BEST OF ERIC THOMAS - BEAST MODE | Best Motivational Videos - Speeches Compilation 1 Hour Long

listen to me once you realize who you are you stop operating in desperation you stop saying yes to stuff you ain't supposed to be saying yes dude so here's my big problem with a lot of y'all is your belief system is off like everybody can see how sweet you are people are commenting on you could do this and you could do that and you're the only one ain't caught up with it yet gee why you always on beast mode i'm shocked more people aren't on beast mode you have people who live from check to check

and they comfortable it's the weirdest thing to me i'm like boo you broke and you broke on several levels we're not talking about sally man you steal all your grandma somebody you need to cash your grandma out listen to me unless you number one of your industry you shouldn't be chilling and if you number one in your industry you got enough common sense to know you better not be chilling every single day of my life i feel like giving 100 every single day somebody said yesterday e.t you gave 120 what you gonna 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 my son's counting on me i don't have days to waste there's nothing wrong with the opportunity you're not giving 120 you're giving 70 you're giving 60 you're giving 50 and you want with these people who've given sweats who's giving blood who's given tears you want what they paid for and it ain't free you don't belong at the bottom and it's time for you to get your

butt from down there it's time for you to stop being comfortable at the bottom get your butt up and get to where you're supposed to be the bible says he was in a pig pen and he came to himself and he went home get your butt up you are a royal priesthood get where you belong do what you're supposed to do live like you're supposed to live you got all the stuff you got you got it all but you will not outwork me cause your height has nothing to do with my work ethic your face

has nothing to do with my workout your two-parent background and never doing my workout you will not outwork me on your jet you will not outwork me in your bentley you will not outwork me you will not outwork me get up act like you playing basketball i like you playing football compete that's what bothers me many of y'all are not competing i need effort compete go to class i just left for school telling these kids act like you playing football go on that one classroom can be many of you have lost your competitive air get

your competitive edge back i'm not against no other motivational speaker i'm just competitive some of you are not successful because every single time you run up against a trial every time you run up against the tribulation you stop and you cut off beast mode and what i'm here to tell you is if you tell that thing i'm here just like you here and i promise you i ain't leaving without the debris i ain't leaving i will not leave without that goal i will not leave without that dream i will not leave this opportunity until i

get it some of you are holding on to some real good memories that are no longer current memories and you need to let them go so that you can get what's next [Music] that's what we're gonna do we're gonna get the right information and then we're gonna get narrow focused and boom we're gonna go for it are you hearing what i'm saying that's it many of you will not be successful because you've got this giant goal and no steps to go with it you're just in your mind like girl this is my year how many

steps i don't know like what is it going to take for you to do it i don't know i just know this is my year can i be real with you if you can't measure it ain't real [Music] keep your dreams phenomenal keep your vision phenomenal keep it phenomenal and now i need you to get your weight up as an individual i need you to get your schedule up i need you to get your life up i need to get your words up i need you to get your heart up i need to get your

action up i need you to get to a place that every single thing that you do is phenomenal so that the life you want to live you can actually live that life you lay hold of it and when that thing tells you to quit you look at it in his eye and say i ain't going nowhere i will break you before you break me you will not defeat me you will not destroy me some of you are so ignorant you've been through so much hell you gonna quit now why me god why did i get

ms why did i get cancer why did my mama die why did i get fired do you understand listen you got through that you got put through that because what that does that tension produces greatness stop running from it and run to it stop telling me what you're going through the greats they get to it they go through it and the harder it is the better we gonna put in work because every time you put in work you get the same consequences you get paid you get rewarded and when you out there dealing with the

real world it ain't pretty you got to have hearts get some hearts that's why you gotta do me a huge favor you gotta do me a huge favor you gotta get to the point where you don't need a car anymore you don't need a house anymore you need to be pushed by anybody anymore your dreams your wires gonna push you your spouse is gonna push you your child is gonna push you the need to get better is going to push you because you're closer than you're ever going to be it's gonna push you you don't

need anything to push you your goals are gonna push you your dreams are going to push you the the the opportunity of a lifetime that happens in this particular time frame is going to push you it's going to drive you it's going to make you better so do me a favor as i leave as i leave you can't be average anymore 70 you can't do it you can't do it and have what you want you can't give me 70 and be what you want you can't give me 70 and do what you want you can't

be average anymore you can't be good anymore 80 you can't be good anymore 80 and have what you want you can't be good at something and have everything you dreamed of to make your dreams become real to no longer dreaming but walk in them you can't 90 you can be good you can be good you can be great but you still won't get it all i'm telling you but when you become phenomenal there's nothing you can't have nothing you can't do nothing you can't be and i just i believe that you're in this room right

