Motivation Daily by Motiversity - NO RISK, NO STORY. 2.0 - Best Hopecore Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello listeners. Motivacity 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. Give me a favor. Write this down. No risk, no story. It's just simple, right? Like, if you're not going to take a risk, you don't freaking deserve the story, okay? No risk, no reward.
Starting point is 00:00:50 I mean, why not take a chance trying to do something that seems impossible that might work? Are you willing to play at that level? Are you willing? to risk it all to gain it all. Are you willing? Today is where the rubber meets the road.
Starting point is 00:01:07 It's like, no risk, no reward. If you want to take the risk, you won't get the reward. So it's like... Some say it's worth the weight. I say it's worth the risk. I'm telling you to risk it all for something that will last forever. Will you stay mediocre for the rest of your life?
Starting point is 00:01:27 Or will you dig down deep? and bring the greatness that lies inside of you to the world. No risk, no reward, no risk, no story, no risk, no risk, no risk, no risk. I'm going to take that chance, but they say turns you into champions. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man. In order for something to change, there needs to be change. They'd say, well, I'm afraid to make a change, and I'd say, that's okay. That's understandable.
Starting point is 00:02:04 How afraid are you of not making a change? Let's make a little vision of that. You're a 35, you hate your job, what's the consequence? You're not motivated, you don't want to get out of bed in the morning, you're starting to get depressed, you're getting bitter, you're getting resentful, you're getting cynical, you're a-motivated at work, you're not doing a very good job, and you're starting to shrink.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Now, play that out for 10 years. You don't change it, you don't fix it. And what happens? You're going to be in the same situation, but 10 years older. And if you can't get out of that situation now, what the hell makes you think you're going to get out of it in 10 years? You're only seeing what's in front of you.
Starting point is 00:02:55 You're not seeing what's above you. I can't change the beginning, but could I change the middle? Could I change, can I edit that story? We rewrite that story and change my story. and changed my entire life. Everybody's so crippled by decisions, but you never know how the other thing worked out. Let me give you an example.
Starting point is 00:03:16 Let's say you don't go to college and you start this business and you were 100% right and it's huge and you're doing so great. But because you did that, you had to fly to America for a big meeting and your plane crashed and you died. That would be a bad idea.
Starting point is 00:03:36 You think you're going to go to college because it's a good experience and you'll meet people, you can meet people in a business. You're not going to know. I think people overthink decisions. You'll never know what the alternative would have been. So just pick one and do it. Change is inevitable.
Starting point is 00:03:51 And you are either changing for the worse or changing for the better. You decide. I hope I do not believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Now listen to me, guys. The transition is going to be hard. I'm not going to lie to you. Go from being on the block,
Starting point is 00:04:06 going to be a high school dropout, to get in the GED is not the transition is not easy so what happens in order for you to go from one level to the next level in order for any man to transit listen to me in order for any woman to transition for any man to transition the thing that they want must be greater than the thing they currently have listen to me very closely I didn't come in here to tell you you're going to finish school I came to ask you what's next I came to ask you what's next for me It's the Nobel Prize. I always think about
Starting point is 00:04:43 other people that's going through a tougher life than I am. What if I had to change places? Would I trade places? You know, that's something I would always say to people from time to time. If I could take out a piece of paper and write down my problems and you could take out a piece of paper
Starting point is 00:05:02 and write down your problems. And we exchange those papers. And I'm thinking I got such a tough, tough life. And you may have a tough life. But I pick up your paper, the one you may have written on. And I'm looking like, wow, I thought I had it back. And then the other person said, hey, you got a lot better than I do. You know what I would do.
Starting point is 00:05:27 I would say, give me my paper back. I'll take my problems back. The point that I'm saying is this. I didn't put myself in such a pity party position to where I felt, why me? Why not me? Why shouldn't I go through this? See, you have to know, and I believe this even more, that can never be anything good unless there's some bad along the way.
Starting point is 00:05:55 There has to be a challenge. There has to be a struggle. There has to be some setbacks. You cannot think in your mind that that that's, all you're good for is the good things. How good are you when you at your weakest point in your life? Where are you when you at the downlaw of your life? Then what do you do? You are either going to evolve or expire. See, everything changes, the economy changes, relationships changes. We change mentally and emotionally and physically and you are either dying or you are either living.
