Motivation Daily by Motiversity - TOP EPISODES OF 2024: DOMINATE 2024 - Best New Year Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

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One day I made a decision that if nothing's enough, I'm tired of being average. I'm tired. I'm tired of being good. I'm tired. I want to go to the dealers shipping by the best car. I want to move to the nicest neighborhood. I want to fly first class. I want to go to Hawaii.

I want to go to Australia. I made a decision. Enough is enough is enough. It's showtime. Will the real Eric Thomas please stand up? Some of you in the room right now, you are where you are. You're giving 60% when you have 120 in you. Why? Because you've never made a decision You're those of you in this room. You already there. Your problem is this is you don't want to give off the goal You're talented. You just don't want to give up sleep Listen to me, pound for pound, any agent in the room, pound for power, motivational speaker, power for pile for power, entrepreneur, power for power, athlete, power for power, weightlifting, power for power.

Whatever you do, I guarantee you when you do it, nobody can do it like you do it. The problem is you don't hardly do it. You love sleep too much. You love that alcohol too much. You love that substance too much. You love that bites too much. There's something that you love more than yourself.

Then your dream, then your goals. Watch what happens when you have a goal that only has two reasons. See how long that lasts. Watch a goal that has 50 reasons and see how you. There's somebody called me the other day on the interview. So big question. E.T. What do you feel like on the days that you don't feel like?

Ask the question again, please. What do you do on the days that you don't feel like? So I'm going to be honest with you. I'm way past that every day I feel like. Every day I feel like eating. Every day I feel like giving my wife the best life. Every day I feel like driving in a nice car. Every day I feel like flying first class.

Every single day of my life, I feel like giving 100. Every single day. Somebody said yesterday, ET, you gave 120. What you're going to do tomorrow? I said, I don't know. Get 140. I don't know. But I don't have days where I don't feel like it.

Why? Because I'm counting on me. My wife's counting on me. I don't have days to waste. No more 50% no more. No more 70% no more. I want us an 85 climb. If you're 80 I want you at 90 and I'm moving rapidly. It's not rocket science. And the universe is not responding you correctly because your body level sucks. Here it sucks. I need you to give me that 120. I need you to give me that everything you do.

I need you start giving me that 120 and everything you do. Bring it all all together. Bring all together. bring all the energy, all the passion, bring it all together and dominate. I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. You have to give it everything you got. No more TV, no more parties, no more plan. If you have a 4.0, what you need to be doing is studying. Get off the phone.

Sorry, I'm not available until the end of this year. No, I'm for real. You've reached the right number, but you call me at the wrong time. Call me back January 1st. I'm about to get busy now. Stop being this high school dropout. Stop giving up. Stop sleeping on the street.

Stop walking up and down Finko Avenue like you ain't got nothing. And get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test. I got to commit my very being to this thing. I got to breathe it. I got to eat it. I got to sleep it. And until you get there, you'll never be successful in life.

But once you get there, I guarantee you the world is yours. So work hard and you can have whatever it is you want. When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me. 4.0s, 3.0, they went to the Ivy League High schools, came to Oakwood from these great high schools. Most of them are not doing what I'm doing. Why? Because it's not about where you come from. It's about hearts.

You come to a place where, you know, being smarting enough. You gotta have hearts. Don't go to sleep until you succeed. There are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen. Now what you're going to do about it? about it. We're getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the question, what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well, it's so amazing as a result of our kind of

educational system, crowds of students say, well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers, but as everybody knows, you can't earn any money that way. or another person says well I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses I said you want to teach in a riding school Let's go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him you do that and Forget the money because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time you'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living

that is to go on doing things you don't like doing which is stupid better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way and after all if you do really like what you're doing it doesn't matter what it is you can eventually turn it you could eventually become a master of it The only way to become a master of something, to be really with it. And then you'll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't worry too much.

