𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝟐.𝟎

and my personal question to you is why not you you eventually you are going to have to jump you cannot just exist in this life you have got to try to live if you are waking up thinking that it's got to be more to your life than it is man believe that it is believe in your heart of hearts that it is but to get to that life you going to have to jump you've got the brains you can make decisions you can study the plan you can change your life you can grow immensely in

the next few years you can make your dreams come true you can build a financial wall around your family nothing can get through you can become healthy you can become powerful why not you why not you be the one to make it to start that business to do the impossible to do what people don't even think that anybody could do why can't it be you how do you if you can see it here and you have the courage enough to speak it it will happen so intentionally act like the person you want to become because

when you intentionally act like the person you want to become your brain sees you taking those actions so your brain starts to change the way it relates to you when your brain sees you high-fiving yourself in the mirror it starts to go oh wait a minute Steven loves himself Steven's cheering for himself we don't beat Steven up you need to just keep living listen to the pain it's both history teacher and fortune teller pain teaches us who we are we times is so bad we feel like we're dying but we can't really live till we

died a little camp there's no worldly possessions that should come between you and your expression human beings we a blip in existence death is Promised there's a quote that I've fallen in love with the magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding dud the magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding it a lot of times people believe in certain things but they keep to themselves they don't put it out there if you truly believe in it if you become vocal with it you are creating that law of attraction

and it will become reality the more I listen to this the better my life gets if they don't have what you want don't listen to what they say there's no greater waste of time than justifying your actions to people who have a life you don't want it's the what if I can pull off a miracle what if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be and just that just me talking about that I have the hair gr up on my arms cuz it makes me just like what if I can be that

guy that people who called and this and that and now I'm speaking at Tom Fair's event why not you why not you with good self-esteem why not you starting to change and setting goals why not you starting to make progress toward Financial Independence uh if I can do it you can do it if there is something that you feel is good something you want to do something that means something to you try to do it because I think you can only do your best work if you're doing what you want to do and if you're

doing it the way you think it should be done and if you can take pride in it if have done it no matter what it is in life folks you cannot change your life unless you change something if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got no matter what it is many times you say to yourself I got to lose weight I got to lose weight I'm too fat and then you know what during the day you eat you eat at night and the next day you get mad at

yourself well what do you want what do you want you got to change something I truly believe we are all equal as human beings if we are obsessed with something and we truly pursue our passion with everything we have regardless of any anything else if you are obsessed work hard and put in the time you will succeed and don't be afraid to fail big to dream big but remember dreams without goals are just dreams the real pain in life is getting to the end of it and realizing that you left something on the table I

think that I had unfulfilled potential I could have done more and I and I didn't right if you want to be great you want to be bad ever at what you do you going be misunderstood by everybody because you're going to be so obsessed and so driven to get there that's what it takes that's the truth takes every second of your life anybody says balance yeah balance is important for a lot of people it is but if you want to go to that edge where people do not like you don't understand you question everything you

do you you've arrived when you are misunderstood to the point where people think you're psycho and you're nuts and you're this and that why are you in the gym at 1:00 in the morning you got through doing an OP for 13 14 hours at the Ranger school man at the gym what's wrong you will never understand what is wrong with me do you know actually want to do this or not do you actually want to do this or not cuz if you actually want to do it what's going to stop you nothing and if you

don't really want to do it what's going to stop you just about anything that comes up if you have an idea that you genuinely think is good don't let some idiot talk you out of it it's time to stay focused it's time to decide clubs partying trying to fit in and socialize rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird why are you so antisocial because I'm trying to get it why are you staying on the basketball court so much because I'm trying to get it why are you out there practicing in the

hot sun when ain't nobody else out there because I'm trying to get it why are you not clubbing like every time I text you and invite you to go do something fun and cool you always studying because I'm trying to get it it's more socially acceptable to be our own biggest critic than it is to be our own biggest cheerleader why we all ask why we should work this hard why take that many classes why go to school that many years you know why take the notes why read the books why work that hard why

put yourself through the push-ups and the disciplines why good question why best answer to why I think is the second question why not why not see how many books you can read how many classes you can take how many skills you can develop why not see how valuable you can become to the marketplace to your friends and to your family why not see what you can make of yourself why not see how far you can go how much you can see how much you can earn how much you can share why not that's the Heritage

all of us have in America especially is to see what we can make out of our lives lives now that we've been given this extraordinary opportunity let me tell you something homie these women ain't going nowhere these clubs these parties all this going nowhere the more weird you are is a reflection of how committed you are to focusing on your molding and shaping and developing your ideas and your crab so that when it's time for you to make your rounds you going to fly if you want to become successful in life young man he said

number one you got to change your mindset he said you don't get in life what you want you get in life what you are you're not afraid of failing you're afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail but if you're afraid of that imagine what they think of you when you aren't even trying oh yeah they aren't the quote goes like this one day or day one greatness is something that truly exists in all of us it's very simple this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it period

then I'll tell you what changed my whole life when I finally discovered it's all risky the minute you were born it got risky if you think trying is risky wait till they hand you the bill for not trying if you think investing is risky wait till you get the tab for not investing see it's all risky getting married is risky having children is risky going into business is risky investing your money is risky it's all risky I'll tell you how risky life is you're not going to get out alive the first step before anybody else

in the world believes it is you have to believe it there's no reason to have a plan B cuz it distracts from plan a starting tomorrow what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's Direction good question what are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference now see if you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference guess what it's going to be the same and see that way you can guess what the next five years are going to be like look at the last five cuz the

next five are going to be like the last five unless you major key tomorrow change it all or change a little little or change something or don't change it's Choice time you can do whatever you want but it's nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life stop complaining about the results you didn't get from the work you didn't put in the only way to become more successful than most people is to be willing to do something most people aren't willing to do so I want to ask you a question what

are you afraid of what are you scared of because we all have fears don't we we all have something that's blocking us that's holding us back and as we begin to look at life what we realize is that the reason that most people are not living out their true potential and not doing all of the things that they would really like to do is because of fear the big question is what am I becoming here because true happiness is not contained in what you get happiness is contained in what you become here's the big challenge

of life you can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are that's the challenge and of course the other side of the coin reads unless you change how you are you'll always have what you got I don't you ever tell me there's something that you can't do the heaviest things in life aren't iron and gold but unmade decisions the reason you are stressed is that you have decisions to make and you're not making them I think that there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have you have

to believe that something different can happen confucious said he who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right if you fake bravery when you're terrified that is bravery and I kind of feel like motivation is the same thing if you do the thing when you're feeling unmotivated that is motivation that's it being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity why would you be realistic sometimes life can really hijack your mind when that happens to you you're all up your goals your Ambitions everything is out the window in life

we all go through different things sometimes your girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with guess what get the over it they no longer want you maybe you fell a test in school you worked your ass off guess what you fa the test get over it move past it learn to not let life hijack your brain at work you've been working off for that new promotion you don't get it someone else does maybe they kiss better than you do guess what get over it life will hijack your mind if you let it don't allow all these things

to make you a lesser person you must own your mind don't let life own yours do you love this game I mean love it with your whole heart because if you don't let's not even bother let's not open that door they're just going to slam it right in our face I love this game I live this game and there's a thousand other guys waiting in the wings who are obsessed with this game obsession is going to be Talent every time you got all the in the world but are you obsessed is it all you ever

think about let's face it it's you against you out there when you walk on that Court you have to think I am the best guy out there you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 Mi down the road but you can do anything you want you are bound by nothing you know when you're on the way up everyone roots for you because you remind them of their dreams and when you're at the top everyone to tear you down because you remind them of what they gave up

on the the unfulfilled potential is the story of most people's lives it is it is and it could have been the story of mine and I tell a lot of people people go what's your biggest fear in life and my biggest fear honestly was let's say this let's say uh I don't care if you believe in God or not I don't care so this let's just play a game with me let's say let's say you're God and we have a big long line of people and I made to Heaven 75 years old I'm 300 lb

