Motivation Daily by Motiversity - IT'S TIME TO FOCUS AND VALUE YOURSELF - Best Motivational Speech | Matthew McConaughey

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

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The link is in the description. Let me just ask you this. Mr. Risk taker, what's the bigger risk? Carry it on? Mike you're going? Or taking the deeper dive? What's better? Take eight big risk in life.

Sin once, miss the mark once, but get seven. Achieve seven. Seven out of eight. Or take a hundred risk. achieve eight of them. My hunch is that if there's a god, he's saying go for the hundred and get eight

rather than eight and get seven. If you're not taking enough risk to sin or miss the mark, to fail, what are you doing? Don't go back with even money. Come back with safe bets. You cannot afford not to.

I get the sense that feelings are one of these strange bets, emotions, investing ourselves, not holding a bit back, not putting one foot out, like putting it on the line opening up. Yeah. That feels like a retreat in kind,

but one that's plausibly deniable. When we just have one foot out, I didn't fully commit myself to this project, this relationship, this friendship, this self-transformation. And it means that if failure comes along, it doesn't hurt as much. But it also means that success is less likely,

and if success comes along, you know that you didn't really earn it. We have to define success for ourselves. And then we have to put in the work to maintain it. Take that daily tally. Tend our garden. Keep the things that are important to us in good shape. No, no, no.

Don't study the result. What was the person doing when they got there? And everybody who's achieved something great was some sort of outlaw. Some sort of hustler. Out of balance. Out of balance. Out of whack. Dark times. Oh, that's dream.

Still wakes up in the middle of the night. I'm glad they went a mouth guard because they'd have chipped all their teeth. That, good nightmare they were having about those things they did back then. I'm one of those. Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character. Let's carry on and trust and be ready to do the work to say, we're not going to just let that slide anymore. No, make a sacrifice today. Sacrifice a plastic ring today for a gold crown tomorrow.

Sacrifice something today for more freedom tomorrow. Sacrifice something today for a possible. healthier future for your kid. Be brave, take the hill, but first answer that question, what's my hill? Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul. 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. How do you come to think about that? I'm for it, the longevity. I'm for it, but in the pursuit of it, are we measuring quality of life along the way? 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 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 quality years quality time left in this life I also say that because while I'm not looking forward to it I'm not really afraid of death or dying. Not looking forward to it. Shaking my boots if I'm face to face with that great white. You know what I mean? I'm not looking forward to it.

But I see it as a, obviously it's inevitable. And obviously, I personally see it as hopefully a comma, you know, not a period. So tomorrow is not today's measurement when the misery is bad enough, right? these people don't have to the suffering consideration. It's a privilege, man. I'm trying to put food on the table right now. I'm paying my rent tonight. You want to talk to me about investing in my future?

And I say, and that's part of what faith and religion are for. To help those in misery hang on to a hope that will most likely not be served them in this life. To sell them belief and faith that they will be served in the next. And what if there is nothing there, man? What if there's nothing to hope for? What if there's no next? But either way, in misery here or without a heaven there,

not having any hope or faith in anything is a certain way to remain where you are forever. But if you can find something that you can keep going, something that no matter how small to look forward to and continually have faith in and chase, well, then your life here is going to be better now. Heaven or not. Let's go to the dream. Let's flip that script. I always have gone from nonfiction to say, let's make that the dream.

Just keep living. Art emulates life. Let's go to dreams. Let's go to poems, prayers. These are pursuits of an ideal beauty. These are in between the lines. This is in between the math. This is not academic.

This is not intellectual. These are ideals that we pursue. The beginner's mind that we have as a child before we know worse. And I don't want to be ignorant. I don't want to be foolishly optimistic. Let's look to those and believe that we can still make those real. I grew up only knowing sort of the courage of the persistence. You're resilient, endure, get up, dust yourself off, go.

The problem with that, the Achilles heel with that is if you get up and you have the courage to keep on going every time and get up and get up and dust yourself off, you make the same mistakes each time around because you never backed up to have what I've now learned and still learning is the courage to go. No, I'm going to let some people pass me in the race right now because I'm going to look at why I keep stepping that damn. same pothole and twist my ankle the same spot why i keep failing when i try to get that next spot in this relationship there is a unique sort of circle of hell that is reserved for when you keep on making the same mistake over and over again that you've done it you've had to pay the penance say that you're sorry and then arrive straight back at the same place yeah i think there's a hell in the mirror, then I think it can become a living hell.

