You're gonna have sometimes low moments
when you won't wanna get out of bed.
You just wanna stay there.
At times you won't wanna come out the house.
It's hard living.
Life is hard.
It's hard handling just the tragedies of life.
It's hard.
When you're working on something
and you put everything you have in it
and it doesn't work out,
you lose your money and other people's money.
It's hard.
You will go through things,
and while you are going through them,
you can't understand why it's happening to you.
See the point is
you don't know how much future you've got.
What's gone is gone
there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Some of you have had divorces
some of you
probably had bankruptcies.
Some of you have had terrible things happen in the past
but what's gone is gone.
It's in the past.
And to spend your time
focusing on the past
is to spend the only thing that you've got
and that's what's right here, right now
cause the sand never stops running.
This is all we've got.
And to spend your time now
thinking of what happened there
is making absolute certain that
the future's gonna be the same as the past.
Now, I don't suppose many of us spend a lot of time
thinking about that
but a lot of us
spend a lot of time making that error.
Now you can either accept that,
or you can get to work.
That's all it is.
You just begin.
You do the math, you solve one problem,
and you solve the next one.
Whatever drama you may be dealing with,
this is not the end of you.
No matter what it is, it is not the end.
You can't quit now.
And the only way out
is through.
All you do is you fall down
get back up again
fall down
get back up again
fall down
get back up again.
That's how you win.
You gotta be bold in life, ladies and gentlemen.
if you're not bold
if you're not standing up inside yourself
if you're not willing
to call into being
the highest and the strongest
that's within you
when you're facing life's challenges
life will trample you.
But see, when you discover the truth
of this goodness
this power
that you have within you
that truth will
set you free from ever being a victim in life.
That truth
will enable you
to handle things with a level of equanimity
that will surprise you.
Getting unstuck
means that you are
going to start living life on your terms.
Rather than just gliding through every day
on automatic.
That you have a special power within
that you know the things are gonna get better for you
You know that you can handle this
and because you want some different kind of results
in your life
you've got to decide
that I'm gonna go all out.
Now listen to me,
I don't care what you going through,
If you not dead,
he ain't through with you yet.
As long as you waking up,
you still in the game.
As long as you alive,
you can still make it happen.
As long as there's still breath in your nostrils boot,
you still in the game.
You still can win.
Now get your butt up.
Why do you keep crying?
"Why me god?
Why did I get MS?
Why did I get cancer?
Why did my mama die?
Why did I get fired?"
Listen,
you got put through that
because what that does,
that tension produces greatness.
Stop running from it and run to it.
Lions don't cry,
lions don't give up,
lions don't quit,
lions hunt.
That's what we do for a living.
We turn tragedy
into triumph.
You'll never obtain any substantial measure
of material wealth if you insist upon
living your life as if you are looking back through your rear view mirror on your automobile.
Nevertheless, it seems to be a very common error,
which many people have turned into a habit.
Let the dead bury the dead, let it go.
I don't care how bad it was, let it go
five years from now, 10 years from now
when you look back in retrospect at that terrible thing that's happened,
you're gonna find it was probably
one of the best things that ever happened to you.
Advancement of all kinds is preceded by a crisis.
The greater the crisis,
the greater the opportunity for advancement.
Or you could put it another way,
you could say, out of all confusion, comes order
a higher degree of order than that which existed prior to the confusion.
Because you see, the confusion was a learning state.
Remember I was pointing out that business is fun.
It really is.
I see business as a game.
It's a game We're playing and we play to win.
And when we're winning, we're having fun,
and when we're losing, we're learning.
Let's treat both of the experiences exactly the same.
They're learning experiences.
Now we say, remember the old adage which says,
"let the dead bury the dead"
Stop looking back on your life and worrying
about the things which have already
occurred and which you can no longer alter.
It's like trying to change the time
you got outta bed this morning.
You're never gonna be able to do it.
That stands for eternity.
You cannot go back and change it.
Well, since you cannot let it go.
Pursuing that kind of mental activity will
never lead to anything worthwhile,
any worthwhile accomplishment in your life.