I made to Heaven I worked for eolab my entire life spraying for cockroaches that's what I did but I'm dead I'm in heaven now and you are at you're you're judging us all now so we're in line we're all sitting there in line you have Adam Brown he has a big board up and you're talking to Adam Brown about his life and you rip it down and I'm next in line David goggin I see my name and I see all this God goes heyy you say read this man now I'm reading this list and I'm

seeing 182 lb Navy SEAL Ranger school motivational speaker changing lives okay man pullup record all this and I'm like that's not me man and God looks at me and says that's who you were supposed to be let me tell you about a voice not this voice but the one inside the one that wish Whispers it tells me what's right and what's not when to leave and where to go it's not Shakespeare it does not speak in memorable lines my inner voice always gives it to me straight tells me who my real friends are when to

say yes when to say no whether the person sitting next to me is the one I'll be spending the rest of my life with or not sometimes that voice is Crystal Clear go stay right wrong sometimes it merely Whispers don't let it drown in a noisy world because in the end no man woman or algorithm knows what's right for you always trust your inner voice everybody has one few listen to it the fear is never Reaching Your Potential that's it that always falling short always quitting before you're done always procrastinating always not doing the right

thing and then one day you're an old man yep and you look back and go God I could have been great yep I could have been great bottom line is no one's coming no one no one's coming to push you no one's coming to tell you to turn the TV off no one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise nobody's coming coming to tell you to apply for that job that you've always dreamt about nobody's coming to write the business plan for you it's up to you and because you're only ever

going to do the things that you feel like doing right now or that feel good right now unless you understand that you've got to parent yourself you got to push yourself you're not going to make your dreams come true you're just not we're not wired that way you weren't born that way you weren't that way when you were growing up and you're certainly not that way as an adult you are responsible for your life and if you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you to fix you to even help you you are wasting your

time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward what matters is now this moment and your willingness to see this moment for what it is accept it forgive the past take responsibility and move forward so then my question was if it isn't going to change how will my life ever change when you change everything will change for you when you get better everything will get better for you got to run 120 M week 2,000 pullups 4,000 push-ups and hundreds of reps at the gym you're not afraid of having the

part you're afraid of effort when I was in the military we going these instructure Le runs most of the time we knew the start and end point so on the way back I start seeing people getting happy and because the end was near but there were some instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point when that happened everybody stopped talking heads will stop dropping and I start taking Souls at that time I knew what happened in their minds they were living off the Hope Factor they hoped the instructors would

stop running they hoped the water was never cold they hoped the weather was good I don't live off that whole I wish the water was cold I wish the [ __ ] instructors keep on running I wish for rain when the endian is unknown and the consistence is unknown that's when you know who the you are consistency doesn't guarantee that you're going to be successful but not being consistent will guarantee that you're not successful hey shush shush listen up I want to say something people Earth I need to say something listen to me I hope

every one of you behind your screens on this Arena can feel this level of Happiness just one time in your life I hope all of you can feel how happy I am just one time in your life but guess what you never feel this level of Happiness if you don't go for something in your own life when they knock you down when they try on you when they talk about you and they try to put their foot on your neck if you stay down you will never ever get that resolve fortify your mind and feel

this level of Happiness as you rise one time in your life but I'm blessed to be able to feel the again and again and again again and again and again how bad do you want this if it's as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep whatever the hell it may be I can work with you but a lot of people most people don't want it that badly which why they always ask the question man how you get to where you are you know how to do it you know exactly how to be

you or how to be me you don't want to do it so I can't make you do it and nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it there's no luck in this game it may be a little bit of luck but the luck happens after you bust your and you put yourself in that lucky situation luck doesn't happen you put yourself in that situation where luck might [ __ ] happen know so through all these things in life man to

to to be your best person you have to find your best self and and to do that you can't stay in the world like when you're running I know you hate running but you do it you do it very well is it something you tell yourself in your head and it's kind of like a mantra that you keep telling yourself you had to keep doing it well some I tell myself daily so I make sure I do at least one thing every day that sucks it could be for an hour it could be for 2

hours sometimes it's for 10 hours but every day I do something to strengthen the mind we're all looking for this great mythical mental toughness mental toughness doesn't come from sitting on a couch it doesn't come from wishing it were come true it comes from putting in the work and you have to start developing your mindset mindset is not developed by wishing mindset is developed by doing and actually putting into practice the Mind wants to have control over you you need to have control over your own mind so that's all about the mental health your mind

is going to always guide you in a spot that wants to make you feel comfortable and nice and secure and it's in those spots that there's no growth without friction there's no growth judge yourself against no one but yourself there is no there you're you're racing against no one but yourself and when you continuously think that you're when you compare yourself to other people you are losing the race and like this race is Jew against you man so don't get caught up in all this out here of the social media and this is where I'm

at and this is who I'm doing this is how great I am leave all that behind man worry about yourself worry about what doing and worry about where you're going and only where you're going to be your best self you can't wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life cuz i' I've been that's what I've done my whole life has been like that inside of me it has been as soon as it's all lined up I'm going to show you myself as soon as I've got it all looking the way I want

I'm going to show up for you I'm never going to get to that where everything's okay where everything looks a certain way and in the meantime I'm burning the best time I do have available I'm burning that candle up I'm burning this candle down and I'm saying as soon as it gets brighter enough or warm enough in here I'mma show up but the candle's getting smaller your biggest enemy is you my whole book is about you battling yourself people don't understand is you against you the only person that gets in your way is you nobody

else it's you look I love to sugarcoat this thing for you I love to tell you look you can go out here and get rich do a couple things a ain't happening you got to get real doggish you got to get downright funky if you want to make it when you had that third failure in a row did you think I need to pack this in never why not I don't ever give up I mean I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless unless you take risks

nothing to all of you watching here come close to the screen and [Music] listen people don't have to like you people don't have to love you they don't even have to respect you but when you look in the mirror you better love what you see you better love what you see I fail to be at the Pinnacle of any game and any whatever you do you've got to be a little bit gone to it you're not all there you've got to be almost insane to your craft not a lot of people can understand that that's

why I don't know about nothing else I do not pay attention to nothing else now like I was telling you before if you want to be ordinary you ain't even got to listen to me just go on about your business if you think ordinary is cool ain't no problem it's some really really wonderful Ordinary People but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordin aspirations then you going to have to do extra you put extra on top of ordinary and you come up with extraordinary you have to decide if you are willing

to do the things to put you in that category rich people don't sleep 8 hours a day that's a third of your life it a 24 hours in a day you cannot be sleep 8 hours a day you can't live in LA late and wake up at 8:00 in the morning it's 11:00 on the East Coast the stock market been open 2 hours they already making decisions about your life and your ass will sleep when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your your life is

just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much uh uh try to have a nice family life have fun save a little money but life that's a very limited life life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it you can influence it you can you can build your own things that other people can use the minute that you understand that you

can poke life and actually something will you know if you push in something will pop out the other side that you can you can change it you can mold it Nelson Mandela said there is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living is that when it feels scary to jump Ian that is exactly when you jump otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life and that I can do I'm going to have setbacks I know but if I'm feeling

bad that doesn't mean I'm doing bad that doesn't mean I am bad that doesn't mean that I can't still take some action because yeah nothing changes and nothing changes man take yourself out your comfort zone do not live in your bubble put some more air in your bubble if you stay in your comfort zone that's where you will fail you will fail in your comfort zone success is not a comfortable procedure it is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt so you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful I don't

want to live in a hole anymore it makes me feel poor we are poor but we're happy come see comea anyway the views are better above ground honey I'm seven nonf Fox years old now my father died at 7 and A2 I don't want to live in a hole anymore and I'm going to do something about it some people's attractive and they go I want to do that too like you seem pretty happy despite all the stress you're under like how are you doing that and I'll tell people that cuz I create my own and

my own is way harder than whatever I'm facing in the world and that's how I mitigate the stress of success and pressure and criticism and all that stuff like I do to myself way worse than they're ever going to do to me so that's that's how I mitigate it also I calm my body I calm my body through I calm my mind through calming my body and I calm my body through work I make it work and I I make myself do things that are very uncomfortable that I don't want to do and by doing

that I develop this strength and perseverance and some people hear that like I don't even want to do that I take a [ __ ] nap you're exhausting me like I'm not you I don't want to do that and they just like it takes them away from that and I'm like you don't even have to do that just go for a [ __ ] walk every day it sounds like it's easy to do but there's going to when that walk comes when look your clock oh it's 8:00 time to go for that walk you're like

