Good intentions are overrated.
I know so many people "I'm going to do that, yes"
"I think that's a good idea."
"I think I'm gonna do that someday."
So good intentions are the most
overrated phrase in the world.
You've gotta go from good intentions to good actions.
Nothing happens until you've got good actions.
Excellence is never an accident.
It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort
an intelligent execution.
It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Choice not chance, determines your destiny.
If you wanna be great,
you could be misunderstood by everybody
because you're gonna be so
f*cking obsessed and so driven to get there.
That's what it takes
anybody says balance
Yeah, balance is important for a lot of people.
It is.
But if you want to go to that edge where people
do not like you question everything you've do,
you have arrived.
When you are misunderstood to the point where people
think you're psycho
and you're nuts and you're this and that,
you'll never understand what is wrong with me.
I don't wanna talk to you man, cuz you not gonna get it.
Ignore and outperform them.
I'm working hard, I'm taking things to the next level.
You keep gossiping and I'll keep working.
Now is not the time to be silent.
Find your purpose.
Pursue it, relentlessly, passionately, and lovely.
Be persistent and win.
How are you using your mind today to either make yourself
feel great or not and your destiny's ultimately controlled
to by a decision you've already made this morning?
Everyone watching this already made a decision this morning.
This morning.
They made it a life-changing, huge decision this
morning, and that is either I'm gonna get up,
enter the world with no intention, go through
the motions to hopefully get by or survive, or.
I am going to get clear in this morning about
what I want, what I'm going after, who I'm going
to be, how I'm gonna serve, and whether or not
I'm gonna be excellent and extraordinary or not.
And the problem is, most people
never make that conscious decision.
Make the conscious decision about
who you want to be each day.
Stay congruent with that.
Like what is it now for you about
how you wanna define yourself.
What types of relationships you
want and how deep you want to go.
What is it that you want to develop as a skillset
open to letting the process of changing the world
change you
That is the spirit of constructive engagement,
so that's the goal.
To be a compassionate, to be committed, to have
constructive engagement, to live this life of substance.
Substance.
What I know for sure is if you
focus on the substance, the success
will come.
I don't care how good you are in anything.
You don't have discipline.
You ain't nobody right?
You nothing of discipline.
Cause you give up under the slightest
struggle without discipline.
Discipline is doing what you hate
to do, but do it like you love it.
Doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.
And if you can do that, you could be successful in anything.
Remember there was a time that you complained so much,
but yet did so little.
There comes to a point in your life
that you must recognize that there's a little bit more
that has to be done
than just complaining about it.
You have to realize
that you don't have
any other opportunities waiting for you
If you're not willing to work for the first opportunity
that's been given to you
you don't have a lot of time left.
So there's no reason to complain.
You are not even in the position to complain.
You have to figure out that there has to be another idea about you,
and you have to understand that there has to be
something even greater and more challenging waiting for you.
And if you're not willing to step outside of your comfort zone
if you're not willing to understand the principles
and the possibilities that you have within yourself.
Then everything that you are thriving for
everything that you are hungry for
will soon come to an end.
When you feel like giving up,
don't.
When you thinking about giving up,
don't.
When it look like you ain't gonna make it,
keep going.
When they tell you you can't,
come on man,
Who are they?
When they tell you
you're not gonna make it
don't believe them, man.
Don't believe them.
You got to be
relentless.
Don't give up.
Stay in it.
Stay focused.
Quitting guarantees the failure.
Once you quit
It rules out any chance of succeeding
the mere
waking up every day,
putting the next foot in front of the next foot,
at least keeps you in the game.
but you can choose in the midst of all of this that's
going on to be happy
In spite of life's challenges.
You have absolutely nothing to do with what happened to you.
It's not your fault.
You got knocked on the ground.
You have absolutely nothing to do with that,
and I'm not blaming you for that.
But if I come back a week later, you still on the ground.
That's your fault.
If you get knocked down,
there's nothing you can do about it.
But getting back up has every single thing to do with you,
and you will promise me
that from this day forward,
you will not be defeated.
What if all of us took that attitude?
You've lost again and again and again.
The lights are cut off,
but you still looking at your dream
reviewing it every day and say to yourself,
it's not over until I win
The harder the battle, the sweeter of the victory.
See, what you become in the process,
is more important than the dream.
The kind of person you become,
the character that you built,
the courage that you developed
You knew it was hard, but you did it hard.
You better go inside.
You still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside
you still looking for someone to save you
when you're already your superhero.
You looking for some information from somebody
when you already got what you need in your head.
This is time for you to get up
and be the best version of you.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson said,
shallow people believe in luck and in circumstance.
Strong people believe in cause and effect.
That's the simplest change that you could make in your life
to choose
to believe that everything is a result
of choices that you make, and it is a choice.
You can choose to believe in luck.
You can choose to believe that you don't have control,
that you don't have agency, that the world is happening to you,
or you can choose to recognize
that cause and effect exists.
That if you wanna get better at something,
you need to put in the work that if you wanna get
stronger, you need to lift heavier weights.
You can either ask for stronger shoulders to carry
a bigger load, or you can ask for a lighter load.
The choice is yours.
But at the end of the day, if you want those
strong shoulders, they're yours to build.
You've gotta make those choices.
You've gotta understand the cause and effect.
You've gotta understand that your life
right now is the exact reflection
Of your choices, your life, the good, the bad, the ugly,
the hateful, the painful, the joyful, the beautiful.
Everything in your life
is a reflection of you.