You are not where you're supposed to
be because of you.
It's all you.
You tell yourself lies
reasons.
"I'm too tired."
"I need to rest."
"I'm too hungry."
"I'm too full."
"Something else is more important."
"I don't have time."
Lies
lies.
Ask yourself
what remarkably stupid things am I doing
on a regular basis to absolutely screw up my life?
What would happen if you just stopped wasting
the opportunities that are in front of you?
Because you're not everything you could be
and you know it.
If you keep thinking
the same thoughts
keep demonstrating the same behaviors.
keep living by the same feelings and emotions.
Your personal reality
is going to stay exactly the same.
But
if you have new thoughts
that lead to new choices
that demonstrate new actions
that create new experiences
that cause you to feel differently
you will begin to walk into a new future.
I need you to confront you
because you the one holding you up.
I need you to look in the mirror and tell you,
you are not going do me like this no more.
You're not gonna continue to sabotage me.
You're not gonna keep procrastinating.
You're not.
You know you should be further in life,
but you keep letting you slides.
Hold you accountable
and don't let you off the hook.
If for 10 years
if you didn't avoid
doing what you knew you needed to do,
what would you be like?
You'd be 10 times more efficient,
20 times more efficient.
And you could be way better.
You could be incomparably better
across multiple dimensions.
You do something
away from the normality of what you've been doing.
Why not try it, man?
Shut the system.
Get up at four in the f*cking morning one day.
Just one day
and go for a f*cking run.
Commit to one day
and see how you feel
As you're jogging it back in around five or something
as your neighbors are still asleep.
Well, your day's already provided something for you.
Mentally, you feel like,
wow, man, that was f*cking alive.
And say, "I've got to do this.
This is my stuff,
this is why I showed up."
It's not going to be easy.
When you want to change,
it's not easy If,
if it were in fact easy
everybody would do it.
But if you're serious
you'll go all out.
Say "Yes
I'm going to do something about this situation."
You do what it is you're supposed to,
you're supposed to build something,
you're supposed to create something,
"I don't know how to do it." Learn.
The question is not
is it possible for you to be a millionaire,
is it possible for you to have all your dreams
become a reality in your lifetime?
Yes it is possible.
But the real question is
have you made the decision?
Once you make a decision
and you go all in,
and you saying, "I ain't quiting until I get there.
I ain't giving up,
I ain't giving in.
I'll do whatever it takes to be successful."
And when you make that decision,
when you look you in the mirror,
when you tell yourself that, "Look, I'm through.
I'll do whatever it takes."
I guarantee you,
that's the day your dream
begins to happen.
So then when you have a purpose or a vision or
a mission or an intent that's bigger than you,
it means it signifies something that's ongoing.
You could have a purpose to go east
and there's never an end to east.
You could have a purpose to be healthy.
There's always more health to have.
You could have a purpose to be wealthy.
There's a never an end to wealth.
You could have a purpose for knowledge,
and there's never an end to knowledge.
It signifies a direction.
My purpose is to transform individuals in order to
transform a culture, and I'm clear on that purpose
and it gets me up in the morning every single day.
So then,
How do you bring a vision from the
world of possibility into the world of reality?
From thought all the way down into matter,
from what we say in quantum physics, from the wave of possibilities
all the way down into the particle
from the immaterial,
something that have doesn't exist yet into the material.
From the world beyond the senses to the world of the senses.
How do we do that?
Well, it requires then setting up
goals in alignment with your purpose.
So let's just say you have a purpose
to go in a certain direction.
Your purpose signifies a direction, but your goals
should always be in alignment with your purpose.
And people who have goals in alignment
with their purpose, their goals
Are a natural side effect of them being on purpose.
So then what about getting healthy?
You may say, okay,
I wanna lower my heart rate. That's one of my goals.
I wanna lose, you know, 10 kilos.
I wanna have more energy.
I wanna wear a new wardrobe and have a new relationship.
This is the short term goal at the beginning.
And the long-term goal is at the end.
