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the greatest ability that god has given
humankind above the animals is the
ability to choose
a dog can't be anything but a dog a cat
can't be anything but a cat a human
being
has the power to choose we can choose
and i'm asking you what do you see in
the future for you
what brought you here today
what caused you to get up
what is it that you're looking for
you get to choose as much as you want
you get to design it any way you choose
you're not sentenced to your future you
have an opportunity to your future
how do you want it and if it doesn't
make you a little afraid then you ain't
playing big enough
you all have your own unique rhythms and
daily habits and things that you need to
achieve and the things that you need to
accomplish so that you look in the
mirror and you feel like yes i can
i choose this as our goal and they may
well ask why climb the highest mountain
why fly the atlantic
there's a choice
you have to choose for your happiness
you have to choose for your well-being
you have to choose for your family you
have to choose for your health and
wellness
you have to choose for success
when i made a decision to follow my
destiny i felt it calling my destiny was
calling me
that's one small step for man we choose
to go to the moon in this decade and do
the other thing
not because they are easy but because
they are hard
because that goal
will serve to organize and measure the
best
of our energies and skills
because that challenge is one that we're
willing to accept
one we are willing to go home
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and one we intend to win
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you pushing and you're pushing and
you're pushing and you're pushing and
you're doing everything right you're
tired you're exhausted and ain't nothing
happening yet
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that
word
is what you're waiting for
yet
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it's no different because we've messed
up because you fell off the wagon you've
been on alcohol and drugs and you gave
up on life or you dropped out or you've
been to jail one time two times three
times and you really want your dream to
happen and you putting in your work and
nothing's happening yet
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i promise you if you keep pushing
if you keep giving me all your effort it
will happen
it must happen it can't do anything
but move you can do anything but make
progress but i want you all to
understand and saying that word
that you you all have to stop getting
caught up in movement as progress for
some of us
the action of making
progress is progress
the the push itself the fight you get up
and swing and miss that's progress you
get up and you run at what you want with
everything you got and you miss that's
progress the effort of making the
attempt is progress
and so guess what the goals and the
dreams are in that mindset to do nothing
i'll get to it tomorrow i'll do it the
next day i do it the day after that
we're in a mindset of quitting and if
you want to make sure you become
successful it's not real you quit it's
where you stop preparing to quit
you gotta give up on saying look i can
do that tomorrow look this is my time
for rest this is my time for break there
is no quit guess what dreams don't stop
people doing and then you have the nerve
to think or to ask yourself why you're
not successful and you see it happen
every day on monday morning somebody's
gonna get up and they gonna hand in that
resignation going to a new job on monday
morning somebody gonna get up lifting
more than you on monday morning somebody
gonna get up running faster than you on
monday morning somebody gonna get up
with their name higher than the drafting
you on monday morning somebody's gonna
be getting that scholarship that you
could've got that's what on monday
morning somebody's gonna get up
whistling to take that test while you
worry why there's no difference between
them and you they're not faster they're
not smarter they're not stronger they're
not better they just don't quit
you give up you give up you believe that
24 hours at 48 hours you deserve to be
off you deserve to relax while you relax
and always remember this though is
somebody grinding there's somebody
pushing harder than you and somebody
giving up more than you guess what until
you get in that mental mindset that you
will not prepare to quit you will never
succeed because if you prepare to quit
quitting is inevitable i'm gonna have
the same amount of time the same
advantage no excuse they're not gonna
have an hour more than me they're not
gonna have six hours extra than me i'm
gonna grind just as long and i'm gonna
grind longer and i'm gonna prepare
myself to be successful why one reason i
don't quit i don't prepare myself in the
mindset to quitting if you don't
understand this right now that you're
gonna have to push harder you wanna
fight longer you're gonna have to move
in with everything you got you're gonna
have to give up more you're gonna have
to not be lazy you're gonna have to not
listen to that old you
you don't have to believe that this
extra time i can use on the weekend or
at the end of the day or at night when
other people see me or when everybody's
at the family you with other people on
vacation at the beach i'm gonna run i'm
gonna get it and i'm gonna make my
dreams a reality nobody gonna stop me
but me that's the only person that can
understand if you want to make your
dreams a reality he's gotta understand
that you can't quit
are we always gonna make the right
decision yes or no
absolutely not no way in a million years
