The sun doesn't shine every day.
The storms
will come.
There are times when the nights will be long
and dark
and you will be alone.
There will be times
when the darkness seems to consume everything.
But don't let it consume you.
We all fail.
It's okay.
What is not okay is
that when you fail, you stay down.
Whoever stays down
is a loser.
And winners
will fail and get up,
fail and get up,
fail and get up.
You always get up.
That is
a winner.
I can accept failure,
everyone fails at some point,
I cannot accept not trying.
It is your losses
that will humble you.
It is your losses
that will give you a drive.
It doesn't matter
about what happened yesterday.
It doesn't matter what happens to you
the only thing that matters
what are you going to do about it?
As long as you're here you have a chance to
transcend yourself.
You can decide
that you're gonna stand up to life.
It's necessary you take responsibility for it
that you don't give up
that you don't take any objection or disappointment
or defeats personally.
Say yes
I'm in charge here.
I'm going to do something about this situation.
When you embark on this journey, you must know
that it's gonna go down before it comes up.
But when it comes up,
it's gonna go so much higher than you've ever been.
Sacrificing today for tomorrow's betterment.
But if you didn't know that,
you didn't prepare for that,
you think something's wrong, maybe it's time to stop,
no it's time to move even further.
You have to be equipped mentally
to endure this process.
Knowing what you're about to go into it's step 1.
Knowing it's an uphill battle,
but a winnable one and one that's achievable.
Only those who are willing to risk going too far,
can possibly find out
how far one can go.
I wanna see how far I can go,
I wanna see what I can accomplish,
I wanna see what I can do
what I can be, where I can have,
I wanna see.
I don't wanna see what I think I can do,
I don't wanna see what I think is possible,
I wanna see what my life would look like
if I didn't count the cost.
Because if you count the cost,
and you see how much it costs,
you might quit,
so you gotta go in knowing that I don't count the cost.
I do as many push-ups as it takes,
as many sit-ups as it takes,
as many reps as it takes,
I pay whatever the price is.
You get to a point where you don't count it,
you just do whatever it takes
to get whatever you want.
So you gotta consider before you start anything,
what is the commitment level?
If you commit to something
you don't stop until you win.
Wake up in the morning,
you rise and you grind.
You joined the health club?
Don't quit.
You started that business?
Don't quit.
Your mind has got to be steadfast,
your minds gotta be locked in,
no matter what.
Because we are champions,
and we never
quit.
The official definition of self-discipline
is the ability to control one's feelings
and overcome one's weaknesses.
Also it's the ability to pursue what one thinks is right,
despite temptations to abandon it.
So the problem with you
is you rarely exercise yourself discipline muscles
You just go with the flow, no backbone whatsoever.
And that's perfectly fine until you start whining
and complaining about your lack of success,
whining and complaining about your lack of progress,
whining and complaining
that you're not gaining any momentum
and you can't seem to get ahead in life.
You're wasting a bunch of percentage here
We have 80 more percent we're not tapping into because
in this other 80%
is suffering
pain,
failure, failure, failure, self-doubt
darkness,
and then a whole bunch of light,
but to get to this light
you gotta go through all of this sh*t
So alot of us know that
I can get over here,
but over here man, this is much better.
Cause I gotta go through this journey
that is not fun.
This, this from 20-100%
this sh*t in between is not fun.
So we decided to live over here.
So everybody goes.. how do we do that?
You know exactly how to do that.
You know exactly.
It's, it's not a magic trick.
There's nothing I talk about
That's a magic trick.
It's all back down to a very primitive.
Mindset of we just have to do
it's like breathing
breathing becomes normal
Like we didn't know that that, that we're doing it
That's how you have to live your life
Truth of the matter is, is that
you have a lot of potential as a child, but
none of that is capable of manifesting itself
as freedom before you become discipline
And discipline is a matter of the imposition of order.
And the order is necessary,
especially for people who are hopeless and nihilistic.
And what does it mean?
