do it your way you don't need their permission but you need yours you don't need their permission but you do need yours you do need to look at yourself and declare who you are and you need to believe it you think my dreams are too big I said absolutely not you just telling them to the wrong person for some of you the reason why you're not taking advantage of this opportunity is not because you don't believe in it you don't believe in you in order to achieve greatness you must first believe you can cuz I
get to decide I'm running my life now I'm finally in control of my life I'm finally the boss of my life are you ready to be the boss of your own life are you ready to be in control of your own life are you ready and you deserve to have everything you want you deserve to live your best life you deserve it and stop listening to the people who tell you you don't kill the noise what do they know we going to do the hard work now so here's the hard work I need you to
confront you I was created to be great I was created to do great things I was created to have great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission that person who was your hater they thought they defeated you that person who told you you'll never amount anything they thought they defeated you you want me to tell you to give up huh you want me to tell you to quit huh that is that what you want me to say is you you want to hear ET say it's all right to give up it's
all right to surrender that's what you want me to say but listen to me I can't tell you that some of us just grind some of us don't make it excuses some of us don't surrender some of us don't give up and give in it's our Dream nobody's going to see it like you do it it's your dream nobody's going to feel it like you feel it it's your dream nobody's going to be as dedicated to it as you are it's your dream and they don't have to understand and they don't have to like it
and they don't have to do it it doesn't make a difference it's your dream and you my friend have been given the task to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do what we do with the pressure is we say I got to take it I got to take it to another level once you start questioning yourself you already lost all of us will be successful in life if we don't quit I got to believe in me before anybody else believe in me I get up
at three cuz it's silent it's easier to be focused when the environment is focused most of you wake up and you try to make money listen to me if you would make you money would come to you okay you missed that whole thing I just said if you would make you a better person you'd make more money now watch what I do the way people spend their money or treat their money is how I treat my time all right let me explain what I mean to you I make sure that every single day in that
24-hour period that I'm getting a whole bunch of so I'm supposed to be doing this at this time doing this at this time doing this at this time doing this at this time the problem with most of you you waking up and you worshiping money man I was in the back with Cole Cole was like e i got this opportunity for you I got this opportunity I got this opportunity when you become number one you have to chase opportunities so I became number one not meaning I'm better than nobody else it mean I just mastered
my craft to the point that I know what I do that don't nobody else do I know that I have a way of doing in this industry what nobody else does and I picked out in this industry I've crafted out my own room and your problem is you at 50% knocking on doors trying to get the result somebody at 100% And you wondering why it ain't working because while you're doing what they're doing you're not they are so why do I put more emphasis on time than I put on money cuz they print money they
don't print time y I'm going to say it one more time you are worshiping the thing that they make every day they don't make time every day ain't nobody PR time I I ain't met them yet I Ain't Met no billionaire I Ain't Met no trillionaire I Ain't Met no institution I Ain't Met no company I Ain't Met nobody printing money so why are you spending more time on the thing they print every day then the thing you know why cuz you're not developed and you following other people when you understand that the the real
thing is time and you ain't got a lot of it you start focusing on your time and when you get your time right money will come some people go to divide once every 10 years I'm going every other month why when you master yourself you put yourself in a position that a lot of people can't do what you do and then you become rare and diamonds are rare that's why they cost so much if you would become rare you just like everybody else you look just like like you act just like you just like everybody
else when you become you and you become rare you become a when you leave this room you will take full ownership and the reason why I say it's my fault even when it's not my fault because when I say it's your fault I give you power I give you control over my life and I will never give another human control over my life it's my fault it's my problem I'm coming up with the solution for it stop being average average people can't forgive average people can't let go the great we do whatever it [Music] takes
those who have a why can bear almost any High how did I become number one in the world found out my wife had multiple sclerosis they told my wife listen to me y'all my wife so Beast SM they told my wife she had Ms she like B then they told her she had to quit her job and she tear came out her ey the doctor said you don't have insurance she said yeah I got insurance she looking at her like why you crying if you got insurance my wife's identity is in her waking up and
