Motivation Daily by Motiversity - YOU OWE IT TO YOU IN 2025 - Powerful Motivational Speech | Eric Thomas

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF! This is the year you finally be more disciplined. You're already in pain, get a reward for it! The Steph Curry Motivational Speech and interview with Eric Thomas. Edited by Motiversity.Follow Motiversity: https://www.youtube.com/motiversityFollow Eric Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/etthehiphoppreacherSpecial 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/MusicSecession Studioshttps://www.youtube.com/@SecessionStudiosPaul Elharthttps://www.youtube.com/@paulelhart1728 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello listeners, Motivisity is excited to share that we have launched a new podcast called Morning Motivation by Motivore. If you are looking to start your day with positivity and the most uplifting motivational audio, this is the show for you. For today's episode of Motivation Daily by Motivority Podcast, we are sharing a recent episode from the Morning Motivation Podcasts. If you like it, go follow the show. New episodes are being released every week. The link is in the description. I know many of you saw this game. They were down by 20.

They were down by 20. Down by 20 in Golden State? No. Down by 20 away. But before this happened, if anybody's been studying him closely, what happened before this game happened. 77 three-pointers in a row. This boy made 77 three-point shots in practice.

It were down by 20 points. He came back and won the game, but you might have missed it. Do you see it? He's shooting a three-pointer with his eyes close. They showed it on Sports Center. The boy's eyes is closed with the three. Boom. Muscle memory.

His eyes is closed. What was he thinking about? He was thinking about in practice. One, in practice, 2, 77. And he starts saying to himself, we're down by three points. Three times seven is 21. Let me give him a business.

One, defense. Two, defense. God, don't worry about it. Just give me the rock. You sure? Remember what I did in practice? Seconds left. He's not even at home. He away from home. He got his eyes closed. Boom! We're one of the best defenders checking him.

This kid didn't take his team to the most wins this year because of what he does in the game. This is your year. This is your moment. If not you, who would have not now win? This is you, baby. Ain't nobody stopping you but you. Can't nobody stop you with you. You're not average. Stop acting like it. You're not average. Why are you being average?

You're not average. Why are you being good when you're not good? You're great. You're phenomenal. When you're going to step up to the plate? You're going to let a high school drop out. Somebody that lived in abandoned building. Somebody ain't out of track.

Outdo you? I couldn't hardly read when I got to college. You're going to let me outdo you. You're greater than that. So I need you to give me a huge favor. I need you. You to dig, dig. It's the mindset.

Like I had a victim mindset. Like, everything was about somebody else. You know, it was like the outside, inside theory. You know what I'm saying? Which is terrible. It's like everything that's supposed to blow me up and take me to the next level has, is somebody else's responsibility. When I look back, all the anger and the frustration and the hurt, it was all blaming. Everything was about this person or that person, this person.

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. I heard this thing I've ever done was look in the mirror and tell myself I was sorry. Sorry for what? I was sorry for what I got myself into and choices that I made. That dude is the dude that looked himself in the mirror. It was like, yo, you owe yourself an apology.

And not only that, you owe yourself correction. You owe yourself change. Wow. That was one of the most difficult days of my life 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? One of the dangerous things is the outside, inside theory. It's dangerous.

Because what you're doing, whether you know or not, you are comparing your journey and your life to somebody else's, journey and somebody else's life. Let's just be honest. You don't need to have the right context to do that. You don't know why they're doing what they're doing. You don't know like what their strengths and weaknesses are. So you're comparing yourself to somebody. They're nowhere near who you are. Yes. And so you're comparing yourself. So this is why I believe it's the inside out. Like everything we do starts from the inside. So I'm using the information you're giving me to build my journey.

Now I'm trying to be you. What are you doing? Wake up. Greatness is a. in you. And going back to kind of your story of the victim mindset. Yeah. You know, your mom lies you about your dad. You don't see your dad. You know, banning warehouses. You know, all the problems. Inner City kids struggle, getting kicked out of school, struggles. You had everything against you, right? Hold on nothing else. See, I'm glad you said that. You had everything against you. No, the greatest problem was I was against me. Oh. Nobody ever told me I was my greatest asset. Yeah. I'm my greatest asset. It doesn't matter where you come from.

If you don't activate you, the environment doesn't matter anyway. Great environment, bad and bond, and anything you activate, anything you do for you, it's going to blow out. But at the end of the day, you have to be the first thing that you invest in. And if you invest in you, I just believe there's nothing that can stop you. I'm telling you, we can't lose our hope because once you lose your hope, you lose everything. I'm here to tell you that once you get started, You can't stop until you get there. I'm telling you when you get in the boat, you make a commitment.

