i've been homeless i wanted to give my life up i have had everything thrown at me [Music] but i rose above it because i know who i am inside the question is do you know who you are inside the challenge for many of us is that we got to see past our present pain and end to the fruitfulness of the future this life is short you know if you get into something get into it and if you're not into it don't be into it a lot of people have a hard time defining themselves they define
themselves by failure because they failed you're not your failures you're you you would not settle if you could see what was on the other side of hanging in there life is not easy it is not don't try to make it that way life's not fair it never was it isn't now and it won't ever be do not fall into the trap of feeling like you're a victim if you came from a place where you had nothing [Music] that's everything that you need i need you to focus on why you were born in the first place
why are you here on earth for this particular time what are you doing here those people who dream big have a different kind of life than the people who don't drink it's still time never settle there's still time what are you working on right now because sometimes in life all you got is that one thing you are on a journey so you are what you are in this world that's either one of two things either you're somebody but you're nobody the trial the tribulation the adversity the giants is not your assassin the giant is your
opportunity are you going to complain in the face of conflict or are you going to seize the opportunity you can't stay down no no matter what it's thrown your way you got something called calm back pow go get it go get it go get it the champion is the one that never lets the sun catch them sleeping every single day i'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor not a victim i'm a winner i'm going to win it takes grit it takes sacrifice it takes time and no matter the losses no
matter the circumstances you don't give up on your life you keep living you keep fighting stop dreaming and start chasing but most importantly you gotta become aspire to make a difference [Music] even when you feel like no i can't be hit this hard no way i can get up from this that's when you're just starting something you don't even realize you have unfinished business you need to go back where you left off with a new perspective go back to the gym go back to the drawing board go back to the business go back to the
relationship go back to the burning building you have unfinished business all you got to do and show up with a new game plan and a new perspective you got to finish business you have odd fitness business you got work to do [Music] is everything let's go i need you to hear me loud and clear how you see this thing is everything you cannot change the past but you can't change your perspective about it you gotta see this thing differently stop complaining about the divorce stop complaining about the job loss stop complaining about the relocation your
viewpoint is your advantage thank you for breaking up with me here's what you did you opened up another opportunity for somebody else to come into my life thank you for firing me you gave me an opportunity to explore entrepreneurship i'm not bitter i'm better perspective is what changes the game here's the deal if you get to the top of the tree all the fruit from the bottom of the top is going to be there son so i don't need you focusing on cars and money and stuff you gonna get that i need you to focus
on why you were born in the first place why are you here on earth for this particular time what are you doing here you need to tell you that you owe you something i don't want nothing from you but for you to leave this room and know what you want what do you want in your marriage what do you want with your son and your daughter what do you want in your health what do you want financially like how much money do you want to make a year what do you want to drive how do
you want to live stop just waking up like an accident what do you want and then once you find out what you want spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it the reason why i speak with so much passion e.t why do you speak with so so much authority because i'm talking about my life not something that i read i ate out of trash cans you ain't got to start with the two-parent background you ain't got to start with wealth you ain't got to start with your parents graduated it's not
the hand that you dealt you got rich kids who own drugs you got rich kids who committed suicide you got rich kids who don't know their purpose in life it's not the head that you would dealt baby here's how you play your head every opportunity is the last opportunity every opportunity i have to reprove myself again every opportunity i'm still nervous e.t you've been doing this for years why are you so nervous because the day you become condensed then you stop evaluating yourself the day you stop growing the day you stop getting better is the
day you die is the day the person who's trying to catch you will get you and i ain't where i want to be and i'm like god i ain't where i want to be and he was like you stopped being a victim i said what you mean a victim well it ain't my fault my mom got pregnant 17. it ain't my fault my daddy wasn't there and ain't my fault they couldn't get along it ain't my fault he said boy you you grown you ain't 10 no more [Music] you the decisions you make right now
is up to you you crying about something that happened to you when you was a kid you ain't even no kid no more you're a grown man take four ownership the stupid stuff you doing your plans didn't make you play no video games that you cried about so what your daddy wasn't there your mama ended up getting married what you crying about he went to work every day he never beat you he never abused you your mama did the best she knew how to do what you crying about you grew up in a house what
you crying about you've been lazy your whole life and now somebody told you you can make six figures and you go knock on the door 100 times and your body sell you a lie you ain't never gave a hundred percent in order to knock on the door 100 times you're gonna have to get 120 get up out of here you can't do this and you won't have to fight and fight and fight and fight and most of you won't be successful not because you can't do it but you can't outlast your own you long enough
to get to your new your mind has to seek discomfort it has to seek these difficult tasks you have to enjoy it and you have to figure out a way to make your mind enjoy those things and some people comes easy and some people it doesn't some people some people it takes a long time i always tell people the best thing you could ever do is force yourself to a schedule just write it down like today i have to do an hour on the treadmill i have to do an hour no matter what even if
you've been walking on you're doing an hour on a treadmill the next time you're doing a do it just me okay you did an hour and this is the amount of miles you got in next time you're gonna you know add three miles put put an extra three miles in that one hour and just keep doing things like that write down today i'm going to do 100 push-ups and i'm going to do 100 sit-ups and i'm going to do 100 chin-ups that's today and then force yourself force yourself to adhere to a schedule make a
monday wednesday friday workout schedule give yourself some time off you know like don't don't even crush yourself to the point where you can't do it make it so that you really appreciate those tuesdays and thursdays but on monday wednesday and friday you're gonna get after it and this is what you're gonna do most people just try to go work out and you're kind of aimless and you show up and like where you pick up the jump rope and you drop a little rope maybe you hit the heavy bag a little bit maybe you do some
curls but you don't really have an aim that's why people like to hire trainers because the trainer will tell you what to do well you can tell yourself what to do if you don't have money for a trainer you don't even have to have equipment you know with bodyweight squats sit ups chin ups push-ups you could give yourself a brutal full body weight workout and you can find these for free on youtube there's a ton of them there's a ton of these body weight workouts you could do just force yourself write it down monday wednesday
