The Resilient Mind - They Won’t Get It: Do It Anyway - Tyrese Gibson

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Tyrese Gibson is a Grammy-nominated R&B singer, best-selling author, and acclaimed actor known for his roles in the Fast & Furious and Transformers film franchises. Beyond entertainment, he is a passionate motivational speaker and entrepreneur, using his voice to inspire resilience, faith, and self-belief. Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠This episode was created in partnership with MotivationHub Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to They Won't Get It, Do It Anyway, with Tyrese Gibson. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. If you don't know, now you know. It's true when you're ready to do something and try something new. That's out of your comfort zone. of your norm. It's always the one you're dating, the one you're married to, the one that's in your

family, your friends in your immediate circle that will always try and talk you out, doing something special and significant. Do you know how many people have had visions, ideas, and huge career moves that they were about to make? And they allowed the way. word, no, to stop them boldly walking to the room with your head filled up high. And if they don't get it, let's apologize. Don't disown your ideas because they're disowning your ideas. Don't lose confidence in your ideas because they don't have confidence in your ideas. Don't be afraid to walk into the unfamiliar.

Don't be afraid to do what's a deep inside of you to do. You got gifts, you got talents, you got capabilities, you got inventions, you got all of these things that you need to unleash on the world. You don't have money, you may not have the financial resources, but don't allow your visions and ideas to be stifled because of what's in your bank account or not. and something inside of you made you say that even though I grew up in this situation, I'm still going to work and be a better man or a woman. I'm still going to do whatever I have to do to break the cycle. I'm still going to decide that I love myself enough

to do better, bigger, and more significant things but it takes a very strong-minded person to decide that because I was born into this doesn't mean that this is going to define the outcome of what my life and purpose on this earth is destined to be. I see what's not there. I have visions.

My visions are bold and unapologetic. You know, they say you gotta think out of the box. In my mind, there is no box to have ideas and visions and dreams and then to do any names necessary to see to it that the vision come to life only those that can see the invisible can do the impossible

and then there's even more power to be able to see what doesn't exist and then to be able to articulate it and verbalize it just keeping your minds and your spirits open to the possibilities I'm telling you. Stop being afraid of the unfamiliar. I love you.

I repeat, I love you. If no one has ever told you this, if no one told you this today, this week, this month, this year, or this very second, I want you to know I love you. And I also want you to know that the fact that you're still alive who's still on this earth, even though it's been challenging and rough. And sometimes you get to see.

discourage and uninspired to keep going. God has a plan. You will grow through what you go through. Everything that you're going through at some point, it makes no sense to you right now. But at some point, God is going to reveal to you why all of these issues, challenges, and problems continue to show up and what you were supposed to learn from it. You will grow up. You will grow through what you go through it's time to do something significant it's time to it's time to get back into being significant just woke up you got to do what you got to do what are you going to do today to walk towards your goal i'm just curious i'm curious how many text messages are going to come do today where you respond and end up connecting with that person that can take you off your

path how much time and energy are you going to dedicate to your gift and your talent or your goal how committed are you to producing results a lot of people talking about what they're to do but how many of y'all today are going to decide to do it i want you to write in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king i'm a king are you a king or a queen i'm just ask are you in the gym are you doing anything to walk towards your goals of being in shape, more focused, getting an 8 plus on those tests? Are you training as hard as you know you're supposed to be training to make the team or stay on the team? You worked your ass off. You got up at 6 a.m. in the morning. You decided to stay in your college dorm and not party, drink, smoke, and get high. You decided to focus and get away from

all of the distractions so that you can pass that bar exam and that test. You decided to focus so that you can get a high test grade on your SAT scores and end up going to college to state play sports, football, basketball, or anything that your college degrees allowed you to do and become. You decided to focus and get it done. You sacrificed all of the fun, the perks and all of the fun shit you could have been doing because you were that focus on getting out of your own way, breaking the cycle, breaking the devil cycle of your own family in your surround.

I decided to love myself enough to want better, desire better, and seek better, and move in the direction of something better. What is the next level of you? Are you done? Are you done evolving? That shit that you accomplished was five years ago. It's over. You're still alive.

You're getting on your knees every night and you're praying, but then you're getting off of your knees and ain't doing shit. You can't get points today for yesterday's game. I don't give up how much money is in my account. I'm going to make a statement every day. I want to become the things that I see. Go get it. If you got a problem with your life and your career,

stop complaining about it. You spend so much time on your knees. Your knees are bleeding. Get up off your knees and do the work. There is more to do. I don't care how much money I have in my pocket. I'm trying to be significant. Does anybody know how much money was in Martin Luther King's bank account?

How much did Nelson Mandela have in his bank account before he died? He was significant. He made a statement. He lived his life with a sense of purpose. He was selfless. He wanted to make a different. in everybody's life and everybody he ever came in contact with. I refuse to be another man that lived and died and wasn't significant, period.

We have control of our minute, our hour, our day, our week, our month, and our year. Stop running around being on the receiving end of whatever. people want to dump on you. You showed up. You accepted that invite. You invited these people to your house. You're in a relationship with that man. You're in a relationship with that woman. That's you. So how do you feel at the end of your night? How easy and how convenient is it for us to blame everything and everybody for the things that we have going on in our lives. There is a such thing as you being a positive and a great person with the best of intentions towards everybody

and shit is rough and you just can't get a break. But most of you, most of you, are waking up every day, looking for pain, dysfunction, drama, unemployment, being broke, struggling, dropping every excuse in the book about your childhood and the problems and dysfunction that you grew up in that's stopping you from becoming successful.

