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hard work Works y'all see some of you have dreams and goals but hard work you can't get around it I wish there was a magic wand that I could wave that your passion your dream that thing you want to achieve it could just happen but it can't hard work is required you have to understand if you don't execute on the plan if you don't get up in the morning when you're feeling tired scared if you don't execute you're not just cheating yourself you're cheating cheting your family you're cheating your employees you're cheating your team whatever

you're a part of it's bigger than you man don't let what you are stop you from being what you could be you need to shut down all negativity believe in everything that you are and understand that within you there's something greater than any obstacle you'll ever face the people that are going to make it in the future the people that are making it today let share something with you history is being read but it's also being written by people with imagination it is possible to fully commit yourself to something it is possible to accomplish what

you see in your hand the question is can you give your all future is unknown but if you prepare for it if you're ready for it whatever the situations that may come your way whatever circumstances that you must face give all or give nothing I need you to wake up every day and say today ain't the day but my day coming and I will not give up and I will not give in until I get to that day I will not give up until my day come the major key to your reaching your dream you're

living up to your greatness you're making your contribution is you takes guts you got to dig down deep to gut it out keep on going again and again and again until you make it happen because you know that it's possible now what do you do during the hard times Les here's what you must do number one is you must have faith Paul said you must have the faith to call forth those things that be not as though they were judge not according to appearances don't judge your circumstances and the possibilities for your future based upon

what you have now and because of what's going on now no no no no that's not the real reality there what you're going through if you're going through some hard times it has not come to stay it has come to pass it's all right now second thing is repeat this after me something you should affirm to your yourself every day repeat this please no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it say that to yourself every day that's I used to say to myself I when I would get

up in the pcot building and I had to go into the bathroom and and bathe in the bathroom sink I had written on the mirror that I put up there just ped up there and I read no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it so you've got to have faith you talk to yourself you say that affirmation the next step is you must have patience and engage in consistent action patience and engage in consistent action see everything does not always happen ladies and gentlemen when we want it

to happen doesn't happen quickly so in that process they have something in the Far East called the Chinese bamboo tree the Chinese bamboo tree every day it has to be watered and fertilized it's a very hard nut and it takes 5 years of of watering and fertilization every day according to American Geographics before it breaks through the ground at any time if the watering process and the nurturing and the fertilization process is stopped the Chinese bamboo tree will die in the ground now once it breaks through in that fifth year then in 6 weeks it

grows 90 ft tall now the question is does it grow 90 ft in 5 years or six weeks the answer is obvious it takes 5 years that's how long it took to grow it to build that Foundation to nurture it to water it to build the reputation to build the credibility to learn the market to learn people to learn yourself to learn how to do it to figure it out that's why you must have patience and engage in consistent action we live in the world ladies and gentlemen we're people want instant gratification they want it

right now but they're not willing to pay the price to do what it takes they think it was easy no no it's simple but it's not easy it's a system that if you work the system it works if you work it but make no mistake about it it's hard you are the determining Factor here's something else it's possible you can live your dream no matter how bad it is no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets or how bad it gets I'm going to make it I'm going to make I'm going to

make it it's necessary that you have goals that you write them down that you surround yourself with a support team that you are created it's you that you must take personal responsibility to make it happen the people that make it in this world look around for the circumstances that they want and if they can't find them they create them it's hard no easy is not an option however ladies and gentlemen what you will discover is that it's worth it it's worth it I suggest to you if you want to become Diamond write down five reasons

of why it is worth it for you to become a diam to experience that level of achievement what is it that will give you the drive what is it that will adite the courage in you to get up and come back again and again and again how is is it that you would be able what reasons that can tap in to that deep down feeling that goes to your gut that no matter how many times you'll get knocked down at you're coming back what is it write it down when I started and left Miami pursuing

my dream because I knew that as long as you work for someone else they are controlling your destiny I don't want anybody signing my paycheck but me I knew that it was going to be difficult I knew it was going to be hard but every time I thought about giving up and there were times I did because where I am ladies and gentlemen it's a long shot you think being a diamond is a long shot this is a miracle this is a long shot and I had people laughing at me Les you're talking about being

a motivational speaker you failed twice in school they put you back from the fifth grade and the fourth grade and you fail in the eighth grade you've never worked for a major corporation and you are going to become independently wealthy right they laugh they're going to laugh at you people are going to laugh at you but let me tell you I I believe in Revenge like Prince he said the best revenge is massive success it's a long shot being here with you today in this Dome in Atlanta it's a long shot but I kept running

toward my dream don't [Music] stop don't [Music] stop don't stop running to toward your dream you can Live Your Dream as you hold on to that dream there are moments when you're going to doubt yourself there are rough times are going to come but they have not come to stay they have come to pass it's not going to be easy as you go toward the future begin to know that you have greatness within you begin to Envision yourselves to reach your goals if you want a thing bad enough go out and fight for it work

day and night for it give up your time your peace and your sleep for it what if we have that kind of attitude the cars repossess nobody believes in you you've lost again and again and again the lights are cut off but you're still looking at your dream reviewing it every day and say to yourself it's not over until I win [Applause] you feel like your life is going to last a long time and if I was to talk to my 26-year-old self I would tell that kid that you don't have time and and you

really you don't know when it's going to end and so get out there and do the things you want to do get out there and get after them now don't wait another second take advantage of [Music] it get out there and live and strive to be better because the life you've got which I just said was a gift it is a gift so live it [Music] so many kids these days miss out on the fact of the correlation between working and studying and and pushing yourself to the results that you get it's what I think

hurts kids is they don't connect what they're doing now with the future I know I didn't you know when I was a kid I was you know what's the future it's tomorrow the future is oh the weekend you don't realize oh there's you can actually set yourself up what you're doing today is connected to the Future Okay once you make that connection you say okay maybe I'll study maybe I'll train maybe I'll work out harder you can start doing those things because you can improve and you can have a better life sure are there some

kids that are going to be able to do pull-ups out of the gate sure are there kids some kids that can learn their Tim tables really quickly sure you're not going to you're not going to be great at everything but you can get better as long as you have the discipline put your mind to it and are willing to work hard so you're always learning and growing and and I was always learning until the day I retired because it's not a boom this happened and everything changed it's a constant addition of skill set and repetition

of situations where you become confident at your job the fear of getting shot or killed is not on your mind when you're in the moment you know it'll build up when you're waiting to go out you know there's times you're waitting to go out and you're like thinking to yourself okay there's a lot of bad things going on on there and some of them happened to me but I think at some point you you realize that there's nothing you can do about that I mean other than just quit and and just resign yourself to a

life of cowardice but if you opt to not do that and you step up and say okay I'm ready and if I die I die and once you overcome that then nothing else to be afraid of [Music] when we deployed to Iraq in 2006 we'd been fighting since 2003 and we'd had very few casualties in the SEAL Teams the amount of guys that had experienced their teammates killed in action was minuscule and so there was no preparation other than what I had taken away from reading about combat for my whole life what I did was

what I knew how to do which was work and and that's literally what I told my guys was we've we've crossed a line and there's no there's no possible way to replace or describe or overcome the amount of just heartwrenching sadness that you feel when you lose a teammate I didn't know what to do and I didn't know what to say first time first time second time third time irrelevant what time what I did was and I told my guys I don't know what to do I don't know what to tell you the only thing