Starting point is 00:06:30 How am I a different person than I was this morning when I woke up? the initial reaction would be I'm not. It's only been like 12 hours. How could I be different? But if I really think about it, what do I now know that I didn't know before? What, you know, what experiences have I had that my partner self
Starting point is 00:06:46 hadn't had when I had just woken up? And if I actually think about it, just like gratitude, I'm creating the frame of my past. I actually can and do see that I am different than my past self, even 12, 13 hours ago or the night before. And by appreciating that,
Starting point is 00:07:01 I now acknowledge that I've changed, which increases my psychological flexibility. It allows me to see that I am not the same person, that I am growing, that I am evolving, which is really useful for then thinking of your future self as a different person. You don't know. Like, there is no time machine,
Starting point is 00:07:19 there's no future machine. We're all over-analyzing everything. Like, how do you know? You don't. This is why I keep trying to push people. The only thing that I know seems practical is, are you happy? Are you happy today? Feels like it's the right thing. Are you like this is important? It's you can't analyze like I didn't know that starting a YouTube show for my wine business was going to be the
Starting point is 00:07:44 reason that I was going to have a huge investing career. I couldn't see that. This 30 seconds is your life passing you by an opportunity to change. It's your prerogic. You want to go down the path you have right now of your life and where it's going where do you see an alternate pad that's not flat line but climbing up an extra line of remembrance a possibility where dreams exist legacy exists the possibility of change to within the grasp of these hands in the craft of 30 second is within you had the will you here I know you had the will you have the intestinal fortitude you The other want to change. You only live once, so do what you feel passionate about.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Take chances. Don't be afraid to fail. How do you know true strength when you never taste of your leaves? When you never was down on your luck. When you were at the bottom, I had to ask you some. Go through this hell, man. This is it. Because as long as you're living, you gotta keep moving.
Starting point is 00:09:00 It all starts with a thought. But changing your thoughts is easy, it's free, can be instant. What's the point of making it complicated? How does that help anyone who says, well, I'm messed up and so hard to change and people can't change? It's like, well, that's not correct. Who taught you that? From the minute you're born, you're changing.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Oh, you know, it's long and arduous to recover. No, it isn't. Some people will recover like that. Some people don't, but you could be one of the ones that changes your thoughts. changes your feelings, changes your actions after all. When do you experience the positive emotion that's associated with happiness? The answer is, not when you've attained a goal, but when you're pursuing one. Don't you realize excuses will kill you? It will destroy your well-being.
Starting point is 00:09:51 And the more excuses you make, the less effort you're going to give. There's a million things I've done wrong. It's because I didn't do something that would have sent me somewhere else, but I have no idea. You don't know. You don't. If you do not apply what you hear and it goes over your head, you will miss your moment. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man. We got to take responsibility and we have to pay the price of results. Everybody pays and results have a price. And regret have a price.
Starting point is 00:10:27 Count up the costs and pay the price. And hear me well, nobody's going to pay it for you. So acknowledge the risk, make the investment, reap the rewards. I'm just binary, black and white. Switch on or switch off, hustle mode on. I mean, the amount of people that are half pregnant, kind of into it, sort of shoulda, could, a little, kind of. You have their whole life in front of you,
Starting point is 00:10:54 and why not try to achieve greatness ASAP? Like, go for it. Like, just go for it blindly. experience is a gift and a real leverage, but naivete and blind faith and not knowing the rules is also a real advantage. And so if I was 20, I would just get real serious on my naivete and go all in blindly, run through the wall.
Starting point is 00:11:19 And there is a literature too that suggests that people are a lot more unhappy when they look back in their lives about the things they didn't do than they are about the mistakes they made while they were doing things. You think that everybody's paying attention. And because of that, it kind of controls how you think.