and friday i'm going to do 100 push-ups i'm going to do 100 chin ups i'm going to do 100 sit-ups even if it takes me off in day even if i have to do 10 and 10 and 10 and keep going all day just that's what you do do 10 push-ups take a break for 20 minutes do another 10. but get those hundred in i don't believe in half-assing things this life is short you know if you get into something get into it and if you're not into it don't be into it and i think
that insanity and and greatness are next-door neighbors and they borrow each other's sugar that's that's my that's what i've always said there's there's something about mastery like true mastery uh that requires you to shut off massive areas of your life there's a lot of people that are scared of their ability to do something that's difficult i don't know if i could force myself to to be disciplined i don't know if i could force myself to take that kind of action well if you do force yourself to take that kind of action you don't have that
question anymore that question i don't know if i can do it well you're doing it so you obviously do it can you do it tomorrow we do it today or can you do it tomorrow just do it you get so much more benefit out of a struggle that you choose to embark in versus a struggle that life throws upon you get out there and go and do something just just go and then in the middle of doing it it'll become easy even if it's not easy even if it's hard it's easier than not doing it
and wishing that you had done it it is time for you to show up it is time for you to show up and there will be obstacles that you must face and for each obstacle it will represent something about you your greatest victories your greatest values but nevertheless you must rise above it and you must conquer every obstacle that comes your way are you strong enough are you willing enough do you have what it takes to do what's necessary to adapt and overcome so while you fighting and you calling to get to the next level
let me tell you something if you're a person out there buying trying to buy your way to the top i'm going to let you know something king and queen you can't buy a legacy this you must earn [Music] see the big dogs they won't give you the opportunity you're gonna have to take you're gonna have to sleep for your car you're gonna have to sleep on that floor you're gonna have to cry them tears but we're not gonna be cry babies we're gonna be liars you know when the lion is injured when the lion is
bleeding he licks his wounds and he keeps walking but the time has come for you to succeed for you to believe [Music] for you to stand tall for you to understand that you got a mission and your mission is not done yet today is that day and when and if tomorrow comes for you be even more powerful be stronger than you've ever been rectifying yourself believe in yourself keep that faith in yourself don't let the outside interference stop your growth don't let those that doubted you and said that you did not have it hold you
back don't let the losses keep you down because if you're down how would you understand what it means to get up what is good about being miserable [Music] resurrect yourself from the pit of darkness because misery doesn't have the right to control your life your mind your abilities your faith within yourself is all that you need the steps that you take in your life it's a process within itself it won't be easy but you don't deserve easy easy is not something that you should be looking for [Music] embrace all of the challenges that are necessary
but you continue to fight for it you continue to believe in yourself when the rest of the world says no to you you say yes to yourself you say yes i believe you say yes i can do it you say yes nothing can stop me [Music] let it be known within you [Music] because no matter what's happening no matter what's going on around you you are responsible for what you think within you your mind does matter [Music] and if you put the wrong things inside of your mind the best things won't come out the best
of you won't show up because you allowed everything around you to destroy you to destroy your dreams and your dreams are limitless they never die there's gonna be a lot of things swimming beneath your feet there's gonna be a lot of things that's gonna try to drag you down but you're not in the business to drown you in the business to live do not starve yourself from the beauty of life you must have the ability to nourish your mind you must have the ability to nourish your soul if you want to be great oh man
prepare to get up off that mat the aspirations the dreams of what it takes the commitment to hard work but more importantly how many lumps you've got to take that's when your your survival skills have to kick in and hopefully you've trained enough in in your mental preparation and really believe enough in yourself to get up because you know everybody i think we always uh said the easiest thing to do is hold that trophy that's the easiest thing to do in this process and that's only going to be for a very short amount of the
work the will the commitment like i said getting not getting up when you're knocked down i mean you know throughout kobe's career in michael's career lebron's career dwayne's career magic johnson's career there's always going to be these struggles that or challenges that you have to get over and the hardest part is in you trying to be one of the best in the game there's going to be a tension with it right you're put on a pedestal and you fall even harder you know when you do so i really had to learn how much you have
to prepare you have to live it you have to want it so bad to where you'll sacrifice those saturday nights or friday nights with your friends live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now pretend you're in the part of the movie that starts and it shows you as a loser if i got a fight to get you in the gym that's a problem i'm just saying for real some of you broke and you're still entertained i'm talking about those of you who are complaining about your job you ain't got no
money and you're sitting here complaining about but then you're watching all the tv programs i'm never gonna feel like doing the things that are tough for difficult or uncertain or scary or new so i need to stop waiting until i feel like it we all have a habit of hesitating the idea isn't going to execute itself and the book isn't going to write itself and the weights out in the gym they're not going to move themselves you have to do it and you have to do it now but there's a mother out there who wants
what you have who wants the position you are who wants the job you have who wants the wife that you have or the husband the symbol not your hungry it wants everything you can have but if you're lazy man i don't want to talk to you i won't deal with you you don't make me feel dumber you know you're going to lower my level i don't think so the reason why you're so lazy is not because you don't have the ability you're so lazy because your dreams so small i believe in myself every day i
know i make mistakes i know i'm not perfect but i am not lazy you can keep sleeping imma keep working they say things like i'll start monday it's not my fault it's not fair i'm too damn tired or my personal favorite i don't have enough time they have a loser mentality through and through and until they recognize that the problem is them they'll never improve i know many talented people who had a great deal of potential but they never realize their greatness and they will end up going to their grave with all the good stuff
still in them you will be tested and how you face that test and how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life you got to have something that is inside something that fires you up something that drives you something that gives you more power than you've ever had in your life your life comes down to your decisions and if you change your decisions you will change everything the best of the best they don't sleep they keep working what are you going to do where do i start and when's the best time to start
i have a very simple answer here and now at some point in life you will lose your balance and fall for the first time get back up and try again at some point in life you will fall for the second time get back up and try again at some point in life you will fall for the third time fall for the fourth time get back up and try again falling one time is not a failure it's the start of your journey the pain the failing is temporary it will not last no matter how many times
