Motivation Daily by Motiversity - TIME TO FOCUS AND VALUE YOURSELF - Powerful Motivational Speech | Eric Thomas

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

TIME TO FOCUS AND VALUE YOURSELF IN 2025! Stop wasting your life and start focusing on making small changes that add up over time. It's time you start doing what you need to do to live your best life. One of the Best Motivational Speeches by Eric Thomas. Edited by Motiversity.Special thanks to Lewis Howes for providing the interview:https://www.youtube.com/@lewishowesSpeakerEric Thomashttps://www.youtube.com/user/etthehiphoppreacherhttps://twitter.com/Ericthomasbtchttps://www.instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher/https://www.facebook.com/etthehiphoppreacherhttp://etinspires.com/Music:Really Slow Motion Buy their music:iTunes: http://bit.ly/1ee3l8KSpotify: http://bit.ly/1r3lPvNBandcamp: http://bit.ly/1DqtZSoSoundstripe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. You are running out of time. Listen to me, you're running out of time. You never know when your opportunity is that opportunity. It may not be two years from now. It may not be three years from now. It may not be four years from now. Your opportunity might come in the next six weeks.

My man told his grandfather, I'm graduating in two weeks later, even before he literally marched. His grandfather passed. Who's going to pass in your life because you average? Who's not going to see you blow up? Who's not going to see you accomplish your goals? Who's not going to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor with you? And one day you're going to be great, but you think you got time. You think you got time.

AET, three years from now, I'm telling you, you deserve to be great now. Some of you will never be. You'll never have. You'll never do because you're sitting around waiting on a phone call, because you're sitting around waiting for somebody to give you an opportunity. Your opportunity to get your mama out of that neighborhood and get your mama into a new neighborhood, listen to me. That opportunity might come in the next six months. You knew it's your job, and you're like, E.T. Look, I just got here.

I got forever. Listen to me very closely. You got to hear me. You might be at that job another 10 years. You might be there another 20 years. But that opportunity, somebody's about to leave and get another job. Hear me very closely. Somebody's about to quit.

Somebody's about to get fired. And you will not, listen to me, you will not be ready at that particular moment to go to the next level. Question is, would you be ready when that opportunity comes? So you're running out of time. There's a certain determination. There's a certain level of resiliency, a pounce back, a get back up that you have to have to reach certain levels of success. It's about being prepared beforehand so that when the opportunity comes, you are ready, ready for the opportunity.

It's not playing. Call of duty and waiting by and putting the phone by you, waiting for somebody to pick up the phone and call you. That's not what it's about. Preparation. We're getting prepared just in case the opportunity comes. I don't want to start practicing on the opportunity. I want to practice before, so when the opportunity comes, I can stroke it.

Are you hearing what I'm saying? You are who you are in practice when you play. And if you hadn't practiced, then when it's time to play, your play is going to be practiced. You heard me, your play is going to be practiced. So it's working in the off season. It's doing what you got to do in the off season. So in the regular season, come you ready, you heard me say it before. I am an athlete.

I am a professional. So whether there's a game or not, I wake up and shoot. I heard a little kid called me last week. He said, E.T. Thanks, bro. I got up today at 5 o'clock in the morning, and I'm practicing my soccer game. He said, but guess what? that's not what's important. He said, I'm not on the team, Eric.

He said, I didn't make the soccer team, but I'm getting up at 5 o'clock. Every morning practice it as if I made it. There are two types of people. There are people who plan for events, and when the events don't show up, they don't show up. And then there's another group that's hungry, and they want it as bad as they want to breathe.

And whether there's an event or not, they're getting up. Whether there's an opportunity or not, they're getting up and getting dressed. They're getting up, they're getting out, and they're going to make it happen. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? I don't plan for events, I plan because it's a part of the process.

I plan because I'm a professional. I plan because I create my own luck. You ain't gotta rely on nobody to get off average but you. So if I was to ask most of you, you already know what you're challenging. You ain't dumb, you know what it is. You just don't fight it. And at what point are you going to fight against that

that nature in you that you know? And you had a power to be great. It's in you, you capable of it. Now, you have to understand if you stay average, You stay average and you stay good. You'll never get to where you're trying to get to. And I'm challenging you to fight it. We all have 24 hours.

What makes some of us average, makes some of us good, some are great. It's not the family you was born into. Right? It has nothing to do with that. It had nothing to do with your social economic status. It has everything to do with how you command your life. People act as if if you grow up in a house where your parents are rich, You're automatically, bro, we can look at people who grew up in wealth.

They own drugs too. They make bad decisions too. Unfortunately, they take their lives as well. It doesn't matter where you come from. If you don't activate you, the environment doesn't matter anyway. It's the mindset. And so when I look back, like I had a victim mindset. Like everything was about somebody else.

all the anger and the frustration and the hurt, it was all blaming. Everything was about this person or that person or this person. Everything that's supposed to blow me up and take me to the next level is somebody else's responsibility. I never even realized I was where I was because of who I was. And I was actually getting the physical manifestations of my thoughts, of my feelings, my emotion. Like, I was creating this and didn't even realize. I thought my mom created it. I thought my final creator.

