Motivation Daily by Motiversity - YOU'RE WASTING TIME - Powerful Eric Thomas Motivation

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Don't waste your life. Powerful motivation from the one and only Eric Thomas. Edited by Motiversity.Eric Thomashttps://www.youtube.com/user/etthehiphoppreacherhttps://www.instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher/https://www.facebook.com/etthehiphoppreacherhttp://etinspires.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. I'm telling you, the one thing you cannot get back is time. It is your greatest asset. I give somebody some of my money for a couple more years to be with my wife. Time is the greatest enemy. You think it is infidelity. The greatest enemy, you're thinking it as finances. You're thinking that as in-laws.

You're thinking that as differences. No, no, no, it is time. We've got to learn how to steward our time. We've got to learn to tend to it, guard it, keep it. I just want to make sure that the life we got left, that is sweeter than the life that if I would give up or if I wasn't focused and I wasn't doing what I'm supposed to do. So when you've been with somebody since you're 16 years old

and they've got a chronic illness, don't you know it's easy for me to go drink? It's rough. My life, it ain't what it used to be before she got sick. Like while God is blessing her, she still got MS. I lost five ounces. You don't think I could have smoked some wheat. You don't think when I'm going through that pressure,

I couldn't have broke, but you talked about it. Mental toughness. It is in those times. We have to be stronger than we've ever been before. Why? Because they need us more than ever need us before. And you guys are blessed in that you are the one-percenters. Not many people want to be in your life who want the life that you have,

and you got it? And you're not taking it serious? Like, you know how many people would die to have had his life? You know how many people would die to be on the field on Sunday? You know how people would die to eat the way y'all eat? You know how many people would die to have the gear your got? You know how people would die to get on these planes and travel the wall? You know how people would die to have your life, and you got it.

It's your life. You got it. What you're going to do with it? You got to be able to see it when it cannot be seen. You have to see it happening. You have to believe in the unseen. Because if you can't believe in it, you will never manifest it. But when you believe in it, you will.

You demand the universe to assist you in what you're doing. And if you can see it before everybody else can see it, then it's going to eventually come to you. Forget about January. Forget about February. Forget about March. Forget about April. Forget about May.

Forget about June. Forget about July. Forget about August. Forget about September. It's over. So forget about the past. Listen to me and make the rest of your life. The best of your life.

It's your boy, E.T. I know you can do it. I believe you can do it. I go out there, get up, get out, and go get some. Are you wasting your time, or are you using your time wisely? You can replace money. You cannot get a year back. Where are you going?

You already got it, right? You already have it. All I need to do is believe in yourself. Well, you said, E.T., my teacher don't believe in me. My own parents don't believe in me, right? You don't listen to me. You don't need nobody else to make your dreams become reality. I don't need them to believe in me.

I don't need them to encourage me. I don't need them to pump me up to motivate me. I have my own motivation. All you need is a dream. All you need is a goal. Because once you get your goal, you can activate it. You come alive. You come to life.

You come alive. Once you have a goal, you got something to wake up to. You got something to go to bed for, all right? What you are to be, you're now becoming. I earn the right to be here. I grind it to be here. I get up at 3 o'clock in the morning the last 13 years giving our content every day.

I deserve to be here. Don't talk to me like that. You understand what I'm trying to tell you? See, because I grind so hard, I work so hard that when I get this opportunity, like, I don't play with it. I don't act like I deserve to be here. I think about my ancestors and what they went through, and that's why I'm here.

So the first thing I need y'all to do is, and I know you sweet. But what I'm trying to tell you, this is different, baby. This ain't high school. This ain't college. Like this ain't for funsy. Like this is somebody's lifestyle And people going out there and getting it. And if something happens to you, I promise you

If something happened to you as sweet as you are, you're going to be what? Come on, you got to talk back to me. You're going to be what? Replaced. Say it again. You're going to be what? That ought to scare you.

