Motivation Daily by Motiversity - HAVE NO FEAR - Best Motivational Speech (Featuring AJ Buckley)

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

EPISODE 600! Thanks for sticking with us for 600 great episodes. Here's to 600 more.Have No Fear! You have to be fearless and have the utmost belief in that feeling that is inside of you, that thing y...ou want to pursue. One of the Best Motivational Speeches featuring AJ Buckley. Edited and Interviewed by Motiversity.SpeakerAJ BuckleyOver the course of his career, AJ Buckley has appeared in more than 30 prominent feature films and television series. He is currently best known for his role as fan favorite “Sonny Quinn” in the hit series SEAL Team. He’s been major characters in successful productions like: CSI: NY, Narcos, Pure, “The Good Dinosaur” by Pixar, Sony Pictures “Home Sweet Hell” which he also helped write and produce. AJ’s also a thriving entrepreneur with a number of successful ventures including Paperclip, sustainable products for parents. He’s a husband, a dad. And he not only plays a Navy Seal but he trains like one. Follow AJ:https://www.instagram.com/ajbuckley/https://twitter.com/ajohnbuckleyhttps://www.cbs.com/shows/seal-team/cast/215681/MusicSecession Studios - The Power of One, Luminosahttps://www.youtube.com/c/thesecessionWays to stay connected with Motiversity and stay motivated:▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos Every Week: http://bit.ly/MotivationVids►Download or stream the speech EVERYWHERE: ALL platforms: https://motiversity.lnk.to/HaveNoFearSpotify: https://bit.ly/3PBkQpnApple Music: https://bit.ly/3ZdP8Sp▶DOWNLOAD our Top 100 Quotes of All Time:https://bit.ly/topquotesfreepdf▶JOIN our Newsletter for Exclusive Updates, Discounts, and Deals: https://bit.ly/Motiversitynewsletter▶READ our Weekly Blog - https://bit.ly/motiversityblog▶SHOP Official Motivational Canvases and Apparel - https://bit.ly/motiversityshop▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community!https://bit.ly/motiversitymembers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. You have to be fearless. You have to be completely fearless. And have utmost belief in whatever that feeling is inside you. Earn your keep, earn the day. But when you're stepping into territory that's unknown and we grow up in a society where people just think that you click on things and you get it. We're programmed, everything is so instant.
Starting point is 00:01:10 You take a pill, you get skinny. You get this app, it sorts everything out for you. To get anything, there's no secret to it. It's just hard work. You've got to put in the work. You've got to put in the hours. Whether it's repetitions or whatever it is, you've got to get up and get after it as hard as you can.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Because if somebody else that's out there that's doing it, you want to be the hardest work in. person in the room. If what they're going after truly makes them happy, you know, if it's, if it's driven by happiness, they will have nothing but success because you will enjoy getting up early in the morning. You'll enjoy outworking everybody. People that are miserable, I never understand why they're doing what they're doing. You have one life. You got one shot at this. There's no dress rehearsals at all. To be miserable going, going, job after job, or just doing the same thing over and over again, have no inspiration.
Starting point is 00:02:15 You know, you're just a cognitive wheel. You know, I'd rather be the engine. You know, I'd rather be the one that drives and moves the car, you know, than just be the wheel. It's all our mindset. It's how bad do you want something? And nothing tastes better than when you've earned it. There's no better feeling that when you've earned. Nothing's been handed to me, nothing, you know, has come, nothing by, you know, nothing but, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:42 has come, nothing by any chance has come easy to me. But I wouldn't have it any other guy. I don't think I'd have the career that I have if I didn't go through what I did early and sort of lose a little fortune that I had at the time and get lost, and then have to come back and sort of recalibrate. Rip that safety blanket out. Don't have a backup plan.
Starting point is 00:03:11 If you have a backup plan, you'll always go to that backup plan. You're like, oh, well, I could always go back to this. Well, that means if it gets too tough. That's like saying, if I get married, I can always get a divorce if it gets tough. So many people are divorced these days because they don't want to put the work in. When it gets tough, you've got to be able to bite down on your mouth guard and step forward and keep swimming. If there is a sliver of a chance, that means you've got a chance. Don't give up.
Starting point is 00:03:43 You just can't. And by doing that, you have to just be fearless. If you decide in that moment that you want to bring that bell and give up, then, okay, then go to your backup plan and be miserable. Happiness is worth more than any dollar amount you'll ever have. Through your happiness, you'll have your wealth that will come. I'm a firm believer of that. Be very appreciative of how lucky you are to see the sunrise. You know, each day that comes, recognize that you have that day.
Starting point is 00:04:28 ahead of you to go and kick ass. And that's all you should focus on is that day, and that day only. And then there was training with our seal guys, which is completely different mentality. They always embrace the suck. And there's a lot of sucking. Everything about it sucks. Usually we train, I'll train before we go into work.