I don't want to walk I just about to play video games I don't want to walk I'd rather like read emails I I don't want to walk I'd rather like scroll through Tik Tok but if you just force yourself to go for that [ __ ] walk every day you will develop mental pers perseverance you will develop some tenacity you'll develop the ability to force yourself into work it doesn't have to be grueling just has to be a thing that you have to do or it's it's when you get fired from your fifth job you

know and your wife and kids are on your ass cuz they don't have support anymore there comes a [ __ ] day where push comes a sh but being mediocre being like average and [ __ ] just [ __ ] Burns and sucks so much you can't deal with it one more day and you get off your [ __ ] ass and you create something it's always been there it's always been inside of you trying to come out but you've never wanted to unwrap it because it's too much [ __ ] pain and commitment you

were scared you're going to fail you're scared if you started you never finish it you didn't want to tell anyone about it you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it until something [ __ ] hits you get fired or somebody else gets success remind you what you could have been and then the [ __ ] spark is born and no matter what happens I'm never going to be in this boat again and you get up and you go even gets knocked down you just keep going keep going you're a wild

man and life has never been so sweet that can happen at an early age it can happen at a later age it's going to happen to somebody every you know no matter what it's going to happen to you and when it does happen to you than you're lucky stars that finally you're alive it's time to unrath to the potential you can be superior man it's within you it's within every single one of us and the people that that have have risen to that level were no different than any one of us it's just they believed

it and they're willing to work their ass off to get [Music] it it wasn't about the potential it wasn't about the genetics it was about the perseverance and it was about being the hardest [ __ ] worker in the room do you ever have a day where you just think I can't be asked to do anything I'm not going for a run I'm not stretching I'm doing nothing every day yeah so you have the thought but you don't have the day every day you ever let yourself have a day when you just watch Netflix never

because Netflix I'm haunted no I can't do it I can't do it there may be some days I get up with poopy pants and I'm like you know what man [ __ ] this man like what am I training for yeah I have no face in the docket why am I having this this such a structured life why and I'm like you know what I'm good I'm done I retire every day yeah I'm done with it and I sit around I say okay and then this is my thought process so you want to be normal

so you just want to be like everybody else that roams the world not knowing the power that's in them being fine with being mediocre you want to go back to who you were huh David like yeah man I and you have that conversation with yourself every day not every day it's those bad days it's those bad days I see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are now I'm talking about Talent like some god-given ability talent that sometimes you have to hone you have to work

on you have to harness yourself and they just walk around just on their phones just clueless to how powerful they are n said I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible the fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it that's exactly what makes it worth pursuing where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk the only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges you're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a

bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts but I never forgive I'm living like there's no tomorrow because there isn't one sometimes you can try so hard at something sometimes you can be so so prepared and still fail and with every time you fail it's painful causes sadness and especially as I saw last night it causes disappointment I've often said a man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory by but but by what he does when his back is against the wall so no matter how great the [Music]

setback how severe the failure you never give up you never give up you pick yourself up you brush yourself off you push forward you move on you adapt you overcome that is what I believe but I'm not talking to them I'm talking to those people who still [Music] believe tonight I speak to those who still proudly stand in my corner you have not given up on me and I will not give up on you n said I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible the fact that something

seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it that's exactly what makes it worth pursuing where with the courage in greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk the only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges if you don't change what you're doing and how you do it nothing else will change your biggest enemy is you my whole book is about you battling yourself people don't understand is you against you the only person that gets in your way is you nobody else it's you here's the big challenge of life you

can have more than you've got because you can become more than you [Music] are that's the challenge and of course the other side of the coin reads unless you change how you are you'll always have what you got most people don't want it that badly which why they always ask the question man how did you get to where you are you know how to do it you know exactly how to be you or how to be me you don't want to do it so I can't make you do it nor do I have the time

or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it there's no luck in this game it may be a little bit of luck but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation luck doesn't happen you put yourself in that situation where luck might happen would I be able to do it would I you don't know until you say yeah I'm going to you know what I'm going to take action nothing changes if nothing changes man and I'm not preaching at

you I'm just I just want to remind you cuz you know I've spent a lot of time in my life sitting around wanting things to change um and not being able to make make them change and and not thinking I could and I wish somebody had told me that earlier sometimes that in order for something to change there needs to be change it's you against you you against you and if you misunderstand that give a real problem real problem I can understand you misunderstand me running down the street shirt off this no yeah I can

I can get it I get it if you misunderstand what I'm saying right now today problem is you and you don't want to fix it here's how to get older without getting better keep relearning the same lesson if you keep making the same mistake over and over the mistake isn't the problem you are there was no passion no drive no nothing but I had this fire that I'm going to be somebody and it has to be there because on all those bad days and all those days you don't want to do you have to to

be your own motivator your own coach your own your own trainer your own everything and what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday but you come to work be like man you just lost everything how the hell are you this [ __ ] damn motivated cuz this is what it takes it's not about the shoes it's about knowing where you're going not forgetting where you started it's about having the courage to fail not breaking when you're broken laziness is something that has to do with you you're not connected to something deep enough you

don't feel the necessity you don't feel the devil at your heels you don't feel the fact that you could very well die tomorrow that will impel you to get something done there's no necessity behind it and the human animal the way we were created is when we feel pressure we feel the necessity to get things done we can move mountains but when that pressure like almost like a barometric pressure releases and we don't feel the need to get something done we could become incredibly lazy because there's no necessity so you have to create necessity in

your life you have to create the need to get things done why do that much why go that far Why Try to become everything that's a good question why and you're the only one personally that can answer that question for yourself one of the big thrusts for success is to come up with a strong enough why if the why is powerful the how is easy if the vision isn't clear the old Prophet said without a vision we die without a vision we perish without a dream we're nothing most people the bottom 80% are lazy they're

looking for an easy way they're looking for a short cut to be successful and there are not there aren't any but if you do something repeatedly over and over you develop a habit so most people are in the habit of looking for easy ways to get the things they want it's almost like you have to have the ability to go to the deep end no matter whether or not you'll ever go there right yes and some people are like well I'm never going to go to the deep end mhm but you should be able to

yes what are you going to give up what are you going to sacrifice what are you willing to forgo if you're struggling if you're frustrated with yourself if you're at that point where you're so sick of yourself and your excuses I've been there Steven's been there this is a normal part of the human experience and at some point either the pain is going to get big enough or you're going to bump into somebody's story somewhere on this planet who has been in the position that you're in right now facing the stuff that you're facing right

now and there is something about their story at this exact moment in time that will ignite something in you that is missing and what is missing in you right now is Hope Here's To The Crazy Ones The Misfits the Rebels the troublemakers the round pegs in the square holes the ones who see things differently they're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo you can quote them disagree with them glorify or vilify them about the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things they push the human

race forward while some may see them as The Crazy Ones we see genius because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do playing out the fear Leela says this and I love it but that fear is a mile wide and an inch deep and so it looks like this ocean that you're going to step into and drown but as soon as you step into it you realize it was not that deep at all and you can keep walking through it and um I just love that

visual because a lot of times when it's like we have this anxiety around this big decision we have to make if you actually take the step and realize that it's not death you're not going to drown immediately there's plenty of other steps you can take from there even if you get a little wet you have to be open-minded to the possibilities that I can do this once you shut your mind down to the possibility that it can be achieved there's no way can happen is there advice you can give to young kids that are living

through a situation of any sort a tough life try to find a thing that you really enjoy try to find a thing that you're passionate about everybody thinks they're a loser every young person thinks they're loser loser at Le at least a young person in the situation I was at like I didn't know I wasn't a loser until I started winning till I started doing martial arts martial arts taught me that like I could get better at stuff that it wasn't I wasn't really a loser I want to maximize what I can I want to

be the best that I can be I want to do things well and I don't want to leave stuff on the table but I don't want to be chasing the end goal so much that I never actually enjoyed the process of getting there because ultimately that's really all that matters you're going look back at any destination realize that it was 99.9% journey and only you know one day of celebrating achieving the thing you're lazy you know exactly what to do exactly what to do cuz even me in my state of I can't read and write

I knew exactly what to do it just sucks doing it hey Theo this is uh Greg from Indiana I actually just want to call and tell you so I was at uh work the other day and I just been kind of in this like rut at work it's not a bad job but I just really want to get out of it saw catching up on some of your podcasts and um you said something that like resonated with me you know he said nothing changes if nothing changes I thought about it and I went home and

