We're gonna all experience some hard knocks in life.
You're gonna make some mistakes.
You're gonna fall flat on your face.
You're gonna be criticized when you come out until the arena called life.
You're gonna feel awkward and stupid and dumb sometimes.
Life will test you like that.
How bad do you really want it?
How bad you want it?
I'm gonna take your car.
You're gonna have creditors calling you every day
how focused can you be?
You're gonna lose all of the materialistic things you have
how positive can you be now?
You're gonna lose your job.
And people who you thought will help you won't be there for you.
Where is your feeling of being empowered, having
the capacity to create now?
That's gonna happen to you in life.
And I say that what's necessary
is that you stand courageously
daringly that you become bold
in spite of this I'm not giving up on my dream.
I want the guy who's struggling.
I want the guy that failed and can still get back up again.
Your problem is your pain
has identified you.
Your pain has weakened you.
And some of you as long as it's a perfect day
you operate in excellence.
But as soon as the circumstances change you quit, you give up.
So what makes ET different than everybody else?
Every year, I just kept going.
And I kept going and I kept going
and I kept saying one day gonna be my day.
You know what I'm not gonna do?
I'm not gonna quit in the process.
I'm not gonna give up.
I'm not gonna give in.
Don't let life change your name.
Don't let it change your name.
Don't you be nasty just 'cause they're nasty.
Don't you be hateful just 'cause they're hateful.
Don't you be vengeful just because they're vengeful.
Don't lose yourself in your situation.
Don't let your situation eat up yourself.
Learn to be your own booster.
When I started trying to convince myself I can be a businessman
after flopping and failing and losing thousands of dollars
and feeling stupid and dumb and having people take advantage of me
because of what I didn't know I had to talk to myself
because people were saying to me that I was dumb
and somewhere in the back of my mind, I was saying
you're right, look at what I've done.
I had to say no, no, no, no, no.
No.
No Les.
Hey, hey come on, man.
Get yourself together.
You can handle this you just haven't figured it out yet.
It's all right this is your training period.
This is a tuition you have to pay for what you don't know.
You can do this, other people have done it doesn't take an Einstein.
Get you some people that can teach you some stuff that you don't know
get you some people that have done it successfully and learn from them.
Take some seminars, workshop read some books on how to manage a business
change the way you see yourself and begin to attend to the personal details.
Understand that nobody's gonna take care of your business
better than you.
See, this is something that you can't be in this business
this business has to be in you.
If you trust yourself if you believe
and don't doubt with everything in you
you can do it you can do it.
When you say a situation or person is hopeless
you're slamming the door in the face of god.
There's no guarantee that because somebody is now down on their luck
they can never come back.
Who can guarantee that you can't make it?
That you can't have your dream?
All we need to do, as we look at our dreams as we get ready to hit the floor
I'm blessed and highly favored.
And don't let circumstances turn you around.
Don't let hard times turn you around.
Whatever you're experiencing you know that this too shall pass
that you have the ability to make it happen.
Why?
You got a sense of entitlement.
I deserved this and whatever I have to do
I'm willing to step up and to face life and grab it in the collar
and say give it up because it's mine.