but most people don't have the guts to
make the tough decisions because they
want to make the right decisions so they
make no decision
but for some reason or another you've
been holding back
for some reason or another you just have
not been able to gather your nerves or
be able to work through the
procrastinating or putting it off or
justifying or blaming some reason or
another you just haven't done it
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i want you to know that your life right
now is the sum total of your decision
so i need you to be a favor i need you
from this day forward for the rest of
your life make a decision
decision making is the force that shapes
destiny personal corporate
business destiny so if you're going to
control your life the way you take
control is by making new choices if you
don't like how things are what do you
got to do
change it and to change it you have to
make a decision
and by the way leaders make decisions
that's what makes somebody leader they
have the guts to make the most difficult
decisions no one else says the guts to
make and they know they're gonna be
wrong but if they're wrong what will
they do they'll know what they want they
see it's not working and they'll do what
change it which means they'll make
another decision do something new and
see if it works that's the essence of
how we grow
you know what i did to get where i am
right now
i made a decision
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ask yourself what's my dream
what's my dream
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i came to challenge you to play in the
biggest field you've ever played in
i came for you to challenge the fear
that might be inside of you and to
redesign and reprogram it you look at it
long enough you be with it intimately
enough and it has to dissipate you are
the designer of your destiny
you are the author of your autobiography
you write the story of your life no one
can write your financial story no one
can write your spiritual story no one
can write your emotional story but you
the pen has always been in your hand the
pen has always been in your hand i say
write a story that's gonna be damn good
to read
and ask yourself what's my dream
what are you willing to do that you've
never done before
what are you willing to say that you've
never said before
are you willing are you willing to do
that thing you've never done before are
you willing to stand at the edge of your
own greatness are you willing to look at
your fears are you willing to recognize
that you can be afraid are you willing
to look at the fact that there is always
healing to come there's always growth to
come there's no arrival are you willing
and then in the space of that are you
still willing to lean to the edge
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feel the breeze
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of possibility not knowing if you will
fly or fall
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are you willing are you willing to not
quite know
what's there
but that something is there is greater
than you
are you willing
to say
my life
has to make a huge
difference
you've heard me say this before that
there's a birthday and a transition day
and in between that is all the
opportunity in the world that's that
dash that dash that says are you willing
to disrupt my life you're not here
you're not put here to leave my life
calm you're here to be a disruption for
my life you're here to cause me to want
to be someone i've never been do
something i've never done because you
crossed my path are you willing to show
me
your past doesn't define you
what you do now defines you
what you are committed to do now defines
you
if you study the habits and traits of
highly successful people and the average
or unsuccessful it is impossible not to
see clear differences in their habits
and thinking
one of the biggest differences lie in
thinking and living in the past or
planning into the future
the majority and by that i mean the
average and the underachieving among us
think primarily
in the past
this is what happened to me and if this
didn't happen to me i would be where i
want to be today
i should have done this in the past and
now
it's too late this person wronged me in
the past and that's why i'm not where i
want to be
the past drags them down and beats the
life out of them continuously day in and
day out
they don't take responsibility they
don't believe in future because they are
stuck
in the past
so their past repeats itself into the
future over and over again
the successful one however thinks only
in the nap and into the future
they set goals into the future clear
targets to push them forward to light
their fire within and give them passion
for living
they visualize the results coming to
reality into the future
they see the future reward
not the initial struggle to bring it to
life not what i have to go through to
get there
but how will i feel when i get there
in the only way
to get to the future to the big reward
is to have powerful action in the now in
this powerful present moment
all successful people know that each
positive and productive present moment
leads to a positive and successful
future moment
the successful usually have had just as
tough a past as the average but their
meaning is different
rather than play the victim
they get on with life
rather than dwell in the past
they plan on how they will create a
better life in the future
rather than use the past as an excuse
they use it as fuel to drive them
wherever they need to go
use your pets as fuel
to take you wherever you need to go if
you ever look back make sure it's only
to drive you forward
