THE GRIND IN 2025 IS GOING TO BE PERSONAL - One Of The Best Motivational Video Speeches Compilations

everyone tells you what to do and what's good for you they don't want you to find your own answers they want you to believe theirs and let me guess you want me to believe yours no I want you to stop gathering information from outside yourself and start Gathering it from the inside people are afraid of what's inside and that's the only place they ever going to find what they need we're in a fight boys are doing all that you can do anybody can see that win or lose we're going to walk out of the stadium

tonight with our heads held high do your best it's all anybody can ask for when I was a kid my father put me in boxing Camp middle of the summer 90° every day after sparring in that they make you do 100 laps and 50 pull-ups they push you until you either threw up or passed out or both anyone could leave at any point all you had to do is quit and let me guess you didn't quit I quit every goddamn day I just never said it out loud because no way was I going to give

them the satisfaction of breaking me know all that stuff that you're avoiding all the problems you don't want to fix the conversations you don't want to have that is why you are not where you want to be everything you want is on on the other side of the [ __ ] you are avoiding the body you want is on the other side of a whole lot of days spent in the gym that you just don't want to spend the problem is it not knowing what to do the problem is doing it that is the separating

Factor all the people you want to be they are doers you on the other hand you're a wer a Wisher a dreamer a thinker a talker and those people don't get so until you start doing some doing nothing's going to change do you love this game I mean love it with your whole heart because if you don't let's not even bother let's not open that door they're just going to slam it right in our face I love this game I live this game 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 up let's face it it's you against you out there The Chronic excuse maker how do you stop making excuses this is actually pretty simple and I said it the other day you have to realize you have to know you have to accept that all your excuses are lies they are lies all of them think about the things that you tell yourself the lies you use to rationalize taking

the easy Road taking the easy Road and leaving discipline behind think about them you don't have time that's a lie you don't have support that's a lie and you're too tired or you're too sore or you're just plain not feeling it lies lies lies and the list goes on and on and on and it doesn't stop if you don't make it stop what is my life going to look like if I do not do what it is I know I need to do and the answer is going to be frustration disappointment regret and bitterness over

the course of your life so you have to understand if you don't go do what it is that you know you're supposed to do and you don't become what it is you know you can become eventually you're going to come to a point in life where you're pissed off and you won't have the time back to go back and redo it sometimes life can really hijack your mind when that happens to you you're all up your goals your Ambitions everything is out the window in life we all go through different things sometimes your girlfriend or

boyfriend breaks up with 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 fell the get over it move past it learn to not let life hijack your brain at work you've been working your ass off for that new promotion you don't get it someone else does maybe they kiss better ass than you do guess what get over it life will hijack your mind if you let it don't allow all these things things to make you a lesser person

you must own your mind don't let life own yours get after and stay hard sit on your bed one day and ask yourself what remarkably stupid things am I doing on a regular basis to absolutely screw up my life and if you actually ask that question but you have to want to know the answer right because that's actually what asking the question means it doesn't mean just mouthing the words it means you have to decide that you want to know you'll figure that's out so fast it'll make your hair curl what would happen if you

consulted yourself about the best possible outcome for you you might get an answer there's a voice that guides you through life and sometimes it's guide you in a direction that you don't want to go that's usually the right place to go it's that uncomfortable place so that voice is always talking to me but we don't listen to it I listen to it all right I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside but the truth is you didn't look hungry now when we fought you had that eye of the tiger man The Edge

and now you got to get it back and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning you know what I mean maybe we could win it back together I of the tiger man [Music] you got a choice You Got Talent you got a chance and I want to hear about your environment what your mama didn't give God a chance use it while you're still alive you don't know what death is you have no idea what death is you must commit yourself to Excellence you must commit yourself to becoming the best

and the wonderful thing is that Excellence is a journey it's not a destination you never get there the more I develop the more I learn about myself the more I realize how much we're burdened by the things we carry from our past and in saying that I mean that if you keep carrying o bricks you'll build the same house if you keep carrying the past with you if you keep taking who you used to be that anxiety of the past that anxiety of your your previous self you continue to keep being that person and I

don't say that just to say that you should just let go of your past self it's not about letting go it's not about disregarding it's not about getting rid I think we need to get that out of our mentality cuz in all aspects of ourselves I don't think we get rid of anything I think we change it it's about renovation not disregarding a warrior does not give up what he loves to he finds the love in what he does look at [Music] me look at me I have a metal rod in my leg the war

is not about perfection or Victory or invulnerability he's about absolute vulnerability that's the only true courage what kind of training you think I could do I just had an accident the accident is your training life is choice you can choose to be a victim or anything else you'd like to be just ignore what happened to me a wire axe only a fool reacts and what if I can't do it that's a future thought out well how would we start there is no starting or stopping only doing [Music] your life is your life don't let it

be clubbed into D submission be on the watch there ways out there is light somewhere it may not be much light but it beats the darkness be on the watch the gods will offer you chances know them take them you can't beat death but you can beat Death in life sometimes and the more often you learn to do it the more light there will be your life is your life know it while you have it you are marvelous the God's wait to Delight in you trying to get to this next level without as my my

