Motivation Daily by Motiversity - MOTIVERSITY - BEST OF 2020

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

MOTIVERSITY'S BEST SPEECHES OF 2020! These are some of our Best Motivational Speech Videos of the year! It's been a crazy year but we've been here every step of the way through it so we're taking a lo...ok back at our most epic inspirational speeches and we compiled them into one giant hour-long motivational speech. From everyone at Motiversity, the team, all of the speakers, and myself, thank you so much for all of your support this year!▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos Every Week: http://bit.ly/MotivationVids▶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 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. The hour is now for game changes to emerge. Be truthful to who you are. Life is so short. So it drives me nuts, but people say they don't have the time. We have 24 hours a day. I am much more valuable to my family and to my community because I was willing to let them go. Go through the door myself, teach myself, learn myself, condition myself, and then come back and get them.
Starting point is 00:01:12 You're either going to get healthier and wealthier or are you going to go bust? Your choice. Pursue what you really want with everything you... Brace yourself, steady your nerves, put your head down. and tackle whatever you face head on. I need you to believe in every possibility that you have and understand that it is not over for you. Let your work get your opportunity.
Starting point is 00:01:41 Let your work get your praise. Let your work open up doors. Let your work get people paying attention. Let your work get the whole world to notice. Stop thinking. Stop procrastinating and you got work. Goliath! There will be many giants in your life.
Starting point is 00:01:59 Whatever go you have, get up and run after it. Your brain is designed to keep you safe. Your soul, your intuition, your human spirit is designed to make you sore. That's not just a book in your hand, that's your sword, that's not just an idea, that's your sword, that's not just a dancing gift, that's your sword.
Starting point is 00:02:23 But what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process. You cannot give up because it what you see. You cannot give up. Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank. I'm a rise and I'm going to say that greatness is obtained by a man that never stop pushing. It's not easy to go through so many different circumstances, so many different challenges. It's not easy knowing that you may lose your home because you got laid off your job.
Starting point is 00:03:03 You gotta set the example. This is another obstacle. This obstacle cannot define me. It's not gonna cripple me. It's not gonna be responsible for me stepping away for the game that I love. You need to rise up and understand what success is all about. We gotta rise up. We gotta start.
Starting point is 00:03:21 We gotta finish. You should work so hard as you collapse in the bed and make. Then you fall a street, wake up and rise up your kid. Through all the bumps in the road and the stormy weather The heart of a champion you can never measure. You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams, but you can stop it from becoming a reality. You know, I have the same work like someone's trying to take it all away from you.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Architects, pioneers, innovators, students, athletes, lawyers, doctors. I'm sound of the alarm that a new mentality will emerge inside of you. I need you to believe in every possibility that you have, understand that it is not over for you. Now is the moment to start making your impact. When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. The fact that you're still alive and still on this earth, even though it's been challenging and rough, and sometimes you get discouraged and uninspired to keep going. God has a plan. Grow through what you go through. Don't be sad, be grateful. Don't do you.
Starting point is 00:04:48 well do. Don't complain, create. We've got this. As long as there's breath in my lungs, there's hope in our hearts and giving up is not an option. You and I and we, no matter what, your unique situation, your storm, your struggle, your trauma, your abuse, your wounds, your scars, no matter what they are, you are not a product of your past, you are not a product of your environment or your current unique situation, but you are always a product of how do we navigate through our storm. And so we're all waiting for perfect. It's an illusion that will never come to you and it's an excuse to never show up and play.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Your story is not meant to be your fortress. Your story is meant to be your fuel. You cannot win the war against the world if you can't win the war against your own mind. That dream is not going to wait and say take a breather. It's going to say come catch me. Catch me if you can. You got to block out all the noise around you that's going to tell you can't do it. Just believe that you can.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Tell yourself, I am more than my circumstances. I am more than my demons. I am great and I will give my gift to the word because this is what I was born to do. Go get it, son, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, son. If you're going to see it, if you're going to see breakthrough, then you are going to have to be okay with the process that is required. The one thing you need to do to go where you've never gone before, to have what you've never had before is to change the way you think. You're at the edge watching someone else live, wondering what it's going to be like when you jump without ever jumping.
Starting point is 00:06:43 And I'm just here to tell you jump. Believe that you can. Believe it's possible for you to have it. Don't lay on your back. Anything that comes your way, you've got to be prepared to accept the challenge and go through it. Stop thinking about the negative. Stop talking about the negative.
Starting point is 00:07:00 Ask yourself, what would amazing look like for you? As long as that heart is pumping blood. You're not dead yet. They haven't put rose petals on your box yet. Make sure every breath you take counts for something. Continue to pursue. And we all got a purpose. We're born to not just exist, but to experience life.
Starting point is 00:07:35 Every one of you in this room, you were born to leave your fingerprints on history. Courage. Courage is the key to life itself. It takes courage to act. Part of being hungry when you've been defeated. It takes courage to start over again. If I could do anything for you, I would walk you I would walk into your life and I would breathe courage into your life.
Starting point is 00:08:19 And courage is a result of confidence. You have never seen a courageous person that didn't have confidence. Human potential is not of any kind of measurable limit. It can go as far as you desire or as far as you have the courage to walk. How do you stand up to massive external pressure? courage and courage is something that comes from relationships you know it's external there are days we're going to bat ourselves there are days that storms are going to rise and we have to have people who say I got your back you need to do this we need
Starting point is 00:09:01 you the world needs this keep going courage is not the absence of fear courage is the judgment that what you want is more important in your fear It takes courage to achieve your goal, man. It takes courage to be successful. Patience and inner voice makes you unbeatable. We've lived a life dominated by doubt and fear. How do you step into bravery? Step.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Take it. No more would I live like this. It takes courage to fight back. If you don't have the courage to act, life will move on you. You don't work for nobody else. You work for your mama, you work for your sister, you work for your aunts, you work for your grandma, you work for your family, you work for your kid. You ain't making the other man rich. Reagan, he takes courage to be successful, it takes courage to win, it takes courage to be different.
Starting point is 00:10:20 A lot of people who are born in situations to survive, just, I'll never get out of this. So they won't. I say to people who say, well, I would like to have done some people who are, I would like to have done some of my job. and so on and so. Some of you could have done it. But I couldn't get out of here. Man, the bus runs every day. You can't take any more.
Starting point is 00:11:06 You've come to the end of yourself. All of this means one thing. You are a survivor. Your greatest weakness, the hurt, the pain, the betrayal, the feeling that you get
Starting point is 00:11:32 when you wake up and you are inundated with so much responsibility. feels like you can't breathe paralyzed by the pain of life that can only imagine there is a switch inside of every one of us
Starting point is 00:11:54 and at any moment in life you could turn that switch from surviving because ultimately survival is an illusion there's only two types of people in this world there's people who lose and there's people who win It's hard to be a loser.