now i believe that we're in the same space right now i believe we're all in this place together listen to me i believe that we're all in this place together because all of us all of us hate average none of us want to be good and for those of us who reach greatness we have a desire to push past greatness and see what phenomenal looks like so i need everybody in the room when you think about your goal and you think about your dream i need you to understand as i said to my wife in

that hospital room i can i will i must i need everybody to stay with me i can i will i must come on i can i will i must again i can i will i must not not for those of you you want it all every single dream every single goal as i say it for those of you who really want it you you're going to say it and you're going gonna stand and you're gonna say it like you mean i can i will i must come on i can i will i must come on

i can i will i must now say like you mean it i can i will i must again i can i will i must again i can i will i must now i need you to think about that loved one that that that individual that you have to do this for i need you to stay with me i can i will i must come on for that individual i can i will i must for that person i can i will i must for that thing you want to accomplish i can i will i must again

i can i will i must i want you to think about that hurdle i want you to think about that thing that keeps pressing you down i want you to think about that that mountain that's hard to climb i want you to think about that thing that you just can't seem to get over we're going to get over it today we're going to get over it we're going to get over it together i can i will i must we're going to add to it i can't get over it i will get over it i must

get over it ready i can get over it i will get over it i must come on come on i can get over i will get over it i must get over it i know something about you i know you're not a quitter i know you're a survivor i know you're a survivor if you're watching me right now i know something about you you're a survivor so i want you to get off this i want you to cut it off i want you to go in the mirror i want you to make the rest of

your life the best of your life i can i will i must it's your boy e.t i don't belong in this room i remember the videos had already been out my numbers were great and i would come in rooms and go or like that room like i go to a high school like boom i go to a youth center boom i go to a prison boom i come to corporate and go i don't know if i belong in here everybody in the room don't look like me they don't come from where i come from i

don't know if i belong here and i'll never for i'll never forget i had a conversation with les brown les brown had called me to orlando we sat in a hotel and i left and i started talking less and i started naming like yo you les brown this person number one in the world he said don't you ever say that again i said don't say what he's saying you the best in the world right now i said what he said you the best in the world right now there's nobody as good as you in the

world you're the best right now the only reason you're not the best right now because you don't believe you the best time and when you walk out this room i want you to go in the mirror i'm the best right now he said before you even become number one start to proclaim it and say it long before it happened say i'm the number one motivational speaker in the world and when i was number 20 i started saying i'm the number one motivational speaker in the world and i went to the computer and the world said

exactly what i said that eric thomas is number one in the world i spoke it the world heard it and it activated your problem is that you don't believe you belong here [Applause] your problem is that you don't think you should be sitting down here so listen to me there are those of you saying i want to be a millionaire i want to be the best of this company right but your value system says you believe in sleep more than you believe in grinding that you're spending more money than you're making why because you're a

consumer but you're you're reading all the books and you're saying everything the books are saying but those books are not in alignment with your values if you're going to go to the next level your values are going to have to change [Music] when i believed [Music] that my voice was needed in this world when i believed that i needed to be on the stage not for myself but to speak to a group of people who come from where i come from a working class who don't know what it's like to make millions and millions of

dollars who don't understand what wealth looks like that i needed to come in the room with a single-parent mother with a father not in my life being homeless in a high school dropout only somebody who comes from where you come from can tell you you belong and i had to get my butt on stage because there's some folks that les brown can't reach there's some folks that tony robbins can't read there's some folks that only i can reach and so i need to be on the stage with them doing what i was called to do

but what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process you cannot give up because it ain't what you see you cannot give up champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe that's when you find a way all right come on come on put some context into i'm gonna put some context they sent my mother-in-law home eight years ago uh the cancer metastasized throughout our whole body they're like it ain't nothing we could do for you go home spend

time with your family and people was like yep that's it for her she says not it for me and they said what you mean is not over for you the doctor said she don't care about a doctor i gotta see my grandson graduate from high school he's a junior now michigan state university she said i got to see my granddaughter graduated my only two grandkids i see my granddaughter graduate from high school and she graduates in june she said after that i might die but up until then i ain't going nowhere are you hearing what

i'm telling you and what we said to each other is i can't get through this i will get through this i must get through this so so i just need to think about three people in your family that you love three people three people that you love three people you got em they there you got em that's what i need you to do for me because some of you have a hard time staying motivated for a straight hundred days so what i need you to do for me is i need you to think about those

