Motivation Daily by Motiversity - PAIN TODAY, STRENGTH TOMORROW - Powerful Hopecore Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. No, this is real. You need to love pain. It gets harder for anybody that's living and breathing. So no matter what you do, you got to keep moving forward. Strong in the trenches. where you're going. You're lost. You know what I mean? You have no direction. So for me, I felt like both of them together when you really, when you have the vision and you're able to manifest
Starting point is 00:01:09 and you also put the work in, magic happens, man. Magic. That's where the magic is. But a lot of people never get there. Unfortunately, a lot of people are, we're blessed that we can dream. I got to get stronger. I got to train differently. The weight training program that I'm doing, I got to tailor it for an 82 game season so that when the playoffs comes, you know, come around, my legs are stronger and that ball gets there. So I look at it with rationale and say, okay, well, the reason why I shot air ball is because my legs aren't there. I got on next year they'll be there.
Starting point is 00:01:41 That was it. Done. Done. Where are your values behind the scenes? What do your habits look like behind the scenes? Come on. What kind of work are you putting in behind the scenes? Come on, drop down and give me 50.
Starting point is 00:01:52 Come on. Write it again. Come on. Believe it again. Come on. Sing again. Record your song again. I'm talking to that musician, come on.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Who are you out there? When you are comedians, you give everything you have. Every single day, you are either losing ground or gaining ground. The choice is yours. This time, make it person. Attitude goes a long way.
Starting point is 00:02:25 So again, going back to this guy here, Chadwick Bozeman, rest in peace, passes away. Four years has calling cancer. No one knows of it. calling cancer, no one knows about it. He goes to the doctor. That this doesn't mean he's not taking care of his body. He's going to the doctor, but he doesn't advertise his pain. Sometimes it's just good not to advertise your pain.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Sometimes it's good to not just tell the whole world what you're going through. I'm not telling you, don't talk about it with a group of people. I'm not telling you have some private conversations with certain people. I do believe in the ability to have some kind of a form of a release. But the way people are doing it right now posting everything on Instagram, all this other stuff. What's the point behind it? You need attention? Is that what you need?
Starting point is 00:03:01 It's not necessarily mental toughness. Mental toughness, people are not looking for attention. Mental toughness, people are trying to get results. A big difference. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't f around. I don't party.
Starting point is 00:03:13 I don't go out. Am I lame for that? Absolutely. To be lame in the eyes of somebody I would never want to be like is nothing but an absolute success. You see, it's only an uncertain person that needs company and what they do to feel like it's the right thing. But real confidence stems from doing what's best for you,
Starting point is 00:03:39 even if that means doing it alone. My biggest confidence comes from consistently pushing myself and leading no gap between what needs to be done. And what I do on day 1962 in a row of running every morning, look who's out here with me. Not a soul. That's just fine. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Starting point is 00:04:11 There's no magic pill. And there are no three easy payments of $9.99. If you want something, if you want to be good at something, you want to accomplish something, you've got to put in the time. And the minimum amount of time that you can put in is an hour a day of dedicated practice for six straight months. If you want to be good at something,
Starting point is 00:04:32 you've got to do it every day. Like we look at people like LeBron James. Why is he good at basketball? Because he does it every day. You look at Wayne Grexky in hockey. Why was Wayne so good in hockey, arguably the greatest of all time? Because he did it every day. And so my number one piece of advice to people, if you want to be good at something,
Starting point is 00:04:51 whatever that thing that you desire is, whatever your passion is, do it every single day. That's the real secret to success. Hustle is putting it all in a line. Hustle is waking up one day the day before you die. realizing you gave it your all until the parenting of your children, the building of your businesses, the philanthropy that you wanted to do. Whatever you define, it's just, you know, all in. There's a difference between something missing and am I satisfied? Right? Because I'm not satisfied. I mean, I always want to go. Like I never, I never get done with the end of the day and go,
Starting point is 00:05:25 cool, mission accomplished. Like it's the job of close. Yeah. E.T. Aren't you ready to take a break? Yes. I might be, but listen to me. I can't. Why? Because I'm I grind for Jayland. I grind for Jada. I grind for Didi. I grind for my mother. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? I grind for Vanessa.