Starting point is 00:12:17 It is hard to be a winner. Today I want to make a decision to flip the switch inside of you from surviving it's time to win. See, the human being is the highest order of creation on earth. And one thing I am crystal clear about
Starting point is 00:12:38 is that at any moment in your life you can come across a speech or a piece of information. and that that information is applied at revelation, it can forever alter the fabric of your existence. In the midst of our greatest storm, if you can hear my voice, you've survived. You survived the hurricane.
Starting point is 00:13:06 You survived the storm. You survived the trial. You survived the betrayal. You survived it all. In order to change your life, all you've got to do is flip this switch from surviving to winning. See, a survivor will sit and wallow in the pain of the past.
Starting point is 00:13:28 But a winner will build even when they are broken. Switch from weakness to winning, from hurting to conquering, from losing to champion. What I've learned is to always keep going. In times, particularly early in my career, where you just feels like this is the end. But what I've come to find out is that no matter what happens, The storm eventually ends. The storm does end, you want to make sure that you're ready. And so I've really learned to put one foot in front of the other.
Starting point is 00:14:49 A good battering down is eventually that storm passes. With the 13th pick in the 1996 NBA draft, the Charlotte Hornet select Covey Bryant High School in Pennsylvania. Before, every time I step on a basketball court, I'm going to put a strong effort out there on the floor. I'm not going to leave anything on the floor. Over the floor.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Kobe pops out, Kobe's gonna go. Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player. Everything, everything. And so when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft. And as I'm walking onto the court, who do I see? I see Kobe Bryant already working out. And I'm like, okay, it's kind of cool.
Starting point is 00:15:48 It's Kobe. So I worked out for a good hour, hour and a half. And when I came off after I was done, I sat down, and of course I still heard the ball bouncing. I look down, I'm like, these guys, this guy's still working out. He was working out. Like, it looks like he was in a dead sweat when I got here. And he's still going. And it's not like his moves are nonchalant or lazy.
Starting point is 00:16:08 He's doing like game moves, you know? I sit there and I unlace my shoes. I'm like, I want to see how long this goes. I sit there and watch. 25 minutes. And he got done. He's like, okay. I think I've seen enough.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Go play, you know. come back, get in the sauna, get ready for the game, that game he drops 40 on us. Okay? And after the game is over, I'm like, I have to ask this guy. Like, I have to understand, like, why he works like that. Right. So after the game is, I'm like, hey, Kobe, like, why were you in the gym for so long? He's like, because I saw you come in.
Starting point is 00:16:42 And I wanted you to know that it doesn't matter how hard you work, that I'm willing to work harder than you. Wow. And he's like, there's nothing wrong with that. Like, I'm not saying, I dislike you as a person. You just, you inspire me to be better. Right. And it was the first time I started to see this level of competitiveness where I said, I need to start doing more. Wow. Well, I mean, here's the thing. It's like, you know, it's competitiveness, yes, but it's a simple theory or idea to live life by it. If you're going to do something, do it to the best of your ability. No matter what it is. It's a simple idea. It's a simple idea. It's a simple idea. It's a You're gonna do it do it to the best of your ability.
Starting point is 00:17:21 If you love what you do and it's making you happy, all the hard work and perseverance will pay off I once had a guidance counselor tell me that I shouldn't play basketball that it would never amount to anything for me. His negativity towards me made me strong. You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams, but you can stop it from becoming your reality. Your dreams are up to you. I encourage you. I encourage you to always be curious, always seek out things you love, and always work hard what you find.
Starting point is 00:18:03 It drives me crazy when people say that they don't have enough time to go to the gym for 45 minutes a day and work out. Or do something for 45 minutes to an hour a day to improve. If it is physically improved or if it is mentally to improve. Imagine you read one hour a day. about history, how much you will learn after 365 hours in one year. Think about if you study about the history of musicians, of composers, how much you would know. Imagine if you will work on the business and some business that you want to develop every day for an hour. Imagine how further along you will go and get.
Starting point is 00:19:01 So it drives me nuts because we have, when people say, We don't have the time. We have 24 hours a day. We sleep six hours a day. So it gives you still 18 hours. There's someone shaking the head out here in front to say probably, I don't sleep six hours, I sleep eight hours, right?
Starting point is 00:19:22 But just sleep faster. So we have 18 hours a day. The average person works around 8 to 10 hours. So let's assume it's 10 hours. So we have 8 hours left. Then you travel around an hour a day, maybe two hours a day. So now you have still six hours left. So what do you do with this six hours?
Starting point is 00:19:48 What do we do with the six hours? Then we eat a little bit, then we schmooze a little bit, talk a little bit to people and all that stuff. But you can see how much time there is available if you organize your day. So you got to work hard. I mean, let me tell you something. I went to America. I went to college. I went and worked out five hours a day. And I was working on construction. Because in those days in bodybuilding, there was no money. I didn't have the money
Starting point is 00:20:31 for food supplements or anything. So I had to go to work. So I worked on construction. I went to college. I worked out in the gym and at night from 8 o'clock at night to 12 midnight. I went to acting class four times a week. So I did all of that. There was not one single minute that I wasted. And this is why I'm standing here today. What would you like to do? If you don't like what you're doing and you don't like where you are and you don't like your relationships and you don't like X, Y or Z, what do you want? What do you like? And then you've got to be able to add passion to it to activate that thing and make that dream a reality. Are you fully aware of the bridges that are required to cross over to make your dream a reality?
Starting point is 00:21:34 I think a lot of people, they have this vision in their head, this dream, but they don't know how to make it a reality. We navigate through life and we keep missing the bridges to bridge the gap between dream and reality. So do you know what is required of you? Are you aware of what is required of you to make happen what you see you? only in your head. I want to give you another quote. Almost every man waste part of his life and attempts to display qualities which he does not possess. I want you to ask yourself the question, are you the person that is projecting a different you to the world on social media, on your websites, in your meetings? Are you projecting a different
Starting point is 00:22:17 you? Are you the same person in private? And I know that there are multiple versions of yourself or even I have multiple versions of me, but are they consistent? I want to ask you the question, are you aware of your why? Are you aware of your why? So now that you've discovered, okay, I'm not doing what I want to do, and I need to learn how to do what I want to do, and I need to figure out the bridge, to bridge the gap between the dream and the reality, do you know why you want to do what you actually want to do?