people every day when you're doing what you're doing do you have some days where you just wanna hit the snooze button raise your hand for me you wanna hit the snooze button right so watch this this is what has to happen that person that you think about has to be louder than the snooze button so when you think about granny you gotta think about do i hit the snooze button or do i get up and make it happen for granted are you hearing what i'm saying who you doing this for so the days you don't

feel like getting up just think about them somebody tell me in this room when you think about your siblings what you think about mom your dad and grandma when you think about your uncle and aunts when you think about those coaches those people who've been there for you just raise your hand if you say e.t sleep is better than that just raise your hand and tell me anybody in the room sleep is better than them e raise your hand somebody tell me e.t you don't you don't get it you don't know how hard it is

e i probably don't i just live in abandoned buildings hey i trash cans i probably don't maybe i never been through what you've been through but i've been through my go through and you don't you don't you don't get here by quitting when you're tired you get here by quitting when you finish when you're done you don't stop when you tired you stop when you're done you stop when you complete it when you execute it execution is worship and so i execute for my mom i execute for my grandma i execute for my sister i

execute for those kids in the hood who looking for a role model that's why i wear the hat with a phd that's why i wear the jays so when the kids in the hood look at me they say if e.t can do it i can do it that's why i can't quit and give up even though i get tired just like everybody else why because this is what i do this is my leg this is your lane you gotta murder it so when i ask you you got energy don't play with me when i check

when i say again you got that energy for the next hundred days i need to feel your soul in this room all right i can come on i can come on i can i will i must come on i can i will some energy come on some of you are your priorities are out of line and you're partying right now and you broke you broke in your relationships you broke in your health like for real you broke it you broke you broke and you're broke because you're not getting the eye you're not understanding the eye

i told you last week it is about an invention and idea if you would if you would get off the couch start playing video games stop murmuring stop complaining stop going to a job you don't like you're about to go to a whole other level in every area of your life talking about the i am i am strong i am equipped i am confident i am more than a conqueror don't let your words guide you let your actions guide you everything you've ever wanted everything you've ever wanted in life it's in your idea it's in

your i am come on i am i am for i am after you get off work just like you invest in them you need to invest in yourself and the problem is simple you're not investing in your write the idea down and shut up you ain't got to share your idea with 50 people you're watching people blow up who had an idea and they turned that idea into a reality and not only are they millionaires or billionaires but they making people millionaires and billionaires your success is not determined on just what you say write the

idea down and boom get your stepping baby get to the action you don't get out of life what you want raise your level of consciousness you get out of life who you are i am the greatest you haven't convinced you that you need to put the money in so you can get where you're trying to get through you don't believe that you are and the very first thing the creator said was hello i am after you do pursue what does that mean you never get to a place where you're chilling now your children's children will

be satisfied for a marginal life and a marginal marriage if they see their mom and dad have a margin or anything they're going to embrace that why because you can tell people whatever you want to tell them but people don't live their life based on what you tell them they live it on based on who you are this information is gonna change your life forever like if you've been here this information is gonna change your life find out who you are find out what your purpose is in life everybody got a dream everybody gotta go

stop dreaming about it stop talking about it and get up and do something about it here's the deal if you get to the top of the tree all the fruit from the bottom at the top is gonna be there son so i don't need you focusing on cars and money and stuff you gonna get that i need you to focus on why you were born in the first place why are you here on earth for this particular time what are you doing here you need to tell you that you owe you something i don't want

nothing from you but for you to leave this room and know what you want what do you want in your marriage what do you want with your son and your daughter what do you want in your health what do you want financially like how much money do you want to make a year what do you want to drive how do you want to live stop just waking up like an accident what do you want and then once you find out what you want spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it

the reason why i speak with so much passion e.t why do you speak with so so much authority because i'm talking about my life not something that i read i ate out of trash cans you ain't got to start with the two-parent background you ain't got to start with wealth you ain't got to start with your parents graduated it's not the hand that you dealt you got rich kids who own drugs you got rich kids who committed suicide you got rich kids who don't know their purpose in life it's not the head that you was

dealt baby here's how you play your head every opportunity is the last opportunity every opportunity i have to reprove myself again every opportunity i'm still nervous e.t you've been doing this for years why are you so nervous because the day you become condensed then you stop evaluating yourself the day you stop growing the day you stop getting better is the day you die is the day the person who's trying to catch you will get you and i ain't where i want to be and i'm like god i ain't where i want to be and he

was like you stopped being a victim i said what you mean a victim well it ain't my fault my mom got pregnant at 17. and ain't my fault my daddy wasn't there and ain't my fault they couldn't get along it ain't my fault he said boy you you grown you ain't 10 no more [Music] you the decisions you make right now is up to you you crying about something that happened to you when you was a kid you ain't even no kid no more you're a grown man take four ownership the stupid stuff you doing