Well, it doesn't mean,
Jesus, I hate getting up at eight o'clock in the morning to get ready for work.
That's just means that you're not very disciplined, you know,
or maybe that it might mean something depper
But I'd start with lack of discipline before, you know,
rearranging your whole life.
Cause you might say, well, I hate getting up at eight o'clock in the morning,
no matter what I'm doing.
And then it's not your job.
I don't mean don't do difficult things.
I mean,
watch yourself And if you see that you're doing things
that make you hate yourself
then consider the cost of continuing.
You know, if something's valuable, you'll make sacrifices to attain it.
That, that discovery of sacrifice.
I think that's what separates human
it's one of the primary factors
separating human beings from animals,
because we discovered
that we could let go of something we value in the present
and we would gain
something we value even more in the future.
When that alarm clock goes off at 4 or 5 in the morning
Your mind says, no,
you just say,
this is what we do
it's what we do now
Because to get to where you want to go,
the amount of pain involved
I'm not saying physical
I'm not saying you got to break yourself off
the amount of mental pain
of how many times you're going to have
to do something that you don't want to do
to get you where you want to go.
When I was 297 pounds and I was fat as hell
trying to be a Navy seal.
The scariest thing in the world to me, even to this day
was that that could have been the rest of my life.
I thought then I was trying hard.
That's the scariest thing in the world.
I thought then
297 pounds
working for ecolabs sprayin for cockroaches...
makin $1000 a month.
I thought that was me at my 100% potential
Come to find out
a few years later,
I wasn't anywhere near that
106 pounds less...
pounds, less graduate Navy seal training
went on to do all these other things
Looking back on that.
That was me trying hard.
That's why people gotta understand what is in us.
We have no idea until
we started trying hard
and I mean, really trying hard when you're obsessed with
Hey, this is my new norm.
My new norm is that... wow
This isn't always fun
it's not always meant to be fun.
And that's when you know you're trying hard.
As CS Lewis said,
"hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny"
People look at their past to decide who they are.
People look at their past to decide who they can be
but the problem is oftentimes people mistake
difficulties, suffering, pain for being bad,
being less than, being broken
And it erodes their sense of self-esteem.
It erodes their sense of self worth
But nothing could be more opposite from the truth because in reality,
no matter what you've gone through, no matter how hard it was,
all of it was shaping you
into the person that you can become
the hardships, the difficulties, the pain, the suffering
all of that makes you tougher.
It is literally in the difficulties
that you begin to find just how much you're capable of
it's in the suffering that you find out how resilient you are.
It's in the pain that you can rise up and get tough
And all of that is going to serve you as you move forward,
but you have to know how to frame it.
You have to know how to think about it.
You have to know that whatever you've been through
That all of it is an opportunity to learn.
All of it is an opportunity to grow.
All of it is an opportunity to get better,
but you have to use it to shape yourself.
You have to lean into it.
You have to know that the pain and the suffering,
all of it is serving you.
But if you're telling yourself a story that diminishes you,
if you're telling yourself a story
that bad things have happened to me, or I've done bad things,
and that makes me a bad person.
None of it is going to help you.
And you're always going to move backwards
and it's going to be this stress and this pressure
that's pushing you backwards.
Instead, if you could put it behind you se
it pushes you forward and propels you to be more
than no matter what's happened to you.
You can become something truly extraordinary.
And as David Livingstone said, "I'll go anywhere
provided it be forward"
You can't wait for somebody else
to make your life better.
You got to make your life better.
You got the focus on you
Now I'm not saying forgetting the rest of the people.
But I'm telling you to get rid of the things
that are not making you strong,
that are not making you better.
You're not making you a efficent
that are not putting you in a better place.
That's not giving you the strength
that you need to keep living in life that you have given.
Don't you give up on life
because once your life is over, you can't come back.
Leave your mark.
Helped someone
lift someone up when they down,
be there strict for others when they're weak
and when you are at the weakest point in your life,
someone will lift you up
because we all struggle.
So keep fighting forward.
Don't give up.