Motivation Daily by Motiversity - NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES 2.0 - Best Hopecore Motivational Speeches

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

Don't sit around saying "What if...?" It's time to put in the action NOW. Do it, even if you're alone, sick, tired, weary... Just do it. SpeakersJordan PetersonGary VeeEric ThomasLewis HowesJeremiah J...onesThe Diary of a CEODry Creek WranglePatrick Bet DavidCoach Pain: https://bit.ly/BookCoachPain Marcus Taylor: http://bit.ly/3aLfu3PCole DaSilvaWill Hollis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. 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. How afraid are you of not making a change? Let's make a little vision of that. You're 35, you hate your job, what's the consequence?
Starting point is 00:01:05 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. 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
Starting point is 00:01:32 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 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 rewrite that story and change my entire life
Starting point is 00:01:59 Everybody's so crippled by decisions, but you never know how the other thing worked out. Let me give you an example. 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,
Starting point is 00:02:16 you had to fly to America for a big meeting and your plane crashed and you died. That would be a bad idea. Or 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.
Starting point is 00:02:36 You'll never know what the alternative would have been. So just pick one and do it. Change is inevitable. 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.
Starting point is 00:02:53 The transition is going to be hard. I'm not going to lie to you. Go from being on the block, going to be a high school dropout, to get into 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
Starting point is 00:03:20 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 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 and write down your problems, and we exchange those papers.
Starting point is 00:03:58 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 bad. And then the other person said, hey, you got it a lot better than I do.
Starting point is 00:04:16 You know what I would do? 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?
Starting point is 00:04:33 Why shouldn't I go through this? See, you have to know, and I believe this even more, there can never be anything good unless there's some bad along the way. There has to be a challenge. There has to be a struggle. There has to be some setbacks. You cannot think in your mind
Starting point is 00:04:53 that that's all you good for is the good things. How good are you when you at your weakest point in your life? Where are you when you get to download 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. How am I a different person than I was this morning when I woke up?
Starting point is 00:05:25 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 know? now know that I didn't know before. What, you know, what experiences have I had that my partner self 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.
Starting point is 00:05:43 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, 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 00:06:10 There's no future machine. We're all over analyzing everything. Like how do you know? You don't. Like 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.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Are you like, this is important. You can't analyze. Like, I didn't know that starting a YouTube show for my wine business was going to be the 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 prerogative. 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 path that's not flat line, but climbing up and that's your way.
Starting point is 00:07:00 long enough remembrance a possibility where dreams exist, legacy exists, the possibility of change. It's within the grasp of his hand. In the craft of 30 seconds. It's within you. You had the will. You're here. I know you had the will. You have the intestinal order to and you had the want to change. You only live once. So do what you feel passionate about. Take chances. Don't be afraid to fail. How do you know true strength? When you never taste of the leaves, when you never was down on your luck, when you were at the bottom,
Starting point is 00:07:39 I have to ask you. You got to go through this hell, man. This is it. Because as long as you're living, you got to keep moving. It all starts with a thought. But changing your thoughts is easy, is free, can be instant. What's the point of making it complicated?
Starting point is 00:07:59 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. Oh, you know, it's long and arduous to recover. No, it isn't. Some people will recover like that.
Starting point is 00:08:18 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. And the more excuses you make, the less effort you're going to get. There's a million things I've done wrong.
Starting point is 00:08:49 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. Why are you so anti-social?
Starting point is 00:09:11 Because I'm trying to get it. I don't want to live in a hole anymore, and I'm going to do something about it. I became obsessed with being the baddest motherfucker that God ever created. I got my MTV out. Savage! I'm a savage! I'm not going to stay fucking lying down. I'm not. I can't do that, man.
Starting point is 00:09:32 You kept going, you pushed through, you kept your head held high. Why was you working so hard? Because you were trying to get it. How big would you dream if you knew you couldn't fail? The only thing stopping us is our sound. Come on. Get it, 17. They don't know me, son.