It's like, no, E, you created this. And I'm going to tell you, the moment I realized, you are the greatest common denominator. Like, you're the common denominator. Once that realization hit me, it was like, oh, okay, you got some confessing to do, bro. And I'm going to tell you the hardest thing that I've ever done, somebody asked me the other day, like,

what's one of the hardest things you ever done? The hardest thing I've ever done was look in the mirror and tell myself I was sorry. And so the Eric Thomas that you've seen, that dude is the dude that looked himself in the mirror. It's like, yo, you owe yourself an apology. You owe yourself correction. You owe yourself change.

You need to be taught. You need to be trained. You need to become a better human. That was one of the most difficult days of my life. I was looking at myself, correcting myself, telling myself I was sorry, and then moving forward saying, now what are we going to do from this point?

You always blame somebody, but why? And the reason why is because it was easier to put it on my mom and my dad than for me to have to do the work. Because what I didn't realize as a young adult is that when you say it's somebody else, whether you mean to do it or not, you give them the keys to your life. You said it. They didn't do this because they didn't because they got the keys. Feel this word, vision. It means the ability to see.

The end before you even get started. And that's what I need y'all to do for me. Like, don't look, don't get so caught up on, you know, counting the cost. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. No, I want you to see the vision. I want you to see the full picture and then we're going to walk into it. Like I had a vision of getting the GED, a vision of getting a four-year degree, a vision.

Listen to me, it just didn't happen on its own. I had to see it first, a vision of traveling across the world. I'm trying to tell you if I can do it, anybody can do it, but it's not working harder. You need to be more disciplined about your minds. You're already in pain. Get a reward for it. Look, do we in favor? Everything you say, you're right.

But why go through life with whatever people did to you when you were younger or a young adult? And then you have to live with it for the next 40, 50 years. All the stuff that you said was absolutely right. My daddy wasn't there. My mama did this. This person did to me. Why would you let them destroy your life? Let's go.

Why would you let them own you? Why would you allow that thing they did to hurt you? Now I'm defying your life. It's like, no, I was in pain. It's real. And so I'm saying to everybody. We all go through pain. Some of us go through pain and it becomes our tombstone.

Some of us go through pain and it's a scar. And we live a life of reward. So I'm just going to say, you've got to deal with all of that. Because when you get here, you get to this level, you ain't practicing no more. You either got it or you don't. You don't even realize it's a blessing that you're not there yet. Because had you got to where you wanted to get to, most of you might lose it. They looked at the most successful men and women of the world. And they found that they had like seven, eight things in common. And one of the

things they all had in common was a routine. They are obsessed with their routine. They don't have a gap of wasted time in routine. You know, I realize the reason why I'm so successful And the reason why I don't get in trouble like I used to when I was younger is because when I was younger, man, my schedule has so many gaps in. Devil had like, okay, he might pray at six, but my man is watching deep. He's playing video games by 8.30. It's not that I'm sweeter than nobody. The devil can't get to me because all my time is taken up.

And by the time he gets to me, I'm asleep. I'm too sleep to out of the sin. I'm just being real 8.30. He's like, Eric, you should. I'm like, bro. Come back to me tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? Like, tip me tomorrow, bro.

I'm about to go to sleep. I'm good. My body said, oh, you got to put your shoes on. That's the hardest thing you got to do. Put your shoes on and I'll do the rest. I can't put your shoes on for you, but put your shoes on and then just go. And I just went and I was walking for the, I do the 11 incline boy. And I was just walking for an hour.

And I was just like, you know what? It's almost an hour. I don't feel like running. My body was like, don't you worry about it. We'll get to that when we get to you. I did my hour. I was about to get off. My body was like, you know we run now.

I said, what? We run now, let's go. You ain't tired? I said, I am tired. No, you're not. You just walk for an hour. You're not tired, Eric. Your brain is telling you some dumb stuff.

If you were tired, you wouldn't have been able to walk for an hour. Okay, so let's do this. Just run for two minutes. How to help somebody right now go to a whole other level? The reason why you go back to sleep is because you always go back to sleep. It's like a default. You go, you go back to sleep because you always, all you got to do is stop going to sleep, and then you're going to stop going to sleep.

All you got to do is stop fussing. All you got to do is stop fussing. in custody you're gonna stop fussing in and cussing. All you gotta do is stop spending all the money you got and start saving it. Listen to me, I became number one in the world. I became a millionaire not because I made more money. I became a millionaire because they told me millionaires only live off of a 30% of their income.

I want to make it playing for you. I became a millionaire because I did what millionaires did. I stopped living off 100%. I paid my tithe and then I was like, all right, e, you only got 20% left. 20% left. Put the rest up. So the first thing I did, listen to me, the very first thing I did to become rich, somebody said, E, to be rich, put six months of your earning to the side.