working every day she went to school to be a registered nurse she went to school to do breast and cervical cancer she didn't want to be at home she don't want to be no home wife she literally went to school to be a nurse she loves her job but when they told her she had to quit my wife's like I don't know what what I'm going to do I said how much you make she told me 5,000 I said 5,000 * 12 is how much 60 * 30 years how much 1.8 million I woke up
every day hunting 1.8 [Music] milon I'm number one in the world not cuz I'm a better speaker I'm not number one in the world cuz I I look the best because I dress the best I'm not number one because my my my anunciation is the best because I use the best words cuz I got the best in structure cuz I come from the best background I got I I be number one cuz I woke up and I job to 1.8 bill so my wife will never have to work again if you waking up every day
and you want a rollsroyce you ain't about to beat me if you waking up for a bitley you ain't about to beat me if you waking up for a gold chain you ain't about to beat me if you w up for a row you ain't about to beat me cuz you going after material stuff I'm going after my food I'm going after my baby I'm going after my high school sweetheart I'm going after my kids so they can see their mama and they mama don't die I'm making sure they mama don't get in a wheelchair
if I can help you if they mama don't lose her sight if I can help if her mama don't lose her memory so I start studying Ms like I had I start studying Ms your problem is you not studying this product like it like your life found on it like your life depend on it you playing with this product you know what you like the people that work for me that want a check and they never end up getting it but the people who own who work for my company act like they own it [Music]
it wake up every single day making sure she don't have to go back to work so watch this I started studying and I found out two things one is stress so I had to take her out of a stressful situation and then the other thing was vitamin D and I literally people say bro why you move to Southern California cuz my wife got a m how literally tight what's the best place in the world for vitamin D Southern California what's the best temperature in the world in the United States of America San Diego California it
don't never it don't go 99 and then back down it's right there I said San Diego I'm huntting you down you moving to San Diego why I don't care about San Diego my why my wife and the first year last year we were in San Diego my wife said to me we back to Michigan when the summer came my wife said you know something I said what she said I never took a nap in California said what you mean by that she said the sun energized me and I never need to take a nap you
going to come after me the reason why most of you can't do what you do you get keep getting knocked down you keep quitting because whatever your why is it ain't stronger than the beat down you take whatever the beat down whatever life is throwing at you whatever punches is blowing you whatever's happening it ain't that it ain't deep enough for you to wake up like you getting punched and you feel that pain and you like ain't no need to get up no and I feel you you need to stay down cuz life going to
beat your you talking about making millions life going to beat beat you down you're talking about making millions multi-millions billions life going to beat you down so so when you feel a pain and you get knocked down stay down if you got a wi that's deeper than your pain every trial every tribul I will my way through it I don't care if it's cancer I will my way through it I don't care if it's IM I will my way through it I don't care if I'm struggling in school and I'm trying to get a degree
I will my way through it I don't care if you fail the boards go again I don't care if you fail the law exam go again will your way through some things you can skill yourself through some stuff you got to will your way [Music] through without a vision there's no Direction without direction there's no progress reason why you struggling getting up cuz you don't have nothing to get up [Music] for it's going to be a dog fight I would love to tell you that on the road to success everything is going to work out
it's not it's going to be a dog fight on the road to success I lost five aunts to cancer it's a dog fight in the midst of my business I lost aunts I had to go to funerals we had to get on a plane we had to drive we had aunts that are close to my age who died who didn't have insurance we had to raise money a dog fight I had cousins shot in stores execution style shot back in the back of the head twice it's a dog fight like you don't see that on
YouTube you don't see that on my TG it's a dog fight my wife 3 years ago seven Legions found a pray it's a dog fight it hadn't been easy see it's a dog fight it hadn't been the role hadn't been success like it's just a pave rooll and like ET go this way it's been rough it's been crooked it's been hard but I've made up in my mind that I will get a reward for the pank that I go through I will not stop in the middle of the process I will not be defeated I
will not be destroyed I will take everything that happens in my life and I will allow the pain to push me to Greatness you will not break me you will not stop me you will not defeat me the only way I lose is if I quit it's going to be a dog fight and so if you ready to quit then don't get started if you ready to quit don't get started if you're looking for this easy path don't get started if you think they not going to close the door on you and say no a
million times don't get started but every time they close the door I just get excited why cuz I am not a no I'm one yes away I'm young I'm one yes away you can't keep telling me no forever you can't keep denying me forever this type of energy this type of passion you can't stop it you can contain it for a while but you cannot stop this is life and you can't defeat me there there is not you don't have enough power you don't have enough energy you don't have enough strength to stop this contain
