You know I eventually dropped out of high school
I was homeless for about two and a half years
You know through education
I think is where, you know
I got my turnaround, I'm talking about going to school and really learning how
to identify my craft
how to hone in on my craft
and how to sharpen that craft
and I realised that my gift wasn't going
to create itself, my gift wasn't going to
nurture itself, my gift wasn't going to
perfect itself, that was something I had to do
You have to give it everything you got
no more TV no more parties
no more playing, if you don't have a 4.0
what you need to be doing is studying
Get off the phone! Sorry I'm not available until the end of this year
You've reached the right number but you've called me at the wrong time
I'm about to get busy now!
But I dare you to fail in writing for a whole year to see if you can get to the end
I dare you to fail
I dare you to take that same class over and over again
I dare you to stop dropping classes
like you soft
Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired, you quit
I don't do well in maths, you're right!
You ain't never studied!
I'm not good at writing. Because you ain't never written before
You can't get through a writing class
and you got tutor after tutor, resource after resource
the problem is you ain't never felt no pain before, your soft
it's a soft generation
you quit on everything
And if you create a culture of losing
if you keep being a victim
if you keep letting losing happen to you
if you keep letting people do you and treat you any kind of way
it's gonna become a culture
There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential, no excuse
And I stopped being a victim
I stopped saying I gotta wait for good things to happen to me
and I said I'm gonna grind
I'm going to fight, I'm going to work
I'm going to press forward
I'm going to learn, I'm going to do everything in my power
every single day
I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor not a victim
You get from being a loser
low self-esteem, doubt
and fear
and if you can find your way on this side guys, it's sweeter on this side
Greatness is about getting better
Never settling
Never saying, well I got a PHD so I'm finished
You know at the end of the day when you lay your head down to sleep
You always wanna blame other people
You always wanna, you wanna, hold other people to the fire, but you're not holding yourself to the fire
You just said you're giving 50%
You owe you an explanation, you owe you an explanation
You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say, "why you only giving 50%? What's wrong with you?
I value myself enough to give 120% or don't do it
And that's the problem with some of you
You've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said, "you let you down!"
You've never, you're not brave enough
You wanna put it on somebody else
The reason why I'm not successful is because of my boss
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said
"I'm not getting up on time"
"I'm not going to work on time"
"I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work"
"I let me down"
And when you get to the point where you can say you let you down
I don't care, listen to me no disrespect
I don't care about Glen
That's not why I do what I do
and I love Glen, I don't come here and do what I do
so Glen can affirm me
so he can give me a pat on my back
I care more about me, then I care about what Glen thinks about me
You need to tell you no more TV
no more snacks, no more desserts
No more, no, we're working out now
No, no more alcohol, not right now
No, I can't handle it right now
You need to tell you that you owe you something!