Motivation Daily by Motiversity - EXCELLENCE

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

EXCELLENCE isn't a one week or one year ideal. It's a constant!Thank you for your continued support as we celebrate 200 episodes!Speakers:Kobe BryantElliot Hulse: http://elliotthulse.com/Marcus Taylor: http://bit.ly/38FUFoSChris RudenLes BrownLisa Nichols (special thanks to Mindvalley)Nathan HarmonDr Jessica Houston: https://bit.ly/2PXZqTVCoach Pain: http://bit.ly/2LmRyeaEric ThomasJohn F KennedyCoach JaeJoe RoganAlan Watts: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlanWattsOrgSpeech courtesy of alanwatts.orgLicensed from https://mindsetdrm.comMusic:Really Slow MotionEpidemic SoundWhitesand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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New episodes are being released every week. The link is in the description. Every day, I wake up and think of my ideal life. I have so many goals that I want to accomplish. I have so much that I want to do. I have a vision of my life. And I'm nowhere near where I want to be. At times, I get overwhelmed and I become so impatient with myself.

I truly feel sometimes I'm just falling behind. Still at times, the clock is winding down. It truly is a struggle to stay positive and motivated. Sometimes, like most people, I want to throw in the town and just give up. Sometimes it just feels like there's just no use. There's just too much ground to cover. I need to cover it so that I can get where I need to be. I need to constantly remind myself over and over again.

I am not yet where I want to be, but I know I'll get it. But I know I'll get there. I am not where I want to be, but I am so grateful. I am not where I used to be. I am talking to those people that are just about to give up, that are just about to lose all hope. I am here, ladies and gentlemen, to cheer you on to let you know that you, you, my friends, are going to get there.

You are going to get that promotion. You are going to complete that marathon and you are going to run for your life. Whatever you are working towards, you are going to get there. But you've got to get crystal clear what it is you want. What it is that you are seeking for, what it is you truly want, you must know. You've got to know that you're going to get there. But most importantly, most importantly, ladies and gentlemen,

Work like hell. Crack the ground and keep moving. Make the ground shake, crack the world, get it going. Don't let nothing stop you. Pleading with you. When the rest of the world shut you down, you've got to be the one to stand up, shout out, cry out, stand tall, work hard, deep, and go after it. There's nothing going to stop me.

If you didn't make me, you can't break me. If you didn't make the sun come up, you can't stop. come up you can't stop me if you didn't make the moon shine at night you can't stop me my purpose my will my dedication my motivation is all about doing the business because guess what ladies and gentlemen that's what i'm about that business i'm about that life what are you about the greatest ability that god has given humankind above the animals is the ability to choose a dog can't be anything but a dog can't be anything but a cat. A human being has the power to choose. We can choose. And I'm asking you, what do you see in the future for you? What brought you here today? What caused you to get up? What is it that you're looking for?

You get to choose as much as you want. You get to design it any way you choose. You're not sentenced to your future. You have an opportunity to your future. How do you want it? And if it doesn't make you a lot, little afraid, then you ain't playing big enough. You all have your own unique rhythms and daily habits and things that you need to achieve and the things that you need to accomplish so that you look in the mirror and you feel like, yes, I can't. Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why fly the Atlantic?

There's a choice. You have to choose for your happiness. You have to choose for your well-being. You have to choose for your family. You have to choose for your health and wellness. You have to choose for success. When I made a decision to follow my destiny, I felt it calling me. My destiny was calling me.

That's one small step for man. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that gold will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are willing to postpone, and one we intend to win. A timeline for when you want your dream to become a reality,

that don't mean your dream. Listen to you, baby. I'm not coach right now. I'm your conscience. You're in a fight between will and skill. I say will first because that's where you are. You locked and loaded with skill. You practicing every day.

You're putting in your work. You're buying everything. You're making the investment. You're living your dream. You're walking like your dream. You're surrounding yourself around your dream. You got mentors, everything. You're putting your work and you got your skill.

Now it's the test of your will. It's a mindset thing you're in right now. It's a mindset thing. Because your challenge. Your challenge ain't moving. Your mountain is not moving. You don't feel like you're making any progress. You're not physically moving.

when you see everything else around you and other people around you moving. You're not making progress. You're in the test of your will right now because life says it has a little more test for you. You look at your challenge with skill and it will see it just as that a challenge and your challenge and see it as much. Understand this and listen to me clearly. You may forget this face. You may forget this voice. You may forget who told you.