Somebody's interested in everything. And anything you can be interested in, you'll find others who are. But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending things you don't like, doing things you don't like. Wake up from your dream and make your dream of reality. Wake up. Wake up and understand the significance of the purpose that you have within yourself. Understand that if it's something that you are truly ultimately seeking in your life,

and you've got to go after it. There are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen. Now what are you going to do about it? How are you going to go about doing the things that are necessary to get you where you need to be in your life? Everybody has a dream. But how much are you applied? to that dream. How far are you pushing that dream? When are you going to realize that the dream is not going to work by itself? You got to have the ability to rise up and push yourself and believe in yourself and make that dream a reality.

What's your why? Hey, if I don't give y'all nothing else, you better start that. What's your why? You know why I do what I do and I do is so passionately? Because my grandfather was a high school dropout. My father was a high school dropout. I was a high school dropout. I was a high school drop out. I was a high school drop out. I was a high school drop. out and we're about to break the cycle. I do what I do so my son won't have to go through what I went through. When I was at the football game, my old dude wasn't with me. I saw other kids when they fought, I said that'll never happen to me. I do what I do because my daughter says she's going to Harvard. It ain't even about y'all. I'm about to come in here and blaze y'all. Why? Because I'm trying to get to all the NFL. I ain't about to miss this opportunity. This is the first NFL team I've ever done in my life and I'm about to lick it.

I'm about to give everything I got and I will know if I don't get to another gig it won't have nothing to do with the fact that I didn't put everything on the field what's your why why do you wake up in the morning why do you put on that jersey why do you go out and practice why I got to commit my very being to this thing I got to breathe it I got to eat it I got to sleep it and until you get there you'll never be successful in life but once you get there I guarantee you the world is yours so work hard and you can have whatever it is you want you should be a monster because everyone says

well you should be harmless you don't want to be too aggressive you don't want to be too assertive you want to take a back seat no you should be a monster and then you should learn how to control it the definition of being aggressive is forceful and sometimes overly assertive pursuit of one's aims in combat almost nothing will happen the way you want it to if you don't force it that way The enemy, nature, time, there's all kinds of things that are going against you. It's a losing battle. And if you don't use force of will, then you're not going to get it done.

What it means is, is you need to make things happen. This is the good thing about being aggressive. Sure, there's certain parts of your nature that are aggressive, but it can also be trained. You can start to think with an aggressive mindset, which is I am going to take action. I'm going to overcome obstacles. I'm going to push through roadblocks. I'm not going to take no for an answer. Those are things that you can train.

There's so often times where people, they get told no, or they hit an obstacle, and it's game over for it. They're just done. They're done training. They're over it. And your attitude, you have to go, okay. Little roadblock.

Cool. How am I going to get through it? How am I getting around it? What I need you to do is evaluate yourself today. Evaluate yourself to see what you are. are in this race of life. Many of you don't even realize that you've been racing to the finish line. This life is a race. Some of you need to be pushed to start running because you've been walking or you haven't been moving for so long. And you don't even know that you're in a race

that all of us are competing to win. But it doesn't matter when you finish. It matters that you run after your goals and your dreams. The way to live. live is to run after your dreams, to run after your goals, and to run after that finish line. There may be things in your life right now that's holding you back from running, but you have to break through those things. They're there to hinder you, but you can't let it forth you to stop running. Chase your dreams, chase your goals. I don't know the situation you're in right now. But the situation that you're in is not your future. It's not who you really are. It's not your full potential.

The sky's the limit, but it all starts from the day. It's all up to you. You should be a monster. You have to be hungry for greatness. You got to go through it to get to it. You got to understand that there are going to be many circumstances. that will require your full undivided attention. You got to go through it to get to it. You have to understand it has to be a unique mindset. Setting a goal and then going beyond it. Realizing that there's work to be done, making sure that there's work to be done,

making sure that all of the strings are attached and make no mistake along the way. Now it's true that we all make mistakes and we will have many setbacks, but there's always room for a comeback. To understand this, you must realize that you must humble yourself but yet be hungry enough. to go after it with everything inside of you.

