Humans are the only life form
that will do less than they possibly can.
Humans are the only life form that will settle for less.
Every other life form,
except human beings strive to its maximum capacity.
How tall will a tree grow?
Approximately,
as tall as it possibly can.
You never heard of a tree growing half as high as it could.
No, trees don't grow half.
Trees send their roots down as deep as possible,
stretch their limbs up as high as possible,
produce every leaf possible and every fruit possible.
As a matter of fact,
you never heard of a human physically growing half.
We keep growing until we're done.
Now, that's a part of life we can't control.
It's genetically coded.
And that's probably why we keep growing
till we're done.
Because we can't control that part.
It's the rest of our growing that we control,
the growing of our minds,
the expansion of our minds that we can control.
And that's what tends to get away from us.
All life forms inherently strive
to their max except human being.
Now, why wouldn't human beings
strive to their maximum possibility?
Here's why.
Because we've been given the dignity of choice.
Now, if you wait,
all that's gonna happen as you get older,
because time is always gonna pass
and you're always gonna move away.
You're gonna wait for something to happen It's gonna set you
behind on the time you do have.
You're gonna wind up at the back of the race
and you're gonna wind up in last place.
And that's not where you want to be.
That's not even where you need to be.
You need to be standing side by side with your future self.
When you find yourself disappointed in life,
when you find yourself coming up short in life,
you can either complain about it
or you can choose to learn from it.
We become what we think about
focus on what you want,
rather than focusing on what you don't want,
Or who do you want to be?
You know why are you here on this planet?
If you wanna change,
don't expect your life to stay the same,
expect it to get harder,
expect it to actually get really, really tough,
tougher than you can even imagine right now.
And this is where you can move past the boundaries
that used to hold you back,
Set the damn schedule up
so hat you have the day you want.
That's the trick.
It's like, okay, I've got tomorrow.
If I was gonna set it up so it was the best possible day I could have,
what would it look like?
Well, then you schedule that and obviously
there's a bit of responsibility that's gonna go along with that
because if you have any sense,
one of the things that you're gonna insist upon
is that at the end of the day,
you're not in worse shape than you were
than at the beginning of the day, right?
Because that's a stupid day.
If you have a bunch of those in a row,
you just dig, you know, you dig yourself a hole
and then you burrow yourself in it.
It's like,
sorry, that's just not a good strategy.
It's a bad strategy.
The most important thing is this.
To be able at any moment
to sacrifice what you are,
for what you will become.
And I'm here to tell you, number one,
that most of you say you want to be successful,
but you don't want it bad,
you just kind of want it.
You don't want it bad than you want to party.
You don't want it as much as you want to be cool.
You, most of you don't want success
as much as you wanna sleep.
And I'm here to tell you today,
if you're going to be successful,
you've gotta be willing to give up sleep.
When you want to succeed,
as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful.
And when you get to the point
where all you wanna do is be successful,
as bad as you wanna breathe,
then you'll be successful.
The lack of self-discipline
is the major cause of failure, frustration, underachievement, and unhappiness in life.
It causes us to make excuses and sell ourselves short.
Perhaps the two biggest enemies of success, happiness and personal fulfillment,
are first the Path of Least Resistance
and, second, the Expediency Factor.
The Path of Least Resistance is what causes people to take the easy way
in almost every situation.
They seek shortcuts to everything.
They arrive at work at the last minute and leave at the first opportunity.
They look for get-rich-quick schemes and easy money.
Over time, they develop the habit of always seeking an easier,
faster way to get the things they want
rather than doing what is hard but necessary to achieve real success.
The Expediency Factor,
which is an extension of the law of least resistance,
is even worse when leading people to failure and underachievement.
This principle says, “People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way
to get the things they want, right now,
with little or no concern for the longterm consequences of their behaviors.”
In other words, most people do what is expedient, what is fun and easy
rather than what is necessary for success.
Every day, and every minute of every day,
there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary
like the angel on one shoulder
or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value
like the devil on your other shoulder.
Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor
and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance
if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.
We need to figure out, like now today,
what is, you know, the best way to live your life?
What is the, you know,
there's gotta be ways where you can be putting
forward the most positive energy.
I mean, we know objectively what's causing pollution.
We know objectively what's causing birth defects
and you know, and we're taking in too much chemicals and not enough vitamins.
We know objectively all this stuff.
We know how to organize our world and yet we don't do it.
We know how to organize our health and yet very few people do it.
We know all these things.
The right path to like being like a happy, healthy person
is to do all the s*** that
we already know you're supposed to do.
Take care of your body, take care of your health,
take care of your mind, your stress, meditate, be kind to people.
We all know that.
I mean, you ask anybody, they know how to get by and
to be the most evolved version of you that you can be.
I mean, it's not like a, a magical checklist.
If you talk to people about it, you've said,
okay, here, you're, you got
a person, you want to improve them,
what are the things that you're gonna do to them?
Okay.
Well, if I was a life coach, the first
thing I would say is this guy's gotta
get on a diet that makes him healthy.
I don't mean a diet just to lose weight.
I mean just healthy foods in your body.
Many, many vegetables.
Start working out your body and get a
better sense of like how this machine feels.
When it's moving, it's flowing better.
There's less tension in it.
Your mind feels like relaxed and, and
you enjoy every single moment of the day better.
Step one, everybody knows that step, right?
What's step two?
Be cool to people.
Be nice to as many people as you can.
Smile at as many people as you can.
Have them smile back at you,
tip well when you go to restaurants.
Just do the most you can.
Be as nice as you can
and just still manage to not have people walk all over you.
Just get through this life in as nice as you can.
Human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind.
Now, this is something to think about,
can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
It's another way of saying
we become what we think about.
Look at it this way.
Your total environment,
if you've been an adult for any appreciable period of time,
your total environment is a reflection of you as a person,
the house to the neighborhood in which you live,
the car you drive, the clothes you wear, the job you do,
the people with whom you regularly associate.
Your total environment
is an exact and merciless mirror of you as a human being.
Now if you feel your environment can stand of improvement,
you have only to improve your attitude
and your world will gradually change
to reflect the changing person.
Here's how to change your attitude
beginning now, begin to act as would the person you most want to become.
That is, if you were already in possession
of the goal you're shooting for,
how would you conduct yourself in all of your affairs?
We'll do it now and tomorrow and the next day.
Begin now to act the part of the person you most want to become,
and you'll end by becoming that person.
Subtly in little ways, in the way you dress, in the way you talk,
in the unfailing courtesy, you show to every
person with whom you come in contact,
begin to act the part of the person who has already achieved
that which you are shooting for.
The German philosopher Gerta gave us the secret when he said,
before you can do something, you must first be something.
When you behave like the person you most
want to become, the things that person would have will tend to come to you.
It's simply cause and effect.
Don't be in too big a hurry.
It takes longer to build a skyscraper than a chicken coop.
Build slowly, steadily, and well
than when you make it, you'll keep it.
You'll stay on top.
Always be suspicious of the so-called
get rich quick scheme or sudden success.
Never forget that word attitude.
It's your attitude toward the people
with whom you come in contact
that will determine their attitude toward you.
The person with the great attitude toward life and the world
is the person other people call lucky.
He's not lucky,
he's just using our old friend cause and effect.
His causes are excellent
and his effects have to be just as good.