it for a year you might two years you might you do not have hate does not have enough energy to destroy love you cannot destroy this it didn't happen to me at 19 it didn't happen to me at 20 it didn't happen to me at 30 it happened to me at 40 after I have been through all the all the pressure I thought I could go through life said you finish with all the pressure I said yeah they said let him bring on the heat then when I went through the pressure and the heat y'all
I thought it was over the Creator said now you ready to get cut you say you wanted to be great son you say you want to travel the world you say you wanted to help people inspire people hey you got to be a diamond in our Armed Forces let's just pick one the Navy for instance the first thing they teach you somebody somebody over here help me out you are in the Navy right you going they're teaching you War right what's the first thing they teach [Music] you the first thing they teach you the very
first thing they teach you is how to respond when you have a jamed gun and number two how to carry a dead body that's the first thing they teach you they don't teach you how to defend yourself they don't teach you how to swim the first thing they teach you is when your gun is jammed the first thing they teach you is a dead body how to carry a dead body and somebody tell me why would they start you there that's the worst case scenario that's what you're not prepared for that's what you not think
you're not thinking when you go out there to defend yourself that your gun is going to jaam you're not you're not thinking when you go out there that your boy going to get killed and you got a drag you're not thinking that so listen jul me it's not it's not hardships that hurt us it's not my cousin getting shot twice it's not my cousin spending 50 years in jail it's not my I down the can it's not about white being diagnosed with seven Legion on a brain that will break you what will break most people
is you didn't prepare for that so when you put all your little goals and all your little dreams together it's not the thing that broke you that broke you it was you never even thought about the fact that you could be broken you say it's going to be a dog fight and if you sol this ain't that you want to get out now this is where you like I quit but if you willing to say I'm not going to quit guarantee whatever success you want to have you going to have it you will not outr
you you won't out grind me you can be smarter than me you won't out grind me I'll get up at 3:00 in the morning and do videos I'll do a video at 3:00 I'll do a video at 2:00 I'll do I'm putting out so much dog on content they can't keep up they smarter than me they better than me I I admit I got a GD I ain't the smartest person in the world but I get up and do this for DD I do this every day for Dei because of what Dei did for me
I do this for my kids my daddy wasn't there I do this for my family you can't stop me the reason why some of you could be stopped cuz you doing it for yourself and guess what happen when you get tired when you grinding and grind when you grinding grinding hurts grinding is a sacrifice grinding cost when you're grindy and your body tell you you hurt when you doing it for you you stop you never you never prepared you never you never prepared for worst case scenar and the reason why ET is stand here cuz
I'm prepared for it if you know anything about me I still lay on Floors I still eat chips off the floor I still do some stuff that to most people is crazy like e why would you do that because I'm always prepared that we may not live in that house one day one day something might happen and we might have to go back to that and if I have to go back to that is not going to break me the thing we covered the most for a diamond to be produced it must first go through
extreme heat extreme heat extreme pressure are you hearing what I'm telling you for a diamond to be produced it has to go through extreme pressure extreme heat and if that wasn't enough what makes a diamond a diamond is the cut so I put you are put through if you want to be a diamond you must go through extreme pressure if you can't take pressure then you're not a diamond after you go through all the pressure you thought you could not handle and you think it's over then they turn on the heat of all the stuff
I've going through in my life eating out of trash cans sleeping in abandoned buildings the worst thing that ever happened is when I went to the hospital and they told me my wife had a chronic illness and she might not be able to walk one day people say e ask CJ it never broke me why cuz I've been broken so much defeated so much I've been disappointed so much in my life but I know what it feels like and I can handle it it's your turn you shouldn't feel guilty it's your turn it's your time
you've blessed everybody else you set everybody else for Success you've compromised you for them and look where you are it's time for you and so for a lot of you you're not doing nothing because you don't have any purpose right now you don't have a sense of purpose you're not waking up for nobody and I need you to get that engine I need that drive because you know what to do you you're the right person to do it but you just can't seem to get out of bed you can't seem to do what you're supposed
to do every time you come up against a trial or tribulation you let it stop you got to find your why and your why is what's going to start you and the problem with some of you in this room you don't have no drive you ain't got nothing pushing you you ain't got no reason for waking up in the morning you ain't got no reason for pushing past that pain you have no reason you better find one before you get out of here today you better go inside you still looking outside for the stuff that's
already inside you still looking for someone to save you when you already your superhero you looking for some information from somebody when you already got what you need in your head it's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you it's not an option and the reason why some of you are not where you supposed to be you've given yourself an option you've given yourself an out you've given yourself an excuse you've given yourself room not to do it but you have what it takes give me some energy I can