Starting point is 00:11:37 And even when I was young and fearless and nothing to lose, I was still so cognizant of like, how are people going to react to this? And what's the best way to do? Like, I was so aware. And the reality is nobody gives a shit. Everybody is so focused on themselves in this world. Nobody has time for you.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And the sooner you accept that as a creative person, the sooner you're free. like you're totally free I do exactly what feels right to you I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks nothing
Starting point is 00:12:11 so I had to be here I had to come even though I was afraid I might make a fool of myself in fact if you really want to know the truth I had to come exactly because I might make a fool of myself there's redemptive mistakes. And a redemptive mistake would be a mistake that you make when you go out, try to do something. You know, you actually think, okay, I'm going to try to do this. And you're not good at it. You make a bunch of mistakes.
Starting point is 00:12:38 It's like, what's the consequence? If you pay attentions, you're not quite so stupid anymore. That's the thing is you've been informed by your, by the results of your error. And as you take stumbling steps towards it, you become illuminated and enlightened and informed because of the nature of your experience, because you're pushing yourself beyond where you are. and you're going into the country that you have not yet been in. The decision to leave Baltimore, which is where I was from, to quit that path, to decide to start a business of my own, was still to this day the hardest thing I've ever done.
Starting point is 00:13:14 By far, all the things we've been through to build what we have, the hardest decision was taking the leap for me. The reason people are scared of the world is they actually think getting fired or having their startup fail or them not being able to be an influencer because nobody gave a fuck is a bad thing when I think it's a great thing. The reason you won't do something is
Starting point is 00:13:36 you are too insecure to do it. There's more at stake today than in any story ever told. And how lucky you are that you're here and you're you. And how lucky we are that you're here and you are you. I hope you'll turn toward the problem of your choosing.
Starting point is 00:13:57 I hope you'll drop everything and I hope you'll solve it. This is your life. This is your moment and it is all down to you. Ready Player 1, your game begins now. And you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and then you're going to win. And that's life. Life without those challenges, it's existence. Don't just exist. Eventually, inaction will cost you. But your default setting should be, I'm going to do something.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Just get up. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. Go do something that's hard. Struggle sucks. Depends on how you frame it. If you want freedom in your life, you have to have discipline. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. And you may be successful and you may not be successful, but you will be better.
Starting point is 00:15:11 And the next challenge, you can be more prepared for. because we're going to have wins, we're going to have losses. We're going to have successes, we're going to have failures. We're going to have good nights. We're going to have bad nights. We're going to have good relationships. We're going to have good ideas and bad ideas. We're going to make money.
Starting point is 00:15:31 We're going to lose money. All these things are going to happen. And if you oscillate emotionally, up and down drastically, it's going to be problematic. Embrace those emotions, but don't let those emotions embrace you. keep pushing through things that suck. This is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts. I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit, so I'm going to go forward. Bring it on.
Starting point is 00:15:58 And my personal question to you is, why not you? And those of you in this room, you are great. You are phenomenal. And you're not walking in it. When you actually understand it, it's actually fundamentally true. You are capable of doing anything. You are capable of all of it. But I can't activate something.
Starting point is 00:16:23 You got to activate that. Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. It's the what if I can pull off a fucking miracle. What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? Okay, why not me? I've already overcome this.
Starting point is 00:16:45 Why can't I go and start a company? Why can't I build something that's meaningful? Because if I looked at it the other way, it started to take, you know, the count of, okay, well, I can't do this because of where I come from, I can't do this because of how I look. I can't do this. I wouldn't start anything.
Starting point is 00:16:58 Everybody would wake up each day doing subtraction. I look at my life as a dish. We have to decide in a place where you are ready to actually shift and execute on why you're here. All of that is foundational. patiently on your own self-awareness of who you are. Importantly, finally cutting out the cancer of insecurity out of your body on the things that have always been there by shedding light. This is what you believe is possible, is your mindset.
Starting point is 00:17:39 It is what you believe you are capable of. It is what you believe you deserve. Tell yourself that you deserve to be happy and you deserve to be fulfilled. You will start to see reasons for it. for it. Ask yourself, all these amazing adventures came from somewhere. Why not you? Why can't you be the one that comes up with that next great idea?
Starting point is 00:18:01 Ask the question when you're thinking big, why not you? And answer it. I'm not just doing this motivational video. Why not you? Why shouldn't you win? No, no, forget motivation, let's get logical. Why not you? Actually answer that.