that I know to do is to go back to work and I do know this if Mark was here he would want us to go back to work and so we're going to Lock and Load our weapons and we're going to go do what we [Music] do in World War II in World War One there would be days where thousands upon thousands were killed and so that off offered me a small bit of perspective to think to myself that human beings we can feel like we're special and we can feel like no one's ever been

through what I've been through and the world is hard for me and easier for everyone else well the reality is that's not true and we're not special and the things that people go through other people have gone through most likely much much worse and much more significant so that to me was a a it gave me at least some level of perspective to realize that other Warriors had gone through this before this was my turn and this is how I'm going to try and handle it I've got that going on and and and I need

to control it so when people start getting emotional when when guys get killed how do I get control over that yeah I absolutely have to control my own emotions because it's your guys and believe me when you lose one of your guys you want to kill everyone and you know you can't and you know you shouldn't so you have to detach from your emotions you have to get control of them and you have to make sure that you lead your your men in the right direction so they don't do something that is not the right

thing to do one of my answers for people when they say hey how can I get better at detaching control my OT emotions I tell them to start training Jiu-Jitsu because you're going to get Tapped Out in Jiu-Jitsu your ego is going to get smacked around so hard you're going to lose your mind and what you in the the the more the matter you get the more aggressive you are the more you're going to get beat down and the worse it's going to be so you have to learn to control your emotions no doubt about

it and then what you have to do is you have to start practicing all the time you have to start paying attention to the to the the red flags that go up when I start raising my voice at you I go oh that's that's your emotion getting M and and for me like the minute I feel some sort of anger some sort of jealousy some sort of frustration most of the time I go oh you're getting mad that's your ego that's your that's you're getting emotional about this take a step back and listen to what

the other person is saying take a step back and try and see it from their perspective take a step back and try and understand what they're trying to see say because sometimes you know if you're not a if you're not a very articulate person you're just making me mad it's only cuz I don't understand what you're trying to say take a step back let's talk through it so pay attention to you know I always talk about when you're sending an email to someone and you're typing like this don't don't send that email that's not a

good email to send that's an emotional email wait write it out fine and then save it and read it later and you'll realize oh yeah I was really mad about something or I was really frustrated so how do you do it you practice it you pay attention to your emotions and you get control over [Music] them can you teach that that let's go let's we're going to jump back in the water let's go I think that I think that's one of the few things that you learn in basic SEAL training is to shrug your shoulders

and go forward what you learn to do is okay I'm going to go forward there's there's no I can't get out of this I'm going to go forward I'm not going to quit so I'm going to go forward Bring It On you're sitting on the edge of the bed trying to have an honest dialogue with yourself and the little voice says you know it's pretty disgusting in here and you think well I'm way above Such trivial niceties as organizing my room it's like now that's Pride that's arrogance if you're above organizing what's actually yours how

in the world are you ever going to organize anything else and so you get on your knees and you think well it's time to you know take a brush to the toilet and maybe that's where you start and so and that works like that works you start making those micro improvements like real micro improvements real on the ground actual micro improvements to things you know that are wrong you'll improve unbelievably rapidly if you don't have hope and you don't have this breakthrough where you have for just a millisecond this Insight where you go well what

if things did work out if you don't have that moment most people stay so stuck in resignation there are um so many people that are not aware of how much better and how much more present and how much more joy they could experience in their life see when you are not filling your life with the things that you are capable of doing see we all have some stuff that we've been given and I don't think that it's optional for us to sit on what we have see if you're sitting on what you have what you've

been given and I think everybody's been given something to bring to the planet that only you can do that only you can perform that that only you can initiate that activity and if you don't do that if you're not filling in your life with your life work or your mission then there are gaps in your life and what we do when we're not living out our true identity we begin to fill the gaps we fill the holes with garbage success is getting what you want fulfillment is living What You're Made for This is dreams we're

talking about we're talking about dreams you train your brain to appreciate cuz in the middle of whatever you're pissed off about or frustrated or fearful about or worried about you're deleting all the things you could be grateful for you could appreciate that are absolutely real be your own motivator and you build yourself up and that's the problem with the mind you know I want your listeners or viewers to really think about this you do not experience life you experience the life you focus on that's it you believe we you know we know from the science

and we know from experience that if I exercise it's a process and it's good for me even though I can't measure it in the short term and if I eat well and I keep doing that I know it'll keep me healthy for the long term of eat more leafy greens and less sugar I know I just have to stick to this process that 100% 100% of time it works how long does it take to get into shape when you start exercising nobody knows neither does any doctor sometimes a little less time for some people and

sometimes a little more time for others like we don't know we just know 100% that it works and so I had to get used to the idea professionally that I'm going to do things that I know work but I won't be able to measure them and I just have to be okay with the fact that it works like exercise like eating right and so that's where you know learning an infant mindset letting go of annual goals so people like you know what's your annual goal I don't have any because I can't predict what I'm going

to achieve based on arbitrary timelines and and it's really important in the visualization you can't see it over there you have to see it right here you got to feel it right here like I am it's all I am I am I am in my dream home I am in my dream relationship and then unpack what that looks like like but most importantly unpack what it feels like and when you have that that emotion in this moment all of a sudden you stir up something that I don't think will'll ever go back to sleep it'll

go okay let's go get that develop your mind you don't get in life what you want you get in life what you are you have greatness in you that you have the ability to do more than you could ever begin to imagine you have greatness in you there's a presence in each and every one of us that Waits and listens to the voice of the genuine in your yourself it will be perhaps the only God you will ever have or hear and if you cannot hear it all of your life will be spent on the

ends of strengths and somebody else pulls when you recognize your greatness no one will ever pull your strengths you are different you were created on purpose with a purpose to manifest that purpose through you but you will never exercise Authority and dominion over your life until you exercise Authority and dominion over what you are not it's difficult out here for a lot of people including myself a lot of people are hurting a lot of people are going through a lot of different things they experiencing so many different dramatic changes in their lives but the thing

about it is is that you can't be surprised about these things but you need to be prepared you should never walk through life assuming that every day is just going to be a great day for you believe me I know and I know there are many people out there that can say the same thing but it's all about how we deal with it and how we overcome it it's all about rising up people being able to get up get out show out and do your business that's what it's all about people you got to have

the ability to know what it means to rise up being able to Rise Up From the Ashes of negativity doubt and fear these things are definitely designed to pull you down to break you down and take everything from you but not on this day not on this watch and not on this hour and for the rest of your life continue to shine and do the best you can to be the best makeup that you can be within yourself rise up rise up From the Ashes of negativity doubt and fear and understand that even your emotions

can play tricks on you so take advantage of your life take control of it reason takes time understanding it being able to deal with the dos and the don'ts the ups and the Downs there's a reason for it and sometimes we may not like it but when that purpose starts to knock on your door that's it that means you have made it whatever the situation may be that purpose has been for filled it is already here it was already meant to be it's it's it happened it's there so do the best you can leading to

your purpose because one thing for sure we are never going to we none of us are going to be here for long sooner or later you got to leave this point it but make the best of the life that you have on this day and the day after so if tomorrow comes for you tomorrow comes for me let's get out there and make the best of it because tomorrow is another day and if you're a part of that day that means you got work to do success doesn't owe you you owe success success doesn't work