Starting point is 00:22:46 What is your why? Because if the why is great enough, if you're aware of that why, that you can begin to back that why up with work ethic. Every why's got to be backed up by work. You want to be committed. You want to be consistent. You want to be creative. You want to be purposeful.
Starting point is 00:23:08 You want to be reflective. And you want to be grateful. These are just a few things that you want to be as you are moving forward in your self-awareness. You've identified your weaknesses. You will identify that there is a, there is a, gap between who you are, what you want, and where you want to be. There's a massive gap. Awareness and the acceptance of that awareness is the bridge to the future.
Starting point is 00:23:38 This is going to connect you to your destiny tribe. Your destiny tribe comes with multiple types of people. What would you like to do? What do you believe you've been destined to do? What talents, skills, giftings, and Do you possess to support your desire to do it? What are your motives for wanting to do it? Why do you want to become what you are looking to become? What steps are you taking to become and to live the life? To make the dream a reality? When you have awareness and you have your actions, but you have no accountability, you set yourself up for a great fall. Let me ask you a question. What price are you willing to pay to make the dream? a reality how aware are you are you aware of the price that you are willing to pay
Starting point is 00:24:34 relationally emotionally emotionally physically mentally spiritually there is a price to pay to manifest a dream you know two of the greatest moments in an individual's life is the day they were born and the day that they realized why they were born are you aware of your why why Why are you here? What are you doing? Who are you connected to? Your people? Your places. Your purpose. Life is so short. Life only has only a little time. Although it will continue to go on, but you cannot hold on and think that every day is promised to you. We have all experienced great losses. our life. We have all felt that pain of losing a loved one, someone that we cared about,
Starting point is 00:25:57 but yet we're still here. And now we must go on. But what is the example that we're going to leave? What kind of leadership and what kind of leadership qualities do we have? How do we go on? How do we lead the next generation? Hate is not going to make it work. Being afraid. To be truthful to who you are will only limit who you truly are inside. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Don't let anyone take away who you are and how true you are and what you matter in this world to so many other people. Don't be afraid to be honest. Don't be afraid to be truthful.
Starting point is 00:26:59 Don't be afraid to be different. Even being different can be difficult to a lot of people. But I guarantee you this. There's nobody in the world that can do you. When the time comes, what would you leave behind? What legacy will be left behind? To remind others of your greatness, of your losses, of your victories, of your victories. of your sorrows. This is a short life that we all have. And it's not easy. It's not easy
Starting point is 00:28:08 living it every day. It's not easy to go through so many different circumstances, so many different challenges. It's not easy getting that pink slip knowing that this may be your last day on your job. easy knowing that you may lose your home because you got laid off your job. This type of pain and these different circumstances many people are always going to come back and say well that's life. We cannot blame life. It is not life that makes these challenges what they are today. It is the person And purpose never lies.
Starting point is 00:29:17 It will always tell you the truth. But why you exist in this world right now, I need you to hold on. I need you to hold on strong and don't give up. I need you to believe in every possibility that you have and understand that it is not over for you. I need you to understand life is always going to be good.
Starting point is 00:29:46 But always keep in mind, sooner or later, we all got to punch that clock. So carry on and don't give up and don't give in and do the best that you can to have the right attitude to make your existence matter. To be broken. What it feels like to be homeless. What it feels like to be ignored. You get into a place where you feel like nobody needs you. Nobody believes you. What it feels like for people to tell you to write the book.
Starting point is 00:31:01 Watch the course. And then when you do it, nobody invest in it. The hour is now for game changes to emerge for the forgotten, for the rejected, for the ignored. To come out of the ashes and into the light, obscurity, and into victory. Everything that you have in you. The hour is now. I am coming for the throne. I am coming for every room that you locked me out of.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Every realm that I step into, I will dominate. I am determined to win, no matter what season I'm in, when you counted me out, when you rejected me, when you overlooked me, when you ignored me, I waited painfully in obscurity for the hour. opportunity to take the throne. Your replacement. Your rejection has forged
Starting point is 00:32:07 a new fire inside of me. Man, I'm climbing the ladder. I'm bringing my team. I'm coming for magazines and movie screens. Billboard and awards, movie scores and labels. I'm signing checks and contracts on every table. I'm no longer stuck in the basement.
Starting point is 00:32:29 Stuck in the gutter, I'm leaving the casket. You saved me vacant, you will hear my feet walk in the pavement. No more complacent, driven, persistent, and relentless are all an understatement. Who am I? I'm sorry, not sorry. I am unapologetically your replacement. I have worked while you have slept. I have learned while you have partied.
Starting point is 00:32:59 have saved while you have spit and I will live like you dream. I am relentless. I am resilient. I will not back down. I will not surrender. I am now an agent of change and transformation. I am your replacement. Every room that I walk in, I would change the game.
Starting point is 00:33:22 I'm influencing neighborhoods and towns, startups and corporations from the forgotten about hoods. to the nations. I'm coming to reconstruct and resurrect broken foundations, leaving everybody that rejected me out of the equation. The marathon continues. The lomb of mentality has left a lot. Shout out to the NBA legend. Toby and your daughter, Gigi Bledso, I cry. Aim changer. Remember the time when you wanted more. remember the time when there were people in your life
Starting point is 00:34:39 that did not believe in you remember the time when you honestly gave up on the possibilities of the uniqueness that you had inside remember that was a time that you complained so much but yet did so little
Starting point is 00:35:01 that comes to a point in your life that you must recognize that there's a little bit more that has to be done than just complaining about it. You have to realize that you don't have any other opportunities waiting for you
Starting point is 00:35:23 if you're not willing to work for the first opportunity that's been given to you. You don't have a lot of time left. So there's no reason to complain. You're not even in the position to complain. You have to figure out that there has to be another
Starting point is 00:35:43 idea about you and you have to understand that there has to be something even greater and more challenging waiting for you and if you're not willing to step outside of your comfort zone if you're not willing to understand the principles and the possibilities that you have within yourself then everything that you are thriving for everything that you are hungry for will soon come to an end now i'm not here to preach to you about this. I'm here to let you know that there are things that are going on around you right now are far greater than you're complaining.
Starting point is 00:36:31 You complaining about so much, but yet you show no action. You can trade places with someone right now. And the person that you're trading places with may have it just a little bit tougher than you have it going on in your life right now. So many people are suffering from so many things in this world at this moment. But yet you're complaining. So many people in this world right now wish they could trade places with you. But yet you're still complaining.
