How often do we procrastinate?
How often do we say stuff like,
"Yeah I really should do that,
I don't know,
I guess I'm just lazy."
We have a problem with too many choices,
too many options,
and not following through on any of them.
You said that you're gonna graduate this year
you're gonna finish college this year,
you said you were gonna run a marathon right?
This is what you said, out of your mouth.
All I'm doing is, I'm saying, listen I'm not telling you what to do.
I'm not telling you you should do this, you should do that,
I didn't tell you all year what you should do
but what I did tell you is
don't talk about it, be about it.
When you do things, do them intentional.
Do the things that are gonna move you forward.
There's no getting around it,
there's no shortcuts, there's no cutting the corners,
it just takes time.
Focus on what you do,
become the best at it,
put in the time,
pay the dues,
and eventually
Great things are gonna start happening.
Get an idea,
start walking and figure this sh*t out as you go.
If you want it,
you will find time in your life to do it.
If you don't want it,
you will continue
to give me excuses.
If you want it bad enough,
you will figure out how to make this sh*t happen.
When you're on the road to success,
you will have downfalls,
You will have times where you hurt,
you will have people
who talked about you,
you will have those hard days.
But in those moments,
that's what makes you great.
That's what takes you
from greatness
to being a legend.
When you don't know where else to the turn
look within,
find that e inner-champion inside.
That is always another level
thatyou can reach.
This is just a battle
and you will overcome it.
You have to be willing to fail
100 times to succeed once.
For me, failure was
me
having more information
on how to succeed.
and when you continue that will forward through
hell,
and move forward past your fears, and your insecurities,
and continue to push through this wall,
your brain becomes really callsoused.
If you do what is easy
your life will be hard.
If you do what is easy
complain about your situation, your circumstances
standing around and be a volunteer victim
like everybody else
surrender and give up on your dreams
become depressed
and bitter and angry.
Anybody can do that
if you do what is easy, your life will be hard.
This is the year for grinding.
This is not the year of dreaming
we're not dreaming no more.
We not wishing no more
we're not watching other people
ride the ride no more.
This is our year where
we don't need phenomenal skills
we just need a phenomenal will.
So they don't say no when you knock on the door,
I will.
It's gonna rain sometimes
I will.
You're gonna discouraged sometimes
I will.
No matter what the obstacle
I will.
I must.
But if you do what is hard
keep coming back again and again and again,
get up dressed every day
knowing
some way
somehow
with a spirit of expectation
I can do this
If you do that
over and over and over again
your life
will be easy.
Some of y'all are still running around
making reference to what you accomplished
last year.
That sh*t is over.
Get over it.
Wake up
and don't settle with where you are.
You go after today,
you go after your dreams,
you go after your goals.
Don't settle with where you are at your job.
Every time you set this big goal,
you never get it accomplished
because you never break it up in manageable pieces.
This is it, I'm talking about procrastinators.
You still have time. Don't quit,
don't give up, you still have time.
You can do it.
You can make it happen but you can't do it procrastinating,
you can't do it talking about it, alright?
So I just want to go back and recap
because I wanna make sure you hear what I'm saying.
I dare you, I double dare you to do exactly
what you said you were going to do when the year started
because it's not too late.
I haven't used a clock in 20 years
my passion wakes me up
my drive wakes me up.
My determination wakes me up
My ability to be, do and have
whatever I want
it wakes me up
what wakes you up?
What drives you?
Why are you playing this game?
Is it just a game?
Or do you eat it?
Do you sleep it?
Do you drink it?
Have you possessed the game?
I ain't about to miss this opportunity
I'm about to give everything I've 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.
Every day do something that moves you toward that goal
that keeps that goal alive
and insight, and in focus.
However small or
insignificant that step might seem, take it.
Dominate.
You must learn to dominate.
You cannot compete.
I don't want you just to compete,
because competing is dangerous.
Because when you compete,
you gotta go all the way to the 4th quarter
to make that thing happen.
But when you dominate,
You take your opponent out of the game.
Some of ou are are so caught up on the game
that you don't get it.
It is in practicing.
It is in lifting weights.
It is in resting.
It is eating right.
It is making good decisions that you look a certain way.
Make sure you get what I just said.
A quarterback doesn't look like a running back
and a wide receiver doesn't look like a DT.
What's going on?
It is how you practice.
It is what you do that makes you look like you look.
It is the process of the grind
tthat shaped you and formed you is not the game.
And that's why most of y'all get beat in the game
or make mistakes in the game
because you think grinding is
what happens when the sun comes out.
You think grind is what happened when the lights come on.
You think grind is what happens
when people getting the stage
That's not grind
The realgrind is in the dark when nobody sees you.
As far as I can tell, it's just about
letting the universe know what you want
and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.
It's not to figure out how it's going to happen for you,
but to open the door in your head.
And when the door opens in real life, just walk through it.
Always doors opening.
They keep opening.
Yeah.
Feel me.
Some of y'all try to rush the 21 day.
It takes 21 years to be 21 years old.
Don't rush the process.
Trust the process.
It's not about what you get
if you're focused on what you're going to get
you miss the most important thing that happens
which is who you become.
I've had clients, many clients in their thirties who are trying to,
this is more true with women.
I would say a lot of women who are very high achieving who established their
career goals at 30 and then
want a differentiator differentiate out their life.
They want to have a husband and they want to have a family.
They're trying to figure out how to do that.
And one of the things I've noticed that around 30.
You really have to start comparing yourself in some ways to other people.
And the reason for that is that the particularities of your life are
so idiosyncratic that there isn't anyone really, all that much like you,
you know, because the details of your life happen to matter.
And so maybe you compare yourself to some rock star or something like that.
And, you know, the person's rich and famous and glamorous and all that, but
you know, they're alcoholic and they use too much cocaine and they've had three divorces
and it's like, how the hell you
Make sense out of that, is that someone that you should judge
yourself harshly against or not?
The answer is you don't know, cause you don't know all the details of
their lives and who do you know that you can compare yourself to?
That's easy.
You.
yesterday
So here's a good goal.
It's something like, well, aim high.
And I really mean that it's like, and we'll talk about that a little bit to
aim high, but use as your control yourself.
It's like, so your goal is to make today some tiny increment better than
yesterday, and you can use better.
You can define better yourself.
This doesn't have to be some imposition of external morality, you know, you
know where you're weak and insufficient, where you could improve think, okay,
well, this is what I'm like yesterday.
If I did this little thing
Things would be just an increment better.
And that's a great thing because you get the ball rolling and incremental
improvement is unstoppable.
You can actually implement it.
And it starts to generate Pareto distribution, light consequences.
It starts to compound, and I've seen that happen in people's lives over and over.
And people write in all the time and tell me that they're doing that, but
I've seen that happen in people's lives
Continually.
They make a goal, a goal that the goal should be.
How could I conceive of my life so that if I had that life, it
would clearly be worth living.
So I wouldn't have to be bitter resentful, deceitful, arrogant, and vengeful.