When you make the decision
to do what you want to do with your life
just know this
because the family and the friends in your life
do not share your vision.
In most cases
they will be the first person
to try and talk you out of what you want to do with your life.
But know this
only those
that can see the invisible can do the impossible.
You have time.
You have the knowledge
and the willpower and the discipline
to get it done.
See sometimes we can't say I can do that
but what we can say that it's possible
that I could have my dream
as we run toward it,
as we work on it day in and day out
Why is it that we don't believe in ourselves
that as soon as things get tough in our lives
we start doubting ourselves
We start thinking that we're not going to make it
stressing, worrying, imagining things that may go wrong in the future.
We need to understand the human mind is the most powerful tool we own,
but it can also be the most destructive.
And we need to learn how to take control of
the direction of our mind and our emotions
how bad do you want it?
You've got to prove it to yourself
that you want it bad enough.
It's kind of hurts you not get it
And that's when you're going to learn to conquer your mind,
your mind will no longer be able to say no
because your inner heart and mind are aligned
and now nothing can stop you.
It was hard ladies and gentleman,
and I was facing financial difficulties in my own life.
I was behind on my bills and my dreams
and I'm saying to them
you can live your dream
It was hard, ladies and gentlemen.
It was very difficult
to pick myself up each day believing
that I can do it
There were times that I doubted myself.
I said, "God, why, why is this happening to me?"
It was very hard.
Here's what I want to say to you.
For those of you that have experienced some hardships,
don't give up on your dream.
There's a fight right around the corner Just wait for you
and you better learn how to fight
It's about what you're saying to yourself,
but it also comes at work.
So whenever I was getting beat down,
physically, mentally, spiritually,
whatever I was going through
this saying, you know,
you can't hurt me
If you want to be great.
If you want to be the best motherf*ker ever at what you do.
You could be misunderstood by everybody
because you're going to be so f**king
obsessed and so driven to get there.
That's what it takes.
That's the truth.
It takes every second of your f**king life.
Anybody says balance.
Balance is important for a lot of people.
It is.
But if you want to go to the edge where people do not
like you don't understand you question everything you f**king do
you've arrived
when you were misunderstood to the point
where people think you're psycho and you're nuts and you're this
and that why are you in the gym at one o'clock in the morning,
you just got through doing an op
for 13, 14 hours
after ranger school man
at the gym
was wrong.
You will never understand what is wrong with me.
And that's why
I'm so I'm glad you don't
cause I'm in the right spot when
people don't understand you anymore.
You're in that spot of obsession and drive.
Well, people ask "What the f*ck is wrong with this guy?"
I don't want to talk to you, man, because you not going to get it.
Once we achieve something,
we celebrate for a long years time and we wonder
why don't I have drive anymore?
Where's it all at?
If you don't develop a routine of suffering
and suffering now that go out and kill yourself every day,
it's been uncomfortable.
That keeps you hungry every day.
If you live in your victories for so long and say,
I'm going to go challenge myself for 30 days or for two weeks or
run this one marathon is I did one marathon.
it is
I did one marathon.
Okay.
That's why it leaves you.
It leaves you because you haven't set up the next obstacle.
Obstacles is how you grow.
You must continue to have friction.
Friction is where growth is at
with no friction there's no growth.
You have to call yourself out if you're fat and you're f*cked up
I don't want to hear that.
I don't want to hear you tap dancing around sh*t
And a lot of people don't want to go there.
They don't wanna talk about their childhood.
They don't talk about their past.
They won't get the root of the problem.
And then they go, why am I not getting better?
Because there's a lot of sh*t in there.
You haven't dealt with, brother.
You know, people go to the gym, like for instance,
going through any kind of special operations school,
these people go to the gym,
they get big, they get jacked,
they can run fast, all that sh*t.
But the only thing you're doing is you're coding over
the mind.
All you're doing is building a bigger, stronger quitter.
Your mind hasn't gotten any stronger
because you haven't gone back in there
and dealt with sh*t.
So a second adversity comes like my God,
I'm so f*cking fit.
What's wrong?
Your mind is still soft.
You can't live very long without being injured, going through hurts and pains.
Sometimes the wound heals up and there's no sign that it ever happened, but there
are certain wounds that are so severe, a cut so deep, they heal up
the pain goes away,
but they leave a scar
scars from falling off a bike as a child.
Scars from the surgery to remove the illness
scars from the accident,
there are physical scars,
scars that we can see, but there are also
invisible scars,
scars that come from inner wounds,
scarred by the divorce,
scarred by what somebody said,
it's scarred by mistakes that we made.
