be easy. There's only one other option.

Stay hard. I know what darkness looks like. I know what it feels like to be alone with no motivation, no drive, no passion. And what has to come out of your soul in the darkest of times is what you just did right there. So that's what I do. For the first 20-some years of my life. It was just darkness. But if you are able to get up every morning, have no passion, no drive, no motivation, no shit, is still get up with that kind of fire. You will be successful in life. I guarantee you that. I'm alone. Look at me. There's nobody around. Nobody likes me, man. It is what it is. Some types of life, we're not going to be around you to motivate you.

We're not going to be an urge to push you, to celebrate you, to applause you. You got to do your own. That's what I'm doing right now. I don't care about anybody else. I'm in a battle with the only person that makes sense. I'm in a battle with the only person that I really want to be, and that's me. How am able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamine whenever I want? Man, I've trained 99% of my...

life alone no one pat me on the back I did all of the work alone and while I'm still hard on myself I know what I did so whenever times get bad for people all this who's your carry the boats and love that's real I hate that people know me for that guy because that guy is not every day like when they see me they want that energy that's not me every day I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you're able to get out by yourself. I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose. And like the feeling I get is something I can't even explain by myself.

I don't need anyone. That's why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me. It's 2 a.m. right now. No one here. Moner to model, me and you. And where we want to go tomorrow. AM, not a f***ing versus here.

I can scream my fucking a-off. No one hears me. I can cry. I can shut myself. I can put an honest day's work in here that more than anyone does in a week. And no one sees it. Our competition's f***ing in sleep right now.

We're getting ahead of that competition. And if you are someone who's ambitious, and this is me just talking specifically to you, because there's only a few people who are watching this who really are, and you'll know that if it's you. You have to get used to being alum. I used to think that there was something wrong with me. when in reality I just didn't understand what the nature of being exceptional meant.

To be exceptional means that you are the exception. It means that you are not normal. And so it's normal for normal people to find you abnormal if you do things that are not normal. Don't let people who have mediocre goals deter you from taking actions that make you great because it makes you different. What makes one guy a champion, one person a champion? one person a champion and the other one not. It's strive.

It's the will. There's certain people that grow up with a tremendous hunger. And it's usually kids that have struggled when they were kids. When you grow up comfortably and in comfort and in peace and happiness and all those things, that will produce a very balanced person and a good person. But it would not create the will. the determination and the hunger that you need to be the best in the world. In life, if you want to win, you don't need to be the smartest.

A lot of times you don't even need to be the best. You just need to be that fucking guy that never gives up. And we all know that one person that no matter what you throw at them, no matter how many times you knock them down, they're going to get up and they're going to stand in glory and in honor and face their issues head on. That guy, that is the guy you need to be. The one thing that made me who I am today is being vulnerable.

It's breaking myself down to the absolute rock bottom. And being able to tell people who I am. And that's how I fixed it. Literally, you know, life created this person, me. Life created me to be this person that was back in the day. And I had to realize, man, that's okay, man. It's not my fault. Now I got to go back and fix this, though.

So a lot of this isn't your fault, why you do some things you do, why you feel the way you feel. But no one's coming back to save your ass. You have to go back to where this started, wherever that place is for everybody. And had the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you. And that's when I was like, hey, I'm f*** up. I'm going to go back and fix this. You got to be honest with yourself.

100%. About where you're at. Everybody's asleep, man. Or getting home after a long night. You know, going out of their parties, Friday night. It's close to three in the morning right now. You know, the thing is, man, it's always going to be a party. It's always going to be a time to celebrate, you know, the time to join friends or a day that.

I mean, the bars are always open. Always open. You know how old are you are, they're always open, you know. What's not always open is the opportunity to check the box in life, you know, to achieve your dreams. That's not always open, man. How'd you become that guy? You know what? I grew up not that guy.

Yeah. So a lot of people put a title on me. They see me now as the guy that with his shirt off, who can do 4,030 pull-ups in 17 hours. You can run 2005 miles and 39 hours. Who can do all this crazy shit? But what they don't understand is they don't understand the journey that it took me to get to this point.

I had two options. To either be that 300-pound guy who spray for cockroaches and made $1,000 a month. And at 24 years old, knowing when I'm 50 years old, I can reflect on this and think about what guy. I had never became or I can totally just sack it up and fail and fail until I succeed. Anytime I was in the gym, I was happy. You know, whatever's going on in my life, good or bad, I go to the gym, I exercise.

And that for me is exercise is the best form of medication. I always felt happy after a workout or after training. So when I was stopped training, I was hanging around the wrong people or whatever, you know, I wasn't as happy as I would be. Many people want to be exceptional, but they're afraid of being an exception. I think it's wanting an outcome without the requirement that the outcome has. And so we can't do the same thing that everyone else approves of and then somehow get a different outcome that everyone else does.

