YOU VS YOU - Motivational Speech Listen Every Day

sometimes moving forward takes courage like a lot of [Music] Courage like more courage than you even think exists within you but here's the deal courage you have and you have it in Spate I was recently after a a long networking event having dinner with my friends Solara and Eli and uh both incredibly kind generous successful people and we're kind of catching up as we're we're eating and suddenly from across the table Eli says Eddie you know I feel called to share this story with you and you know obviously I said please I'm all ears and

his story started well before he was a mover and Shaker in the real estate World well before he was as confident and Polished as he is now and uh he talks about his mid-20s being homeless right living in a hammock behind the local convenience store scraping together quarters for food you know and and how some days it was incredibly difficult on his pride you know being had to change by pastors by some of them he knew you know were were struggling just like he was and one day Eli decided you know I just I don't

want to do it anymore the pain was too much and and hope felt like a mirage and so that night he planned to take his life and he he said he probably would have had it not been for a call with his sister who convinced him on the phone to see just one more Sunrise one more Sunrise so he does the next morning he wakes up he's walking through a parking lot someone walking by said to a friend you know I love my life and he said he remembers hearing that and you know kind of

scoffing and in a mocking manner repeating it back you know yeah I love my life but as he did he noticed something as he repeated those words he felt good for the first time in a long time even if it was only for a few seconds you know but sometimes a few seconds is enough and this time a few seconds was enough enough for him to say you know one more day we'll give this one more day maybe [Music] tomorrow and tomorrow as the sun came up turned into one more day which turned into another

day which turned into weeks months and years where he exists today not only incredibly successful but a sharer of the message he had a sign made that said I love my life as a reminder to himself and to help others in the same spot I love my life he said again at the table looking up you know with tears in his eyes and a smile on his face see when you're in those moments and trust me I know how dark they can be it feels like life is asking you to do more than you can

to pull a rabbit out of a hat or create some unheard of Larger than Life solution but the truth is in those moments you simply need to find the courage to continue forward into the chaos one more time one more day one more Sunrise not for what you might find but for what you might remember what you already know that life is beautiful that sure sometimes the skies are painted gray and The Horizon's just not visible from your Vantage Point but that isn't an indicator that reality is void of meaning it doesn't suggest there aren't

better days ahead no it means you have to put your head down and keep walking right into the storm right through the chaos blazing your own trail through the abyss [Music] like you own it right and you won't know why it'll feel stupid at times yeah you'll feel alone and helpless life will feel desolate but here's the thing you can you are equipped with the courage to count those sunrises you're armed with the strength to simply walk into the night because here's what will happen there's going to be a point where the rain stops and

the sky is clear where everything opens up The Path will make sense and you'll trust more than ever to walk it you'll have earned that confidence you'll have seen firsthand that you are capable of moving mountains not by performing Miracles but by placing One Foot In Front Of the other sometimes it's that simple not easy but simple I love my life say it even when you've forgotten even when you can't remember why I love my life say it when hope is lost when the path is unclear when you look around and wonder if there's anything

even worth pursuing say it because it will take your hand and lead you forward that's your Super Bowl not a miracle but that step forward one more sunrise and if you can do it now when the walls feel like they're caving in when the sky feels like it's crashing down if you find the courage in this moment you'll begin that Journey Into the Depths of your soul the ride to what's ahead the better days assembled just beyond the confines of the present moment often courage is required of us when it's most difficult to reach in

and find it but it's there so take it allow yourself to be that person you were meant to be I love my [Music] life one of my favorite ideas by legendary author and speaker Jim ran was it's not that it costs too much it's that you can't afford it and wo what a flipping of the script it doesn't cost too much to someone else out there there are people who can afford it you're just not one of them at least not right now why is this had such an impact on me well it's my reminder

first and foremost to take that finger pointing out at the world turn it around and point it directly at my chest it says maybe the variable here in need of Change Is Me Maybe if they can afford it so can I maybe it's not the price that needs to come down maybe it's that my value in the market place my skill set my abilities need to rise that's not too expensive I just need to level up there's nothing like taking what would be a gripe with the world and transforming it into the very reason you're

going to be better because really we always have that choice we can project out and compl complain about the ones who scratched and clawed their way to the top who have more than us or we can join them option one keeps you down on your back looking up at the sky option two places the world in the palm of your hand so given the choice don't complain about the price become someone who can pay don't envy their success drive your yourself to stand a top a Podium of your own making don't throw stones stack them

and make them your foundation life is a game of bettering yourself as especially when it's not easy to you know how much easier it is in the short term to put your feet up and list off all the people who slided you along the way refer to them as the problem you know how easy it is to find reasons you can't to paint worst case scenarios into the sky incredibly easy it's temporary weight off your shoulders it's oh I can't get to the moon so hey no need to build that rocket ship what's for dinner