Starting point is 00:37:16 You don't have that right to just give up. You don't have that right to just throw in the towel and say that it's over for you. Ladies and gentlemen, you got to understand that the reason that you are existing in this world right now is because you have things that must be done and only certain people are qualified to take it to the level that it needs to be taken to. For there should never be a limitation to wherever it is that you are seeking and how far you are willing to travel and how far you are willing to go. Sometimes people tend to get a little lazy
Starting point is 00:38:01 Sometimes people like to put themselves in this little bitty box And just say that they are okay with where they are There can never just be an okay to anything when it comes to that life There should never just be a complacent mindset How do we evolve? How do you evolve? How do you grow? One thing about success, there are going to be many struggles.
Starting point is 00:38:37 There are going to be many challenges. And there are going to be a lot of things that you may not even understand. But you got to go back to where it started. Remember when you want it more. Because you cannot satisfy your hunger with negative energy. Being negative doesn't help you to grow. Being doubtful doesn't give you the power that you need. You have to come to a point in your life that you must realize that there are things that are going on that is testing you.
Starting point is 00:39:28 And maybe you may be in a position where you feel that you are broken or you feel it that you are going to be broken. When I'm here to let you know, ladies and gentlemen, that you are built to last. I'm here to let you know that you don't have your right to complain anymore I'm here to let you know that you got to keep on living and living on strong to take a trip to your local hospital and if you have an opportunity to walk down those corridors and witness so many different people different age groups different ethnicities
Starting point is 00:40:22 and each one of these individuals are fighting something. They're dealing with some type of sickness. And some of these sicknesses they may not be able to recover from. I dare you to walk down a neighborhood where there are many people that are homeless and have no place to go, no food to eat,
Starting point is 00:40:48 barely even have clothes on their backs. I dare you to realize that maybe you just don't have it so bad after all maybe it's time for you to realize and recognize that your troubles are not that bad maybe it's time that you realize
Starting point is 00:41:12 that you need to get away from the drama that's in your life maybe it's time for you to stop chasing misery and start chasing your dreams reconnect with your soul because this is not the time for you to be wasting, putting yourself back, instead of pushing yourself forward.
Starting point is 00:41:38 Ladies and gentlemen, you have so much, so much to offer, so much to give, so much to do. But doing it and sitting around, waiting for it to happen,
Starting point is 00:42:00 it's just going to stay in neutral. You have to electrify the desire that you have that you once had. So the next time you feel like complaining, you feel like worrying, and you're so concerned about other things that doesn't necessarily concern you. Ask yourself, is it making you better? Is it taking you higher? Are you going further? Or are you just being complacent?
Starting point is 00:42:40 Complacent and complaining and worrying and doing things that are not better for you? Are you going to realize that maybe just going up that mountain does take a little bit more work than just having something handed to you? Are you going to be that person that realized, that if and when you get to the top of the mountain, and don't just stop there.
Starting point is 00:43:08 You got to figure out another way to go even higher. You have to electrify and get all the things that are necessary within you to start doing the things that you need to do, so when the time comes, you can kick down that door and move towards the possibilities of being the best of who you really are. Lose yourself. And the things that's not going to give you, the strength and the capacity of understanding that you matter for something.
Starting point is 00:43:47 Don't lose yourself in fear. Don't lose yourself in doubt. Dare yourself to be better. Dare yourself to be unique. Dare yourself to be the best possibility that the world has yet to see. Whatever industry you pick, if you outwork everybody, if you try to be a little smarter than everybody, If you try to be a better salesperson than everybody, if you try to be better prepared than everybody,
Starting point is 00:44:31 you've got your best chance because if you don't do it and somebody else does, you know, I have the same work like someone's trying to take it all away from you. I actually work like someone's spending 24 hours, working 24 hours to take it all away from you. And that's kind of the way I look at it. What would you say is the number one reason why people fail? Lack of brains, lack of effort. Lack of brains, lack of effort. Yeah, they don't do the work.
Starting point is 00:44:56 They don't learn, you know. When you walk in the room, when you start a business and you start to talk about somebody, you're never in a vacuum with no competition, you know, unless you're just extremely lucky. And if there's going to be competition, that means somebody else knows your business as well as you do when you get started. And if you walk into a competitive environment and they still know more about the business than you do and more about your customers, you're going to lose. But most people don't consider that. They don't do the work. They don't learn more about their industry.
Starting point is 00:45:24 They don't know even about their business. I mean, and so you've got to put in the effort to know more about your industry than anybody else. And that's the brains part and that's the effort part as well. Because look, if you're competing with me, you better know what you're doing, otherwise I'm going to kick your up. You know, and you're not going to outwork me. And so, you know, the combination is usually what kills businesses early on more than anything. You could within a five, ten minute interview say, this dude's not going to make it as an entrepreneur. Yeah, I mean, I can typically tell, right?
Starting point is 00:45:55 I can tell by their passion, I can tell by their focus, I can tell by their preparation. You know, there's a whole realm of things in any business. Here's the business you're in, and here's a thousand things that influence whether or not you're going to be successful. You know, through my experience in businesses, I can put myself in his position and say, okay, here are 900 of the thousand things he has to be aware of and then go through an ask. and by how many of those or her issues they've been able to address already, that kind of gives me a sense of how hard they're willing to work. And I can tell by the questions they ask me, so all I have to do is say, okay, what do you want to know?
Starting point is 00:46:34 And, you know, when they start saying, what should I do? They ask you. Yeah, and that's fine, right? And I want them to ask questions, but, you know, people like to say, you know, the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask, and that's not right, right? Because the questions you ask, tell me, tell whoever, more about you than anything else you do.
Starting point is 00:46:51 because in particular tells me about your preparation. If you ask me questions about just basic things that you should have known and you should have down to a science, that's going to disqualify you almost more than anything. If you're not always learning, to this minute, if I'm not continuously learning, if I'm not just absorbing as much as I can absorb, someone else is going to kick my ass.
Starting point is 00:47:17 So you talk about paranoia. The greatest source of your paranoia should be knowledge. If someone else knows more than you do, And if you're not learning, if you don't know how to learn, if you don't know how to learn, if you don't have a thirst for learning and acquiring information, you're S-O-L. Do you think there needs to be a healthy level of paranoia? Oh, absolutely. There needs to be.
Starting point is 00:47:39 Oh, yeah. I mean, I always say, you know, for every one of my businesses, I say, what would I do to kick my own ass? You right? So whatever business you have, there's somebody trying to put you out of business. There's somebody trying to take a bite out of your business. And it's better for you to figure out how they're going to do it rather than they do it. And so, yeah, that's being paranoid. And so you have to be paranoid.