Everything that is required depends on you. Having the mindset that regardless of anything that is around you that is surrounding you, that is trying to drive you down, you must have the mindset. You must be strong. You must be resilient. you must be driven and you must be able to take

whatever's coming at you if you stumble if you fall have the ability to get up but you can't depend on just your body to do the work you must understand it is the mental fortitude that will get you through it all

so many people don't have this fortitude, they don't have this attitude, they have no faith in themselves. If you, you as the individual, can take the first step, then perhaps many more will follow. There's always going to be ups and downs in life, man. There's always going to be bumps in the road. Things that ain't going to go as plan, unexpected stuff's going to happen. You're going to face some pain. You're going to face some tough times. And if you ain't trained your mind to be prepared for it and how to handle it, it's going to break you. The secret is to work on your mindset daily. Work on the way that you see the world. Otherwise, you'll live your whole life seeing the world through someone else's eyes.

You'll be a creature of circumstance. You'll be a victim of your life and not the master of it. Read books. Listen to audios like this one. Start learning about why you do the things that you shouldn't do and why you don't do the things that you should. It's all because of the way that thing between your ears is white, but know this. You're in control of rewiring it whenever you make the decision to do so. At any moment, you can take control back of your life and start creating a life that you deserve, not a life that someone else has paved out for you. And when all of the struggle comes, all of the bad times, all of the dark times come around,

which they inevitably will, you'll be strong enough to take it head on, and it'll make you rather than break you. You have greatness inside you, let me tell you. Unlimited potential, but you have to train your mind. Every single day, things are going to happen outside of your control. The weather, terrorism, coronavirus, but you can't control any of that shit. All you can control is how you choose to look at situations.

You can control the information that you're letting it here. Never forget that you can have anything in this life that you want if you're willing to go and get it. You've got to have belief. You've got to have belief. And that belief comes from working on your mindset every single day. Remember this. You can be a victim of your life or the master of it.

We had to experience great losses in 2019. We had to witness great victories in 2019. This is the beauty of living. This is the beauty of understanding. This is the beauty of knowing that you matter and the reason that you matter is because you are still here among the living Now you have to set the new stage now you have to set the new mark and be greater than you was yesterday Realize that you are walking above ground for a reason 19 may have had its ups and downs, but you did not stay down

You knew what you had to do to get up so you got to Maybe that job didn't come through for you in 2019, but 2020 is waiting for you. And if you're able to live, if you're able to push, if you're able to grow, you're going to grow into a better you. Let this be the opportunity of a lifetime. Don't forget, Easy was not attended for you or I. For without struggle, how can you build truth? can you build true character?

So maybe you were in a position that you felt like you were broken. But being broken doesn't mean that you can't put it all together again. You must be the architect of your life. Create your own blueprint. Set yourself up and regardless if you fail or if you succeed, but don't give up. Because if you made it this far, you can definitely go a little bit further. Make 2020 your year. Make 2020 be the year that they remember you.

That you remember your accomplishments as well as your failures. But don't you ever, ever give up on you. This year is coming to an end. And 2020 is right around. around the corner. Make sure that you are ready. Make sure that you are prepared. Because 2020 has not been written yet.

Just like a book, there are many chapters in the book. What chapter will tell the story about you? What history will you make? What would you leave behind? What legacy? would you leave behind? 2020 is the year that we begin a new chapter,

a new day, a new year, a new you. Now I'm not talking about just the physicality. I'm talking about the mental, the physical, as well as the spiritual. For they are one, They are all connected, but you have to be connected with your self-resilience.

You have to be connected with your ideas. You have to be connected with your truth. Strength, leadership, power, authority, guidance, patience, or God's gift to us. as men. We have to cherish that, not abuse it. I prayed this morning to be a better listener. Didn't work so well. It's where human. You get back up. Yes, I've been high up on the mountain. I've been blessed, but that's a slippery slope. Yeah. And it's lonely up there. You know, people don't know that sign. We did not come this far to just break down and lose now. I'm a winner.