Starting point is 00:05:43 I hustle for, so the days I want to hit that alarm clock, I think about my why. I can't quit. Achilles were like the kiss of death. Yes. Athletes. I don't know if I can do this. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:05:57 There's so many factors. There's the surgery that has to take place. The surgery has to go well. Right. And then just it's a tendon. I'm not dealing with anything. anything that's muscular, things that I can control. I can't control attendance.
Starting point is 00:06:08 You know what I'm saying? So, like, I don't know. It's a long, long process. But, like, when I went in the trainer's room, my kids are in there, and, you know, they're looking at you and stuff, and I'm looking at them, and I'm like, you know, it's all right. It's going to be all right. It'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:06:24 It'll be all right. It'll be all right. It'll be all right. As a parent, you've got to set the example. You got to set the example. This is another obstacle. This obstacle cannot do it. find me it's not going to cripple me it's not going to be responsible for me
Starting point is 00:06:39 stepping away for the game that I love I'm gonna step away on my own terms and that's when the decision was made that you know what I'm doing it doing it champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank that's the difference between the greats that's what separates them when they don't have no more when it's over when they're tired when they're frustrated when they're ready to give up when they spent their last dime, that's when they get started. Are you hearing me?
Starting point is 00:07:08 It's when you have nothing left. It's when you depleted all your money. When all your energy go, when you have nothing left, that's when it's showtime. When you find the way out of no way, when you find breathe breath that you don't have, when you find energy that did not exist, when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. You still got work to do. Stay on that basketball court.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Stay on that football field. All the homies texting and calling and trying to make you feel bad about being so focused. It's grind season, honey. It's not about today. It's about the future. You do the work now. Do the work now. And all of the shit that you could ever want to do for your family, your kids, your loved ones,
Starting point is 00:07:56 it's all going to be on a whole other stratosphere. You've got to take ownership of what's going on in your life. when you're not where you want to be, and you say it's because the boss doesn't like you, or it's because the girl treated you this way, or the guy did this, like all those things, you've got to take ownership of them. And if you're blaming all these other external things, you're not going to make any changes. And that's going to be a problem. And that's the problem, too.
Starting point is 00:08:22 If you're chronically rejected by people, it's often because of your own insufficiencies. You know, whether that's cowardice or lack of social skills or whatever it is. It's like you can't just brush it off as, oh, well, you don't. no one likes me but really I'm okay. It's like no no wrong if everyone rejects you there's probably something wrong and it's probably deep and difficult and it's gonna be horrible to fix and so this isn't a trivial problem it's not a trivial problem at all. Todd I'm sorry all right I screwed up I know I screwed up I oh great of course here it comes you can't keep doing this you can't keep doing
Starting point is 00:09:00 things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay. You need to be better. But yet you're fully committed to sabotaging yourself and your career. Then you're sitting back stressed out and depressed, wondering why. Why ain't things happening? That's the answer. I just gave it to you. It's about as real as it gets. The question is, what are you going to do next week, two weeks from now? You're in your own world. You're in your own way. You are the reason your career is not on the next level. Nobody else but you. When you don't have a true appreciation and acceptance for who you are and you allow yourself to be immobilized by fear, what happens in the process is that you begin to abuse yourself.
Starting point is 00:10:00 You begin to sabotage your life, you begin to sabotage your dreams, you begin to unconsciously work against yourself. You become your own worst enemy. So what do you do about that? Well, you begin to realize that your dream and your gifts have so much meaning and so much value for you till your hunger for them will begin to push you past the field. Your hunger to have them will give you a special drive. You might be sitting there wondering if you're going to wake up tomorrow and do it than you said you would.