Breen says without the next level finding us you know it's like life is is is Peaks and valleys and some people think that that some people explain that is good time bad times but I actually think it's learning or or or let's say learning mastership learning mastership okay or study mastership study M mastership I went from the top of one mountain I I mastered something I mastered something and people appreciated it but you know once you're on the top of that mountain you have to go this way and that's what had you stay stuck on

top of one on one Hill one mountain when you know God's intention is that we study and master a bunch of different things I thought that being an adult was going to be easier than it is I think I thought it was going to work like this you know you work hard you tell the truth your aim is true and you slowly build and get better and better and better life doesn't work on some slow gradual Ascent where every decision makes sense you know it it was turning into much more of a slog where sometimes

up sometimes down sometimes twisted sometimes what you thought was a failure turned into succcess sometimes what you thought was a success turned into a failure right and we live in a society where everybody's just say Wella are you making more money are you getting more success I mean what are you doing and here I was in this trouble of judging where I was at in my life and here I met this 87-year-old guy who seems so happy he wasn't eating himself alive with bitterness or greed or ambition or um breaking his arm patting himself in

the back and I was immediately fascinated you know that he had this thing that he basically had come to feel that blind pursuit of success at his profession was detrimental to his development as a [Music] man I don't know who needs to hear this but do not set a goal for 2025 if you cannot answer yes to three of these five questions question one am I actually prepared for the guaranteed discomfort that comes with success or am I deceiving myself two am I ready to work on this goal like it's my last chance three am

I ready to cut off off that stupid thing I do every day that's taking me further from this goal four am I willing to ignore distractions to make this happen and finally am I willing to embrace failure as part of success so how many yeses did you get there's this moment in Avatar when Uncle iro says sometimes life is like this dark tunnel you can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel but if you just keep moving you will come to a better place and that's the key movement yeah most people don't

embrace it think about it how much time have you spent this year trying to figure things out cooking up the perfect strategy Gathering endless knowledge watching tutorial after tutorial and how much have you actually accomplished nothing right because change does not happen through planning it happens through action here's the truth you don't need to see the whole path you simply need to take the first step take action collect data then use that data to adjust the more you act the more you learn the more you learn the more you grow like iro said you can't

always see the light but you will find it if you keep moving Master change by starting with action don't let Perfection hold you back the life you want is waiting for you it's time to go after it the journey journey is what brings us happiness not the [Music] destination believe in yourself and don't and don't rely on anybody to believe in you don't rely on anybody to push you or make you better believe in yourself and only yourself and allow that human being to make you a better [Music] person only way to live is know

you're going to die if you're afraid to die you'll never be able to live the pain of discipline or the pain of regret go for the discipline because it weighs ounces the regret weighs tons because it can accumulate proud of how you've been showing up lately there's a lot on your plate no doubt and it might feel like you're falling behind but you're not you're overcoming stressful situations you're fighting for your mental health you're doing your best the only thing you're falling behind on is giving yourself the credit you deserve because at any given moment

you're doing way better than your inner critic would like to admit you have a plan and you have a process when opposition adversity challenges uncertainty pops up the problem doesn't look as big adversity doesn't look as big the challenges don't look as big when you got a plan and a process in place now when you don't got a plan in a process in place adversity and opposition shows up uncertainty shows up problems look real big yeah adversity looks real big you forget about the sacrifice you forget about the long hours you forget about about the

vision you forget about the mission because you don't have a plan or process right the process makes you stick to whatever it is that you're doing how bad do you want it we all know when we relax exactly the person you want to become the question is do we believe we can become it without that belief every Journey we run into a debate a debate when pain start to fill the body you weigh a temporary pain versus a lifetime of Pride Champions find a way to make it happen no matter how long it takes they

find a way Champions find a way to get through their nerves so don't be ashamed to say you're nervous but find a way to get over it passion in the drive has to be followed by an action that's the hardest part people don't want to have that action dreams want to live just like everybody else and if you don't bring them to life somebody else will and you're going to be sitting there back thinking man I could have I should have I would have right you had your chance you got to deliver you got to