for you you work for success and that work takes time everything that we do in this life takes time it's a process but are you prepared for the test are you prepared to fight are you prepared to live are you prepared to push through it even when you feel that you can't and we need faith and we need power and we need gratitude and we need to be humble but we must always stay hungry and keep going not only is it possible for you to have your dream and it's necessary for you to ch challenge

yourself to go after and get better and leverage relationships that can help you get to where you want to go but it's you the major key to your reaching your dream you're living up to your greatness you're making your contribution is you you went through all of the struggles all of the challenges but you made it and here you are the work needs to be done if it's going to happen we are going to have to eliminate excuses it is possible to fully commit yourself to something it is possible to accomplish what you see in

your hand the question is can you give your all you need to shut down all negativity believe in everything that you are and understand that within you there's something greater than any obstacle you'll ever face whatever situations that you had to endure last year leave it there it has nothing to do with what's coming right now because if you don't feel this fire then it's not a dream if you don't get up when a count is at nine you don't want it enough if you can hear my voice you've got work to do you've got

a destiny need to fulfill you've got a purpose to walk into you've got a test to pass you're about to be given a second chance at greatness a fresh start we need to change that internal dialogue it's time to step into the shoes you were meant to wear what people think about you and the possibilities for your dream is none of your business that's their business they have no imagination ladies and gentlemen they're living out of the past out of their memory the attitude is it can't be done because they haven't seen it they're judging

according to appearances the people that are going to make it in the future the people that are making it today let me share something with you history is being read but it's also being written by people with imagination this is your life my friend and I'm sure when it's all said and done you you don't want to look back and see that you wasted it this is your life my friend so you stand up this is your life my friend so you rise up this is your life my friend so you keep going this is

your life my friend so you never give up this is your life my friend you need to keep [Music] going this is the year I give it everything I have this is the year I stop complaining about the past this is the year year that I don't make excuses this is the year that I embrace my non-negotiables this is the year that if I see it in my head I can hold it in my hand and I'm saying to you whatever you got to do do it because if you don't life is going to whoop

you until you surrender and say okay all right all right all right all right I cooperate okay I learned okay so if it's hard then do it hard last year you didn't know how you were going to get through it last year you didn't know how you were going to stand on your two feet last year you were looking for something but you just couldn't find it but somehow you made it to where you are today now what do you do you can't dwell on it you can't hold on to it anymore you got to

focus on right now if you can hear my voice if you you are tired of where you are if you are tired of not hitting your targets if you are tired of not being aimed and intentional and assertive and consistent if you can hear my voice I'm just wondering if you are bold enough daring enough if your faith is outrageous enough to take a chance on yourself just get through the process is worth it that as you go through the challenges of life and you look at it and embrace whatever comes to you don't run

from it step toward it don't try and duck it like most people do see most people want it easy see easy come easy what easy go see but when you go at what you're going to deal with and you deal with the difficulties of it when you handle those hard things close at hand making those hard decisions right now that you don't want to make learning those things that you don't like to do but you know that in order for you to get where you want to go this is one of the Hoops that you

have to flip through stop justifying your laziness stop choosing mediocrity be better than who you used to be be better than who you are right now everybody else puts off everything until tomorrow but not you you are going to choose to be better today you were going to push through the struggles and hardships that come up this year you're going to grind until you are exhausted till you feel like you have nothing more and then grind harder to achieve more this year because you deserve it you've been beaten you've been battered you've been broken you've

been betrayed you've been lied on it's time to hit back life knocked you in the mouth years ago and you haven't hit back yet you hit back with determination you hit back with Focus you hit back when you are disciplined you hit back with resilience the future is unknown but if you prepared for it if you're ready for it whatever the situations that may come your way whatever circumstances that you must face give all or give nothing but I want you to understand that mistake turn us all into winners this is an every single day

mentality I don't know what your story is but if you will keep a no excuse mentality then the sky is that your limit the sky is your starting point this is in every single day mentality I never get turned off every single day I want my destiny I want my dream that it's not going to happen as quickly as you want it to happen a lot of things are going to happen that will catch you off God and so therefore you've got to deal with and handle it as it comes and not only that but

that faith and patience drives you into action you got to keep moving what advice would you give the 20-year-old version of yourself I think the the biggest advice I could give myself is effort is everything and you can decide are you putting in the most amount of effort that you can because on days I can only give 60% and I give 60% I give a 100 the question is not how do you develop the motivation to keep going the real question is how do you develop the discipline to do the stuff you need to do

even when you don't feel like doing it and it's going to cost you something it's going to cost you more time than you thought you'd have it's going to cost you some friends who couldn't make the entire Journey with you but if you sign up for the inconvenience then the goal will take care of itself every day say yes to whatever it takes no matter what the major key to your making things happen in your life is you my truth and my experience has been I have to J higher I have to show up earlier

I have to be the first person to turn off the light and the last person to turn off the light the way that I show up is by being consistent so consistent that people cannot doubt your capacity to succeed you have to work harder than the average person now don't get me wrong I still have my bad days I'll be like I hate this this sucks this is terrible but I'm still doing it you know that's that's the problem if you're going to complain I'm not saying to not complain I'm saying to complain and do

it that's all I care about during that point what did I do is I did what I preached to all of you which is I put in the work you want the secret it's called work you have to figure out what you're trying to achieve and what you want and then you need to put in the work that mats to that ambition you always want to blame other people you always want to you want to hold other people to the fire but you're not holding yourself to the fire you need to look at yourself in

the mirror and say why are you only giving 50% what what's wrong with you don't cry to quit you already in pain you already hurt get a reward from it it's necessary you take responsibility for it that you make it happen that you don't give up that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats personally that you keep on keeping on that you don't decide that I can't make it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel that you realize that's a part of the program say this to yourself every

day it's not over over until I win you got that [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] right motivation plays a huge role but I a big believer that motivation motivation comes after action okay so stick with me motivation comes after action the question is not how do you develop the motivation to keep going the real question is how do you develop the discipline to do the stuff you need to do even when you don't feel like doing it floss one tooth go to the gym and lift one weight one time then you can stop then you can

go home then you can stop more than likely because you already got there because you already started you're going to finish getting there is the majority of the issue the discipline to start that's what you need the motivation to keep going comes after the action to start so on those days you don't feel like it if you know you need to you have to do I think you could be a success without being consistent perhaps if you have other resources and tools that I was never given but coming for where I am my perspective has

only been consistency and the discipline has been everything that I have ever gotten on the back of doing it again and again and again it is what I teach it is what I preach is what I believe that's what a lot of people do is they try and attack a big goal with intensity instead of consistency they try and just go they're like okay Monday I'm going to go get fit I'm going to do two hours of cardio I'm going to eat only chicken brown rice and broccoli six times a day I'm going to do

you've never done that before one and two you know that's not sustainable you can't outdo the need for time and consistency intensity still has its place don't get me wrong but misplaced in intensity I I feel is the number one reason why people fail their goals and that's not just Fitness that's with business that's with everything instead of just adding intensity you have to be consistent over time not consistent for 2 days not consistent for 2 weeks over time you know if you do the work you will more than likely get there so the physics

of progress is you come up with a hypothesis it should be as informed as possible you figure out a way to turn that into something you can actually do so you're going to run a test then you actually run that test and then this is where most people fall down you have to lower your um psychological defenses to stare nakedly at the results and often times that's going to be you didn't do something well you didn't think through this right you made a mistake somewhere and then if you're willing to do that and you learn

