Motivation Daily by Motiversity - I MUST KEEP GOING - Best Motivational Speeches Compilation (Most Eye Opening Speeches 2023)

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

WORK HARDER THAN EVERYONE! To be the best in anything, you have to put in the work. If you want to make something for yourself, you have to work harder than everyone else around you.Speakers:Marcus "E...levation" Taylor: http://bit.ly/38FUFoSWilliam "King" Hollis: http://bit.ly/WillHollisYouTubeBobby Maximus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSzAriYndMjGjJciDYyj47wCoach Pain: http://bit.ly/2LmRyeaEric ThomasCole "The Wolf" DaSilva: https://bit.ly/30oIKO9Les BrownMusic:Secession StudiosReally Slow Motion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello listeners. Motivosity is excited to share that we have launched a new podcast called Morning Motivation by Motivore. If you are looking to start your day with positivity and the most uplifting motivational audio, this is the show for you. For today's episode of Motivation Daily by Motivority Podcast, we are sharing a recent episode from the Morning Motivation podcast. If you like it, go follow the show. New episodes are being released every week. The link is in the description.
Starting point is 00:00:40 What you hate, what you can't stand, what you want to walk out of, what you want to give up on. There are somebody out there that would die to be in your position. And so here's what I need you to ask yourself, is this problem an issue or is it an opportunity? Some of you all you've been waiting for your whole life was an opportunity. What if losing your job was the opportunity? What if the divorce is an opportunity? What if the bankruptcy is an opportunity? What if the one you loved was an opportunity for you to reconnect with somebody and forgive them?
Starting point is 00:01:20 I need you to see the bigger picture. I need you to have a little gratitude. You need to learn how to smile. You need to work out. I know you hate the gym. I know you hate to lift weights. I know you hate cardio. I know you don't like drinking water.
Starting point is 00:01:35 I know you don't like taking care of your simple. You think it's the hardest thing to do in the world to commit. But there is somebody who's in the grave today. And if they had another opportunity to live, they would enthusiastically with great confidence and courage and consistency. Do what you hate just to live a little longer. Find the positive. See the bigger.
Starting point is 00:01:57 picture guard your gratitude the trial the tribulation the adversity the giant is not your assassin the giant is your opportunity are you gonna complain in the face of conflict or are you gonna seize the opportunity I don't care what it is that you're trying to achieve what you're trying to accomplish what you're trying to give how you're trying to evolve what you are looking to become, everything rises and falls on your perspective. Stop complaining about the jealousy and the envy and the backbiting and the person that gave up on you and the person that wasn't present and the person that lied to you and the person
Starting point is 00:02:50 that attempted to manipulate and control. I'm not weary, I'm wiser. I'm not toxic. I'm triumphant. I see this thing differently. This season that you've entered into did. not come to break you it came to build you until the man or woman God is destined you to be change your perspective so from this day for 365 days together no we can't do it alone
Starting point is 00:03:49 but together we can't motivate this country we can motivate this world let's love our brothers sisters. Let's feed the poor. Let's show the world what a true king and queen is. Together we will rise. Together we will fight. And if God says, together we will fall. Let's be phenomenal that kings and quaint. This is only the beginning. Because this life is not done with you. Your dream is not done with you. For us all and to win us. Steaks. Turn us all into perfection. It's going to be days when it seems like it will never happen. The dream will never manifest.
Starting point is 00:05:01 The money will never come. The cause will never come. You gotta fight for something more than material. Fight for the baby that lays in your soul. Because if you don't feel this fire, then it's not a dream. Get back up. Can you hear me? I said get.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Back up! Because this life is not done with you. Your dream is not done with you. See, many of us believe that we don't have what it takes. You have multi-million dollar potential inside of you. And you don't need a dollar to obtain it. It's all inside of you. Some of you like me, I ain't had my daddy.
Starting point is 00:06:33 I'm from Chicago, South Side. I had my father in my life. Who's my grandfather is? My mom got pregnant with me at 17 years old The people in my life that was supposed to be in my life So I made some stupid decisions dropped out of high school homeless living in abandoned buildings eating out of trash can't I promise you if a speaker came I was like some of y'all once saying nothing But guess what happened? Guess what happened?