I can I will I will I must I must come on I can I can come on I will I will I must I must I can let's go let's go let's go let's [Applause] go I can means I have the ability to do it I got what it take I have the ability to do it I will I have the willpower to make it happen I must my wife needs me I must my son need I must my daughter needs me we can we will and we must get through this let's [Laughter] go I'm
want to ask you a question seriously this going to be hard cuz some of you young and you like still worried about what people think about you so you don't want to be honest in front of people want you to think about what level you want are you giving 90 80 70 listen see what I'm saying for a minute I I gave everything I got I have no more to give like I really put 120 into this so raise your hand if you giving 120 like I ain't got no more to give e e I'm
giving I'm giving a 100 E I know I got I'm just doing at least what coach want me to do I'm doing everything coach want me to do I'm giving about 90% he I'm be real I'm giving about 90% let me see your hand of my effort let me see your hand I'm giving about 80% let me see here 70% let me see [Music] hand I need you for you to admit where you are what is it going to take for you to give every single thing you got what is that going to take it's
consistency and so I got to go to bed at a certain time I got to wake up at a certain time there's certain things I can't eat certain things I can't watch certain things I can't do and I'm talking about that grind I got an opport Unity you got an opportunity so here's the deal when you have an opportunity why would you give 80% when you have an opportunity somebody answer that for me y'all y'all talk why would you give 80% 70% why wouldn't you always give 120% this right here for a lot of y'all
y'all ain't got no discipline it's killing you it's killing you and you don't even realize it's killing you it's killing you if you're not giving 120 I'm not mad at you my job is not to dog you out cuz once we go back out my goal is to come here and take you to that next level from today or you play whatever your best game is you play that level every single time it doesn't mean you going to score every time but the effort has it you can always give 120% effort life going to go
on regardless mental toughness it is in those times we have to be stronger than we've ever been before why because they need need is more than I ever needed before I just want to make sure that the light we got left that is sweeter than the light that if I wasn't focus and I wasn't do what I was supposed to do and we going to make it the best possible it's your life you got it what you going to do with it I want to ask you a question seriously how many of youall in this
room you like yo E it is my life but I ain't been in control of it as much as I should be in control of it and after the day I'm taking more control of it let me see your hand be honest with me come on let me see your hands and so you looked up to who when you play ball like who were the people you looked up to Kobe Kobe Kobe LeBron C CP D way Kobe I was the same thing with me with Dr monther King in Washington like all those people I
got a dream when I saw Malcolm like boom and I saw hundreds of black men boom like let's go I'm like like I could do that and then when I found out I could make money doing it and I could take care of my family I was like Showtime like you only got one shot e so here what I'm saying opportunity you have an opportunity of a lifetime when you understand you have an opportunity you just you play a little [Music] different here's what I want to tell you if you going to get it you
going to have to have that dog you going to have to have that dog you going to have to be that dude that say I'm not just going with skills there's a there's a one type of dude who feel like because he's gifted that it's just an automatic role for him let me tell y'all something you are gifted but you better humble yourself you got skill and you got will two total different things you were born with certain things but to get to the next level and not just get to the next level to stay
at the next level you got to have will when you get to that next level [Applause] so when you play you have to compete it's Sports it's basketball why wouldn't you give 120% talk to me what would what would make you not give 120% you got to answer it you play that level every single time it doesn't mean you going to score every time but the effort hasn't you can always give 120% effort you can't dictate if the ball going to always go in you can't dictate what kind of game you going to have you
can't dictate how your body is going to respond to moving around but you can dictate your what you can dictate your good you can dictate your you can always give 120% effort like here's the deal when y'all go play tonight tomorrow my goal is for you to go 120 so you going to have the right people in here helping y'all but if you do giving me 70 80 90 you ain't giving me 120 you're not going to get out of this experience what you're supposed to get out that's my job why don't you always give
120% effort it's your turn I don't belong in this room I remember the videos had already been out my numbers were great and I would come in rooms and go or like that room like I go to a high school like boom I go to a youth Det Cent boom I go to a prison boom I come to corporate and go I don't know if I belong in here everybody in the room don't look like me they don't come from where I come from I don't know if I belong here and I'll never for I'll