If you fake bravery when you're terrified, that is bravery. And I kind of feel like motivation is the same thing. If you do the thing when you're feeling unmotivated, that is motivation. That's it. Staying motivated. And I have been finding myself more motivated, even when I do not feel like doing something to do it. My brain does not get to choose. My brain can feel a certain way, but it's not going to choose how I behave.

I'm going to have setbacks, I know. But if I'm feeling bad, that doesn't mean I'm doing bad. That doesn't mean I am bad. That doesn't mean that I can't still take some action. Because, yeah, nothing changes, nothing changes, man. Well, something difficult you're going through that people don't often see. I mean, my mind is a storm. And I don't think

most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me, but they don't know. They don't understand. How are you doing? In the grand scheme of things, I can't complain. You get lonely?

Sometimes, but I, you know, my kids and friends keep me company. They're not existential. There are many nights I sleep alone. I don't have to, but I do. Without that work, no one in this room would know who I am except my family.

So to all the kids around the world, watching and aspiring to be like one of us or even on the stage someday. Put the work in and watch the magical ride you go on. The Lonely Chapter describes a time in which you're growing, you're changing as a person, and you're now so different that you can no longer resonate with your old set of friends, but you're not sufficiently developed that you've got the new set of friends that you're going to grow into.

And this is the Lonely Chapter, and the problem with it, is that you're always, the desire to sort of regret back to where you were is always going to be there. And all of my friends are taking the piss. Oh, not drinking again. Too good for us, are we? Not going out again this week. Oh, okay, well, like, enjoy staying in home and reading.

So this lonely chapter is a period through which I think everybody needs to squeeze. Anybody that decides to go from a place they are to a place that they want to be is going to have to let go of people, routines, places, activities, recreations that you do. You're going to have to let those go. I isolate myself. I don't look at messages on Instagram. I don't send messages on Instagram.

I don't go out. You would not like my life. I live alone and sometimes I'm like, hello, hello. Make sure my voice still works. I take away all distractions. I had to stop thinking normal. I had to stop thinking normal. I can no longer be a common man walking around doing common things.

But no one taught me this stuff. It was like I had, you know, I paid a trainer to come train me. Jenny Craig didn't come down a miracle my ass. None of this happened. It was on me. And that's what you have to realize. Everything you do, you may have some support, you may not, but it's on you. You have to make the decision whether you want to be a bad ass or whether you just want to be mediocre and everything's okay. Imagine you could have anything that you want, anything that you can hold in your mind on a continuing basis you can have. Anything that you are crystal clear about wanting and are willing to pay the price to get, you can have.

So clarity is the key. Be clear about what you want. Be clear about what you want. Be clear. about what you have to do to get it. Be clear about your vision. Be clear. Speak, walk, talk, and act with clarity. Heroes and villains always have the same backstory. Pain. The difference is what they choose to do about it. Villain says, the world hurt me, I'll hurt it back. The hero says, the world hurt me, I'm not going to let it hurt anybody else. Heroes use pain. Villains are used by it. You know, there comes a day, man. Everyone's going to have this day. There comes a day where, average, being mediocre, it's just sickening to you. It's just sickening.

It makes you want to throw up because you've seen people with far less talent than you. As you're growing up with them, their childhood buddies, whatever else. They didn't have what you had. Yet now they've become something that you haven't. There comes that day. It's either when you're young, you know, and it strikes you on the baseball field because you're sick of striking out, or it's when you get fired from your fifth job,

you know, when your wife and kids are on your ass, run your ass, so you don't know how to support it anymore. There comes a day where push comes a shove, where being mediocre, being like average and it just burns, it sucks so much. You can't deal with it one more day, and you get off your f*** and you create something that's always been there. It's always been inside of you trying to come out. But you've never wanted to unwrap it because there's too much pain and commitment.

You were scared you're going to fail. You're scared if you started, you never finish it. You didn't want to tell anyone about it. You knew it was there, but you never wanted to embark on it. Until something hits, you get fired, or somebody else gets success to remind you what you could have been. And then the fucking spark is born. And no matter what happens, I'm never going to be in this boat again. And you get up and you go, even against knock down, you just keep going, keep going, you're a wild man. And life has never been so sweet. That can happen in an early age. It can happen at a later age. It's going to happen to somebody, every, you know, no matter what's going to happen to you.

And when it does happen to you, thank you lucky, you start. That finally you're alive. It's time to unwrap the potential you can be. Superior, man. It's within you. It's within every single one of us. And the people that have risen to that level

were no different than any one of us. It's just they believed it and they're willing to work their to have to get it. The most driven individuals, they live a life. for many years and certain times without balance. Everybody strives for balance. The best at something and try to balance everything else around your life.