Starting point is 00:06:59 Yup one day I got a why I got married I had a son And everything changed for me that's why I'm asking you who do you love So when people ask me ET why you get up at 3 o'clock in the morning? Why are you putting videos up every day at the 3 o'clock I'm on Instagram. Number one, because I want to be the best had ever done it. Like, I honor my craft. I want Dr. Michael King to look at me and go,
Starting point is 00:07:28 that's it, kid. I want Malcolm X to look at me and go, that's it, kid. Just like you got the Hall of Fame in basketball, I want to be the Hall of Fame in speaking. I want all the greats to look at me and go, that's it right there. Number one, I'm competing against everybody else in the world.
Starting point is 00:07:43 I'm not mad at them, I'm not against them, but when you're number one, you don't have to negotiate with your check. I remember what I was like number 25 or something. They would be like, okay, you gotta fly here, you got to fly. Now I tell people how I fly. I tell people where I stay, where I don't stay. So number one in the world, what happened?
Starting point is 00:08:03 One day I woke up and was like I got to do this for my wife. Like, I don't know what happened, but she called me like, yo, E, I'm lost. I'm like, what you mean, we lost? We live in Lansing. She can't be lost. She's like I'm lost. I got a brain fault. Took her to the hospital and found out she had MS.
Starting point is 00:08:17 The doctor was like, look, this is the one thing we could tell you. Stress caused MS. I told my girl, you will never work again. My son, I didn't go to college. When you finish high school and go to Michigan State, I'm cashing you out. I found out I had a gift. I started thinking about what my mom need, what my sister's need, and a lot of y'all, you're selfish, flat out.
Starting point is 00:08:45 How many are you in this room? Some of y'all, you're good. You're going to make it to the league. You're tight work. That ain't all y'all. How many y'all, your mama really need need you to go to the league? Let me see your hand. Hands out.
Starting point is 00:08:58 I'm going to say it again. How many y'all need to move your mama out that neighborhood? And y'all need to put your mama in another neighborhood, and the league is how you're going to get there. Let me see your hand. So what I'm trying to tell you is, while you plan, it might be some cats in the league who really are going or who do come from privilege.
Starting point is 00:09:15 And you like thinking you them, I promise you, I ain't stupid. I ain't Tony Robbins. I don't come from where he comes from. I don't come from where Tiyosaki come from. I don't come from where Zed came from. My mama barely finished Dunbar. I'm from the south side of Chicago.
Starting point is 00:09:30 I ain't had no safety net. You're acting like if you don't make it to the NBA, you got like some second opportunity that's going to pay you a hundred meal. You're in the room right now, your mama got a safety net. Other than you making it to the league, you got another way where you're about to make a hundred meal. Let me see your hand real quick. Because that's what you're acting like.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Now if your parents got that, hey, you good. But some of you, your mama ain't got that. So when you hoof from now on, I don't want you to see basketball. I want you to see your mama getting out the hood. So every time you get your handle straight, your mama is that closer to doing what? Every time you get your character straight, you heard what the man said. He said if they got to choose between the two of y'all, they're not choosing the snotty nose dude who think he everything, who don't speak to people. You know, man, they always pick me.
Starting point is 00:10:34 I always ask, why y'all pick me and not the other speakers? They say, because you're easiest to work with. Because when you come, you don't talk down to nobody. You clean up behind yourself. He just said, I'm a grown man. They say you clean up behind yourself. You don't cause problems. Number one, this is not about basketball.
Starting point is 00:10:53 This is about who? Yourself and then who? Your family. So the days you don't feel like working out, it's easy. How do you get motivated? How you get pumped up? You think about Mama and that feeling on draft day. And which one is more important?
Starting point is 00:11:12 You get some rest when Mama coming to the draft. I'm just being real. Which one is more important? So somebody locking you down, You're trying to score and they're locking you down. Like in your mind you got to go, uh-oh, this ain't just about me getting locked down. This is about mama not having what? This mama not having what?
Starting point is 00:11:31 Food time. When coach go back over the stunt, when you come out, what you got to do? You got to kill. I just told you, this is how my man eats. This how my grandkids going to eat. He's doing his own personal thing. This is how we eat. This ain't no motivational presentation.
