Motivation Daily by Motiversity - EMBRACE TODAY - Listen Every Day! Powerful Morning Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'll get to it tomorrow. I'm like, who promised you that? I'll get to it a month from now. I'm like, who promise you that? Right? Because light changes so quick. We live our lives and we feel as if we're promised something. You think about how many people woke up this morning thinking like, man, everything is going to be great.
Starting point is 00:00:20 And life changed, right? One day you wake up on top of the world. Next day you wake up, the world is on top of you. There's a time for everything and for every thing you reap that will you'll sew. there's a time to kill, there's a time to live, there's a time to plant, there's a time to gather. All you ever have, all that you can ever experience, is intrinsically linked with the present moment. It's inseparable from the present. Your entire life unfolds in and as the present moment.
Starting point is 00:00:59 that all there ever is. I am completely driven by gratitude. Every true day that I don't get a text or phone call that somebody I love died or has terminal illness, I'm fucking pumped. And so please, please understand you have one life, do something with it. Listen to me, you're running out of time.
Starting point is 00:01:25 You don't know how much time you have. You keep telling yourself you got time and watch what happens. Now, I'm going to say it again. You are running out of time. Morgan Housel's got this gorgeous story. He talks about how when him and his wife first got together before they were married, I think they were 23, 24, living in New York.
Starting point is 00:01:42 They had no kids, no dependents. And he looks back and he said to his wife, how that really was living, wasn't it? That really was the golden years. It's just so amazing. We used to lie in on a Sunday and we could go for lunch and do all the rest of it. His wife said, you were miserable. You hated it.
Starting point is 00:01:59 You hated all of those things. And Morgan's realization was, in hindsight, you're able to see that the fears that captured you at the time were not worth having. But at the time, you have no certainty that those aren't salient. So what you see in retrospect is how you should have felt had you known what was going to occur. The golden years seemed to never happen in the present. It only seems to exist in hindsight. Man, my grandmother died at 93. And a month later, my other grandmother died at 90.
Starting point is 00:02:31 I didn't realize how quick life was. I'm like, yo, my grandmother was 93. I spent 51 years with both of them. They're gone. It's over. I will never be able to talk to my grandmother again. And I'm next. So because life is short, I don't have time to focus on what's not.
Starting point is 00:02:50 I've got to focus on what he is. Then get up and go do it. At the end of the day, and you realize that what is life but to capture and bottle the good moments when you can get them. To really stop and to really enjoy those moments because regret is a powerful thing. Truly, the gifts that have been given to me by starting at a young age, doing what I love,
Starting point is 00:03:16 be able to travel the world, make music that I love to meet people from all over the world and all walks of life. But the thing that it took for me was a little bit of the slowness of the growth. It was hyper speed, and it was always thinking about what hasn't happened yet or dwelling on what is already dead.
Starting point is 00:03:36 There was very little time to think about what's here and very little time to bottle the goodness of what's right here. These right now are the golden years. I think that it's quite likely when you look back that these times right now will be the ones that you cherish. So you should approach them with joy. and care and presence, the requisite joy and care and presence. And I think, most importantly, ignoring the cynics and the buzz kills,
Starting point is 00:04:12 there's this idea from Pachy McCormick, and he says, the greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys. Basically, just don't like, don't wait. Life is happening right now. It is there for you to enjoy. It is there for you to take delayed gratification in the existence. just results in no gratification. The sacrifice reward dynamic that you are used to is great in the micro and awful in the macro. It's not about waiting for personal growth to be over. It's
Starting point is 00:04:42 not about waiting for something. Life is not happening in future. It is happening right now. And this is something that I need to permanently remind myself of on a minute by minute basis. If you go to a nursing home is you will find multiple people that will talk to you about regrets in a way that will pierce your soul in a way that you've never felt before because they're actually in that place where time has run out. And it will make you go back home
Starting point is 00:05:12 and start cooking for the first time, starting a video, running, like you'll start doing shit that you've been pondering for the last decade after one hour of giving back. See, the greatest lie that you have believed far too long is that you have,
Starting point is 00:05:29 time that there is a tomorrow that you can drag your feet and you can crawl that you can't crawl towards some dreams you can't walk towards some dreams some dreams you got to run toward you got to you run baby run like there's no tomorrow run like you know you deserve it run like you know that there is nobody else that can attain it you've got this great line where you say so many people are obsessed with how to live longer instead of how to live better. Yeah. How do you come to think about that? I'm for it, the longevity.
Starting point is 00:06:03 I'm for it. But in the pursuit of it, are we measuring quality of life along the way? Some people aren't. And I personally don't want to have the highest number, but then go, I don't need fun. Or I didn't enjoy that, or that sucked. I'm just trying to remind everyone that just like in business, when I say success without the profit, we have plenty of people that succeed. If you've got the most money, the most toys, you succeed.
Starting point is 00:06:34 And we talked about those people earlier that have the end of the day, have problems with their relationships or they can't sleep, whatever. They didn't profit. They're not profiting with their success. Profit measures quality with the quantity. So I'm saying real success is when you have profit. Well, really great longevity would be for those qualifications. quality years, quality time left in this life. They say time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Starting point is 00:07:03 And I'm just here to tell somebody get that urgency back. Somebody step back into the place of action. Somebody step back into the place of faith and determination. Somebody get back into that space, that mindset, that mentality that says tomorrow It's not promised That just because somebody else lived To C-70 doesn't mean I'm gonna live to C-70 And so every single day of my life
Starting point is 00:07:33 I'm gonna give it everything I have I'm gonna love like there's no tomorrow I'm going to forgive Like there's no tomorrow I'm gonna let go I'm going to perform I'm going to forgive I'm going to love I'm gonna try again Like there is no tomorrow
Starting point is 00:07:50 Like this is my only opportunity. At some point, you have to get off the hamster wheel of production. Because your life, the quality of your life, the quality of your relationships, the quality of your experience of being a human being is worth more than a dollar amount. Yes? Yes. So how do we do that? By first of all, beginning to understand and realize that from the moment we were born,
Starting point is 00:08:20 we have been conditioned to function in a way that is limited in this world. You waste so much of your life trying to focus on the mechanics of being you that you're not being you. You're so distracted by all the noise that everyone else is doing that you're not focusing on the one thing that has the capacity to transform your experience, which is finally having the courage to be here. So I'm here to say to you that you can have everything in the world, but if you don't have a knowledge and an understanding of who you are, then you have nothing at all.
