You know
When you are guilty
of wasting time and laying in bed, and you're being lazy.
You know it,
whether that was 7 o'clock in the morning or 6 o'clock in the morning,
you know it.
You have to start the cycle of waking up early by waking up early.
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 going to 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?
But when you know what you want, E- why do you wake up at 3?
Because I know what I want.
One thing the discipline definitely does help you with
is it helps you get things done
and when you get things done
when you, you actually do things
you- you- you have more success.
I wake up, boom and I go pursue.
And if you're going to really be successful in life,
if you're going to have it, if you're going to be it, you're going to do it
I need you to take personal responsibility
and I want you to say, "The reason I'm not at amazing yet is
because I hit the snooze button.
That's why I'm not amazing right now."
A big part of success is just not being lazy and just doing it
just get- it's like 90% of it is just showing up.
The reason why I'm not amazing right now
is because I couldn't get up early enough
because I told myself "I'm not an early person."
Get there and start working like...
you're not going to feel perfect every day.
If I felt.. if I only worked out when I felt good, I'd be fat.
I'm not a.. I'm not amazing
because I would prefer to make excuses than make adjustments
that's why I'm not amazing.
Because there's a lot of days I don't want to do it
and it's pretty much the same with everybody that...
that actually gets good at something.
I want you to do me a huge favor
I want you to stop talking about this person didn't do that,
that person didn't do this,
this thing- I didn't have that,
I didn't grow up here,
I didn't get this advantage, I didn't get.. Kill it.
Kill it.
That you, you get, there's got to be those days you push through.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Why haven't you reached amazing yet?
Just keep it 100.
I'm not amazing because I'm lazy.
Just, just look at yourself in the face
and be honest.
I'm not amazing because I would rather spend my money on shoes,
I would rather spend my money on stuff
than to make a sacrifice in a book or to fly abroad.
I'm not amazing because I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing
to be amazing.
And getting up early is not only an incredible competitive advantage
because most of your competitors are asleep
but getting up early is a great gift to give yourself.
You get more life.
I always tell my.. I always say that I'm like...
The most lazy disciplined person I know
because I don't want to do it
- Yeah - but I always do
If you want to be an artist, if you want to be an engineer,
I don't know, but I want you to start the year off.
We are not talking about, you know, fake dreaming
and just writing goals down to be doing
I'm talking about knowing what you want
because when you know what you want that's where the drive comes from,
that's where the passion comes from.
When the thing is done,
when the discipline has been implemented
remember what that feels like and then remember that those
minutes and those hours they turned into weeks
and months and years
and holding the line in those critical minutes
will put you in an infinitely better place
physically, and mentally
if you maintain the discipline.
If I don't have my morning routine game
I feel, you know, out of sorts.
So I think it's true for everybody,
you got to own your morning, you gotta win it
because that starts and sets up everything else.
People need that discipline, those routines
that will help the best thing go even better,
get some momentum and be okay if that momentum is really small
Because it will build trust that
that momentum builds.
Trust those gloomy and bad dog days.
Trust that those are going to be there,
honor the difficulty.
When we honor the struggle instead of hate the struggle
we can really achieve extraordinary things
because our mindsets in the right place.
Now the first night you're going to have a hard time going to sleep
What you do is the next morning you wake up early anyways
that first night you only got 5 hours worth of sleep,
and now you're tired throughout the day. Good.
Because then when you get to bed that night
you will turn off that computer, you'll be able to go to bed earlier
like you wanted to.
You can live on six hours of sleep.
So you have 18 hours, you have 18 hours
I want to know what you're doing with your 18 hours?
Because you can work your 9:00 to 5:00 and that's 9
and you can travel for an hour here and there
respect, nice little solid commute
Oh, you want to be a family man? Mazel Tov
you can spend 2 hours with your kids
What are you doing with those other 5 hours?
You're watching House of Cards, you're playing Madden,
You're relaxing from the other intense ten.
- Gary, I already spent 11 hours- - Well great,
then don't complain or want more.
Respect that by getting rest and this and that
you were giving up opportunity to go into a new world.
You want the audacity
to have a 1% life
then let's just call what it is.
You want to live as well as the 1% to 2% in the world
It's not very complicated, the math is very raw.
Like you, if you want to have one of the best life's in the world
which is, you live on your terms
You have to pay your dues to get there
and you have to be lucky enough to figure out
that you had talent in the thing that you actually want to do
because you can work 24 hours a day
and if you stink at golf
or you're not a good content producer
or your logos look like crap I would make
then you're going to lose.
So, that's what you gotta do.
The most important thing you can do is
win the morning.
Just win the morning man.
It is not easy
but it is worth it
Greatness is the most demanding mistress you’re ever going to encounter.
And I understand the advice that I’m about to give you
is not for everyone.
Most people should turn this off.
But if you’re gonna stick with me
if you’re going to listen to what I have to say
it’s because you want something tremendous in your life,
you want to stand out from everyone else,
you want to do something more than other people think is possible.
You literally want to stand outside the norm.
And if that’s the case for you
then understand
that as Albert Einstein said
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason
mastery demands all of a person ."
If you want to get great,
if you really want to make a skill set your own,
if you want to be able to do something,
and at the end of the day
if you want to transform the world, if you want to make grand changes
if you want to do all of that s**t,
all the empty words that people spout all the time,
let me tell you
the only thing
that’s going to separate you
from all the other blowhards who were just talking words
and will never do anything
is to give yourself over completely.
To let that obsession,
let that thing that you love completely
consume you and in that
your only chance to really become great lies
as Franz Kafka said
"Don’t bend. don’t water down.
Don’t try to make it logical rather
follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
Can you do that?
Can you become mercilessly obsessed?
Can you let something occupy you to where
all logic and reason is gone out the window
and the only thing that matters
is whether or not you accomplish,
will you hold yourself accountable to metrics?
Will you look at the world and see,
am I actually making change?
Are you prepared to hold yourself to that standard
because if you are there is nothing you can’t do.
If you’re willing to take that responsibility on
to transform yourself as a human being.
If you give yourself over
to getting
great.
If you give yourself over to that obsession.
If you feed it
like you would feed a beast
if you feed it like you would feed a fire
that can wipe out
an entire mountainside
then you’ve got a chance.
But it’s got to burn within you like that.
You’ve got to feed it like that, you’ve got to feed its skills,
you’ve got to get better every day,
you’ve got to constantly wake up
and understand exactly what it is you’re building towards that
and build towards it with a relentlessness
that other people think is mania,
that other people can see only madness
in what you do.
And if you can push yourself to that level
then the world WILL bend to your will.