Starting point is 00:11:51 This is how my mama eat right now. This is how my wife never have to go to work again. This is how we live on the West Coast and on the East Coast. And I ain't no baller. And I ain't making millions of die. But my gift is making room for me. Every time I get on 3 o'clock in the morning, I'm killing them. Tony Robinson can't keep up.
Starting point is 00:12:09 He's a phenomenal speaker, but he ain't from the shy. You can't keep up. My motor! I'm killing them. Many of you listening to me right now, you have unfinished business. And you need to go back to that dream, back to that idea. you have a date with destiny, you have unfinished business, it's time for you to go back to the drawing board with a new perspective. It's your viewpoint, and watch this.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Your perspective actually shapes your language, and your language shapes your world. And so if you don't start thinking right, you're not going to talk right, and if you're not talking right, you're not going to experience the world that you see in your head. I don't know who God has called you to become, but what I can tell you is if you keep seeing it, the way you have seen it, you will never become it. Everybody wants next level. Everybody wants wealth and influence, and everybody wants to be this esoteric novelty. But listen to me, you will never experience any of this showing up in your next season with the same viewpoint. Instead of the path of least resistance, I started choosing the path of most. to prepare myself for the journey that was killing my way.
Starting point is 00:13:40 And you realize through hard work, you can outwork anybody. Now how bad ass they are. It starts with yourself, man. You gotta start diving into those things that you're afraid of. You don't gain confidence by going to a spot that makes you feel good. This could be a false reality. And the second life gives you that challenge, all you want to do is go back to what gave you confidence is that happy spot.
Starting point is 00:14:10 happy spot. Now, what gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write all my own, realizing I can't learn the way you learn. I can't, but I can't learn. What gives you confidence not being afraid is overcoming the fear. That's what gives me confidence. It's facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day. But facing them, and facing the face and pretty soon like this, you know what man? This is where is that? It's not in that comfort zone. It's in the discomfort zone.
Starting point is 00:14:51 It's where my confidence is getting built. That's where it's getting built. Happiness, peace, enlightenment. It's all up here, man. It's all up here. It's all up here. He's got to be going to go and face it. And that's the hard part.
Starting point is 00:15:12 The physical standard is not what they need to meet. It's a mental standard. you must meet in life. That's how I live my life. I now know that there is no cap on the human mind. There's no cap. We cap it ourselves.
Starting point is 00:15:35 When most people quit, I had just thought. And when we take that mindset and you're going to flip that around, that's what made me powerful and my body following. And so I said, I want to do this. I'm going to give myself a challenge
Starting point is 00:15:53 every single day until the fear goes away. And I feel like that's what more of us should be doing. I'm hearing that that's how you live your life. That's all it is, man. And it helps me feel so much more confident. When you overcome that fear of saying this doesn't have control over me anymore, it's like you can be at such more peace. A lot of us speak in hollow words.
Starting point is 00:16:15 I used to speak in hollow words. I don't do anymore. Everything that comes to our mouth has substance. It's real. We all have these feelings in our bodies, in our minds, and our souls. I act on mine. A lot of us who are afraid of something, we allow our minds to choose the path at least resistance so we go a different route. I'm afraid of something that's telling me you must do that.
Starting point is 00:16:41 Life is one big mind game and you're planning with yourself. You cannot lose perspective of where you've come in life. I'm trying to give people a different thought process of life where failure, hell, disappointment, discomfort, It's a great learning tool and many people don't understand that but it's these few moments in life that you have like for me I always talk about it Rocky won round 14 that one two minute and 13 second clip of Rocky getting up when Apollo knocked him down that one clip when I was going through a very bad time of my life I saw what I wanted to be. It wasn't a guy that won.
Starting point is 00:17:42 It wasn't a guy that won everything he did. It was a guy that kept getting up after being knocked down. So I realized if that two minutes and 13 seconds changed my life, saw what? I saw something that I needed to be in the world I was living in. Maybe my story would give someone to 2 minutes and 13 seconds they need to change their life. Everybody's got a story. We don't share it on social media.