There is going to be times where things are going to be. You're going to realize it one day. That happiness was never about your job or your degree or being in a relationship. Happiness was never about following in the footsteps of all of those who came before you. It was never about being like the others. One day you're going to see it, that happiness was always about the discovery, the hope, the listening to your heart, and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself. It was always about embracing the person you were becoming.

One day you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others. One day you'll realize that true happiness comes from within. And no external factors can define it. It was always about you. It was always about you. Don't ever think or believe that you gotta smoke what they smoke, drink what they drink, where would they wear, be a part of whatever it is they made you to do it. And guess what?

If it's considered something negative to me, but yet you're doing it and it makes you happy, I want you to do what makes you happy. Live your life. Water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle you're putting in a teapot. It becomes water can flow or it can crash, my friend. Coming here at night and, you know, I don't know what it is about it, man. But like, man, it's just the air smells a little bit better right now. You know, when you say you're going to do something and then you follow through and you do it,

not not at the end when you, you know, you cross the marathon, you finish it or your hands raised. I'm talking about right now. The small steps in between the big successes that everyone's, sees, no one sees this. It's the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy. Tonight I did something, you know, that I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy, you know, repeat that over and over and over again. Hello everyone, I'm so sorry I can't be with you tonight. However, I couldn't completely miss the chance to take a moment to share some thoughts with all of you.

It presented a moment to pause and reflect on what I've learned throughout my basketball career. The lesson I cherish the most is how important it is to love what you do. All the hard work and perseverance will pay off. When you know you're truly giving it your all, there's no greater feeling in the world. I once had a guidance counselor

tell me that I shouldn't play basketball, that it would never amount to anything for me. You know what? Much to your surprise. I took that counselor's advice. counselor's advice. I took it and I used it to be the best basketball player I could be. His negativity towards me made me stronger. You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams, but you can stop it from becoming a reality. Your dreams are up to you.

I encourage you to always be curious, always seek out things you love, and always work hard once you find it. Please know I'm thinking of you, supporting you and encouraging you. was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. There's times where you're going to have to do it alone. There's not going to be any team support. There's not going to be any family support. There's not going to be any friends support.

There's going to be times where you've got to go and do it yourself and you've got to do it alone. And those are the times that make a difference. Those are the times that count. Those are the times where you have to dig deep yourself to get the job done. And if you can make that happen, you will win. They're telling you you're up and this can be hard. But for some reason, you put so much practice into you that you can ignore every one of them

that are telling you you're not going to make it and still be able to make it. Because you have put the practice in that you know this is the process. It's such a daunting task that all the voices are saying, though. But you still have to be. the conviction that I know I can do this and that's what it took for me to get here. If you have a belief and you can't explain why you believe it, it's not yours, it's someone else's.

Your pride and your ego has been killing your career growth. Your sh-c could be on another level. You know better, but you're deciding to not do-you are a lazy, unprofessional, mean attitude having And yet when things are not happening good for you, when things are not coming your way, when things are not happening as fast as you want them to happen, you blame everybody else and what they're doing and saying and you completely disown everything that you're doing to contribute to your career, not going to another level. You know better, but you don't want to do better. This is uncomfortable, but I'm telling you all the truth.

Take ownership. Take extreme ownership. Don't make excuses. Don't blame any other person or any other thing. Get control of your ego. Don't hide your delicate pride from the truth. Take ownership of everything in your world, the good and the bad. Take ownership of your mistakes.

Take ownership of your shortfalls, take ownership of your problems, and then take ownership of the solutions that will get those problems solved. We don't want to be left alone by herself with ourselves. So we come in and we sit down and we get on our phone or we turn on the TV or we go wherever we do whatever Because we don't want to face the reality of being by ourselves with ourselves start making yourself a companion that you're comfortable with. If you had a friend, if you had a person you're going to sit down and spend all the time with, what would you want from that person?

What would you want? Well, I would want to spend time with somebody who's honest. Makes sense? I don't want to spend time with somebody who's going to be lying to me all the time. Someone who's going to gently tell me the truth about myself.

One of the hardest things sometimes for the human to do is get to the point where they stop lying to themselves. where they tell themselves the truth. They speak the truth to themselves. Now, you've got to face the reality of who you are. You've got to face the reality of what you are. And nobody's going to tell you that, like you yourself will tell you that.

If I can just walk one more mile after being in the worst shape of my entire life, this would change everything for me mentally going forward. From this kid who came from dirt and nothing, who couldn't read until he was in a junior high school and is now here, I went, I walked a mile. I said, hmm, maybe I can walk one more mile. Maybe I can walk another mile. At mile 81, my extra hour flipped at me says you're not going to make the time.

