If you only have 24 hours in a day, your success is dependent upon how you use the
24. You got to hear me people talk about Oprah Winfrey, you know Ted Turner, Warren
Buffett, listen to me. I don't care how much money you make. You only get 24 hours in a
day and the difference between Oprah and the person that's broke is Oprah
uses her 24 hours wisely. That's it. Listen to me, that's it. You get 24. I
don't care if you broke, you grew up broke, I don't care if you grew up rich
I don't care if you're in college, you're not in college, you only get 24 hours
and I blew up literally. I went from being a high school dropout to selling
6,000 books in less than six months. What happened? About 24 hours. I was like okay
Eric you got to get a grip on your 24 hours because you bout to be broke for
the rest of your life and that's all I need you to do for me. I can tell you all
about your life if you just write down your 24 hours schedule for me. You let
me look at it, I can tell you where you going to be in 5 years, I can tell you where
you're going to be in ten years, I can tell you where you're going to be 20
years if you keep that schedule. I had a teacher in eighth grade, eighth grade
tell me I wasn't gonna make it to high school. Eighth grade I had a teacher
telling me that foolishness and what did I do I prove them right I went to high
school wiling out. Ninth grade year wiled out so bad that school kicked me out. They was like
you, we can't even take this no more, kick you out. Go to another school, I
completely flunk that. Go to a third school and finally begin to get my act
together. I've proven everybody who did not believe in me right and the few people
who did believe in me, I proved them wrong.
Again we dealing with, it matters of the heart now. A lot of times we behave in the way we
behave because we don't feel like we got worth or value. We don't really
recognize the heritage or who we are and what we can do so we just on that I'm
just going to do whatever and get a couple of laughs but when you recognize
how great you are, when you recognize that champion that's inside you you'll
say you know what I got more to give. There's more than life than this right
here. I deserve better. You deserve better and then you'll say you know what, what I'm
going to do I'm gonna prove everybody who didn't believe in me wrong and the few
people who do believe in me imma prove them right and when you do that
everything inside your life changes. I just started saying before I make
decisions, I just started saying okay, is this going
to make my momma proud or all the people that's hating on me it's just
going to make them say 'see, I told you.'
I'm in India speaking, I've found out the culture in India there, in Bangalore I was
has the highest suicide rate because if these kids do not do well in high
school they know they won't go to college and they know for the rest of
their life they'll end up with poverty and they said I'd rather die than be in poverty.
That's what you call desperation. What, you're going to settle
for whatever the world gives you? You're going to settle for living how your mom
and dad live now? I'm telling you all my young friends, you ain't gotta settle for that.
Most people think that the people that are at a very high level in society are
cut from a different cloth. They think that they're, they're literally a different
breed than them and that they're and that they can't get those things. So
that's kind of interesting right and it's always kind of a shocker to have
the, the myth of that person burst but see here's the thing.
Although we're not cut from a different cloth, the fact that I mastered
consistency is the difference and most people will never do that. No one wants
you to succeed right? Only your mom and even your mom doesn't want you to succeed
cause she's afraid you're not gonna call her back. Your brain doesn't want you to be a
big success. Your brain just wants to keep you alive. All your brain wants you
to do is just pump out one or two kids so that the DNA can continue on, that's it.
Your brain will trick you. You are your own worst enemy. I know that if I fail to
do that, that I am not instilling those habits, that's going to have, going
to have a big-picture long-term goal.
Dudes, talent is overrated homie. There's no price too great for me.
There's nothing too great. I would die for, for my dreams.
You know what I'm saying? I'm willing to risk it. There's, there's nothing too great, there's
no amount that I'm not willing to go but you could accomplish anything you want man.
If you're willing to do it. Right? But again you'll realize that what you think
you are is not what you are. You become something else. You literally become
something else. If you want to be someone who's tireless
you cannot be tired down, you'll become something else. So you don't have those
limitations a normal human being has, you don't have that because you become
something else. You become something that embodies certain things that you're trying
to move forward. You'll go to any length you, so you're not going get tired because
that because do that, at that point you have God on your side. That's not even you
anymore dude.
It's like, you know how? What I do is I focus on maybe one or two or three
things at a time and then I just do it and then I get that done and then I do
the next thing and then I get that done and then I do the next thing. No one's
going to put you on. You got, you have to put yourself on. No one's going to put
you on. So, so you make that choice you just do your small tasks and you do it but see
no one wants to hear that. Success is about just quiet little actions. Getting
rid of anything that's unnecessary.
Success is like a quiet daily set of tasks, real small. Real real small. It's very
quiet. It's a very quiet process where you're just drawing your state from within
yourself doing these like simple little tasks but finding love in those simple
little tasks. It's not this big rah-rah speech where you do this one thing and
something big happens.
I'm tired. I don't want to do it and I got a million reasons not to do it but what I
do is I make the choice that I say if I can't make myself go do this, how am I
going to live my dreams? I found that if I miss one day, I'll miss every day.