I applied for a job I'm probably not qualified for but I was like I'll take a shot and the next day I get a uh call from him have the interview it goes well she says she going to set me up with a inperson interview never even had it they uh email me few days later and I got the job so now I'm going to be doing a job that I think I will appreciate more and enjoy more and I'll be making double the money that I'm making now bro that's awesome man that's really great

congratulations for trying something new yeah it's crazy to sometimes think like what can happen if we decide I'm going to see what happens when I decide that I am qualified what happens when I decide for myself that I'm going to do something different I've made huge huge huge developments while I was staying up until 4 in the morning 5: in the morning running a nightlife business you can make huge developments in your personal growth Journey while you're doing a 9 to5 you have this moment where you go well what if what if this is the

time sobriety sticks what if I go to therapy and I actually do change the way that I think what if I could get out of debt if that person did it maybe I could do it and without either hope or that kind of rock bottom moment I don't think you're going to change we can stay here get the [ __ ] kicked out of us or we can fight our way back into the light we can climb out of hell one in out of time you are responsible for your life and if you're sitting around

waiting on somebody to save you to fix you to even help you you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward what matters is now this moment and your willingness to see this moment for what it is accept it forgive the past take responsibility and move forward I came to realize that all the time I was praying to God asking for God to do something God was waiting on me how many times do you have to hear if nothing changes nothing changes right and yet somehow

we expect things to change you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is is every negative thing 10 Mi down the road but you can do anything you want you are bound by nothing when the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world and you did but somewhere along the line you changed you stopped being you you let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good and when things got hard you started looking for something to blame like a big Shadow

I'm going to have setbacks I know but if I'm feeling bad that doesn't mean I'm doing bad that doesn't mean I am bad that doesn't mean that I can't still take some action because yeah nothing changes and nothing changes man cuz if you're thinking then you're not taking action and if you're not taking action then there's no consequence and if there's no consequence then there's nothing to be afraid of the overthinking can be an excuse for actual fear it doesn't matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don't achieve all of the goals

in three generations I'll be forgotten and the only people who were naying against me will also be dead and so then it's like just do it for me you know we'll sit around forever wondering well what if I what if I was a dog catcher would I be the best what if I was a you know we expect things to change you think you're going to get in better shape you think you're going to get more money you think your relationship is going to improve you think you're going to get promoted you think you're going

to get a raise you think the world is going to get better without you doing anything but it isn't nothing is going to change unless you change what you're doing change the time that you wake up change what you do when you get out of bed that's what you need to do you have to change some things or nothing will change so make changes and start little get up a little bit earlier get a workout done that's what you need to do a positive place that you draw mental strength from when life is difficult has

to be I just want to be better and I'm trying my best that's all that there is you want to be better that is something to be proud of you want to leave it all on the field of play you want to make yourself as good as you can you want to make the world a better place you want to have an impact all of these things are just all positives what really breaks my heart is how stuck people are and that there are things you can do to change your life for the better 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 if you were trying to battle the same boss over and over again and you don't change what you're doing and the boss keeps beating you then it's not the game's problem it's your problem you are the problem I was not always this strong guy you see I went through a lot of hard times in my

life to get here today and um a story I'll tell you with real quick I tried once to get in the air force to be Air Force per rescan and I quit for fear of the water I was7 5 lb I left the Air Force 4 years later at 300 lb I went from 175 300 lb there's a long story in there on how that came to be you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't finish your to-do list you'll wonder whether you made the right

call and have no way to know for yours this is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing is hard and the more worth doing it is the harder it is the greater the payoff the greater the hardship if it's hard good it means no one else will do it more for you why pay the price why work this hard why go this far why try to learn this much why try to do it all Why Try To See It All why try to have it all why do it why learn it why

study why put yourself out why try to take on this much responsibility why develop yourself to the full Why Try to become all that you can possibly become so I Define learning by same condition new behavior and so when you go to a video game and you battle through the level and you battle the boss if you keep doing the same thing to the boss and you keep losing then you have not learned because you have the same condition and the same behavior and so I often say that like for anyone who's listening to this

podcast if the goal is to get better and you're like man I really want to learn from think from this podcast if you listen to this podcast and then you're in the same exact conditions as you were before and then you do not change your behavior you learned nothing and so using that definition has at least allowed me to change my behavior faster which then goes into rate of learning which I Define as intelligence and so a lot of people are like man he's so smart but he just doesn't it's like well then if he

doesn't change his behavior and he's in the same conditions he's not that smart the more that you're able to let go and not fear about stuff the more enjoyable you'll find it so the thing that is making you better is the thing which is making you feel pain and this is a perennial balance what would have had to have happened in a week for you to look back on that week with pride maybe stop breaking promises to yourself when you say I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. and when the option comes to

hit the snooze button don't do it there's one win that you've got for the day that's action the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception which means that you are not with other people and rather than fighting that or bemoaning it see it as an indicator that you're on the right path because if everyone else were cheering you on then it means you're not in the right place because it means you're just like everyone else and that's not where you want to be when you were born you are a phenomenon you are

unique your DNA has never occurred in the history of the universe going back billions of years it will never occur in the future your life experien with your parents and everything that you experienced in your early years going on up is unique it's yours you're one of a kind right so that is your source of power to waste that is just the worst thing you can do in your life and what what the power is is finding that uniqueness what makes you you and how you can M that and how you go deep into it

and use that to create a career path if you can see it here and you have the courage enough to speak it it will happen you cannot change your life unless you change something if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got you will fail at some point point in your life accept it you will lose you will embarrass yourself you will suck at something you can't wait for everything to be perfect to start living your life cuz I've I've been that's what I've done my whole life has been

like that inside of me it has been as soon as it's all lined up I'm going to show you myself as soon as I've got it all looking the way I want I'm going to show up for you I'm never going to get to that where everything's okay where everything looks a certain way and in the meantime I'm burning the best time I do have available I'm burning that candle up I'm burning this candle down and I'm saying as soon as it gets bright enough or warm enough in here I'm going show up but the

candle's getting smaller it's more socially acceptable to be our own biggest critic than it is to be our own biggest cheerleader 10 years before I've heard it put into words if you can be in a bad mood for no reason you can be in a good mood for no reason there's a quote that I've fallen in love with the magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding the magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding it's supposed to be hard if it wasn't hard everyone would do it the hard

is what makes it [Music] great you need to just keep living listen to the pain it's both history teacher and forun tell her pain teaches us who we are we sometimes it's so bad we feel like we're dying but we can't really live till we died a little can we people don't get it there's there's great joy in The Grind Great Joy in the suffer it's it's totally cleanses your body out man of any kind of hate makes you grow up what I want to invite you to do what I want you to consider is

that every single time you go and do something hard that's the story you've told yourself that it's easier said than done you know it's it's kind of hard to do that well it's supposed to be hard look if growing stronger if growing stronger and building muscle wereing easy you'd have no reason to go to the gym you'd have no there would be no growth if there was no Challenge and I'm answering your questions every question I'm answering it I'm with you but in the back of my mind all I'm thinking about is all the times

I could have won those matches that I lost by not bringing my best mindset you're haunted by all the opportunities that you missed by not bringing your best at that time when you could have won but you didn't win because you allowed life to interfere with that one shot when you're sitting there getting ready to serve for the match and your mind is not thinking about where that ball place needs to be but thinking about your family this or this at work or that at work that's greatness greatness is your recall on every single shot

that you missed throughout a 20-some year career every shot you can go back and say I was here this person was in the red shirt there greatness is being so aware of the time of life in the second that went by and you can recall like it was yesterday greatness is being able to go back there not making that same mistake again and being haunted by there really are only two macr level motivators that we have in life and that's Pleasure and Pain I want people to understand is okay so if nature only gave you

two things to motivate you Pleasure and Pain why would you eliminate half of them and so most people think that life is about avoiding the pain I'm here to tell you right now in a very controlled fashion it is about really experiencing the pain learning from it pain plus reflection equals progress failure has been achieved thank God now the only place to go from failure is to win you have to achieve failure you have to take it that far nobody wants to go that far it's too scary but you know something I got news for

you that's where winning is it always has been the one thing I would tell them is and I would tell them to get tattooed on your arm like and they would say it's supposed to be [ __ ] hard you say you are morally obligated to do remarkable things M why well I think partly because life is so difficult and challenging that unless you give it everything you have the chances are very high that it will embitter you and then you'll be a force for darkness and not good and so you know the fact that

