Most people go so far in life and then
they park
they stop
dead in their tracks.
Why?
Because they take some hits
when you have a goal and dream
think it not strange
at you face the fiery furnaces of this world
you will have tribulation.
Things are going to happen to you.
Life tries to convince us that we're average.
There's nothing special about us.
We have too many obstacles.
We'll never accomplish our dreams.
We've made too many mistakes.
We'll never leave our mark.
We don't realize who we are.
Maybe you have doubt in your life.
Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be
happening in the future and it scares you.
Maybe you're worried about what people think of you,
what people say about you.
Just that fear paralyzes you and
I just want to ask you today,
do you think you have hope?
Somebody said that life is like an onion.
You have to peel it one layer
at a time
and sometimes
you cry.
Life's going to happen to you when you have a dream,
you're going to get slapped around
and don't take it personal.
Don't ask why did this have to happen to me?
Why not you?
Who would you suggest?
you want to give some names, some email addresses?
And don't tell everybody
80% don't care
and 20% glad at you
I want to ask you, what are you going to believe?
Are you going to believe in yourself?
You going to believe
everyone elses judgment on you?
Are you going to believe people when they say
that you're a failure,
when no one really likes you,
no one really cares about you?
It's called life.
Suck it up
and move on!
Get over it!
Turn it on itself
and ask yourself what am I afraid of?
I'm afraid of that?
I got to be more afraid of
what I'm going to miss out on,
missing out on my mission,
missing out on who I'm supposed to be,
missing, in other words
if you're not getting rid of fear
than use fear,
use fear or it uses you.
It's that simple.
You are not like everybody else.
You can walk outside and find pigeons
but if you're looking for eagles,
it's going to take you a minute.
You are different.
It's lonely at the top.
How many of you know it's lonely at the top.
It's lonely at the top
but you eat better.
And it's not the end
until you've given up.
And just the fact that you're here
should persuade you
that you have another chance
to get back up.
There's still hope.
I'm not here today to tell you that
I understand your pain.
I don't know how it feels to be abused.
I don't know how it feels
to feel "fat" and you got an eating disorder.
I don't know how it feels to have a broken home.
I don't know how it feels
but I know how it feels to have a broken heart.
And I know how it feels to be alone.
And I want you to know that I found
my strength in Jesus Christ and you're going to find
your strength in whatever you find it in.
But I just want you to know that it's not the end.
It matters how you're going to finish.
Are you going to finish strong?
And you will find that strength to get back up
like this.
- Your present or past results have
absolutely nothing to do
with what's going to happen from this point forward.
Now that was the point that Ray Stanford
drilled into my head.
You see I kept thinking, well gee I such a mess up
you know I've done everything wrong up 'til now.
I'm 26, I'm broke, I'm not happy.
Everything was wrong.
He said, "Bob that's all in the past.
He said, "Every moment is a new moment.
"We shouldn't condemn ourselves.
And he said, "What you were yesterday you paid for.
"What you are today you decide what."
That's exactly what Troy would say.
This power in no way is limited by precedent.
Even in a creative state we sometimes don't understand that.
You know why airplanes right up to today
almost have wings on them?
Because birds have wings.
Birds fly.
They have wings.
If you're going to get a plane to fly
you've got to put wings on it.
Do you, no, we've got planes flying without wings today.
You know why, never didn't need wings.
But you see the thinking was to a degree limited
by precedent.
Birds fly with wings planes have to have wings.
Planes do not have to have wings.
You're creative if you can visualize it you can do it.
It doesn't matter what it is, that's what Hill said
anything the mind can conceive and believe it
you can achieve.
There is no more effective way of operating in the world,
then to conceptualize the highest good that you can,
and then strive to to attain it.
There's no more practical pathway to the kind of success
that you could have if you actually knew what success was.
The world shifts itself around your aim.
You're a creature that has an aim.
You have to have an aim in order to do something.
You're an aiming creature.
You look at a point and you move towards it.
It's built right into you.
And so you have an aim.
Well, let's say your aim is the highest possible aim.
Well, then, that sets up the world around you.
It organizes all of your perceptions.
It organizes what you see and you don't see.
It organizes your emotions and your motivations.
So you organize yourself around that aim.
And then what happens is the day manifests itself
as a set of challenges and problems.
If you solve them properly,
then you stay on the pathway towards that aim.
And you can concentrate on the day,
and so that way you get to have your cake and eat it too,
because you can point into the distance,
the far distance,
and you can live in the day.
It seems to me, that makes every moment of the day
supercharged with meaning,
If everything that you're doing every day,
is related to the highest possible aim
that you can conceptualize,
well that's the very definition of the meaning
that would sustain you in you life.
I believe that those rules can be applied to almost anyone and everyone,
if you want to excel in whatever you do, those rules are for you.
It's that simple.
So my first rule is.
Find your vision and follow it.
You see, I think is the most important thing that we have a very clear vision of
where we go
a goal where do we go?
Because you can have the best ship in the world.
You can have the best cruise line up.