Starting point is 00:47:58 You have to anticipate other people's next moves. And you can't ever downplay the competition. I was at a business plan competition this morning at a college. And they were kind of being dismissive of the competition. And so you can't ever do that. You know, they're out there trying to take you down and they're not just going to sit still. And if you're good, really, really good,
Starting point is 00:48:18 you're going to inspire them to work even harder, faster, better. And so you have to be, you know, very self-aware of what you're good at. and what other people are good at and you know a healthy dose of paranoia makes a bit different at me is very helpful I don't belong in this room I remember the videos had already been out my numbers were great and I would come in rooms and go Or like that room like I go to a high school like boom I go to a youth detention center boom I go to a prison boom I come to corporate and go I don't know if I belong in here Everybody in the room don't look like me
Starting point is 00:48:56 They don't come from where I come from. I don't know if I belong here. And I'll never forget. I had a conversation with Les Brown. Les Brown had called me to Orlando. We sat in the hotel and I left and I started talking to Les. And I started naming like, yo, you, Les Brown, this person, number one in the world. He said, don't you ever say that again.
Starting point is 00:49:15 I said, don't say what. He said you're the best in the world right now. I said, what? He said you're the best in the world right now. There's nobody as good as you in the world. You're the best right now. The only reason you're not the best right now is because you don't believe you the best now. And when you walk out this room, I want you to go into the middle.
Starting point is 00:49:31 I'm the best right now. He said before you even become number one, start to proclaim it and say it long before happen, say I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world. And when I was number 20, I started saying I'm the number one motivational speaking in the world. And I went to the computer and the world said exactly what I said, that Eric Thomas is number one in the world. I spoke it, the world heard it, and it activated. Your problem is that you don't believe you belong here. Your problem is that you don't think you should be sitting down here.
Starting point is 00:50:08 So listen to me. There are those of you saying, I want to be a millionaire. I want to be the best of this company, right? But your value system says you believe in sleep more than you believe in grinding. That you're spending more money than you're making. Why? Because you're a consumer. But you're reading all the books and you're saying everything the books will think.
Starting point is 00:50:24 But those books are not in alignment with your value. And if you're going to go to the next level, your values are going to have to change. When I believed my voice was needed in this world, when I believed that I needed to be on the stage, not for myself, but to speak to a group of people who come from where I come from, a working class, who don't know what it's like to make millions of millions of dollars, who don't understand what wealth looks like, that I needed to come in the room with a single parent mother, With a father not in my life, being homeless in a high school dropout. Only somebody who comes from where you come from can tell you you belong.
Starting point is 00:51:08 And I had to get my butt on stage because there's some folks that Les Brown can't reach. There's some folks that Tony Robbins can't read. There's some folks that only I can reach. And so I need to be on the stage with them doing what I was called to do. But what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process. You cannot give up because it ain't what you see. You cannot give up. Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank.
Starting point is 00:51:39 When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. Some of y'all have been worshiped since you was in high school, so you don't really know how to grind. Like you talk grind. Like I love it. Like I go into the wave room and y'all play like Pock. Y'all playing Biggie. Like y'all all in it. You like you like pop, but you don't have a sphere of pop.
Starting point is 00:52:09 You like love pop. You like listening to pot. You like listen to Biggie. You like to talk about the grind, but you don't really know what the grind's like. I know what the grind is like. I was homeless. I ain't out of trash, can. Now, go on the internet right now.
Starting point is 00:52:23 I'm one of the number one speakers in the world. I started from the bottom. Like you like listening to it and see, started from the bottom. What's your bottom? What is your bottom when you've been worship since middle school? tall your whole life, big your whole life. They worship you so much now that you think it's about you. You don't even know what the grind look like. I'm from Detroit, homeless. Mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old. High school dropout. Took me 12 years to get a four-year
Starting point is 00:52:50 degree. I'm coming now. It's in view. You finally made it to the big leagues. And now you want to chill? Now you got the big head. Now you can't grind. You hear now. You hear now. You finally made it. And this is where you break up. This is where you start chilling. This is where you get comfortable. You made it now. You made it now.
Starting point is 00:53:13 You in the big leagues now. They're watching you now. This is where you make it permanent. Yeah, I saw it. I saw it perfect, perfect. Nope. Practice don't make perfect. Practice make permanence.
Starting point is 00:53:26 This permanent, y'all. This is permanent. You can go wherever you want to go from here. It does not take talent. You don't have to be talented, right? You don't have to be gifted. You don't have to be the quickest, the strongest. You don't have to be the most intelligent to get to where I am.
Starting point is 00:53:47 That's what you gotta do. You just gotta grind though. You gotta outgrind. So many of you heard me say this. Your father, listen to me, might own a company. Your mama might be a millionaire. You might come from privilege. Your daddy might hook you up with a car.
Starting point is 00:54:01 He might know people, he might be able to get you a job, but you will not outwork me. And what you have to decide in your position, in the NCAA, you have to make a decision that nobody in this league in your position will outwork you. I will walk away with stuff I never heard before, books I've never read before, audios that I've never seen before, going to conferences that I've never gone hanging out with people that I've never hung out with before. This is nothing, God, this is just a dessert. There are those of you with phones and every new phone that comes out you get it. Every upgrade you get it. Every piece of software you get it. You are upgrading your technology and you've not upgraded yourself.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Listen to me closely. When you get to the point where enough is enough, when you get to the point where it hurt real bad, when you get to the point you can't take it no more. When you get to that point, the doors start opening. Opportunity start happening. Listen to me very closely. It's our dream. Nobody's going to see it like you do it.
Starting point is 00:55:05 It's your dream. Nobody's going to feel it like you feel it. It's your dream. Nobody's going to be as dedicated to it as you are. It's your dream and they don't have to understand and they don't have to like it and they don't have to do it. It doesn't make a difference. It's your dream.
Starting point is 00:55:20 And you, my friend, have been given the task to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you are called to do. Strategy, put a mentality that must be tapped into. A student is resilient. A student is disciplined. It is only through discipline that you will experience the freedom. A student never surrenders. See, the strategy is the plan.
Starting point is 00:56:20 The strategy, the game plan, the plan of action, the recipe, the how must be studied before the first step is taken. I am convinced that so many of us lose because of what we were. are not willing to study. We must grow a discipline to deliberately investigate what we are getting ready to enter into. We must be calculated as we enter into new seasons, into new relationships. This is the road to becoming a warrior, experienced, skilled, and calculated soldier. A fighter. A game changer. Somebody who refuses to stay down. This is somebody who is set apart from those who operate in the realm of normalcy. This is somebody who is above and beyond.
