Success, guys, is a very, very lonely road, man. Very few people are willing to endure:
the pain, the sacrifices or intelligence to be successful. It’s an uphill battle…and
along that road, you’re not going to see too many friends. You’re going to see your
shadow most often. You gotta trust in the heart of hearts, inside
that what you’re doing, what you believe in is a worthy cause and a winnable fight.
See, the thing is for many people they’ve tried the same path that you’re on… and
they failed. As you walk this journey you’re going to see carcasses all over the place.
People that didn’t quite have it…And that should inspire you because you got further
than that person and that person. But you’re not looking to get further than them, you’re
looking to finish. But how do you know you’re on the right path? Where do you go to ensure
that? Do you talk to your neighbour? No, you don’t talk to him. I’ll tell you about
the neighbour guys. That neighbour’s gonna come in man and if you’re a little chubby,
little overweight, you’ll be like “Hey man, I’m thinking about doing a routine
man, get in a training program, while I lose some weight.” He’s going to encourage
you at first saying “Yeah you should, you should” basically insulting your and you’re
fat and you need to lose some weight. It’s never support – it’s negative. “Oh you
should lose some weight.” You take his advice, you start training, you start doing something.
you start to get in shape a little bit – maybe at his level. Then all of a sudden he’s
going to start asking questions, his tone’s gonna shift especially as you get in better
shape than him. Then he’s going to start talking because what happens now guys is that
your success is like a spotlight shining down on their missed opportunities. Success – many
will love you for it. The majority will hate you. Because your success… makes them feel
insufficient in their current endeavour. Reminds them of where they could’ve done it but
they came up short and how they didn’t revisit it, where they went at it and failed and failure’s
what stood and they never revisited it again. The difference between a winner and a loser
– the failure is there every single time, it’s just the winner gets back up and does
it again and does it again until it goes his way. So now you’re down that path and you’re
all alone…but how do you know you’re on the right path? How do you know what you’re
doing is in the right direction? If you’re wondering, if you’re on the right path,
look at the small things in life. How do you do them? When you wash your car and you spend
an hour washing your car and you finish washing and you put the hoses and everything away
and the brushes. You come outside to look at the job you did but you notice a spot’s
missing – what do you do? Do you regrab the hose and pour it all out and finish the
job right or you say “nah that’s good enough”? “That’s good enough.” The
thing about good enough is we don’t know if it’s enough until the nth hour, the final
hour, when everything is on the line. That’s when we find out if it is enough. And if we
come up short – man doesn’t that? I promise you guys if today you never say “good enough”,
tomorrow you will always have enough. What I’m saying is the character of who you are
It’s not the title that makes you, it’s not the success that makes you. It’s the
character that defines the success and defines the fame and it starts right there. Championships
aren’t won in the theatre or the arena. They are won in the thousands of hours in
the training room and the laps and the 5 A.M. runs and it was raining when everyone else
is sleeping. That’s when it’s won. The heart of a champion… is a light switch that’s
always on – it doesn’t go on and off when someone’s watching – it’s constant.
It’s how you look at something and if your name is attached to it – and you do it right
– the best of your ability every single time. If you’re dusting your countertops,
you dust around the picture frame, or do you pick the up and dust the entire thing? Do
the job right or don’t do it at all. That’s the same person who has his hand raised on
the podium one day. Same. How you hold yourself in the small things of life, build the character
winning blocks of the things we’re remembered for. It begins right now with no one looking
man, in how you hold yourself, in how you see yourself. What do you do when no one’s
watching? If you do it then, I guarantee you you’ll be doing it when everyone’s watching.