life is short and can be brutal can terrify you into hiding and avoiding you can flip that on its head and understand understand that since you're all in anyways you might as well take the risks that are adventurous there isn't anything more adventurous than the truth so why is that a moral obligation well if you hide and you don't let what's inside of you out and you don't bring into the world what you could bring and you become cynical and bitter you will start doing very dark things not only will you not add to the

world what you could add but you'll start being jealous of people who are competent and doing and work to destroy them so that's the pathway to Hell really the only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow to grow you must suffer 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 because it's from the uphill climb that we

derive our value and I mean this technically so almost all the positive emotion we feel that's experienced in relationship to a goal and so in some sense you want a goal that you can never attain right so you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it you think well that's frustrating it's like sifus pushing the rock uphill but it's not because as you pursue that goal you put yourself together and your life get better and richer and more abundant you want them to be above everything you're doing so you

can continually move towards something that's more Sublime and better that's what you are you're you're here to live not to not to sleep everything worthwhile is uphill you see every dream that you've ever had it's it's all uphill if you have a great relationship with somebody you you had to work on it it it's up here if you buildt a wonderful business guess what it was uphill if if you've made the right decisions they're they're not easy are they it it's uphill and the only way that you can go uphill is to be intentional nobody

ever accidentally went uphill you've never talked to a successful person and said how did you get to the top of the mountain and then look at you and say I have no idea if they're at the top of the mountain they know how they got there because they had to have effort it took energy it took time everything worthwhile everything worthwhile is uph take yourself out your comfort zone do not live in your bubble put some more air in your bubble if you stay in your comfort zone that's where you will fail you will fail

in your comfort zone success is not a comfortable procedure it is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt so you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful those I can't catch a break guys get them the away from me I can't I can't be around those guys I don't want to hear that I don't want to hear that I don't buy it cuz everybody has bad breaks I've had a ton of bad breaks but you know what I did I I stayed up and I thought through it you're going to

lose sleep you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't finish your to-do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for yours this is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing is hard and the more worth doing it is the harder it is the greater the payoff the greater the hardship if it's hard good it means no one else will do it I've up everything I've ever done a 100 times there's no other way to do it and I've had a

bunch of shitty breaks everybody has but you got to realize when you have those breaks what that is bro you got to stop you got to stop with all this I can't catch a break bolt all the time you're complaining you could be instead hustling you could be instead chasing your dream you could be instead figuring out what you're doing wrong trying to improve certain aspects of your life getting your together reading a book meditating something he's hooking he's hooking damn R come on what's the matter with you tomorrow tomorrow there is no tomorrow there

is no tomorrow there is no tomorrow what do you think most be people get wrong about motivation they think it's a permanent fix they think it's something that is a constant they think that maybe once I get it I'm going to hold on to it and that's the thing about that I always talk about it's nothing is permanent nothing is permanent and a lot of times you have to learn to perform without motivation you have to learn to perform without purpose you have to learn to perform a lot of different things and that's what people

think they think I need to have this motivation to work out to study to be better so if they don't have it they just don't do it and that's where you fail that's why losing in life is so important whether it's getting dumped getting fired losing a game Lo loss those feelings where things didn't work out your way that's important because it lets you know this is the bad feeling that comes when it goes wrong and you improve and then makes the good feelings of Victory all the better you have to suffer you have to

make that a tattoo on your brain so when that hard time comes again you don't forget it if you want to be ordinary you ain't even got to listen to me just go on about your business if you think ordinary is cool ain't no problem it's some really really wonderful Ordinary People but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations then you going to have to do extra you put extra on top ordinary and you come up with extraordinary it's no other way you have to decide if you are willing to

do the things to put you in that category rich people don't sleep 8 hours a day that's a third of your life it a 24 hours in a day you cannot be sleep 8 hours a day you can't live in LA L and wake up at 8:00 in the morning it's 11 :00 on the East Coast the stock market been open 2 hours they already making decisions about your life and your will sleep be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable um be the guy who Embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of

being hurt don't be afraid of sacrificing some blood people don't get it there's there's great joy in The Grind Great Joy in the suffer it totally cleanses your body out man if any kind of hate makes you grow up and I realize that life isn't fair it's not fair and you better figure out some tools and some ways to stop feeling sorry for yourself cuz no one is coming to rescue you no one feels sorry for you there's so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time

on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment and the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing the the the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them things make regular life less difficult and that sounds so simplistic but particularly physically difficult things because when you do things that are physically difficult the strain of making yourself do those things it's very valuable it's not just valuable like exercise and fitness and martial arts and running and whatever you're doing that's really

difficult it's not just valuable in terms of like health and the way you look but it's also valuable for your mind Sun don't stop for nobody man Sun don't stop Sun going to be up in the morning regardless that Sun is going to be up in the morning regard regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am the Sun is going to shine in the morning and at night time the moon going to be there and you going to look up these days going to keep going by so do you let the days go

by and look up and you done wasted a year doing what or do you just pick it up all right got to figure it out made some mistakes life goes on let me figure out life from this point you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you're tired who cares you're tired or not nobody car about you he was tired you have personal problem family nobody we're all writing a book what's your book look like what does youring book look like like your your life is a

book you got a bunch of chapters in your book but when they close that book how good was the book how good was your book what was the ending to your book what was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined um well I mean I mean every day I mean since you know for 20 years it was an everyday process and trying to figure out shrimps and weaknesses for example jumping ability man my vertical was a 40 wasn't a 46 or 40 45 um my hands are big but they're

not massive right so you got to figure out ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to Palm a ball and do the things that you need to do uh quickness I was quick but not insanely quick I was fast but not ridiculously fast right so I had to rely on skill a lot more I had to rely on angles a lot more I had to study the game a lot more and it just never changed what I found is that winning doesn't happen on show day it happens in early

mornings painful workouts long cardio sessions and hungry nights happens in those moments of fear we all have when faced with a difficult goal and then more so in what you make of that fear it happens in every second of every day before you win if you can take every opportunity you have to bring yourself closer to your goal win every one of those opportunities all while becoming more resilient in the process how can you lose that is an exciting opportunity I became obsessed with being the baddest that God ever created am I that I don't

care I believe it and I was trying to tell him once you become obsessed with something obsessed it's okay to be unbalanced for a while it's okay don't be all this stuff people say you got to be balanced to be the best in the world at what you do it's not about being a Navy SEAL people the best at what you do you have to be unbalance to find every bit of energy and strength that you have to pull it off how bad do you want it there's two options to continue forward pushing upward and

if you do that dream is given birth and forever you will live in the reality of it if you stop quit throw in the tow I promise you there's no distance you can travel far enough to find that dream again for it it's dead and in its death it's replaced by regret what's the least amount of sleep you play the game on is there a story where it's like you know no one knows about where you went and played the game and it was so insane for whatever reasons no sleep you played the game with

zero sleep zero sleep zero sleep it's like you know um kids you know Natalia had a certain you know Health situation what have you and you staying up all night and then uh you got to go out and perform because fans don't know you know teammates don't know nor do they care nor should they that you've been up all night you got to perform like I see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends and they'll just take vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out

like I I'm not I never did that buto not why why why didn't you do that well because when I retired I didn't want to have to say I wish I would have done more all week he was work hard m end of the week if you don't type it this is good question you have to worry about yourself but this is Saturday your sixth day you work so hard of course you're going to tired M tomorrow rest and Monday we're going to begin one more training if you don't want go back to dagistan and

stay with your mom she going to give you every day good breakfast you don't do nothing stay there but if you come here don't complain you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you tired who cares you tired or not nobody car about you he was tired he have personal problem family nobody cares a lot of people live there entire lives not fulfilling their purpose one time in my life I felt that what was my purpose till you find the center of your being you will continue

to walk going through the motions the one companion that's always going to be with you is yourself yourself is what you have and you need to encourage yourself you need to look around and you need to be able to say look I'm not stuck here unless I choose to stay here if you don't have somebody who's going to do that become that somebody what's something difficult you're going through that people don't often see I mean my mind is a storm I don't think most people would want to be me they may think they would want

to be me but they don't they don't know they don't understand there's 24 hours in the day where you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways and it wants to control you and pull you in these different Pockets you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to get there if you can't control your own brain it's over every day when you get out of bed life standing right there to kick you in the F face man life is going to

throw all kinds of crazy and you have to be ready for it you got to deal with it can't curl up into a ball you can't run away from it you can't hide you have to take all this head on great things happen and really bad things happen and you got to take it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day strap your shoes back on and get out there and go toing War again it's that mentality it's the mentality bring it on mother I can take it you can't break

