it's not okay to make an excuse losers
always have an excuse
take the plunger and go for it it takes
a lot of courage
getting out of your comfort zone is
massively important above all
belief
making excuses is just another reason um
why you're not going to succeed you know
it's it's not
it's not a valid reason unless you can't
physically
enable yourself to train i.e you've got
you know even having no legs no arms you
know we've seen all these
wonderful stories of people not
wonderful but they've gone through
trauma
and they've kind of overcome that and
they're very successful in what they do
so
i just don't i wouldn't say i don't like
it i just don't agree with people making
excuses because it's we're we're from uh
a society now i think that an excuse is
okay you know we've accepted it right
let's make an excuse why we can't do it
it's not okay to make an excuse because
you know i've got not enough time i've
not
there's not enough hours in the day to
this i don't like this food i don't like
this it's
we shouldn't be saying that's okay to
make those type of excuses it's
let's not make the excuses let's can a
man up and kind of
just move on and get on and do better
for ourselves
and again yeah i've never tried to make
any excuses and
if i do rubbish in a show i kind of mess
up it's not
i've got to hold myself accountable
there's not any reason
you know it's not the referee's fault
it's not
my coaches the nutritionist it's down to
me if i haven't
kind of lived up to my end of the
bargain then that's the reason why i've
kind of not performed fully and
i think a lot of people should try and
hold themselves a bit more accountable i
think um
self-improvement and self-worth you'd
feel so much better if you just
kind of held yourself accountable a lot
more in life
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don't stop because of failures don't
quit because it is getting
hard comes at a price
and you must be willing to pay it
i just i've always kind of said i mean
like going for school
the thing that stuck up to me was like a
teacher said oh you're not gonna do
nothing
and that kind of stuck with me because
you know a lot of peop if people have
additional needs you know if they if
someone says that they'll believe it
and i believe that for a long long time
so i just think you need to kind of
keep around positive people you know
whatever you want to do whatever goal
you want to set what if it's the biggest
goal
smallest goals just go out and smash it
because you know i'm kind of
i'm hoping example of it you know and
i've proved
hundreds and hundreds of people wrong
and that's what kind of
i'm wanting a lot of other people to do
and that's what i'm trying to show
people that
you know just because i've got
asperger's doesn't mean i'm going to sit
back and
not achieve goals you know i want to be
the best in the world and i'm going to
be the best in the world so
yeah i just think posit have a positive
attitude to everything you do and just
be around
positive people and you'll get far in
life for those two things
you know some people if you allow that
self-doubt
to to ruin your dreams you're never
going to get anywhere in life
but the thing is as long as you're
passionate enough
as long as you're coming from the heart
and not from the head and your
motivation is pure passion
for what you believe in no one can stop
you
strong mindset will take you as far as
you want to go in life i think everyone
wants success they have to do the hard
work
some people try and find a shortcut but
you should never want to try and find a
shortcut hard work should always be like
the
the main thing and you should enjoy how
hard you've got to work as well to get
there because it just makes it that much
sweeter in the end
stop blaming others stop blaming people
for the reasons you find yourself in now
stop blaming your situation stop blaming
your parents
stop blaming the government stop blaming
your genetic
stop blaming everybody else the only
person you can truly blame
is you because you are the only person
who can get yourself
out of it i would just say you know take
the plunge and go for it i mean
like you sacrifice your job if you're
that serious about sacrifice your job
you know
sacrifice doing nights out you know and
just get yourself a coach get yourself a
nutritionist and literally go for it
you've got things to fall back on
uh if you're young enough you know like
myself if i if this failed i have stuff
to fall back on bible thing
just take the plunge and 100 just if you
want to do it just
go for it you know that's that's my
attitude
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it takes a lot of motivation it takes a
lot of courage
and it takes above all belief
i don't want to be one of those guys in
15 years in the publishing
uh well i could have done that i could
have done this i could have done that i
would hate myself
if i turned into one of those people
that they could have you know i could
have should have done it
it's not someone who i am i've not been
brought up like that i've been brought
up to
you know put in the work and get the
rewards that's that's why i see myself
so
i don't want to be like the nearly guy i
said i want to get that level and i want
to be the one that
is getting in the ring knowing i'm going
to win at that level i don't want to be
fighting these guys thinking oh am i
good enough or not i want to get in
there and not
you need to do the hard path you know
you can't just have it easy enough it
was easy
everyone would do it and to kind of be
the best in
like the world you kind of have to you
know go
places where no one's going to go take
your body to places
no one's going to go because at the end
of the day you're you can only kind of
the good thing about support is you've
only got yourself to blame if you don't
do things good so
i think the hard path is the best path
to do you know so
mentally physically get you
ready you know everything's just dialing
and yeah the hard part for me
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i probably should do the easy path but
yeah the hard path is
has helped me 100
the getting out of your comfort zone is
massively important and
again that comes down to the same thing
as obsession i think
you can't just be comfortable in what
you're doing you need to be out of your
comfort zone
that's how people live their lives
they're not prepared to step into that
discomfort
knowing that on the other side of that
is the long-term
gain the way we're wired and this is the
way people
operate basically is everyone's taking
short-term comfort
whether that's drugs drink relationships
job choices all the choices they make
they make
knowing that there's a level of comfort
there and if you want to achieve
anything in life if you want to achieve
success at work success in any aspect of
your life
you need to take short-term discomfort
for long-term gain
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i just don't think about it just do it
you know it's if you find your passion
in anything you know it could be baking
it could be
drawing writing whatever it's find that
passion and just don't let it go
um don't have that plan b you know um
that's what i had for so long so strong
management it was just a hobby
you know even though we're making some
money and we're it was growing and stuff
it was just a hobby so i thought well
you know i'll do the offshore thing i'll
maybe do a bit more of the strong man
but always have that plan b to go back
in the rigs
so now i'm i'm done there's no
no plan b cd it's only one thing in that
strong man
you know don't give up on your life
always
just always achieve your goals what you
set up to do and just kind of
you know try and try and make the hard
times
as easy as possible in your head as you
can being on
always always if you're not sure if
things ask questions and don't ever
hesitate to kind of
you know ask the question twice three
times you know no one's gonna think
you're stupid just
always just if you're not sure just do
it and just
attack life like you're there to live it
you know and just live your life to
fullest
that's all i have to say so yeah
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your life is just so fragile i mean
you don't know what's gonna happen
tomorrow so treat each day like it's
your last day and that's what i've been
doing
i think for the last last little while
and it's you enjoy life a lot more doing
it that way i think
our lives are a product of our
imagination we can create the life that
we want
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if we believe in it if we visualize it
so for me
you know when i do that i'm planting
what i want the goal that i want in my
subconscious
you would then subconsciously take
decisions and take
and and make decisions and take actions
that reflect
your goal if you want to easy life then
fine man it's
it's not going to be rewarding you know
doing something easy
you get a lot of reward from it doing
something hard
and succeeding doing a marathon climbing
mount everest
lifting 500 kilos putting 230 kilos
above your head
those are extremely hard things to do
but the reward is
never ending you know making that
historic
lift the historic whatever it is
is never ending you know so for tom and
i
strongest brothers in history first
brothers in history to ever make the
world's strongest man final
that's never ending i can i can boast
about that
forever and that was hard to do that was
99.99999 percent of people will never
ever do that
and that's because too many people want
the easy easy stuff
and they're happy with that that's fine
but
know that the harder way is always a
bigger rewards
nothing truer has ever been said that's
it's simple you know go down that if
you've got a path
easy path hard path hard path every time
every time
you