have action you got to deliver ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better the world is [Music] yours you could either do the work today to become your highest version tomorrow or tomorrow you can feel a lifelong of regret that's a given the people who know that they were meant for more and didn't go for more end up with a lifelong state of regret and the reason for that is is because they didn't want to hurt the people around them didn't want to hurt family members but instead they gave in to

the life of average just so they can blend in and not stand out and years later they regret not doing the things that they could have done to become a winner we often don't realize we're in control we're in control of our our own lives and we can make different choices and if the things in our life are not bringing us joy and happiness if our career that we've devoted all of our Lives to isn't bringing us joy we can change them if we decide our relationship is not the right relationship we don't have to

suffer in that relationship stay in your comfort zone that's why you will fail to get something you never had you have to do something you never did 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 ask yourself what do you really want what do you really want I mean down inside if you get anything you want what do you really want let your mind take off your creative being there's

nothing on the planet that's like [Music] you give me evidence that you're not qualified to go get that give me evidence that you're not qualified for a great life you have n you are Ultra qualified no one can tell us what we're capable of except us and when we believe these truths it's over you're unkillable [Music] you have the ability to take a sledgehammer to anything in your life and remake it life is Clay so long as you realize that you can mold it and shape it and change it to do uh what you want

to do if you knew what you were doing then you would be stagnating because you'd be doing nothing new and so if you're going to do something new then that is what would be the Catalyst for growth and so you can't want to grow and also want to know everything you're doing at the same time it's like the two beliefs contradict one another and so that I think that's a lot of a lot of the discontent that people suffer from is they want two things that are Polar Opposites they want the really strong character they

want the easy life like one is the price of the other you don't want hardship hardship creates growth and so they want both and you can't [Music] use the word destiny over and over throughout the book what what does that mean to you it it's a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does the picture you have on your mind of what you're about will come true that's kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self because it's a fragile feeling and you put it out there

here somebody will kill it so it's best to keep that all inside revisit your dream you know it doesn't cost anything to dream and our dreams need auditing as you go into this next year shouldn't just be doubling down on the same dream really take some time and evaluate your real purpose The Moody said our greatest fear should not be that we fail our greatest fear should be that we succeed at something that doesn't matter and so if you really believe what you're doing matters it gives you a pieace through turmoil through difficulty through ups

and downs if I fail in the attempt to do something that matters I can live with that you do realize that this could be the year that you change your life if you just log in me and you both know you didn't stick to the script last year but it's okay though because this year we come for everything that we lost and more we a't hearing the excuses no more your future is tired of that you're the only one that can make it right but you're also the only person that can mess it up lock

in and change your life like your life depends on it because it do understand that 2025 is right around the corner and if you want to make the most of it this is what you're going to do work on your personal craft because it is only through a project that you are genuinely able to improve and most importantly take action because you will accomplish nothing unless you go out there and will it into existence if you're able to do all of those I guarantee that you will have the best year of your life how much

did they first pay to give up on your dreams 27 Grand a year and when were you going to stop and come back and do what makes you happy good question I see guys who work at the same company for their entire lives guys exactly like you they clock in they clock out and they never have a moment of happiness you have an opportunity here Bob this is a [Music] rebirth I think having a purpose is that thing that that makes us tick that gets us up every day and gets us over the hump of

opposition and adversity and the reason that I Champion adversity and opposition is because I think for the most part in life people pretty much know what to do when things go right right like when things go right they know how to feel they know how to act how to react but it's when that opposition and that adversity comes and it creates a level of misunderstanding right now the vision is blurred now you don't have clarity about what you're supposed to do now you question if your existence matters and I think when you have a purpose

it's powerful because in the midst of the opposition it makes you realize that you've been put here for a certain reason if you make yourself more than just a man if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you then you become something else entirely which is a legend Ain this year you can't fear change and of the beautiful passages in meditation Mark serus reminds himself that everything in life comes from change good and bad that by trying to keep things the same not only are you of course focused on something that

you don't control but you preventing yourself from all the wonderful opportunities that exist that could come your way we live in a time of disruption we live in a time of Institutions that are falling apart we live in a time of innovation new institutions that are being created so you can't fear what's going to come of that the stones say all you could focus on this year is embracing those things adapting yourself to change acquiescing to that change rather than fighting it rather than fearing it rather than resenting it cuz it's going to happen regardless