It doesn't matter if the gale comes. It doesn't matter if the winds and the waves come. It doesn't matter if the storm comes. Just keep rolling. You need to be more disciplined about your minds. What are the people need to be thinking about with their minds? So here's the deal. You're already in pain.

Get a reward for it. Why would you let them destroy your life? Let's go. Why would you let them? on you, why would you allow that thing they did to hurt you not defying your life? Yeah. It's like, no, I was in pain. It's real.

But get a reward for it. Don't just think about you. Listen to me, like, I didn't give all. That's what 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, again, 2025, do me a favor. Check you. So you're in the ballot box and you're looking at all these options, Dr. Lloyd, who teach you, whatever you see, president, mayor,

governor, do me in favor. Before you check off any of that, S&P, 500 real estate, before you check any of that, check you. Before you check anything,

check you and go look yourself in the mirror and go, yo, I'm my lottery ticket. You got to figure out who you are and love you and feel good about you and not care when nobody think about you. Figure out your North Star and wake up every single day going after your North Star. It's like you've got to figure out what makes you happen.

You have to find a thing that wakes you up at 3 o'clock or 6 o'clock or 10 o'clock. Like you've got to find a thing that brings the life out of you, the joy out of you, the happiness out of you. And you can't do that following somebody else's the North Star. So my last one will be mad. Figure out what you was put on this earth to do. And I mean every single chance you have to do it. Do it.

And when you're not doing it, enjoy your life. So however much time I have left, I need to work high and I need to enjoy that time. Absolutely. Do you think anyone can have a beautiful, amazing life if they live in a blaming mindset? No. No. You know why? 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 of your life. You give them power over you. They got your whole life in their head because you said it. You said it. They didn't do this because they didn't because they got the keys. Now, I'll be honest, the reason why we don't want to take the keys, because we got to drive. We got a drive. It's scary.

Today, I was like, I got too much to do. I normally drive. I'm like, I got too much to do. And it felt good to be in the car driven. While it's more responsibility, it's more freedom. It's more independence. Anybody. Anybody could be successful.

But as long as you plan the blame game, you have given permission, the license, registration, the keys, you give it all over to somebody else. And the day you take it is the day that you can start deciding which direction you want to go. Wow. So that sounds like step one, take the keys back to your life. Take the keys back. What would steps two and three D for setting people up for their ultimate life? Step two, be your first best friend.

You know? Like get to know you. We're so busy wanting to be in a community that we don't realize. we are our community. Because all of us think we have to have somebody to be somebody. So I just think the first step after the first step is you got to figure out who you are and love you and feel good about you and show up in the lean you and not care when nobody think about you. And I just think if you be, if the eagles aren't trying to, they just are eating. They're not trying. What do you think about me? What do you think about my war? You think I'm too loud when I roar?

They're not concerned. And so I think step two, figure out who you are, love you. And step three, figure out your no star. I'm not just saying find your no star in terms of what you've been called to do for others, but there should be a healthy amount of time that you spend enjoying your life. I want you to think about your life instead of the life. Because that's what you've been thinking about, the life. Now, think about your life.

Do you want it? What does it take to do it? and then am I willing to do what it takes? Here's the thing. I believe if you think about it, it is only because somewhere inside of you, you have what it takes. Now, capacity is there.

Williness is something totally different. You wouldn't be watching or listening to if you didn't believe you were great. So you wouldn't be watching. You wouldn't be locked in. Something in your spirit has you tuned into this bad because you know you're great. Now you've got to say to yourself,

am I willing to cooperate with the greatness that's in me and then once you do and you start consistently operating in that you're going to feel good about it. Here's what you have to do. You have to understand. Andre DeShields, I think, said

the top of one mountain is the bottom of the makes. Wow. So you get to the top of the mountain but you understand the GED was just one the 40 degree was just one the master just after the PhD

was the New York Times after that is the assessments It's the training, is the coaching. I'm in masterminds. I get coached. Yeah. Right. And so it's this idea of yesterday's greatness can't be enough because I'm alive today.

So if I'm alive today, it must be some more greatness in me. I didn't realize at 12 that I was great. And that's why I said you got to check in 2025, you 2025, right? Because I didn't know I was great. And once I checked and realized how great I was, I was like, bro, we're going to keep doing this. And to the day we die, it's in you. And it's time to stop being lazy. And it's time to activate.