Starting point is 00:10:38 But why on earth would you wonder? This thing you're so uncertain about is literally you. There's nothing in this world you have more control over than yourself. But if you decide to wake up every day, surrender that control to chance. I guess you'll be stuck wondering forever. This disconnect between you and you is unnecessary, though. The pattern of hoping you fulfill the role of a better you and disobeying that desire every time
Starting point is 00:11:09 is completely in your hands it is a recipe for no self-respect so there's some certainty within yourself that needs to be built that's not going to happen by accident you ask yourself
Starting point is 00:11:29 what do you have to do to be successful I'll tell you've never looked at yourself in the mirror and say you let you die until you get to that point You let you die. You're never, you're not brave enough. You want to put it on somebody else.
Starting point is 00:11:48 The reason why I'm not successful is because of my boss. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said, I'm not getting up on time. I'm not going to work on time. I'm not putting me in 120% when I'm at work. I let me down. You always want to blame other people. You always want to hold other people to the fire,
Starting point is 00:12:05 but you're not holding yourself to the fire. You just said you give a 50%. You owe you an explanation. You owe you an explanation. You need to look at you. yourself in the mirror and say why are you only giving 50% what's wrong with you you need to put yourself on punishment you need to tell you no more TV no more snacks no more desserts no more we working out now no more alcohol not right now not no I can't handle it right now you need to
Starting point is 00:12:30 tell you that you owe you something versus you most of us we live in a box and we don't want to go outside that box at all ever outside Outside that box is all these possibilities of life. What we do is we shackle our mind. We are a prisoner in our own mind. This is all I can do. This is all I'm good at. And we take away the possibility that you could be this, you can be that, you can be all these things.
Starting point is 00:13:05 And I never thought at 300 pounds I could be negative soon. So if my mind was shackled, me and you would never meet. There'd be no book. There'd be no book. there'd be nothing. So what people are saying is that they live for themselves, not knowing that you have the power within yourself to change millions of lives by facing life, by facing yourself.
Starting point is 00:13:30 If you're struggling, if you're frustrated with yourself, if you're at that point where you're so sick of yourself and your excuses, I've been there, Stephen's been there, this is a normal part of the human experience. And at some point, either the pain is going to get big enough, or you're going to bump into somebody's story somewhere on this planet who has been in the position that you're in right now, facing the stuff that you're facing right now,
Starting point is 00:14:03 and there is something about their story at this exact moment in time that will ignite something in you that is missing, and what is missing in you right now is hope. If you set your own value of what you believe about yourself, if you think that you're worthless, if you're not very good at it, other people pick that up. It doesn't matter what lifestyle you have.
Starting point is 00:14:26 It doesn't matter what walk a life you have. No matter what you do, if you allow excuses to tell you what to do, that ultimately the excuses have more control of you than what you have of yourself. So get up, work hard, put some. effort into what you want out of life because all you have is you all you have is what you have inside don't wait for somebody to tell you what to do you know what you need to do get out there and get it done because that's ultimately what it's going to take you have to have the courage the will
Starting point is 00:14:59 and everything you have inside to get to the level and beyond the level you want to be life does not stop until they put you on the ground my friend strong mind is a catalyst for change When you see the best athletes in the world either perform really well or on the other hand completely bomb out It's because of that muscle that lives between the ears. It's interesting to me that the comfortable route is seen as the safest path But the undeniable disenoyment that comes from giving up the ideals of the true self Doesn't seem so safe to me Don't indulge in the comfort that will be more effort because that comfort is nothing but a lie.
Starting point is 00:15:47 So what kinds of things, what kinds of thoughts are you feeding your consciousness? What kind of things are you putting in your mind that will enable you to either move forward or to justify why you are staying where you are? What really breaks my heart is how stuck people are. And that there are things you can do. do to change your life for the better. And if you don't have hope and you don't have this breakthrough where you have for just a millisecond, this insight where you go, well, what if things did work out?