I'm going to win. True desire in the heart, that itch that you have, whatever it is you want to do, that thing that you want to do to help others and to grow and to make money, that desire, that itch, that's God's proof to you. Sit beforehand already to indicate that as yours. Aspire to make a difference. are what you are in this world. I'm either one or two things.

Either somebody. Never give up. Without commitment, you'll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you'll never finish. It's not easy.

It will be easy. There'd be no Denzel Washington. So, keep working, keep striving, never give up, fall down seven times, get up eight. Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.

So keep moving, keep going, keep learning, see at work. While it may be frightening, it will also be rewarding. So you got to get out there, you got to give it everything you've got, whether it's your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasures. Because taking risk is not just about going for a job. It's also about knowing what you know and what you don't know. It's about being open to people and to ideas. To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

Because the chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have, that's what's going to define you. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you. you take risks. Nothing. Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. Now, I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life, I'm sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on. Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey. But I never understood that

that concept, having something to fall back on. If I'm going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit. Fall forward. This is what I mean. Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career the most in the history of baseball, but you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs fall forward Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Because the 1,000 first was the light ball, fall forward. Fail big. Today is the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be very frightening. It's a new world out there. It's a mean world out there and you only live once. So do what you feel passionate about.

Take chances professionally. Don't be afraid to go outside the box. Don't be afraid to think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail big. To dream big. But remember, dreams without goals are just dreams. And they ultimately fuel disappointment. So have dreams.

dreams, but have goals, life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day. Sometimes just to not curse somebody out. Simple goals, but have goals. And understand that to achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency. In order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline, which you've already done. And consistency every day, not just on Tuesday and this a few days. You have to work at it.

Hard work works. You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. I don't care how much money you make. You can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried it. They got robbed. That's all they got. You can't take it with you. And it's not how much you have.

It's what you do with what you have. We all have different talents. Some of you will be doctors, some lawyers, some scientists, some educators, some nurses, some preachers. The most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else. Why is it selfish? because the gratification, the goodness that comes to you, the good feeling, the good feeling that I get from helping others, nothing's better than that.

Well, one of two things, but nothing's better than that. Not jewelry, not big house I have, not the cars, but it's the joy. That's where the joy is in helping others. That's where the success is. And anything you want good, you can have. So claim it. Work hard to get it. When you get it, reach back. Pull someone else up. Each one, teach one. Remember, just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.

Remember that. Just because you're doing a lot more, doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done. Don't confuse movement with progress. My mother told me, yeah, yeah, because you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress. When pressure begins to build called life, because life is going to bring you ups and downs and mountains and valleys. And I'm sure some of you in here, your backstory is full of ups and downs and good days and bad days. I bet some of you in here, your backstory is full of a lot more difficulties and some traumas and some things. It's hard for others to comprehend.

And for some of you, it hasn't been the roughest or the most difficult, but yet still at times, you still find this void of you wanting to belong and where do you fit in. Life is about these ups and these downs, and it's about pressure and insecurities and just challenges. The challenge for you and me is what will we do with the pressure that we're in? Will we allow the pressure to bust the pipe or will we step into uncomfortable, step into our story and to realize the pressure, the challenge, the difficult situation? If I grab a hold of it and take control of what I can control, which is me and my reaction and how I respond, that pressure can become something valuable like a diamond. The only way you can turn the corner in your life is to own your smack. In other words, everything in your life is your fault.

If you don't, you will underperform all your life because of these excuses. And before you know, you would have justified being average. You would have justified being stuck. You look in the mirror, young kings and queens a day, and you're pulling up with nothing. And you're growing up without. I want you to look at the mirror and I want you to say these words. I want you to say that I am royalty. Considerational curses, do because everyone in the world is chasing greatness.

And what do you do when a man is going 100 miles per hour and you haven't even started the engine yet? The best gifts come from the bottom. Give our last name a legacy that would be reliving for ever. When I die, I can't even fit another body in the church. Because what I gave in the world. Us understand is that you don't get any doovers. Once your day ends, that's it. So what action do you need to commit to taking today?