from that then you can reinform your hypothesis make it a little bit better run that whole system again and once you get in that Loop then you can really make progress the tenacity it takes to face your inadequacies and continue to try try try that's where we've [Music] succeeded I cannot tell you the number of businesses I've had that have failed but I learned from it and it gave me the wisdom to go on to the next one and the next one and the next one and so when you focus on your personal growth what

happens is that even if a business failed even if an idea fails you emerge from it with new knowledge new data points new a new version of yourself that can do better on the next idea or the next business people hear that jump in the net will here jump like the universe has your back and we love it we're like high-fiving because we've been on the other side but like there have been plenty of times where there was no net and there like the universe was just like I see you I'm not putting my arms

out because you needed to fall on your face and like I've just realized that as many times as I have gotten back up I was supposed to fall I was supposed to face plant and the less time I spend graveling in the gravel the faster I find my next success the biggest difficulty is that people fall and then they stay down the greatest entrepreneurs are the people who understand that falling is part of the process so if we just said I'm going to fall now and I'm going to fall probably another 175 times before the

end of my career if I look around and say this is normal and every entrepreneur faces this then yeah it sucks and yeah I took the jump and yeah I didn't end up where I wanted to but do I have the courage and wherewithal to get up again and if the answer is yes you're going to be in business and the answer is no you're going to go back to your cubicle and live a very predictable life that is not as fulfilling as you once hoped most people can only see these are the 152 ways

that this could go wrong and we started doing that to say no matter how outrageous there is a way to pull this off so what would need to be true for this to work stop telling me all the things that aren't going to work tell me the thing that is going to work and once you get to that okay well if we did XYZ it would work okay now are we willing to do that yes or no and if we're not is there another thing that we are willing to do but at least now we're

operating from a position of that would work and successful people are about that I never know if I'm right and I go all out every [ __ ] time and I'm just trying to make it happen and so I have the courage of conviction to say I know about myself I will keep going until I figure this out you have to understand if you don't execute on the plan if you don't get up in the morning when you're feeling tired scared if you don't execute you're not just cheating yourself you're cheating your family you're cheating

your employees you're cheating your team whatever you're a part of it's bigger than you man hard work work show see some of you have dreams and goals but hard work you can't get around it I wish there was a magic wand that I could wave that your passion your dream that thing you want to achieve it could just happen but it can't hard work is required what do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you wants what if you're not the only one that wants what you want what if there are thousands

of other people who want what you want you have to outwork them you got to out grind them you got to get up earlier you got to stay up later you've got to execute and you got to go from 7 to 120 I think a lot of people feel this enormous pressure to achieve this millionaire billionaire status somewhere in your 20s 30s 40s is very difficult it is for very few and far between I don't want to I hope everybody understand if you put in 18 hours a day every day of your life and you

suck [ __ ] you lost you know why I'm sitting here right now cuz I outworked you zoom in I outw workk here before I ever stood on a stage I cleaned one at an old Baptist Church when everybody left I stayed vacuuming when nobody was there that's how I got the microphone I didn't get a microphone cuz I can talk the best I didn't get a microphone cuz I can sing the best I got a microphone cuz servant kep elevating me everywhere of my life cuz we all think that if we pray on it

if we do this if we do that whatever we don't work we just whatever it's going magically happen for us no I believe that when I'm all said and done with my whole job is to outwork the Chart got to keep putting in the work every day one is better than zero got to keep putting in the work putting in the work putting in the work the hard work matters and the patience is what overrides it you got to work what Happ what happens if you wake up 30 days later and you D what happens

if you wake up 60 days later and the change is coming you know what's going to happen you're going to wake up 60 days later 90 days later and everything's going to change but you and you going to get the same results you got before it happened because you're the exact same person so work work while you wait you cannot stop we all have greatness it just you got to find the courage you got to find the courage to put your B's headphones on and silence the not way out of this world and to find

it and to find it because it's out there but it's going to take hard work courage self-discipline it's going to take all the non-cognitive skills the all the non-cognitive skills to be great you know smart is good all this stuff is good that's all cognitive it's the non-cognitive skills that set you apart from everybody else and and that's what it's all about now I don't know what your goal is but I want you to visualize it right now and repeat after me with power and conviction let us say together it's possible together please it's possible

say it again please it's possible see that's the first step I want you to think about this goal that you want I want you to Envision it and see it in your mind's eye and every day say to yourself that it's possible see most people are not accumulating wealth most people are living in poverty most people are living far below their potential not because they don't have the capacity not because they have not been given Authority and dominion over everything on the face of the Earth but most people are living like they're living because of

the fact that they don't believe they can have any more than what they now have listen to me very clearly every a is not an a I don't care how much you can jump on Google and get the answer and get your report card or your grade sheet or your teachers in your school to think that you're getting the a if you're cutting Corners if you're taking shortcuts every a is not an a you're not robbing anybody else but you so I need you to work while you wait I need you to work look work

on your focus perspective I need you to see difficult differently are you hearing what I'm telling you I need you to see it differently you know five steps to Greatness no it ain't that brother you read my book this is hard work is every day there's so many people who want to lead that can't follow I'm I'm saying it's because everybody wants to get to the Top If You trying to get on top I need you to work the level you're on right now can can you clean bathrooms can you can you sing for the

kids maybe singing for the kids might be the thing that gets the whole world knowing your name but because you think it's small and insignificant you won't even do it just keep working if you were told you were going to get that promotion just keep working if you were told you were going to win that Championship just keep working nobody said it would be easy again if it was easy everybody would do it so I need you to work on your faith I need you to work on your faith I need you to wake up

every day and say today ain't the day but my day coming and I will not give up and I will not give in until I get to that day I will not stop I will not give up I will not give in until my day come you have enough right now to flip this world upside down you have enough you got enough power you got enough anointing you got enough Grace you got enough patience you got enough gifting to make your money get out of Deb get yourself together and change everything about your world for

the things that I'm wanting and believing I just have to do everything possible that's within my power and there's some things that aren't within my power and that's why I trust God but what isn't within my power it's whether it's getting the proper sleep whether it's learning your lines whether it's researching the character whether it's working out or eating healthy or you know whatever it is that you need that's going to make you better at what you want to do it's doing every single bit of that that you can possibly do and going above you

know not just doing just enough to get by but going above and um and then after that it's like if it's supposed to happen it will happen and chances are if you do the work it likely will happen it's about whatever you think you are you have to make that dream a reality but that's where the hard part is is making that dream reality that's where the hard work comes that's where people know how do you keep grinding every day you have to make those insecurities those fears like when I was 300 lb I didn't

have any drive I'm going to go be a Navy SEAL what kind of stupid is that 300 lbs it wasn't like a drive to go be Navy SEAL I was an insecure lying kid afraid I had to look in my insecurities and in my fear and find drive in that we're all looking for passion passion is all around you you have a whole stack of it all around you it's your insecurities all that it's all in there all the energy and fuel You Need Is Right In Yourself it's all there you got a lot of

stuff to do to overcome and you know that's where I found it I found it right there in my own insecurities I found Drive in my own insecurities and that's that's the most powerful thing in the world when you can find Drive in your own doubt fear insecurities you become very Unstoppable I need you to work on yourself are you hearing me look you can't change what you can't change stop trying to change the situation it's not yours to change stop trying to change your wife stop trying to change your husband stop trying to change