That ought to scare you. That alone ought to make you wake up every day and say, I cannot afford to be replaced. Are you running out of time? You don't know how much time you have. You keep telling yourself you got time and watch what happens. Now, on your mark, get set. Go.

You are running out of time. All right? I'm going to say it again. You are running out of time. Two weeks. My man told his grandfather, I'm graduating in two weeks later. Even before he literally marked, 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 Who put in, why? Because you average. 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, five years from now.

I'm telling you, you deserve to be great now. And not only do you deserve to be great, there's some people in your life. Listen to me, you're running out of time. Yep, you knew it's your job, and you like, ET. Look, I just got here. I got forever. Listen to me very closely. You gotta 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. We're not talking about the job right now. We talk about an opportunity. 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.

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. The question is, will you be ready when that opportunity comes? So you're running out of time. One minute you're doing it, the next minute. You're not. One month you're doing it the next minute you're not.

We're not talking about consistency right now. We talked about consistency before. We're not talking about consistency right now. I'm talking about residents. You've got to surrender to that thing. You can't be playing with it. Should I quit? Should I give up or should I keep going?

Listen to me. I can't tell you what you should do. But I'm going to ask you this question. What's in your seeds? This is not for the head. This is for the heart. What's the seed to you? What is it worth to you?

What is it worth? What is it worth to you? I don't know what your seed is. I don't know what your harvest is going to be when it's fully developed. I don't know if you should abort right now or not. I don't know if you should quit or you should give up, but I'm going to ask you this, what's the value of your seeds? I know my seed, I couldn't give up.

Homeless, I still couldn't give up. Twelve years ago, I couldn't give up. I'm one class shot, the stats or the PAD. I can't give up. Why? Because the value, what is worth, what I have put in? I put in too much. I've given too much. I sweat too much. I've given up sleep. I've given up friendships. I've given up so much stuff that I had to get back later. Why? Because the value I put too much in it. What's it worth to you?

What does it cost? What price have you paid for? What has it cost you? And if it cost you something, then you better not quit until you get a harvest. I want your dream to be so clear, so vivid that when you wake up in your life, you wake up in your the morning all you got to do is step in your dream when you wake up in the morning look at your goals your goals going to tell you what time to get up are you hearing me your goals going to tell you who you should be hanging out with and who people ask me quite a lot of time eric should i do this and i do that i can't tell you but your goals going to tell you how much sleep do you need you might not need to get up at three o'clock in the morning for your goals i don't know but your goals are going to define what time you get up how you live your life how you move when you

say yes when you say no like when you write your goals down you will know nope can't do it yep that's for me or you hear me so write it down and keep writing it down over and over and over what do you want look you eat however you want to eat you you do whatever you want to do right when you don't know what you want when you're not clear on what you want like you do you get up whenever you feel like it you don't have no drive you don't have no passion and so when people ask me, where your passion come from, where your drive come from. I know what I want. Every single day, I wake up, boom, and I go pursue it. Every single day, how far will your will take you this year? Because there's some things in life you're not going to get. They're not

coming to you. You got to go take it. There's some stuff that you can't even just earn by doing the good thing, doing the right, listen to me. There's some stuff that you're going to get it. You've got a will to get it. It will happen. It will come to pass. But it's not going to have. It's not going to happen at your desk, like at your job. It's not going to happen in the basement at your crib. It's not going to happen with you in the bed dreaming about it. It's not going to happen with you in the shower thinking about it. There's some stuff, and I'm telling you from experience,

you know I was homeless in a high school dropout. You know that, right? You know I was eating out of garbage cans. People say, eat, how did you get to where you are? I will did it. Because something's only come with heart with will. Until you work on your will, stop giving up, and stop quitting and stop giving in.