never forget I had a conversation with Les Brown Les Brown had called me to Orlando we sat in a hotel and I left and I started talking to Les and I start naming like yo you Les round this person number one in the world he said don't you ever say that again I said don't say what he say you the best in the world right now I said what he said you the best in the world right now there's nobody as good as you in the world you're the best right now the only reason you're
not the best right now is because you don't believe you're the best now and when you walk out this room I want you to go in Mir and tell yourself I'm the best right now he said before you even become number one start to Proclaim it and say it long before happen say I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world and when I was number 20 I start saying I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world and I went to the computer and the world said exactly what I said that Eric Thomas is
number one in the world I spoke it the world heard it and it activated your problem is that you don't believe you belong here your problem is that you don't think you should be sitting down here so listen to me there are those of you saying I want to be a millionaire I want to be the best at this company right but your value system say you believe in sleep more than you believe in grinding that you're spending more money than you're making why because you're a consern with you're you're reading all the books and
you're saying everything the books are saying but those books are not in alignment with your values if you're going to go to the next level your values are going to have to change when I believed that my voice was needed in this world when I believe that I need to be on the stage not for myself but to speak to a group of people who come from where I come from a working class who don't know what it's like to make millions and millions of dollars who don't understand what wealth looks like that I needed
to come in the room with a single parent mother with a father not in my life being homeless in a high school drop off only somebody who comes from where you come from can tell you you below and I had to get my butt on stage because there's some folks that Les Brown can't reach there's some some folks that Tony Robins can't reach there are some folks that only I can reach and so I need to be on the stage with them doing what I was called to do but what you cannot do is you
cannot quit doing the process you cannot give up because it ain't what you see you cannot give up Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe that's when you find a [Music] way some of y'all been worship since you was in high school so you don't really know how to grind like you talk grind like I I love it like I go into the waight room and y'all playing like Pac y'all playing biggie like y'all all in it like you
like you like Pac but you don't have the spirit of Pac you like love Pop you like listening to pot you like listening to Biggie you like to talk about the grind but you don't really know what the grind's like I know what the grind is like I was homeless I ate out of trash can now go on go on internet right now I'm one of the number one speakers in the world I started from the bottom like you like listening to it and see started from the bottom now y what's your bottom what is
your bottom when you've been worship since middle school you've been tall your whole life big your whole life they worship you so much now that you think it's about you you don't even know what the grind look like I'm from Detro Detroit homeless mama got pregnant with me at 17 years old high school dropout took me 12 years to get a full year degree I'm coming now it's in view you finally made it to the big leagues and now you want to chill now you got the big head now you can't grind you here now
you here now you finally made it and this is where you you break up this is where you start chilling this where you get comfortable you made it now you made it now you in the big leagues now they watching you now this is where you make it permanent yeah I saw it I saw it perfect perfect nope practice don't make perfect practice make permanent this permanent y'all this is permanent you can go wherever you want to go from here it does not take Talent you don't have to be talented right you don't have to
be gifted you don't have to be the quickest the strongest you don't have to be the most intelligent to get to where I am that's what you got to do you just got to grind though you're grind you got to out grind so many of you heard me say this your father listen to me might own a company your mama might be a millionaire you might come from privilege your Daddy might hook you up with a car he might know people he might be able to get you a job but you will not outwork me
and what you have to decide in your position in the NCAA you have to make a decision that nobody in this league in your position will outwork you I will walk away with stuff I never heard before books I've never read before audios I've never seen before going to conferences that I've never gone hanging out with people that I never hung out with before this is nothing God this is just a dessert there are those of you with phones and every new phone that comes out you get it every upgrade you get it every piece
of software you get it you are upgrading your technology and you've not upgraded yourself listen to me closely when you get to the point where enough is enough when you get to the point where it hurt real bad when you get to the point you can't take it no more when you get to that point the doors start opening opportunities start happening listen to me very closely it's our Dream nobody's going to see it like you do it it's your dream nobody's going to feel it like you feel it it's your dream nobody's going to
be as dedicated to it as you are it's your dream and they don't have to understand and they don't have to like it and they don't have to do it it doesn't make a difference it's your dream and you my friend have been given the task to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to [Applause] do you have an opportunity right now that you'll never have people say why you grind so hard E I might not be the number one motivational speaker in the world 5 years