your plans didn't make you play no video games that you cried about so what your daddy wasn't there your mama ended up getting married what you crying about he went to work every day he never beat you he never abused you your mama did the best she knew how to do what you crying about you grew up in the house what you crying about you've been lazy your whole life and now somebody told you you could make six figures and you go knock on the door 100 times and your body sell you a lie you

ain't never gave a hundred percent in order to knock on the door 100 times you're gonna have to get 120 get up out of here you can't do this and you won't have to fight and fight and fight and fight and most of you won't be successful not because you can't do it but you can't outlast your own you long enough to get to your new every day when i wake up i got all kind of demands you got all kind of demands and the reason why you're not where you want to be is not

because you're not great but you taking all other people's stuff before you spend enough time with yourself to get to know you and get to know what you want and what you should do and so please raise your hand with me if you're saying e from this day forward i make a commitment to myself in a way i've never made a commitment to myself before let me see your hands i said i'm gonna grind i'm going to fight i'm going to work i'm going to press tour i'm going to learn i'm going to do everything

in my power every single day i'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim i'm not i've never seen i've never seen all blacks play a day in my life and if you watch some of my videos i have all blacks in my videos why because they're what they're winners when you're a winner winning spreads so everybody i got videos where i'm like y'all i don't really know how to show my passion somebody said get to all blacks i'm like yup that's what i need all blacks yup yup

i need the all blacks i need to why because they say what i'm saying they just standing in rugby i don't i don't know i'm like whoa that's a violent sport their passion is all over there why because winners win and i can't explain it to you but you better stop making excuses and find a way to win how do you do it then if we wake up and grind winners win i focus more on winning and i focus on structure i focus on winning and when you become a winner they start seeing you with

winners every day in africa in the safari a lion wakes up every single day in a safari a lion wakes up right and every single day in a safari a gazelle wakes up it says that if you wake up and you're a gazelle you realize if you're going to survive as a gazelle if you're going to survive you must outrun the slowest gazelle in your mind you're thinking you gotta outrun the fastest line that's not the truth you just gotta stay ahead of the slow gazelle that's it every single day when you wake up whatever

it is that you do professionally you better make sure you're not in the back of the pack you better be as close to the front if not up front as possible because every single day when the lion wakes up it's only one thing on that lion's mind and that is catching the gazelle that couldn't keep up [Music] what the gazelle realizes is that the way it operates that the way it performs that the way it goes about its daily business is contingent upon life and death [Music] that if that gazelle does not do what he

or she is supposed to do it will be eaten by a lion [Music] even if you are a lion even if you are a lion and you have the advantage that when the sun comes up if you're a gazelle or a lion you better get to run it because if you are a lion a gazelle is still not going to come to you and say just eat i don't care how deep you are as a lion when you wake up nothing is going to come to you nobody is going to give you anything they're still

not giving stuff to e.t i still have to work i still have to fly 20 hours to get to australia i still have to go to london i still have to do free stuff in detroit i still have to drive i'm a lion and when the sun comes up i still have to get to running [Music] here's the challenge though i asked myself when i read that story that's what's on the surface i read it and i started asking myself e.t what's the difference between the gazelle and what's the difference between a lion [Music] what's

the difference i know that they're wired differently but what's the difference and what i discovered is that the gazelle is running from something [Music] because they're always running from something so as long as the lion is chasing the gazelle the gazelle is running but as soon as the lion stops chasing the gazelle it stops [Music] that's a lot of you in this room you will run you'll do what you're supposed to do as long as you're getting pushed as long as you're getting motivated as long as somebody is encouraging you as long as somebody's coaching

you as long as somebody's pushing you as long as somebody's prodding you you're doing what you're supposed to do as long as somebody's calling you as long as someone is enticing you as long as somebody's giving you rewards you're moving but as soon as that stops you stop [Music] i asked myself the question about the lion and i said the lion is not running to be rewarded the lion is willing to eat every single day the lion is running to eat because the lion realizes when he kills the gazelle not only does he eat the

gazelle but he brings it back home [Music] you've got to ask yourself what's your why what motivates you what pushes you what drives you and if that thing is internal if nobody has to call you if nobody has to pride you if nobody has to reward you if nobody has to give you anything if you are self-motivated and self-regulated you can have it you can be it you can do it so i'm telling you number one this ain't about you first of all this is about a program and this program has a lot of pride