Starting point is 00:57:15 We got a bit of a work ethic to go after it. A student is a disciple and a disciple is disciplined. Discipline to achieve the spirit of the warrior. They are perfectly positioned for victory daily. Discipline is an invitation out of normalcy. A man who studies is a man who is a man who. who was allergic to you are a warrior and you don't even know it. To know the difference between men.
Starting point is 00:58:14 I'm on government's assistance and I run out of money and I had to buy pamper's for Jilani and I had $11.42 in the bank and I remember wrapping my son in a towel for two days. I remember the second day like you said I had my hand on Jolani's stomach and I said, don't worry baby. me will never be this broke or broken again. And that day, what shifted for me was I was willing, and I don't know if this is going to sound crazy, I was willing to completely die to any form of me that I had been so that I can birth the woman that I was becoming. The reason why a lot of people won't become who they want is because they're too attached to who they've been.
Starting point is 00:59:14 And you hear it all the time when people say, I've always been this way. Okay, well, if that's working for you, keep doing that. I knew it wasn't working for me any longer. I had hit my version of rock bottom. So I was willing to let go of everything and everybody. See, another reason why people won't get there is because the doorway is for you to fit through. You're trying to carry everybody else through because you're trying to be rescue 9-1-1, and you got to rescue you first.
Starting point is 00:59:49 I am much more valuable to my family and to my community because I was willing to let them go. Go through the door myself, teach myself, learn myself, condition myself, and then come back and get them. I'm much more valuable to them now. But I had to go through a window time of 10 years of judgment. You leaving us, hanging out with white people all the time, you're going to these crazy. We don't know what you're I had to be willing to to allow my conviction to make me inconvenienced See we want to grow but we want to stay liked by everybody I was willing to be my own rescue at the risk of your approval
Starting point is 01:00:30 Most of us aren't like that Facebook is example. We want to be liked well I woke up and I like myself today so your like is extra My job is the like me first I was willing to say every day Lisa you like you Lisa, are you proud of you? Lisa, are you playing full out every day before I checked in with anybody else? I was willing to inconvenience my entire life. My entire life. I was willing to disrupt my entire life to buy my future, to buy my possibility to give my dream a chance.
Starting point is 01:01:02 See, we're not supposed to tuck our dreams in on the pillow when we get up in the morning. We're not supposed to leave them at home. We can go and fulfill somebody else's dream. We're not supposed to do that. supposed to do that. That's not what we're wired to do. That's not who we are. Your human spirit doesn't care about the economy. The human spirit doesn't care that my son's father went to prison. The human spirit doesn't care what's happened to your family. The human spirit doesn't care about the past. You may have been molested or your family may have been
Starting point is 01:01:30 broke or you may have been betrayed or you may have a divorce. Your human spirit doesn't care about any of that. Your human spirit simply says, what's our command for tomorrow? What do you want to create. It's not keeping score. Your brain is keeping score because your brain is designed to keep you safe. Your soul, your intuition, your human spirit is designed to make you sore. When you get to the edge, your brain will always tell you to step back. It's always going to tell you to step back because you can fall. Always, it's going to tell you step back. Because before you failed, the last time you did this, you saw someone else fail, you could hurt, you could hurt, you be off work. It's going to tell you it's designed to keep you safe. So you have to be willing
Starting point is 01:02:19 to play between your brain and your soul. And on some days, you've got to just listen to your soul. And you've got to say, I'm going to leap. I'm going to get to the edge. Most people are at the edge. And you're standing at the edge and you're watching everyone else fly. That's pit my ride, watch my crib, all this stuff. You know, watching people's lives on Facebook. You're at the edge, watching someone else live, wondering what it's going to be like when you jump without ever jumping and I'm just here to tell you jump because only three things can happen. You're either going to jump and fly or you're going to jump and fall on something soft. Are you going to fall down hard?
Starting point is 01:02:56 Either way you're going to get back up. You already know you got what it takes to get back up. Your greatest fear is not that you will fall. The greatest fears that you will live a full life and never fly. That you never leaked. You're not afraid of dying. You're afraid of dying before the world sees who you really are. before they really get your fingerprint,
Starting point is 01:03:17 before they really feel your breath, before they really get your contribution, if they really feel you, that's what you don't want to happen. You don't want to leave this place without us knowing you were here. All I'm doing is giving my dream a chance. And I'm not extraordinary.
Starting point is 01:03:34 You don't get off the hook. You don't get to be a lot off the hook. I'm an ordinary woman who chooses every day to make one more extraordinary decision. The reason I wrote Rich Dad, Poor Dad, was because I knew this time was coming. And we have, as a world, I've never been here before. And so is it a spooky time? Damn yet.
Starting point is 01:04:01 It is probably the most dangerous time ever, ever, ever, ever. There's nothing to compare it to because there's never been a world economy before. For example, you know, a hundred years ago, if there was a stock market crash in England, didn't affect anybody. But now the U.S. market goes down, the world goes down. So plus with social media and all this we're doing now and so we've never been here before. And, you know, I'm excited about it because I make more money in crashes than I do when they go up. So, but for the average person, they'll get wiped out.
Starting point is 01:04:38 I'm afraid at the worst. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we're heading for a global depression. How does this play out for the average worker, Robert, for the small business owner? I mean, what does the next three months look like? Because it doesn't look pretty. I mean, people are already being laid off, made redundant. Businesses are, there's no cash flow in most of these businesses. How does that play out? Well, let me give one more step, just to give you the size of it, okay?
Starting point is 01:05:04 The national debt for World War II is $25 billion. Every day today, every day they're printing $125 billion. Every single day, that's like five World War II. per day, they're printing so much money to keep this boat. Think of a hot air balloon with a tear in it. And they're doing desperately trying to fix this tear, but no matter how hard they try, the tear has gone beyond. It's coming down. So in financial terms, it's called our debt to deep GDP has now gone from 60 to 905, it's going to 120. We're bankrupt. And they're going to print more and more money, which means savers or losers, just as I predicted. Your money is going to be one.
Starting point is 01:05:49 worthless in a few years. So my message is the same as some of your other guests. This is metamorphosis type. Financial education in Rich Dad's terms is really financial transformation. And the definition of metamorphosis is very important. Metamorphosis, the definition is the evolution or the transformation from an immature form to an adult form. An immature form.
Starting point is 01:06:19 to an adult form. Metamorphosis is the same as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. And Fuller always said there's nothing to predict a butterfly inside a caterpillar. So everybody listening right now, if you're struggling financially, just think of yourself as a little caterpillar.