Starting point is 00:04:56 Usually our work day starts around six or seven in the morning. So I'll usually hit the gym at like 3.34. and then I'll train for a good hour, hour and a half, and then go to work. And then we'll be on set for 10, 12 hours out up in the mountains, run up and down hills with about 100 pounds of gear on us all day. But in order to be able to run up and down these hills with this gear on, you have to be able to train this. You can't fake this.
Starting point is 00:05:27 There's something about it. When you're training that hard and that focused, I really feel like, you know, to earth, you know, you're seeing things a little clear, like the, the colors on the tree and in the ocean are just a little bit brighter. Like, you've got a clear head, like you're, you know, you're aware of a lot more things when you're, when you're putting that much focus in on, on training and health and fitness. And I think those things really go hand in hand success, you know. The greatest wealth in life is health, right? So if you take that and you take that and you, you know, and you're, you know, you know, the greatest wealth in life is health, you know, you know, you know, use your health, get as healthy as possible, and focus that on success, I think, is a good combination.
Starting point is 00:06:12 And then you're through that success comes well. It just is this great circle. But taking care of yourself first is 100% needed in any successful thing in life, whether it's a relationship or whether it's, you know, business. Just learn one more thing that you didn't know yesterday. That's all I ask is. One more thing. Just get slightly better each day. Whatever it is. If you did four push-ups yesterday, you do five push-ups a day. You know, just do one thing better than you did yesterday. So then you feel like there's growth every day. And it doesn't have to be big. You know, if you did six steps, do six and a half the next day. So every day there's a little goal within yourself. Whatever that it is you did, you did one more thing than you did. So you're constantly growing. I remember I had a conversation with myself in my my rear view and mirror.
Starting point is 00:07:12 And I was like, do I go back to Canada and, you know, because I was 26 at the time and, you know, and I'm living in my car, you know, it's just there's not, you know, I'm supposed to be living the dream. I left Vancouver and I made it, you know, like people think that I've made it. And, and I hadn't. But then I really kind of, you know, started to think, I was like, look, I've got everything right now. I've got my health.
Starting point is 00:07:38 I've got I'm chasing my dream I got people that believe in me I have a legitimate agent so maybe I do have everything you know material wise I'm struggling a little bit but I have everything that I need
Starting point is 00:07:53 right now at this moment that I need to get a job and it's just I needed to focus in on what that I needed to stop worrying about you know the next three or four years and just focus what I could control and that was
Starting point is 00:08:08 being completely focused and present on the work and tasks that I had at hand to get me out of the situation that I was in and being okay with telling people that I had no money and I think that I was broke and that I was struggling and lose my ego over that because I wasn't raised that way my father never raised me that way we didn't grow up with money it never defined us so I I kind of got lost in this sort of flashy town of like yeah you're doing great you know everybody asks how you're doing down here and people tell you what jobs they've just worked on as opposed to tell you how you're actually doing. Your work defines you as opposed to your character. I had done a couple episodes and I was in the parking lot and I had like $32.95. I was in a 7-Eleven
Starting point is 00:09:02 parking lot and that's all I had in my bank account and I actually have that framed in my office and my phone rang and it was my manager saying that they wanted to do a seven-year deal with me at CBS and it completely changed my life like going zero to 60 in a Tesla and it just everything changed for the better I'm like I like I went out got like an apartment that day I didn't just get an apartment I got like a great one I got an apartment I bought a pool table and And my parents had come down to celebrate. And they came in, I didn't even have a bed or anything. There was a pool, these guys were putting up a pool tape.
Starting point is 00:09:44 And I was like, where's your bed or your plates? I'm like, I haven't bought that yet. And I'm like, I just like, you bought a pool tip? I'm like, I've always wanted to buy a pool tip. She said, Jesus Christ, age. It's like, it's great though. We can play pool. She's like, well, where are you going to sleep?
Starting point is 00:09:56 And I'm like, I've got my car outside. It's like reading a chapter, and until you understand what happened in that chapter, you can never go to the next chapter. so you have to go back and read it again. And I feel like that was happening in my life. I had to, until I understood where I was, the next part wasn't going to happen. I was a dog chasing its tail. So I had to be okay with myself and where I was and kind of zero in on what my goal was.
Starting point is 00:10:31 And instead of, you know, taking the foot off the gas and going out and hang out with people that really didn't give a shit about anything, You know, I needed to sort of bring the circle small and put the focus back on myself and have that hunger again to get up and get after it. Today, you know, it's stronger than ever, even with the success that I have. Now, the more that you are dialed in, the more that the needle moves.

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