And as long as you keep making the same
choices, demonstrating the same behaviors,
reproducing the same experiences, feeling the
same way, you'll arrive at all of those goals.
What about becoming abundant?
You may say you wanna be wealthy,
and to me it doesn't matter.
Wealth is a state of mind.
You may wanna start a new business.
Once you start that new business, you may wanna
hire two new staff employees in six months.
Then you may say you wanna buy a company vehicle,
and of course then the next one is buy a new house.
And then ultimately what?
Make a million dollars.
Why not?
If that's your goal, to reflect your
purpose, then you should arrive at it.
Now you still with me?
How about learning knowledge?
Is there ever an end to knowledge?
You may wanna get an associate's degree,
and then you may want to get a bachelor's degree,
and then you may want to get a Masters degree.
You may wanna get a doctorate degree, and
then you may wanna finally do research.
But all of those things are alignment
with your purpose, is it not?
Now, I want you to understand.
That there is a very specific formula for excellence,
and the formula requires a person who has a clear purpose, but
there are two other ingredients that put this together.
The first thing is called competence.
You know what competence is?
Somebody who does something really well.
The more competent they are,
the better they are at doing something.
The third thing is called accountability.
Accountability means if you say
you're gonna do something, you do it.
And if someone asks you to do
something, you do it really well.
And if you combine a person who's on purpose,
With a high level of competence and accountability,
you have excellence in an individual.
I run three companies and all three companies
My teams are very high on their purpose scale.
They better align with my purpose.
They have very high level of competence,
and they're very high on the accountability scale,
and I don't even bother them.
I never even manage them.
Because if they're not competent, accountable, and on purpose,
they're going to stand out with the
rest of the culture and other people are gonna be
doing their job and they are not gonna keep up.
And I say to my staff, I run an Olympic level team.
You have to be able to play at an Olympic level.
If you can't be competent and accountable
on purpose, there's nothing personal.
We just have to cut you because we're moving at a fast pace.
Be someone who is cool under pressure.
Value serenity instead of outrage.
It seems that our culture is moving in the wrong direction here.
If you are blessed enough to not be on social media, you might be surprised to learn
that the angriest, most passionate public figures
are rewarded with the most clicks and biggest audiences.
Our culture has begun to confuse passion with substance,
reward the loudest and angriest voices, and thus incentivize behavior wholly at odds with Stoic wisdom.
The number of decibels your voice hits as you scream about how right you are
is not necessarily an indicator of how much sense you are making.
As a society founded on reason and Western Enlightenment ideals,
we must hold ourselves to a higher standard.
We have to collectively stop allowing emotion and passion
to pass for reason and factual debate.
The media’s goal is to literally challenge your ability to be still.
A tough American, intent on improving upon their current self,
is not tricked into an emotional reaction by these headlines.
You do not write an angry tweet, you do not hurl an insult.
You are cool and measured, and skeptical.
You are curious what the agenda of the journalist might be
and what facts or context they might be leaving out.
You
seek out a different story on the same topic from an opposing view,
and you find out that many of the claims made in the original story
were convincingly debunked.
And just like that, you are a Zen master of stillness and Stoicism.
I will not quit in the face of danger or pain or self-doubt;
I will not justify the easier path before me.
I decide that all my actions, not just some, matter.
Every small task is a contribution toward a higher purpose.
Every day is undertaken with a sense of duty to be better than I was yesterday,
even in the smallest of ways.
I seek out hardship. I do not run from pain but embrace it,
because I derive strength from my suffering.
I confront the inevitable trials of life with a smile.
I plan to keep my head, to be still, when chaos overwhelms me.
I will tell the story of my failures and hardships as a victor, not a victim.
I will be grateful.
Millions who have gone before me have suffered too much, fought too hard,
and been blessed with far too little,
for me to squander this life.
So I won’t.
My purpose will be to uphold
and protect the spirit of our great republic,
knowing that the values we hold dear can be preserved only by a strong people.
I will do my part.
I will live with Fortitude.