your kids stop trying to change your boss stop trying to change the program if you could change it it would be changed there's only one person you can change baby and that person is you work on yourself why you're making the decisions that you're making historically uh you know the way in which you were raised that might have set you up to make decisions you think you're making for yourself but are actually in reaction to unconscious kind of triggers that are built into you uh I think developing an awareness of that is really important in

trying to understand that question and it can come in the form of talking to a therapist or meditation there is no one modality for that but I think simply the commitment to try to understand that I think is the process of gaining that understanding to help you make more intentional decisions for yourself and maybe it starts with an easy prompt like what did you enjoy doing when you were 8 years old that you don't do anymore and why don't you do it anymore like stop saying I'm I'm not good enough stop saying my family we

don't do this like stop with the excuse it so once you but once you set up that that goal structure let's say and that's really in many in many ways that's what you should be doing at universi is that's exactly what you should be doing is trying to figure out who it is that you're trying to be right and you you you aim at that and then you use everything you learn as a means of building that person that you want to be and and I really mean want to be I don't mean should be

even those things those things are going to overlap and it's important to distinguish between those because that's partly and this is back down to the micro routine analysis so I I saying well you're going to try to make yourself more industrious okay number one specify your damn goals cuz how are you going to hit something if you don't know what it is that isn't going to happen and often people won't specify their goals too because they don't like to specify conditions for failure so if you keep yourself all vague and foggy which is real easy

cuz that's just a matter of not doing as well then you don't know when you fail and people might say well I really don't want to know when I fail because that's painful so I'll I'll keep myself blind about when I fail that's fine except you'll fail all the time then you just won't know it until you failed so badly that you're done and that can easily happen by the time you're 40 so so I would recommend that you don't let that happen so that's willful blindness right you could have known but you chose not

to one of the most important questions I think I would add as well is how do you feel we very rarely ask ourselves that and I think we all have this sort of internal Compass which we've been given by life which is like how do you feel in this situation how do you truly feel not like how do you feel in the context of is your mother happy or is your father happy or is society impressed by you but like how do you actually feel you know and I think that sometimes for me has sat

up apart from the accomplishment so I could be achieving something great and know that people are impressed and happy but really I'm going time internally right and um tuning into that voice of like how do I feel and tuning out of the like how do people feel about me right um has has really help me in those moments where I've got to make a big decision to quit and I don't think people ask themselves that question enough well they may ask themselves that question but the answer is flippant right it's like I'm good cool I

feel good you know I feel I slept good last night no like how do you really feel and then continuing to peel back the layers until it gets really uncomfortable and then you know you're in the you're in the sweet spot right that's where the juice is we all want to be this idealized version of ourself happier fitter thinner richer whatever it is overnight and we overestimate what we can accomplish in a year or maybe in a couple years and completely underestimate what we could do in a decade that nothing is going to change next

year just because you want it to change all right what is it that gets you excited like what is it that you feel is unnourished in your life do you have a creative itch is there something calling you or something again that you used to do as a kid that you really enjoyed and for some reason unbeknownst to you you don't do it anymore maybe it's music like yeah it could be music or or stand up or you play football right like being on a football team or doing something you know just having coffee with

your friend or what have you uh finding a way to build that back into your life in a way that isn't going to derail your current life but I think just breathing on that like giving space to the things that bring you Joy in the most Primal sense like the simplest things that just you remember made you happy that you've forgotten and recapturing that and finding a way to respect that protect it nourish it um and and inject it into your life and I think the more that you you kind of tend to that Garden

suddenly oh a little opportunity over here pops up or something is telling me I should move this way these are very subtle energies that you have to be present for in order to um notice them when they appear but I think those are the subtle energies that's the like those are the waves you want to be surfing and you can do that while you're working at the bank they don't have to be mutually exclusive and over time maybe you start moving a little over this way five years later your life is unrecognizable your classes are

overwhelming this semester and your professor that likes to wear the polyester is an over-the-top tester test after test after test and as of right now your grades are a mess which is the exact reason for all of your struggle strife and stress well if you're in ears reaching my voice you're about to be blessed because I know someone who went through and overcame the exact same issue but didn't need a tissue because this person made the choice to human up and that's exactly what you are about to do this is the moment the old you

meets the new you okay so once you get your goal structure set up you think okay if I could have this life looks like that might be worth living despite the fact that it's going to be you know anxiety-provoking and threatening and there's going to be some suffering and loss involved and all of that obviously the goal is to to have a vision for your life such that all things considered that justifies your effort okay so then what do you do well then then you turn down to the micro routines it's like okay well this

is what I'm aiming for how does that instantiate itself dayto day week to week month to month and that's where something like a schedule can be unbelievably useful Google Calendar it's like make a damn schedule and stick to it okay so what the rule with the schedule it's not a bloody prison that's the first thing that people do wrong they say well I don't like to have follow a schedule it's like well what kind of schedule are you setting up well I I have to do this then I have to do this then I have

to do this you know and then I just go play video games because who wants to do all these things that I have to do it's like wrong set the damn schedule up so that you have the day you want that's the trick it's like okay I've got tomorrow if I was going to set it up so it was the best possible day I could have practically speaking what would it look like well then you schedule that and obviously there's a bit of responsibility that's going to go along with that because if you have any

sense one of the things that you're going to insist upon is that at the end of the day you're not in worse shape than you were that than at the beginning of the day right cuz that's a stupid day if you have a bunch of those in a row you just dig you know you dig yourself a hole and then you burry yourself in it's like sorry that's just not a good strategy it's a bad strategy so maybe 20% of your day has to be responsibility and obligation or maybe it's more than that depending on

how far behind you are but even that you can you can ask yourself okay well I've got these responsibilities I have to schedule the damn things in what's the right ratio of responsibility to reward and you can ask yourself that just like you'd negotiate with someone who is working for you it's like okay you got to work tomorrow okay so I want you to work tomorrow and you might say okay well what are you going to do for me that makes it likely that I'll work for you well you you can ask yourself that you

know so maybe you do an hour of of responsibility and then you play a video game for 15 minutes I don't know whatever turns your crank man but you know you have to negotiate with yourself and not tyrannize yourself see if you're struggling in your classes and you don't have a written down plan for the least amount of time you would spend studying and preparing for each class you stop this video right now go get you a pencil and a planner and map a study course for your success out right now you can come back

to this exact point when you're finished because once you write it down it becomes real and that's just the beginning and I used to think like yo for real why can't I catch a break you know why can't I be what I want to be have what I do what I want right and I ain't telling y'all don't speak it into existence I ain't saying don't write it down you know on on the interest board on a dream board I ain't saying don't put it down I ain't saying don't talk to your friends about it

verbalize it but I'm telling you you can't talk yourself out of something you behave yourself into and so for me what I had to realize was your e if you want to make a certain kind of money if you want to live a certain kind of way like if you want to achieve a certain amount of thing you got to change your behavior e like you yep you can talk you can get pumped up you can get motivated but you got to change the stuff that you doing and it was some stuff that I was

doing I wasn't placing myself in a position to be successful are you hearing what I'm saying congratulations like you created a life for yourself like on some level even if you want to leave that career path or you're unfulfilled in that you still are somebody who is deserving of acknowledgement for building something like you're negotiating with someone that you care for that you would like to be productive and have a good life and and that's how you make the schedule it's like and then you look at the day and you think well if I had