and this program is considered one of the bro best programs in the world but the program is only as deep as the dudes that suit up and go out there and play [Music] and that play don't start on saturday when does that play start good so let's so talk to me because i'm not i don't do football so you got to talk to me so we play saturday right so that don't count so when is the first day that we start with this grind what day is that sunday and what are we doing on sunday

recovering beautiful and we don't need to take that lightly right like we don't need to take i don't know you do you got experts here get to recovery good what does monday look like good what does that mean i'm sorry good that how many of y'all be honest you're not even giving 80 to that you're watching it but you ain't really there there locked in like you know you should be locked in let me see your hand just be honest you're not locked in like come on stop playing we mean you want to send the

coaches out you're a grown man raise your hand like i ain't really committed to that like that okay let me say it like this how many of you are not committed to installment like you are actually playing the game let me see your hand all right i got to tell y'all this you ever seen a giraffe like their body does it look like a lion's body when a lion is born and a giraffe is born are they born with that body when a lion is born it's not a lion when the lion is born it's

a what it's a cub you know what do you know what makes it look the way it looks does anybody know what makes it look that way not yeah he said growing but not just growing that's right you grow up but it don't naturally happen like that how do you how does a lion look like that but a giraffe don't look like that he's chasing the food so it is the process of hunting it's not the actual meat that make him look like that it is the actual hunt it's the actual chasing so whether he

catch it or not every time he goes on the hunt he's developing some of y'all so caught up on the game that you don't get it it is in practicing it isn't his thoughts it is in lifting weights it is in resting it isn't eating right it isn't making good decisions that you look a certain way i tell you you have an opportunity right now that you will never have people say why you grind so hard e i might not be the number one motivational speaker in the world five years from now i got to

get everything i can get right now every book i can write listen to me my school is being paid for by the athletic department i'm hot right now a real man in the dark when nobody's watching he putting in work a real man when coach ain't even watching he's studying film on his own because he's and he loves the process [Music] because real lions like to hunt they love the process just as much as they love the prize and some of y'all just want to score you don't like the process you're not in love with

the process you just like to put the pass on you love when it's showtime everybody in the crowd you're like hey mom can you see you can't even start until you know your people there once you see them you're like show time day after day half the day grind have to grind have to grind airport at the airport driving ma after my et aren't you tired yes i might be i don't know e.t aren't you ready to take a break yes i might be but listen to me i can't why because i grind for jaylen

i grind for jada i grind for dede i grind for my mother are you hearing what i'm telling you i grind for vanessa i hustle for so the days i want to hit that alarm clock i think about my why i can't quit my son 25 000 a year i can't stop he counting on me my daughter i can't quit i can't stop i can't get tired i can't give up i can't give in my mama counting on me my wife is counting on me [Music] yeah i might be different but i am brilliant yep

i might be loud but i am special [Music] we can go from being homeless in high school dropouts to having phds writing books and becoming the voice of a generation we can do whatever we believe we can do and we don't need anybody's permission to do it but ours i am phenomenal and i don't owe anybody an apology i am going to do great things and i don't owe anybody an apology i am i was created to be great i was created to do great things i was created to have great things and i will

no longer ask others for their permission most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired you quit and i'm here to tell you today if you got somebody came in my office the other day crying i said look don't cry to give up try to keep going don't cry to quit you already in pain you already hurt get a reward from it don't go to sleep until you succeed listen to me i'm here to tell you today that you can come here you can jump up you can do flips you

can be excited when we give away money but listen to me you'll never be successful until i don't have to give you a dime to do what you do you won't be successful until you say i don't need that money cause i got it in here so if you want to make six figures you can't just be talking about you want to make six figures when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful [Music] and when you get to the point where all you want to do is be

successful as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful and i'm here to tell you number one that most of you say you want to be successful but you don't want it bad you just kind of want it you don't want it better than you want to party you don't want it as much as you want to be cool you most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep some of you love sleep more than you love success and i'm here to tell you today if you're going to be

successful you've got to be willing to give up sleep you got to be willing to work off for three hours of sleep two hours if you really want to be successful some days you will have to stay up three days in a row because if you go to sleep you might miss the opportunity to be successful that's how bad you gotta want it you gotta go days without listen to me you gotta wanna be successful so bad that you forget to eat but listen to me emma smith said this at the end of the commercial

emma smith said all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season i'ma say it again because you might have missed it all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season so that means that there are some people who are going to see the professor going to see the ta and even when the professor says i don't meet with you my ta meet with you you say i want to talk to your t.a i don't pay the ta i pay you to teach me so you're gonna have to find some time to meet me