I love that, man. This is the time to get control of your mind. And for most of us, our mind is in control of us. This is a habit of the grades. Emotional wouldn't let me think rationally. It had me irrational. So I would say when you make emotional decision, you get emotional consequences. But it takes meditation.

It takes controlling of the mind to say, how should I behave, how should I think in this situation? And what's going to give me the best outcomes? When it comes to being a leader and a decision maker, we're not doing emotions. We're doing empirical evidence. We're doing facts. What does the facts say? What does the research say? What does the evidence say?

Okay, and based on the research and the evidence, this is the game plan. Let's go. It doesn't matter how you feel. Listen to me, coaching is everything. Why? Because think of Michael Jordan without Phil Jackson. Right. Think of Venus and Senator without Richard Williams.

Like, yo, I just want you to picture Kobe without Phil Jackson. So coaching is critical. And here's what's going to blow your mind. When you get to our level, you really need more coaching. We didn't exhaust it all the stuff. You really need coach After Jordan won his first championship He didn't say I think I've got to figure it out of my own

I don't need a coach He said let me find Tim to train me Let me find the mindset coach The recovery coach You know make sure we're getting to the next level They said that LeBron Look at LeBron what he's doing right now That's amazing man

Bro a 40, a 40 second dunking Whoever had the arguments You know what I'm saying Because there were those of us who was alive Yeah We watched George do his thing But bro what Lebron is doing right now But when I do my research and not emotional about, oh, how is he doing it?

Just, hey, no, when I do my research, he spent $1.5 million on his body, recovery coaching. And so you see the decision he made. And you see, okay, yeah, he was great. But that investment that he made in himself, these decisions are based on facts of experts. And then we're seeing the outcomes of him. And so from 16 to maybe 25, you know, it was like, okay. I'm going to come to coach in some days, some days I'm not, some days I'm going in, some days I'm not, and then my son was born. I was almost 25 years old. Jalen was born and Jalen was born in 1995.

And when Jalen was born, it was the day coach said to me, this is why I've been trying to train you because I wanted you to be the best father you could be. And so you miss him, you miss some classes, you miss some lessons. Your son is here now. He needs the best version of you. Wow. We can't, we can't, we can't repeat the mistakes of the past. And so I need you to hurry up. And so when Jalen was born, from that day full, you know, I remember when he was born, I held him. It was kind of like he looked at me, like you're the person that's going to take care of me.

Wow. You know, and that was the day. And this is what a lot of you are running from is the R word. And I get it because it's tough. Responsibility. Oh, that was the day where it's like, oh, you got to be responsible for somebody else. Yeah. You cannot.

You got, I've never played a video game since Jalen was born. Wow. I've read more books since Jalen was born that first year or two that I ever read in my life. I took my career seriously speaking. I went deep, I went heavy and I read everything. I was in the library like an addict, just studying and studying and studying. And it was because I didn't want, I didn't want some of the consequences of the past to come in this generation, you know. And so for me it was like, yo, your son's here, you got to handle your business.

And I just heard I was more attentive. I started getting up at six. And then I'd play this game. Daylight saving times would come. I would, okay, say, don't follow it. Stay up at five is the new. And then the next year, the four, and then I got started getting up at three. And I started getting up at three o'clock in the morning because it was still.

There was no dogs outside. Nobody was driving around. The family was sweet. And I was like, okay, coach, I'm sorry. Let's go back over the lessons. I didn't get, and let's go over the new lessons. Like, coach me. You alluded a little bit about, you know, this version of you was kind of speaking to your 16-year-old self and saying, like, here's what you need to do.

Stop doing that, start doing this. Like, whether that was you in the future or God speaking to you. In the future? In the future. Like, hey, this is what your higher self needs you to do right now. Yeah. What do you feel like your future self is saying to you now? It's wisdom you need to hear to take you to the next thing.

This. This. This. You spent all of your mature life pouring into people who can't do a whole lot for you. You spent some kind of way in your soul you feel like because of where you were and all these people that help you get to where. So it's like you feel like you owe people to not be in mutual relationships. Like you feel like you're so blessed and you have so much. It's almost a survivor guilt.

And now you just got to be with people who you've got to pull and you got to be with people that you've got to beg to. and you got to be with people who you just got to bless and you may not get nothing back. You're like, no, no, no, no. In this season, these relationships have always been there for you. But you haven't taken advantage of them because it's like, I got to help and I got to fix. And I got to help you and help you because somebody helped me. But you had to want it. You're helping people that don't even want to be helped.

They want a handout. Yeah. They don't want to be helped. Now, the rest of your life, son, be in relationships. Where's mutual? Receives. Get in these mutual relationships. man.

And get something.