of how you feel about it so what you should focus on the Stokes would say is what you're going to do about it life is hard on the good days when you expect so much of yourself and when the bad days come around keeping the promises feels almost impossible I wish I could explain to you the pit in my stomach in those moments but I'm not sure I have the right words to be honest somehow I always see the other side of the promise kept though and the difficult part is that it doesn't provide the

relief you'd hope it would my only consolation at times is that I know I did the right thing to maintain who I am because that is the one thing I cannot let myself lose one guy came over to me frustrated always wins stay [Music] home the year's almost over it's been a tough year right but we're not going to talk about that right now this is for making it through this tough year there's been a lot of good and bad but I'm happy that you've made it this far and that you're still here thank you

for hanging in there and I'm proud of you for staying strong if you wish to be the king of the jungle it's not enough to act like a king you must be the king there can be no doubt because doubt Causes Chaos and one's own Dem mind start something you believe in and give it everything you have not for the Applause not for the outcome but because it's yours focus on the work let it consume you take small steps every day and watch how they compound what feels impossible now becomes inevitable over time forget Perfection

forget shortcuts Mastery lives in repetition and the timeline for greatness is a lifetime [Music] ation and you come out the other side and you realize how much you grew through that you start becoming grateful right one you become grateful for what you just went through you you become grateful for the past experiences but also you become grateful for when you are going through tough situations in the future because you understand that literally the situation and the season I'm in right now is developing me in a certain way that maybe I can't see right now but

I know that if I keep showing up keep taking it day by day step by step Moment by moment I'm going to come out a better version of myself man I'm grateful for [Music] that you messed up but it's not the end of the world that it seems and it's not the end of the world that those would try to make it s today a new day today a new year and so do not destroy yourself over a man that no longer exists don't ever be ashamed of anything you've done in your life face it

fix it make it better build belief build confidence to the point where nothing can hurt you because you know exactly who you are you've faced your demons you were able to hear all your past traumas I'm no longer embarrassed I'm no longer ashamed being ashamed is one of the biggest things that kill people nowadays morati which means love of fate and it basically means love everything that happens to you as a way of learning and as a way of toughening yourself life involves pain life involves loss the people that you know are going to die

you're going to get ill you're going to have terrible things happen to you people are going to screw you bad things are going to happen that is life that's what life is about that's what any animals had to deal with that's what you have to deal with if you complain and you wish things were otherwise that means that you don't love life you don't like life it's you don't accept it be the opposite accept everything that happens and find a way to love it and see the purpose behind it unchosen suffering is going to happen

in life your parents are going to pass away loved ones going to die your relationships are going to break down your body is going to fail you and the the only way that you can prepare yourself for unchosen suffering is with chosen suffering it all starts with a choice you're not here by accident you're here because of the choices you made good or bad they're yours you can't blame circumstances you can only own up and be accountable for your actions if you don't like where you're at change it you chose this now choose something better

in life you can be so gifted right and so T I want y'all to hear this right you could be so gifted so talented something can serve as an advantage your whole life if you don't personally develop right if you don't grow if you don't evolve at a certain point in your life your advantage is going to become your disadvantage guarantee you that's the importance of hard work that's the import of dedication that's the importance of commitment this one question will change your entire life who do I need to become that's the question who do

you need to become to become this person to achieve this success to hit this goal that's the only question you need audit who you are and you got to ask yourself what do I need to let go of and who do I need to become to become this person you have to keep growing and evolving and trying to be the best version of yourself and sometimes that's uncomfortable for people to see because they're not doing the same because it makes them feel like you're leaving them you know but that's just their own projections going on

to you and you don't need to take that onto yourself because you're growing you're you're on your own Journey you're trying to be a better version of yourself he says when we strive to become better than we are everything around us becomes better too the pursuit of personal Excellence is not a solitary Journey it's a catalyst for transformative change that elevates not just you but the entire tapestry of your existence striving for continual Improvement is like planting seeds of positive change fostering environments where growth becomes contagious as we become committed to becoming the best versions

of ourselves the ripple effect extends to the world creating a cast of positive influence that is tangible what makes you uniquely you you can't be comfortable with yourself if you don't know who yourself is and you can't know who yourself is if you don't stop looking at how everybody around you is uh and start looking at what makes you comfortable what makes you uniquely you there's roughly close to I guess about 8 billion people on this planet but there's only one you to look at yourself you have to focus deep you have to go through