if i got to meet you at the mall if i got to meet you at your house you are going to see me listen to me all men are created equal some work hard in preseason when i went to college guys were way smarter than me 4.0 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 smart ain't enough you

gotta have hearts that's number one watch number two number two catch number two i wrote it down i want to make sure you got it it says to be watch this watch this we're talking about sacrifice now the important thing is this you're writing why i'm saying it because i only have about three more minutes listen to me the most important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become that's the number two thing you gotta catch that one to be able to listen to me

at any moment some of you you can make sacrifices when monday night football is not on you can make a sacrifice but when the game come on for some reason you just attach to it for some of you when your favorite show come on you you can be you can make sacrifices on sunday when ain't nothing going on but when your favorite show comes on monday bam some of you you focus into the phone ring and then you like i gotta answer it if i don't answer the phone i'm gonna die i'm saying to you

today that there are some of you if you give up your cell phone you will be successful but your cell phone is more important to you than your success i'm gonna say it again i'm gonna hurt somebody i'm gonna hurt somebody some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success the time you could be using to be successful you're using it on the sale and the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill and somebody has told you

you couldn't live without it i'm talking about going deep now giving up stuff watch what it says to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be i don't do well in math you're right you ain't never studied i'm not good in writing cause you have never written before but i dare you to fail in writing for a whole year to see if you can get to the end i dare you to fail i dare you to take that same class over and over again i dare you to stop

dropping classes like you saw always want to give up i'm dropping why are you dropping i'm so grateful that the slaves didn't drop and quit saying i'm just going to stop i'm a slave i'm just going to be a slave i'ma quit listen to me the slave said we will live because one day we will become so i'm here because when i tell you about breakthrough i'm not talking about something i read a college course i'm talking about i've been through it so here's the first thing i want y'all to know this is the year

of the breakthrough this is the year of the what this is the year of the world this is the year of the word act like you hear me this is the year the word this is the year the word act like it it's hard when you're in a library and you study it and you read and you take the test and you get a 55 that's hard so what i want you to understand about the breakthrough is that 90 is worth but the last 10 that's fights but you mean to tell me i'm going to

every class and i'm still failing you me to tell me i'm reading every paper i'm still failing that's the hard part the breakthrough is the hardest part because the breakthrough is not about the x's and o the breakthrough is not about the weight room the breakthrough is not about studying the plays and the breakthrough that last 10 percent is all mental toughness the last 10 percent the breakthrough is not about being better than you're already better than you you're just not better than them mentally the breakthrough i'm gonna break these boys why because where they

come from they couldn't get up at three o'clock in the morning they wanted to they smiled at me they come from privilege they got the language they got the code they got the rules they grew up in it but they will not get up earlier to me they will not put out more content than me beats mo one two three be slow one two three be slow i beat small my way to number one i'm talking about max head out listen to me y'all here's my i don't play basketball but if you watch my videos

and you watch me i will not walk out of life i'm going to crawl out of life when i die i'm just like i promise you when i die i won't be i won't have no energy left every practice i don't want no energy left why because those other girls you playing they young and they're gonna burn out by the second half because they're young and what you're gonna do is you're gonna be there with the doors not this is what i love about life when you look at all the other motivational speakers i remember

looking at them and i said they're ahead of they ain't been me i have an advantage when you homeless and eating out of trash cans i flew first class today right it was so funny i flew first class and i guess it was a small flight so when they served our meal it was like a real turkey sandwich you can see other people looking like i'm flying first class that's wheat bread i saw him too i saw what it was looking like that's wheat bread with cheese it's not warm it was like a i'm talking

about like a middle school lunch that your mama would send you with with a little small bag of chips i murdered this i was like whoa turkey it was so much turkey it was a cold cut i took most of the turkey out late and just kept that much in there like it's too much turkey they looking like how dare them serve me this this is first class i was home like let's go i used to i didn't eat like this when i was uh homeless i didn't know when my next meal would come some

of you your problem is you can't deal with adversity you look at adversity as something negative when it's not adversity is the best thing to ever happen to you why because when adversity happens most people gonna quit [Music] this is recording into the fourth quarter i'm working harder now then i worked in january then i worked in may i'm about to put it on now why because most of the people who do what i do they about to get tired my son is 23 lee i promise you we had a layover went to my mama's

house he slept the whole time he woke up and said dad i don't know how you do it i wouldn't worked out did the hip boy walk with my mom for three or four miles with my niece talked to my mom got on the plane got off boom did a presentation they was like fire pit they was like e best presentation you did all this year i can't wait to the fourth quarter i can't wait to the second half cause that's when talent goes away all your talent gone with five minutes left your legs about