You should understand moreover, that all accomplishments in your life
you should understand moreover
that all of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures.
They did with their life.
What like Scott was saying,
he does with his music, he heard it in here.
They see their life in here.
They're building visions of a great future.
We've got a vision of a great company.
We've already got a great company.
We want a better one.
We serve a lot of people we wanna serve more,
and as we do, we receive greater rewards.
And because we receive greater rewards, we become more
comfortable, more creative, and we can provide more service.
It's a beautiful cycle that we're in.
Looking into the past as a self doom, fulfilling cycle,
you just keep getting it worse, worse, worse.
We've all done it so we know what it's like.
These visionary figures were men and women
who projected into the future and they did not
belabor over things, which had already passed.
They thought of what could be rather than what already was,
and then they moved themselves
into action to bring these things into fruition.
If there were tips for success, everybody would have been successful. There are no tips for success.
Only those who are not so successful, or those who are not successful,
think somewhere if you read 10 points in a book, you're going to be successful.
We need to understand this: if you want to be successful, don't seek success.
What you seek is competence.
If you enable yourself, and if you do something well, other people will say you're a success.
If you think, “I'm a success,” it's foolish, isn't it?
You're doing something, and you're doing it well,
other people in the town, or in the country, or in the world, people will say,
"Oh, he is doing something really successful."
They're looking up to you – that's fine;
you look up to yourself – that's madness, okay?
You don't seek success; you seek empowerment, you seek competence, you do it the best that you can do.
You cannot do as well as somebody, but you can do the best that you can do.
So if you do your best, if your best is good enough, world will recognize;
if it is not, you will be happy.
So, what does success look like? What does it take?
Well... you know, I know, family and friends who always have their breakfast on time.
And after breakfast, of course they must have coffee. After coffee, of course they must light up a cigarette,
and sit there nicely, because they're trying to become peaceful.
And then they will go to work, come back home exactly on time for lunch, eat lunch, rest for one or two hours, sleep.
Then evening have one tea, and then smoke. And then again, go to work.
And at 8 o'clock, 8:30, they're back home for dinner,
and then maybe other things, drink, and this and that, and whatever.
But those who have been very successful, either in music, sport, art, business, spiritual process,
doesn't matter what,
those people...
never know when they ate, when they slept, when they got afternoon rest.
So, those who are committed to being successful with whatever they're doing,
one important aspect of their life is,
they're not settling down wherever it's a bit comfortable.
Because comfort will happen when they lower you to in the grave, very comfortable you are, you know?
Right now it's about ensuring that there is profoundness of experience, and there is impactfulness of activity.
Because...
if they had given you a limitless amount of time, you could do all those things
– nothing wrong, I'm not against them
– but they gave you such little time, with such tremendous potential of being human, that's the problem!
For every one of you, your life is precious, isn't it?
It's a precious life; if something is precious, where do you want to invest this life?
Because what you call as ‘my life’ is just a certain amount of time and energy, isn't it?
As you sit here, your life is ticking away, or no?
What is ticking away is not time, what is ticking away is your life!
So, this energy that you call as ‘my life,’ how are you going to invest it?
Because if you're doing something truly worthwhile, it gets over before you know what happened.
Only if you're doing something worthless it feels like a long life.
Have you noticed this, on a particular day when you're very happy,
24 hours ‘poof!’ it went off like that, like a moment?
You are miserable, 24 hours feels like 10 years.
Have you not noticed this?
So,
only miserable people will have a long life.
Joyful people, life goes away like that as if it's a couple of days,
it passes away like that, if you are creating what you really care to create.
So, one thing that every young person should do is,
without the influence of the peers of your own age group,
without the influence of your professors, and your parents,
without any kind of influence, somewhere you must stay by yourself at least for 2, 3 days, and look at it:
what is it that I want to invest this precious life into?
What is it that will be worthwhile today, and worthwhile after 50 years,
for me to invest myself into, you invest your life into that!
Whatever it is, however small, big, it doesn't matter,
if you see that this is something truly worthwhile and you invest your life in that,
this will be a life of fulfillment.