Starting point is 00:18:14 Why can't you be somebody that can do something in your business that's never been done before? Why not you answer it? If I want to change my life, it starts with my action. It starts with me waking up every day having a plan and not just move off emotion. The greatest fundamental challenge in the world is figure out who are you? Who am I? Who am I?
Starting point is 00:18:39 What am I? What do I want? What's important to me and then live that. What do I want today? What I want out of this day? What do I feel at the core? Because it's yours. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Nothing. And by the way, why not you? You know, why not you? Why can't it be you? You know, what about you is less than, that you are telling yourself is less than? Why not you? You know, every one of us is so unique and so special, why not you? You are unique and you have gifts to give.
Starting point is 00:19:18 What keeps you from giving them? Fear. And what we are capable of doing is amazing. Just do it. You are able to do so much more. Instead of saying, I can't do this, I can't do that, I failed at this, I'm incapable of this. You can do this. Like, it's going to be okay. It's, don't let fear hold you back. Things can be scary and you can push through them. Are you going to have thoughts come to your mind of why you can't get it? You have the ability in your conscious mind to reject that idea, kick it out of your mind. thinking of why you can't do something is never going to do you any good and keep thinking until you start to think of thoughts of how you can do it
Starting point is 00:19:56 the way I look at it within myself why not why can I be the MVP of the league why can I be the best playing the league I don't see why not I need you to know that you're enough I need you to know that you're qualified I need you to know that you're called you're armed and you're dangerous talking about wisdom, knowledge, power, authority. I need you to know that all you have is all you need. Anybody is capable of achieving anything.
Starting point is 00:20:28 I actually believe that because I think human beings are designed to change. You're capable of breaking any pattern. You're capable of getting control of your health. You're capable of launching a business. You're capable of making millions of dollars. You're capable of healing your trauma, of finding love, of doing absolutely anything that you put your mind to, as long as you are willing to do the work for it,
Starting point is 00:20:53 and as long as you give up your timeline. Because I do believe that people who put in the work get rewarded. But you just might not get rewarded when you think you're going to be. And it might not be the reward that you thought you were going to get. But you have something unique within side of you. You have more to offer not only yourself, but the rest of the world. Know that you matter. Know that your purpose matters.
Starting point is 00:21:31 Let me be the first to tell you, there is none like you in all of the earth. And I'm just wondering if you are bold enough and courageous enough to believe what I'm saying. You are enough. So why not you? you. You can do anything. And I think one of the most powerful things that you can cultivate with yourself is being able every single day to have a level of trust in your life, in the magic of things, in yourself, to know that this moment right now is also a dot on the map of your life. And five, 10, 20 years from now, you will look back on this moment and you will know exactly why this happened.
Starting point is 00:22:12 And why it happened is it was preparing you for something. It was giving you a skill or an experience or some wisdom or a relationship that you're going to need for something extraordinary that's coming. And when you believe that, it gives you the strength to face absolutely anything. What are you going to do with what you have? I'm not talking about how much you have. Some of you are business majors. Some of you are theologians, nurses, sociologists. Some of you have money, some of you have patience, some of you have kindness, some of you have love
Starting point is 00:22:47 Some of you have the gift of long suffering whatever it is whatever your gift is What are you going to do with what you have? They say the true hell is when the person that you are meets the person you could have been My biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world And there's a final judgment and you talk to something much bigger than you I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone with something that says, you're in heaven, this is what you should have been on earth. And are you really in heaven now?
Starting point is 00:23:23 Are you in hell? Thinking about how much I left on a table for fear. Imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential. The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. the ghost of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset They say we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say And now we have to go to the grave together So I ask you today
Starting point is 00:23:57 How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes? Why not see how much you can do how far you can go? Why not you? That's the game right? Like either you're right or you're wrong either you win or you lose but But if you're going to come to me and tell me you don't have time in a world where I work every second for 18 hours a day, right? You're going to have a tough time making me feel bad that it's not happening for you because that's part of it. It's simple.
Starting point is 00:24:30 It's now or never time. What would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride? Okay, maybe stop breaking promises to yourself. When you say I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7 a.m. And when the option comes to hit the snooze button, don't do it. There's one win that you've got for the day. That's action.