Starting point is 00:18:13 We share our nice life on social media. We all have a dungeon. I'm just willing to talk about mine. Mental toughness isn't something that you sample. It's something that you live in every day. Whenever hardness comes, and you don't know what it is, it may be different for you than is for me, but you go back to your insecurities.
Starting point is 00:18:37 And then when you go back to insecurities, you then look for comfort within those insecurities. And we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad, when you were sick. We look for our wife or our husband. We look for comfort. It's in those moments. You must retrain your mind to think differently in hell.
Starting point is 00:19:01 The mental standard is you must know how far you've come. I'm in the room now and I know the hours and years and decades. I put into David Goggins. That's something, it's not on the wall. It's not a trophy on the wall. It's not a metal around your neck. I don't care how you perceive David Goggins because through my journey,
Starting point is 00:19:27 I figured out the one piece I was missing. I thought it was cars. I thought it was women. I thought it was money. I thought it was everything. The one piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself. Where I got my work ethic from was the hours I had to spend learning this.
Starting point is 00:19:47 when you sit down and you're not smart and you have a disability and you still want to be in the top of your class I didn't want to just get by when I realized that I can learn do hard work and I can beat the Val Victorian in school but I got put in 10 hours more
Starting point is 00:20:06 a day than he does you know what kind of strength comes from that when you're sitting down that guy that that Valiatorian study for an hour and you know I caught you I have the work ethic to catch you to catch you. That's where David Gagas got really invented. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty. And then they were full. And when you can go through that, I still have them in my storage unit, you go through these spiral notebooks of your life. And you realize this is how I learned. This is unbelievable. It wasn't until I got real sick. And my life got real quiet.
Starting point is 00:20:47 I went from running 205 miles and 39 hours to I couldn't get out of bed. Our life was taken from me. And that's when I realized. I hadn't taken time to think about what I'd done in my life. I'd done all these things, but there was no finish line.
Starting point is 00:21:03 I finished a race of life. Now I didn't even receive my mental. I'd go on. I get in the car and I'd go. When I started figuring out life that I was leaving so much in the tent once I realized, my God, man. I was this dumb, fat kid being bullied
Starting point is 00:21:19 And now I'm a 180-pound person lost 106 pounds in less than three months. Learn to read, learn to do this, learn to do that. I was like, I need more. I was fueling my mind with everything. I never took time to say, my God, you came from this hell and you're here. I had come 8,000 miles from where I started. But if you never know that, you're still in a $7 a month place. So it's that quiet place.
Starting point is 00:21:51 it's that place by yourself it's those hours and years and decades by yourself in the grip of life when life has you by the throat and choking you out and you're sitting there calm
Starting point is 00:22:05 because you're trying to figure it out you're not panicking you're not quitting you're not throwing a towel you're saying there's a way around this and when you figure it out when life has you gripped in advice and you can figure that out that's when you overcome.
Starting point is 00:22:23 That's when you overcome. The journey getting there was harder than going through it. You know? So that's the whole thing about life, man. It's that journey that makes you who you are. When I was working with my professional athletes, it required me to do a lot of traveling. And this story gets me every time.
Starting point is 00:22:57 So when people say, it didn't hurt. It still hurts. I was packing for a trip. My daughter walks into her room. She says, Daddy, why do you travel so much? Sweetheart, this is I provide for the family. This is how I take care of you and mom. This is how I put food on the table.
Starting point is 00:23:30 She looks at me and says, Daddy, if I eat less, will you stay home more? Now people would think in a fairy tale or most people were saying, I unpacked my suitcase. unpack my suitcase. I'm not going to take this trip. Let's go grab some ice cream or let's go out. I kept packing. Why? I had to send an example for her early of what it meant to him. And what you have to leave behind sometimes in order to pursue what's unique to you. And
Starting point is 00:24:12 I wanted her to understand this is who I am. And I want to send an example for you. I had a conversation with her later on to tell her why I did all those things. In the middle of the conversation, she stopped me. I understand. She saw the results. She saw how it brought us closer together. She understood my dedication to my craft and what it took to excel and what it took to be different. And what it took to stand by, unpopular decisions, knowing that every successful person that I've met,
Starting point is 00:25:09 every successful person that I know had to make those decisions over and over again. There are things that are going to have to take a backseat. You're going to have to leave a lot of things behind. The hardest thing with Kobe was getting him to stop. Yeah, okay, take a break. Rest. Yes. Take the day off.