How long are we going to talk about it? How long are we going to dream about it? How long are we going to fantasize about it? How long you tell me? It takes grit. It takes sacrifice. It takes time and energy. It takes extreme focus.

Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. Go get it. I want to be that voice to you and stop dreaming and start chasing, start pursuing, but most importantly, you've got to become. Everything I ever dreamed of lives in the sky, and I must jump every single day to go reclaim what's mine. So I'm challenging you to take action with the resources that you have right now. You see, many others believe that just because our father was a drug dealer and our uncle,

was a drug dealer that that is our life, that is all forever. But I want you to know something. That is only a lesson to show us to be something more than what they thought we could be. You see when a family tree is dying, all you have to do is take care of the roots. And if the roots is too dead to bring the tree back alive, you plan another.

Too often you have a dream of creating this or getting involved with there, but at the end of the day, sometimes this fear of will I fail, will I be accepted, will I make it, will I achieve it? The challenge is learning to punch that fear, that threshold, right in its mouth, and I'm not promoting violence, but I'm talking about the fear of that voice in the back of your head that makes you think that you can't. And you know what, maybe you'll make a mistake, but you're failing forward. The thing that we have to continue to passionately, uncompromisably, not give in on is the fact that I'm not staying stagnant.

I'm moving forward because what I feed will grow and what I starve will die. The white is out there in those neighborhoods, drug dealers, kill us, whatever you want to call yourself and I want you to know, King, you're special. Guided, but you're special. I know you grew up without a father and your mother left you and nobody ever loved you. and nobody ever told you you can be anything and you believed it. It is that you are phenomenal, you are a king, you come from royal blood, you stand on the tip of the pyramids, you are royalty king, you are a life, you are a star. The question is, do you believe?

And so for me, what I caught from my dad when I was a kid, it was his coping mechanisms, you know, like I always say, it was the fake face, it was the fake smile, it was acting like everything's good on the surface but when I was alone and I was looking in the mirror man I was struggling but I was silent I was screaming but I was quiet in that thought pattern pressure begin to bust and break pipes in my life the pressure like I always say it can create diamonds where it can bust a pipe I don't care what your salary is I don't care what the title is dominate where you are right now so you can get in position to get promoted. Stop justifying.

Stop making excuses and dominate where you are right now. You've got to set goals that create pressure. Stop wasting your time making excuses and blaming other people. You need to set goals and pursue them, but you've got to set goals and create pressure and get some support until you get

there. And the worst thing you can do is let yourself off the hook. And that's what excuses do. You let your yourself off the hook when you set a goal when you have a dream you have a vision don't you ever let yourself off the hook means you got to work this means you have to run when they sit you got to grind when they won't you got to grind when you do not feel like it and this in all areas in life school sports your religion consistency

It's a tunnel to greatness. Consistency will turn a ordinary man into something he never thought he can be. You know my dad would say, go get it, son, go get it. Be sweet, baby, be sweet, be sweet, be sweet, baby, go get it, go get it, be sweet, baby. Go get it, be sweet, be sweet, be sweet, baby, go get it, be sweet, be sweet, baby. Every time I left the house, my mom would say, be sweet, baby, be sweet, my dad would say, go get it, son, go get it, go get it, son, go get it, son, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet, Go get it, be sweet, go get it, be sweet.

My family had two core values. Go get it, son. Be sweet, baby. Let the world know your name and coin me. I get it. The pain is unbearable. You keep playing it back in your head. Over and over and over, you keep trying to see where you went wrong.

The situation is on repeat. People are going to talk anyway. So you may as well do what makes you happy. And now some people are going to call you a loser. Some people are going to make fun of you for failing. Some people are going to count you out. Say you will never amount to anything. Call you weak.