yeah that's what we call the easy way out and while it may feel good in the short term it doesn't bridge that gap between the cost of what you want and what you can afford to pay what it does is justify and rationalize not enough because when you fight for your limitations as the saying goes you get to keep them and in a world where victimhood is becoming currency the more and more people are falling for the illusion of short-term gratification the temporary peace of mind we get when we deflect when you call yourself a

victim it's not your fault but when it's not your fault it's not yours to fix and there lies the issue the name of the game is betterment it's progress that's not too expensive I just need to increase my worth I I need to put myself in a position where I scoff at what was once considered too expensive I need to build myself up not wish the world around me was pulled down and when this switch occurs life changes you realize the fluidity of things that everything is relative you can't change the price but you can

change you and you can do so in a massively substantial way you can build yourself up so high that the old you becomes unrecognizable but the first step is realizing that personal agency opens the door accountability and dedication push you through it that's where the magic is becoming so valuable that the externalities are Minor Details observers of your sent it's time to take the ideal and ship away at it like an axe to a tree it's time to look at the world less from a lens of what am I allowed to do and more from

the perspective of it's all mine if I find the courage to grow into my potential to capture and cash in on my value every day you choose to become more valuable and skilled every time you do the hard thing today for a greater you tomorrow expensive means less and less the price tag is fixed your potential your greatness is not so rise to the occasion tap into U 2.0 and prove just how relative cost really [Music] is sometimes when you don't know where you're going the best thing to do is go there a wise man

once stated that an object at rest stays at rest and while his rationale is a little different than mine I'm going to borrow from his premise right because when you move even if you don't know where you're going you put yourself on a collision course with something you put into existence an entity to react to some call it Destiny others call it fate I call it simply initiative because if your journey is hypothetical you have nothing to celebrate nor correct a sailboat can adjust its sails once it leaves the harbor right it can learn from

and manipulate its surroundings make sure it arrives at a destination right it learns and adapts along the way but from the harbor it speculates it expounds upon a path that might be straighter might be faster might be more thought out and tied together than the crazy Sailors who took off for the Horizon but in actuality it goes nowhere in the real world it is stagnant and I could be wrong but I'd make the argument 10 out of 10 times that the real world is where we want our [Music] results and my proof well a journey

that started uh with insurance and evolved into music and songwriting and audio production and video production and creative writing then a sweet spot that kind of combined everything a spot that didn't make its way to my inbox with an exact address a spot that required a lot of failure and Lessons Learned and disappointment but man more than that so much fun right my proof is sitting down right now in real time letting my fingers create a bridge from nothing to something of value by the way after sitting here staring at a blank screen for hours

it's just starting could I be wrong could I screw up could I wildly miss the mark yes in fact it happens more than I'd like to admit but here's the beauty even if I am wrong I now have something to work with something has been brought into existence and well that means I'm officially further along than I once was and I've heard over and over again that there is no perfect moment that you have to just go and the idea I mean it makes sense it's impossible not to understand but it's one of those things

that until you feel it doesn't mean anything how can you miss something you've never experienced well to put it in a way that helped me understand and you aren't going because what do you have to lose you're going because everything is to be gained the answers that you pick up along the way like a little coins you pick up in Super Mario right you have to start collecting pieces of a puzzle that you can then arrange I truly believe that one of the most important ideas we need to hold on to moving forward as personal

agencies self-belief and I say that because I I feel like I'm watching it slip there are cases where we literally don't know or understand that it's within our own ability and control to change our lives no person or group or letter in the mail is going to come along and Greenlight your idea in fact you might not even really know what your idea means or how it will look and that's not only okay it's amazing it's the marble that you get to Chisel away at to create something see life is not the the perfect execution

of a plan life is the courage to make your way into a world that no one really understands or knows anything about and I'm not talking physics or biology or quantum mechanics I'm talking about the real life that is emergent from those areas of study right there is no perfect formula for happiness but it will always be true that immobility or standing still is antithetical to progress and there is plenty of data that supports the idea progress equals happiness we want to move towards something so that's what this is about right hears to not being

scared of what we don't know because somewhere in the realm of what we don't know exists what we need most so yeah stop waiting for the perfect moment and yes begin but not because it's an [Music] ultimatum do it because the things that make life fun and intriguing and exciting and ultimately worthwhile they live on the other side of your front [Music] door everything around you has a story in fact many stories and more importantly our lives are the culmination of these stories see we don't identify things through an objective lens we see them in

relation to our individual beliefs our needs strange as it sounds our lives are almost entirely fiction they're arbitrary when was the last time you got into your car and thought of it as nothing more than metal in part probably not recently right we see it as a gateway to where we need to be Mobility Freedom just like art isn't brush Strokes or sonic vibration it's an emotive Escape we give meaning to things and those meanings vary the world as it exists through our eyes is entirely subjective you ever wonder how something can be a problem

