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 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 in order 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 man there 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 uh 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 one wanting things to change um and not being able to 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 the 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 something body and it has to be there because on all those bad days on all those days you don't want to do you have 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 people 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 are 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 will 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 and 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 shortcut 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 changed 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 Lea 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 openminded 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 a 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 but you're going to look back at any destination realized 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 went 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 like resonated with me you know you 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 I have the interview it goes well she says she
going to set me up with a inperson interview never even had it they uh emailed me few days later and I got the job so now I'm going 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 qual ified 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 4:00 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 inch at a 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 yet somehow we expect things to change you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles 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 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 that all positive 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 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 to be Air Force par rescan and I quit for fear of
the water I was 175 lbs I left the Air Force 4 years later at 300 lb I went from 175 to 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 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 are 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 mind that and how you can 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 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' 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 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'mma show up but the candle's getting smaller it's more socially acceptable to be 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 great 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 sometimes it's so bad we feel like
we're dying but we can't really live till we died a little C 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 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 at I'm with you but in the back of my mind all I'm thinking about is all 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 a 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 it there really are only two macro 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 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 well 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 sfus pushing the Rock uphill but it's not because as you pursue that goal you put yourself together and your life does 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 build 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 uphill 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 IED 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 braks everybody has but you got to realize when you have those braks what that is is bro you got toing stop you got to stop with all this I can't catch a break
bll 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 proove 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 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 MO ation 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 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 it 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 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't 24 hours in a day 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 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 a 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 of 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 feed feedback loop in terms of the big external thing the the the easier the opportunities
are because so few people can pursue them difficult 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 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 tired who cares you tired or not nobody car about you he was tired he 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 closed 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 4 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 no 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 balance 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's dead and in its death it's replaced by regret what's the least amount of sleep you play the game on if there's story where it's like you know no one knows about where you went and played a game and it was so insane for whatever reasons no sleep you play the game Zer S 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 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 why not though why why why didn't you do that well because when I retired I didn't want to have to say 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 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 I'm 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 he was tired he have personal problem family nobody cares a lot of people live their 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 [ __ ] face man life is going to throw all kinds of crazy you and you have to be ready for it and 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 is 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 the 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 no life is tough sometimes and it's 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 try to build belief you built belief when you had nothing Rock Bottom I 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 I I never ran from anything cuz I didn't had nobody to go to I've always had that where I'm going home to get me and 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 they'll see what their world ends and yours begins your ability to suffer endure our 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 I've learned is to to to always keep going always 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've really learned to put one foot in front of the other uh good B and different because eventually that storm passes 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 a situation 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 my 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 God 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 but you N 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 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 listen 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 numb it I don't 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 they saw me in the gym in the Pumping Iron days they say why is it that you're working out so hard 5 hours a day 6 hours a day and
you have always a smile in 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 live will get me a step closer to turn this goal into 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 the 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 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 gained the advantage it's so easy to be great nowadays my friend because 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 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 second is some blood there was probably a 100 days where I didn't want to do anything I wanted
to stay in the pool or 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 play one character in one game if you think ordinary is 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 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 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 game 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 test 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 I 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 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 if 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 know exactly what to do it just sucks doing it it sucks to do it most people the bottom 80% are lazy and they look looking for an easy way they're looking for a shortcut 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 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 in life and dreams do come true anything you want can happen and become a reality I believe that sincerely and I'll die 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 myself if I wasn't doing everything I could to be the best version of myself if I felt like I 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 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 Ari can't help you only you can help you grab youring balls get a [ __ ] 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 raise 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 theing 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 you ever want to be successful 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 of things D they 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 Ord AR 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 ordinary and you come up with extraordinary it's no other way all men are created equal some work harder and pre-season I'm going say it again because you might have missed it all men are created equal song work harder in pre-season my name is McGregor I'm mix with the Fighting Championship what is martial arts martial arts give me a focus I don't know where I would be without Arts of my life that's why I have to be so