What you're going to do? Are you going to prove them right? Or are you going to prove them right? them wrong. Let them think you're weak. Stop going back and forth with people who don't deserve your time or your attention. If you have been announcing your plans, do me a favor. Stop talking and start showing. No need for you to say what you're going to do. Just do it.

the hard way that everyone who is around me is not for me because everyone doesn't want the best for me and so I had to learn to keep things to myself until I have already done the work are you gonna show them that failure doesn't define who you are are you gonna show them that failure is a necessary lesson on the path to success are you gonna show them that you're a beast In this game, what you're going to do? You've got to get hungry. You got to get ready.

It's time to get to work and show them all. Show them you're a different animal. Let them talk. When you're on a mission, you don't have time to be fighting meaningless battles. You have to be focused. You have to be intentional. And you can't allow the noise outside. to get to you.

I get it. You did everything in your power and you still came up short. And you feel like you can't take the pain anymore. You did everything you could and you still failed. You didn't win. But that's okay. It's okay you didn't walk away with the trophy. It's okay that you didn't walk away with your head held high.

I get it. It happens. That's life. What do you want to be remembered for? It's time to get to work. So take a moment and take note of who and what you've been giving your energy to. Everything you do should be on purpose and aligned with your life's goals. It's your mindset that will get you to the top,

but your mindset can also keep you in a cycle of starting but never finishing. If you're not careful, you will find yourself talking, planning, and analyzing, but never executing. It's time to get back in the game. Pick your head up. Get up. Let them talk. Let them think you're weak. Let them think you'll never succeed.

Their thoughts do not define you. That failure doesn't define you. Your work ethic does. Your drive does, your tenacity does, your relentlessness does. Winners are action takers. Winners take a hit and get back up. You don't have to know exactly how you're going to get what you want. You just have to have an inner knowing that you're going to do it,

that you're going to make it, that you're going to cross the finish line. So stop talking about who you want to become and become that person now. Do you realize that you can step into your future self right now? You don't have to procrastinate. You don't have to wait until you feel like everything is lining up perfectly. Growth is supposed to be uncomfortable. So stop looking for comfort. Stand up. I know what's scary. I know what's intimidating. I know what's hard, but it's time. It's time to level up. It's time to choose to be great.

Time to choose to be better. Let's go, it's time to win. I can recall saying time after time, why is everything so hard for me? From the outside looking in, it looked like everyone else was winning with ease. But I was bruised, I was broken, I was burned out. But I had it all wrong.

I made my journey difficult because without even real life, even realizing it, I expected my journey to be difficult. In fact, when something came easy for me, I was nervous. I was nervous because I was not accustomed to winning so easily. I was accustomed to struggling. I was accustomed to being stressed out. And I'm not saying that you won't hit some difficult moments. But I am saying that you shouldn't commit to having a difficult life. You have to condition your mind to expect your situation to get better. And you have to remind yourself that those who are winning are no different from you. Those who win, those who go hard, those who crush their goals have no problem focusing on themselves and what they want.

Many of us have been conditioned to put ourselves last. Many of us have been taught that it's our duty to make everyone around. us happy and what happens is you get so wrapped up and trying to make everyone around you happy and comfortable that you end up losing yourself you end up losing your vision you lose your drive you lose your why and guess what that is not fair to you you deserve to set aside time for yourself you deserve to be able to say no and not feel guilty about it you deserve to be selfish sometimes. This is the thing. People will sing your praises until you tell

them no. Don't lose yourself trying to be who everyone else wants you to be. Don't lose your focus. Don't stop going hard just because people have something to say about it. If you continue to put yourself on the back burner, you will have to deal with the consequences of that decision. Don't keep saying you want something, but then when it's time to go after it, you've got excuse after excuse. If you want it, you have to go after it with all you've got. Your job is to show up, put in the work, and let your results speak for you. Less talking, more results. You really want me on the team.

What's your approach to recruit me? You want first place come play with me, you want second place, go somewhere else. Like I would watch Magic play, I'd watch Michael play, and I would see them do these unbelievable things. And I'd say, you know, can I get to that level? I don't know, but let's find out. That's why he's the best player in the day. Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player. Everything, everything.