don't blame others for your situation
rely on yourself to create a new
situation
your future starts today
not tomorrow
plan now
meal now
don't let your past define your future
don't you dare let past failures get in
the way of your future success
it doesn't matter what happened in the
past the only thing that matters is what
you are going to do
right now
what are you going to do
right now
sometimes
you don't find someone for a long time
and then when you do it changes your
whole life you find someone maybe it's
just a youtube video and it's you saying
it's still your set and
it's you just pushing people and telling
people to go get after it and people see
that and all of a sudden it's like they
get goosebumps their heart starts racing
it's like you gave them a drug like you
gave them fuel
and then then they want to change their
life then they want to watch you
tomorrow then they want to watch you
while they're at lunch break that's fuel
and you literally can change a person's
life through that because we need
each other i mean this is it's one more
piece of evidence that we need each
other that we have this sort of a very
strange loose fitted community of all
human beings together
when someone like you does something
that's exceptional and says something
that's exceptional and has these
inspirational words it can change a
person's whole life change their whole
path change who they are i've gotten so
many messages from people that say i
lost 130 pounds you know i did this i
got off sugar i'm do i'm i'm
running every day i hit the gym five
days a week now i'm i'm a different
person i'm drinking water i'm exercising
i take vitamins i'm eating healthy i've
got more juice i got more energy my
whole life is different now there's no
personal satisfaction and
accomplishments if nobody loves you
you're not to enjoy it
love is the most important thing and
that sounds so cliche but without love
it's all useless yeah it's all useless
we all need each other we really do
there's something beautiful about that
though you're like you can't just go it
alone
you really do need each other
through time and effort you build a
stronger human you build a stronger body
you build a stronger mind you build
accomplishments and will and momentum
and then you look back and you go hey
man i'm not washing tables anymore you
know i'm not uh i'm not washing dishes
i'm not cutting lawns i'm not digging
ditches i'm a different person now
you are not your past you're you you're
you right now you might have done some
things you wish you hadn't done don't
dwell on that you learn from it that's
fine but don't dwell on it just keep
moving keep moving you don't use it use
it as fuel say never again i get what i
did wrong but don't think that you're
that person that made those mistakes
you're the person who's learned
it's going to cost you more time than
you thought you'd have
it's going to cost you way more money
than you thought you would invest
it's going to cost you some friends who
couldn't make the entire journey with
you it's gonna cost you that that sense
of oh my god i gotta leave i gotta die
to the old me to allow the new me to be
born to my future it's gonna cost you
something
this is the year for reset this is the
year for restart this is the year for
reignite this is the year for repeat the
things that you love this is the year
for recommit this is the year for
redesign this is the year for re-engaged
this is the year for restart this is
that year
i stopped by to
ignite your fire
i stopped by to have you confront fear
i stopped by to have you look at what
it's cost you and to make a bold
declaration the next time it rise up you
rise up a little bit higher than it
says
i stopped by for you to no longer make
fear your enemy
make fear your fuel
i stopped by to redefine fear
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to redefine it because fear is an
emotion like any other emotion fear is
an emotion like love like compassion
fears and emotions we just gave it more
power
we just gave it more power compassion oh
that's nice fear
we made we gave it a meaning
and some of you know you've heard this
before that fear is false
evidence appearing real
now it's time to
literally
biohack the impact that fear has had on
you
that fear no longer becomes your
fortress fear becomes your fuel
fear is that thing that pushes you
forward fear is the thing that reminds
you oh i need to go get more information
oh fear will keep you up at night
studying fear will take you to a culture
or mentor fear will cause you to eat a
slice of humble pie
repeat after me
i am ready
for my next best season
because i know
that i am the author
of my autobiography
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i am the designer
of my own destiny
i am writing my life story
and i'm writing a life story
that i'm going to love reading
and others will be inspired by
on one page
they'll read my fear
and on the next page
they'll know i did it anyway
i commit
to hold fear in one hand
and passion in the other
and leap
every time
i ask
that each of you
hold me accountable
to my contribution on this planet
turn to someone to say don't let me off
the hook
i believe
everyone is born with the ability to
apply effort i can't prove that you know
some people might be you know i i know i
was not destined to be a basketball
player you know some people were born
with that specific skill but i do
believe that we can build potential by
using effort and making the choice to
commit to something so
i can't really prove that you're
supposed to be something like you should
be something but i can say that with
choice and effort you can go really damn
far
you can't out do the need for time and
consistency