you get knocked down you get up again get knocked down for the fifth time get back up and try again there are no quick fixes in life anything of real worth will take struggle and perseverance success is a journey what is most important that one simply does their absolute best and remains persistent we learn little from victory much more from defeat stay focused even if you fall 1000 times you just keep getting up and trying again and again and again your start does not determine how you're going to finish every day is a new opportunity
to reach that goal to reach that dream success is no accident it is hard work perseverance learning studying sacrifice and most of all love of yourself and love what you are aiming to achieve the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little x that little extra day i fall down six times i get up and try again i fall down seven times i get up and try again we all start standing standing on our own two feet standing for what we believe in standing for what is right standing for our loved ones and standing for
those who can't stand themselves even if it means standing alone keep your head up and keep your feet on the ground because your life is dependent on you and whatever you want to accomplish you must empty your heart and your soul into it you must believe when others say you cannot you must go over your heart is telling you to stop you must rise [Music] and become legendary you just keep getting up and trying again and again and again four down seven stand up eight strength leadership power authority guidance patience are god's gift to us
as men we have to cherish that not abuse it i prayed this morning to be a better listener it didn't work so well it's we're human you get back up yes i've been high up on the mountain i've been blessed [Music] but that's a slippery slope yeah and it's lonely up there you know people don't know that sign we did not come this far to just break down and lose now i'm a winner i'm going to win true desire in the heart that itch that you have whatever it is you want to do that thing
that you want to do to help others and to to grow and to make money that desire that it's that's god's proof to you sit beforehand already to indicate that it's yours aspire to make a difference so you are what you are in this world that's either one of two things either you're somebody never give up without commitment you'll never start but more importantly without consistency you'll never finish it's not easy if it were easy there'd be no denzel washington so keep working keep striving never give up fall down seven times get up eight ease
is a greater threat to progress than hardship so keep moving keep growing keep learning see you at work well it may be frightening it will also be rewarding so you got to get out there you got to give it everything you got whether it's your time [Music] your talent your prayers or your treasures because taking risk is not just about going for a job it's also about knowing what you know and what you don't know it's about being open to people and to ideas [Music] to get something you never had you have to do something
you never did [Music] because the chances you take the people you meet the people you love the faith that you have that's what's going to define you [Music] so how will you show up on game day instead of feeling down about your situation try to figure out what you can do to create positive momentum for yourself even at your lowest point even at your lowest moment there is something that you can do to create a small win now your small wind might not be the same as my small wind your small wind might simply be
getting out of the bed your small wind might be going to the gym your small wind might be making one more phone call or getting up an hour earlier to put in some extra work you have to believe that you control your destiny [Music] don't put that responsibility on anyone else but you something is happening something is taking place the seas that you've sown they are still working for you the time and energy you sacrifice they are not in vain when you plant a food which is really your goal you have to nurture it you
have to protect it you can't do one set of crunches and expect to have a six pack you you've gotta show up every day you've gotta show up day after day you gotta show up when you're motivated you've gotta show up when you're feeling unmotivated you gotta show up when everyone is behind you and you gotta show up when it feels like everyone is against you you gotta show up when you feel like you're winning and you gotta show up when you feel like you're losing it's your time and it's your turn but you're gonna
have to be willing to endure the temporary struggle you're going to have to be willing to deal with the negative chatter in your head because it's not going away you gotta manage it you gotta confront your fears you gotta confront your doubts success is not going to be handed to you nobody owes you anything but you owe you everything you owe it to yourself to hang in there when it gets hard you owe it to yourself to get up every day and grind you don't have time to focus on what other people are saying you
don't have time to focus on what other people are doing experiencing a failure feels like a loss but it's not failure is your teacher it's working for you behind the scenes preparing you for your next win there is no time like the present to fight for what belongs to you your toughest moments are preparing you for your biggest victories go after what you want and expect to get it when you are serious about hitting your goals you don't quit when it gets hard i don't care how many times you've tried try again i don't care
how many times you've heard no ask again i don't care how many times you fall get up you don't stop when you get frustrated you pursue for as long as it takes so i have a question for you are you disciplined enough to keep going [Music] you've been an underdog in your relationships if you've been an underdog in the weight room if you've been an underdog in life if you've been an underdog financially i'm talking to that person who grew up without a father i'm talking to that person who grew up without a mother i'm
talking to that person who didn't grow up with handouts i'm talking to that person who maybe if you did grew up with a little bit of handouts but maybe you were misunderstood and you were overlooked and you were undervalued and you were mishandled and misguided you got a dream to buy a house you got to dream a better relationship you got a dream to win a fight you got a dream to get your family out of the hood you got a dream to lose weight i mean whatever that dream is whatever you have that goal
that improbable feat once you get it set once you smell that once you get a feel for the taste of it and the underdog is is an individual who who refuses to live in the dark they refuse to remain in obscurity they refuse to live in stress and overwhelm and anxiety they are somebody who is tired like when you come to the end of yourself you got to get tired like you have to get tired tired something inside of you has to snap you got to get tired of being broke when you get tired of
being coined the loser being coined not enough being overlooked and undervalued and underpaid you gotta get tired of that when you get tired that's when you win the underdog is a person that comes out on the playing field and says okay i've been in this place of pain my whole life i've gone without for so long this is the day you make up in your mind where i will take the throne i'm talking to that person that is acquainted with pain i'm talking to the person that knows what it's like to come from nothing and
so you literally have nothing to lose and the only thing that's in your hand is a dream the only thing that's in your head is i have what it takes to get to the top of that hill because i am not the wolf on the hill i am the wolf climbing the hill i have nothing to lose counted out overlooked undervalued misguided betrayed somebody who has been really dishonored disrespected somebody who has lost everything who people stop believing in is a very desperate person they're climbing a hill they're trying to achieve a dream and when