Starting point is 01:06:37 And this crisis is your cocoon. The question is, what do you emerge as? Do you emerge as a victim? You know, the world did that to me and the capitalists are crook and rich are bastards and all this stuff? Or do you say, oh, this is the best thing that ever happened to me. The same as my health. I am ground zero for the coronavirus.
Starting point is 01:07:01 All that it does is inspire me to get healthier. You're either going to get healthier and wealthier or are you going to go bust? Your choice. It sits between your ears, your heart, your body, your mind, your spirit, your attitude. This could be the best thing. that ever happened to you, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, if you turn out to a butterfly or somebody will step on you like a little worm.
Starting point is 01:07:27 Your choice. Some of you have been abandoned. Your greatest opponent is an enemy you cannot see, but you can feel. You can feel that abandonment. You can feel that agony, that anguish. You can feel that anger. You can feel the confusion. You can feel the laziness, the deceitfulness.
Starting point is 01:08:11 The depression. You can feel the garbage of guilt and fear. You can feel the dysfunction. You can feel it. That is the enemy. The battle. The fight for the future. The fight to rise is in your head. It's all in your head. Now is the moment to capture the vision. Let me tell you something. Here's what success is all about. You need these three things. Are you ready? You need skill set, mindset and opportunity. Skill set, mindset and opportunity. You need to realize. You need a skill set. Mindset and opportunity. You need to. rise up and understand what success is all about skill set work on your skill mindset work on your mentality baby and your opportunity will come trust me when your opportunity comes you better be ready when your opportunity hits you better respond maybe and all the work you put in all the brand you put in when your opportunity shows up you're gonna be ready because hard work Pays. Let me take something. Hard work will pay off. When you feel that you don't have the oxygen, when you feel like you're about to give up, when you feel like you're about to die, resurrect yourself and just rise. Continue to move. Continue to believe. Continue to fight hard and don't give up. Dead yet. You may be tired, but you are not dead. You may be dead. You may be dead. You may be dead.
Starting point is 01:09:47 broken but you are not dead you may be weary but you are not dead you have an opportunity to rise above what happened to you I need you to make sure you understand the process and the process means you got to follow through we got to rise up we got to start we got to finish we got to rise up we got to start we got to finish we got to rise up right now and we got to start or we got to finish it's time to get your bounce back build your business build your future I don't care who did not invest in you. Go after it.
Starting point is 01:10:20 If nobody sticks their hand out to pick you up, get yourself up and run. You have something yet to do in this world. Don't worry about it. Trust in it. Believe in it. Rise. There's a glass ceiling over your head. It's got garbage on it like guilt and helplessness and hopelessness and hurt.
Starting point is 01:10:56 Let me tell you this. Life will keep you locked away in a glass. coffin and dear you to shatter that glass. Everything changes today. Some of you are still trying to process what is happening in our world, our economy, the riots, the protesting, the earthquakes, the pestilence, the viruses, the racism, the climate shifting. It's a lot. And you have been intoxicated by the pain of your past. I'll tell people all the time. It starts in your head. There are going to be those dark times.
Starting point is 01:11:36 And a lot of things are going to try to hold you down and keep you down. But you've got to continue to rise. You've got to continue to believe. A warrior is an average person with laser life focus. Don't need you worry about your ability. Don't you worry about opportunity. I need you to be a warrior right now and let your work get your opportunity. Let your work get your praise.
Starting point is 01:12:01 Let your work open up. Doors let your work get people paying attention Let your work get the whole world to notice you got work Stop thinking stop procrastinating and you got work I need you to rise up to fulfill your dreams Rise up and attack your goals there's no time to sleep no time to nap no time to waste if you fall asleep wake up and rise up again You should work so hard as you collapse in the bed and night sometimes in the afternoon you're so weary from grinding that your body just collapses That's okay has sweet sleep but when you wake up crying again. Now is your time. Now is your season. I'm here to rise. I came here to conquer.
Starting point is 01:12:43 Doubt is not bigger than your purpose. Fear is not bigger than your purpose. Insecurity is not bigger than your purpose. Your purpose is everything. If the oxygen is running out, if you feel like you're about to fall down, resurrect yourself and get back up and keep flying up higher. There's a matter where you are. Whatever your story is, you can change the story. Rise when you think you can't carry on. Rise from your mistakes and failures. Rise and fight.
Starting point is 01:13:18 Rise and make a difference. When others can't get up, you find a way to get up. You've heard this a million times. That the cemetery is full of potential. And that's true. because that person didn't do what they needed to do through the dash dealing with agony and anger and anxiousness and you are ashamed if you want your future you got to heal
Starting point is 01:14:01 you keep trying to win fronted the dysfunction the embarrassment the emptiness the insecurity the jealousy the laziness the loneliness one of your superpowers is a made-up mind one that is fully persuaded to get it done every single day, no matter the task. I know it's going to be hard. I know it's going to be ups. I know it's going to be downs.
Starting point is 01:14:38 You got to rise up. You got to stay committed because a shark never stops moving or dies. I need you to become the CEO. Yes, fear is going to come. Yes, challenges are going to come. Yes, you're going to feel that you can't carry on, but you must continue to rise. You must continue to have faith. You must grow those wings and you must soar above and beyond the heavens.
Starting point is 01:15:13 You must continue to rise. The midst of darkness, this world has gone crazy. This world needs you to rise up. This world needs your dream. This world needs you to achieve everything you got on the inside of you. This world needs you to be you. But in order for you to be you, we got to have you to rise up. I will be resilient.
Starting point is 01:15:40 I will rewire my thinking. I will emerge. I will evolve. I will be immune to impossibility. I will be immune to the pain that is attached to my purpose. I will not be stagnant. I will not stay stuck in the mud that you left me in. I will evolve.
Starting point is 01:16:02 I will rise. When others think that you can't carry on, rise away from the excuses. Rise away from the substitutions. You left me for dead. You buried my face into the ground. Did you think I will stay there? I must rush. This is for my future.
Starting point is 01:16:26 This is for my children. This is for my destiny. This is for my legacy. There is no pain that is bigger than my purpose. I will rise. Don't quit on yourself. Keep believing. Keep going up. Have you ever been put in a position
Starting point is 01:17:15 where you didn't think that you had the strength to carry on? You must never give up. You felt a sense of weakness. You wasn't clear about it. about exactly what was necessary for you to get to where you needed to be. Never means under no circumstances. Do you give yourself permission to stop? I mean it might cross your mind, you might be tempted,
Starting point is 01:17:58 but you never give in to the temptation to quit. All quitting is a temptation and you gave in to it. There is always an upgrade tied to your pain. Your tears have not been cried in vain. Your effort is not in vain. So when you encounter a major setback, if you encounter a major roadblock, say to yourself, wow, something huge must be on the way. You didn't understand what all of these things were pulling you down.
