Motivation Daily by Motiversity - Tom Bilyeu's Best Motivational Speeches Compilation - Most Eye Opening Speeches Ever

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

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The link is in the description. As William Arthur Ward said, The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjust the sales. And that's how we all have to be. We need to look at the situation and understand not what personality type are we.

But what are we going to do about it? That any of us, in any moment, We always get to choose how we react. We get to choose our frame of reference. We get to choose whether we're pessimistic. We get to see things in an optimistic way if we want. But at the end of the day, the only thing that really matters is what do you choose to do? And so if you decide to fight the wind, to be angry, to argue about it, to complain,

you're never going to go anywhere other than where the wind wants you to go. But if you remember that we have control, that we can react, that we can react, that we can choose to adjust the sails to harness the wind, to take us where we want to go. And instead of fighting against it wasting energy, we learn how to harness everything around us. And as Alice Walker said, the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. People lose sight of the fact that we always get a choice. No matter what happens in your life, the one thing that you get to choose at all times,

is the meaning that you ascribe to it. No one can take that away. No one but you gets to decide how you react, and your reaction is the bricks by which you build the life that you want. It isn't your intentions, it's not your thoughts, it's simply the things you manifest into the world. As you take action, the world reacts. As you take action, you progress.

As you take action, you learn. As you build, you create things, and as you create things, you can construct a world that matches your vision. But it's understanding that you have that power. It's understanding that you always get a choice. And you lose that power when you give that up. You lose that power when you take the emotional security of complaining,

of negativity, of pessimism. But if instead you're not only optimistic, but you're an action-oriented realist who knows there's always something to do to take advantage of the situation. And that's what I want for you. I want you to understand. You can always take advantage. You can always ask a question as powerful as,

how is this worst thing that happened to me? Actually, the best thing that ever happened to me. And when you flip your mindset like that, nothing in the real world changes, but suddenly you see everything differently. And that thing, that bad thing, you were stressing about it, that you were crying over.

It becomes empowered. It becomes something totally new. And think about the way that you can transform the past simply by thinking about it in a new way. And when you do that, then you're going to be able to maintain your power and even grow your power because it's coming from understanding that if you own your decisions and always respect that you can act, that you can choose to harness any situation.

When you remember that, you're in control. And when you're in control, you can go wherever you want to go. I want to dispel a myth for you. It's the talent myth. It's the belief that some people were just born with more than others, that some people are naturally gifted and some aren't and that's just the way the cookie crumbles and whatever you're going to be is essentially determined by how you started, that your DNA is exactly your destiny. I'm here to tell you right now that's bullshit. It's just not true. It's not the truth of the way that humans are designed as a species were the ultimate adaptation machine. The very thing that puts us at the top of the pyramid is our ability to adapt it is the fact that the brain is plastic that

it responds to change it responds to stressors it responds to repetition and repetition is a slave to obsession as Connor McGregor said there's no talent here this is hard work this is an obsession you could be anyone if you put in the time that's one of the greatest athletes of our time telling you that he's not the result of genetics. He's not the result of natural gifts. He hasn't been bestowed something by God. He has shown up day after day in the most mundane of conditions on the cold days, on the hot days, he put in the work because he was obsessed with what he could become. And that repetition that you need to actually gain a skill follows that obsession. So in you right now, right now today,

you want to start building that obsession. You want to look at it like an emblem. that can become a raging fire, but it needs your time and attention. It needs your time and attention. You've got to take that interest. You've got to take that spark of desire, and you've got to fan the flames. You've got to turn it into that obsession. And from that obsession, if you put in the work,

if you do the things day in and day out, the back-breaking work, pushing through the pain, fighting through, feeling like an idiot, fighting through embarrassment, getting up, brushing yourself off, doing it again, doing it again, practicing, putting yourself at somebody's feet and asking, what could I have done better? Not look at the things that you're doing well, but look at the things you're doing wrong.

Look at the things you're doing poorly, staring at your inadequacies with no loss of pride. Because the only thing you value in yourself is your willingness to do that, your willingness to work your ass off. And as Sylvester Stallone said, I'm not the richest, smartest, or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going. And that's the secret. There's nothing more than that. The people that you see that win at the highest level,

they were the ones that didn't give up. They're the survivors. And you've got to ask yourself, am I a survivor type? Am I the type of person that continues to push through? When it gets hard, when it gets boring, when I feel lost, when I don't know what I'm doing, when I have no faith in myself,

even in that darkest hour, can I push forward? Can I accept that the human body will respond to that stress? It will respond to that stimulus, but I have to show up and I have to do the work. And so that's the beautiful thing. You're not going to separate yourself based on your genetics. You're not going to separate yourself based on who your parents were or where you were born. You're going to separate yourself by showing up when you don't want to.