And so when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library. library to help you to become better at your craft. So because you know what you want, the world's given you exactly the information. 100% because you know what you're looking for. So many guys tell stories about your work ethic. What was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined? Well, I mean, every day, I mean, since, you know, for 20 years. It was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses.

For example, jumping ability. My vertical was a 40. It wasn't a 46 or 45. My hands are big, but they're not massive. So you got to figure out ways to strengthen them. So your hands are strong enough to be able to palm a ball and do the things that you need to do. Quickness, I was quick, but not insanely quick. I was fast, but not ridiculously fast.

So I had to rely on skill a lot more. I had to rely on angles a lot more. I had to study the game a lot more. But I enjoyed it, though. enjoyed it though. So like from the time I was, I can remember when I started watching the game, I studied the game and it just never changed. It's a good separation for me, you know, emotionally to be able to put myself in a place where at practice or when I'm training or during games, I switch my mind to something else. I switch my mode into something else, right? For me, it's the equivalent of Maximus, Desimus, Meridius, and Gladiator picking up the dirt, smelling the dirt,

is go time. Right? So that was my mental switch. It was like an actor getting ready for a film. You got to put yourself in that cage. When you're in that cage, you are that character. And then when you leave there, it's something completely different. But when I'm in that cage, bro, don't touch me.

Don't talk to me. Just leave me alone. How did you get mentally and emotionally so strong where it doesn't bother you? Well, you know, it's, you got to look at there. reality of the situation, you know, like for me it's not, you know, you kind of got to get over yourself. It's not about you, man, like, okay, you feel embarrassed. You're not that important. Like, get over yourself. That's where you go. Get over yourself, right? Like you're worried about how people may perceive you and like you're walking around

and it's embarrassing because you shot five airballs. Get over yourself, right? And then after that it's okay, well why did those airballs happen? Got it. High school year before, we play 35 games max right week in between space style plenty of time to rest in the NBA it's back to back to back to back to back to back to back I didn't have the legs so you look at the shot every shot was online every shot was online but every shot was short right 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 come around my legs are stronger and that ball gets there so I look at

get it with rationale and say okay well the reason why I shot airballs because my legs aren't there I go next year they'll be there that was it done done were there some names that you looked at and says these three guys are as crazy as I am I do at the time I deal with what I've referred to as goat mountain I went to goat mountain and I talked to Magic Michael Bird Kim Ilajuan Jerry West Oscar Robinson Bill Russell, you know, so I would talk to them. What did you do?

What were your experiences? Michael in particular, has become my big brother. It's been my big brother since I first came in the league. And what was that process like? So I went to them and started understanding the ends and outs of the game and how they approach things and their level of detail and obsessiveness. And that's what I did. The players that had that passion but weren't willing to commit their entire lives to doing that, right?

It's a choice, right? You have other things. You have family. You have all these other things that you have to do. The game can't really be your number one priority. And so I'm just looking at that, like, man, this is going to be fun. If I'm buddies with you from high school, if I'm a cousin of yours, what happened to our relationship? How did that gravitate when you went into the league and you're determined to become the greatest?

You're determined to become one the greatest. What happens to our relationship? Oh, it suffers. It does suffer. Oh, yeah. Okay. And you understood that. You were okay with that.

Yeah. And the people that love you, like friends and family, like they know that about you. Got it. So they let you be you. And when you reconvene, you know, you pick back up where you left off. But make no mistake about it. everything in between is lost right so those long-term relationships the commitment of time of you know taking vaca like i see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close

friends and oh just take vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out like i'm not i never did that why why why didn't you do that well because when i retire i didn't want to have to say I wish I would have done more. I don't want that. You know? Oh, my God. You know, you got a lot of people playing their hard-arm money to come watch you perform. Perform.

Perform. It's your job to be in shape. It's your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night. And as a competitor, I'm not, I'm not ducking shit. Like, it's not, oh my God, my back hurts, I'm sore. We got to play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight. We actually had this happen. We had a game against Toronto in 2000, and Vince was tearing the league up.