But get your pads out. Don't ever forget these words. I'm about to tell you if you want to be great in this life you only have one choice gentlemen you only have one choice you can make choices that just get you remember or you can make choices that ultimately make you a legend if you put as much time into working on winning if you put into thinking about losing you'd already be a champion when we're gonna get tired of just knowing and seeing successful people and become one of them Time is out to sit up and just make these average decisions to be make these irrelevant decisions that don't change you.

Don't change your family. Don't change society. Don't change your environment. Don't change the world. It's time to make decisions that make you a legend. We see it every day. But the only difference, baby, you're going to make a choice to just be remembered. Or you're going to make a choice to become a legend. You got to stop quitting. We got to stop giving up. keeping up all this T G-G-I-F T-G-I-F it is now T-G-I-A thank God I'm alive we open

our eyes and we're not right mind we live as though we really appreciate that opportunity and every time I see a post every time I see a tweet or just anything I want to ask the person why are you thanking God it's Friday hello newsflats tomorrow is Saturday but day after That is Sunday, the day after that is Monday. What do you thank you God it's Friday for? Because you're preparing to quit. You're preparing to stop what you doing.

You prepared to clock out. You're prepared to go home and you're in the mental mindset for do nothing. I dare you to get prepared for the challenges of your life by getting rid of comfort. I dare you. I dare that when you sign that job, that, bet. If you don't have a ride for work that you want, and then when you get there, you take this stuff. I dare you not the chance of brain, baby.

I dare you to work through your lunch. I dare you, when it's hot, that you wrote back, when it's cold, you work longer. I dare you learn something new today that you didn't know yesterday. I dare you too. I dare you to run past that challenge. I dare you to face adversity.

I dare you to look at it and say, look, I'm more than this right now. I can handle it. I dare you to let me show off the mountains. I dare you to stop running from it. I dare you just to stop throwing away food because you're scared you're going to eat it at night. I dare you're going to eat it night.

I dare you to stop taking the detour because it's a crack out on the corner and it's a liquor on the street. I dare you to stop running from your addiction. I dare you to start running from the old people and become a man you know you can become. Mountains aren't going to move. You gotta climb that bad boy, baby. You cannot get what you want in your life. You're not being comfortable.

Comfort and- Because you have a consistency versus an intensity problem. Consistency is when you do something. Intensity is how you do something. And that's why many of you, no matter what you do, no matter how much you do it, no matter who you're looking at, no matter what you read, you're going to be denied because you think that just being consistent at something that's going to let you win. That earns you the right to win.

That I'm being denied that corner office. I'm being denied that car. I'm being denied this quality of life. I'm being denied that opportunity, this scholarship. I keep getting cut off the team. You know, if I just stay, if I just keep practicing and I just stay around this team, sooner or later I'll make it. No, you won't.

No, you won't, because consistency does not guarantee you the win. Many of you, as bad as you don't want to accept this, you're never going to win because you're not intense enough. Until you get intense to the point that nothing, nothing will get in your way, that you will not get in your way. You'll never win. If it's important to you, you're going to find a way. You won't have to look for a resource. You will become resourceful. It's not always about the accomplishment.

It's about the effort. If we can just keep that effort going, the excuse is irrelevant. You have to be stronger than your excuses. Excuses. Don't get results. Now we've got to go through the process of being stronger than our excuses. We get one opportunity to come this way. We get one shot.

We got one life to live. Life is too short. to make excuses. Truth is, everybody's got purpose. Everybody's got a dream. Everybody's got something they have to pass or achieve or become. But we are generationally programmed to love can be. And the truth of the matter is, it is so to make an excuse.

I want to give you just a few things that you can do to help you to stop making excuses. To help you to stop habitually gravitating to the place called convenience. If you can hear my voice, you've got work to do. You've got a destiny to fulfill. You've got a purpose to walk into.

You've got a test to pass. You've got dots to connect. Rooms to walk in. Stages to stand on. And we all want to do something. We all want to be somebody. We all want to go somewhere. And if these things are going to happen,

we've got to stop habitually gravitated. to excuse number one you got to stop preparing yourself to everybody else rule number one kill well i don't do it like them i don't say it like them and i don't i'm not as tall as them i'm not as strong as them and i don't have the money that they have i don't have the resources that they have i don't well the reason why i i couldn't do it because my parents weren't there for me and the reason why i didn't get it for the college on a full ride because my coach he didn't create the high like the old for the sports scholarship and the reason why and so we were just programmed to blame everybody else when will you look in the mirror and stop comparing yourself to everybody else we compare ourselves to

make people look and we compare our stories and their stories and our relationship to their relationship every single day the excuses that we made are like a warm blanket pooled over us covering up the underlying issue of fear and the spirit, the personality of people. The truth is that the reason why you haven't done it is because you're afraid. Maybe if you could just listen to this a couple times, maybe you'll start making so many excuses because the excuse is nothing but a cosmetic. It's makeup. It's a blanket.