When your mind knows it's not going to quit, and this is what I found out. This is my 40% rule. When your mind knows it's not going to quit, your body will adapt to whatever is in front of it. I ended up running 20 more miles. I did 101 miles in 19 hours and six minutes. And that one day, change, that one, 19 hours. It wasn't civil training, it wasn't range of school, wasn't Delta Force. It wasn't in that crap I went through.

It was this 19 hours and six minutes that forever changed my life to know that we as human beings are capable of anything. And we don't need any special kind of parents or tools to get there. So I into with this. Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done. Thank you very much. The energy requires to. start doing something is way more than the energy required to continue doing the thing.

And that the beginning of doing anything results in the lowest amount of reward, both internal and external, than when you've been doing it for ages. The most successful people live urgently. The most successful people are impatient. The most successful people have high expectations of themselves. The most successful people seem unrealistic and unreasonable in their expectations and the most successful people are competitive. This is how it is. I know who I am. Like losing, you find out who you are. And losing sucks, but in those moments like when you're down, it's a

great time to experience you. You know, because like when you're winning, you can get this momentum when things, everything's going good. You can kind of get in that groove where you're just on cruise control, you know. But when you lose and the phone stops ringing and you're at home laying in bed going to sleep by yourself and everything the dust settles, you know, that's when you experience yourself who you really are. I don't quit. You know, I may not make it the first time, but I'll come back. I got to call an audible. I got to get my head back in the game. I got to figure this out. It doesn't mean you leave. It means you study it more. And whenever I feel that something, people are saying, man, how do you handle failure, man? I feel a lot, dude.

I feel all the time. They go, how do you handle it? What I'm trying to do, and this isn't being arrogant, man, it's being real. not many people are trying to do so there's not many people who can even open their mouth and criticize me and I do fail because I'm on I'm trying to do shit bad that many people aren't trying to do but I don't look at failure

I look at failure as your first, second, third, fourth, fifth attempt I'm looking at anything as failure not trying is failure when you start at the bottom when you work your ass off throughout the year you put a lot of time and effort into it you know you miss birthday

and you miss weddings and you miss Thanksgiving celebrations, you miss Christmases. You know, you get to the end of the year and you put a lot into it and you want to come out on top. And when you look at those rings and you look at those championship moments that you've had, you realize that all that sacrifice and all that commitment really paid off. But it really all starts, it all starts with who you are.

You know, I always tell our players who you are is more important than what you do. How high you jump, how fast you run, you run because who you are is your character and your character is an accumulation of your thoughts your habits and your priorities on a day-to-day basis because those three things determine the choices you make and the choices you make make make you who you are good guy bad guy hard working lazy responsible irresponsible irresponsible and it takes a certain amount of discipline to do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it the way it's supposed to get done

They see our own party Bro, I don't drink, I don't smoke And they see that, they're like, bro, why? Like you know what I'm saying? Like, go have fun But I'm having fun and I try to tell them like, Don't let me affect what you do. I'm gonna be good regardless, but I'm comfortable who I am. Sometimes you give your best and you don't always come out of head

And sometimes you do everything you can to win and you lose. I think part of that maturity was you grow older, you realize that When you wake up the next day after a loss, man, it hurts, But the sun comes up and when you When, man, it's exciting, but you know what? The sun comes up. You know what the next greatest win in your life is? The next one. And just because you did it once, there's no certainty to anything in life. It doesn't mean you're going to win it again, a championship, or get a promotion. You actually have to work for it. And you have to earn it. There's nothing

that's easy. There's nothing that's given. They don't hand you a championship belt. They don't hand you a championship ring. You got to earn it. So you're always trying to come up with reasons that you don't have to do it today. But if you build a You're building the muscle either way. You're either building the muscle that says, I do what I say, I keep the commitments that I make. Or you're building the muscle that says, I make excuses, I don't do what I say. I can't be counted on. Right.

And so when we think about discipline, it's really about what promises are you going to keep. And the tricky thing is you're keeping promises to yourself that nobody even knows that you made. right it's not it's not like hey you made this committee if i don't write this book by this time like you know i i have to do this embarrassing thing or you know that i'll all i'll retire you know you're not really putting your app on the line in that sense but you've said to yourself you're going to do this thing and building that muscle is really important what do successful people and unsuccessful people have in common here's what they have in common okay they both Hate to do what it takes to be successful.

Successful people just do it anyway. You see, do I like getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go put on running shoes to go run out on the cold, dark morning? I do not like that. Successful people hate this stuff too, but they just do it anyway.