One day I made a decision
that enough is enough.
I'm tired of being average.
I'm tired.
I'm tired of being good. I'm tired
I want to go to the dealership and buy the best car.
I want to move to the nicest neighborhood.
I want to fly first class.
I want to go to Hawaii.
I want to go to Australia,
I want
I made a decision enough is enough.
It's show time.
Will the real Eric Thomas please stand up.
Some of you in the room right now you are where you are
you're giving 60% when you have 120% in you.
Why? Because you never made a decision.
Shh. There are those of you in this room
you're already there,
your problem is there's some stuff you don't want to give up
to go up.
You're talented.
You just don't want to give up sleep.
Listen to me, Pound for Pound.
Any agent in the room, Pound for Pound.
Motivational speaker, Pound for Pound.
Entrepreneur, Pound for Pound.
Athlete, Pound for Pound.
Weight lifter, Pound for Pound.
Whatever you do
I guarantee you when you do it nobody can do it like you do it.
The problem is you don't hardly do it.
You love sleep too much.
You love that alcohol too much.
You love that substance too much.
You love that vice too much.
There's something that you love more than yourself,
than your dreams,
than your goals.
Watch what happens when you have a goal
and only have two reasons see how long that lasts.
Watch a goal that has 50 reasons and see how...
There's some-
Somebody called me the other day on the interview, stupid question
"E.T, what do you feel like on the days that you don't feel like?"
I said, ask ask the question again please.
What do you do on the days that you don't feel like...?
I said, I'mma be honest with you, I’m way past that.
Every day I feel like.
Every day I feel like eating.
Every day I feel like giving my wife the best life.
Every day I feel like driving in a nice car.
Every day I feel like flying first class.
Every- every single day of my life
I feel like giving 120%.
Every single day.
Somebody said yesterday
E.T you gave 120% what you gonna do tomorrow?
I said I don't know, give 140%
I don't know
but I don't have days where I don't feel like it
why? Because I’m counting on me,
my wife's counting on me.
I don't have days to waste.
No more 50%, no more.
No more 70%, no more.
I want us at 85% and climbing.
I want you at 85% and climbing.
If you're at 80% I want you at 90%
and I mean moving rapidly.
It's not rocket science
And the universe is not responding you correctly because your body language sucks.
Your spirit sucks.
It's defeated.
I need you to give me that 120%. I need you to give me that in everything you do.
I need you to start giving me that 120% in everything you do.
Bring it all, all together.
Bring all the energy.
All the passion, bring it all together and dominate.
I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality
when you want to succeed
as bad as you want to breathe
then you'll be successful.
You have to give it everything you got.
No more TV, no more parties, no more playing
if you don't have a 4.0
what you need to be doing is studying.
Get off the phone.
Sorry, I’m not available until the end of this year.
No, I’m for real.
You reached the right number but you called me at the wrong time.
Call me back January 1st
I’m about to get busy now.
Stop being this high school dropout.
Stop giving up, stop sleeping on the streets,
stop walking up and down fecal avenue like you ain't got nothing
and get your GED.
Stop being afraid to take a test.
I gotta commit my very being to this thing.
I gotta- I gotta breathe it, I gotta eat it, I gotta sleep it.
And until you get there you'll never be successful in life.
But once you get there I guarantee you
the world is yours.
So work hard
and you can have whatever it is you want.
When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me.
4.0s, 3.0s they went to the Ivy League high schools,
came to Oakwood from these great high schools
most of them are not doing what I’m doing, why?
Because it's not about where you come from
it's about heart.
You come to a place where, you know, being smart ain't enough
you got to have heart.
Don't go to sleep
until you succeed.
There are a lot of people that are sitting around
waiting for something to happen now, what you gonna do about it?
We're getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do.
So I always ask the question,
what would you like to do if money were no object?
What would- How would you really enjoy spending your life?
Well, it's so amazing
as a result of our kind of educational system,
crowds of students say well,
we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets,
we'd like to be writers,
but as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way.
Or another person says
well, I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses.
I said you want to teach in a riding school?
Then let's go through with it. What do you want to do?
When we finally got down to something,
which the individual says he really wants to do,
I will say to him, you do that
and
forget the money,
because
if you say that getting the money is the most important thing,
you will spend your life
completely wasting your time.
You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living,
that is to go on doing things you don't like doing,
which is stupid.
Better to have a short life
that is full of what you like doing
than a long life spent in a miserable way.
And after all,
if you do really like what you're doing, it doesn't matter what it is,
you can eventually turn it
you could eventually become a master of it.
The only way to become a master of something,
to be really with it.
And then you'll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is.
So don't worry too much.
That's- everybody is- Somebody is interested in everything.
Anything you can be interested in, you will find others who are.
But it's absolutely stupid
to spend your time doing things you don't like,
in order to go on spending things you don't like, and doing things you don't like.
Wake up from your dream
and make your dream a reality.
Wake up
wake up and understand
the significance of the purpose that you have within yourself.
Understand that if there's something that you are truly ultimately seeking in your life
then you got to go after it.
There are a lot of people that are sitting around waiting for something to happen.
Now what you gonna do about it?
How are you gonna go about doing the things
that are necessary to get you where you need to be in your life?
Everybody has a dream
but how much are you applying to that dream?
How far are you pushing that dream?
When are you going to realize that the dream is not going to work by itself?
You got to have the ability to rise up
and push yourself
and believe in yourself
and make that dream a reality.
What's your why?
Hey, if I don't give you all nothin' else, you better start that, what's your why?
You know why I do what I do when I do it so passionately?
Because my grandfather was a high school dropout,
my father was a high school dropout,
I was a high school dropout
and we about to break the cycle.
I do what I do
so my son won't have to go through what I went through.
When I was at the football game
my old dude wasn't with me
I saw other kids with their fathers
I said, that'll never happen to me.
I do what I do because my daughter says she's going to Harvard.
It ain't even about y'all
I’m about to come in here and blaze y'all.
Why? Because I’m trying to get you all to the NFL
I ain't bout to miss this opportunity
this is the first NFL team I’ve ever done in my life
and I’m about to lick it.
I'm about to give everything I got
and I will know if I don't get another gig
it won't have nothing to do with the fact that I didn't put everything on the field.
What's your why?
Why do you wake up in the morning?
Why do you put on that jersey?
Why do you go out and practice, why?
I gotta commit my very being to this thing.
I gotta- I gotta breathe it,
I gotta eat it, I gotta sleep it.
And until you get there
you'll never be successful in life.
But once you get there I guarantee you
the world is yours.
So work hard
and you can have whatever it is you want to.