to one person and a solution to someone else or How Deeply held political beliefs can be so contradictory how can a movie come out and half its critics say it's amazing the other half say it's eh subpar my life is subje it's an infinite amount of tiny stories that come together to create our world and everyone that you walk by has their own and here here's why that's worth discussing here's why it matters because we fall into the Trap of using these make believe guidelines after all that's what they are to Define ourselves we deem

other people's uh subjective Norms as truth the benchmarks for our own Pursuit consensus is good well then it must be good they say it's bad well then it must be bad from the perspective of a Creator one of my most important izations was that you know feedback of something I've created or a lack thereof doesn't Define the value of the work you know I still think some of my best work is essentially undiscovered some of the things I've thrown together in 10 minutes uh have been seen by millions of people and that doesn't change how

I value the work with little recognition that's just our emotions drawing false conclusions here's a different example let's say there's a a baker right and he's got a bakery in a neighborhood and does great work right his Shop's been open for a decade he's been in business but one day Oprah walks in takes a bite loves it recommends it suddenly his cake is everywhere suddenly they're extraordinary same question right what changes about the cake nothing what changes about the baker nothing Excellence lived there the entire time did his work become more the second and got

of powerful endorsement no it was simply recognized in this understanding the reason I'm bringing these examples up is because knowing that is crucial to whatever it is you're trying to build or become in your life because these narratives matter the good the bad the ugly they don't stop coming at you they don't stop peeking around the corner trying to influence your story and just because you're not where you want to be yet just because you haven't seen the external reward it does not mean you aren't brilliant it doesn't mean you're not on track towards Excellence

or you're changing the world maybe you are that Baker before Oprah skips on into the shop I don't be someone who confuses everyone else's story with reality that makes it incredibly difficult to take control a lot of people we call Brilliant now they weren't thought highly of along the way in some cases quite the opposite and thankfully they understood the subjectivity of their Brilliance that if you're confident in your voice and your message if you sacrifice and dive into expertise in an area the value Rises to the surface Society will adapt and conform to you

simply because you didn't bow down to it there's Brilliance there it just needs to be believed in and refined even when others don't get it even when it's abnormal even when your passion receives no validation see Brilliance manifest itself Brick by Brick and it's very easy for passers by to laugh at that unfinished frame of the house but eventually it comes together and the layout is beautiful and the architecture is stunning and your Defiance carves a little niche for itself somewhere in the depths of reality then the light bulb goes off then it's understood maybe

you were right all along [Music] why is this battle you versus you with all the complexity all the obstacles out there why are you your greatest opponent well to put it simply because all those obstacles and all that complexity still can't tell you no they can't say enough is enough they can't look back at you and say let's just settle for what we have now no only you can do that the world may create the landscape it may construct the terrain and those obstacles but you are the sole decider on where along the way you

stop you decide how far you want to go and how much you are willing to endure when it comes to your advancement or limitation you are in the driver's seat I just picked up a a copy of Will Smith's recent book and one of the ideas that stood out to me was resilience and this part in the book it's actually kind of uncomfortable to get through but incredibly powerful he's talking about his childhood and the poity of his father's personality a man who would do anything to provide for his family he took pride in that

and saw it as his primary responsibility but simultaneously was their greatest source of pain and he mentions his father you know hitting his mother from time to time in one particular example struck his mother in the face so hard that it knocked her on the floor and as she stood back up she said something along the lines of you can hit me but you can't hurt me and that was the first time will understood as a child the difference between uh what the outside world inflicts upon us and how we choose to react to that

occurrence that understanding is power that's why you are the author of your story and this sense that every single thing dropped at your feet every situation every occurrence they come with an implicit question attached a question that you and only you are responsible for answering the question is what does this mean and how you respond to that question determines whether you go left or right at that metaphorical fork in the road is the occurrence detract from your Ambitions or is it a multiplier does it confirm your doubts and insecurities or is it your reason to

rise to the occasion an opportunity to stretch to evolve that's a gift that's an invite not some sort of divine punishment but the challenge is removing the layers until you arrive at the value and it's hard but you get there by saying yes you get there by choosing to see the value and here's a a quick example my favorite thing about Athletics which was for me a ton of running now I throw uh more interval training in there but the same Concepts apply it's a chance to remind myself that I don't negotiate with my weakness