Starting point is 00:25:37 That was the most challenging thing with him Because over all the years that he had his success It was about go go go And then when I came on I was to complete I said go I got to get you to stop His 3 a.m. workouts Yeah, crazy crazy you know having to keep the staple center open later because He wasn't happy the way he performed at that game and I would not leave till I I I
Starting point is 00:26:06 he would leave. Really? Yeah, so we would be in the arena sometimes two, three o'clock in the morning. Shut up. All the lights are turned off except on the court and we just keep going, we just keep going. What is the mindset of winning?
Starting point is 00:26:23 They both had that. So I look at it, I look at it three ways. So you have individuals that compete. You know a lot of people that compete. You know, we all know how to compete. Everybody knows how to compete. You don't forget how to compete.
Starting point is 00:26:39 We just decide not to compete. anymore. But a lot of people compete just to finish. Then there's individuals that win, but they only win one time. It's easy to win and then never win again. And then there's people that win and winning. You can't come back the same. Cannot come back the same. You have to come back different. You have to come back better. Winning wants you to be different. Winning requires you to do different things. Winning requires you to think in a different Winning speaks its own language. Winning has its own way of recognizing you. Winning wants you to write your own story.
Starting point is 00:27:26 Stop looking for steps. Those steps are infinite. Find your own path to winning. Because as the late great Kobe Bryant said, winning is everything. I heard a story one day about Muhammad Ali. And Muhammad Ali was this amazing boxer. And I'm pretty sure everyone knows who he is. He's supposed to know.
Starting point is 00:27:59 He's one of the greatest. He is the greatest of all the time. One of my favorite half of me. He had a fight in Johannesburg, Africa, with George Foreman. It went eight rounds. And for the first round, George Foreman beat him up pretty bad. He hit him with body blows. He was literally lifting Muhammad Ali off the beach.
Starting point is 00:28:22 ground with his blow but as the fight went on the crowd started to count Muhammad Ali out they started to believe that it wasn't possible for him to stay in his champion but Muhammad Ali had other plans he had other intentions around the eighth round when Muhammad Ali thought he was weak and he was getting ready to farm and he was tired A champion came out. A true champion came up. And he told himself,
Starting point is 00:29:04 I'm not going to lose this belt. I work too hard to lose this belt. And I want you guys to look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself, I work too hard to lose this battle of life. I came too far to quit now we all had those situations
Starting point is 00:29:32 where we had to get back up we had to dig down deep and find that warrior that lives inside of us all and we had to use that warrior to get back up can you hear me I said get
Starting point is 00:29:55 and all you people that have been disconnected from life and you don't know where you're going for, you're lost. You can't see the other side. Go back to the child that you used to be. Remember the greatness that you had inside of you. And we're going to pick that crown off the ground and we're going to pin it back on young hair today.
Starting point is 00:30:34 It's time for us to start living our dreams. It chases them with relentless effort. It's time for us to start being phenomenal. It's time for us to bring unity back into this earth. We're gonna do this together. We're gonna change the world. Not just work, we're gonna change the world. And we're gonna rise together.
Starting point is 00:31:06 We're chasing greatness. We're throwing average in the garbage can. That we're awakening the greatness that lies inside of us. inside of us. Because as I say all the time, we are all a walking million dollar check. But it's up to you to sign
Starting point is 00:31:28 the check if you want to cash. We will fight. We will claw together. If we all have special pieces that if we bring together, we can never be stopped. We're going to speak for the underdogs. We're going to speak for the people
Starting point is 00:31:49 who have no voice. It's time to live. It's time to live. It's time to get what we deserve. If you don't get up, when a count is at 9, you don't want it enough. It's time to stop listening
Starting point is 00:32:10 to the outdated version and living in the now version. Your story is your story. Your journey is your journey and it's always going to be different. Go to where there is no path. time and leave a trail. Let's be phenomenal.
Starting point is 00:32:37 One is okay, but a nation is unstoppable. Keep being inspirational. Keep being beautiful. Keep being driven. Keep fight for your dreams.

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