a process being honest and going what excites me what do I feel like makes me unique the power that you have in life is minding that uniqueness minding that individual quality in whatever field you go into and so you can't have that self-awareness if you can't focus Fus if you can't concentrate if you can't be bored and take a notebook and start writing things out about your childhood about who you are about what you love and what you hate if you can't do that I'm sorry but there's no hope for you there's really no hope

for you so you have to be able to put yourself on that information diet and go into that introspective process you have a choice to make do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were no so this is what it takes nothing is easy there's a quiet kind of pain in starting over it feels like failure like all the effort all the time all the dreams you poured into something have been erased like you're back at square one staring at the wreckage of what could have been starting over isn't

just hard it's humbling it forces you to face everything you thought you'd left behind your fears your doubts and the heavy weight of regret but here's the thing starting over isn't the end it's the beginning it doesn't feel like that though does it when you're in it when the dust hasn't settled and all you can see is what you've lost it's hard to imagine that this could be the start of something better something stronger something worth all the pain and yet that's exactly what it is you see life isn't linear it's not a straight path

from point A to point B it's messy it's filled with detours dead ends and moments where you have to stop turn around and begin again and that's not failure that's life the people who never start over the ones who cling to what's broken because they're too afraid to Begin Again they're the ones who stay stuck they're the ones who never grow never change never find out what's waiting for them on the other side of the storm starting over is an act of Courage it's standing in the ruins of what you thought your life would be

and saying this isn't where it ends this is where it begins it's choosing to believe that no matter how many times you've Fallen no matter how many times you failed you still still have something left in you something worth fighting for and here's the truth starting over doesn't mean erasing everything that came before it doesn't mean forgetting the lessons the strength the resilience you've built along the way it means taking those things those hard-earned truths and using them as the foundation for what comes next because every time you start over you're not starting from scratch

you're starting from experience and that makes all the difference think about a tree that's been cut down on the surface it looks like the end the trunk is gone the branches are gone the leaves are gone but deep beneath the soil The Roots remain and those roots they're still alive still strong still capable of growing something new that's you no matter how many times life has Cut You Down your roots are still there and from those roots you can rebuild you can grow you can rise but rebuilding takes time it takes patience and most of

all it takes faith faith in yourself faith in the process faith that even though you can't see the end yet it's worth the work and it is work starting over means showing up every day even when it feels like nothing is happening even when it feels like you're getting nowhere it means planting the seeds of your future future self watering them with your effort and trusting that eventually they'll grow and they will grow because that's what life does it grows even in the face of loss even in the face of failure even in the face

of uncertainty life has a way of finding a path forward of creating something new From the Ashes of what was and you are no different you are life you are growth you are the possibility of what comes next starting over also require something else the ability to forgive yourself to let go of the mistakes you've made the opportunities you've missed the times you've fallen short you're not perfect you never will be and that's okay Perfection isn't the goal growth is progress is becoming a little bit stronger a little bit wiser a little bit more yourself

every day that's the goal so if you're standing at the edge of a new beginning unsure of whether you have the strength to start again let me tell you this you do you've already survived the worst you've already faced the pain the Heartbreak the loss and you're still here that means you're stronger than you think that means you're capable of more than you know and when you start again when you take that first step it's not going to feel Monumental it's not going to feel like a movie montage where everything suddenly falls into place [Music]

it's going to feel small quiet maybe even insignificant but that first step it's everything because it's proof that you're not done yet it's proof that you're willing to try and that willingness that's where transformation begins starting over doesn't mean you failed it means you're brave enough to keep going it means you're willing to leave behind what no longer serves you to let go of the life you thought you wanted so you can create the life you're meant to live and that life it's out there waiting for you waiting for you to take the steps to

put in the work to believe in yourself enough to try [Music] if you're going to do it older you do get the more rules are going to try to get you to [Music] follow come on do it we have created a fictitious feeling a roof to our expectations of ourselves life's not easy we're all destined to have to do the thing that we fear the most anyway you got to keep living man is a oneway street whichever way I go say what you can do do what you [Music] say I think I'll try it out

no think if you're going to try it out beforehand but when it's time to go dive finish it find out come out the other side don't leave it and go if I just hold uh-uh that keeps me up you half pass something you just don't know whether you failed or succeeded you got what you want or didn't get what you want finding out looking get in the mirror and going I didn't have passes I went all the way I found out that's a great question what you're about to say and do will outlive you do

it well if life was nothing but green lights and we didn't have yellows and reds things that make us pause hardships crisises times for introspection then what the hell would it all be for we need the yellows and the Reds that's how we evolve that's how hopefully there's some Ascension to our being if anything I would say to my 50-year-old self Go fail more if anything I would say to you go fail na more forget them those people on the sideline that are saying the thumbs down or calling you something or being snarky they're on