It's a convenience that we habitually gravitate to. because it just makes us feel better. But the underlining issue, the underlining cancer, the inflammation is fear. We're afraid. We're afraid that if we give our best, the best isn't good enough. We're afraid because we're constantly comparing ourselves to other people. We're afraid that we won't be seen. We're afraid that people will change if we evolve.

We're afraid that maybe we'll lose our friends if we began to shift our thinking. You have to have a marriage mentality when it comes to achieving what it is that's on the inside of you. What it is is in your head to manifest it and hold it in your heads. You have to have a marriage mentality. The problem of many of you is you keep dating the idea, the potential of focus and success and determination and discipline. Your only discipline once a week. You're only determined twice a week. You're only enthusiastic about the journey on Sundays or Wednesdays.

Once you make a covenant, you know what, I'm going to commit to this. You're going to put the blood, you're going to put the sweat, you're going to put the tears in, you're going to lose sleep, you're going to go days without eating, you're going to do whatever it takes to make the sacrifices necessary to man-efest. There are too many people in your life who have left you. There are too many people in your life who have counted you out. There are too many people in your life who have whispered in your ear and said, you'll be worse off with you. Without them, bro.

Keep loving those who have lied on you. Keep blessing those who have cursed you. Don't be bitter. Don't be frustrated. Listen, just remain faithful behind the scenes. Promotion is coming. Stages and opportunities are being prepared right now as you sacrifice in secret,

as you put the work in in the dark room, as you do what is required to hold in your hand what you see in your head. Those times when you get up early and you work hard, work hard. Those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. That's the dream. It's not the destination. It's the journey. And if you guys, if you guys can understand that, then what you'll see happen is that you won't accomplish your

dreams your dreams won't come true something greater will it's an it's amazing thing about passion if you love something maybe have a strong passion for something you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it whatever you have a love for you've got to walk you would go get it if you have to beg someone you don't think you guys understand how present you guys were with me you know you guys were there with me at 5.30 in the morning when I was running the track and I was midway through my workout and I didn't know if I could make it through. And I thought about the expectations you guys had for me and you have for our team.

And it pushed me through. It got me through those 800s and 400s and 100s at 5.30 in the morning. So I thank you. We're not on this stage just because of talent or ability. We're up here because of 4 a.m. We're up here because of 2 a days. We're 5 a days. We're up here because we had a dream.

and let nothing stand in our way. If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us strong. We were never satisfied, never finished, will never be retired. My high school English teacher, Mr. Fisk, he had this beautiful quote, and it read,

rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart. I believe there's time for resting at the end, but for me, that time is not now. Thank you for this tremendous honor acknowledge in my basketball career, but I'm far from done. My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle.

Rest at the end, not in the middle. Where does that come from? And if you guys can understand that, and I'm doing my job as a father. Thank you guys so much. I love you. Ma'u'u'amaho. Play with the fear of failing. You'll have the pressure on yourself to play, you know, to capitulate to that fear.

If you play with a sense of I want to win, I want to win, then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the middle, in the center, then it doesn't matter. You're unfazed by either, right? That enables you to really just stay in the moment, stay connected to it, and not feel anything other than what's in front of you. So, you know, I try to just be dead center. Start with what do you want your game to be? What would make your game most unstoppable or hard to deal with? And now you work backwards from there.

there and you start building it one piece at a time one move at a time one counter at a time who would shack be if he had your work ethic he'd be the greatest of all time if shack had your work he'd be the greatest of all time by sure he'd be the first to tell you that for sure I mean this guy was a force like I have never seen it was crazy you know a guy at that size generally guys at that size are a little timid and and they don't want to be tall. They don't want to be big. Man, this dude was, he did not care.

He was mean. He was nasty. He was competitive. He was vindictive. I mean, he was, yeah. I wish he was in a gym. I would have had 12 rings. He had the work ethic.

My God, yeah. Way and be close. If you're lazy, man, I don't want to talk to you. I want to deal with you. You don't make me feel dumber. You know, you're going to lower my level. I don't think so. You can go over there. There's plenty of teams in here where you'll fit right in.

