WHY NOT YOU? - Powerful Motivational Speech 2025 | Marcus A. Taylor

What do you believe? Because it is our beliefs that determine our behavior. Your destiny is linked to your identity.

Everything that's coming in, everything that I believe, everything that I see will determine what I do. This is why the dark room is so important. Like, if I don't put the work in, if I don't do what is required behind the scenes, I'll never step in public authority.

If nobody's told you today, let me be the first to tell you, every single person listening to me is standing at the precipice of the greatest decision they could ever make in their lives. For years, decades, generations, families will struggle. Centuries go by in a bloodline and people, fathers and mothers make the same mistakes until the one until all of a sudden within a bloodline somebody makes the decision to press a reset button.

And I just want to ask anybody listening to me, why not you? Why not you? Why can't you be the person that changes everything?

the innovator, the trailblazer, the disruptor, the person that makes a decision that I will not be the weakest link in the chain of a dynasty. Why not me? Why can't you be the one that makes history?

Why can't you be the one that wins again? Why can't you be the one that breaks cycles? Why can't you be the one that overcomes the demons that have haunted a family for generations?

Somebody drop it in the comments. Why not me? What is your purpose?

What is your destiny? What is your assignment in this season? Are you completely sold out to it?

Are you all in? Are you willing to lay your life down? Are you willing to die to achieve it?

There is no tomorrow. There is no plan B. I am completely devoted to my level one priority.

Type it in the comments. Why not me? You're talented enough.

You're hungry enough. So do it. You are the first pick.

You are the only option. And there will never be another way. Believe that it's you.

It's always been you. You've got everything you need to go to the next level, to obliterate glass ceilings and move forward. It is possible that if you could just focus and stay committed and be determined and direct your attention to what it is that you've been destined to have, you can have it.

Do not settle. Do not think that where you are and what you see is all you will ever have. There is more.

But change doesn't always come to you. It comes from you. Decide that you want to change your life.

Decide that you know it's time. Decide that you've been here long enough. Come to the resolve that you understand.

You are aware and you have accepted that you have been broke and broken and weary and annoyed long enough. The problem with many of you is that you are surrounded by people who ask you the wrong questions. This is why when you're making decisions to change your life, you can't talk to people who are on your level because they're going to tell you it makes sense to stay here and just make here better.

When you know there is something higher that is calling you, there's a better quality of life. There is an abundance. There is an expectation, a passion, a new life that is calling you.

And everybody on your level would try to convince you to stay here with them because they're stuck in a place called comfort. Are you willing to be uncomfortable? I remember back when I was cleaning toilets for a living and I would run into wealthy people every now and then and often times the reverberating theme that they would all seem to throw out is that Marcus, you got to make investments.

If you're going to be financially fit, fiscally disciplined, you got to pay to play. You got to make an investment. I knew that I wanted something more and I knew I was destined for more, but I didn't want to accept the fact that if I'm going to make money, I've got to invest money.

When you start making these investments, it's not going to feel good. It's not going to make sense to anybody on your level, whatever goal you have, your physiology, your psychology, your relationships, your business ventures, whatever it is. And so the question is, are you willing to leave this place called comfort?

Are you aimed? Are you targeted? Do you believe that you have what it takes to pay the price?

But more than that, can you handle the pain that comes with pain? It is not going to be comfortable. Are you willing to walk in not only uncomfortability, but are you willing to walk in uncharted territory?

This means that I'm going to a place I've never been and it's not going to feel good in the beginning in the Genesis when we're first getting started. But eventually, if I stay committed, I'll see a harvest. If you're going to reap a harvest, if you keep sowing sparringly, you will reap sparingly.

But the moment that you understand that there is a price to pay to get where you want to be, it will cost you dearly. It don't feel good right now. I don't like it.

I want to leave it. I want to throw into town. I want to walk away from it all.

But I've got to be able to see the power of what lies ahead. Today's pain is tomorrow's power. The new life that you want, that you hold in your head, that you only dream of, it will cost you your old life.

I got everything I need to go to the next level. what is required to live the lifestyle that I see in my head because I no longer want to live vicariously through someone else. I'm no longer going to just sit around and like other people's pictures when I could be living that reality.

So, it's not that I want your life. It's that I understand that there's something more for me. But the question is, am I willing to write it out?

Am I willing to see it, dream it, count up the cost, and then pay the price? Most of us are not willing to pay that price. And so we just go on living in the mundane, living in the monotony, living in a place where our money's unpredictable and our relationships are unpredictable.

We're living in anxiety and stress. All of you listening to me have the opportunity to be excellent in every sphere and room and arena that you walk in. Do you know why you want to change?

Because once you get a why, you become dangerous. You are a person of vision and valor and discipline. You got this thing.

Why, not you. Stop looking for everybody else to do it. Stop looking for everybody else to support it, believe in it, to hand it to you, to point you in the right direction.

You have everything you need right now in this moment to take a step forward. You've got to stop waiting for the opportunity to come along and you've got to learn to master the art and the privilege of creating the opportunity. Stop limiting yourself to what can come to you and focus on what needs to come from you to create to pioneer to trailblaze.

The question that many people fail to ask is not where do I get the money to get the life but who must I become to attract the money to get the life. And so we need to define who it is that we must become. Who do you need to become to start the business to move into the new location to start traveling to make new friends to take up new hobbies and new investments and endeavors to impact?

Who are you going to have to be caught? You got to identify those things that are holding you back. The places, the people, and the mindsets that are telling you you're not enough.

It will not work. Turn back. Go back home.

Who you must become is directly associated with what you have been called to do. Do you know why you want to change? Because once you get a why, you become dangerous.

Why do you sweat? Why are you bleeding for it? Why are you sacrificing?

Why are you pushing yourself and testing the limitations of your soul? Why are you working so hard? Why are you changing your belief systems?

Why not you?