You're going to separate yourself by pushing forward. when it hurts. You're going to separate yourself by always moving forward, even when the forward is falling on your face. So never lose sight of that. It's the person that keeps going that can't be defeated. Here's the hard truth about getting great. It takes time and dedication. It takes a willingness to accept that you're not yet good enough. It takes the ability to stare at the places that you know that you're weak to really look at those things and not let it affect your sense of self-esteem and not let it affect your sense of self-worth so that you can still get the momentum going. But you have to understand that in the beginning, we're all terrible.

And as Henry Cartier-Bresson said, your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. And so the thing that really makes great art are the people that continue to push and the people that continue to work and face how inadequate they are. and really understand that at the end of the day, greatness is a craft, greatness is a process, greatness is a habit. Greatness is the little things that you do every day, over time, going out every day, unafraid of whether or not

this is one of the 10,000 terrible things that you're going to do. It's being unafraid to make those mistakes. It's being unafraid that you're not yet great. And as Marianne Radmaker said, courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. And that's it. If you want to be great, that's what you have to do.

You've got to get up again tomorrow. You've got to be willing to face another day. You've got to be willing to accept that you've got to get through the bad ideas before you can get to the good. You've got to understand that you have to start as an apprentice. You have to start as a person going and getting tea and you have to accept that that's the job that you should be playing That you should be working for somebody else. You should be looking up to somebody else and seeing what they can teach you because what you know is that you're there to learn What you know is that you're there to get through the 10,000 bad photographs that you need to get through to ultimately achieve greatness and if you make the catastrophic catastrophic error that so many make to try to tell the world that you're extraordinary today,

to try to get the world to follow you and look up to you and think that you're something today. Because the people that really win are the ones that invest today, the ones that listen today, the ones that spend every ounce of their energy amassing mastery, getting better every day, working their asses off to improve their skill set, to relentlessly look at the things that they're not doing well, to understand that they have to break themselves down and get rid of all of their ego before they can really find greatness. Those are the people that we remember. So if you want to be remembered, if you want to achieve real greatness, you just need to have the courage to show up every day and take another swing, take another photo.

Try another task. Do something that scares you. And do those little things over and over and over until you win. As Confucius said, better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. So many people are obsessed with becoming perfect that they never take action. And they never learn to enjoy this moment. That may be one of the greatest tragedies any of us can face. that right now, whatever we are, however we are, however good we are, whatever we've accomplished,

that we fail to enjoy this moment because we have a judgment about who we are deep down because we haven't acted in a way that's perfect. And I get it, we have this drive, it's inaneateness, we want to be great. It's one of the five primary human drivers to pursue mastery, to want to master something and truly be extraordinary. I understand the drive, but don't let it corrode you. Don't ever do something that eats you alive from the inside. You've got to have a vision of yourself that allows you to morph and change and learn from your mistakes,

but if you value perfection over learning, then you're never going to become the person that you'd be capable of becoming. And as Anna Quindlin said, the thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Confucius talks about the diamond for a reason. All of us are something precious and amazing and truly will never be again, given your unique DNA,

the way that you were raised in the time period that you were raised in. You will literally never find this exact mind again. And so if you've ever wanted to feel special, there it is, you are special. No one will ever have that exact combination again. But if you're striving for some notion, of what you should be, some vision of what perfection is and what it means, then you're not going to have this space to really be you,

to find out what it is about you, that's special, that's rare, that isn't like other things, which means that you don't fit in, which means that you are not average, which means you actually have the chance to be extraordinary. If only you open yourself up to being different. When you're willing to be the outcast, suddenly you can think differently, suddenly you can be different and act differently, suddenly you can be so different as to be truly useful because you're coming at something from a

totally unique perspective and that unique perspective to you may be ugly, it may be bent, it may be broken, it may be imperfect, but it's never going to happen again. It's never going to happen again. And when you understand that, live it to the fullest, understand this is it, this is one shot, this is the one you. I literally have the chills right now. Because if you understand, there's only one you and you might as well be you, you might as well see, what does that look like when it's taken all the way to the extreme? It's going to be different than other people. It's going to be ugly at times.

