When you think about life, everybody wants to prize,
but nobody wants the process.
Everybody wants the championship
but nobody wants the day-to-day.
Everybody wants to win games
but nobody wants to put in the work
that it takes to win games.
In the Bible, it talks about in Proverbs, it says,
"The laborer's appetite works for him
"and his hunger drives him on."
"The laborer's appetite works for him
"and his hunger drives him on."
So, my question to you all is,
what's your appetite for winning?
Because if you have an appetite for winning,
your hunger will drive you every day.
Your hunger will take you to the weight room.
Your hunger will take you past 32.
Your hunger will take you past the opposition.
Your hunger will take you past adversity.
Your hunger will take you past the trials and tribulation.
Your hunger will take you to that fourth quarter
when there's four zeroes on that clock,
you have emptied that bucket,
you have given everything you had in that game.
See, it's that sort of mind set, man,
where you attack this thing.
The game of football, it's not about skill.
That what people miss the boat on.
It has nothing to do with skill.
It has nothing to do with a 40 yard dash.
It has nothing to do with jumping a 40 inch vertical.
What this game is about, it's about will,
that's it.
It's not about skill, this game is about will.
You're talking about will now.
You're not talking about how strong you are,
you're not talking about how tall you are,
how fit you are,
you're talking about will.
It is a mentality.
It has everything to do with what time you wake up.
It has everything to do with how you eat.
It has everything to do with
how you work out,
how you prepare.
It has every single thing to do with
how you think.
And when you want it as bad as you wanna breathe says,
I'm willing to make any sacrifice,
I'm willing to go through any pain,
I'm willing to go through any suffering,
I'm willing to go through whatever it takes,
so when I get in there,
that I guarantee you,
at the end of it,
I won't be the one who surrenders.
They're not going to give it to you,
but if you're willing to get up every day and go take it,
if you're willing to get up every day and work for it,
if you're willing to get up every day and grind
from sun up
to sun down,
you can have the life
that other people dream of.
You don't get out of life what you want
you get out of life who you are.
That means I come every single time
on time.
It means every time I come
I put in 120% or I don't come
why? Cause I'm trying to be the best.
Mental toughness says,
not only do I climb that doggone mountain,
I enjoy climbing the mountain.
I get a kick out of the mountain.
I get a kick out of the weights.
I get a kick out of going against the number 1 team.
I get a kick out of fatigue.
I get a kick out of the grind.
I get a kick out of it.
You have miracle working power in your life
right now.
But you've got to work on yourself.
You've got to develop yourself.
You've got to talk to yourself
day in and day out
selling yourself on you and on your potentials.
And you've got to know that
you are worth all of your effort.
Tick!
Tock!
Tick!
Tock!
We've all heard the sound of a clock
Have you ever stopped to think about what it means?
There are two fixed points in your life...
Birth
and Death
And what happens in between that's under your control,
it's the only thing under your control
Now, we have no idea what the distance between
birth and death is going to be.
And you've heard the story so many times
Somebody
gets really bad news,
they find out they've got life threatening cancer,
they've only got a few months to live,
they quit their job, sell all their possessions
and go volunteering in a far-off country
giving back to other people,
spending time with the people important to them
and spending time doing the things
that really matter the most.
So, why is it that we wait
for such a massive moment for us to take massive action?
What if you could change everything today?
What if you could change everything in an instant? Right now
My experience is with people
that we're probably running at about 51% of our capacity
something, I mean you can think about this yourselves.
I often ask undergraduates
how many hours a day you waste
Or how many hours a week you waste.
And the classic answer is something like 4 to 6 hours a day.
You know, inefficient studying
or watching things on YouTube
that not only do you not want to watch,
that you don't even care about
that make you feel horrible about watching after you're done.
That's probably 4 hours right there.
You know, you think well that's 20, 25 hours a week.
It's 100 hours a month
that's two and a half full work weeks.
It's half a year of work weeks per year.
And if your time is worth
$20 in hour which is a radical underestimate
but it's probably more like $50
if you think about it in terms of deferred wages.
If you're wasting 20 hours a week
you're wasting $50,000 a year
and you are doing that right now.
And it's because you're young wasting $50,000 a year
is a way bigger catastrophe than it would be for me to waste it
because I’m not going to last nearly as long.
And so if your life isn't everything it could be,
you could ask yourself,
what would happen if you just stopped wasting
the opportunities that are in front of you.
Many people look for meaning
in life
as though it's going to be under a rock
or behind a tree.
Oh, there's my meaning
you have more power than that.
You have the power to create meaning
in your life
rather than passively look for it
meaning to me is do I know more
about the world today than I did yesterday
that enhances meaning for me.
And if that accumulates and accrues daily
in a month you know way more
than you did than just that day later
so that you continue to grow.
My first question of me wasn't
where do I find meaning?
It was how do I create meaning
And that started early,
early teens.
You can draw a line in the sand between people
who transgress
but do not hold power over you
there's a famous quote from Martin Luther King
"You can only be ridden if your back is bent."
What's the problem?
You've been waiting your entire life for this moment
this golden opportunity
this rare occasion
this chance to do what so many other people
don't get to do
What they don't get to accomplish
what they don't get to experience
what they can only imagine.
But you're here
you've made it to this point
you've arrived at this pinnacle place in your life
It would be a shame to mess it up
a shame to miss this chance
all because you allowed fear to trump faith.
Time waits for no man
once it's gone, it's gone
it doesn't roll over
time goes forward, time never goes backward.
The time is now
there has never been a more promising time
to achieve greatness
Success is not convenient
you have to do what is required to accommodate success
Holding the line
maintaining the standard
giving no slack, none
That's the discipline.
There are opportunities that are gonna come your way
and there might be some other things going on
and you have to make a choice,
you have to ask yourself the question
What do you want?
because if you don't know what you want,
nothing else matters
how I'm about to use my time?
is it positive?
is it purposeful?
is it leading in the direction
of where I'm going and the meaning of my life?
is it productive?
and is it profitable?
Those days when I'm tired or worn out
or just basically sick of the grind,
what do I do on those days?
I go anyways.
I get it done even
if I'm just going through the motions,
I go through the motions.
See self-discipline
is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Self-discipline is the magic power
that makes you virtually unstopped.
Self-discipline is the center of the universe for success.
Self-discipline is doing within
while you're doing without.
And what that means is when your friends are
begging you to hang out and you say no
because you're way too busy,
grinding hard to put yourself in a position
to win in your game of life.
I love this quote from late great Zig Ziglar.
He says,
"When you do the things you ought to do,
when you ought to do them,
the day will come when you can do the things that
you want to do when you want to do them.
See without self-discipline,
success is not the possible, period.