Starting point is 00:09:55 Get it. 18. They don't know me, son. Get it. 19. They don't know me, son. Yeah. That's not all you got. You thought you were empty, but you got a half tank left.
Starting point is 00:10:07 And that's all you need to get where you're going. You can fill up later. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Sometimes you've got to sit with the pain until the pain passes. Sometimes pain will immobilize you, but as long as you can feel it, you can push it. Without pain, without sacrifice, we have nothing. Without pain, without sacrifice, we have nothing. I'm not saying you should have goals, but you should be grinding for brining safe. You know, you should grind because that's what you do.
Starting point is 00:10:34 You're passionate about what you do. You know, and so you're waking up every day with this concept of I have 24 hours and they're mine. This 24 hours belongs to me. And whatever I do in this 24 hours will determine where I'll be tomorrow and the next day. And I think that's what people need to focus on. Give me all that work. Give me all that work, my friend, because I need it. I needed to make me stronger.
Starting point is 00:10:58 I needed to make me powerful. I needed to make me better, my friend. So give me all that work. Give me all that work, my friend. And he texted me. He's like, well, Cole, what that means is that your grandparents from living in a stone house with stone walls and a dirt floor and then us going into the construction industry,
Starting point is 00:11:19 barely making it by just so we could do 50% better than our parents, to you now living in a million dollar home, impacting thousands and thousands of lives, earning seven figures. You've taken our name from sleeping on the dirt, to million dollar mansions in the course of three generations and our ancestors would be proud of you. Like that is why I work so hard. Like that, I go goosebumps right now. Like that is why I fucking grind.
Starting point is 00:11:45 I'm not about this complaining bullshit. People complain about their situation and then do nothing about it and it makes no fucking sense to me. Please don't give up. Remember this is the grind. Find a way to push through the suffering and discomfort. And I promise you there is something great waiting for you on the other side.
Starting point is 00:12:12 Just keep grinding. Don't give up. This is not the time. You don't live it like I do. Like I lived it and I'm still living it. Like do you know where I'm gonna end up? Right. The tippy fucking top.
Starting point is 00:12:28 You know where I'm now? Upper middle. So I'm patient, I'm grinding, I'm here, I'm hustling down there. I'm fucking hustling, patient for what are mine, like, you know, final stop is going to be. You're just not patient. Like, if you're feeling any angst,
Starting point is 00:12:46 it's because you don't love the process more than the results. You're thinking about $10,000 a month in AdSense instead of loving the fucking dirt and loving this grind moment. And the second you fall in love with the grind, for real, 19 years of it, not a month. When you fucking really fall in love
Starting point is 00:13:06 with the grind and sit here and then your talent is going to take you where it's going to take you listen can't nobody grind harder than the sister if you grind even with me let's do it but like will smiths said when he was being interviewed once you know what i'm talking about the die on the treadmill i'm going to die on the treadmill so i had no wonder there's no more time anybody can give i was opening the doors and shutting the doors i would turn the light on in the morning i would turn it out at night. I promise you no, it wasn't that. It was, I know that I can touch more of me for me, not for anybody else. I had no guilt. If I left this planet and I had only done what I did, only my, I'm cool, I play full out for you, but I didn't play full out. When you are committed,
Starting point is 00:13:58 you give everything you have every single week, every single, every single, day, every single hour, every single minute, 720 hours a month, you are beating on your crack, even when you're at work, you're dreaming, you're thinking, your vision casting, you're writing it down, making it playing, communicating to your destiny connections, so that it can become a reality. If you can see it in your head, you can hold it in your hands. But the question I want to ask you is, are you committed? My truth and my experience has been, I have to jump higher. I have to show up earlier.