Starting point is 00:16:30 If you don't have that moment, most people stay so stuck in resignation. So it's time to come face to face with pain. Put yourself in the mirror and ask yourself how much more can you take? Because what hurt you, what tried to cripple you and kill you, only made you stronger. You have the capacity to whatever comes up, to handle it, to face it. And rather than feeling powerless, you begin to feel powerful. My content creators, my entrepreneurs, my musicians, come on, my keynote speakers, my captains of industries, my CEOs, from the captain to the cashier, there is more in you. Stay at home father, stay at home mother, lawyer, doctor, hygienist, author, I don't know who you are, where you're from, but there's more in you.
Starting point is 00:17:32 You may be hurting. Maybe dying on the ends, you still got life left. You are starting out, I think you got to find the thing that's the pain. And like, pain motivates significantly faster and stronger than pleasure does. Like people are like, no, passion's the right way. It's like, point a gun at a family member. All of a sudden, 10 out of 10 motivation. Pain.
Starting point is 00:17:55 And so, like, I think people should use their pain more. What matters is at some point, you have to identify what you want to do and you've got to become the best in the world at that, period. And so you say in your life, well, something grips you and fills you with interest. And you think, well, should I do that? And the answer is, if not that, then something. What if it's a mistake? It's a mistake. Rest assured.
Starting point is 00:18:22 What do you know? You're going to stumble around, right? And what's going to happen is this. You're going to move to you're going to not stay in stasis. You're not going to wander around in circles. And I see people like that. They said, well, I never knew what to do. And now I'm 40.
Starting point is 00:18:35 It's like, that's not so good. That's not so good. And you might say, well, 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. We have these idealized versions of purpose that I think Instagram and all this stuff kind of make terrible. But, like, I think there's a lot of honor and work, period. And I think a lot of people fool themselves by thinking that what they do for some reason is not harm. If you build, you're building the muscle either way.
Starting point is 00:19:11 You're either building the muscle that says, I do what I say, I keep the commitments that I make, or you're building the muscle that says, I make excuses, I don't do what I say. I can't be counted on, right? And so when we think about discipline, it's really about what promises are you going to keep. And the tricky thing is you're keeping promises to yourself. that nobody even knows that you made, right? It's not like, hey, you made this, if I don't write this book by this time, like, you know, I have to do this embarrassing thing or, you know, then I'll retire.
Starting point is 00:19:53 You know, they're not even, you're not really putting your ass on the line in that sense, but you've said to yourself you're going to do this thing and building that muscle is really important. I mean, sometimes you have to let other people's dreams for your life die, for years to live. And for me, it was like when I When I continued to every day Not want to wake up, that was my Wake up call where I was like Either I continue to live this way and not
Starting point is 00:20:15 want to be alive Or I just risked the fact that I will die to everybody else. And I think that that like it was the hardest decision in my entire life. By far. All the hard stuff we went through. Still the hardest decision of my life. Is your foundation and your fundamental principles
Starting point is 00:20:32 So strong that if this thing was to go away. Could you still create happiness and success all over again? If your foundation and principles are extremely strong, no matter what endeavor it is, you look at the most successful people in business and everything else, they've gone to do multiple things that have allowed them to create different levels of happiness within that confined circle. You know, Michael had basketball. Then he had the shoe brand. Now he's got other, now he's got other endeavors.
Starting point is 00:21:15 He's involved in, you know, a lot of philanthropy things. The competitive nature doesn't stop. And everybody thinks you can only be happy with one certain aspect in your life. You can create happiness in multiple things in your life. And if it gets to the point where it is burning you out, that means it's time for you for that you are no longer, obsessed with that thing anymore and it's time for you to become obsessed with something else. So my obsession became that humans are the ultimate adaptation machine. We are literally wired
Starting point is 00:21:48 from the ground up in order to grow and improve under stress and pressure. So it's like, what's the phrase? Pressure can burst pipes, but it also creates diamonds. So it's like you need the pressure. And yes, it can hurt, but it can also make something amazing if you're willing to put yourself in that situation. So it's a weird twist of fate that humans, um, to, in order to build the muscle you first have to tear it. Right? Yes. So, but once you accept that that's how it works,
Starting point is 00:22:15 you can do extraordinary things. The satirical and the ironic and the troublemaker, the comedian, the fool, the fool is the precursor to the Savior. Why? Because you're a fool when you start something new. And so if you're not willing to be a fool, then you'll never start anything new. And if you never start anything new, then you won't develop. And so the willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation.