you are desperate you are very dangerous and a dangerous man or woman is somebody who is a disrupter they don't play by the rules they are coming for blood one of the best things you can ever do in your life is to change your words i said one of the best things you can ever do in your life is change your words there's a scripture in the bible in proverbs that says death and life are in the power of the tongue in other words your tongue your words have the ability to shape your world [Music]
i said your words has the ability to shape your world you can either speak death over your life or you can begin to speak life over who you are and you've got to get to a place where you stop talking death and start talking life you got to get to a place where you say you know what i gotta stop talking about what i don't have and who's not here and what someone didn't give me i gotta stop talking death and i gotta start talking life your world is a result of words you have spoken
when you look at your life i promise you there is a connection between the life you live and the words you have spoken and i challenge you right now yeah you got to get to a place where you start speaking what you want to see you got to say what you want to see you got to say i want to be rich i want to be wealthy i want to build legacy i want to be healthy i want to have a good marriage matter of fact just say i am i am blessed i am favored
i am healed i am set free i am victorious i am an overcomer i am overcoming these challenges i am debt free i am a powerful person i am a spiritual person i am a blessed man i am a blessed woman you got to speak not what you see but what you want to see failing has become critical in my growth had fallen so flat on my face for the first time in my life i was depressed asking myself why why why me how can this happen i work so hard hard work pays always thought
it's not paying for me i got nothing i literally had seven bucks in my pocket so my seven dollar story that failure rising from that to say it's not over for me i'm immediately going to launch myself into training for professional wrestling i couldn't have launched myself with that type of training that i did every day for hours in a boxing ring that was stiff like concrete every day for hours i couldn't launch myself with that type of mentality and have not fallen on my face after 10 years of football and failed a failed football
player who wound up moving back in with his parents you're moving from point a to point b in your little circumscribed world you've made everything invisible and as long as that works then your theory is good enough it's accurate enough it's true enough you're in your little paradise but if something comes up and objects well that's where your character is tested fundamentally that's the character test it's like what do you do with messages of error don't second-guess yourself and don't be so afraid of failing that you create excuses instead of producing results failure is designed
to teach you a lesson keep pushing forward and learn from the failures and move forward with a purpose because you can look up and days weeks months years can go by and you can go i've been tiptoeing around here not committing to anything for so long i'm missing out sometimes it's not even about what choice we make just make a choice and commit to it and go and dive in you're all right man you're okay learn from it don't dwell on it move on and go do something really positive in the world i one day
i made a decision that enough is enough i'm tired of being average [Music] i'm tired i'm tired of being good i'm tired i want to go to the dealership and buy the best car i want to move to the nicest neighborhood i want to fly first class i want to go to hawaii i want to go to australia i made a decision enough is enough it's showtime will the real eric thomas please stand up some of you in the room right now you are where you are you're giving 60 when you have 120 in you
why because you've never made a decision those of you in this room you already there your problem is this and stuff you don't want to give up you're talented you just don't want to give up sleep listen to me bound for power any agent in the room bound for power motivational speaker file for power entrepreneur powerful power athlete powerful power weight lifter powerful power whatever you do i guarantee you when you do it nobody can do it like you do it the problem is you don't hardly do it you love sleep too much you love
that alcohol too much you love that something too much you love that vice too much there's something that you love more than yourself then your dream then your goals watch what happens when you have a goal they only have two reasons see how long that lasts watch a goal that has 50 reasons and see how there's somebody called me the other day on the interview stupid question e.t what do you feel like on the days that you don't feel like i said ask the question again please what do you do on the days that you
don't feel like i'm gonna be honest with you i'm way past that every day i feel like every day i feel like eating every day i feel like giving my wife the best life every day i feel like driving in a nice car every day i feel like flying first class every every single day of my life i feel like giving 100 every single day somebody said yesterday e.t you gave 120 what you gonna do tomorrow i said i don't know get 140. i don't know but i don't have days where i don't feel like
it why because i'm counting on me my wife's counting on me i don't have days to waste no more 50 no more no more 70 percent no more i want us at 85 degrees i want you at 85 and climbing if you're 80 i want you at 90 and i mean moving rapidly it's not rocket science and the universe is not responding to you correctly because your body language sucks your spirit sucks it's defeated i need you to give me that 120. i need you to give me everything you do i need to start giving
me that 120 and everything you do bring it all all together bring all the energy all the passion bring it all together and dominate i can't get through this i will get through this i must get through this the days you not plugged in are the days you don't get 120. [Music] i have too much to accomplish to be satisfied with where i am right now i have too much on the line i have too many people depending on me to win i must stay hungry you want to kill an alligator you kill it right
after eat because right after it eats it gets satisfied and it goes to a state like it's almost paralyzed some of y'all in this room are you paralyzed you had a little success you've done what nobody else in your family has done and not you chilling come on you ain't hungry no more next hunting i need you to stay focused why you should still be hungry what have you eaten that's got you satisfied what have you done what have you accomplished that got you so full i'm a contender but the next hundred gonna change my
life you're gonna change this world we're ordinary people doing extraordinary things if that's you and you're feeling me just say i can come on come on i can i can come on one time yep i will i must all right you study any animal in the animal kingdom and i will tell you this that the lion is king because the lion is hungry the elephant is bigger than the lion but the sheet is faster than the lion but nobody is more hungry than the lion goes any athlete actor musician philanthropist it doesn't matter you ask
anybody who is a champion and the difference between them and their opponent is they were more hungry for it if there's anything i can pour from my heart in this moment my greatest piece of advice is to protect your hunger you feel so lost you feel alone you feel ashamed you're concerned about what people are thinking about you right now you feel that you have no way out you feel that you can't go on this idea that you have of yourself makes you feel that you're not alive anymore it's like walking the earth with no
sense of knowing your truth the mistakes that you've made in your life you feel that you can't come back from it but i'm here to let you know it's just not your time yet to get to the best level in your life it's not your time yet to have that success story who says that you can't struggle a little bit who says that you can't stumble do you realize your best stories are the ones that you triumph from do you realize that the time that you're falling down and having the ability to get up is