Starting point is 01:18:34 You didn't realize that you were all by yourself in this particular situation. Not realizing that. you needed something to electrify your ideas, to give you a sense of hope, to give you some recognition, that work needed to be done. Quitting first starts as I thought. We all get that thought. It comes across your mind. I'm tired. I should quit. We all get those thoughts. It's not just you but in order to finish you got to be able to take those stop captives you got to be able to talk yourself into it and stop talking yourself out of it man I'm tired I should quit that's when you talk yourself out of quitting elevation requires patience and endurance because it often comes
Starting point is 01:19:39 package in the form of pain as you get closer to your breakthrough it may begin to look like everything It's falling apart. This is the time that you must wake up and realize that giving up is not the option that you must take. You gotta have that mindset that quitting is not an option. Give up, who me, never.
Starting point is 01:20:10 Stop, who me, never. That's for the next guy. That's for the next girl. But not me. Why? Because I don't quit. They ain't how I do it. They ain't how I roll. I never give up.
Starting point is 01:20:22 You must understand that there will come a time in your life. Their circumstances are going to challenge you no matter what you do, but you must never give up. Don't let the obstacles discourage you and make you believe that it's not meant to be. Pursue when it's hard. Pursue even when it would make more sense to give up. Not you, champ. You ain't the one.
Starting point is 01:20:45 Not you kid. You need the one to quit. Giving up is not what you do. You get the wrong one here, baby, until you believe that, until you feel that, until you live that. We've got work to do. You see, quitting is a mindset. Quitting is a mentality. If you quit enough, if you quit all the time, you build a reputation to quit. And people get confidence in your track record, and they will bet against you. He won't finish, she won't finish, you know him, he always quit. But not you, we got to flip the script.
Starting point is 01:21:14 There is purpose within you, but you must never give up. What they should say is you know him, he is relentless. You know her, she is relentless. You know them, they are tenacious. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it can't be done. Yes, you're going to face some challenges, but you are an overcomer. So don't you dare sit there and drown in self-pity? Yes, I'm talking to you.
Starting point is 01:21:44 You might feel stuck, you might feel trapped, but if you look for a solution, I promise you will find it. I understand that it's going to get tired since some times. I understand you're going to feel like quitting. I understand you're going to give up and you're going to want to say you don't have it anymore. But I'm here to let you know that you've got to rise up and you've got to continue to push forward. And you've got to walk down that path. And if you get down, get back up. And if you're feeling alone, you're not alone.
Starting point is 01:22:14 for very long you have got to find the inner beast within you because it has yet to be awakened when you finish my friend you will be celebrated when you finish my friend you will get your reward your prize is waiting on you your fans are waiting on you your respect is waiting on you the admiration is waiting on you to finish the race is not given to the swift other strong, but those who endure to the end. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another
Starting point is 01:23:24 and another. And by the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that that the little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you'll never be able to do the big things right. And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made, that you made.
Starting point is 01:23:49 And a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. I've been a Navy SEAL for 36 years. Every morning in SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Vietnam veterans, would show up in my barracks room, And the first thing they'd do is inspect my bed. If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers would be pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard, and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack.
Starting point is 01:24:17 It was a simple task, mundane at best, but every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that we were aspiring to be real warriors, tough, battle-hardened seals. But the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over. It matters not whether you ever served a day in uniform. It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status. Our struggles in this world are similar. And the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward, changing ourselves and changing the world around us will apply equally to all.
Starting point is 01:25:04 If you think it's hard to change the lives of ten people, change the lives of ten people, change the their lives forever, you're wrong. I saw it happen every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. But changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it. So what starts here can indeed change the world. You will likely fail often and it will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core. At that darkest moment of the mission is a time when you need to be calm, when you must be calm, when you must be calm, when you must be composed, when all your tactical skills, your physical power, and your inner strength must be brought to bear.
Starting point is 01:25:52 If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moments. If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope, the power of one person, a Washington, a Lincoln, King, Mandela, and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala. One person can change the world by giving people hope. Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when the times are the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never ever give up. If you do these things, The next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today.
Starting point is 01:26:45 And what's started here will indeed have changed the world for the better. Finally, in SEAL training, there's a bell. A brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see. All you have to do to quit is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o'clock. Ring the bell and you no longer have to be in the freezing cold swims. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT, and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training.
Starting point is 01:27:21 All you have to do is ring the bell to get out. If you want to change the world, don't ever, ever ring the bell. There was a light inside of every one of us. an ember that burns and begs us to become more than what we have ever been. This is the flicker of creativity, the spark of an idea, the outline of a design. You got to make it happen. Can nobody else do it for you? You're in charge of your it.
Starting point is 01:28:35 Every day the clock is ticking. Every year the calendar moves. Your it cannot be delayed forever. Your it got to start with your first step. Your it got to start with your first move. Matter of fact, it begins in your mind. It is your dreams. It is your purpose.
Starting point is 01:28:52 It is your future. There are three types of people in this world. There are people who watch things happen. There are people who wonder what happened. And there are people who make things happen. You gotta determine which person you are. You can make a wish or you can make it happen. You must first believe that you can, that you will, that you must,
Starting point is 01:29:17 when you are no longer willing to tolerate being in the room of failure. Then that's when you're gonna break free. Are you gonna rise and go higher and go stronger than you ever did in your life? Or you're gonna look in the mirror and see that image and realize that you are more than the image in the mirror. There's enough fire inside of you. After everything you have been through, you've got to be able to see your value.
Starting point is 01:29:51 Are you going to realize that it's time for you to step up and make it happen? Or you're going to put aside all your doubts and fears. Or you're going to be strong enough to go forward. Are you going to allow weakness? to tell you that you don't have what it takes to make it happy. There is no one like you in all of the earth. There is no one that can do what you can do.
Starting point is 01:30:17 You are the only option. You are the only play. Nobody else is going to be able to do this. When you get that in your head, that you are the only one that is going to be able to do this. That nobody's going to give you a handout. That you have to make this happen. That every room you walk into, you show up and you show out
Starting point is 01:30:33 and you leave it all on the table. We don't have time to second guess. It's time for you to rise up. It's time for you to make that first step. It's time for you to start grinding so that you can make it happen. You got to make it happen. At the end of the day, you got to be strong. At the end of the day, you got to push forward.
Starting point is 01:30:53 You got to fight forward. You got to make it happen.

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