Like I got that poem in their daymairs. I love that one. I do too. You know, nightmares suck, but at least you wake up. And they're over. It's the ones that stick with you when you wake up and go through your day that are right there. Those are the ones. That's the living hell. I think that's what you're talking about.

And you repeat offend enough. Word gets out. Circles gets out. People doubt you. On your approach, you're like, yeah, but don't do this for that. I mean, all of a sudden, you're going places, you've got to look over your shoulder. You got to see who's there that it didn't pay back. Who do I owe?

What bridges did I burn? What person did I betray to get where I am? That's a life. That's a living hell. In the modern world, you can move from city to city. At least you can, in some regard, leave your reputation behind. However, if you lose your reputation with yourself, if you no longer trust you. Yep. I don't keep my own word. I know that I'm not a trustworthy person. I keep making promises to myself and to other people and I keep on breaking them. I keep doing something that hurts other people or the same person. They don't trust me anymore. And, oh, I don't trust me anymore.

The rom-com time, that was definitely me doing the work I was doing and only being able to do the work I was doing and off of the rolls I was getting the rom-coms was eaten at me. Because I felt like I could Life is good, man I make good money Feel like I can roll out of bed And do one of these tomorrow morning Well that's cool I'm the I'm the go-to guy for this

I was countered by I had met Camilla Fall in Love She's now pregnant with her first child My life was extremely vital And I was alive Cried harder, laugh louder Felt more joy all those things

But my work was like All right And I was like Well I wish my work could be as challenging or as vital as my life. And I remember looking at the mirror going, we'll be glad right now. Appreciate that it's not the other way around.

But can I have my work challenge my lifestyle in this vitality? Yeah, if I do some dramas I want to do, well, those aren't coming. All right, if I can't do what I want to do, let me quit, do what I was doing. Now, that was, yeah, it was definitely courageous. I did honestly think I'd written myself a one-way ticket out of Hollywood. people close to me, basically almost everybody besides my wife was like, what is your major malfunction, little brother? You got it made?

Why are you throwing a jackknife in this stuff? You're tripping yourself running downhill, man. You did it. I had my wife and myself to remind myself for that 4 a.m. clarity that I had in tears when I was like, No, rolling the dice. I'm sticking with it. Yeah, man. I did think I wrote myself a ticket out of Hollywood. I did look at other vocations, become a teacher, a wildlife guide. I'm seriously, look at those things.

But over time, and it was about 20 months, it was gone long enough, had found anonymity enough, was not in your living room in a theater in a rom-com, you didn't seem on a beat shirtless. Where is he? Turning down the $14.5 million offer, maybe people go, oh shit, what's he up to? You don't just step out of Hollywood and enter, unless you turn that down because you've got a plan. You got somewhere you want to go. And I think that made me more attractive. There's a new novel idea. But that was, yeah, that risk took a, I think it's fair to say that took a fair amount of courage from me.

For a lot of people, their work feels more vital than their life. Yeah. Is that a shiny object mirage that they need to rid themselves off? If you can and you're willing to, yeah. Look, that's part of why I started writing. The script flipped on me five years ago. I was like, I was feeling like my work was more vital than my life. I felt like I was going through the motions more in my life,

but I was really getting major life experiences through my work. And so that was a challenge to myself, which led to the writing, which was a little. more direct experience, can I put a word down without, it's my script and without my performance on it, without music, without pictures. So that was an inward journey that I'm still on. Yes, confidence, identity, testing it out, and it can work. Confidence to go, I'm going to try and pull this off, maybe get away with it, maybe it won't work, pulling things off. And I have an inate ability for something that I believe I have the innate ability. And I learned to the reason behind

that instinct and how to, where's the right time? Timing. Oh, it'll work. I think right here. Who's the audience I'm talking to? Oh, yeah. I'm going to make a plan for that cell, if it's all sales, for that transaction or whatever. And bam, it hits and it lands like I wanted it to. Dachau. Damn it, was that deja vu. It happened. That's how I saw it. That, I get confidence from that. I don't think it's what the mystics meant when they were like, be disattached. I mean go embrace, but for highs and lows and pains and pleasures, understand that those outward things are not the things to be attached to for your own identity. It's got to be inward first. Enjoy those. Partake. But don't become attached to those for your measure.

