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- [Gary] Sitting here listening to my music list and
I'm starting to find a little clarity.
Startin' to understand why this thing is so hard.
This game of entrepreneurship.
Shit, this game of life.
It's because the real answer is really found when you're pulling
from opposite directions.
I'm sitting here laying and saying why,
why, why am I so blessed?
Why is all this good stuff happening?
And it's because I'm a contradiction.
Because I've got this funny juxtaposition where I'm pulling
from opposite directions.
I don't give a fuck what any of you think about me yet I'll read
every comment and I'll listen to everything all of you say about
me 'cause I listen.
I talk a fuck load.
I'm always talking.
I'm cutting people off, I'm talking.
But I'm listening.
I'm listening 24/7.
I'm always patient.
I'm playing the long game but I'm always quitting things.
Every day trying, testing, not crippled by stop and starting.
How do I figure that out?
How do I understand when it's time to give up on something or
when it's time to persevere?
How do I understand, how do I feel and how I decide when to
listen to somebody's feedback or to know when they're trolling or
don't give a fuck or only seeing surface level.
How is this happening?
How am I working 24/7/365 yet it doesn't feel like I'm working?
How am I always constantly putting out content and building
my brand yet never thinking about it
and just living my life?
How am I documenting instead of creating?
Where is this?
Where is this Zen coming from?
Where is this call to action coming from?
Why is this plan working so well?
And how, how do I get all you youngsters (chuckles) and
when I say youngsters,
I mean the 59-year-old who hasn't grown up yet,
who hasn't been willing to look at the world
and it comes from this.
It comes from the most macro.
It's clearing up for me.
I'm starting to see it.
It's understanding that nobody gives a fuck and that that's
okay and that's the way it should be.
I live on empathy.
You shouldn't give a fuck.
You got you to worry about.
I'm empathetic to that.
That's the game.
And we're all dealt with different cards.
We've all got strengths and weaknesses.
We've got the advantages and the disadvantages.
Plenty see white privilege, so do I.
I see privilege from being from the streets and
having zero and being hungrier.
There's so many different ways.
And of course, some are better than others at the most macro
but I don't even spend the time to figure that out.
Because by the time you figure out if it was fair,
you're fucking finished.
And so, instead of doing that.
I do and I do and I do.
And I'm always planning and I'm not planning.
And I've always got a game plan and a strategy and I've always
not got one.
I'm just going off the hip from intuition,
from learned behavior, from pattern recognition because
I've been doing this from the get.
When I was 12, 13, 14, 15, I knew. I did.
It's why I got those shit grades.
Shout out to everybody who saw that report card on Instagram.
You know, it's what I do.
And so, as I sit here lay and look and think and debate and
look out at the ocean and listen to this music,
it's becoming clearer.
2017 could be a great year.
Not just for me but for you because as I find clarity,
I'm gonna suffocate negativity.
I'm gonna suffocate excuses.
If you're gonna be in my community,
you're gonna give up and leave
if you wanna believe in those things
because I'm gonna pound it, push it,
press it, harder than I ever have before.
Because the truth is I'm thankful.
I'm grateful.
I'm working on myself 24/7, my goals,
my ambitions, and I'm working
on your goals and your ambitions 24/7.
That's pulling from opposite directions.
That's what I do.
That's what I do harder, stronger,
better than anybody.
Honey Empire, bitches.
Building the biggest building of all time.
The biggest, best business
of all time like a fucking tortoise.
Like a slow fucking tortoise.
Chip away every day.
Underestimated all along the way.
Got my fans who are delusional and got the rest of the majority
of the market that doesn't think I can get it.
That doesn't see the behavior 'cause they're thinking 2017,
they're thinking 2019, they're thinking 2021.
I'm thinking life, bitches.
I'm thinking mother fuckin' life.
And so I promise you community, the people that are listening to
this right now, you've given me
the greatest fucking gift of all.
You keep your $500 master classes.
You keep your $5,000 masterminds.
You keep your $97 e-books.
You keep that in your pocket.
You do you.
You're gifting me with the greatest fucking thing on Earth.
Your attention and your word of mouth.
Every fuckin' time you tag somebody in
my comments on Instagram.
Every time you share my story on Snapchat.
Every time you post and share on Facebook means the world to me.
Every retweet means the world to me.
That means you're putting me on.
You're co-signing this fucking journey and for that I will
never take it for granted.
I love you.
Happy 2017.