YOU AGAINST YOU - Powerful Motivational Speech | Eric Thomas

[Music] you've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said you let you down until you get to that point you let you down tell me what you complained about Winners complain winners want to hit themselves talk Champions do not complain why because they're focusing on what they said they wanted to do as a goal so so the only thing you're missing now is are you willing to get up and do the work well we going we going we going to complain y'all we going to work you have a chance to control your destiny that

my friend is the American dream not a Cadillac I need you to give you your best come on I'm pleading with you look I'm going to say it one more time I need you to give you your all I didn't say your kids I didn't say your spouse I didn't say your best friend I need you for the next 30 days to give you every single thing you got so do me a favor do you want it or not the truth is you got to find something within you got to find something within and that's

got to push you and that's got to elevate you and that's got to drive you and that's got to move you have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said I'm not getting up on time I'm not going to work on time I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work I let me down you are a champion think like one [Music] I value myself enough to give 120% or don't do [Music] it rich people don't waste time they realize it's their most important commodity they don't watch a lot of TV they don't

do a lot of entertainment if they're not working they're studying their craft and getting better at their craft I would love to tell you that on the road to success everything is going to work out it's not it's going to be a dog fight you want what it looks like but you don't want what it feels like it's hard it's tough the investment is worth it I'm telling you set a standard I went got my GED then I got my fouryear degree then I got my Master's Degree then I got my PhD and I ain't

smart but I set a standard so when my kids came in this world they mama got a masters they daddy got a PhD they at least got to finish High School I set a standard multi-millionaire as a speaker from the bottom up I set a standard right and so what I had to learn how to do was I had to say yo when the lights go off who is Eric what am I working on what's my North Star what's important to me what makes me happy and when you find out what your why is and

your why got to be deeper than you when you find your why you don't hit snooze no more when you find your why you find a way to make it happen you have full permission to be your greatness right now you have full permission to be your greatness whoever whatever your greatness is you have full permission to be that right this second like get to a point that if nobody else give you any likes or nobody ever comments on your stuff or nobody ever says you great you great you're happy with what you do like

you love yourself and you happy and you do it for you the dream is yours but you're saying I'm not worthy of the dream you're probably not but it's been given to you anyway I'm not smart enough you're probably not but it doesn't matter it was it was given to you and it's now your responsibility to do something with it you've been given it it's the gift that you never open it's the gift it's yours do what you say you going to do and you make no excuses and you don't let nothing get in your

[Music] way I left I was like I got to be in control of my life and I wasn't mad at nobody I'm not mad at nobody now it's just I feel like I got to be in control if I if if something go wrong I want to go wrong on my dime not yours I don't want to play by your rules I want to play by my rules take control go for it please you have to hear this when I say I need you to be intentional and deliberate hear me I want to paint the

picture you have one team that that that has the ability to score they have the ability to do well they have the ability to score on the opponent what their challenge is is that they can't do it they can't sustain it you have one team that's good in spurts you have another team that's dominant the teams that are dominant dominant because they can do it from beginning to end right listen to me and they can do it team after team after team right they can do it over and over and over it is is they

dominate because what they they put pressure on you from the time you start to the very end like oh even when they're up they continue to dominate and your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate you wake up on Monday and you might be strong but by Wednesday are you hearing what I'm telling you you're not intentional and deliberate you are hoping you are hoping that the best is going to happen to you and the best never happens to you like and this is critical what don't you have because all these things are going to

stop you from getting to that next level what don't you have in terms of getting to that next level what don't you currently have because what you don't have you need to start doing your homework so you can what so you can go get that you owe yourself I didn't get here making excuses it's your life only one person can stop you from making that become a reality and that's [Music] you and a lot of Y'all Scared just walk into it stop running from it because your life ain't sweet ain't like your life sweet from

running what's my North Star what why am I here what's my purpose like leave your mark That's why I'm so happy I ain't Happ because of no house I ain't Happ it because no cars I know my purpose but with this right here and your skill set this thing can take you wherever you want to go and then take your kids wherever you want them to go and you complaining cuz coach want you to work and practice so you can get what you said you wanted he you mad at coach cuz he ain't going to

let you take no shortcuts cuz ain't no shortcuts on the next level y'all think y'all think you you think this hard wait till you get to the pros most people were closer they ever thought they were to finishing that big thing but they never finished it because they didn't feel like finishing it or they were doing it and it was pain and most people quit in the pain because the pain hurts so bad that they don't know if they want to keep going to get to go but you got to take your focus off of

what's not happening and put your focus on what can happen so if you're focusing on the negative that's what you going to get that's that's what you're going to see no more blaming no more I don't want to hear it no more I don't want to hear this teacher did me wrong this professor did me wrong my mentor didn't my mama didn't my daddy didn't stop to blame me if it's your life I need you to take complete ownership of it it's your life I don't want to hear no more excuses you blame that's what

you do you make excuses for why you broke you make excuses for why you stuck and it is easier to make it somebody else's fault than the man up and look in the mirror and say it was your fault it's easy to put it on somebody else why cuz then you ain't got to do nothing there is no excuse for not living up your fullest potential no excuse [Music]