this [ __ ] I'm stronger than you think I am and everything you throw at me and all the hardships you throw at me you might knock me down but I get back up and I'll be stronger for it it's that mentality that builds an iconic status that is centuries from now people still talk about nobody cares you know at the end of the day nobody cares what we're going through how your body feels nobody cares we got to we got to do our job and uh we we emphasize that to each other again today

you know hey I got your back you got mine nobody cares man we got to go is it fair or no life is tough sometimes in this not fair and it doesn't care sometimes um but you're going to hold true to what you believe and you're going to hold true to who you are and you're going to be that person whether it's easier or it's not I go to such places in my mind and I study the darkness there is no theme it was you there was no weight loss program or Mom and Dad waking

you up saying you can do it you can be better trying to build belief you built belief when you had nothing Rock Bottom a lived alone for so many years in this misery I can take myself to such a level of real real passion and purpose I've trained 99% of my life alone I did all of the work alone and I never ran from anything cuz I had nobody to go to I've always had that where I'm going home to get me ain't nobody there you know what I'm saying like so it's I've always been

a situation where I'm forced to deal with it myself you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does and it's usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time it is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception which means that you are not with other people the superpower of learning to be alone and enjoying it these times where you just think about things just be alone and think about things are so rare

these days during those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don't believe it's a lonely Journey you're isolated those who used to keep Pace with you will fall off those see what their world ends and yours begins your ability to suffer endure out work must be greater you must be willing to extend yourself to the Limit with no guarantee of success every day you must ask yourself did I do enough there's a moment when every boy realizes no one's coming to save him and that's when he becomes a

man and some boys never get there and stay children forever no one's effing coming to save you no one no one's coming to push you no one's coming to tell you to turn the TV off no one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise nobody's coming to write the business plan for you it's up to you unless you understand that you've got to push yourself you're not going to make your dreams come true largely everyone needs to go through the same challenges that you're going through every single difficult thing that you

do is kind of like a massive wall that you need to get over and you go wow I'm so glad that I've got over that wall and think about how many other people are going to fall that wall what learned is to to to always keep going always you I've come to find out is that you know no matter what happens the storm eventually ends and when the storm does end you want to make sure that you're ready and so I I've really learned to put one foot in front of the other uh good B

and different cuz eventually that storm passes if you don't show up guys you know the outcome you'll never get the the job never get the part never get the girl if you don't show up if you show up you're putting yourself in situation ation to create those opportunities and when you show up how hard do you go that's the faster that opportunity will come to life for you it's up to you guys small down payment that you're willing to pay every day to the large investment of a greater life you only got one life guys

if you work it right you only need one I told myself I couldn't quit I told myself this was going to happen this is Destiny whatever is really burning in your heart you got to really believe in yourself even when nobody else won't you got to believe in yourself and say I'm not stopping and I told myself i' die before I stopped when you feel like giving up don't when you thinking about giving up don't when it look like you ain't going to make it keep going when they tell you you can't come on man

who are they you got to be relentless I got to thank the man up top G cuz I'm nothing without him last but not least I want to thank me I want to thank me for believing in me I want to thank me for doing all this hard work I want to thank me for having no days off I want to thank me for for never quitting Snoop Dog you a bad do you be yourself and make sure that you love being yourself and it's going to be roadblocks it's going to be tribulations but always

remember this this is a life experience accept the experience appreciate the experience find your journey respect your journey and love it you're going to realize it one day that happiness was never about your job or your degree or being in a relationship it was never about being like the others that happiness was always about the discovery the hope the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go happiness was always about being kinder to yourself it was always about embracing the person you were becoming one day you will understand that happiness was

always about learning how to live with yourself that your happiness was never in the hands of others it was always about you it was always about you just shut up and let me enjoy this pain I don't want anything to num it I want anything right now those times when you get up early and you work hard those times when you stay up late and you work hard those times when you don't feel like working you're too tired you don't want to push yourself but you do it anyway um that is actually the dream when

there's so many the gym in the Pumping Iron days they said why is it that you're working out so hard 5 hours a day 6 hours a day and you have always a smile on your face the others are working out just as hard as you do and they look sour in the face and I told people all the time I said because to me I'm shooting for a goal in front of me is the Mr Universe title so every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal to make this goal this

Vision turn into reality every single set that I do every repetition every weight that I LIF will get me a step closer to turn this goal in the reality so I couldn't wait to do another 500 lb squat I couldn't wait to do another 500 lb bench press I couldn't wait to do another 2,000 reps of situps I couldn't wait for the next exercise but where do you go to you wake up on a morning it's cold it's wet it's dark you've got no cartilage in your knee you've got shitty shorts whatever it is that's

the issue today I know every [ __ ] ain't going to do what I'm going to do I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there that fires me up that makes me [ __ ] happy what you just said that brings joy to my life right there why cuz I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch refuse to study a few more hours refuse to go deeper to go further and that's where I gain the advantage it's so easy to be great

nowadays my friend cuz most people are weak I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow it's a selection effect and I think if you you can if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this then it it's it flips from being this thing that you're like oh poor me to oh poor everyone else who's going to have to [ __ ] try be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable be the guy who Embraces hard work the

grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of a sacrificing some blood there was probably a 100 days where I didn't want to do anything I wanted to stay in the pool stay in my in my bed and not get out um but those were the days where you have to you have to get up and do something because I think that's really what separates the good from the great the greats do things when they don't always want to do them rich people don't sleep 8 hours a day that's a third of your

life I had 130 days in game just sitting looking at a screen playing one character in one game if you think ordinary's cool ain't no problem but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations then you going to have to do extra imagine if I could put this kind of focus into something in real life and just make that seem a little bit like a video game imagine the results I could get then you have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category you

know when you're kind of addicted to it uh you can you can play at any time you cannot be sleep 8 hours a day you can't live in LA and wake up at 8:00 in the morning it's 11:00 on the East Coast the stock market been open 2 hours they already already making decisions about your life and your ass was sleep and again so I was just like imagine if I could feel like that but in real life turn life into a video again the Bible says he who loves to sleep and the folding of

hands poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and and if you have a dream and you commit to it it will come to pass a blade a blade does not become strong it does not become tempered until it's been through the fire until it's been through the fire nobody cares you know at the end of the day nobody cares what

we're going through how your body feels nobody cares we got to we got to do our job what is the single most important thing in life for me I care about fulfillment and fulfillment is doing hard things from the age of 9 from the age of 12 I was telling my mom these things like I feel a sense of responsibility my childhood and whatnot that it was sprung up on me from a young age I just need to be responsible for people and things for me fulfillment comes from that sense of responsibility we don't take

a second to realize the purpose is always there the purpose never leaves us cuz the very purpose is you you are always the purpose there may be another purpose like being a seal or going to college or whatever but the main purpose in life is you your laziness is something that has to do with you you're not connected to something deep enough you don't feel the necessity you don't feel the devil at your heels you don't feel the fact that you could very well die tomorrow it will impel you to get something done there's no

necessity behind it and the human animal the way we were created is when we feel pressure we feel the necessity to get things done we can move mountains you're lazy you know exactly what to do exactly what to do cuz even me in my state of I can't read and write I knew exactly what to do it just sucks doing it it sucks to do it most people the bottom 80% are lazy and they're looking for an easy way they're looking for a shortcut to be successful and there are not there aren't any but but

if you do something repeatedly over and over you develop a habit so most people are in the habit of looking for easy ways to get the things they want to do anything successfully in life you've got to want it as bad as you want to breathe and if you want it that bad if you're willing to give it that much and life and dreams do come true anything you want can happen and become a reality I believe that sincerely and I'll die ey on that thought if you think the price of winning is too high

wait till you get the bill from regret and that bill from regret is generational it's just a matter of what's important to you and what's important to you for for whatever reason you know I I felt like um I didn't feel good about myself if I wasn't doing everything I could to be the best version of myself if I felt like left anything on the table it would eat away at me I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror right so the reason why I can retire now and be completely comfortable about it

because I know that I've done everything I could to be the best basketball player I could be that's where it comes from for me you can't leave any stone unturned nobody handed me nothing if you want it go get it stop telling your Visions to other people cuz they not going to see it why you think you keep imagining opening a business why do you keep imagining buying a house why do you keep imagining driving a really nice car why do you keep imagining getting rich one day why do you keep imagining that cuz God