Starting point is 00:14:40 I have to be the first person to turn off the light and the last person to turn off the light. I have to make sure that every number is correct and every T is crossed and every dye is dotted. The way that I show up is by being consistent, so consistent that people cannot doubt your capacity to succeed. You have to work harder than the average person. And if you accept those terms, you cannot complain about those terms. I have only known success on the back of consistency. Do I think you could be a success without being consistent? Perhaps if you have other resources and tools that I was never given.
Starting point is 00:15:14 But coming for where I am, my perspective has only been. Consistency and the discipline has been everything that I have ever gone on the back of doing it again and again and again. It is what I teach. It is what I preach is what I believe. You've got to want to grind. You've got to learn to love that. You've got to learn to love to put in the work. To be proud of yourself that you showed up and put in the work.
Starting point is 00:15:35 To be proud of yourself that you taught yourself how to suffer. To be proud of yourself that you're developing a mindset where you believe I can do anything I set my mind to. And by the way, once you believe that you can do anything you set your mind to without limitation, how you spend your time becomes a spiritual consideration. Know more about what you're doing than anyone else in the world. and grind baby grind. It's time to wake up. Stop making excuses.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Stop justifying your laziness. Stop choosing mediocrity. Wake up! Be better than who you used to be. Be better than who you are right now. Everybody else puts off everything until tomorrow, but not you. You are going to choose to be better today. You are going to push through the struggles and hardships that come up this year.
Starting point is 00:16:26 You're going to grind until you are exhausted Until you feel like you have nothing more and then grind harder When you get to where you want to go in life When you finally get there you finally reached that point And you're there and you're happy as hell Realize this you're not there yet When you get that feeling that you arrived Be afraid
Starting point is 00:16:55 Right Be truly afraid because now you start to do do this. Slowly die. The only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer, to grow. To grow, you must suffer. And some people get it and some people won't.
Starting point is 00:17:17 But they have to see what their journey is to start their journey. Several people live to be 100 years old and they have great lives. But somewhere in their life, there was a point where they had a decision to make. they can go left or right on this path. Left was the easy route. Right was the hard route. A lot of people take the easy route. And they had a good life that way,
Starting point is 00:17:39 but the better life was going to the right side. And you may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it, but a lot of us died never truly starting our journey. Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable. Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind. Don't be afraid of being hurt. Don't be afraid of a second friday some blood. Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Imagine if you could use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you could use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for 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?
Starting point is 00:18:23 What if the pain can cause you to reach higher to leap farther, to leap farther, run faster, what if the pain could help you? What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help? 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 from the uphill climb 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?
Starting point is 00:19:03 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, and your life does get better and richer and more abundant. We're wondering from the truth, man. So the only way I became successful was going towards the truth, as painful and as brutal as it.
Starting point is 00:19:29 It is, it changed me. It allowed me to become, in my own right, who am today. All the pain and suffering that they put on top of me in Hell Week, I will reverse that pain and suffering, and I will take your soul. So every instructor that put me through buds, my job, what drove me, was I wanted you to go home that night after you beat the living shit out of me. And I smiled in your face. I wanted you to feel worse than I did,
Starting point is 00:20:01 and you were going home to a nice, warm bed with your wife or your kids in a nice meal, and I was still out there in the grip, suffering for another 100 hours. I wanted you to think about me, knowing that I'm comfortable, being very unfucking comfortable. The thing about transformation is you have to do it.
Starting point is 00:20:24 You've got to put in the work when nobody cares. you know nobody cared if I practiced nobody cared if I worked out I didn't have parents who are like hey you know Dan you got to go to the gym oh hey Dan you know go out and run some sprints nobody cared if you want to transform you have to do the work if nobody cares there's only one person who has to care that's you you've got to care you've got to want it and the real reason I think is different for everybody to want some comes out of pain some comes out of you know I want to prove somebody wrong and then I think some people just have that switch inside them all talk shit let them all
Starting point is 00:21:17 make their noise because at the end of the day you are the only one who has the guts we have the guts to go to work and show up every single fucking day, day in and day out, putting in the work. You fight through the noise, you fight through the fatigue, you fight through it all, you stay extremely intensely focused on the goal. And once you fight through that fatigue, you fight through the noise. On the other side of that is your goals. On the other side of that is the accomplishment. On the other side of that is your greatness.
