If money was no object..
If you could wake up up and do what you wanted to do...
What would you do today?
if it didn't matter what majors made the most money..
If you didn't have to worry about the pile of bills sitting on your dorm room desk
If you didn't have to worry about the
opinions of your friends or your parents
What would you be doing today?
You see if you don't have a passion for what you do
what's the purpose of waking up?
If you wait for your alarm clocks to wake you up every day..
What's the purpose?
Would you get up?
Every day you should have a purpose and you should fuel it with your passion
A lot of you are probably
facing a similar decision..
Where do you go from here?
Graduated college
What's the next step, right?
I am sure you have certain opportunities
Most opportunities are opportunities a lot of people don't have
But what direction are you going?
The choices you make today..
Tomorrow..
They might affect you for the next year
five years, ten years or for the rest of your life
There's one exception to this rule..
You have to love what you do
you have to have a passion...
For anything hat is a 9 or above
because the time that's required to make that effectively and
efficiently to make the amount of revenue
that's going to keep you content..
May be the next 10 15 20 30 years of your life
so if you're not willing to give 30 years
to become a doctor..
then don't do it..
because if you don't have a passion for it..
you're going to wake up one day
and find out that you're just working a job
it does not matter where you come from
I have seen people come out of the desert..
walk across the desert.
Being born in the most dire of circumstances...
It doesn't matter what your mama did..
whether she did or had a PhD or no Diploma..
what matters is now... this moment
and your willingness
to see this moment for what it is...
Accept it...
forgive the past...
Take responsibility and move forward..
And if you are sitting around waiting
on somebody to save you
To fix you.. to even help you..
You are wasting your time, because only you
have the power to take responsibility to move
your life forward and the sooner you get
that the sooner your life gets into gear
then you really be living a limitless life
You'll be able to do the things that are important.
and as Elon Musk said
if something is important enough you
should try even if the probable outcome
is failure...
And that's where most peoplestop and this is the one that drives me
crazy and this is the thing about really
trying to do something with your life
Yes, you might fail...
Yes, you might embarrass yourself
You might end up doing a faceplant.
You might end up wishing that
you hadn't even started
but if it's important enough even in that moment
you've got to get back up
and ask yourself honestly -
Where did I fail?
What was the skill that I didn't have that
was required of this task and once you
stop beating yourself up once you stop
turning inward with a judgment of I'm
not good enough and you start turning
inward with the judgment of I don't have
good enough skill yet - then you can do
something because you know it's only a
matter of time effort and focus between
who you are today and who you need to
become to actually do that thing so
don't worry about whether or not you're
going to fail because the only promise
that I can make you is that you will
fail and as long as the only promise
that you're willing to make yourself is
that you won't stop
ultimately you will get to the top of the mountain
In order to build a business..
In order to be the best parent, the best spouse to do all those
things that you know you want to do with
your life with your work with your
dreams you're gonna have to do things
that are difficult uncertain or scary
see Nelson Mandela did it.. He just did it
not knowing if it were right
Mahatma Gandhi just did it not knowing if it were right..
Mother Teresa just did it not
looking for affirmation or confirmation is this right?
Martin Luther King did it not even knowing if it would happen
before his life ended...
I mean what are you waiting on?
Are you willing
to do it afraid?
Are you willing to do it knowing
that you got so much work to do to get
it better to get, it more perfect but are
you willing to do it inside your
imperfection.. Do you realize it in your
imperfection - you're perfect for the job
Without commitment you'll never start
but more importantly without consistency
You'll never finish...
You are just kinda waiting.. you're waiting to
get everything in order you're waiting
you're waiting so that everything is in
you - together... you're waiting to not be
afraid, you're waiting to have the
courage, you're waiting to have all the
money you're waiting to lose weight
How about you not wait to get it right?
You figure out how does it look doing it wrong
You got to be willing to do it afraid
See - you might be waiting for the fear to stop..
I'm afraid what do I do?
Do it anyway..
I'm afraid I don't quite know if I should move..
Move anyway..
I don't know if I should leap
Leap afraid!
and then gather your courage on the way down