is talking to you he's showing you something that he has for you when when I was a kid I was wondering kind of what's the meaning of life like why are we here what's it all about and I came came to the conclusion that what what really matters is trying to understand the right questions to ask no more around you want your life to be better I can't help you Lee can't help you Joe Rogan can't help you Hari can't help you only you could can help you grab your fuing balls get a fing notebook

and write down what the you're going to do this year and this is it you're not going to have these problems the drugs the cigarettes it all start today all right no more excuses that's the this is the year of theing soldier we're getting back what belongs to us and that's it a lot of people want to be successful but they want to go to the club on Thursday on Friday on Saturday on Sunday and then on Monday they're getting outperformed by everybody in theing office and they're wondering why don't I get to rais in

the promotion shut your ass up that's why man get to work get back to work it's time to get back to work stop hearing yourself talk get off the podcast don't be on social media too much cut out all the noise get back to the mental lab cuz that's where the knowledge came from expand yourself take yourself out your comfort zone do not live in your bubble put some more air in your bubble if you stay in your comfort zone that's where you will fail you will fail in your comfort zone success is not a

comfortable procedure it is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt so you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if if you ever want to be successful look I'd love to sugarcoat this thing for you I love to tell you look you can go out here and get rich do a couple of things they a they ain't happening you got to get real doggish you got to get downright funky if you want to make it now like I was telling you before if you want to be ordinary you ain't even got to listen to me just go

on about your business if you think ordinary is cool ain't no problem it's some really really wonderful Ordinary People but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations then you going to have to do [Music] extra you put extra on top of extraordinary and you come up with extraordinary it's no other way all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season I'm going to say it again because you might have missed it all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season my name is McGregor I'm mix my artist with

the UL Fighting Championship what is martial arts martial arts give me a focus I don't know where I would be without marals of my life that's why I have to be so authentic and so real about my own insecurities my own faults this being a f up person I'm I'm I'm not the best at anything I'm not gifted I'm just driven and um it's all about trying to share that message with people this is all about you know I speak to a lot of people find your impossible what is it you think is impossible you

could never quite Gras that's what you can that's what you have to go after you don't have the dream man you're you're dead you'll only go as far as you dream that's it I tell that to Comics all the time they're like I just want to make a living on it and I'm like that's all you'll do you got a dream big yeah I think people say that cuz they're trying to be humble yeah but universe doesn't reward humility man you might be humble with everybody else but you got to tell the universe hey I

want to be bigger than life yep if you give up on your dreams if you give up on your dreams what do you have left nothing I can't live that way I wasn't born to be wrapped up in bubble wrap and a blanket and set on the couch and tremble as the world goes by outside my door I want the world to tremble when I go by its door so it's a state of mind all right it's a state of mind so learn adjust what you can and now and then just embrace the rest of

it we're all writing a book what's your book look like what does youring book look like like your your life is a book you got a bunch of chapters in your book but when they close that book how good was the book how good was your book what was the ending to your book if the ending to my book can be so amazing because of all that was done we all like to take this four lane Highway the easy Highway has has signs it has restaurants we all love that for Lane Highway we always step

over the shovel and all I did was I picked up that shovel and that shovel I made my own path and you may have big boulders and sh they may be getting 200 miles up the road faster than you but going through this path of life this journey over here that you make yourself that's incredi difficult but it comes out the other end of that is some glorious [ __ ] that you can't even explain to people and we're afraid bottom line is most of us even the people who have all these theories and it's

easier to accept the fact that I'm just not good enough I wasn't made to do that and yeah some of us can't be LeBron James but I tell you right now man we can do a lot of when it comes to this pure arm guts and willpower and getting through sh we have a lot more with a lot more and we take we have from that day forward I made a promise that I will give it everything I got I'm ready to die for what I to had to succeed I have to give everything I

got that way I'm a winner no matter what the mama mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself that's what the mentality means it means every day you you're trying to become better every person has the ability to put one foot in Fr of the other one step at a time right so like if you're saying okay I'm I'm going to climb Mount Everest you're at the bottom of the mountain and you look up and you're going I'm not going to climb Mount Everest right but if you break it down into sections

and just one foot in front of the other one step at a time next thing you know you're at the top of the mountain you can't stop you can't quit I want to be the guy that people look at I don't care if you like me or didn't like I I don't care but it said this is going to keep coming after whatever the is in one of them man I like the picture God looking down and saying yeah but that boy just won't quit he just watch him he'll get back up and he'll get

up swinging and he'll try again he just don't to quit get off your butt get out of those stands get in the arena get dirty get sweaty get bloody get knocked down get back up get knocked down again get back up and when people Point At You and laugh at your failure say yeah I'm in the arena with a sword in my hand and you're sitting up here in the stand with a Biscuit in yours who's more proud one time in my life I felt that what was my purpose and sometimes you graduate out of

high school you look for that job you look for that Career College the degree you still question is this my [Music] purpose I want to talk to you about the center your Center your purpose one question that I always ask myself even I would always ask myself is your purpose what's your purpose for living do you know your purpose what you're created to do do you know what that is a lot of people live their entire lives not knowing entire lifetime not being happy because they feel as though they're not fulfilling their purpose you see

that man right there so like for instance let's say you have no races let's say you have no classes no nothing you have there's no purpose in your life you know people need to have purpose to get up they need purpose to perform you need to get to a point in your life where there's nothing on the docket there's no 5K there's no there's no um I'm going to get into school to be this or that and still perform to the highest level because what people don't get is one day that thing's going to come

up and if you're not constantly performing without purpose you're not going to be ready when the time comes we've been around for 3 and A2 billion years you know every single one of your relatives propagated successfully and here you are against all possible odds in this in this world of Hell in some sense and and and bitterness and and and tyranny and malevolence and yet God only knows what's inside you this capacity for Consciousness the capacity to confront potential and to turn it into something good that's us man that's the Western story that's the individual

as the Cornerstone of the state that's our responsibility and it really is who we are and so we need to know that and we need to remember it and we need to act it out and then maybe we can see what we can do about it you know and see how good we could make things and maybe that would be the purpose of your damn life right not to be happy it's like there's problems to be solved be happy after you solve the godamn things [Music] right it's this magical thing purpose that we're all looking

for but what's funny about it all is that we need these things to perform but we don't take a second to realize the purpose is always there the purpose never leaves us cuz the very purpose is you you are always the purpose there may be another purpose like being a seal or going to college or whatever but the main purpose in life is you so if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something you don't care enough about yourself and that's what you need to really research is man why am

I not doing this for myself because that is that is the number one purpose in life is to better oneself so that's the only purpose I need so the reason I get up every day even though there's no RAC or there's no school there's nothing in front of me is because I have pride in myself and it would be so good if we could people wonder well what's the meaning of life like what's it all about what's what justifies the suffering and the misery and all of that it's like well that's what justifies it it's

like you put yourself up against that you think okay all with all of this pushing against me how much can I push back could I move the horror an inch back with with all the strength that I have at my disposal man and the answer to that is yeah you can it it it makes you better with regards to yourself but it also makes the world a better place and so well so you know more of [Music] that it's easy to give up you know easy it's the easiest thing in the world to do I

I'm done I ain't going yeah I ain't going to keep going I don't feel like going to work done it's easy it's very easy but what's hard is going yo yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could nothing happened from that I'm going to do the same thing again to day but I'm going to try to go harder that's the hardest thing in the world to get up every day and give 100% And and be in the same position that you were each day but mentally know that you're trying and trying and

trying that's that's a real that's a real grind we don't want to suffer we don't want to feel discomfort so the whole time we're living our lives in a very comfortable area there's no growth in that so for me I realized that the the reason I became 297 lbs is because that was comfortable what was very uncomfortable was running what was very uncomfortable was being on a diet was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face and I also realized when I was really big I had no growth why because