that day that'd be good great you know and you you're useless and horrible so you'll probably only hit it with about 70% accuracy but that beats the hell out of zero right and if you hit it even with 50% accuracy another rule is well aim for 51% the next week or 50 and a half% for God's sake or because you're you're going to hit that position where things start to loop back positively and spiral you upward and so so that's one way that you can work on your conscientiousness is a plan a life you'd like

to have there is absolutely no reason why you can't succeed all you got to do is water the seeds of success that are planted in your heart sometimes you may have to change the fertilizer to get a new spark meaning make the necessary adjustments and give yourself a brand new start you got this we're not wired to think in decades it seems too intangible but if all you do is make tiny little changes to build in habits into your life that bring you Joy or fulfillment or happiness or purpose in incremental micro allotments that don't

disrupt the rest of your life you do that for 10 years straight your life is going to be different and I can promise you that listen to me I'm allergic are you hearing me I'm allergic to average and the problem with a lot of you is you not allergic to average all right you got to do me a huge favor man you lying to yourself on one point you saying you want to be great you want to do great things you want to have greatness you want to be great but on the other hand for

real for real you comfortable with average and I told you listen to me I don't care what side of the the the railroad track you were born on I don't care if you were AFF fluent I don't care if you privileged I don't care if you grew up in poverty with the father without a father with a mama without adopted I don't care listen to me the reason why I'm telling you that I'm allergic to average is not personal ET is allergic to it because success is allergic to average success and average don't have nothing

to do with each other talk is cheap so you can say that you're allergic to average but are your actions backing it up you got to show the world that you mean business you got to show the world that you come to take action see greats like you jump over hurdles run through barriers but never ever stop grinding to win you can't say there's certain dreams and goals there things you want to have and things you want to be if you are still average you got to get to the point where you get allergic to

average you don't think average you don't perform average success and average have absolutely nothing to do to that's what I'm telling you your boss King Stand average your coach can't stand at your teacher can't stand a your mama might put up with it your Daddy might put up with it but listen to me very closely nobody really likes average because average attracts average you can't help it that you suffer from ambition you can't help it that you suffer from trying to be great you can't help it that you suffer for trying to go to the

next Plateau you can't help it but that's not you you have dreams you have goals you have aspirations you have desires and you are taking action to make all of your dreams a reality that every fiber of your being every fiber of your existence wants to win you can't help it that you suffer from a severe case of aspiration purpose and dream chasing that's the exact reason why you keep racing because you're trying to catch up to your dreams because they won't do it that has absolutely nothing to do do with you some people have

a problem for every solution some people don't believe that they can achieve at a high level some people are okay doing what normal people do doing what average people do doing just enough to get by they got to go because now it's back to the Grind because now it's back to the shine because now it's back to getting after it now it's back to going all in for what you said you wanted I need you to speak it one time one time that's it I need you to say it one time I need you to

get it out of the atmosphere I need you to say it so you can hold yourself accountable to what you said tell the friend so they can hold you accountable but after you say it once shut your mouth go into the lab and get to work are you hearing me shut your mouth shut up you didn't hear me say a million times I was going to speak for the NFL but I'm in the NFL you didn't hear me say a million times I was going to Australia you heard me say it once then I went

in the lab and I got to work let me tell you something very carefully cuz I'm tired of people calling me I'm tired of people emailing me I'm tired of people texting me and saying ET is not working ET I'm grinding ET I'm hustling ET is not work listen to me very carefully you reap what you s don't get it twisted you reap what you s now if you don't see what you think you should see understand that to grow a bush and to grow a tree it take a little bit more time boo so

yeah you've been studying for 3 months and yeah you've been grinding for one year and yeah you've been hustling for two years now and you're not seeing what you but guess what I told you before you've been doing it for two years but what were you doing the other 30 years what will you do in the other 21 years so it's going to take time but listen to me very closely if you would get yourself in the lab say it write it down look at it but get in the lab number one and start working

on it when you have an extraordinary mindset you are determined to make the impossible possible you are determined to make the unbelievable believable you are determined to do more each and every day than that average person will do in a whole week you are determined to do more in a week than an average person does in a month you are determined to do more in a month than an average person does in a whole year some of y'all you lying to yourself you say you want to be great you say you want to get to

the next level you say you want to be dominant on that field you say you want to go to the final four you say you want to be a national champion listen to me you say you want a promotion you say you want to start your own business but listen to me very closely you talk too much shut up get in the lab and let's go to work go to work and do your work listen to me don't just go to work when you feel like it go to work every single day work on it

every day I need you to put yourself in a position to shine I need you to put yourself in a position to climb I need you to put yourself in a position to redesign I need you to put yourself in a position to redefine and I need you to put yourself in a position to realign your alliance if the people in your circle are average we don't do average we won't do average I need you to have a CEO mindset Champion Energy only you set them stand standards and you make each and every person that

you come in contact with rise up to your standards Do not drop down to their level and that wasn't an average thing see average people get average results but great people get great results when they take the necessary actions I want you to Picture This imagine trying to climb up a steep hill with somebody on your back that's exactly what it is when you allow that average mindset to attack you you trying to go up but you have this negative energy trying to pull you back down will you please stop trying to mix phenomenal energy

with average energy it doesn't work you are allergic to average listen to me don't keep calling me and telling me you going to get on the Dean's List do me a favor don't tell me you going to be on the honor Road shut up go to work and show me average people don't understand that so when you tell them your come up goals they're going to tell you exactly why they can't be achieved well I I tried that before it didn't work for me my my my cousin tried that before it didn't work for him

what does that got to do with you but whatever you do do not let that average enter into your system this is a great day to win what could you do to improve yourself well let's step one step backwards the first question might be why should you even bother improving yourself and I think the answer to that is something like so you don't suffer any more stupidly than you have to accept responsibility for the catastrophe of your life and that way you transcend it and there's an unbelievably hopeful message in there and the message is

you're actually strong enough to do that you just don't know it and you won't find out till you do it you can't find out till you do it but if you did it you'd find out that it was true bargain with the future wow that's just what an idea that is you know it's it's so unlikely it's massive risk it's the ultimate in risks right you have to be willing to lose your life in order to find it what you're willing to foro today's pleasure for tomorrow's advantage and that's what sacrifice is and I would

say start where you can start you know if if something announces itself to you as in need of repair that you could repair then hey fix it you fix a hundred things like that your life will be a lot different if I wanted to spend 10 minutes making this room better what would I have to do and you have to ask yourself that right it's not a command it's like a genuine question and things will pop out in the room that you know you like there's a stack of papers over there that's kind of bugging

you and you know that maybe little order there would be a good thing there's some rubbish behind your computer monitor that you haven't attended to for like 6 months and the room would be slightly better if it was a little less Dusty and the cables weren't all tangled up the same way and if you allow yourself just to consider the expand in which you exist at that moment there'll be all sorts of things that'll pop out in it that you could just fix so life is brutal and what you have to set against that is

possibility so I would say if you're 16 and your life isn't so happy it's like look around and see if there are opportunities that people are granting you even imperfect opportunities cuz they're going to be imperfect that you could exploit in the proper way and Learn and Grow but the the fundament the lesson the more fundamental lesson that's underneath that is don't let what you are stop you from being what you could be so imagine that there's you and there's the potential inside you whatever that is you know and potential is an interesting idea because