the best time to celebrate because that's when you know there is something good about you there's something special about you there's something unique about you i'm gonna lose some battles but i'm not done i'm gonna get pushed back a few times but i'm not done this is an opportunity for me to get stronger to get better to recognize that i do have work to do because i am a work in progress and as long as i'm living i'm progressing in this world as long as you're living you are progressing in this world so struggle as
much as you need to but keep working through your struggles don't have regrets because the regrets are only going to make you feel less of who you are we are not meant to always have a good day but this is a day to celebrate breathing to celebrate life to celebrate another day to carry on the good fight and that's what we're doing ladies and gentlemen we are fighting every day of our lives so don't feel that you have to feel regrets because things are not going the way you want them to go sometimes what you
want ain't going to always be what you need we have to realize that it's just not your season and we all got a season we're all gonna live and someday physically we're gonna leave here but while you're alive just keep living your life start understanding that these things that you are dealing with are necessary because we have to go through it sometimes those things that you're trying to build up they can crumble right before you many opportunities will be given and many of them will be taken away sometimes being different can be very difficult and
that's when you got to dig in a little bit deeper in yourself that's when you got to open up your eyes and open up your heart and have an open mind that you are unique that you are special that you do make a difference that you are touching somebody's life so don't be ashamed don't have regrets [Music] just live just make life better get that down just keep getting up again because if your heart is beating you're not dead you're alive you're breathing you've got a little bit more fight in you the road to sustained
happiness is through disciplining your behavior discipline is a foundation to life don't say you can't don't say this is gonna happen don't quantify it and say well if i show up this better happen just show up and put the work in that's it get up early do some kind of workout eat good foods clean your room make a list of things that you're supposed to do in your life and then wake up in the morning and do those things that's what discipline is discipline focus practice suffering push push push and then all of a sudden
you get better and better and better so be careful that your routine is pointing to where you're trying to get to and you're not wasting time so i'm looking at warren buffett he says he reads six hours a day it's not a complicated process but it it definitely requires uh discipline it requires insulating yourself from popular opinion you just you simply cannot you can't pay attention to it it just doesn't mean anything so you got to have a goal you got to have a dream you got to get hungry and then you got to get
real disciplined because motivation will get you going a speech will get you fired up but discipline is going to give you the power to stay committed to whatever that goal is you need to make the most out of every situation which means you need to discipline your mind stop making excuses get after it where you are right now and repeat after me i am in control of my destiny find that self-discipline and stop making excuses and stop depending on other people to bail you out you've got more fighting you've got more strength in you you've
got more wisdom in you there is no time for excuses most people give up on themselves easily you know the human spirit is powerful this nothing is powerful it's hard to kill the human spirit when that alarm clock goes off at four or five in the morning your mind says no you just say this is what we do is what we do now is the disciplined desperate dangerous mentality and i don't care who you are i don't care where you come from i don't care what your story is at the end of the day you
can win if you choose to learn the things that you need to do and then you can do that i'm trying to be partying them all now it's time to create a legacy now you had your fun now get to work now build a legacy because if you're not disciplined then there is no business that can be done you want to be more disciplined get after for many times i was laughed at not believed him but it was still a kid with a dream and a belief in himself i feel i still have room to
improve i still set goals for myself to strive for i'm never complacent with what i've achieved we have money we have everything we have fame but the most important thing it's the family keep your family healthy good and take care of your family because this is the most important thing in the world failing to prepare was preparing to fail the night before a game i eat the same food i went to bed at the same time i got up i ate the same breakfast some people call it superstition but it's a routine i went on
the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope because you might be actually not feeling great physically or mentally you're drained but the confidence somehow gets you through and when you don't have confidence that's then when you have to um sort of trust all the hard work you've done and you have to keep on working hard so success comes back i make mistakes but i strive every day to be a perfectionist set yourself a definite goal and work hard toward that goal and don't let anything or anyone stop you in the process
no matter what it is i didn't really care about the standings or you know the perception of my style or whatever as long as i could keep learning these new tricks and so as i was successful in competition and and winning a lot of the events my job was to keep getting better all of you i know you got him i know you got him picked but the man's in trouble i'm gonna show you how great i am people perform better when there is no safety net people perform better in sports and everything else if
you don't have a plan b we were down 1-0 if you walked into our locker room at halftime we thought we were up 3-0 nothing external can can can defeat the internal the only thing that can take someone down and break you down is internal nothing external is strong enough you just never give up because you never know what can happen you never know who you can inspire and um who you can influence i'm not going to go out and say i'm the greatest fish for that i just i was a kid with a dream
that's it you have to fail in order to climb that ladder you are fighting the greatest fight of all times and i fought because i knew it was not doomed to be a losing fight it couldn't be a losing fight you know as long as you believe in what you're doing and you're doing things you love to do then you can go out there and be the best at it and that's uh you know that should give you a lot of enjoyment fulfillment in your life well we used to look up in the sky and
wonder at our place in the stars i want to skip the flattery and the atta boys because i do know this the sooner that we become less impressed with our life with our accomplishments with our career with whatever that prospect is in front of us the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with that and these things the sooner we get a whole lot better at doing them it's like we've forgotten who we are huh explorers pioneers now why do you pursue things that scare you why seek the role that's hard because it costs
me something because it costs it comes with a price it's not really a risk unless you lose the fight i feel more alive in them i have an experience in the making of them i'm nervous every day i come to work i hear things you can't get away with in this world and everything you can't life is not easy it is not don't try to make it that way life's not fair it never was it is it now and it won't ever be do not fall into the trap the entitlement trap of feeling like you're
a victim you are not get over it get on and yes most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get them i feel like when i nail a day and i knock and i know i did i feel like yes i i have a measure at the end of the day like you set out to do something you prepared for it you had intention and you did it that gives me gratification that makes me feel gives me significance that gives me confidence so be brave have courage and when you do you get