intensity still has its place don't get
me wrong but misplaced intensity i i
feel is the number one reason why people
fail their goals and that's not just
fitness that's with business that's with
personal relationships that's with
everything instead of just adding
intensity you have to be consistent over
time not consistent for two days not
consistent for two weeks over time you
know if you do the work you will more
than likely get there but if you don't
do the work you definitely won't get
there so if i'm in between a possibility
or likelihood and definitely not i'm
gonna go with the possibility and
likelihood and that's by doing simple
work you don't have to go crazy
do the work just because you're in a
library doesn't mean you're studying and
i can promise you going into a bank
doesn't make you a millionaire you have
to do the work you have to put in the
time and you have to give yourself the
energy
are you trying your best only you can
answer that because on days i can only
give sixty percent and i give sixty
percent
i give a hundred
i respect those people so much more that
can only give a little and give it their
all than a person who has endless
potential but chooses to only give 60
effort is everything and you can decide
are you putting in the most amount of
effort that you can
motivation comes after action
the question is not how do you develop
the motivation to keep going the real
question is how do you develop the
discipline to do the stuff you need to
do even when you don't feel like doing
it
floss one tooth
go to the gym and lift one weight one
time then you can stop then you can go
home then you can stop
more than likely because you already got
there because you already started you're
going to finish
getting there is the majority of the
issue
the discipline to start that's what you
need
the motivation to keep going comes after
the action to start so on those days you
don't feel like it if you know you need
to you have to it's the same thing with
a job
i can promise you almost anyone who
works a job they bet those days were
like i don't want to go to work today on
their way to the work
they're still going because they they
tell themselves they need to
and i could ask both of you do you need
to work and more than likely you'd
probably say yes i could ask anyone
watching do you need to work and more
than likely everyone would probably say
yes and i will say no you don't that's a
lie that's a lie that you're telling
yourself you don't need to work
you could be homeless you could give up
everything you own and you could live on
the streets you could
so it's not a need it's a want it's a
desire to not be homeless it's a desire
to maintain the life that you have
and if we have an ability to turn a
desire
into a necessity like we do with our job
you have the same ability to turn a
desire of fitness goals into a necessity
to do it regardless of how you feel
so then let's consider first of all what
is a mind
in the grip of vicious circles
well
one of the most obvious instances that
we all know is the phenomenon of worry
the doctor tells you that you have to
have an operation
and that has been set up so that
automatically everybody worries about it
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but since
worrying takes away your appetite and
your sleep it's not good for you
but you can't stop worrying
and therefore you get additionally
worried that you are worrying
and then furthermore because that is
quite absurd and you are mad at yourself
because you do it
you are worried because you worry
because you worry
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that is a vicious circle
so
now
can you
allow your mind to be quiet
isn't it difficult
because the mind seems to be like a
monkey
jumping up and down and jabbering all
the time once you've learned to think
you can't stop
and an enormous number of people
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devote their lives to keeping their
minds busy
and feel extremely uncomfortable
with silence
when you're alone
nobody's saying anything there's nothing
to do
there's this
this worry
this lack of distraction i'm left alone
with myself and i want to get away from
myself i'm always wanting to get away
from myself that's why i go to the
movies that's why i read mystery stories
that's why i go after the girls or
anything that you do or get drunk or
whatever i don't want to be with myself
i feel
queer
so well why do you want to run away from
yourself what's so bad about you
why do you want to forget this why do
you want to become a soul
because you are addicted to thoughts
this is a drug
real dangerous one
compulsive thinking going on and on and
on and on
so there's a difficulty about stopping
that activity and you really have to
stop it if you want to be sane
because
if i talk all the time
i don't hear what anyone else has to say
and i'll end up in the situation of
having nothing to talk about but my own
talking
also in exactly the same way if i think
all the time
i won't have anything to think about
except thoughts
so in order to have something to think
about
there are times when you simply must
stop thinking
well how do you do that
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the first rule is don't try to
because if you do
you will be like someone trying to make
rough water smooth with a flat iron
and all that will do will stir it up
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so in the same way as a muddy turbulent
pool
quiets itself when left alone
you have to know how to leave your mind
alone
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it will quiet itself
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you