I don't give myself an opportunity to rationalize with the voice that wants me to quit that question that fork in the road I answered it I charted its course before the workout started knowing this is going to be uncomfortable at times but it's where I need to go there will be no more thinking from here on out and so today's workout for example switching dead lips burpees to squats to Cor you don't think you see the next requirement the next task and you simply say yes you don't need your mind for this in fact you

go before your mind even knows where it's going because that dotted line has already been signed and that was the Breakthrough for me when you separate what you have to do with the hurt associated with doing that Thing You Free Yourself after all what's there to hold you back if you can't talk yourself out of doing things see we tend to think our greatest adversity is the pain or the confusion or the unknown but it's like no those are the byproducts of doing anything of significance the adversary is the voice that begs you to slow

down because of those things and if you can figure out in your own life how to create space between the two how to separate the task and the discomfort often brought about by the task there's nothing that will ever be able to slow you down and look I'm not saying that you walk around without ever utilizing the power of that brilliant mind you possess one's ability to think is everything but what I am saying is there is a time to shut it off there is a time in which to avoid overthinking we simplify Action Reaction

one more mile okay end of story one minute of jump squats next Roger that period it's taking the emotion out of the process refusing to leave the door cracked for the inner dialogue that says hey maybe you don't do this maybe you slow down are you sure you can handle what's next no all of that is tuned out it's assignment go next go go next go you know this is the right thing you did your thinking before grabbing the sword shield and stepping into the arena now guess what it's Instinct it's doing what has to

be done and what has to be done hurts and look you didn't have to accept that you didn't have to step in you could have stayed home but some somewhere along the way you looked in the mirror and said the difficult path is the one with the value and now here you are face to face with hungry Lions clashing swords with your adversaries there's no turning back now now is when you parse out pain from the objective the pain is now part of the audience it's not with you or in you it's watching from above

as you do what you came here to do so yes those swords Clash but the eyes remain focused on what's ahead and yes those Lions Roar but that's background noise when you simplify your world into objective and action objective action objective action there is time for nothing but forward progress and sometimes that is all that is required of us in the face of adversity in the face of pain self-doubt in the face of discomfort can you break your world down into nothing but one single step forward one more set one more rep one more Session

One More attempt just one more no rocket science no negotiation there's nothing to figure out here it's walking the path before you it's the discipline to carry on it's one more swing of the axe audience or no audience lions or no Lions you are bound to the universe at your feet and that simplified concentration is why you will succeed [Music] [Music] sometimes I wonder why why does this season of Life feel like it's one undesirable outcome after another what happened to the law of a when is the wind where is the light at the end

of the tunnel why would I continue going in this direction when it feels like that spot on the horizon I've been chasing has eluded me why why are my results not aligning with my output it's hard to wake up and do this it takes all of me to give this much [Music] sometimes I wonder where is the delayed gratification everyone speaks of where's the fruit of my labor the arm on my shoulder that says this is why it was all worth it why hasn't the payoff shown itself why and why does it seem like every

curveball materializes at the worst possible time why won't my body cooperate now now when I need it most why does my mind play with the worst case scenarios why does an already challenging path have to be more difficult than it is now how many ways do I have to feel pain why does discomfort follow me around why won't life let me shake this why well maybe just maybe it's to show you how strong you are what you can endure Because deep down in your soul you know you are the 1% because if you can push

through this you can push through anything and I don't know why life gives us its lessons when it does why the world seems to stack it on when we're at our most vulnerable when the ground beneath us is most unstable but if you can find the courage to step back and see this for what it is if you can hold on to the idea that this is happening for you you'll come out of this a different person you don't need to perform a miracle when you're at your lowest no the Courage the power the strength

is in showing up you need to continue forward let go of the week the month the year sometimes we are tasked with pushing through the moment the hour surviving the day and sometimes there is nothing more courageous than that nothing more powerful than see what it turns into down the road when we look over our shoulders and are grateful we never stopped so yes this season might seem like a Non-Stop barrage of obstacles and Misfortune why perhaps because it's life allowing you to plant your seed now so that when spring comes around you are provided

something you've never had before you arrive at that spot in the Horizon you've been aiming at and yes the results might not feel like they're aligning with your output why perhaps because when the compounding reaches that magical point that point of statistical significance and the desirable things happen then as quickly as the difficult ones do now it'll all make sense you'll appreciate it value it and be equipped to handle it and yeah life might seem to be throwing you curveball after curveball why perhaps because if you can trudge forward now when your body is tired

while navigating the trials and tribulations of life when you can bring greatness into existence under duress just imagine what weights around the corner imagine how you'll perceive those seemingly impossible obstacles that slow everyone else down there'll be nothing more than a cool breeze and a sunny day as you move towards your best self look it's hard to understand when we are in it it's hard to make sense of the dark and the chaos and the hurt but find a way to remember no matter how hard it seems that this life is happening for for you

and not to you this is the seed in the palm of your hand that will mean something that matters so hold on hold on to see that seed begin to rise from the ground hold on to feel the warmth of the sun hold on through the storms of life they will be why when you look back years from now you'll have gotten from life that which was once merely a dream [Music]