Starting point is 00:24:52 So it all comes down to this moment. This moment is the only time we can transform. And I say join now or never. Don't miss the opportunity of this moment. Because the days are going to be long, but the months will be short. You have an opportunity. Seize the opportunity. We all get wake-up calls.
Starting point is 00:25:12 We get wake-up calls in our relationship. We get wake-up calls in our finances. And some people, the phone's ringing off the hook right now. They're getting wake-up calls on a bunch of things. They're at home with their family, and they're starting to realize I was disconnected from my family. I haven't been plugged in my... They've got a wake-up call on their relationships at home. They've gotten a wake-up call on, you know, I don't have any savings, and I'm deeply in debt.
Starting point is 00:25:36 This isn't working. And so the cool thing is when you get the call, then you have to make the choice. Are you going to answer the phone? If you pick the phone up, that means maybe it's time to change. Are you going to answer the phone? Are you going to change your life where you say, never again? Maybe it's time to increase your quality of life. Maybe instead of staying in the middle back seat, it's time to upgrade to the exit row.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Or business class. Or business class. Or maybe it's time to eat at a different restaurant. Maybe it's time to really think about your money dial and say, hey, I always claim that wellness is important. And yet I'm still eating like the same old thing I used to eat 10 years ago. Maybe it's time to upgrade what I eat and where I work out and all that kind of stuff, my gear.
Starting point is 00:26:21 You can do that. You've made it. You already won the basic game. So now you get to benefit from it. I believe if you're the kind of person that has spent too much time thinking about where to go, that it's time to get in the car and start driving. And you have to be able to pivot quickly.
Starting point is 00:26:41 You have to be able to adjust fast. You have to constantly be aware of the changes around you. And you don't have time to kind of say, well, I'm going to give it six months and think about it. You know, you give it six days and hit it. The fastest person doesn't win the race. It's the person who starts first. Be the now of what you want to be later. It starts right now.
Starting point is 00:27:04 And if you're not doing the now, don't have respect to later to be the person you want to look in the mirror. Everyone's like, oh, later in life, I want to do this. Later in life, I want to do that. Later in life is turning around looking in the mirror right now. That's the later in life. Unless that turnaround is something impregion, later in life, ain't going to be anything different. Absolutely, you do it every day, okay? even if it risk your life.
Starting point is 00:27:36 That's your dream. I made the decision that, look, this is what I want to do. Somebody's giving me an opportunity. I'm going to take advantage of it. I have 24 hours in the day. I try to take advantage of every hour. Yeah, most days I just want to wake up and make the most of the time I have. I realize it's finite.
Starting point is 00:27:54 And I think I'm here for some purpose. That's what I was trained to believe in my own family, spiritually, like we're all here for some purpose to give. Then mostly I'm just like constantly. worried that I'm not fulfilling that promise. I was like, wow, if I'm not pushing myself to do more and to have more impact, then I'm not really taking full advantage of why I'm here. Because if you spend your time learning too much and never acting, you're going to fail, right?
Starting point is 00:28:18 If you spend your time acting, acting, acting, but you're never learning what you're doing, you're going to fail. If you spend your time chasing opportunity and never doing anything, you're going to be at best in some famous person's entourage, right? I think that's how those people end up there, because you see opportunity, but you never act. As humans, I've realized, like, we all. have these reservoirs and this untapped potential inside of us and can achieve these extraordinary things when we're focused when we shine positivity in light when we
Starting point is 00:28:42 lean into those that we love and uplift and co-create together but we usually don't pay attention to what's here right now right now you and I are here everything we think our story is our accomplishments our problems are BS we're just this moment's true and everyone watching this if you really understand the highest truth of what's going on we're all even there's no this person is better or less There's none of that. We're just this space that's here. Now from here you have skies the limit possibilities. I chased opportunity, like viciously chased opportunity. Then I learned once I got there and then I didn't hesitate to apply it. You know, the worst thing you could ever do is if you're pursuing the wrong dream or if your dream changes and you don't change with it.