You don't like your friends, so why you still with them? You don't trust your managers, agents, and lawyers, so why are they still there? Do you really expect your life and career to be any different from messing with the same things, people, and situations? That's all I'm saying. Are the things that you're doing and the people that you're hanging out with and the places and the circles that you're traveling in, does that reflect a person that actually love themselves? If you love yourself, why would you fuck with those type of people? You know what they're saying about you behind your back.

You know they're jealous and envious of who you are and the things that you got going on in your life and your career. You know that they don't like you. And they've made it clear. They've sent you every sign imaginable that they could possibly send you and because you're so desperate to have people around you and in your life, you continue to go back.

You continue to show up to everything they invite you to, knowing what they're saying about you. I'm not preaching separatism. I want a bunch of people to just be alone at home doing nothing with no friends, no family, and nothing to do. I'm saying that at this point, you are old enough and mature enough to understand the difference in good people and bad people.

And when you're hanging out with negative, dark, and dysfunctional people, you cannot expect yourself to go to sleep at night and rest. You cannot expect yourself to feel good about your day when you're including negative and dysfunctional people in your day. Stop being a lazy, bum-ass person that's full of excuses, sitting around on the pity potty coming at whatever excuse. in the world as to why you ain't winning. You are the reason you're not winning. You keep messing with negative, evil, and dysfunctional people and expecting positive results. It's time you get off to

pity potty. Stop complaining about being out of shape when you never go to the gym. Stop looking at your stomach when you get out of the shower and your body and complaining about the way you look when you're eating everything in sight and never going to the gym. You are the reason you look the way you look. You are the reason you're unemployed. You are the reason why your surroundings are so dysfunctional and negative.

You could still be in the hood, broke and fucked up and living a peaceful life. It's a choice. We are being raised in a generation of people that come up with every excuse in the book as to why they are not winning. You have every excuse in the book, why you're not spending time with your kids. Fathers, I'm talking to you.

Because you're able to create a child doesn't mean that you're a father. It doesn't mean that you understand the concept of fatherhood. It's time to stop coming up with excuses, why five, six, seven months, and even years have went by without you seeing your child. It's wrong, and it's only the kids that are suffering in the age. I got drama, I got issues, my shit is public knowledge. I'm doing any means necessary to spend time with my little girl, period. Say whatever you want to say, say whatever you want to say, and you can read whatever you want to read. I am fully committed to spending time with my little one, period.

excuses sound best to the people that's making them up you got every excuse in the world that's why your shit ain't moving that's why nothing change and nothing will change because you have convinced yourself that everything is wrong everything is negative and nothing will change and guess what it won't change change your mind and it will change your life change If nothing around you changes, change the things that are around you. I'm tired of it. I'm frustrated with the amount of people that are not successful because they have thought their way into a depression.

You have thought your way into negativity and misery. You have thought your way into holding on to a dude or a girl that you broke up with a year or two ago and you're still sad and miserable. They didn't move on with their life. it's all in the mind change your mind and it will change your life

you just have to you just have to wake up you just have to break that negative spirit you have to break through all of that shit that you're carrying I don't want to I don't feel sorry for you you feel sorry for yourself that's the problem

even when positive people are trying to give you all this good energy, you have tricked your mind to turn every positive thing that they say into something negative. Every time they say anything to try and motivate you and inspire you, you turn every negative thought and every, you turn every positive thought, every positive intention, everything that they're trying to to boost your spirits up, you flip it, shake it, manipulate it, and you are so determined to be negative and miserable. It's unbelievable.

So what you grew up with them. So what their childhood friends. So what their family. We have a responsibility to walk in the direction of peace. I want to laugh. I want to smile. I want to enjoy myself. I actually want to feel good about the people that are around me.

because you're inviting me doesn't mean I want to show up because you're calling me doesn't mean I'm going to call you back because you want me to be there doesn't mean that I want to be there because we're family because we're friends because we grew up together doesn't mean that I want to be a part of any and everything that you want me to be a part of why because my experience with you hasn't necessarily made me feel good about my life or my experience at the end of every night. Because you go to sleep at night doesn't mean you're resting.

Because you close your eyes at night and you are sleep physically doesn't mean that you're actually resting. And the reason that you don't rest is because while you're awake, everything and everybody that's in and around your life is so full of issues, problems, insecurities, dysfunction, negativity. Your mind and your spirit is in turmoil. Issues and problems, arguments, yelling,

scream, dysfunction. I want you to stop playing the victim. You are not the victim. You decided that those are your friends. You decided that those are the people that you want to spend time with. You decided this is what you wanted to do with your day. When you get invited to places, doesn't mean you have to show up.

No one wants to be alone. Why spend the rest of your life being miserable, frustrated, and insecure, not really feeling as good as you have a responsibility to feel. Feeling good isn't just an opportunity. Feeling good is a responsibility that we all have for ourselves. And guess what? I actually don't care what you say about me. I don't remember the last time I lost sleep over a hater

and the things that people are running around saying, blogs, websites, conversation, tweets, and I don't lose sleep over haters. Why? Because I know exactly how I feel about me. And even if something appears to be very different than what it really is, I don't even mind that you're talking shit

about the things that you're assuming that's really going on. The question is, are you just going to look at this video and decide, wow, that was some powerful, and do the same thing. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.