Starting point is 00:21:46 If you have a sufficiently noble purpose, the suffering will justify itself. And I think that's empirically testable. And I do believe it's the case because I've watched people do very difficult things. And what that shows is that if you turn around and you confront the suffering voluntarily, you find out that you are way tougher than you think. It's not that life is better than you think. Life is as harsh as you think. It might even be worse.
Starting point is 00:22:09 But you are way tougher than you think if you turn around and confront it. And so then what you discover is that there's a spirit within you that can pursue something meaningful that has the resilience and the strength to. contend properly with the catastrophe of existence without becoming bitter. If you're feeling pain, keep going. If your lungs are working, keep going. You hurt, you grow, you go, and from the bottom of my heart, keep it moving, and conduct your business.
Starting point is 00:22:42 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? Are you in hell? A lot of us speak in hollow words.
Starting point is 00:23:07 I used to speak in hollow words. I don't do anymore. Everything that comes out of mouth has substance. It's real. And we all have these feelings in our bodies, in our minds, in our souls. I act on mine. a lot of us who are afraid of something,
Starting point is 00:23:23 we allow our minds to choose the path that least resistance so we go a different route. I'm afraid of something is telling me you must do that. You must do that. You have to go that way. And most of us don't understand that mentality. We go left and we wonder why we haven't fulfilled something in our lives. You've just gone through a breakup,
Starting point is 00:23:45 and it's the worst thing you've ever been through because you haven't had the time, and the experience yet to develop worse and to turn around and look at that in relation to the realities of a long life well lived and one day you're going to try and look back and you're going to say that really wasn't such a disaster and in fact that was probably the best thing ever happened to me I get it the pain is unbearable you keep playing it back in your head the situation is on repeat over and over and over and over you keep trying to see where you went wrong. And you feel like you can't take the pain anymore. What you're going to do? Are you going to prove them right? Or are you going to prove them wrong?
Starting point is 00:24:36 Are you going to show them that failure doesn't define who you are? Are you going to show them that failure is a necessary lesson on the path to success? Are you going to show them that you're a beast in this game? You gotta get hungry. You got to get ready. Get up. It's time to get to work and show them all. It is the battles that you face today that prepare you for tomorrow's wars.
Starting point is 00:25:09 You're going to find peace from going to war with yourself. We all got shit. The celebration was I can start the war now. It wasn't that I won the war. I can start my war. That's what made me, that's what I've been celebrated since. I'm always in that battle. Nobody believes in you.
Starting point is 00:25:28 You've lost again and again and again. The lights are cut off, but you're still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it's not over until I win. Congratulations. You achieve failure. Now, the only place to go from failure is to win. You have to achieve. achieve failure. You have to take it that far. Nobody wants to go that far. It's too scary. But you know something? I got news for you. That's where winning is. It always has been.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Nothing's changed since the 70s. Nothing. There comes a day where being average, being mediocre, it's just sickening to you. It's just sickening. It makes you want to throw up. There comes a fucking day where push comes a show. We're being mediocre, being like average and shit just fucking burns. It sucks so much. You can't deal with it one more day and you get off your fucking ass and you create something that's always been there. I know what that feels like.
Starting point is 00:26:45 You gave everything you had. I know what it feels like. I know the tears, I'll sacrifice all of the suffering. I know you want to quit right now, but this is not the time to let go. This is not the time to do. out, this is not the time to quit. Keep going! My dreams don't live down there. That's what my granddad used to tell me.