from now I got to get everything can get right now every book I can write listen to me my school is being paid for by the athletic department I'm hot right now A real man in the dark when nobody's watching he putting in [Music] work a real man when coach ain't even watching he's studying film on his own cuz he's he loves the process cuz real lions like to hunt they love the process just as much as they love the prize and some of y'all just want to score you don't like the process you're not
in love with the process you just like to put the pads on you love when it's showtime everybody in the crowd you like hey Mom can you see you can't even start until you know your people there once you see them you're like Showtime day after day after day grind after grind after grind airport after Airport driving mile after mile ET aren't you tired yes I might be I don't know ET aren't you ready to take a break yes I might be but listen to me I can't why cuz I grind for jayen I grind
for Jada I grind for deei I grind for my mother are you hearing what I'm telling you I grind for Vanessa I hustle for so the days I want to hit that alarm clock I think about my why I can't quit my son $25,000 a year I can't stop he counting on me my daughter I can't quit I can't stop I can't get tired I can't give up I can't give in my mama counting on me my wife is counting on me I yeah I might be different but I am brilliant yep I might be
loud but I am special we can go from being homeless in high school dropouts to having phds writing books and becoming the voice of a generation we can do whatever we believe believe we can do and we don't need anybody's permission to do it but ours I am phenomenal and I don't owe anybody an apology I am going to do great things and I don't owe anybody an apology I am I was created to be great I was created to do great things I was created to have great things and I will no longer ask
others for their permission 1 2 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 I I am great listen to me and I don't ow anybody in [Music] [Music] apology I am I am I am oh no I thought if you were good person and you do right by people that people will take your kindness and ex and give you kindness back but what I realize is sometimes in this world the Kinder you are the more they try to play you like a fool I was delusional I'm nice to you
you nice to me don't always work like that sometimes it's nice to me and I take advantage of you so some of y'all you delusional I just need you to do me a favor when you are delusional you can never get the outcomes you want because you the premise in which you're operating from is a lie so you got to work from truth and some of us don't want to deal with truth because it's so difficult ET you dropped out of school ET you grew up in a certain community in order for you to be
able to do what you need to do like a Tony Robin there's some things that you don't have in your arson that if you can just admit you don't have it in your Arsen then you can go get it but until you admit that you don't have it you'll never be able to do it so I need you to be a huge favor I just need you to be real and a reason why a lot of y'all don't want to be real cuz some of you would rather be in a lie and at least have
a lie than not have anything at all you already know that job you ain't about to your boss ain't about to cash you out you're just scared to quit and start your own business cuz you're you don't know if you're going to do well or not you know you shouldn't come on be honest you know you still shouldn't be at that job right now let me see your hand let's just be real let me see the hand you know you shouldn't still raise it high don't play with me raise it high you still shouldn't be
at that job but you're delusional that one day is going to be your day that one day you going to merge your job and your your calling together it's not going to happen you going to have to just leave he gave me permission to say I am brilliant I yeah I might be different but I am brilliant yep I might be loud but I am special he gave me permission and so the first thing I want you to do today is I want you to keep saying to yourself I am I am I am I
am and for those of you who hadn't quite started yet I am and for those of you who gotten started I am why because I can't believe that I started with a GED and that GED turned into a 4E degree 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 I am great listen to me and I don't owe anybody in apology I am phenomenal and I don't owe anybody in apology I am going to do great things and I don't owe anybody an apology I am I was created to be great I was created to
do great things I was created to have great things and I will no longer Act ask others for their permission that Eric Thomas that grew up in Detroit and had like that Detroit mentality while I love it it doesn't transfer to every Community I had to let let the dream destroy you let it strip you let It remake and mold you don't be afraid some of you afraid listen to me wherever you from if that's where you from if you leave you can always come back I promise you I promise you when you come back
back you can get right back into conversation ain't nothing going to change I promise you whatever world you're from if you go to other worlds you can always go back to that world the the version of you that you are right now is a blessing but it won't take you to the next level what got you here won't take you there so let the dream destroy you tear you down redefine you build you back up make you stronger the first version of Eric Thomas the high school dropout that guy would have never been able to