I was living comfortable so I realized for me to find growth I had to face all these different things that made me very very uncomfortable one thing I faced was running I absolutely hated running but I knew for me to grow I wanted I had to do this thing every single day I wanted to start callousing my mind I wanted to start becoming a better person and how you become a better person how you gain mental toughness how you become the person you want to be is constantly facing the things that you don't want to

face if you constantly run away from things that you don't want to face how is their growth how is there Al toughness I can give you a class all day long about selft talk visualization eat an elephant one B at a time but if you never putting yourself in a situation to actually practice these things you're never going to grow I can't put you out there in a we're all going through a battle in our mind a warrior is not a person that carries a gun the biggest warrior ever go through is right between your

own ears it's in your mind we're all going through a war in our mind mind and we have to call our mind to fight that war and to win that war you know the war that you have to really fight is the war against yourself you have to fight a war against yourself now it's not easy to look in a mirror and to change your own life it's hard as hell you have to take responsibility you have to learn new things you have to feel uncomfortable good because this Comfort is how we grow that's how

we become strong to run away from discomfort and resistance your whole life you will always be weak just think about the gym for instance but that's where I learned most of my lessons right the muscles only grows from resistance you have to struggle you have to build strength the more I forc my hands against that steel bar the bigger the biceps getting the stronger they get and I was trying to squat 600 lb and bench press 500 lb and deadlift 700 it didn't feel like a walk in a park it wasn't easy no I was

uncomfortable it was painful I mean look at those photos I was struggling I was crying out loud in pain I don't want you to be loser I don't want you to be weak see I've spent most of my life helping people find their strength this is where the action is strength and despite all of the things that we may disagree about all my friends who might say Arnold don't talk to those people it's not worth it I don't get what to say I care about you I thank you bir sometimes you need to get knocked

down before you can really figure out what your what your fight is and how you need to fight it sometimes you need to feel the pain and sting of defeat to activate the real passion and purpose that God predestined inside of you I don't know what your future is but if you're willing to take the heart away the more complicated one the one with more failures at first than successes the one that has ultimately proven to have more meeing more Victory more Glory then you will not regret it now this is your time the younger

generation quits not everybody so I got to I got to put that people get their butt hurt so not everybody most of this generation quits the second they get talked to you did this wrong you did this wrong or or they get yelled at it's so easy to you know I mean to to be great nowadays cuz everybody else is most people are weak this this is a softened generation so if you have any mental toughness any any ability if you have any fraction of self-discipline the ability to not want to do it but still

do it people have a a hard thing understand I hate to run and and what makes me so crazy it doesn't Needmore is people go what why do you run if you hate it what are you talking about I don't want to take showers and eat either I hate that too the whole that's life man that and and and and it wasn't until I changed that mentality that I became somebody I hated going to school so guess what I was dumb as [ __ ] that's what 1 plus one is two but if you can

get through to doing things that you hate to do on the other side is greatness that's what people understand by me running I am callous in my mind I'm not training for a race I'm training for life I'm training for the time when I get that 2:00 in the morning call that my mom is dead or something happens tragic in life I don't fall apart I'm training my mind and my body and my spirit so it's all one so I can handle what life is going to throw at me because the life I've lived it

throws a whole bunch at you and if you're not physically and mentally prepared for that you're just going to crumble and you're good for [Music] nobody going back to who I am who how I became who I am today and it comes back from hard work it comes back from having that very minimalistic mindset the first step taken towards the domination of chaos and its transformation into order is a cardinal and difficult step and so you can make it small and that's fine it'll still work so I might say well just just move the vacuum

cleaner inside your room and then I would also say to someone in that situation don't do more than that if the agreement that you've made with me and with yourself is that that's enough abide by the contract that you've written with yourself and allow yourself to be grateful for the fact that you had the courage to take even a single step forward and don't push your bloody luck because maybe you'll have a brief fit and vacuum the whole rug and then you'll be so annoyed at how you've destabilized your entire life that you'll redouble your

attempts to make a mess and the place will be more like hell than ever for 2 months you have to start as low as you are useless and that's low so once you take the first step the probability that you'll take a slightly larger Second Step increases and that increases nonlinearly but as I was there for so long I got a really good chance to sit back cuz now the cold water is just water now it's no longer cold anymore your mind starts to change they say get in the water most people think about it

for you it became my life so I started learning that if you start to change your mindset versus it being like Oh my God this sucks I became a professional but student so I wasn't going to leave until I graduated so I started realizing if this is my home this is what I am I had to always reset the bar I had to reset my new Norm there always had to be a new Norm so one thing we don't do is we don't have a new Norm my new Norm is you get up every [

__ ] morning at 4:00 and you suffer this is your new Norm that became my new [ __ ] life most people want to get out of it I said no [ __ ] this is your new life this is who you are you your new Norm is you wake up and you suffer and I started realizing if that's my mentality this [ __ ] ain't hard anymore you're [ __ ] new normals you wake up you get in the [ __ ] cold water you're going to be here till the shit's [ __ ]

done whenever they say you're out you get out so my new Norm so I I do that now today my new Norm now is if I'm doing a 200 mile run your new Norm now man you doing 200 mons it's not a bad thing to be unique it's not a bad thing to be different it's not a bad thing to be comfortable with yourself regardless of what everybody else around you is doing if you want to be great want to be bad [ __ ] ever at what you do you could be misunderstood by everybody

because you're going to be so obsessed and so driven to get there that's what it takes when you are misunderstood to the point where people think you're psycho and you're nuts and you're this and that why are you in the gym at one o00 in the morning what wrong you will never understand what is wrong with me there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have you have to believe that something different can happen you're crazy until you're successful then you're a genius for a lot of people when you know you're grinding

as a small Channel people think you're too obsessed you're a weirdo stop only making videos like get alive be realistic you're you know I mean people will convince you you're out of your mind for wanting to to do this but then once you're successful they're like yo your drive your tenacity was great but it's like yeah well where was that back then you know what I mean I didn't get that when I was a small channel it's only delusional until it works so is it really delusional and then once the world see it there's nothing

delusional about it now your delusion becomes oh he was a genius you must try things that may not work and you must not let anyone Define your limits because of where you come from your only limit is your soul what I say is true anyone can cook but only the Fearless can be great I always feel like I could do anything that's the main thing people are controlled by thoughts their perception of themselves they're slowed down by their perception of themselves if you're taught you can't do anything you won't do anything I was taught I

could do everything you will believe in yourself reminder that if you want to be exceptional you're going to be different from everyone else that's what makes makes you exceptional you can't fit in and also be exceptional both have discomfort when you fit in you have internal conflict because you're not being 100% you when you're exceptional you have external conflict because everyone sees you as different pick one when you're friends start to say you've changed remember it's because they don't know how to say you've grown if you're going to try go all the way otherwise don't

even start if you're going to try go all the way this could mean losing girlfriends wives relatives jobs and maybe your mind go all the way there's no other feeling like that you'll be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire all the way the fear is never Reaching Your Potential that's it that always falling short always quitting before you're done always procrastinating always not doing the right thing and then one day you're an old man yep and you look back and go God I could have been great yep I could have

been great that's not normal cuz we don't want to be normal normality is what weak people call living I call it death but where do you go to you wake up on a morning it's cold it's wet it's dark you've got no cartilage in your knee you've got shorts whatever it is that's the issue today keep talking you've got these problems right I need you to keep talking about what you were just saying it's warm on the couch your Mrs says stay in bed it's comfy it's cozy you've got work later on you had an

argument last night you're slightly hung over cuz I know every [ __ ] ain't going to do what I'm going to do be the now of what you want to be later it starts right now and if you're not doing the now don't ever expect the later to be the person you want to look in the mirror everyone's like oh later in life I want to do this later in life I want do that later in life is turning around looking in the mirror right now that's the later in life and unless that turn around

is something in progression later in life ain't going to be anything different belief when you turn around you're going to see something that put a smile on your face is going to make you turn around the next day for Action you're in belief in the productivity [Music] why you in here man you in here to grow what here for think guys think of where you want to be before you start what it is now it's too hard man the journey is too hard you guys start trying to follow someone else's path success you guys are

daed and confused you must travel your indiv idual path success someone else's path's already been done it's time for you to incorporate what you believe in make your own everybody want to know what I would do if I didn't win I guess we'll never [Music] know let me tell you about a voice not this voice but the one inside the one that Whispers it tells me what's right and what's not when to leave and where to go it's not Shakespeare it does not speak in memorable lines my inner voice always gives it to me straight

tells me who my real friends are when to say yes when to say no whether the person sitting next to me is the one I'll be spending the rest of my life with or not sometimes that voice is Crystal Clear go stay right wrong sometimes it merely Whispers don't let it drown in a noisy world because in the end no man woman or algorithm knows what's right for you always trust your inner voice everybody has one few listen to it here