The difference between ordinary
and extraordinary
is that little bit of extra.
You wanna be a next level resider,
but you won't do the things to live in the next level zone.
Success is not given.
It's earned.
Repetition increases the chances of your success.
The more times you show up,
the more likely you will be heard.
You need to show up.
That's all there is to it.
Show up and repeat.
It takes repetition to grow.
You have to tear the muscle in order to grow.
Repetition is key.
The moment is now.
See, in the real world, nothing comes easy.
You have to put in the effort,
you have to put in the blood, the sweat, tears.
If it doesn't hurt a little bit,
If it doesn't sting a little bit,
if it doesn't make you a little uncomfortable,
you probably won't get very much out of it.
You gotta set the example this.
This is another obstacle.
This obstacle cannot define me.
It's not going to cripple me.
It's not going to be responsible
for me stepping away for the game that I love.
You have to do the process.
The process is non-negotiable.
It's just you have to do it.
All right.
So if you have to do something,
I don't have highs about it or lows about it.
I know it has to get done.
And if I let my emotions get involved in it,
alright, it's not gonna get done to its best abilities.
So if people say you gotta love the process and then
something comes in the process that you don't really love,
but you have to do it.
You have to do it, you take emotions out of it
and you do it.
The process is a non-negotiable.
Things that are difficult.
When you do these difficult things,
you are stressing your mind
or don't even stressing your mind,
exercising your mind and exercising your body's ability
to manage intense situations.
It's hard.
It's very difficult.
It's very testing.
And in doing so,
you lessen the stress of regular life.
The more stressful situations that I experience,
the more I understand what
they are and the more I can relax.
Don't be sorry.
Just do better.
Stop showing up for work late all the time.
Stop being late
for your success.
Stop apologizing
for the same mistakes
over and over again.
When you know you've done wrong,
wake up and do right.
You need to rise up and understand
what success is all about.
We gotta rise up, we gotta start, we gotta finish.
You should work so hard
that you collapse in the bed at night
and if you fall asleep, wake up and rise up again.
But the only way your story is ever told,
the only way your story is ever heard,
is if you overcome whatever it is that you're going through.
We build circuits within us
for habitual action that we've practiced many times
that seem to run in a very deterministic fashion.
And we are a strange combination of deterministic
and non-deterministic, as far as I can tell, but.
What our consciousness seems to be for, is to encounter
those things that we have not yet encountered,
and those things that we have not yet encountered
seem to me to be those things that have not yet been brought into being.
And so you could say that what our consciousness is for is
for the encounter with potential.
You know that our consciousness is for the, it's not for the past.
It's not even for the present.
It's to transform the future into the present
and really that that's what our consciousness does.
When you wake up in the morning, you have a new day ahead of you,
and the day could take you in very many directions and,
and the weeks and the years, all of that can take you in very many directions,
and you have some apprehension about what those directions might be.
You have some apprehension about what rule your choices might
make in transforming that potential into one form of
actuality or another, I mean, you certainly know that there are
dreadful mistakes that you might be very tempted to make
that would produce all manner of hail around you and still be tempted to do it.
It seems like it's sitting there right in front of you as a possibility.
You also know that, you know, you could haul yourself up out of bed and
attend to your duties and do the sorts of things that you're supposed to,
and set a few things right that day and that week, and that likely.
Things would at least not be worse,
and they would probably be better.
It's necessary as you look at your goals and your dreams,
it's necessary that you have a, a strategy and a game plan
to change the story that you believe about yourself.
And that's an ongoing process I've discovered
and many people have that what we do, what we accomplish,
what we produce as a result of the story we believe about ourselves.
My favorite book says Biggie not conformed,
cause this is where be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
And so as I began to work on myself, I realize
that I'm getting outta one story and stepping into another story.
As I become aware of some things, there's still some things
I'm not aware of.
So I still am, I'm still growing, I'm still developing.
I'm like the lady who said, Lord, I ain't what a Warner V.
What I'm going Viva.
Thank God I showed what I was.
But I realized that, that you have to work on yourself on a regular basis
and write this down for mental mindset, for mental mindset and stamina.
Because things are going to happen to you.
I believe that the reason that most people go to their graves
with their talents and abilities and skills in them
is because of the fact number one.
Many are like me.
They didn't know that, they didn't know and and thought they knew.
I thought I knew myself, and I really didn't know myself as well as I thought.
I've discovered that sometimes people can take you to
a place within yourself that you can't go by yourself.
You got to learn to reflect with yourself.
There's something to be said for solitude.
There's something to be said for taking those occasions to
shut out the world and shut out everything else for a while.
For a while.
Now, here's why it's important to reflect,
to make the past more valuable to serve you for the future.
Here's what's really powerful, learning to
gather up the past and invested in the future.
Gather up today and invest it in tomorrow.
Gather up this week and invest it in the next week.
Gather up this year and invest it in the next year.
See, that's so powerful.
Rather than just hanging on one more year, hanging in there,
seeing what's gonna happen.
Learn study, this is part of the personal development quest.
Becoming better than you are.
More valuable than you are not just in terms of economics,
in terms of motherhood, in terms of fatherhood.
In terms of being a better brother, a better colleague,
making a better contribution to the family, to society, to the community, to the church,
to the office, to the commitment, to the partnership.
Doesn't matter what it is that has value.
Work on yourself than you bring more value to the partnership, to the marriage,
to the franchise, to the corporation, to the enterprise, to the community, to the nation.
Self-development, personal development.
The best contribution you can make to someone else's self-development.
Not self-sacrifice.
Self-sacrifice only earns contempt.
Self-development earns respect.
Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
When you have clear, exciting goals and ideals,
you will feel happier about yourself and your world.
You will be more positive and optimistic.
You will be more cheerful and enthusiastic.
You will feel internally motivated to get up and get going every morning
because every step you are taking will be moving
you in the direction of something that is important to you.
Resolve to think about your ideal future most of the time.
Remember the very best days of your life lie ahead.
The happiest moments you will ever experience are still to come.
The highest income you will ever experience income you will ever earn
is going to materialize in the months and years ahead.
The future is going to be better than
anything that may have happened in your past.
There are no limits.
The clearer you can be about your long-term future,
the more rapidly you will attract people and circumstances into your life
to help make that future a reality.
The greater clarity you have about who you are and what you want,
the more you will achieve and the faster you will achieve it in every area of your life.
One of the most important characteristics of leaders
and top people in every area of life
is that they know who they are,
what they believe in, and what they stand for.
Average people are usually confused about their goals, values, and ideals,
and as a result, they go back and forth and accomplish very little
men and women who become leaders on the other hand, with the same
or even fewer abilities and opportunities
go on to accomplish great things in whatever they attempt.
Life is lived from the inside out.
The very core of your personality is your values.
Your values are what make you the person you are.
Everything you do on the outside is dictated and determined
by your values on the inside, whether clear or fuzzy.
The greater clarity you have regarding your values on the inside,
the more precise and effective will be your actions on the outside.
How can you tell what your values really are?
The answer is simple.
You always demonstrate your true values in your
actions, and especially your actions under pressure.
Whenever you are forced to choose between one behavior and another,
you will always act consistent with what
is most important and valuable to you at that moment.