BECOME A MONSTER - Motivational Speech

Everyone says, well you should be harmless. Virtuous. You shouldn't do anyone any harm.

You should sheath your competitive instinct. You shouldn't try to win. You know, you don't want to be too aggressive.

You don't want to be too assertive. You want to take a backseat and all of that. It's like no.

Wrong. You should be a monster. An absolute monster.

And then you should learn how to control it. It's impossible to respect yourself until you grow those mental teeth. And when you grow those teeth you realize that you're dangerous.

You begin to demand success for yourself. You're no longer wishing  or hoping things work out you're gonna make it happen no matter what. So you start carrying yourself with a different level of  confidence and conviction.

That says to the world I will not stop. I am going to assess the situation I'm going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute. I'm gonna go get it because I'm built for it.

If you set out, and you say you're gonna do something do yourself a favor and don't lie to yourself. That is the worst thing that an individual can ever do. The people in life that win play offense, not defense.

Stop backing into everything stand up. Bow your back a little bit. Start to walk a little different.

Start to be that best version of you. You can do it in your quiet way. You can do it the way you do it.

But somehow they gotta look at you and go, okay, I won't monkey with that one. I need you to put the type of effort forward that the world knows don't come for me. You have to develop a doggedness.

You got to have some toughness in you. And the only way to develop toughness is you got to practice being tough. And you cannot practice being tough by quitting every time you get tired.

By stopping every time you don't feel like it. By giving up every time it gets challenging. That's what's wrong with people now.

People don't make it because they always give up when it gets hard. "You know, it's so challenging now. " "You know, they were talking about me.

" "I feel weak. " "I'm tired. " Life don't give a damn about you being tired.

You got to get about the business now. You want to be successful? You got to get at it.

We gonna stop all this soft sh*t and all that mess, man. You gotta get at it. You got to tear their mouth out.

When you go out there I need you to have that dog. When you get out there I need to kill to be killed, when you get out there. When you get out there whatever you can get, go get it 'cause they're gonna get it before you get it and they ain't gonna give it to you so you go out there and get what's yours.

A true monsters mentality is when you're willing to forgo rest forgo comfort forgo personal desires forgo whatever it takes to be better than you were yesterday. And every single time you feel like quitting remember all those hours and days you sacrificed to get to where you are. It's gonna take you getting ahold of the thing and not letting go.

You're gonna have to fight and fight and fight 'till you can't fight anymore. Whatever it takes I will do whatever I have to do to get to the other side. To make it over.

To press through this. Nothing will hold me back. Nothing will stop me.

If there's something that you want and you're hungry for it you got to do whatever is necessary until. And when you give the best you can and that's not enough you must do what is required. And don't give up on yourself.

Don't throw the towel in so quickly. Many people give up on the one-yard line. There will be things that will happen to you in life that will get you down.

But you must always stand up inside yourself and know that you can handle this. You've got to stand up to it and say I'm going to do this anyhow. And I'm not going to let you stop me.

And you've got to be so relentless that you're always looking for a way to get over always looking for a way that you can break through always looking for a way that you can win always looking for a way that you can strike a telling blow. If you tell that thing I'm here just like you here and I promise you I ain't leaving without the degree. I will not leave without that goal.

I will not leave without that dream. I will not leave this university I will not leave this job I will not leave this client I will not leave this opportunity until I'm successful. And you can't go back to that same old mindset.

You got to focus on this new day this new mindset these new goals. You can do it. Because that monster inside of you won't give up.

That monster inside of you won't give in. That monster inside of you won't throw in the towel. Failing doesn't mean you quit.

It means you failed but get back up and continue to push that bar higher and higher and higher. When you're constantly pushing and getting up earlier and getting up earlier and getting up earlier and fighting through pains and discomforts you don't care about failure. You actually welcome it.

That means you set the bar so high that it's like, oh, I failed. That's where I need to be. Now I gotta figure it out.

You have to be an uncommon amongst uncommon in your world. It takes everything and then when you think you've given everything you've just begun.