without complacency trust that time is on your side what do you mean that? Yeah man I'm get a header behind it and I can get in a rush look and I know how to hustle and let's go the clock's ticking we're all behind all hands on deck we got to bust

ass no time for pause there's no sleep no nothing get the caffeine out let's go sometimes we've got to do that but that is usually because an unforeseen circumstance has happened that there's a crisis we got to deal with or we've procrastinated and I've put myself in that position. We got to cram. But it's not those two circumstances. We're going to watch ourselves getting ahead of time. And it's on your side. It's a little what I mean about the

living longer and living more quality. Time's on our side. And we're forced to think and feel, especially today with how fast things move. That more productivity, faster pace, more information, faster pace, it's better. We're ahead of time a lot. But time's still moving at the same speed. And they're not given more than 24 hours a day, even though me, like a lot of people, are looking for more.

There's not any more unless you just want to change your workday. And some people do. Me, I need my nine and a half hour of sleep. If I want to say I'm getting four hours of sleep and get five and a half miles more of a workday to be more productive, I would, but not to making that tradeoff. It's on our side.

And when we're feeling like, like we're dancing with time. I know I'm usually getting more done at the same pace. It's John Wooden, a great basketball coach for you. See, you're like, be quick, but don't be in a hurry. That was his note to his basketball players. It's like, be quick, but don't be in a hurry. You will miss things.

You know, it's the Lego set, man. And you sit there and you get in a rush, you don't read the directions. You get to the end and you've got 12 pieces left. You're like, shit. because you got in a hurry. You got ahead of time. Instead of just that feeling of them, I've checked out what I need to do,

and it's all adding up, and this thing's built right in the foundation, right, and boom, there's the last piece it fits. voila. It was with time. Time's on our side. It's not an enemy. The end.

Death is not the enemy. I do believe that part of, you know, not in a rush to get there, and we can stave it, we want to stave it off sometimes, and that it can be a screaming fight, and partially denial can help us get there. I understand that. But still, it's on our side.

It's going to happen. And since it's going to happen, and that's non-negotiable, might as well go, well, I'm not going to rush to try and make more of it than there is. I want to try and spend the time I got as well as I can produce, succeed, achieve, whatever those things are, but also at a pace that,

I'm me, that I like the dance to. I like giving the take. I like the reverb. I like the cause and effect of how things are happening at this pace. How are we orienting ourselves now since time speeding up so much faster with AI? I don't ask you this with AI. And I mean this is an objective question. With AI.

With all these podcasts, with all these wealth of information that people can get at all times, No one's listening to music anymore. They listen to everybody talk about this and reading up and this and they're finding out the answers in 10 seconds that were taking them 10 days to get before. Do people sound smarter to you? No. Me neither.

They don't sound dumber. I do think, so we were talking about if everything's significant, nothing significant at all, I do think that I talk to some people that feel like they're hyperly punching their information. Absolutely fucking great. just flushing out, but I'm going, dude, what was the theme there? Did you have a bass guitar in your band? You need a bass guitar or at least somebody on percussion, hold it down,

because I didn't hear the theme. I didn't hear the thread. It was digits. Where was the soul in that story? Which goes back to the quality with the quantity, the quantity of information, but can we have the soul in it? It's where, ah, I hear the rhyme. Ah, there's rhyme to those digits.

There's rhyme to those facts. Oh, I see how they add up. Oh, but what have you put them in? this order. Ah, they add up to another thing. Or actually, they may add up to the same den thing. Interesting. Now I've got a rhyme. Now there's a song. That happens when times on your side and you're looking

at it without complacency. Like start now. That doesn't mean times on my side. Yeah, dude. In Chile. When it happens, it'll happen. No. I'm like, wake up. Clock's ticking. It's on your side. Now just move with it.

Dance with it. Put some soul with the facts.