Starting point is 00:29:32 I know from a personal level what that feels like to be in pain or to feel like you're not worthy or that you're never going to be anything. And I was like, you know what? It's time for me to free my own mind and resentment and anger and all these things that I kind of will just keep internally. It's time to rewrite this story. If you're about to make a change in your life and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can have. Because for the first time in your life, you'll make a decision that's going to be best for you. It's your time to make a difference. Now is your time to have an impact.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Now is your time to make straight A's. Now is your time to be noticed. Now is your time to be heard. Now is your time to be seen. Now is your time to do this thing. It's your moment. The only belief that matters is that if you put time and energy into getting better at something, you'll actually get better.
Starting point is 00:30:57 And that those skills have utility. And typically when somebody learns something easier, we say, oh, they were born with it. But the reality is they get a disproportionate return on the amount of time that they spend studying that thing. They still have to study that thing. And so you don't find people achieving just levels of greatness, you know, even take a LeBron, who the amount of time that he spends working on his craft, making sure that his body's in peak physical condition, reading the game, all of that.
Starting point is 00:31:26 He has to do all that, even though he has also incredible natural talent. So it can be useful to look for areas where, hey, I have a love for this thing and I'm good at it. I get a disproportionate return. That's a better way to think of it. That when I put energy into learning this thing, I get maybe 1.3x return on that versus somebody else who might get a 0.7 return.
Starting point is 00:31:51 But what I want everybody to understand is you get a return. And so once you understand that you get a return, it may take you longer. You may have to work harder than somebody else. But if you love it enough and you want to be that thing, then you can become that thing. But now is your moment. Now is your time. Now is the time where the talking is done. Now it's the moment where you got to make a decision.
Starting point is 00:32:16 and the decision is simply this. Are you ready to take the next step? Are you ready to start the new chapter? Are you ready to go and build a legacy? Are you ready? There is no tomorrow. You wouldn't have suffered enough. I've been suffering all my life.
Starting point is 00:32:39 I'm sorry. It's not enough. The amount of suffering that you understand, the amount of pain that you've gone through makes you appreciate the happiness and the beautiful moments with much more intensity. You know what it's like to be poor and you know what it's like to work hard.
Starting point is 00:32:53 And you will want so much for them to like you and they just won't. And it'll break your heart. And that'll make your heart bigger and open your eyes. And finally you will realize that there's more to life than proving you're the smartest person in the world.
Starting point is 00:33:08 This whole thing about suffering, yeah, it sucks. Really bad. Really, really bad. But we all live on the, this side of suffering. On this side, this nice box that's very comfortable that we know when everything is going to happen. We're in it. It's good. We know how everything's going to turn out. It's those few people who are willing to go on this side of suffering. And once they get through that, ask him how he feels now, his mind, how far he grew. In that short period of time,
Starting point is 00:33:43 he grew so much more than the normal person because he was willing to go outside himself because on the other end of suffering is greatness. We're built to walk uphill. And when you reach the pinnacle of the hill, you want to stop and appreciate the vision, but the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance because it's the uphill climb that it's from the uphill climb
Starting point is 00:34:10 that we derive our value. And I mean this technically. So almost all the positive emotion we feel, that's experienced in relationship to a goal. And so in some sense, you want a goal that you can never attain, right? So you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it. You think, well, that's frustrating. It's like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill. But it's not because as you pursue that goal, you put yourself together,
Starting point is 00:34:38 and your life does get better and richer and more abundant. You want them to be above everything you're doing so you can continually move towards something that's more sublime and better. That's what you are. You're here to live, not to sleep. Because you wouldn't have prayed like you pray had you not been hurt.
Starting point is 00:34:57 You wouldn't love like you love had you not been hurt because you know what it's like to hate somebody. So you refuse to go down that path. Feelings has nothing to do with it. This is my dream. This is what I'm going. to do and I'm going to do the things that I don't feel like going. I'm going to do the things I don't want to do. I'm going to do the things that don't come easy to me, that do not come natural to me.
