How much time do you really waste?
For real?
We waste so much time
on our little gadgets
it's unreal.
And we talk about we have on time.
We all have time.
What you don't have
is you haven't prioritized your life correctly.
You didn't prioritize
yourself.
You didn't prioritize that, look motherf*cker,
I gotta get up and win this war today against myself.
Every day you say no to your dreams,
you might be pushing your dreams back a whole 6 months,
a whole year.
That one single day,
that one day you didn't get up
could've pushed your stuff back, I don't know how long.
You are where you are because of your feelings,
you're not on principles right now.
That's not what drives you.
You would be a millionaire right now
if you stopped going back to bed.
Yeah, you got the mentor,
yeah, you got the books,
so what?
The books can't make you get your butt up.
But what can is your principles,
and your problem is
either you ain't got none
or you ain't living by the ones you have.
In that moment, when we need self-talk,
when we're failing and we're in our worst spot possible.
we forget
the back end...
all the build up to where we're at today.
We forget how much work we put in.
We forget that we put years,
years, maybe not into making these dials,
but to getting where you're at today.
To become this person,
to be in a position to make this money.
Whatever you want to make,
whatever you want to do in your life.
We forget that,
we forget that journey
on what it took for us to get in this moment
to make the right decision.
So that's...
My self talk is this
OK, I wanna get outta here, man.
I'm done.
Then I remember this..
You ran 2000 miles training
to be in this moment right now.
We forget that,
we forget that three o'clock in the morning runs
or getting up early for work or whatever you're doing.
We forget all that.
In that moment of suffering, I remind myself,
I invested too much to quit.
I made too many sacrifices to give up.
We've come too far,
we've been through too much,
we've seen too much,
we've had too many victories.
We have seen defeat,
we've licked defeat in the face
and we've overcome it.
We've come too far to give up now.
We've come too far to be negative now.
We've come too far
to start overthinking now.
So what I do, myself talk
is basically going back down memory lane
of all those days
I ran in the rain, or had to study real late at night,
and I didn't want to do it,
but I did it to get here.
I wanted to get here.
Now you're here, and now you want to quit.
If you haven't put in any hard work
to reflect on
you're f***.
It's time to stay focused.
It's time to decide
f*ck clubs,
f*ck partying,
f*ck trying to fit in
and socialize,
rub elbows with everybody
so people can stop calling you weird.
"Why are you so anti-social?"
Because I'm trying to get it.
"Why are you staying on the basketball court so much?"
Because I'm trying to get it.
Why are you not clubbing,
like every time I text you and invite you
to go do something fun and cool,
you're always studying?"
Because I'm trying to get it.
The more weird you are,
is a reflection of how committed you are
to focussing on your sh*t.
Molding and shaping and developing
your ideas and your craft,
so that when it's time for you to make your rounds,
you're gonna fly.
You still got work to do.
Stay on that basketball court,
stay on that football field.
F*ck all the homies texting and calling,
and trying to make you feel bad
about being so focused.
It's grind season homie.
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME
DO YOU KNOW THAT EVERYBODY ALIVE
GETS EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME
WE GET ALL THERE IS
IT'S WHAT WE DO WITH IT THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE
SET YOUR GOALS HIGH
QUIT THINKING ABOUT WHAT'S WRONG
START THINKING OF WHAT'S RIGHT
LOVE A LITTLE MORE, HATE A LITTLE LESS
YOU'VE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE CAPABLE OF DOING
MAKE UP YOUR MIND TODAY YOU'RE GONNA FIGURE IT OUT