Starting point is 00:22:37 And that's the same as humility. So if you're going to write your destiny, you can do a bad first job. You're going to get smarter as you move forward. They really want what they want and they really end up getting what they want because they have to have it. They're obsessed about it. And anytime they're obsessed about it, they start figuring out creative ways to get what they want. If it's a girl, if it's a business, if it's a position, if it's a certain success, if it's accolades, if it's a certain place they want to be, if it's a certain lifestyle they want, they're going to figure out a way to get it.
Starting point is 00:23:08 they're obsessive. They have to have it. They're just wired that way. I was saying what I said earlier about like, I believe these things to be true about the universe or like the world. But a lot of those are like, what do I believe about myself? Which is like, I can choose to do work in this way, which then I can derive joy from. So like, if I'm shoveling shit, I can choose to be like, I will be the best shit shoveler because I believe that I will figure out how to do this more efficiently and I will, you know, I will get better and I'll have calisos on my hands and I'll have a better back and whatever. But I will do this well.
Starting point is 00:23:38 And I think you can find joy in work if you decide to do. Going back to the only belief that matters, you said it. It's your, the way you act is ultimately all that matters. And the way you act follows what you allow yourself to believe. Maybe a better way to say it is what you choose to believe. So if you choose to believe that your energy and efforts will result in more skill set, then you will actually put energy and effort into getting that, which means you actually will get the skill set.
Starting point is 00:24:04 But if you think, well, my talent and intelligence are fixed. So no matter how much I work, I'm never going to get better right. If you don't think that putting time and energy into it will yield anything, then you won't put time and energy into it, and you thusly won't get the skills. So if you don't have the skills, then you can't do the things other people can do. And so people just get stuck because they don't have the only belief that matters. So they don't put the time and energy.
Starting point is 00:24:26 And so that's like where everything starts is, are you putting the time and energy into getting better yes or no? If you didn't withdraw in fear from everything that life threw at you, who could you become? Thinking, overthinking, and when you overthink, usually you don't go to the positive. If you make all the right decisions, but you have, like, you absolutely think that it's impossible for you, but you still do the right things, you will win. Mediocrity always attacks excellence. Rule. You know, it's kind of a rule.
Starting point is 00:25:01 No one's attacking a couch potato. But the moment you start to walk toward your dream and you start to break habits, you start to change relationships that no longer serve that dream, you start to be talked about. Now, many people are afraid of failure, which really means that they're afraid of being ridiculed.
Starting point is 00:25:22 But once you become aware that you're going to be ridiculed if you fail and you're going to be talked about if you succeed, then you're able to put that aside. Because you know you're going to be talked about either way. No matter what, yeah. Or if you go forward and succeed, they'll say, oh, it was luck, you know, whatever they say about you. So once you get out of your mind or become aware that people are going to talk about you either way, then you go for it.
Starting point is 00:25:48 You're alive, here you are. You've got these problems to contend with. And if it's an impossible task, then how could you be anything but hopeless and desperate? But then you think, well, wait a second. How would things transform if I took this on as a voluntary adventure, regardless of its scope, and the scope would include unjust suffering, death, and hell? And that's not just some religious or metaphysical vision. It's like, no, no, you're actually going to have to contend with that in your life.