Starting point is 00:35:23 I'm going to get up and do it. You can't live your life on feelings. You cannot let your feelings dictate what you are or are not going to do today. Don't get that fire inside, but make it happen out there. I'll say you go to the fire in here. Leaving it all here, expecting it all out there. That's how it works. When you leave it all here, guys, you then have the right to expect it all out there. It doesn't work the other way around. You can't half-ass it here and expect anything but a half-ass life out there.
Starting point is 00:35:59 You know, it doesn't get easy, my friend. Running 12 plus miles a day, doing 800 plus push-ups a day, lifting weights every single day, working two jobs, working out of my guys. working out of my comfort zone at the club, but it's worth it. Because if you think it's about fitness, you're wrong. If you think it's about the money, you're wrong, because it all goes back to one point. One important point, my friend.
Starting point is 00:36:27 I'm waiting for the mentality. The mentality to keep going, no matter what happens. Nothing should be easy. If it's easy, it's not going to be worth doing. So many people Love to have the opportunity to find the easy way out and celebrate Something that they never really worked hard to get It gives you an opportunity to appreciate
Starting point is 00:36:58 The challenges more the letdowns the failures It gives you more ammunition so when you do Eventually get to where you want to be Just in case that moment comes and you get knocked back down You understand what it is feels like and you know you're not going to stay down for very long because you know what that ground feels like this life is relentless you better keep coming back from all your failures all your doubts all your shit you better keep fighting keep getting up never fucking lay down for
Starting point is 00:37:32 that's one thing we should all agree on if you've been broken once you know how that feels That means try and break me again. One thing in life, suffering has no expiration date. It don't give if you're black, white, poor, rich, where you come from, how you were raised. And we'll keep coming after you. Stay home. It hurts. When we've lifted these weights and we're trying to accomplish a goal, it hurts.
Starting point is 00:38:05 It's painful. It's daunting. It's cumbersome. I don't want to do it. I'm sweating, I'm bleeding, I'm crying, I'm suffering, but after I've suffered, there is a reward. So we spent too much time thinking about how bad it hurts instead of how good the future will be after the pain. And so after the blood, after the sweat, after the tears, after I've cried, all I'm going to cry. I want to hear the pain to my advantage.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Now what age should you have everything together? For us normal people, it takes time. Because not only do you have to mature and grow, there's things in life that if you have a big enough dream, you're not the person you need to be right now to fulfill that dream. Now, you keep moving towards it. You keep doing what needs to be done. But at the same time, you realize that you yourself are gaining
Starting point is 00:39:11 in knowledge and in experience and in personal growth. Do you still struggle with all of the shit that you talk about? Oh, my God. Yes. That's why I'm so fucking relatable. I do not have this stuff figured out. I am shoulder to shoulder with everybody. They look and see and then I quit to adjust your ability.
Starting point is 00:39:37 But they weren't there. They weren't there through the struggle. They weren't there through the sleepless nights They weren't there through the pain They weren't there through the trauma They weren't there through the tears They weren't there to pick you up You did that
Starting point is 00:39:54 So what gives them the right What gives them the right to judge you They don't know your ability my friend They don't know what you're capable of They don't know what you can do So you find a way to push through You find a way to keep going because nobody can tell you anything
Starting point is 00:40:12 when you're the one who dragged yourself out the dark when you're the one who dragged yourself back into the light, my friend. They have no business in your business. So you keep going. We all gonna go through it. We all have to go through it, including myself.
Starting point is 00:40:33 I'm gonna tell you something. When you are doing everything in your power to be the best makeup of yourself, is always going to be an adversary that's going to try to take that away from you. Now, the best way you can overcome this is having the faith. Now, it doesn't matter what you believe in, as long as it's something that's positive, that's going to get you through it. Imagine if you can use pain as a fuel.
Starting point is 00:41:02 Imagine if you can use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you can use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for the the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on what if the pain can make you better what if the pain could build muscle what if the pain can cause you to reach higher to leap farther to run faster what if the pain could help you what if all pain isn't hurt but it's help i'm sick right now my friends that can't stop and run in a world where everybody is so comfortable Why don't you be the one to get on top before?
Starting point is 00:41:44 Why don't you be the one to take on the tariff? Why don't you be the one to never give up? Why don't you be the one to never stop? Why don't you be the one that never? Bees! Me!

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