stand here and help you I had to destroy that Eric Thomas no matter who you are if you're average or if you're good when you get around greatness and you stay around greatness you start listening to Great podcast and reading great books and you start hanging around great people and you start becoming a part of great masterminds God you you just evolve and I don't know what happened but every year I went from a high school dropout and homeless to I started to BEC coming every single day more of who I am and I can't
believe it my next goal is to win the Nobel Prize why I had to come up with something I am giving you permission to be great I'm giving you permission to be everything you were called to be to do everything that you're capable of doing to have everything you're supposed to have listen to me you have to be careful when you hang around average people all they're going to do is tell you what they can't do and that's okay that they can't do it but that has absolutely nothing to do with us we can go
from being homeless and high school dropouts to having phds writing books and becoming the voice of a generation we can do whatever we believe we can do and we don't need anybody's permission to do it but ours you are brilliant you are special yes you're different and yes you're not doing it a traditional route but greatness is upon you you got to keep going you got to keep going you got to keep keep going in the 12 years to get the fouryear degree turn into a master's degree and the Master's Degree turned into a PhD
guys I can't believe it I went from being a High School Dropout from being homeless living in abandoned buildings to eating out of trash cans to Dr Eric Thomas to writing six books guys are you hearing what I'm saying today stop playing small and start playing big because I am all right all right all right let's stop on three 1 2 3 I am 1 2 3 I am 1 2 3 I am I am I am listen to me I was literally homeless I was coming to church not really taking showers I wasn't brush
bring my teeth and this guy looked at me and said you need to get your GED you need to leave Detroit I'm going to send you to college cuz greatness is upon you I was 16 17 years old I had never spoken a day in my life and this guy saw it like he saw something in me that I didn't see and he gave me permission to be where other people said I couldn't be he gave me permission to believe I was great he gave me permission to think I could change the world he gave
me per permission to start something that had never started in my family before he gave me permission to say I am I am I am listen to me very closely when you graduate and you get a job if you want to get paid you never say no you never say it can't get done don't you ever say out your mouth it can't get done even if you feel in your heart it can't get done you don't say it out loud you let the broke folks say that you let the folks they firing first say that
you always say it can get done even if you don't think it can get done just say it and try to make up something I'm being real I'm being real I don't I don't deal with people who say or they get paid real low in my company they like maintenance when you say I don't know how or I don't think it can be done I'm like okay cool you won't be like at the end of the year when bonus is getting passed out you won't be getting no bonus what I need you to do is
I Need You To Kill The Noise I need you to embrace the I am and however you get it done I need you to get it [Music] done they looked at the most successful men and women of the world and they found that they had like seven eight things in common and one of the things they all had in common was a routine they are obsessed with their routine they don't have a gap of wasted time their routine you know I realize the reason why I'm so sick successful and the reason why I don't get
in trouble like I used to when I was younger is because when I was younger man my schedule had so many gaps in it the devil had like okay he might pray at 600 but my man is watching T he playing video games by 8:30 it's not that I'm sweeter than nobody the devil can't get to me cuz all my time is taken up and by the time he get to me I'm sleep I'm too sleep to I to S I'm just being real 8:30 he like Eric you should I'm like bro I'm tired I
get come back to me tomorrow you know what I'm saying like 10 me tomorrow bro I'm about to go to sleep I'm good look my body said all you got to do is put your shoes on that's the hardest thing you got to do you put your shoes on and I'll do the rest I can't put your shoes on for you but put your shoes on and then just go and I just went and I I was walking for the do the uh 11 incline boy and I was just walking for an hour and I
was just like you know what it's almost an hour I don't feel like running my body was like don't even worry about it we'll get to that when we get to it I did my hour was about to get off my body was like you know we run now I said what we run now let's go you ain't tired I said I am tired no you're not you just walk for an hour you're not tired Eric your brain is telling you some dumb stuff if you were tired you wouldn't have been able to walk for
an hour okay so let's do this just run for 2 minutes I'm trying to help somebody right now go to a whole another level the Bible the reason why you go back to sleep is because you've always gone back to sleep it's like a default you you go back to sleep because you all you got to do is stop going to sleep and then you going to stop going to sleep all you got to do is stop fussing and cussing then you going to stop fussing and cussing all you got to do is stop spending
all the money you got and start saving it listen to me I became number one in the world I became a millionaire not because I made more money I became a millionaire because they told me millionaires only live off a 30% of their income come I want to make it plain for you I became a millionaire because I did what millionaires did I stopped living off 100% I paid my tithe and then I was like all right e you only got 20% left put the rest up so the first thing I did listen to me