Starting point is 00:08:55 Then you have nothing at all. So how do we begin to cultivate this sense of being enough? Because we can't get there through society's conditioned metric of how we're supposed to be and who we're supposed to be. At some point, we have to revert to who we naturally are. Because it's in coming back to who we naturally are and aligning with life in the way in which it's unfolding, that we can begin to find a sense of sustainability. And sometimes we can get wrapped up in that human condition that says, man, I don't have what it takes.
Starting point is 00:09:28 I don't know how to navigate the terrain. I'm so broken. I'm so tired. I'm so blinded. I'm so buried under the misery of my past and the mistakes that I made. And we're waiting for these perfect conditions. And we keep thinking that perfect is. coming tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:09:49 And so number one, stop waiting into the conditions are perfect. If you're going to step into the power of the present, if you're going to seize the opportunity, then one of the things you're going to have to stop doing is overthinking. You're not going to feel the process all the time. You're not going to see it. Some days you're not going to want to write about it. You're not going to want to talk about it. You're not going to want to think about it.
Starting point is 00:10:09 You're going to have migraines thinking about the sacrifices that are required to get to this next level, but just don't stop. I'm living like it's my last. I'm putting it all on the table. I'm giving this thing everything I have. Like I know. Snow tomorrow. What would you do if you knew that today was your last day on this earth? How would you spend it?
Starting point is 00:10:44 Because you're not promised tomorrow. You see, you never know what's going to hit you in life. Some of us just die. And the only thing remembers us is the dirt that, covers us. Christmas Day my father was murdered. I buried my mother and now my father is murdered but life asks me a question. He asked me how will you respond? And I replied, I'm gonna give life everything I got. Because I realize life is only for a moment. It's only for a season. We really don't know how much time we have.
Starting point is 00:11:34 But we must cherish every moment that is given to us. The last breath that you take can be right now. We have to get back to the reality and knowing that tomorrow is not promised. We can't stop now. Because our dream is the only thing that we have. This life is the only one. that we have. So what are we going to do to make it our best?
Starting point is 00:12:09 Yeah, life did knock you down. Life to beat you up. But what are you going to do when it's game time? This life that you have is only temporary. It will not last forever. But while you have life in your body at this moment and that you are above ground and not under it, there is still a little bit more work to be done.
Starting point is 00:12:40 You see, I realize that this life will eat you up if you don't continue to fight for what you believe in. But the great ones, they make it their duty to get up and fight and teach other individuals the power of life, the power of truth, the power of becoming legendary. Leave a legacy. Don't put yourself in a position with you. You're leaving this world and you left nothing behind. We were born to be legendary. We were born to be great. I'm gonna give life everything I got.
Starting point is 00:13:23 We're talking about your last day. And if this is your last day, you better make it a great day. When I got that phone call on Christmas Day 11 days before my son was born. that my father has been murdered and left for dead. I was lost. And that's when I truly learned that we don't have forever. You see, I once cried every single night from losing all the people that I loved.
Starting point is 00:14:09 It's been days that I wanted to take my life, days that I didn't want to be here. So many individuals, they quit on their dreams. They put it in a box and they buried it away. They let it all go just because of one obstacle, one pain threshold, and you couldn't keep on. But we got to remember why we started. Remember why we grind. Remember why we go to work every single day.
Starting point is 00:14:38 We were born to stand on mountains with giants. And so the world are gifts when it's time to get back up. See, the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, there are many people that are afraid of dying. But if you learn to live the best life that you can, then there will be no fear of leaving this world. But you must accept the fact that we all have to take that journey. And you are not immortal. Today was your last day. Would you accept it?
Starting point is 00:15:25 Could you accept it? Or will you be afraid? But what if I told you that the biggest mistake that you have made is giving up on yourself? Today I'm talking about a choice. A choice to love better. Be a better father. Be a better mother. Be a better grandfather, grandmother.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Be better. It's a choice that we all get to have. Every single day we wake up out of bed. Let's rise because we all have a choice. We have a choice to live, or we have a choice to walk around as zombies. And it's a decision that you have to make. The last day of your life can be right now.
Starting point is 00:16:27 How much effort would you put forth to put your arms around someone? one just to say that you love them how much effort will you put forth to apologize to someone that you may have hurt years ago we have a reason that we are alive today not too many people get a second chance or a third chance not too many people get a second chance not too many people get to live long lives. I'm speaking life to you right now, people. Life is short.
Starting point is 00:17:24 Will you waste time worrying about the things that you have no control over? Or will you focus on the time that you do have left? When you leave here, leave here the right way. Because when that time comes, Knowing your heart that you did your very best. Knowing your heart that you lived the best life that you knew how. Tomorrow doesn't owe you anything. Tomorrow doesn't owe me anything.
Starting point is 00:18:04 But today, right now, it's all we have. Let's live our lives. Let's keep looking up. Let's keep being productive. And know if today is your last day, live it, breathe it, and from the bottom of the heart, conduct your business.

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