to give out so who wins only the person that can go through adversity that's when you start winning so that's why you need to practice till you burn out so when you get on the court you'll never burn out and they gonna burn out they gonna burn out i'm telling you if you see it it's like the game goes up and down and up and down and the last four y'all gotta go watch michael jordan when y'all get a chance he would always take a break at about maybe 10 minutes he'd come back with six

minutes left in the game and he would mike would come in in those last five six minutes he would kill you [Music] i never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to eat cause you can go 21 days maybe 30 but without eating i never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want water because you can go about three days or so without it i said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe you probably only got a minute or so then you'll be successful

and so one of the things i want to do for you as an educator today you don't necessarily need better skills per se that's not what you need but what some of you need is to go from 70 to 120 some of you need to go from 80 to 120 the reason why i'm giving 120 is because your daddy's not in your life the reason why i'm giving 120 is because your father's in prison the reason why i'm giving 120 is because your mom is working two jobs the reason why i'm giving 120 is because

your grandma is raising you the reason why i'm giving 120 is because you live in a community where education is not valued so i don't care what you do academically when you leave here you can't go and get credit for getting aids that in your neighborhood in your community nobody affirms you for reading at a certain level nobody affirms you for doing well on your a.c.t or your s.a.t where you come from education is not affirmed so even if you are a scholar you have to keep it to yourself you have to suppress it so

the reason why i give 120 is because your daddy's not there to give 80. and your mama's too tired to give a hundred and your grandma is washed out so she's given 50. and y'all do that little stuff about you gonna eat but y'all ain't got no dog or motor you get tired quick if you practice for one or two days you go out you do a couple hours you tired but yeah you compete against people right now that's a lifestyle and you think they bout to let you take their lifestyle [Music] i don't want

to do it as much as i want to eat i don't want to do it as much as i need to i want to be the best in the world as bad as i want to breathe i want to be the michael jordan of education i want to be the lebron james of education and i ask you the question i ask you the question today are you giving 120. i never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to eat i never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want

water i said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful i i told my professor what happens if i fail he said what happens if you pass i said but what happened if i don't get it what happened if i put in all this years and it don't work out he said but what happens if you put in all these years and you get it some of you are interested in this work and you like telling people you do it it makes you feel good but you're not

you're not 120 though some of you are committed but just like your side hustle i'm just being real y'all i was fully committed i left everything and started doing it and because i was fully committed the world responded to that commitment but you just interested you're not really committed to it you're not putting in 50 60 hours when my wife got diagnosed with ms i never quit doing the work because i wasn't doing it for people i was doing it for the kids that i was doing it for so even with ms she had to

quit her job i'd take it to another level what up what up what up some of y'all are negotiating not because of the company you negotiate because you're not the best at what you do and i need you to go back and be the best at what you do and then i need you all to come together as the best and then take this thing to the next level and there are some of you you know what you want you know what you want but you are not personally willing to do the work it takes

to get it what you're trying to do is do what you've done on this level and get the next level you're trying to do exactly what you're doing on this level you're like i'm getting up every day i'm putting in two and a half i'm putting in three and i'm not getting the opportunity the opportunity might require three and a half i'm lifting weights i'm eating right and i'm not getting the opportunity it might require getting up and working out three and a half it might require you saying no to your friends it might require

you changing your diet it might require you moving to another city whatever it takes you got to be willing to do it and you keep saying you're not there because of something else because it's easier to blame somebody else because now you don't got to do no work when you blame somebody else guess who got to do the work they got to do the work but guess who got the power they got the power how many are tired of other people having the power let me see your hands you want the power i'm just being

real hands down hands down think about what i just said how many you want the power let me see your hands good right down right down next to your crazy idea some of the things that you know you're doing wrong that's messing up what you're doing oh dear jungle so there's some of you you're trying to get there too fast relax it's going to come so what happens if you get there too fast and you're not patient some people have gotten to fame and lost their families they've lost their why's they've lost their riches right

they've lost their wealth they lost their influence right they lost their name listen to me in a good name man it's hard to get a good name it's even harder when you lose it to get it back so be patient most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired you quit and i'm here to tell you today if you got somebody came to my office the other day crying i said look don't cry to give up try to keep going don't cry to quit you already in pain you already hurt

get a reward from it don't go to sleep until you succeed listen to me i'm here to tell you today that you can come here you can jump up you can do flips you can be excited when we give away money but listen to me you'll never be successful until i don't have to give you a dime to do what you do you won't be successful until you say i don't need that money cause i got it in here so if you want to make six figures you can't just be talking about you want to