So often we try to hide our scars.
We don't see anything positive about it.
Reminds us of the hurt, the sickness, the betrayal.
We wish they'd go away,
but we need to see our scars in a new light
and that comes from just accepting yourself
and actually instead of cursing the pain
because when you curse the pain and get angry at it
you just, you get angry at every cell of your being
goes through that same anger
and what you want to do is
just get to that peaceful place within yourself
where you say, you know, when you trust in yourself,
when you trust in yourself
you're really trusting in the wisdom that created you,
you know.
And the wisdom that created you is infinite.
And it's formless, so your thoughts
are in that same category,
have thoughts that aligned with that divine presence.
We become what we think about
focus on what you want
rather than focusing on what you don't want.
Who do you want to be?
Why are you here on this planet?
If you live according to the principles of love, compassion, appreciative, joy,
celebrating other people's successes, but how do you overcome hatred and
confusion and just having a good heart?
Then I think that's what happened to me.
Then I stopped to get clear about what I like to do and how I can be of service.
How can I help other people
that we were wired for success, but it's
how we relate to our experience determines whether we're chipping away
or where, you know, kind of burying.
That sense of, of wholeness that we, that we're born with.
It's just that we, we, we forget it.
We don't look inside, we're looking outside.
And so unless we're still, and we think about it and we understand that I was
born with this masterpiece and no ones can give it to me or take it away.
It's it's an inside job.
And so if I look at which right, it's, it makes, makes a lot of sense.
So it's whether you're coming from a place of scarcity
or I would say survival mode
or coming from growth mode, which has to do with it Yes, I can.
Yes to life
and I have the capacity and the responsibility
to make it different, but to make it better,
having that faith, that
vulnerability to just see things that are hard to see,
got to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
So can you handle the truth?
There's a question.
And if you can't, then you, if you see that, then you just say,
well, if I'm going to change, I'm going to have to figure out
how to deal with that discomfort.
Until the point that I could see what I need to see, then I can change it.
So as the persistence of continuing to do something until you can do it
is most of the work is just continuing to make
mistakes, learn from mistakes.
But the mistakes of viewed as feedback, not as I'm a failure,
it's just an event about who we are.
So that error correction is really important.
And when you can see when you attributed this something you can learn or change.
Now you've got faith and confidence to do it, versus if you've seen it
like, Oh, I'm just not strong enough.
I'm not tall enough.
And all of that, that's just.
That's what I call the negative telling you, you can't do anything
rather than saying, well, let me see, what can I, what I can do.
So it's like a child learning how to walk, right?
Same thing.
It doesn't matter how far you might rise.
At some point you are bound to stumble because if you're
constantly doing what we do.
Raising the bar.
If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law
of averages, not dimension the myth, the vigorous predicts that
you will at some point fall.
And when you do, I want you to know this.
Remember this,
there is no such thing as failure.
Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Now, when you're down there in a hole, it looks like failure.
So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.
And when you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really
okay to feel bad for a little while.
Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost,
but then here's the key.
Learn from every mistake, because every experience in calendar and
particular, your mistakes
are there to cheat you and force
you into being more of who you are.
You know, Silicon Valley tends to be liberal.
Every, everyone knows that.
And the reason for that is that there's a tremendous
number of entrepreneurs there.
And entrepreneurs tend to be high in openness and lower in conscientiousness.
So they're creative, but they're also willing to break rules, you know, which.
You kind of have to do often, hopefully not to a criminal extent,
but you have to eat well, you know, it's tricky when you're starting to
establish something new, because look at a company like Uber, you know,
they had to bend the rules to, to be successful in those companies that have.
Rented those scooters out and put them on the streets everywhere.
You know, they just kind of went ahead and did it.
It's not something an orderly person would do cause
they'd ask for permission.
Whereas the people who started these scooter rental companies
just said, well, what'll happen if we put them everywhere.
And the answer was that seemed to work, but you know, you
have to have a rule-breaking proclivity in order to manage that.
History has proven, history has proven,
that those who dare to imagine the impossible
are the ones who break all the human limitations.
There are very few human in the world,
whether science, medicine,
sports, or the technology,
the names of the people, just now I listed
some of the names, the names of the people
imagined the impossible are engraved in our history.
By breaking the limits of their imagination,
by breaking the limits of their imagination,
they change the world.
You take C.V. Raman, you take Newton,
you take Einstein, you take Chandrashekar,
by breaking the limits of their imagination
they changed the world.