I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level, but then act as if they do. I don't deal with that. I don't. It's real shit. I mean, I listen. So, like, we used to getting this stuff all the time because it was like, you know, he would say, okay, Kobe's not throwing me the ball. You know, media would take it.

and run with it and all so stuff. And I'm like, well, bro, if you were in shape, by the time I run down on a fast break and run back and then run down, you're still coming down the first time, bro. Like, what the hell do you want me to do? Right? So a lot of our contention came from that, came from that. And even though he was older, you were still confronting him. You didn't care.

Oh, I didn't care. Man, listen. From day one, bro. From day one. I knew for sure. Rick Fox, my teammates, they all thought I was out. absolutely crazy the day me and Shack got in the fist fight. After that day they were like, okay, Kobe, you're certifiable.

Fist fight. Oh, yeah. Fist fight. I'm not backing down. Listen, either you want to work my ass or we want to have a knife. But, you know, there's a level of respect. And for Shack, too, by the way. I know he's told me that that.

day was a big turning point for him because it was like, you know, he's generally used to talking trash and saying what he wants and nobody really stepping up and challenging him on that. And when he saw me challenge him on that, he was like, this kid's crazy. All right, I can win with that, you know. And so that's kind of the beginning of our relationship, I think. That's probably never happened to him. That's probably not something that's common to him. No.

I mean, seven feet tall since years old or something, right? There was all, this is all coming back to me right now. It was also a game in Phoenix. My first year, we were playing, and he kept posting up. But they kept fouling him, so he kept going on the free throw line, and kept missing him.

And so he threw the ball out to me. I'm not throwing that in there. So I kept shooting him, right? So we get into the timeout, and he's like, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. I'm like, okay. And so we go out and same thing. come, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. Okay.

Come back in. Hey, dude, you got to throw me the ball. Say, man, fuck that. Get it off the rebound if I miss, bro. You told them this. First year. 18 years old, man, 18 years old. I must have been out of my damn mind. The story continues. The story continues.

So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure on Monday is if you decide to not progress from that. Right? So to me, that's why failure is not existing. Because if I fail today, okay, I'm gonna learn something from that failure and I'm gonna try again on Tuesday. Those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That's the dream. It's not the destination, it's the journey. But the thing is that information, ideas do not help transform a person. Because if it did, we would all be jacked, right? I mean, how many bodybuilding channels do you? watch how many books have you read how many magazines have you read how many

TV shows how many seminars how much have you bombarded your mind with ideas about strength and fitness and you know what it doesn't mean that you actually got it right because ideas don't help people what helps people this is why I talk the way I do is showing them a way that perhaps they could transform their character who they are is more important than what they know and what they do. The way they see themselves, their character, it literally requires a brainwashing of yourself to see yourself in a different light. Affirmations, visualization, meditation, these are all forms of

mental transformation. See we have these experiences in our life that are that are not fun, that are difficult. You know you lose a loved one, you lose a limb, you get really sick. See these are easy ones, but you're gonna experience in life, you're gonna experiencing tough tougher I mean you can lose you can lose your parents you can lose your children like I said you can lose your limbs you could be flat broken and hungry there are so many different experiences that that you're probably going to experience the life you know getting in an accident there's so much and each one of those each one of those aren't arbitrary think about how bad it can possibly

become that is not arbitrary it is purposeful it is set there for your growth Right? That's what life is about. Life is engaging in all of those really difficult situations for your growth because always on the other end of that pain is a stronger version of yourself. That's why that pain is there. Like we wait train in the weight room. You know, it's very painful to the body. We subject our body to the pain of lifting weights in order to experience the growth that's on the other end of the pain. Light is that balance between cannibal and anabolic. Cannabolic is when you're being broken down. Anabolic is the balance back associated with the going and the circumstances. Go do something that forces you to look the ugliness in the face so that you can deal with it, so that you can grow past it,

so that you become a strong aversion into something. Every time you back away from any of these challenges, these circumstances, these failures, So no such thing as a failure. Okay? You didn't lose that basketball game because you're a failing. You didn't drop out of school. You didn't have the experience that caused you to drop out of school because you're a failure.

And those circumstances pose to you in order for you to grow stronger. Even if you fail and fail and fail and fail, you get knocked in your fucking face ten times. You're not a failure until you quit, motherfucker. I guarantee you that after 90 days of tiny wins and the real thing, and the revamping of your character, you will be the type of person that can get anything done at any time. And the longtime perspective is going to be a successful one for you. Start small, have big wins with these little things,

and then use that new version of yourself, that new character tool to attack bigger and more advanced things until you reach your goal. Good luck.