stop looking at him stop looking at her
stop looking at this guy over here stop
looking at the moon and stop wishing you
were them and start wishing that you
were yourself life does not allow you to
experience things that you have not yet
earned life does not allow you to have
success unless you pay for it and life
does not accept a payment plan for
success in other words your payment for
success has to be upfront and in full
meaning that you have to put everything
that you have into what you're currently
doing in order to get where you want to
get to you only have a finite amount of
time to actually do these things it
might seem like you can kind of take
your time but you really can if you look
around you and you start to examine the
people around you that are in your life
or people that you look up to people
that you're maybe fans of would you
really look around and really examine it
people get to a pretty high level of
success in a three year span a five year
span a 10 year span a lot of times it's
only several years after they developed
a concept or after they developed an
idea now that idea or concept may have
taken a lifetime to get to you which was
the case with me I didn't put up any
points on the scoreboard and tell us
about 30 years old and him pathan 41 so
it took me a long time to come up with
the invention of the slingshot
I had the idea earlier took a long time
to even act on it and then it took a
long time to fully realize the
capabilities of what it could do took me
a long time to develop as a person
personal development just means all this
actually means is that you have taken on
the moral responsibility to become what
I like to call a learning machine become
the ultimate learning machine
become the ultimate student you know
nothing about nothing you do not have
the answers and somebody asks you a
question say hmm I don't actually know
because you want to know why a lot of
times you don't actually know you're not
actually a material expert still in
hurts still hurts
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I remember my guidance counselor in
school she told me that you know I told
her I want to be a professional athlete
I wanted to be famous and she told me I
should think about something else I
should I should try to learn a trade and
you know what I told her I told her
nothing because at that time in my life
1314 years old I felt stupid I felt dumb
and when she brought the fact that I
should learn a trade I actually thought
that she was right you know why I should
PI I learned some construction or I
should learn how to work on cars because
she's right I'm not that smart I don't I
probably don't have what it takes I left
I allowed that to creep into my mind but
that was because I was a scared little
kid and I didn't know any better I'm not
that same scared little kid anymore
I'm not the same person I used to be I
built myself up over time by embracing
my fears and by following through with
my dreams over and over and over again
despite what other people have said
about me I would have been devastated by
the math future pointing out the fact in
front of the entire class that it took
me 4 hours every single night
and it took me four hours it see it
still hurts still can hurts still hurts
it took me four hours to finish homework
that was taking other kids probably
about 20 or 30 minutes because I just
didn't know what was going on
it was so bad at one point my dad was
helping to me helping me and he he was
like mark we just went over this and I
was like dad I know I'm sorry I don't
really understand it my dad broke down
and cried and he didn't think there's
any hope for me look man I'm only able
to speak from it not because I'm a God
and not because I'm somebody that's got
some unique set of circumstances going
on I'm able to talk about it communicate
about it because I lived through it and
I always tried to be a hard worker
because I knew that on the other side of
pain was promised and I knew that if I
could just push through and if I could
pay the price pay the price pay the
price because when you pay that price
and when you put that money in that
money's gonna come spitting back out at
some other time your payment must be
paid up front in full when you want
success and so you have to try to pour
everything you you can into each and
every opportunity
replace the word work with opportunity
that's what you should be striving for
is trying to find more opportunities
stop thinking of your job as being just
work and think about it as an
opportunity that can be created for you
each and every day and you can go to
your boss and you can talk to them and
you can say how can I help you further
today how can I help this business move
along further and if he doesn't get it
move on to another job because people
don't need bosses they need mentors
people need coaches but as I kept moving
forward I tried more and more dangerous
things that scared the [ __ ] out of me
now things that are not dangerous
they're not going to really scare you
things that don't have any sort of
jeopardy involved things that are things
that just aren't difficult probably
aren't going to scare you these things
have to be hard they have to be tough
they have to be things that would harden
a person that would strengthen a person
so you're gonna need to have resistance
and you're going to need to have
perseverance through these things you
need to become a learning machine you
need to have a weight belt mentality and
you need to understand the principle of
you don't know anything and you have a
lot to learn you know what else you got
a lot to do you got a lot to prove think
about that every single time you're up
against it I want you to think about my
voice in your gear every single time
that you're up against it every single
time that you have self-doubt every
single time that you are not sure
yourself anytime you've ever been called
sconnie every every time you've been
called fat every time you've been called
stupid I want you to think of me while
you're working hard and I want you to
think of this keep pushing forward
no matter what one step in front of the
other one foot in front of the other
gradum for Rossiter step-by-step
ferociously consistently constantly
persistently that which dazzles mortal
eyes as often just perseverance in
disguise
perseverance consistency being
constantly consistent and never missing
and never missing out on these great
opportunities that the world has for
each and every one of us they're all
there is all there for all of us stop
looking at him stop looking at her stop
looking at this guy over here stop
looking at the moon and stop wishing you
were them and start wishing that you
were yourself start wishing that you
have a greater skill set stop wishing
stop wishing for things to be easier and
pray that you can become tougher and so
you can develop a stronger skill set the
things that do not scare you are not
going to be things that are going to
challenge you they're not going to be
things that change you and so you're
going you cannot live your life 100%
safe all the time
life does not work that way if you want
to just kind of lay low and be under the
radar and kind of walk around with your
head down and be a moppy so
you can do that but if you want to be a
multimillionaire if you want to be
successful and be able to take your
family out any night of the week and go
wherever the hell you want if you want
to be able to travel if you want to be
able to enjoy these things I'm not
saying that being rich is everything but
it sure is nice I can tell you that
that's why I sit here and preach and
talk about it because I think other
people can do it too do I think
everyone's cut out for it no go get
yourself stronger understand that you
have the ability to learn and do
anything that you want you hear it all
the time anything you put your mind to
you can learn you really can strike this
never weakness weakness never strength
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I'm out of here
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