stronger you get more aware you get more respectful of yourself and that which you fear i want to talk about our opponent this afternoon they're bigger faster stronger more experienced and on paper they're just better and they know it too i want to tell you something that they don't know they don't know your heart what goes heading out there i feel like i was born to do and it excites me just because you can nah come on it's not a good enough reason to do something even when it means having more be discerning choose it
because you want it do it because you want to it's on you it's on you i'm a grind i'm going to fight i'm going to work i'm going to press tour i'm going to learn i'm going to do everything in my power every single day i'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim let me tell you this the wolf that is on the hill is never as hungry as the wolf that is climbing the hill and so you got to get hungry and you have to stay hungry
you have to guard your hunger i need you to develop a healthy dose of self-assurance when you feel like you can't when you want to let go when you are surrounded by doubt fear and anxiety you are going to have to pull up your resume and remember all of the things that you have made it through there is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential no excuse what do you want somebody told you to just graduate high school graduate college get a job work that job the rest of your life have kids
get married and die somebody told you that what do you believe you were destined to do and then you got to spend every single solitary day for the rest of your life going after that dream what do you have to have what is your dream and when you think there's nothing left in the tank look yourself in the eyes [Music] and say i can i will i must the nightmare is to reach our 60s our 70s our 80s or even our deathbed and to talk about everything we should have done i should have done that
i should have invested in this i should have made the relationship work i shouldn't have got a divorce we sit around and talk about all of our shoulds we talk about all the things we wanted to do but never got it done that that's the nightmare that's the nightmare that we all must avoid this is the time to establish your dream [Music] all of the pain all of the trauma everything you have experienced the turbulence you have to garner up all of that hunger i'm talking about you got to think of everything you've ever wanted
in your life and you got to put it toward that goal and there are things that you have been called to do that no one on earth has ever done the moment has come there will be obstacles that you must face at the perfect time you're gonna see elevation in your life i'm coming after everything you said i couldn't have the number one thing you have to do is make up your mind that you are no longer going to live in the pain of the past your reality of me is that i'm not quick enough
i'm not fast enough i'm not tall enough i'm not linear enough this is your reality my reality of me is that all i have is all i need and for each obstacle it will represent something about you your greatest victories your greatest failures you must rise above it and you must conquer every obstacle that comes your way anytime it got hard especially in basketball i just say hey keep going keep going keep going don't stop i will not allow worry or fear to sabotage this moment give yourself some time to off you know like don't
don't even crush yourself to the point where you can't do it make it so that you really appreciate those tuesdays and thursdays but on monday wednesday and friday you're gonna get after it and this is what you're gonna do sometimes your timeline is off true success true greatness takes time because when you let something takes time then you can handle it imagination encircles the world fantasy is not nothing people who dream and those people who dream big have a different kind of life than the people who don't drink i have too much to accomplish to
be satisfied with where i am right now i have too much on the line i have too many people depending on me to win i must stay hungry the what the relentless system does it's a mindset before you have an exceptional skill set okay you have to have the right mindset the fighter jet mentality is that someone who is just determined relentlessly obsessed in achieving an outcome in the face of all adversity i've always had this relentless mentality and if you say i can't do something if i fail if i you know mess up it
just motivates me even more i just become even more hungry you've got to start with that belief in your mind i've got this i can do this i can conquer this the relentless are unstoppable i didn't want to have to say i wish i would have done more you got to put yourself in that cage [Music] i switched my mind to something else i switched my mode into something else it's go time but the difference between me and most people is you might be sweeter than me you might be bigger than me you like brian
listen to me i don't know you might have money i don't know where you come from but you will not outwork me when i'm in that cage bro don't touch me don't talk to me all in emotionally and executionally in theory and strategy and an execution if you want something you have got to be relentless when you're sitting there you're trying to sell your product you're making phone calls you're giving a lecture what whatever it may be you're driving a bus you're a doctor whatever it may be the stronger your mindset is the greater your
skill set is going to be make a declaration to yourself declare all-out war it doesn't matter about what happens to you what matters is what are you going to do about it they start their school on monday morning watching me they ain't got a daddy they're daddy in jail they don't have a brother their brother's in jail they all i got you don't understand my son's at michigan state and i paid for a cat my daughter wants to go to harvard you don't get it my sister just had a baby and she ain't making no
money at games all i got is a hate game i ain't got a b game i ain't got to see gay when i finish people are relying on me some of y'all when you get on the field you forgot what it was like when you was hustling in high school playing ball when you were in college hustling to get to this point if you want something you've got to be relentless you've got to decide i deserve this and i'm going to have it and you go all out to get it [Applause] in the day we're
all gonna struggle i struggle but i didn't quit and that's what i encourage a lot of people to do just don't quit just just don't give up that's what i would say people are gonna judge you they're going to misunderstand you they're going to gossip about you but they're i encourage people to really be strong-willed to to know that their opinions don't matter their opinions are not your problem some people are able to really uh rise above and beyond their circumstances and there are some people that can't handle it but that doesn't mean that they
can't be great they just have to approach it and deal with it the way that they feel uh needed [Music] no matter what is said or done do not doubt your worth there's 200 people or 150 people that start the class there's a hundred helmets of people that quit grown men whose dream it was to be a seal that get there that did all this physical training and all this preparation and sign that dotted line and committed to six years and they show up there and they get to that training and they ring that bell
no one knows who's going to make it through that program the only way to know what's in the core of a human being is to rip that thing apart and see what's in there and until you rip it apart and see what's in there you don't know what does it take to not ring the bell don't quit [Music] people always ask me what should i concentrate on to what's what's your advice for me going to buds don't quit don't quit like train hard don't quit [Music] there are going to be times that you're going to
just struggle and you're going to be tired you're going to be weary you're going to want to quit you ain't going to have nothing left but you still got to carry on live your life ladies and gentlemen [Music] be excited about life regardless of the struggles regardless of the circumstances get excited about being above ground and not under it walk with your head up high and live your life how many of you have been in a competition where you pushed yourself and you worked so hard and you pushed everything you had within you and then