It is going to be broken and flawed in some way, but it's going to be you. It's going to be unique. It's going to be different. It's going to be rare. And so truly, better to be a diamond with a flaw than the perfect pebble. The reality is, if you want to achieve something great in your life, you've got to be willing to accept who you really are. now you've got to know exactly what you're good at and what you're not and the reason

that the truth is going to piss you off is it's going to hurt it's going to hurt to acknowledge that you're not yet who you want to be it's going to hurt to know that you're not yet capable of the things that you want to be capable of and it's really going to hurt to know that the things that people say behind your back the things that they say to hurt you that they're actually true that they're right they have a point you aren't good at that thing you aren't as good as you could be. You did embarrass yourself. You have fallen down. All of those things are almost certainly true. But when you can look at those things, when you can stare

nakedly at your inadequacies, when you can really stop and not protect yourself with ego, but protect yourself by knowing that you're going to learn from where you failed. You're going to learn from the places you've fallen down. You're going to learn your inadequacies so that you can build something new, so that you can move from that place. into a place of purpose, into a place of skill set, where you can dominate the field because you've built those skills. But if you don't first acknowledge that you need to build them, you can never begin the process in earnest.

And as Michi Okaku says, all great ideas come from a picture. You've got to know what you want. You've got to know what that thing is that you're building towards. You've got to know exactly who you're trying to become. And once you have that crystal clear vision of who you're, want to be it is far easier to acknowledge who you really are so you've got to start with that picture you've got to accept the reality pain and all you've got to have

that picture you've got to know where you're going you've got to know what the skills are that you need to build the order to get there and once you do that once you have that picture and that picture is your obsession it's the thing that you think about you dream about you put it up on your wall you tattoo it in your mind you know exactly who you're trying to between come. If you do that, if you're honest with yourself about where you are and you know exactly where you want to go, you can go anywhere. As Kendrick Lamar said, it was always me versus the world until I found it's me versus me. I think that's where most of us start. We think that there's

something outside that we're struggling against. We think that literally the world is against us and we're raging against something, but we don't even know what that thing is that we're raging against. And as you fight and try to make your way and as you try to accomplish something incredible, you find that you're not making any headway. And that moment that you finally begin to break through and build something extraordinary in that moment, the realization is that it was always you trying to figure out how to become the best version of yourself. And once you grasp that, once you let the noise die away, once you stop worrying about what other people think, what other people want, what other people have accomplished, what other

people have, once you let go of all of that and ask one simple question, how extraordinary can I become? What am I capable of? What are my limits? How far can I push myself in this time that I have on this earth exactly how much of my potential So can I ring out of myself? And by that I don't mean something mystical. By that I mean how much can I become capable of?

How far can I push myself? What can I build? How can I change this world? But all by doing one simple thing, pushing myself to get better every day. And as Napoleon Hill said, strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. So the irony is when you let go of trying to please the world, when you let go of trying to change the world, when you stop trying to move mountains, you will realize that a far, harder struggle awaits you.

And that struggle is becoming something new. That struggle is becoming something different. That struggle is re-centering yourself, finding out who you are, building yourself piece by piece, until finally you realize what it takes to actually become a better version of yourself. realize that it takes nothing less than your everything, your total commitment, every bit of focus that you have, a willingness to break yourself down so that you can build yourself back up. But if you're willing to put in that effort, if you're willing to transform, if you're willing to change and fight and struggle, you will be rewarded with growth. You'll be rewarded with improvement.

You'll be rewarded with the ability to close your eyes, imagine a world, and then open your eyes and make that world come true. As Maya Angelou said, if you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. That's some of the best advice you're ever going to hear. At the end of the day, you should always be trying to change the things that you have the ability to change. there are inevitably going to be things that you can't change,

but you're never helpless. You're never a victim. In that moment, you still have the unbelievable ability to choose to look at it in a new way, to choose to reframe it. And in that reframing, you change everything. You don't just change your own neurochemistry.

You're not just changing the way that you feel. You're actually changing the way that you're going to approach the problem. Something that was moments before, something that seemed impossible, something that was breaking your will to continue, to fight with a change in attitude becomes something completely different. And as Hans Selye said, adopting the right attitude can turn a negative stress into a positive one.

And that game of mental jujitsu is what it's about. That game of flipping something on its head, of turning something around, of seeing it in a new way so that you can act in a new way is how you make forward progress. And understanding that, understanding the need to take control of your perceptions, understanding that, understanding your need to change your perspective, that's how you begin to get ahead. Once you understand your perspective is a choice, it is not objective truth. Burn that into your mind. It is not objective truth. The world that you see around you is simply the perspective

through which you see it. All of life is a fun house mirror. And when you acknowledge that, when you understand that you're looking at a distorted view of the way the world is, you realize that you can adopt a different distortion. You can adopt a distortion that allows you to see things more clearly that allow you to see things in a way that empower you. And that should always be the first step as figuring out not what is, not what you can change, but instead understanding what you need to change it to. And understanding that that change comes from inside you. It isn't a manifestation that you have to make in the outside world first. It's a change you have to make inside yourself. It is a shift of perspective.