authentic and so real about my own insecurities my own faults just being a 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 grasp that's what you can that's what you have to go after you don't have a 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 them 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 wouldn't
born to be wrapped up in bubble wrap and a blanket and set on a 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 uh 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 Lan 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 they may be getting 200 mies up
the the road faster than you but going through this path of life this journey over here that you make yourself that's incredibly 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 lebroning James but I tell you right now man we can
do a lot of when it comes to this pure on guts and willpower and getting through sh we have a lot more a lot more than what we think 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 had to succeed I have to give it 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
be sound better every person has the ability to put one foot in front of the other one step at a time right so like if you're saying okay 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 call my ever 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 looked at I don't care if you like me or then like I I don't care but said this is going to keep coming after whatever the is in front of him man I like the picture God looking down and saying yeah but that boy just won't quit he just watching he'll get back up and he'll get up swinging and he'll try again he just don't 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 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 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 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 to school to be this or that and still perform to the highest level because what people don't get is one day that thing 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 and2 billion years you know every single one of your Rel atives 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 right [Music] 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 it's 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 easy it's the easiest thing in the world to do I I'm done I ain't gone oh 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 today 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 lives in a very comfortable area there's no growth in that so for me
I realized that 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 there growth how is their mental 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're 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 you ever go through is right between your own ears it's in your mind we're all going through a war in our mind and we have to C our mind to fight that war and 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 uncomfort able good because discomfort is how we grow that's how we become strong if you 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 force my hands against that steel bar the bigger the PS getting the stronger they get and I was trying to squat 600 and bench press 500 lb and deadlift 700 it didn't feel like a walk in the 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 this strength this is where the action is strength and despite all of the things that we might disagree about and all my friends who might say arold don't talk to those people it's not worth it I don't get what to say I care about you I think you worth it 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 some times 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 harder way the more complicated one the one with more failures at first than successes the one that has ultimately proven proven to have more meeting 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 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 need more is people 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 us less 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 to change your mindset versus it being like Oh my God this sucks I became a professional Bud 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 came 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 M run your new Norm now man you
are doing two mops 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 there was games of football on yesterday there was rugby there was this there was that and like normal society is like let's talk about this and let's let's engage in this and I just don't I can't de it I just don't I'm people are
talking to me and in my head I'm I'm counting something I'm counting up a number or I'm or I'm knee deep in a sequence on the map or in on the feet that's my life sequences and numbers nothing else I cannot pay attention to nothing else 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 game I live this game 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 talent 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 and my personal question to you is why not you 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 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 it's more socially acceptable to be our own biggest critic than it is to be our own biggest cheerleader listen to the pain it's both history teacher and Fortune 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 Camp 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 the fear is never Reaching Your Potential that's it that always fallen 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 take yourself out your
comfort zone do not live in your bubble if you stay in your comfort zone that's why you will fail 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 I'm 75 years old I'm 300 lbs 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 Goins I see my name I
see all this and God goes hey you say read this man and I'm reading this list and I'm seeing 182 lbs 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 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 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't do 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 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 talent in the world but are you obsessed is it all you ever think about let's face said it's you against you out there when you walk on that Court you have to think I am the best guy out there 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 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 mold it then 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 always felt 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 to all of you watching here come close to the screen and 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 thank you to the critics thank you sometimes life can really hijack your mind when that happens to you you're alled 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 you 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 felt the test get over it move past it learn to not let life hijack your brain at work you've been working your off that new promotion you don't get it someone else does maybe they kiss better than you do guess what get over it 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 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 why would you not go for it why would you not take a chance at one point in time you got to take a chance on you to get something you never had you have to do something you never did Les Brown's a motivational speaker he made an analogy about this he says imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you never acted on the ghost of
the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset they say we we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and now we have to go to the Grave together so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes I asked the question why not you and now here's my last question my very last question on the questions to ponder is why not now there never was a better time take this dream and not let it
die take this dream and give it life take this dream and breathe into it your own personal Spirit until finally it becomes a flame that burns around the whole world let's go do it now 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 but to get to that life you going to have to jump 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 you want to be bad motherucker 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 1:00 in the morning
was 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 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 you're 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 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 your friends start to say you 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 Knights will flame with fire all the way the
fear is never 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 L 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 motherucker ain't going to do what I'm going to do be the now of what you want to be later but start 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 to do that later in life is turning around looking the mirror right now that's the later in life and unless that turnaround is something in progression later in life ain't going to be anything different relief 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 otherwise why you in here man
you didn't 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 too hard you guys start trying to follow someone else's path to success you guys are Dazed and Confused you must travel your individual 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 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