you got so close to the finish line your legs gave up you didn't have nothing else left in your legs you couldn't run a little bit further you couldn't pedal that bike a little bit faster because you had nothing else left that's when the grinder must come out that's when you got to dig a little bit deeper that's when you got to go out there a little bit harder than you've ever done in your life see you always find yourself starting off on the right path you start off you're feeling good you're running you're doing
everything that you need to do but it starts to get harder things start to push it back life starts to push you back people start to push it back everything around you starts to crumble [Music] you have nothing else left to give but then you got to find something else you got to turn on that grind switch you got to get down and dirty and nasty if you got to you got to do it necessarily it's going to take for you to get what you want and you got to go out there with everything you
got for every moment that you have this is the chance to do it just keep on grinding [Music] i want you to take a long hard look at the people you surround yourself with you can't expect to become a millionaire when you're hanging out with drug addicts you cannot expect to become the absolute highest level version of yourself if you surround yourself with people that never want to see you do better than them wake the [ __ ] up the goals that you want to achieve in your life are your goals and nobody else's hundreds
of people give up on their goals on a daily basis and it's usually because they realized quickly after starting their journeys that they're alone nobody's waking them up in the morning [Music] nobody's pushing them when they start to make excuses and nobody's patting them on the back when they hit a milestone so whatever you want to achieve in life maybe it's losing a certain amount of weight to become the best version of yourself maybe it's building a business to provide financial freedom for your family and to travel the world or maybe it's just being a
better father mother or partner for your spouse whatever it is it's all on you and the quicker you realize that nobody's going to come and hold your [ __ ] hand through life through this journey the faster you will start to see success stop relying on outside sources of inspiration motivation and support to get you there put your goddamn head down and take charge your [ __ ] life and this is going to mess with your head but sometimes this means you need to let go of the people that you think are your closest friends
this means you might have to let go of the people that are the closest family members to you you might have to let go of your mom or your dad or your brothers or your sisters or that best friend you've had since first grade they might not be bad people but you need to understand that some people just aren't meant to be in your life long term they're not meant to help you get to the highest level of yourself if every time you go to better yourself somebody hits you with a line like why would
you want to do that you need to find another social circle [Music] you need to make a shift and surround yourself with people that challenge you to grow you gotta surround yourself with lions you gotta surround yourself with [ __ ] wolves with people that are gonna push you to be the absolute best [ __ ] version of yourself that people are gonna push you to your absolute [ __ ] breaking point because you can only grow when you're uncomfortable i don't know about you but i would much rather be a unique [ __ ]
wolf in a field full of sheep than a sheep blending in with the others if you hang around sharks long enough it will transform your mindset and i promise you you will be like a shark you would think like a shark and you can't go backwards and if you stop swimming you will die and don't you ever forget that the rest of your life don't you ever stop moving don't you ever go backwards [Music] i know what it feels like to sit on a bench i know what it feels like to get knocked down i
know what it feels like to have a hope and a dream and nobody believes in it i wish i didn't quit i wish i acted better i wish i didn't get kicked out of school i wish i didn't give up on my kid i wish i wish i wish that is regret there's still time what are you working on right now cause sometimes in life all you got is that one thing god gave you one thing to do that's all you got is that one thing i know life will duck you down i know life
can be tough but you are on a journey you know my dad would say go get it son go get it be sweet baby go get it go get it be sweet baby go get it go get it be sweet be sweet baby go get it go get it be sweet be sweet baby every time i left the house my mom would say be sweet baby be sweet my dad would say go get it son go get it go get it son go get it be sweet go get it be sweet go get it be
sweet go get it be sweet you got to be ready to fight and bounce back punch and counter punch jab and jab back let me tell you something life is a series of fights the worst thing you can do is run away from your fights in order for you to rise up you better take your game to the next level your mindset needs to go to the next level your information needs to go to the next level your relationships need to go to the next level to be a shock is about how you move how
you operate how you navigate you have to be disciplined every single day and train yourself to follow through on all your fundamentals and that's how you're going to be successful you have to do it when you don't feel like it you have to do it when you feel discouraged you have to do it when you don't feel healthy you have to do it when you're under the weather every single day you have to train yourself to focus and commit to your business and follow through fighting for your future fighting for your dreams fighting for success
when you come over depression you raise your arms like a champ when you overcome bankruptcy raise your arms and victory don't you ever lose hope don't you ever give up your mindset sharks are powerful creatures you got to think different you got to be different if you want to be at the top of your food chain [Music] so how does the lion become the king of the jungle his mentality you have heard it said that lions are the king of the jungle but have you ever stopped and asked yourself why how can he be the
king of the jungle if he's not the biggest the elephant is probably one of the biggest he can't be the fastest because that's a cheater he can't be the smartest so he's not the biggest the fastest or the smartest so how does the lion become the king of the jungle what separates the lion from the rest of the animals that crowns him as the king of the his jungle that's the only difference of a lion an elephant it's the way a lion thinks when a lion walks up and sees an elephant he thinks much however
some things run the animal kingdom respects the lion more than any other animal in the jungle you see lions hunt during storms and they do most of their hunting at night they hunt during storms because the noise and the wind makes it hard for prey to see and hear them that's the lion's mentality and it's all mentality lions walk around fearlessly and they are in charge of their own destiny i'm going to need you to tap into your lying mentality and conquer your territory you do not have to be the biggest you do not have
to be the smartest you do not have to be the fastest but you must adopt the mindset of a lion have the love for your breath have the love with every rep that you push out it is up to you to get the most of everything that you worked so hard for what is the lion's mentality fearless courage bravery leadership never willing to surrender and will fight unto death do you have a lion's mentality are you prepared to work are you prepared again you got the fight you got the push you got to give everything
you have all you need is the power the strength and the tenacity to give it everything you got maybe you're just buried in debt bills maybe you need to stand up for something you love or believe in that others don't understand don't stop do not give up do not give in be courageous be fearless and going after what it is you want to manifest in your life maybe you have tried time and time again and nothing has worked maybe you have become discouraged because you have been on the hunt for your goals for years with