Starting point is 00:27:17 When I used to walk in those projects, I'll look down and see pipes. I'll see bullets. I'll see blood stains. But when I looked in the sky, I saw my dreams. I saw my opportunity. Like, you try to argue yourself out of pain and see how far you get. You might think, well, that's not the sort of meaning I meant. It's like, you know, a negative meaning is a place to start, right? Because if something's negative and it's real, it does imply that there's something positive that's real.
Starting point is 00:27:46 It might be harder to get a hold of. At least it's not pain. I would gladly relive everything I have been through, provided I had this outcome. Because who I am now and what I offer the world, I wouldn't want to give that up. It's a void going through those dark days of the pain I went through. I think it was all worth it. It turned me into who I am now. I was an absolute excruciating pain.
Starting point is 00:28:14 But what motivated me, through that whole process, was the fact that this kid came from that. I'm in the hardest training in the world, in the worst shape of my entire life. What if I can graduate a month? can graduate amongst these studs. Wow. The pain, it won't stop.
Starting point is 00:28:37 The suffering, it won't cease. And it's hard to see it. It's hard to see a better outcome for yourself, my friend. I understand. But look, if you just believe, my friend, and you keep believing, and you hold on to that belief, brighter days are coming.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Weather through the storm, my friend, weather through the pain, and I promise you you will come out victorious. You just have to keep believing, my friend. You know, can I get to that level? I don't know, but let's find out. On the other side of your fear is a fulfilled destiny. Whatever your giant may be, name the giant, you will defy me no more. You will defy me no more.
Starting point is 00:29:35 You will defy me no more. And people don't understand that. And worse than that, they're intimidated by that. And even worse, they try to discredit that because they do not have the level of passion and obsessiveness to get to that level. So they figure the best thing to do is to tear that level down. That's fucked up.
Starting point is 00:29:56 What a warrior is is this. A person is willing to die for an ideal. You know, and for me, it's freedom, right? It's compassion. It's humility. It's humanity. I'm willing to fight for all these things. David ran toward the Philistine.
Starting point is 00:30:15 David ran towards the army. Goliath must fall. There's a lot of internal battles. And let me tell you, the worst type of battles are not a battle with anybody else outside. The worst, most painful, frustrating battles I've ever faced in my life is me against me. biggest. It's never been against anybody else. It's been me against me. It's been Pat versus Pat. It's been the biggest battles of my life. It's Pat versus Pat. Be brave, be strong. Come for the head of your giants. However big, however tall, however strong, it would no longer defy you. You will not
Starting point is 00:30:53 coward in darkness. At the end of it all, if you can sit back and wait, if you can wait, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve years. And you get to that point when you finish, that's the feeling for 12 years. That's it. It says it wait 12 years to get there. That's what keeps you going is you got to feel. I want, I'm doing it for one second.
Starting point is 00:31:15 Here's a pain. For one second. One second. Think about it. I put the work into this. Like, every day, all day. And then when I'm done with it, guess what I do? I dream about it.
Starting point is 00:31:34 I visualize it. I see myself being successful. I see myself hitting those shots with no time on the clock, with a little time on the clock. And then I'll do it again and say, hey, what if we're down two? Then I'll do it again and say, what if we're down three? You know, it's a never-ending game. Everything worth having in life needs to be earned. You've got to go out there with a relentless mindset.
Starting point is 00:31:59 and put a hundred and twenty percent effort in every single fucking day. No matter what, no matter how you feel, no matter the circumstance, you got to show the fuck up and earn it. And if you don't attack every day with that mindset, number one, you will never achieve it. And number two, you don't fucking deserve to in the first place. We must put on that suit of armor and prepare ourselves for battle. Yes, every battle cannot be won.
Starting point is 00:32:29 but the winning attitude to not give up is more than enough to carry on these battles that we face each and every day of our lives they will continue to come and you will not win in every battle and the battles that you face
Starting point is 00:32:52 will help you to get stronger because even if you lose a battle and you're still breathing and you're still walking and you're still able to make moves then you still have enough fight left to carry on

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