the sidelines for a reason if you're not getting past this today this week this month this year almost in a decade go been you're still hung up and you can't get rid of that thing if it's holding you back from going where you want to go maybe you should just deny the thing ever happened Kick It In The Head kick it off the curb I'm done with you I'm sick of you I'm tired of hanging out with you I'm tired of that thing whatever it is hold me back from going where I want to go

happiness is an emotional response to an outcome if I win I will be happy if I don't I won't it's an if then cause and effect with proo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately raise it every time we attain it see happiness happiness Demands a certain outcome it is result Reliant and I say if happiness is what you're after then you're going to be let down frequently and you're going to be unhappy much of your time Joy though Joy is a different thing it's something else Joy is not a choice it's not a

response to some result it's a constant Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do no matter the outcome we like to say no freedom and light is the one that carries it man I don't know that's maybe too evolved for us to really grab a all of rage and anger and revenge are Mighty powerful emotions and this is the beauty of delayed gratification I tee yourself up do yourself a favor make the choices the purchases today that pay you back tomorrow the choices we make compounding assets of our

future you need to hold yourself more accountable life is not easy it is not don't try to make it that way life's not there it never was it isn't now and it won't ever be do not fall into the Trap the entitlement trap of feeling like you're a victim you are not get over it and get on with [Music] it there's a responsibility to freedom and that there is freedom in responsibility it is just as important where we are not as it is where we are look the first step that leads to our identity and

life is usually not I know who I am that's not the first step the first step's usually I know who I am not defining ourselves by what we are not is the first that leads us to really knowing who we are you know that group of friends that you hang out with they gossip too much or kind of shady they really aren't going to be there for you in a PCH how about that bar we keep going to that we always seem to have the worst hangle problem or that computer screen that keeps giving us

an excuse not to get out of the house and engage with the world and get some real human interaction how about that food that would keep stuff tastes so good going down makes it feel like crap the next week when feel lethargic and keep putting on weight how about that well those people those places those things stop giving them your time and energy and you quit giving them your time you inadvertently find yourself spending more time and in more places that are healthy for you that bring you more joy why because you just eliminated the

who's the where the what's and the WIS that were keeping you from your identity I promise you too many options will make a tyrant of us all right so get rid of the excess the wasted time decrease your options if you do this you will have accidentally almost innocently put in front of you what is important to you by process of elimination it's so much easier to figure out who you're not and if you start eliminating the who I'm not by sheer mathematics you end up Mr Monroe Wills was 94 years old and he said

grandpaa he said he said can you give me some advice for life and his grandpap says oh yeah mon best advice I can give you is this I've had many crisises in my life and most of them never happened you just got to keep living man l v i [Music] n you looking at her all on that Sky thing good how that say is only dark yes lights [Music] wi most people fear death because they wasted their life too busy chasing approval ignore your instincts and ran out a time to be who they were they

lived for everyone else their parents friends spouses bosses even a stranger on a screen but they never Liv for themselves now with their back against the wall they realize the truth the world never cared and they let themselves rot for nothing now you can make excuses say it was a sacrifice but the mirror doesn't lie so if you look in that mirror and see your reflection and ask yourself was it worth it and if the answer is no then what the hell are you waiting for be you and live like time owes you nothing because

it doesn't do something that makes you happy life is an opportunity benefit from it life is a dream realize it life is a challenge meet it life is a duty complete it life is a game play it life is a struggle accept it the second one reads the ultimate measure of a man it's not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience where he stands at times of Challenge and controversy C you I'm going to say something to you you're smart you're talented you know a few things but Talent means nothing in this game

if you don't make the right choices there's plenty of talented people out there who never see the light of day anymore last thing takes discipline because this whole game is one big long shot and if you don't have the discipline to stay away from the flyers or from the gambles or whatever else you want to call a stupid move then my friend I'm afraid to say one day you will go down it's inevitable you want my advice make a list of everything you want now and then plan on spending the next 25 years of your

life getting it slowly piece by piece those who fight with dragons for too long become dragons themselves and those that gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes right back all of us have a Dragon's [Music] Lair a haunting a shadow that thing within us or that place where we don't want to touch and we don't want to look and we don't want to go on that journey of figuring out because there's a dragon in there right that's what everyone's telling us and so what what this quote is trying to tell us is hey I know

you've heard all of these myths and tales but what if you wouldn't figured it out yourself what if instead of gazing and being so scared that you're going to get eaten by something or whatever you walk into the dark and go see it for yourself very scary thing not many people would do that because Mr fear has lied but the real answer to your question 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 have to be singular inflexible unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle that very struggle to achieve becomes its own reward a hard simple ability to continue is a kind of blessing you can't do your work according to other people's values I'm not talking about also following your dream either I I never like the inspirational value of that phrase besides being sentimental it's beside the point dreaming is a way of trivializing the process the obsession that carries you through the failure as well as the successes which could be harder to get through