it's represents something that isn't yet real yet we act like it's real and that potential is partly what you could be if you interacted with the world in a manner that would gain you the most information if you take yourself and you put yourself in in a new environment new genes turn on in your nervous system they encode for new proteins and so you're full of biological potential that won't be realized unless you move yourself around in the world into different challenging circumstances and that'll turn on different circuits now I often tell people too fix

the things you repeat every day cuz people tend to think of those as trivial you get up you brush your teeth you you have your breakfast you know you have your routines that you go through every day well those probably constitute 50% of your life and people think well they're mundane and I don't need to pay attention to them it's like no no that's exactly wrong the things you do every day those are the most important things you do hands down all you have to do is do the arithmetic you figure it out right away

so 100 adjustments to your broader domain of being and there's a lot less rubbish around and a lot fewer traps for you to step into once you've got your mind and your emotions together and once you're acting that out then you can extend what you're willing to consider yourself and start fixing up the things that are part of your broader extent while you're experiencing things announce themselves as in need of repair doesn't mean that it's you right then and there that should repair them you have to have some humility you don't walk up to a

helicopter that isn't working and just start tin aning away with it you you have to stay within your domain of competence but most of the time if people look at their lives it's very interesting thing to do I like the I like the idea of the room because you can do that at the drop of a hat you know go back to where you live and sit down and think okay I'm going to make this place better for half an hour what should I do you have to ask and things will just pop up like

mad and it's partly because your mind is a very strange thing as soon as you give it a name a genuine aim it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim that that's actually how you see to begin with and so if you set it a task especially you have to be genuine about it which is why you have to bring your thoughts and emotions together and then you have to get them in your body so you're acting consistently you have to be genuine about the aim but once you aim the world will reconfigure itself

around that aim which is very strange and and it's it's it's technically true and so I think that you can in fact decide to take on the load that's optimally meaningful if you want and then you get to have your cake and eat it too you're on the pathway to continual incremental Improvement you only have to burn off a feather at a time instead of having the whole bloody thing burst into flames it's a constant source of renewal and there's an idea that to be renewed you have to drink the water of life that that's

an old mythological idea chaos is water water water is chaos water is what washes away too much order and to stay continually refreshed by the water of life is to take on exactly the right amount of chaos to make sure that your garden is properly nourished and I think meaning is actually the marker of that you don't choose your interests they choose you and that's really worth thinking about too man because you know it's really hard to get interested in something you're not interested in even if you know there's a good reason for it you

know you're studying for an exam you find the material boring anything will be more interesting than than the studying even though you know that that's what you need to do you can't voluntarily grab Yourself by the Scruff of the neck let's say and Shake Yourself and say sit down and concentrate your mind will just go everywhere but then if you're interested in something and even if it's something you shouldn't be interested in cuz that happens all the time then it's like you're a laser focused man you can pay attention forever you can work until you're

exhausted you won't even notice it and you remember everything it's like okay if you can't control your interest what does your your interest was being manipulated behind the scenes by unseen forces that were associated with your character logical Development Across Time that was the manifestation of the self so the self is this the the potential you let's say and the way it operates in the present is by gripping your interest in directing it somewh where and that's part of the Instinct of self-realization it's a mindboggling idea man really it's the potential that you are has

to manifest itself somehow in in the here and now it has to and what better way than by directing your attention you know it's like it seems like this might be useful for you or maybe you get attracted to this person maybe you admire this person that happens with kids a lot they'll admire someone and then copy them and you can see that that's obviously part of their developmental progression right it's for of hero worship but kids are very imitative and they hero worship at the drop of a hat and so they're they're entranced by

the the next stage of development and if they see someone who embodies that especially if it's in the zone of proximal development it's it's some it's something they could achieve stretching a bit they find someone who embodies that next stage of development and then they start to imitate them and act like them well we're adults are no different we're no different we're just we do it at a perhaps more abstract it's fisticated [Music] level discipline is the single most important thing that you can use when it comes to being successful they want an easier answer

there has to be an easier way there's not I'm sorry I search for it my entire life motivation is fleeting no one wakes up motivating every single day the key to success that you're looking for the thing that's going to make your dreams come true is simple discipline every person needs to be their own hero you need to be the hero of your own story nobody's coming to save you nobody's coming to help you and so I would copy the comic books and the heroes and they had muscles and I was like one day I'm

going to be like that you have to suffer a little bit you have to put yourself in a state of discomfort growth shouldn't be easy stop looking for shortcuts stop looking to make things a breeze we're built to walk uphill and when you reach the Pinnacle of the Hill you want to stop and appreciate the vision but the next thing you want is a higher Hill in the distance you've got to learn to suffer you've got to put yourself in a bit of an uncomfortable position and if you can do that then the results that

have eluded you you'll start to see them there's no such thing as a free lunch there's no magic pill and there are no three easy payments of $9.99 if you want something if you want to be good at something you want to accomplish something you've got to put in the time because without that work ethic you know greatness cannot be achieved so you've got to really love what you're doing you have to just go at it wholeheartedly You' got to put everything into it you've got to obsess over it if you want to be good

at something you've got to do it every day like we look at people like LeBron James why is he good at basketball because he does it every day you look at Wayne grexi and hockey because he did it every day and so my number one piece of advice to people if you want to be good at something whatever that thing that you desire is whatever your passion is do it every single day that's the real secret to success from 22 to 34 I worked every day I went out no weekends I worked every day every

day if you want it you want it I wanted it so this idea of doing something every single day just do the thing every day and be 100% present focus on the process don't focus on the end result again if you show up if you're all in and do that day after day after day rewards will come don't let your emotions control your actions or don't let your feelings control your actions rather let your actions control your feelings and so it's okay to feel bad it's okay to be depressed it's okay to be sad but

don't act bad don't act depressed don't act sad do something about it failure hell disappointment discomfort is a great learning tool and many people don't understand that but it's these few moments in life that you have like for me I always talk about it Rocky won round 14 that one two minute and 13 second clip of Rocky getting up when Apollo knocked him down mhm that one clip when I was going through a very bad time in my life I saw what I wanted to be and one a guy that won it wasn't a guy

that won everything he did it was a guy that kept getting up after being knocked down on those days where you don't get out of you don't want to get out of bed get out of bed go for a walk nourish yourself do some exercise spend some time in the Sun and it's amazing how those negative feelings turn around so again don't let your feelings dictate your actions let your actions dictate your feelings when we're young we think things are just going to fall into our lap we think opportunities are going to be there forever

we think that it's going to be our turn but the reality is you need to work hard for it and you need to work hard for a really really long time when I realized that I can learn do hard work and I can beat Dev Val Victorian in school but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does you know what kind of strength comes from that when you're sitting down that guy that that Val Victor study for an hour and you know I caught you I caught you and I am dumb

but I have the work ethic to catch you having a discipline every day to say for me to learn this one math problem it's going to take me 10 hours wow so don't lose Faith don't get down on yourself don't get depressed don't get sad if you show up if you be the hardest worker in the room and you do it for long enough and I'm not talking even months or years I'm talking decades I promise you that your time will come the second rule be all in when you're here when you're in a physical

space when you're working out I don't want your eyes on the TV I don't want you text messaging I don't want you playing on social media I want you to be 100% present I want you to be all in and get the most out of your time we're my work ethic from was the hours I had to spend learning this I always tell people there's 168 hours in a week if you get 8 hours sleep a night well there's 50 plus hours gone you still have 110 112 hours left if you work 60 hours a