Every time stuff get hard. December is going to look just like last December. to you. Life will break you if your will ain't strong. Every game matters. So be phenomenal or be forgotten. Now we got to keep climbing. We got to keep moving. We got to keep going. You're not where you are because you don't have an opportunity. The reason why I've been telling you don't be average, don't be good, try to be great and be phenomenal. The reason why I told you that is because, listen to me, you got to understand. You have to understand that. You have to understand that. You have to understand you stay average and you stay good, you'll never get to where you're trying to get to.

Great, it's about growth. It's about going from the Wright brothers to the smaller plane to a 7-57. Are you hearing me? That's 7-57 in you. And you're still operating on the Wright brothers' plan. And I'm telling you, if you average, you're going to be forgotten. If you're good, you're going to be forgotten. Nobody's going to remember you.

Listen to me, you got to get away, you got to run from average like a plague. And then when you get to good, you got to make up in your mind that good is only to going. to be for a few moments. It's just a, it's just a platform. You're going to get out of good and you're going to go to Great. And then you're going to be like your boy, man, for real. I'm trying to transition. I'm trying to transition. I'm trying to go from Great. Man, look, you see it. It's your dream. It's your goal. And so you got to make an investment in it. If you need 10 grand, you'll make the investment, right? Stop asking people to sponsor your dream, to make your goal become a reality, to babysit your child, to rear up your

that what was birthing you to take care of it. Take, listen to me, stop begging, invest in yourself. And I'm gonna tell you something, if you invest in yourself, what you will discover is that other people will invest in you. But I'm telling you, ain't nothing gonna change if you can't see it.

So I ask you a question, what do you want? And I ask you, what do you want? Because the days you don't feel like getting up out the bed, the days you feel like quitting, giving up, and give it in. Listen to me, the only thing that's gonna get you up out that bed, the only thing that's going to make you strive past that obstacle. Get past that brick wall and it's coming. The only thing that's going to make you get up and do what you're supposed to do is what you see. You've got some

special inside of you. You're not only a special person created at a special time. You have something special in you and this is the year for you to do special things. All right? So this is the year to do the impossible. I need you to drive possible. What do I mean when I say drive possible? I mean, okay, Let me get an example, right? You got a tree, right? If you hit a tree, I'm talking about a big oak tree. If you hit an oak tree a thousand times in a thousand different spots, what's going to happen? Absolutely nothing.

But if you hit an oak tree a thousand times in the exact same spot, you know what's going to happen? You're going to bring it down. You're going to do the impossible. So what I need you to do for Monday I need to do the possible. Tuesday I need you to do possible. The Wednesday I need to do it possible. Thursday I need to do. Friday I need to do the possible.

Saturday, Sunday. We can do the possible. We're going to drive it home. What am I talking about? I'm talking about regularity. Listen to me, I'm talking about consistency. Once you can get that momentum going, once that momentum gets going, boom, there's no telling where you can go. So the first level was all about you, all about you, understand there's nothing you can't do. There's nothing you can't add. There's nothing you can't be. But that's over now. Now, we got to build on that. What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want? What are you willing to give up? You want to be the best at your company.

You want to make more money than you've ever made. You want to travel the world. I don't know. I don't know. You want to build your second home. I'm not sure what you want, but I need you to understand that you've got to give stuff. You can't stay where you are and go where you're trying to go.

And that's the problem. Many of you, you love your comfort zone too much. You love it. You love security too much. And I'm telling you, you can stay where you are. You can. But you can't stay where you are and try to go where you going. So what sacrifices this year are you willing to make?

What are you willing to let go of? What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to part ways with, right? So that's why we say you gotta want this thing as bad as you want to breathe. But before you can want it as bad as you want to breathe, you gotta know what you want. For real, I've been out of the country. I did that. I got the fast-port.

I seen the world. I did that. I got the degree. I did it. I've been there done that. I'm married. Yup. Got the house.

Yep. And now I'm trying to let other people taste it. I'm trying to let other people feel what it feels like to break a cycle I'm trying to let other people feel what it feel like to make their dreams become a reality are you hear me