I mean if you're dreaming you're sleeping and it's important an imperative to always be awake to your feelings your possibilities your Ambitions and don't get hung up on the consequences because they can be good like Awards success and even celebrity and they can be bad like no awards no success and no celebrity things will happen to [Music] you things that you cannot control Ry otion will fun you when it does how you deal with it what you do will Define who you [Music] are did that happen to you oh it happens to all of us

whether we wanted to or not these scars we have make us who we are we're not meant to go back and fix them and there's nothing broken with you that needs to be fixed take it from an old guy who made a lot of mistakes you want to live your past live your life don't let your tragedy Define you what if it's supposed to Define me your tragedy made you a hero that also made me alone I'm not to F by my past my past has taught me who I am to be able to evaluate

the situation present and imply what I've learned to make the best choice and that choice is based on character it's based on morality Integrity never about financial return never about monetary value or tangible items it's always been about the character of the intangible item sometimes we need help to get there yes you've come a very long way in a very short time well it doesn't feel that way you should know that I have always taken the path that is most right most right the result is never in question for me just what path do you

take to get there and there is always one that is most right and that is what this is you have to be willing to sacrifice some comfort to step into what is for you it may mean sacrificing old habits and old ways right this season that you're in or you're trying to step into may need you to sacrifice old habits old ways of thinking right old spaces you used to Navigant are you willing to do that for your growth [Music] right you can't avoid the Peaks and valleys in life they say you can't avoid the

Peaks and valleys in life life will always have the ups and downs so make peace with it how hard are you really working I don't know about you but I I don't encounter many people who are completely committed to their craft in our society where it is very unpopular to have a sickening completely committed dedicated work ethic it's not the norm I believe people who think this way don't know what it's like to push yourself to the limits don't know what it's like to work your absolute best give everything you have sacrifice commit work hard

and that feeling of of growth of progress of even reaching a milestone in your journey how amazing that feels consistency is even rarer than Talent OR enthusiasm every January 1st in the gym Rock open everyone's Keen to do something they've got these new New Year's resolutions they're all enthusiastic and some of those people will be talented but how many of those people end up being consistent long term death is not waiting behind that door right now every second you are between life and death one day it just stays with this then this is going to

happen so in the moment where you realize it could be my last action right now that I do having this type of s on the mind it could be your last hopefully makes you wake up to really focus on the things that are important for you because many things are starting to fall away when somebody tell you look you only have one more week to live many problems that at the moment people are caring about they will just disappear then they wake up and realize this shortness of Life how precious it actually is that we

are able to be here live your life the way that you want to leave your life ladies and gentlemen as I speak to you right now if you had 90 days to live how many of you will make some radical changes in your life if you look at Nelson Mandela if you look at mother traa if you look at Mahatma Gandhi who died with under 10 possessions these people were World Changers these people were Radical optimists these people suffered because the root of the word passion means to suffer they suffered for their dream they suffered

for their values they suffered for their cause they suffered for their followers they suffered for their greatness Game of Life or people are going to hit you they're going to claw you they're going to scratch you they're going to bite you it's just the part of life and instead of taking everything personally you have to see that it's like a gladiator battle and that some people are bad some people are good some people are not are in between but stop taking everything personally and try to learn from it so if you make a mistake what

you want to do if you have failure in life something didn't go right you want to have the be the ability to look Inward and say what did I do wrong and a lot of people don't have that inner strength but if you want to be successful if you want to get ahead in this world you have to develop the skill you have to be able to look at yourself as if you were somebody else as from the outside and say Here's how I could improve here's what I did wrong the last time I did

it great life is in front of you it's not behind you what you did back there was learn the lessons to get you to where you are at this particular moment right here do you know man that you can actually mess your life completely up you can jack it all the way up and you can turn around and get it right what type of reality are you even living what type type of reality are you living are you living a proactive reality where you're continually problem solving and looking at all the different ways that you