But if the captain does not know where to go, that ship will drift
around the world and out there to see and will never end up anywhere.
And this is exactly the way it is in real life.
If you don't have a goal, if you don't have a vision, you just drift around
and you're not going to be happy.
The simple truth is if you don't have a vision, if you don't have a
goal, if you don't see your future laid out in front of you, you're just
floating around without a purpose.
And I think that the numbers speak for themselves.
This is why so many people around the world are unhappy with their jobs.
I mean in America, 74% of the people hate their job and would like to
change jobs
to think about that.
That means that only a quarter of the Americans love the life's work.
I mean, that is a very depressing statistic.
I always smiled when I worked no matter how hard I worked.
I always had a great time.
No matter what I did, it didn't matter if it was in bodybuilding
or if it was in the movies or it was as governor
I remember in the pumping iron days.
People ask me in the gym all the time.
Why are you smiling all the time?
Why are you so happy?
You have to lift 50 tons of weights.
You have to train five hours a day.
I mean, I look at the other body balance faces and lifters faces
and they look kind of depressing.
They look sour, they're miserable that they have to lift weights.
You, you don't look miserable, you look happy.
And I tell them always, I say, I smile because I know exactly
that every rep that I do.
That every set that I do every weight through that I lift, they get one step
closer to turning that vision of mine into reality and becoming that
Mr. Universe, I could not wait to lift another 500 pounds in the squats.
I could not wait to do another thousand sit-ups I could not wait to
do bench press more bench press, and more curls until I couldn't
move my arms anymore, because I knew that every rep got me closer to
standing on that stage as a champion.
So matter of fact, when I lifted weights, I didn't really feel
like I was lifting weights.
I felt like I was lifting a trophy over my head each time I lifted and
to have all those body builders around me and thousands of people screaming.
And I'd tell you that, that this vision didn't just help me in body building.
It helped me be everything, like I said.
Focus is the most important quality for success.
If you can focus, you can do anything.
If you can't focus, you must always work
for someone else who will make you focus.
Now wonderfully enough, focusing is like
learning how to ride a bicycle or type with a keyboard.
It's a learnable skill.
You can learn to focus by practicing
focus until it becomes automatic.
- One of the most valuable exercises you can engage in
when setting goals is to ask yourself,
what is my limiting step?
What is the one factor that determines the speed
at which I achieve my goal?
Or whether I achieve it at all
throughout my personal development?
Your ability to identify your limiting step
is one of the best demonstrations
of your intelligence and a step
toward building self-confidence.
Your capacity to eliminate this limiting step
is one of the best demonstrations
of your overall competence in achieving anything you want.
In studying everything that has been written or said
about personal development and success,
the conclusion I came to was that your level
of self-confidence is probably the critical
factor in everything you'll accomplish.
When you have enough self-confidence,
you will try almost anything.
Because success is largely a matter of averages
or probabilities, the more things you try,
the more likely it is that you will achieve greatly.
The same is true for you.
By setting goals, trying more things,
engaging in more activities,
and exploring more opportunities,
your probabilities of success increase dramatically.
The only real limiting step that you might have
is your level of self-confidence.
When you reach the point at which you believe
in yourself absolutely, the barriers that exist
in your external world will not stop you.
If you want to be a better leader, understand,
and then practice these three Is.
Number one, inspiration.
The job of a leader really is to inspire other people.
If you look at Steve Jobs, you look at Elon Musk,
you look at Nelson Mandela,
you look at Sergey Brin of Google,
you look at a Rembrandt or a Picasso,
these people were incredibly inspired.
They not only were incredibly inspired,
they were inspirational to other people.
I mean, there's that incredible story of Steve Jobs.
And a lot of people say Steve Jobs wasn't a nice person.
And, yet, if you were to poll the former employees of Apple,
they would say, "My years at Apple, working with Steve Jobs,
"were the single best years of my entire career."
And you say, "Why?"
And they say, "Because he was inspirational."
I mean, when Steve Jobs was a young man, or a young kid,
his father said, "Go out and paint the fence."
outside of their house.
And Steve Jobs said, "No problem."
He went out and he started painting
the outside of the fence.
A few hours later, his father comes out
and says, "Steve, did you paint the fence?"
Steve says, "I did, dad."
Steve Jobs' father inspects the fence.
And he says, "Steve, you did a great job painting
"the outside of the fence, but you didn't paint
"the inside of the fence."
And Steve Jobs looks up at his father and says,
"But, dad, no one's going to see the inside of the fence."
And his father looks at him and says, "But, son, we will."
Now it's many decades later and Steve Jobs is running Apple
and they're ready to launch,
or ready to develop, rather, the first Apple Macintosh.
And he looks at his design team and he said,
"Here's your deliverable.
"I want the outside of the computer to look so simple
"and so elegant like a piece of art.
"But here's the real mission.
"Make the inside so beautiful
"that it'll bring tears to our eyes."
And his design team looked at him and said,
"But, Steve, no one's going to see the inside
"of the Apple Macintosh."
And Steve Jobs looked at his team and said, "But we will."
That's inspiration.