week you still have 55 hours left to go do what's important to you so I don't really buy the time excuse but that's the number one excuse that I hear the number two excuse is I don't know how but we're fortunate like people rip on social media but we're fortunate to live in a day and age where with the click of a button you have access to a wealth of information whatever it is you're interested in it doesn't matter you can find some good quality information with a click in a a click of a button

so the whole I don't know how that's not an excuse either and those are the two most common ones what it really comes down to is people just don't want it bad enough because I've seen countless examples of people that will say they don't have time that say they don't know how but when something becomes important enough for them they figure it out at the end of it all if you can sit back and wait if you can wait 6 7 8 9 10 12 years when you get to that point when you finish that's

the feeling for 12 years say I say wa 12 years to get there that that's what keeps you going is you got to feel I want I'm doing it for one second years of pain for one second every minute matters 5 minutes is better than no minutes 10 minutes is better than 5 minutes 15 minutes is better than 10 minutes and so on and so every bit of work that you can do will get you closer to your goal don't give up if you want something if you're willing to work for it if you're willing

to to put in an honest effort if you're willing to show up every day and you're willing to be all in I promise you again it might not be tomorrow it might not be next week it might not even be next year but I promise you 100% your time will come and good things will happen and far too many of us give up before we see the reward we give up too early and if we just have had a little bit of perseverance if we just worked a little bit harder and just took it a

day at a time we would our dreams would come true so that would be my advice don't give [Music] up dreaming is good having goals is good but sooner or later there comes a time when you must act your mouth is not a tool for Distributing excuses one of the worst phrases we've ever created was you got to see it to believe it it's a phrase created by cynical people with small minds that have not got any hope that things can get better can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone believed that

this was true we'd have no cars no planes no light in the dark we'd never have computers or mobile phones we'd never climb mountains break records or go to the Moon I used to believe this rubbish nothing can be achieved conceived until first it's believed you've got to understand that at some point life is going to throw you a curve ball there's no getting around that if there's something that you want to do with your life that thing deep inside you that Whispers day and night it will always always just be an idea until you

choose to believe it's possible you have to believe it so much that you already think it's happened you have to walk like it's there talk like it's there believe it's there dreams without action that's the path to delusion the only way you can mature the only way you can turn the corner in your life is to own your smack in other words everything in your life is your fault if you don't you will underperform all your life because of these excuses the reason most people don't take action is simple and the only way to overcome

this when someone says no I say next yes I might get upset yes I might be frustrated yes I might be disappointed but I'm not going to sit there in my emotions I'm not going to sit there and have a pity party I'm going to go harder what did I say I'm not going to sit there and have a pity party I am going to go harder I am in control of my destiny just like I was in control of my past whatever happens in my life is up to me if I succeed I take

credit if I fail I take credit my life is my fault every morning my friend can you recite that to yourself I am in control of my destiny just like I was in control of my past whatever happens in my life is up to me if I succeed I take credit if I fail I take credit my life is my fault stop making excuses get after it where you are right now and repeat after me I am in control of my [Music] destiny people sit around and they focus on all the bad sh that might

happen to them if they try to act that they completely forget about what will happen if they don't so think about it right now let's think of some things that might happen if you try to do the thing that you've been wanting to do for years okay well it might not work the first time it might not be as easy as you thought people are going to think you're mad they're going to look at you and think you're insane they're going to tell you sh like it ain't possible it's risky you shouldn't do it be

careful stick to what you know stick to what you do that follow your dreams these people have to see [ __ ] to believe it but you need to believe it to see it amazing things happen when you believe you have something your brain actively goes out to make it happen it starts to notice little subtle opportunities that you would have otherwise deleted because it knows it's got a job to do to get you what you want but if you keep taking action in spite of all this stuff that might happen guess what sooner or

later you're going to start winning remember there ain't no such thing as failure baby only feedback so to make yourself take action you got to make a decision and that decision has to be final people take action and get sh done when they have had enough they decide and they say that's it I'm done no more you're either moving forward or standing still the choice is yours decide in this social media world that we live in today it's so easy to lose your way I look around at so many people today and can see that

they just don't know who they are it's easy to see the life that we live in today through some Snapchat filter to look around everybody else and say that's what life looks like that life looks perfect I want to be just like that so they go around and start acting like other people doing what other people do taking a selfie in front of an expensive car put a million filters on the picture and upload that to Instagram to tell the world this is who I am the problem is behind cloes doors they know that that's

not who they are so they end up lost wandering around in a lie that they created and the only thing to keep the lie going is more lights more pictures more filters until one day they look around and realize that they have lost themselves along the way they have no idea who they are or could be because they've been trying for so long to be someone else I think the greatest most influential people in history deep down are the way they are because above everything else they were themselves no one else they wasn't like someone

else or even compared to anyone else you have to follow your heart you have to be you you have to make your choices based on your principles and beliefs and don't let out forces or influences dictate your decisions I believe it's our decisions that make us who we are and more importantly who we could be so if you go through life always making your decisions based on someone else and what they might think you'll never truly find yourself it all comes down to how much you care about what other people think it's a scary thing

in the world we live in today to be yourself with so much fake Perfection out there on social media but I'll tell you this it's also the best feeling in the world world when you go through life knowing you ain't what other people's made you but yourself it's liberating there's freedom in it so stop hiding and be yourself the main reason people's outlook on the world is so negative is because of what they've been focusing on where focus goes energy flows baby and I'll tell you this if you spend all your time focusing on all

the problems in the world and all the problems in your life you ain't going to be happy it's easy in the world that we live in today to be consumed by all the media filled negativity in the world you can't turn on the TV without seeing some negative story all the bad everyone has problems everyone has going on in their life the difference between the people who are happy and the people that ain't is that the people that are happy choose to focus on the solutions to the problems they face rather than the problems elves

you always have a choice you can decide to focus on the sh or decide to look for the solution it's all about perspective constantly tell yourself how much worse things could be and you can actually be thankful for the way you've got things at a moment your world and your life can truly be anything you make it but you got to make it this ain't some motivational inspirational bull this is the truth you can be who you want to be you can do what you want to do see what you want to see it's all

in your power and no one else is but you got to believe it you can either be a victim of your life or the master of it but the choice is always yours what's your excuse today you don't have enough time you don't have enough energy you don't have enough money are you too tired you didn't get enough sleep is that what's really stopping you or is what stopping you you all these excuses only sound good to one person and that's you stop lying to yourself stop making excuses for why you can't do [ __

] no one gives a [ __ ] get off your ass and get to work you want to take a look at other people and what they got and get jealous and say that they've only got this cuz of because of this and that or it's easy for them cuz they've got this and that wake your up it's go time baby it's time to stop making your excuses it's time to start taking advantage of the world we live in today and all the opportunities that are staring you in the [ __ ] face you do

have the time you do have the money you do have the energy you just need to decide decide that you want it bad enough and admit the truth which is nothing nothing in this world is free nothing is easy anything worth having is hard to get admit that you can have anything you want but it's going to be hard work admit that you are the only reason that you are where you are and you are the only reason that you ain't where you want to be admit take responsibility and accept it because until you do

until you stop making your [ __ ] excuses you will never get what you want now is the time now is your moment not tomorrow not next week but right here right now stop making excuses and start making some changes [Music] [Music]