could manipulate guide or push your reality that you want in your favor or are you living a reactive reality where you just continually uh allow what is going to happen happen well I can tell you right now if you live in a reactive reality you need to stop because if you really want to live the life of your dreams you have got to start living a proactive reality so if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go start walking you got to start walking cuz the perspective is not going to change you

have to start moving forward you have to start start taking steps in order to improve your vision improve your perspective change your perspective make some kind of progress and worst case scenario you figure out that you walk the wrong direction okay now you can walk in the other direction and that's that's going to be fine but standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die waiting to starve to death don't let that happen everything that you are everything that you're becoming is a resilient pad of growth on that pad is a launch

that's where you take take off that's where you find out what you're really made of it's not about waiting until the end and one day you'll go after it make today day one today is the day that I decided I wanted to be great so I'm going to do it I decided I want to go after my goals after my dreams that's the mindset that you have to have because today is the day you were given breath I'm here with a purpose and live on purpose not off of your resume where you've been but on

the die Direction and understanding of where you're going there's a call on you it's time for you to answer it taking responsibility doesn't mean you blame yourself it means you become accountable for everything that happened because it's the only way to improve it's the only way to see real progress if you're constantly blaming something else for your circumstances it means you're giving up the opportunity to be in control it might not be your fault but it's your job to make the most of every situation and do the best with what you have so do it

take responsibility for all of it because that's when things start to get good there's a weight to being alone that few people talk about Solitude can feel like a void like like silence pressing in from all sides magnifying every thought every doubt every piece of yourself you've been trying to outrun it can feel like the world has forgotten you like no one sees you like you've been left behind while everyone else moves forward but here's the thing about solitude it's not a punishment it's a crucible most people fear being alone they fill their lives with

distractions with noise with people who barely see them because the thought of sitting with themselves is unbearable but Solitude Solitude forces you to face yourself it strips away the masks the performances the external validation it takes everything you thought you needed the attention the Applause the company and asks who are you without it who are you when it's just you and that's where the strength is that's where the growth is because when you're alone there's no one to impress no one to hide behind no one to tell you who you're supposed to be it's just

you raw unfiltered and real and in that space in that silence you find the truth about yourself the truth is Solitude doesn't weaken you it sharpens you it's in The Quiet Moments the ones where you feel like no one is watching that you discover who you really are you learn what you value what you stand for what you're capable of and yes it's uncomfortable yes it's hard but strength isn't built in Comfort it's built in the moments when you're forced to carry your own weight when there's no one to lean on no one to rely

on but yourself think about a tree standing alone in an open field it doesn't have the sh shter of a forest to protect it it's exposed to every storm every gust of wind every blazing sun and yet because of that its roots grow deeper its trunk grows stronger its resilience is unmatched that's what Solitude does to you it makes you unshakable but here's the thing about solitude it's not just about enduring it it's about using it it's about turning it into a for G where you can shape yourself into something stronger something wiser something whole

because when you're alone you're free free from the noise of the World free from the expectations of others free to ask yourself what do I want who do I want to be and the answers to those questions they're not easy they don't come all at once but in solitude you have the time and the space to find them to explore the parts of yourself you've been too busy to face to confront the fears the insecurities the wounds that you've been carrying and through that confrontation through that process of sitting with yourself you begin to heal

you begin to grow Solitude isn't just about being alone it's about becoming whole it's about learning that your worth doesn't come from the people around you the validation they give you or the way they make you feel your worth comes from within it comes from knowing who you are from standing on your own two feet from realizing that you're enough just as you are but let's be real it's not easy there will be days when the silence feels deafening days when you crave connection so desperately that you'd give anything to fill the emptiness and in

those moments it's tempting to reach for anything any distraction any temporary Comfort to make the loneliness go away but don't don't fill the silence just for the sake of avoiding it sit with it let it teach you let it strengthen you because Solitude is a teacher and its lessons are powerful it teaches you resilience how to keep moving even when no one is cheering you on it teaches you Clarity how to separate what matters from what doesn't how to hear your own voice in a world full of noise and most of all it teaches you

self-reliance the kind of strength that doesn't depend on anyone else the kind of strength that no one can take away from you when you Embrace Solitude you discover something incredible you don't need anyone else to complete you you don't need external validation to feel whole you don't need the approval of others to know your worth and that realization that's Freedom that's power and here's the irony when you've embraced Solitude when you've found strength in it you're no longer afraid of being alone you don't cling to people out of fear you don't settle for less than

you deserve just to avoid the silence instead you choose the people in your life with intention you surround yourself with the those who add to your peace not those who disrupt it and that's when connection becomes meaningful not something you need to survive but something that enhances an already full and complete life