It is simply stepping to the side of what you're used to and how you're used to seeing things and understanding that in reframing things, you take that negative and turn it into something that builds you up. But you've got to choose. You've got to decide. You've got to believe that you can do it. But once you believe that you can see things in any way that you need to to reach your goals, your life will change forever. because you'll actually reach your goals. As Martin Luther said, even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree. Some things you build, whether you can control the outcome or not. Sometimes it's the process that is the thing that's meant to be enjoyed. It's the process that you're meant to invest in. And rather than always thinking about the goal, the outcome, or what you're going to get out of something, focus on the something.

Focus on the part of it that you can control because you can't always control the outcome. You can't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Tomorrow's not guaranteed to any of us. And yet we all act. And yet we create momentum in our lives when we're at our best. But we do that not because we can control every aspect.

We do that because we accept that there are things that we cannot control. And as Steve Mariboli said, incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. And that's where a lot of people get lost. They focus not on what they have in their hands.

They focus instead on the things that they can't control. It irritates them, it frustrates them. It's like a splinter in their mind. They can't stop thinking about the things that they don't have control over. And they're blinded to the incredible wealth that is around them of things that they could enjoy right here, right now. That's why gratitude is such an empowering practice to sit there and not think of the glorious

things may await you in your future, but rather to think about the things that you have here in this moment. Oxygen in your lungs, a simple breeze on your face, a window in your house, someone that you love, someone that loves you. Nothing that costs money, nothing that was the pot of gold at the end of a glorious rainbow. It's not even about becoming something extraordinary and waiting for the results of that. simply understanding that the one thing you can control are your actions today, the choices that you make, what you get to do, how you think about yourself, the beliefs you choose to bring

into your life, those things you control. And when you understand the power in acknowledging that control and taking control and using it, that's when your life is going to begin to change. But first, you have to divorce yourself from being obsessively interested only in an outcome. If instead you build your self-esteem, you build your pride on pursuit, you build your pride on allowing yourself to care about something so deeply that even though tomorrow is not guaranteed, that you're going to plant your apple tree today, that you're going to love that process because it is the thing that you can control. You can control how you show up.

You can control how you play. You cannot control how other people react. You cannot control what they think about you. But you can control what you think about yourself. You can earn credibility with yourself. You can control what you do. And when you take full ownership of that and realize that your life is an exact reflection of your choices, of the things that you could control and what you did with them, then

everything begins to change. You're not looking to blame somebody else. You're not even worried about anybody else. You're just asking one simple question, what can I do right now, regardless of tomorrow, to improve my life today? Focus there and you'll enjoy every day of your life. I want you to burn into your nervous system the following statement because it is a fundamental truth of the human condition.

It is literally the baseline physics of what it means to be a person. As Earl Nightingale said, we become what we think about. And that's an idea that I want you to hold firmly in your mind. That's something that I really. want you to internalize. I really want you to stop right now. Whatever you're doing, I want you to stop. Lean into this video and listen to what I'm saying. You will become what you think about. Really think about that for a second as if it wasn't just a phrase as if it's more than just words as if it were a truth about how the brain works because it is. You're going to become the thing that you think about and I know that you're dwelling on a lot of negative

I know that you're carrying a lot of baggage with you, and I know that as you think about how things might go wrong, that you believe, you believe to the core of your being that you're just planning for the hard times. But the truth is you're going to become those things that you fear. You're going to become the things that you dread. If you're thinking about all the things that you've done wrong in the past, you are going to simply continue that cycle. But if on the other hand, and let this be true, let this ring in your ears with the weight of everything that I carry, if I've ever added an ounce of value to you, if anything I have ever said has seemed remotely true, believe that these are the most important words I'm ever going to say to you, if you begin to focus on positive things, if you begin to focus on your capabilities,

if you begin to focus on the potential that you have, if you really dig in, build, those skills and drive towards something beautiful, something amazing, something that leaves you in awe that you want to create, that you want to become the vessel for that, then you will, you will become that thing because you will take those steps because you become what you think about. And as Mark Twain said, 20 years from now, you'll be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do. So if you don't take those steps, if you don't focus on those things, if you don't manifest

what you want to become. If you don't believe in it, if you don't see how real it could be, if you can't picture the version of yourself that you want to become, and even though people have told you that it's not possible for you, that the things you did in the past are never going to allow you to do that, that you're not smart enough. If you let that creep into your mind, then that's what's going to happen. But if you can see that vision,

if you can allow yourself to believe it, then you're going to take the steps and you need to execute against that. And if you go out there and do those things, you won't regret it, but you will regret it if you don't. So get out right now and build the person you want to be so you can have the life you want to have.