My glory
doesn't happen in front of a crowd.
It doesn't happen
It doesn't happen in a stadium or on a stage
there are no medals handed out.
It happens in the darkness of the early morning
in solitude
where I try
and l try
and l try again.
With every thing I have to be the best
that I can possibly be better
than I was yesterday.
Everybody wants destiny
Everybody wants manifestation
Everybody wants fulfillment
Everybody wants the next level
and the relationship and a higher quality of living
but nobody wants to eliminate distractions
Nobody wants to disappear for 3 months
4 months, 6months
and get into a place
where you can focus on JUST YOU.
And your problem is
you're not intentional and deliberate.
You wake up on Monday and you might be strong,
but by Wednesday...
Are you hearing what I'm telling you?
You're not intentional and deliberate,
you are hoping
that the best is gonna happen to you,
and the best never happens to you.
What if you could just shut out every distraction?
What if you could just shut out the world
for just a season and focus on you
A man is rewarded in public
for what he does
in private
Can you unplug
for just a moment?
And focus on you,
focus on what matters
Do I just sit there and settle?
No, I don't.
I say enough is enough, man,
and I'm gonna make a change,
and I'm gonna keep going until I get it.
You chase something that you believe you deserve
until you get it.
And it doesn't matter what happens to you,
doesn't matter how many times you've been fired,
doesn't matter how many people don't believe in you,
you just go until you get it.
That's the point.
Are you tired yet?
Some of you need to get tired.
You need to be tired of what's going on in your life.
Get tired of your habits,
get tired of the actions that you're putting in every day.
You gotta change, man, or nothing changes.
You're gonna have some hard times,
there are gonna be difficulties.
"Eric,
things are not going the way I planned."
If success was easy
everybody would do it.
When you get knocked down,
and you're gonna get knocked down,
when you run into some roadblocks,
and you're gonna run into them,
when you have some setbacks,
you can always be able to bring yourself back in
knowing
if someone has done it,
it's possible
that I can do it.
Some of y'all so caught up on the game
that you don't get it.
It is in practicing
it is in lifting weights
it is in resting
it is in eating right
it is in making good decisions
that you look a certain way.
It is how you practice
it is what you do that makes you look like you look.
It is the process of the grind
that shapes you
and forms you
it's not the game.
And that's why most of y'all get beat in the game
or make mistakes in the game
because you think grinding is what happens
when the sun comes out.
You think grinding is what happens when the lights come on.
You think grinding is what happens
when people get in the stage.
That's not grind.
The real grind is in the dark
when nobody sees you
when nobody knows what you're doing
when you're studying without coach
when you're putting in those extra reps
when you're watching those videos
and you're getting inspired
when you change your music.
It's the process that makes you sweet.
One of the biggest contradictions of massive success
Is when people
go to their moms, their dads,
their brother, sister,
boyfriend, girlfriend, they say listen,
one day
the world's gonna know who I am.
One day
I will have a Ferrari,
the Lambo,
the Rolls,
the Bentley,
the big house,
the cars,
the backyard with the big swimming pool and an elevator,
I'm gonna throw the biggest parties,
I'm gonna be a millionaire one day.
Yet,
instead of staying at the office on Friday night,
you call your friends and you go party.
Instead of waking up Saturday morning to go to the gym,
you sleep in until 10 o'clock.
Instead of reading the book on Sundays,
you kick back and watch movies
all day long.
The reality is very simple.
Those who win big
they do 4 things right.
They sleep,
sweat,
grind,
repeat.
And they do it over
and over
and over again
until their dreams become a reality.
In order for you to go from one level to the next level,
in order for any woman to transition,
for any man to transition,
the thing that they want
must be greater than the thing they currently have. Y
You only transition
from one level to the next
when you're tired of the level you're on.
You don't belong at the bottom
and it's time for you to get your butt from down there.
It's time for you to stop being comfortable at the bottom.
Get your butt up, and get to where you're supposed to be.
and get to where you're supposed to be.
Successful people stop negotiating the price in their life.
You know what's stripping all your success?
You keep negotiating the price you're paying.
"Man, all the work I'm putting in, it's not paying off,
I don't see my family as much,
I gotta do all this."
You start negotiating it all the time
and it's zapping all your damn energy.
Successful people don't negotiate price,
they negotiate worth.
Could this be worth it to me to pay this?
And once you decide it's worth it to win,
it's worth it to be somebody,
the negotiation stops.
I am going to work hard.
I am going to train hard.
I am going to improve myself.
I am not going to rest on my laurels.
I'm going to own my mistakes and confront them.
I am going to face my demons.
Not going to give up or give out or give in.
I am going to stare.
I am going to maintain myself discipline.
It's possible you can live your dream,
it's necessary that you have a plan of action,
that you're resilient,
that you stick to,
and that you work with the system,
that you have the vision and never give up,
that you become creative and relentless
and keep on coming back
again and again and again,
and that it's you,
that you've got to take personal responsibility
to make it happen,
and that it's hard, easy is not an option,
and when life knocks you down,
jump back up and say
"It's not over
until I win."
One thing that I'm encouraging you to do that I'm doing
is I'm taking time to work on me
and to get to know more about me,
because if you don't know who you really are,
as opposed to the kind of person you were
Before the world got his hands on you.
If you don't know that,
and you've bought into the culture
that is designed to destroy your sense of self,
when you don't have a sense of self
when you don't have a strong identity
that takes away your purpose and the meaning of your life,
and that puts you on a path of self destructive behavior,
So as you look at yourself
take the time and ask yourself
as you are living this life that you're living,
Is this me?
Is this working for me?
You haven't been in a relationship that the relationship
was working for the other person,
but it wasn't working for you,
you in a relationship with somebody
that's always there when they need you,
but when you need them, they can't be found
It's a time for self-awareness
it's a time to elevate your relationships
and your knowledge and your skills and
the value that you bring new beginnings.
We always have a choice every day
represents something that we can claim and say,
I'm going to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.
It is true that we have at any moment in our lives,
we can change directions.
I was upset about something and my business partner,
he said to me, don't get angry.
Just be decisive.
You don't get angry.
Somebody betrayed my trust,
somebody that I love and believed in and,
and had their back.
And I thought they had mine and it did not happen that way.
Has that ever happened to you?
And so I had to rethink
the relationships that I have
and I had to ask the question,
who can I count on and who should I count out?
Because at the end of the day,
this thing called life is like an elevator.
The higher you go up,
you have to stop and let some people off
Who is it in your life, as you just think about it right now
that you need to open the door for
and stand there until you get off
so that they don't cramp your style
so that they don't toxify and pollute your mind
with their toxic behavior.
We have to promise ourselves
to hold ourselves to a higher standard.
We pray as if everything depends upon God.
But work as if everything depends upon us,
those are the words of Mary McLeod Bethune
You have something special
a time for new beginnings to do
inventory of yourself
to get access to the unlimited potential
that's waiting for you to tap into it
as Dr. Myles Munroe says
to rob the cemetery of your dreams, of your gifts,
of your leadership, of your books, of your music.
You are here for a reason.
There's something that would not be here.
You are missing piece of the puzzle.
God needed your presence here
at this point in time
for our children
and our children's children and for generations yet unborn
the time for new beginnings.
What a blessing we're here
all because of God's grace and mercy,
I say to you
honor yourself
by looking at your life, taking personal inventory
and be honest with yourself.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free