My back was jacked, jacked. Like the perception of that, like what? Kobe's missing a game against Toronto and Vince Carter because my back was really spasming. But people would be like, what? Oh, he's ducking Vince. Excuse me? No, I don't think so. So I would be in a layup line like, okay, there's a lot of days where, you know, you can rest and recover.

Today ain't one of them. You're back and bother you any other day. That shit ain't bothering me today. He's going to have to see me today. Amen. Yeah. Amen. If you're looking at a big investments you've got to make, what is the decision-making process there?

Do you call? Is there your own research? You take this much time. You call an advisor. Is there a system you follow? It's pretty simple for me. it's do you understand the business? Is it a business that you can help in some form of fashion?

What are the barriers entry to that business? And then the entrepreneurs themselves, the company itself, right? Do they have a culture that you believe is sustainable? Are these leaders, people that you believe in? Are they people that are obsessives? And in turn, have they created a culture of obsessiveness? So I tend to look at those four factors and that's it. That's big right there, by the way.

If you guys caught that right there, that's pretty massive right there. Same determination. What's your current work schedule look like today? It's different because I personally am not writing every word of the novels. I am not animating the films. What I have to do now is make sure that the people that we bring in, these obsessives that we bring in, are challenging themselves to do this. the best job that they think they can do.

That's what I'm there for, is for them to constantly look in the mirror and self-assess and challenge themselves. If we have a project and you're saying, okay, I can do that, that's not the project we want. The projects that say, I don't know if I can animate that. I don't know how to write that story. To do that, those are the things we want, because through that curiosity, you'll reach a level that you didn't think was possible. And so running the studio, that's what I'm doing.

You're playing against the Golden State Warriors. Score is 107, 109. You guys are close to getting into the playoffs. You know exactly what happens in the game. You go up, you're about to take your shot, and then all of a sudden, boom, Achilles happens, right? He went and hit the free throws, and then you walked off the stage.

We got the search we got. I went in the trainers room, my kids are in there, and they're looking at you and stuff, and I'm looking at them, and I'm like, you know, it's all right, dad's going to be all right. It'll be fine. It'll be all right. It'll be all right.

As a parent, you've got to set the example. You've got to set the example. This is another obstacle. This obstacle cannot define me. It's not going to cripple me. It's not going to be responsible for me stepping away for the game that I love. I'm going to step away on my own. terms and that's when the decision was made that you know what I'm doing it

don't tell me you want it show me you want it are you willing to put in that time are you willing to study film are you willing to run those sprints all the way through you see the game of football was created in the realm of gladiators it was There was an arena chantee for the warrior who kills the most. You see football comes from the same bloodline of gladiators. And when you step into that arena, oh, it takes a special man to step into that arena. Because when you step into that arena, you don't know if you're going to walk out. No after these 60 men.

That's what makes you special. What separates you. You gotta display something that you already know you have in you. That's the will to be unselfish. Takes a certain mentality. There's no better feeling in the world. And smelling those hot dogs and hearing that band on Friday night. There's no feeling better in the world.

They're walking out on Saturday. See what you do all off-season. And once you understand that king is game. It's not for nice people. Some play the game. To just see the crowd, just play it, to make their bloodline proud. To take Mama out the projects and put sister in college. To dress their mother up.

To one day stand outside of a beautiful home and say this belongs to you, Mama. I ran those prints. I ran those hills. I broke my arm for you, Mama. When I was bleak. See, Mama, this game, yes, is dangerous. But it teaches us how to be a man. It teaches us responsibility.

It teaches us to go to class because without it, we can't do what we love. And that's play the game of football. Believe that you have enough. Take all that pain that you felt the entire life. And right now I'm talking to one of you seniors. Before you step on that field, take yourself back to that dark place. That place where you had no hope. And I want you to remember how far you can.

And when you step on that field, Saturday, A Friday night. You look your teammates in the eyes. And you tell them.