Starting point is 00:26:21 In whatever way those things make themselves manifest to you personally. That's common, man. And so maybe you better get prepared. So you can't say you want to be successful. You can't say there are certain dreams and goals. There are things you want to have and things you want to be if you are still average. Success and average have absolutely nothing to do to you. This is what I'm telling you.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Your boss can't stand average. Your coach can't stand average. Your teacher can't stand average. Your spouse, listen to me, your mama might put up with it. Your daddy might put up with it. But listen to me very closely. Nobody really likes average. Some people have a problem for every solution.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Some people don't believe that they can achieve at a high level. Some people are okay doing what average people do, doing just enough to get by. But that's not you. You have dreams, you have goals, you have aspirations, you have desires. And you are taking action to make all of you. your dreams a reality. If you practice forthright and voluntary
Starting point is 00:27:38 exposure to that which terrifies and dismayes you, it transforms you. Much of the biochemistry of motivation and emotion is transformed when you take a stressor which could
Starting point is 00:27:54 be oppressive and paralyze you and cause you to withdraw and you reverse that, you decide to advance. It's like a different spirit inhabits you. And I mean this physiologically, there's a whole different pattern of being that makes itself manifest in you
Starting point is 00:28:10 neurologically and psychophysiologically and pharmacologically. So you take it on as a challenge. Right? And that transforms you at a cellular level, too, because one of the things we've discovered in recent years is that if you do something new and complex, then that turns on new. that parts of your DNA that haven't produced proteins before will start producing new proteins
Starting point is 00:28:35 and reconstruct you from the cellular level up. So it's a deep transformation. We have no idea how deep. And again, you could ask yourself, if you didn't withdraw in fear from anything that, from everything that life threw at you, who could you become? The only belief that matters is that if I put energy and effort into getting better, I actually will get better. And so you can look at anything and say, okay, maybe I stuck at this right now, which was the key realization for my life. Okay, I actually am not good. Like my father-in-law wasn't crazy. I really wasn't anywhere useful for his daughter at that time. My mom wasn't crazy.
Starting point is 00:29:17 I really was lazy. So she was just picking up on the fact that I was tremendously lazy. She wanted me to be successful, but she was just looking at my behavior. And so I hadn't been misidentified. People just didn't calculate how much I could change and that I would so grasp on to the ability to change as an emotional life raft. And so the big switch was that I decided to believe that I could get better. And once I made that decision,
Starting point is 00:29:43 it aligned my behaviors with skill acquisition. And that's all life is. Acquire skills. It's time to stay focused. It's time to decide clubs, party, and trying to fit in and socialize, rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. Why are you so anti-social?
Starting point is 00:30:07 Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you staying on the basketball court so much? Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun when ain't nobody else out there? Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing? Like, every time I text you and invites you to go do something fun and cool,
Starting point is 00:30:24 you always studying because I'm trying to get it. I'm just thinking how funny it is where I'm going to be tomorrow morning and my competition. Still drinking down their fears and they're trying to escape their current reality, you know, Friday night party. So they're going to go out there and party it up and everything else to find some relief to the stressful life they live in. That's a bullshit temporary relief. I'm working tonight for a permanent relief.
Starting point is 00:30:51 That's why I laugh. I'll have on how much further I'm getting ahead of it. Mental toughness isn't something that you sample. It's something that you live in every day. So when something hard would happen to these kids, like in Hell Week, it would draw on something that made them very insecure. And they look for comfort. Whenever hardness comes, and you don't know what it is.
Starting point is 00:31:15 It may be different for you than this for me, but you go back to your insecurities. And then when you go back to your insecurities, And then when you go back to the insecurities, you then look for comfort within those insecurities. And we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad, when you were sick. We look for our wife or our husband.
Starting point is 00:31:34 We look for comfort. It's in those moments. You must retrain your mind to think differently. What if I told you this was the last Monday morning of your life? How do you stay driven? I'm going to ask you a question. How don't you stay driven? Let me get this right.
Starting point is 00:31:52 You won the lotto of the universe, which is you are a human being on Earth. And you're not driven, and you're not fired up, and you're not going for it, and you're willing to sit like a lump and just wait till you die, you suck.

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