I remember years ago when the alarm used to go off in the morning
the first thing I did was roll over and hit the snooze button.
In that instant where you have a choice
a choice to either hit the snooze button and go back to sleep
in your nice warm fluffy cozy bed
or open your eyes and get out of bed.
That's a choice that takes discipline.
Now, I didn't have any discipline.
I always took the easy route,
the road that was more comfortable.
The problem is when you make this decision
because it's the first decision that you make literally the second you wake up.
You are letting yourself off the hook
You are literally training your mind
to take the easy way out throughout the whole day
which in turn leads to you taking the easy way out the whole month.
Oh, yeah
Discipline is not something any of us are born with
it's a muscle that we have to train.
And I don't care what anyone says
it all starts with that first second.
How you start your day
And that decision that you make in that instant
isn't as small as just getting out of bed or not
It's a decision that can shape the rest of your life.
This ain't some motivational inspirational **
This is the truth,
when I was younger, I dreamed that one day
I'd get a job that'd pay me 50 grand a year.
That for a boy where I come from was a dream come true.
If you told me back then that I'd be running a seven-figure company
and building a business of my own, I would have laughed in your face.
It was until I started to believe that I and I alone could shape my world
that I started achieving anything I wanted to.
That little decision in the morning,
if you open your eyes and get out bed
the next decision you face that day
you're going to now be disciplined to not take the easy way out.
People don't realize it,
but that bed can basically represent your entire life.
If you stay in that bed,
you're literally staying in your comfort zone
which means your day will be spent in your comfort zone
and your month, your year
and before you know it, you spent your whole life in your comfort zone.
Never pushing yourself to new heights,
never trying anything new; taking risks, moving forward
it all starts in that first second of your day.
So don't take it lightly.
Start building discipline.
It's something I started doing and it helped me massively.
It ain't easy, but it's worth it.
One of the worst phrases we've ever created was
"You got to see it to believe it."
It's a phrase created by cynical people with small minds
that have not got any hope that things can get better.
Can you imagine what the world would be like
if everyone believed that this was true.
We'd have no cars, no planes, no light in the dark, we'd
would never have computers or mobile phones,
We'd never climb mountains, break records or go to the moon.
I used to believe this rubbish.
People have it completely the wrong way round.
Nothing can be achieved, conceived until first it's believed.
You have to believe it to see it.
If there's something that you want to do with your life
that thing deep inside you that whispers day and night
it will always, always just be an idea
until you choose to believe it's possible.
You have to believe it so much that you already think it's happened.
You have to walk like it's there, talk like it's there, believe it's there.
People are going to think you're mad,
they're going to look at you and think you're insane,
they're going to tell you like "It ain't possible,
it's risky, you shouldn't do it,
be careful, stick to what you know, stick to what you do."
Follow your dreams.
These people have to see it to believe it
but you need to believe it to see it.
I was in a tough position,
19 years old, kid on the way, earning 27 pounds a day.
I could have chose to focus on all the problems I was going to face,
all the pain.
Instead I decided to change my stars.
I decided to say enough was enough
and focus on ways to change them.
It's easy to say that "I'll try that thing tomorrow"
or "I'll do that tomorrow"
"One day I'll get in shape"
"One day I'll tell that person how I feel"
"One day I'll start that business"
"One day I'll leave this job"
"One day I'll leave this abusive relationship."
We've all had times where we find ourselves constantly telling ourselves
that one day we'll do that thing.
The problem is
we look at all these opportunities around us and we say, "they're risky"
What you got to realize, is life in itself is risky.
It ain't important how long you live What's important is, how you live
When life gets on top of you
and you feel like it's all becoming too much
it's easy to let things spiral out of control.
I've been there
that place where you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders.
Things don't go your way,
that promotion at work you don't get,
you don't like the team, that person you asked out said no,
your business is struggling, the bills are piling up.
We all go through dark times
My advice to you
is to focus on finding the light.
If you spend all your time focusing on all the problems in the world
and all the problems in your life
you ain't going to be happy.
It's easy in the world that we live in today
to be consumed by all the media fueled negativity in the world.
You can't turn on the TV without seeing some negative story, all the bad.
Everyone has problems.
The difference between the people who are happy and the people that ain't
is that the people that are happy
choose to focus on the solutions to the problems they face
rather than the problems themselves.
You always have a choice.
Amazing things happen when you believe you have something.
Your brain actively goes out to make it happen.
It starts to notice little subtle opportunities
that you would have otherwise deleted
because it knows it's got a job to do to get you what you want.
It's all about perspective.
Constantly tell yourself how much worse things could be
and you can actually be thankful for the way you've got things at the moment.
Your world and your life can truly be anything you make it
but you've got to make it.
Don't take it lightly.
Start building discipline into your life by not taking the easy way out.
Most of us are told growing up that
we can be anything we want to be.
And most of us hear it but we don't listen,
we don't believe it.
I'm here to tell you today that it ain't a load of rubbish.
It's true
You can be who you want to be,
You can do what you want to do,
see what you want to see
it's all in your power
and no one elses
but you got to believe it.
If you believe it you can achieve it, baby
Whatever it is
I used to believe to my core that I was going to run my own company
and make more money than I currently did
and have a family and be happy.
Even when I was dead broke,
skid as could be I would never worry
because I would believe with everything in me that I could change it.
You got to stare all that in the face and say,
"you can't beat me"
"I'm too strong"
What most people do is they roll over but you can't.
It ain't going to be easy
most of the time you're going to feel like there's no way out,
that you can't do it.
But listen to me when I say there is always hope
you have to take control and attack it head on
Because as soon as you do this
just once, just like a muscle lifting weights
you become stronger,
You become comfortable being uncomfortable.
And before you know it
You become a machine
and nothing, nothing on the outside can affect you
because your mind is trying to beat it down.
Never run
Always fight
take control of your life
and you'll change it forever.
Go get in shape
Go tell that person how you feel
Go start that business
Go leave that job
Go leave that abusive relationship
deep down you know you should do it,
but you've got to risk it all.
Not doing it definitely guarantees one thing
that you'll get to the end of your life and regret that you didn't even try.
You can either be a victim of your life or the master of it,
but the choice is always yours.
Go out and get it.
Don't take No for an answer.
If you get knocked down, get back up again.
You can never fail if you never give in.
Stop being a victim.
Stop letting life push you around and start fighting back.
Because the minute you tell yourself that you control this
is the minute you can start to change it.
It all starts the moment you take responsibility
and say to yourself
"I can make out of this life what I want
and no one and nothing is going to shape my destiny but me"
I'm here to tell you today
that you can have anything you want
be anyone you want.
Believe that you can do it
and work hard to get it and it's yours.
Never wait and see it to believe it.
Believe it
and you'll see it.