People have this
reoccurring nightmare,
that there's some
thing, some force that's got a hold of them
and it's holding them down,
and they can't break free,
no matter what they do, they can't break free
from that force.
Well I'm here to tell you
that that thing and your nightmare,
that thing that's holding you back,
that thing that's dragging you down,
that thing is you.
You lost sight of the long term goal, and it faded.
It faded from memory,
and the passion dried up,
so we stopped the daily tasks
that will allow us to achieve our goals.
And you begin to rationalize.
"Maybe I can't.
Maybe I don't really want to.
Maybe this goal isn't for me."
And so you give up.
You let it go.
And you settle.
You settle for the status quo,
you settle for the easy road,
you settle for
"Oh, well."
No.
Don't do that.
Your conditions are not always in your control.
You don't always get to decide what kind of skies you face,
you don't always get to decide
what kind of seas your sail on,
you don't always get to decide the weather forecast.
There are some things that are outside of your control,
but your courage
is in your control.
Come on, you've gotta keep your courage up.
Your bank account might be going down,
but keep your courage up.
Your grades might've gone down last semester,
but if you keep your courage up,
you can get your grades back up.
Even if everything else goes down,
keep up your courage.
If you got to follow some money,
if you gotta take a little while,
if you gotta take a timeout,
just keep going forward
and it
will
happen.
Enjoy the journey, not the destination.
A lot of us delay our happiness.
When I get to this level,
when I get my degree,
when I get the kids,
when I get married I'm going to be happy.
Enjoy the journey
enjoy the whole step
the whole process.
Every day that you get up to strive
for whatever it is you're after.
You don't celebrate ưhen you get to the finish line.
Celebrate all along the way.
A part of being a beast, just ain't eating a gazelle,
a part of being a beast is the hunt,
is the hunt that they excited about
cause real lions like to hunt,
They love the process just as much as they love the prize.
And some of y'all just want to score.
You don't like the process.
You're not in love with the process
a real man in the dark when nobody's watching,
he put me in work.
A real man when coach ain't even watching
he's studying a film on his own
because he loves the process.
So I've got to dig in
and got to fight more because at the end of the day
life is a fight for territory.
And once you stop fighting for what you want,
what you don't want will automatically take over.
And so, it's a fight.
It's a challenge in life every day.
And what we have to do is embrace it.
What we have to do is
see it as a project to be worked on.
The major key to your taking charge of your destiny
is you
I mean, if you have
the credit of Ross Perot, that will help.
I mean, if you have people who will support you,
that will help
but all of those things are secondary.
The major key to your taking charge of your destiny
is you.
It's you.
And even though you might not have all the things
going for you that you would like
You have the power within you,
as you begin to develop your consciousness,
as you hold the vision of what it is that you want to do,
as you decide to answer this small voice within you.
Because as you respond to this voice
that's telling you, you ought to do this.
The way will come.
Ideas will come to you.
You will begin to attract things you need and things
that you don't even know that you need right now.
You will develop the skills and the process.
As you look at yourself finding out
what is it you need to do,
what kind of adjustment you need to make,
What new strategies that you need to begin to implement
to make it happen.
But if you don't put yourself out here,
if you don't become actively involved in life,
if you hold back on yourself and continue to procrastinate,
I was holding back on myself.
I kept building up all kinds of reasons and excuses
to justify why I wasn't acting on my dream.
Most people go through life as volunteer victims.
They go through life volunteering to be victims,
giving excuses on why they're not pursuing their greatness,
giving excuses on why they're not doing the things
that they want to do.
Putting it off again and again and again.
Wasting valuable time.
Stop waiting for something to move you and move yourself.
Every day move yourself.
In the morning move yourself,
in the afternoon move yourself,
at night move yourself.
Be very intentional
and very deliberate about moving yourself.
You control your feelings,
don't nobody else control your feelings.
So when you tell me I ain't feeling it no more,
it don't got nothing to do with something external,
it's something internal that you ain't pushing no more.
You push you.
You gotta move you.
Every single day.
If you get to a point in your day and you down and out,
if you get to a point in your day and you exhausted,
you get to a point in your day and you not feeling it,
you can stop right there and change the mood.
Nothing controls you.
You control your feelings.
You control your mood.
Don't nobody control your mood.
You saw something that threw you off,
well see something that throw you back on.
Life is not designed where you just wake up
and see how it goes and you react.
You have a determining voice
into where your life can go.
You have no say so in what happens to you.
But you have a say so in what you do about it.
See life is 10% what happens to you,
is 90% what you do about it.
See, you get tripped out because you got dirt on you,
But you need dirt on you to develop.
Because dirt ain't just dirt.
Dirt is fertilizer.
Dirt is nutrients.
Dirt gives you the strength for your seed to push through.
So you got to have dirt on you to push through something.
Everything you see that's beautiful
starts out as a seed,
but that seed got to get dirt on it.
See you get mad when haters come your way.
You get mad because you get a setback
You get mad because you get thrown off course.
You get mad because you get a detour.
You get mad cause you lost your mama.
That's dirt.
But show me something
that has grown into something beautiful
that didn't have no dirt on it.
You've got to activate the thinker in you.
Don't allow your emotions to control you
we are emotional
but you want to begin
to discipline your emotion.
If you don't discipline and contain your emotions
they will use you.
You want to monitor your inner conversations
the things that you say to yourself.
You want to watch them
and in watching them
you want to take charge.
Sometimes you have to back up and go within
and pray and meditate
and recharge your batteries.
Go away, clear your head
and then come back and look at it
from a different vantage point.
But if you want to begin to move
into your own personal greatness,
you've got to be willing to go against the tide.
You've got to be willing to harness your will.
and say, in spite of this
I'm in control here.
I'm not going to let this get me down.
I'm not going to let this destroy.
I'm coming back
and I'll be stronger and better because of it.
You have got to make a declaration
that this is what you stand for.
You're standing up for your dream.
You're standing up for peace of mind.
You're standing up for health.
You want it,
and you're going to go all out to have it.
Do something that sucks every single day of your life.
That's how you grow.
Make every day your masterpiece.
The secret of your success
is determined by what we do daily.
You have to be willing to push through discomfort.
Nothing that you're about to try or do
that is worthwhile is going to be comfortable for you
during the process of creating it.
Stop with this hope sh*t.
Stop with this I wish sh*t.
And start replacing those terms
with I will f*cking do, no matter what.
It's a commitment
it's not a feeling.
Commitments don't have nothing to do with your feelings.
You do it because you're supposed to.
Be ready.
Be attacking.
Be relentless.
Let the enemy stop,
let the enemy rest,
let let the enemy finish.
You?
Don't finish.
Don't stop.
Don't rest.
Not until the enemy is completely destroyed.