no rewards let me share something with you lions only hurt two hours a day and speak the other 16 to 20 hours a lion knows within those two hours they have to give it everything that they have and everyone better get out of their way because they're going to destroy anything in their path you must keep hunting you must keep fighting i choose to live by choice and not by chance i choose to make changes and not excuses i choose motivation over manipulation i choose to excel and not compete i choose self-esteem over self-pity i
choose to listen to the voice from within versus the voices from without i choose to fulfill my destiny i choose to get the job done i choose to finish what i started no fear no hesitation no surprise no doubt free yourself from the debilitating disease of fear it has manipulated you long enough it has tranquilized your faith the fear of inadequacy the fear of uncertainty the fear of failure the fear of not finishing the fear of rejection the fear of missing out the fear of change the fear of losing control the fear of being judged
the fear of not being liked the fear of something bad or traumatic happening fear of getting hurt many of these fears have left us in a state of paralysis unable to move forward unable to achieve the time is now once you conquer fear with faith and love there will be no hesitation there will be no surprises and there will be no doubt in the face of adversity you will be certain that in the end you will they think i'm crazy they think i'm out of my mind they think i'm just a dreamer they've always underestimated
me see they think i'm beaten they think they've broken my spirit they said ain't no way he's gonna get up off the mat this time he's done they expect me to quit they expect me to give up they're waiting on me to wave that white flag they think i'm all defeated they can't wait to laugh in my demise they can't wait to see me fall they never believed in my dream yeah they thought those death threats would scare me [Laughter] i'm immortal haters tend to write their history in pencil this way if you ever blow
up they can erase their actions and pretend that they supported you all alone but that ain't gonna work with me cause i remember what you did how the spirit of jezebel got in you to try to break me you were too stupid to see that the enemy was using you as you crushed me into a million pieces i just got stronger trials and tribulations are just chaotic voids begging to be penetrated by the power of the mind the stumbling block of man is his ignorance as to where god's power truly resides he looks externally for
the keys to his freedom not knowing that the means to his liberation is already within him one must die to the knowledge of limitations in order to rise above it i am immortal a million times you have tried to discourage me and rape me with your small mind i die to the silly ways of your conformity and i have learned to thrive in the midst of chaos who cares anymore about your little opinion it's what's in me that's going to make me not take me to the river of enlightenment cast your indictments as the water
acquits me i am immortal why do you look to the sky for what's already in your heart david's guard is living within you the ancient scriptures are the key to liberation but reading them with mortal eyes has caused you to make a prison of them begging confused with prayer gibberish souled as faith citizens of the world all synchronizing in chaos is daddy sits there on the throne of silence what hurt me then shall pay me now what broke me then shall make me now each failed relationship has the power to make a legend like alchemists
who turn heartache into literary gold common souls wear a mask no tolerance for pain but the insane fearlessly pursuit of love the genius residing in the creative makes him immortal invincible are the poets whose truth are eternal first name legend last name immortal doubters can't stop a person who trusts god with the sky when you start playing the game of life timid and start believing god will put a kind of wind under your wings that i have you looking down on the haters it's hard for those born in the dark to believe that there is
such a thing as day but for those who dare to dream the sun will rise in the morning i say for those who dare to dream the sun will rise in the morning let us all burn with the knowledge of immortality as the flame burns that shall not see the mind of the blind the stomach of worms shall stall forever her hands of age shall not touch the oblivious those dancing idiots shall sing to infinity whoever dare look into the mirror of eternity their mortality shall alone be forgotten in the arms of days i am
immortal greatness requires being bold enough to do something that doesn't make sense to the rest of the world only those brave enough to be misunderstood earn the right to be called legends there's a reason that kings don't talk too long to peasants because if they do the peasants start believing that they too are royalty you saw my kindness as a weakness you thought because i granted you access that you weren't equal with me but only hungry eyes can see the beauty of wisdom only thirsty ears can hear the voice of truth only the tired heart
can digest understanding only the weak soul can swallow revelation champions turn every mistake defeat and failure into a testimony i'm immortal i am the voice for those who have none i am the light for those born in the dark i protect the power for all the souls out there who are weak i am the fire for those who are lukewarm i am the passion for those who have yet to find theirs i am the climb for those who have no stairs i represent all the hurting souls who were told they would never be nothing i
am immortal or diversity dr billy owls brooks and i am blessed and unstoppable somebody out there needs to hit us right now don't let anybody tell you that you can't live your dream televised troop music impact one billion people this is motivational art i am immortal welcome to the and louvre god be the glory to those who by patience and well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality he will give eternal life romans 2 7 true desire in the heart that it's that you have to be whatever it is you want to be that
is that desire for good is god's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours you already have it claim it a disciplined desire whether one can curb it is a deeper question altogether which is what do you desire [Music] what makes you itch what sort of a situation would you like most people allow their fear of failure to outweigh their desire to succeed if you have this burning desire inside of you and you'll know what that feels like if you have it you just need to go full force block out all the negativity
and everything else that is around you telling you that you can't do it what do you believe you've been destined to do what talents skills giftings and abilities do you possess to support your desire to do it you could literally go accomplish anything in your life if you have this extraordinary desire to achieve them [Music] here's something i do know sometimes desire waits for a trigger waits for something to happen who knows what the happening may be a song the lyrics a movie the dialogue a seminar a sermon a book an experience confrontation with an
enemy whatever the experience it is so valuable you have to electrify the desire that you have only you know what you want listen to me only you know what you're capable of doing only you know what you dream about only you know what the next level is for you if you want to be what you want to be have what you want to have do what you want to do man you got to have a desire you against you i'll let you know that you got to make the opportunity happen you got to be fired
up you got to be hungry for it you got to have the desire to push yourself it comes from not talking about i want it it comes from having this desire knowing that i got an opportunity every day i wake up every day i wake up i got a chance to make my dreams become reality if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time you'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living that is to go on doing things
you don't like doing which is stupid better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] you