the very first thing I did to become rich somebody said e to be rich put 6 months of your earning to the side so I was like all right bet that's what the rich told me to do so I put 6 to the side how long did it take I don't remember but I put it to the side then somebody was like yo E you need to put 100,000 to the side I was like all right 100,000 DD we going to put 100,000 to the side then somebody was like yo you need to get your
credit score up to 800 I was like all right get my credit score up to 800 then somebody said ET if you want to be Tony Roberts there's no way you'll be able to be like those dudes when you don't have the language they have you need to go get you a masters in a PhD from the white institution I said said what I went to Oakwood I went to HBCU he was like yeah but you didn't learn the language of Zig Ziggler at Oakwood so Oakwood is a phenomenal PL oh y'all not hear what
I'm saying I just said something you missed it now you need to go to Michigan State University CJ where's my you see my Master's Degree anywhere how about my PhD not in the office not at church you a see it in my house I didn't go to Michigan State to get a PhD I went to Michigan State to learn the the majority language listen to me very close supp when you graduate and you get a job if you want to get paid you never say no you never say it can't get done don't you ever
say out your mouth it can't get done even if you feeling your heart it can't get done you w't say it out loud you let the broke folks say that you let the folks they find first say that you always say it can get done even if you don't think it can get done just say it and try to make up something but every time I put on a dress shirt and W it up I just feel and I hear people say all the time man you look like you dressed to success like is putting
on a shirt and a tie dressed for Success I'm dressed for Success I'm getting paid I'm dressed for Success I'm not dressed like he dressed but I'm dressed the way I feel comfortable I feel good being me I feel good not to have it like not not only can I say no I don't have to explain why I said it no more it feels good being me cuz guess what I can never be sweet being you the majority of you are poor because you read poor stuff you watch poor stuff you just scrolling through like
you ain't got a life for real some of y'all on Instagram you on there for 30 minutes if I ask you what you saw you don't even know you just scrolling through rich people don't waste time they realize it's their most important commodity they don't watch a lot of TV they don't do a lot of entertainment if they're not working they're studying their craft and getting better at their craft so I need you to stop having a poverty mindset so when I quit my job to be an entrepreneur my mom was like whoa what are
you doing I was like I'm quitting my mom's like don't you dare quit you're going to embarrass me you got a wife and kids does YouTube have insurance does YouTube have a 401k and I was like y m I ain't trying to be funny and I ain't trying to be disrespectful I love you but you can't teach me how to be a millionaire because you're not one you come from the working class and I'm not mad at you m we wouldn't be where we are without you but you told me that every generation is supposed
to get better so I'll take your values but I won't take your work at me because rich people don't work they think poor people go clock in I make this much in hour rich people go I put them to work and I make this much in a hour see what happens is you're working for you and your family one they got 40 of you working at one time so they giving you 20% and then they keeping the 80% off of 15,000 people so what you have to decide is are you going to keep being the
99% or you ready to be a part of the 1% because it doesn't make a difference where you come from high school dropout it doesn't make a difference where you come from GED it doesn't make a difference where you come from a 17y old mom that got pregnant it doesn't make a difference where you come from took 12 years to get a 4-e degree it doesn't take a make a difference you know what makes a difference what makes a difference is when you become a 99% or a 1% and when I start thinking like acting
like and behaving like a 1er so I went to every single class and when the teachers was talking they thought I was just doing homework I wasn't I was listening to how they conjugate verbs I was listening to how they tell stories I was like o they ooh I peeped it out y'all they way more linear so that I realized when you do corporate is a b c d e f it's 1 2 3 45 it's topic body body body it's topic support support support conclusion I need your language though if I'm going to compete
I need your rules if I'm going to compete I need your codes if I'm going to compete the problem with most of you is you don't have a 1% language you got a poverty language there was a language that I needed to learn does it does it mean I need to abandon thear the language I learn absolutely nothing don't be average like for real for real whatever it is you do like do like do it do it and take a different perspective listen to me very closely the problem I have with most kids if I
tell you what it take most of you will die of exhaustion you pass out before you reach 10,000 hours you just pass out you don't got the heart for it you just don't have you don't have a stamina for it you just you couldn't take what it really takes just for those of you who don't know when they came from Africa and were enslaved they didn't move them to San Diego they wern't doing God San Diego I just want to give you some perspective they were in Mississippi Alabama it was Smoky hot and they didn't
quit and they didn't give up because they said we going to get through here for the next Generation come on our Latino brothers and sisters who were migrant workers they come on they in the east it was no AC and the stuff that y'all complain about the stuff that y'all think is like [Music] [Music] hard [Music]