make six figures when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful [Music] and when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful and i'm here to tell you number one that most of you say you want to be successful but you don't want it bad you just kind of want it you don't want it better than you want to party you don't want it as much as you want to be cool you

most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep some of you love sleep more than you love success and i'm here to tell you today if you're going to be successful you've got to be willing to give up sleep you got to be willing to work off of three hours of sleep two hours if you really want to be successful some days you will have to stay up three days in a row because if you go to sleep you might miss the opportunity to be successful that's how bad you got a

warning you got to go days without listen to me you got to want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat but listen to me emma smith said this at the end of the commercial emmitt smith said all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season i'ma say it again because you might have missed it all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season so that means that there are some people who are going to see the professor going to see the ta and even when the professor says i don't meet

with you my ta meet with you you say i want to talk to your t.a i don't pay the ta i pay you to teach me so you're gonna have to find some time to meet me if i got to meet you at the mall if i got to meet you at your house you are going to see me listen to me all men are created equal some work hard in preseason when i went to college guys were way smarter than me 4.0 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 smart ain't enough you got to have hearts that's number one watch number two number two catch number two i wrote it down i want to make sure you got it it says to be watch this watch this we're talking about sacrifice now the important thing is this you're writing why i'm saying it because i only have about three more minutes listen to me

the most important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become that's the number two thing you got to catch that one to be able to listen to me at any moment some of you you can make sacrifices when monday night football is not on you can make a sacrifice but when the game come on for some reason you just attach to it for some of you when your favorite show come on you you can be you can make sacrifices on sunday nothing going on but

when your favorite show comes on monday bam some of you you focus into the phone ring and then you like i gotta answer it if i don't answer the phone i'm gonna die i'm saying to you today that there are some of you if you give up your cell phone you will be successful but your cell phone is more important to you than your success i'm gonna say it again i'm gonna hurt somebody i'm gonna hurt somebody some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone

could be used for your success the time you could be using to be successful you're using it on the sale and the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill and somebody has told you you couldn't live without it i'm talking about going deep now giving up stuff watch what it says to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we can be i don't do well in math you're right you ain't never studied i'm not good in writing because you have never written before but i dare you to

fail in writing for a whole year to see if you can get to the end i dare you to fail i dare you to take that same class over and over i dare you to stop dropping classes like you saw always want to give up i'm dropping why you dropping i'm so grateful that the slaves didn't drop and quit say i'm just going to stop i'm a slave i'm just going to be a slave i'ma quit listen to me the slave said we will live because one day we will become listen to me very closely

you keep saying you ain't on the next level because the economy you keep saying you ain't no next level because of racism you keep saying you're in the next level because it ain't a season you keep saying you're in the next level because they don't love you you keep saying you ain't in the next level because the opportunity did the truth of the matter is that you ain't there because you ain't dead some of you you know what you want you know what you want but you are not personally willing to do the work it

takes to get it what you're trying to do is do what you've done on this level and get the next level you're trying to do exactly what you're doing on this level you're like i'm getting up every day i'm putting in two and a half i'm putting in three and i'm not getting the opportunity the opportunity might require three and a half i'm lifting weights i'm eating right and i'm not getting the opportunity it might require getting up and working out three and a half it might require you saying no to your friends it might

require you changing your diet it might require you moving to another city whatever it takes you got to be willing to do it and you keep saying you're not there because of something else because it's easier to blame somebody else because now you don't got to do no work when you blame somebody else guess who got to do the work they got to do the work but guess who got the power they got the power so what i'm telling you to do since you hate being told what to do you're gonna have to fix yourself

since you don't like nobody else telling you what to do if you could fix procrastination what would your life be like yo you understand what i'm saying people like e.t i want to do what you do no you don't i'm my own boss when i worked at michigan state i had to be to work at nine o'clock when i work for myself i get up at three when i work at michigan state i get to leave at five when you work for yourself you don't have no time when you get off you don't get off

you stop when the work is done if you work for yourself you'll be asleep all day you'll be like i work for myself i'm good i ain't getting up today you know what i'm saying i'm just taking a day off i'm just being real there are those of you who work for yourself you don't even have a plan you don't even have like a a vacation package for yourself you just get to get off whenever you want to what kind of job is that you can just take off when you want to that ain't no

real job you ain't got no insurance you ain't paying yourself you oh but when you had a job you could get there for them when they wanted you to get there oh you had to tell them when you was gonna be sick when you went but for yourself you ain't got to do nothing that's why you can't blow up you ain't got enough discipline to discipline you you