So I was like, all right, bad, that's what the rich told me to do, so I put six months to the side. How long did it take? I don't remember, but I put it to the side. Then somebody was like, yo, E, you need to put 100,000 to the side. I was like, all right, 100,000. D, we're going to put 100,000 to the side. Then somebody was like, yo, you need to get your credit score up to 800.

I was like, all right, you get my credit score, pay on you. Then somebody said, E.T. if you want to be Tony Roberts, there's no way you'll be able to be like those juniors when we don't have the language they have. You're going to get your master's in a PhD from a white institution. I said, what? I went to Oakwood. I went to HBCU. He was like, yeah, but you didn't learn the language of Zig Zig or at Oakwood.

So Oakwood is a phenomenal plate. Oh, y'all not hear what I'm saying. I just said something, you missed it. Now you need to go to Michigan State University. C.J. Where's my, you see my master's? degree anywhere about my PhD not in the office not at church you didn't see it in my house I didn't go to Michigan State to get a PhD I went to Michigan State to learn the majority language listen to me very closely when you graduate and you

get a job if you want to get paid you never say no you never say it can't get done don't you ever say out your mouth it can't get done even if you feel in your heart it can't get done you don't say it out live you let the broke folks say that You let the folks they find first to that. You always say it can get done. Even if you don't think it can get done, just say it and try to make up something. But every time I put on a dress shirt and button it up, I just feel, and I hear people say all the time, man, you look like you dressed a success.

I'm like, is putting on a shirt and the tie dress for success? I'm dressed for success. I'm getting paid. I'm dressed for success. I'm not dressed like he dressed, but I'm dressed the way I feel comfortable. I feel good being mean. I feel good not to have to fight. Not only can I say no, I don't have to explain why I said it no more.

It feels good being me. Because guess what? I can never be sweet being you. The majority of you are poor because you read poor stuff. You watch poor stuff. You just scrolling through like you ain't got a light. For real, some of y'all on Instagram, you're on there for 30 minutes. If I ask you what you saw, you don't know.

You just scrolling through. Rich people don't waste time. They realize it's their most important commodity. They don't watch a lot of TV. They don't do a lot of entertainment. If they're not working, they're studying their craft and get better at their craft. So I need you to stop having a poverty mindset. So when I quit my job to be an entrepreneur, my mom was like, whoa, what are you doing?

I was like, I'm quick. My mom was like, don't you dare quit. You're going to embarrass me, you've got a wife and kids. Does YouTube have insurance? Does YouTube have a 401K? 401k and I was like your mom I ain't trying to be funny and I ain't trying to be disrespectful I love you but you can't teach me how to be a millionaire because you're not you come from the working class and I'm not mad at you ma we wouldn't be

where we are without you but you told me that every generation is supposed to get better so I'll take your values but I won't take your work at it because rich people don't work they think poor people go clock in I make this much an hour rich people go I put them to work and I make this much an hour See, what happens is you're working for you and your family one. They got 40 of you working at one time. So they're giving you 20% and then they keep in the 80% off of 15,000 people. So what you have to decide is, are you going to keep being the 99%

or are you ready to be a partner with 1%? Because it doesn't make a difference where you come from high school drop out. It doesn't make a difference where you come from GED. It doesn't make a difference where you come from a 17-year-old mom that got pregnant. It doesn't make a difference where you come from. It took 12 years and get a four-year degree. It doesn't take a difference. You know what makes a difference?

What makes the difference is when you become a 99% or a 1% and when I start thinking like, acting like, and behaving like a 1% of it. So I went to every single class, and when the teachers was talking, they thought I was just doing homework. I was listening to how they conjugate verbs. I was listening to how they tell stories.

I was like, ooh, baby, ooh. I peeped it out, y'all. They're way more linear. So I realize when you do corporate is A, B, C, D, E, F. It's one, two, three, four, five. It's topic, body, body, body, it's topic, support, support, support, conclusion. I need your language, though, if I'm going to compete.

I need your rules if I'm going to compete. I need your codes if I'm going to compete. The problem with most of you is you don't have a 1% language. You got a poverty language. There was a language that I needed to learn. Does it mean I need to abandon the language that I learned? Absolutely not. Don't be average.

Like for real, for real. Whatever it is you do, like do it, like do it, and take a different perspective. Listen to me very closely. The problem I have with most kids, if I tell you what it take, most of you will die of exhaustion. You pass out before you reach $5,000.

You just pass out before you reach $5,000. You just pass out. You don't got the heart for it. You just don't have, you don't have a salmon for it. You just, you couldn't take what it really take. Just for those of you don't know, when they came from Africa and were enslaved, they didn't move them to San Diego. They wasn't doing God in San Diego.

I just want to give you some perspective. They were in Mississippi, Alabama. It was smoking hot, and they didn't quit, and they didn't give up, because they said, we're going to get to this for the next generation. Come on. are Latino pros and sisters who were migrant workers. They come on, they and they're in the East. There wasn't no AC.

And the stuff that y'all complained about, the stuff that you think is like hard.