I'm fragile.
I feel pain. I hurt. I open my eyes. I
crave victory. I do not give up.
I feel no fear. I fear no man. I create. I
conqueror. I hold the power.
Make a choice just decide what it's going
to be, who you're going to be, how you're
going to do it. Just decide and then from
that point the universe is going to get
out your way. We can't have another bad
year. You've got to get to the point
where enough is enough. It's much easier to
come up with excuses of why you can't do it.
If you do what is easy your life will be
hard. If you do what is easy, complain about
your situation, your circumstances,
surrender, and give up on your dreams, become
depressed and bitter and angry, anybody
can do that. If you do what it's easy
your life will be hard but if you do
what is hard, keep coming back
again and again, get up, get dressed everyday,
take life on, taking life by the collar,
you say yeah I will do it! I can do this
and you said to yourself I'm willing to face
you know I'm willing for people to laugh at
me, I'm willing to gut this out, I'm
willing to make this happen, it's my time.
It's possible, it's necessary, it's hard,
it's worth it.
I'm going to do whatever it takes, I can
do it if anybody's ever done, if anybody
has ever done it at any point in time in history, then whats
possible for one, is possible for me
and I'm going to do it and if you do
that over and over and over again your
life will be easy. This is kind of hard
to understand but sometimes you can try
so hard or something, sometimes you can
be so... so prepared and still fail
and when every time you fail it's
painful and causes sadness. And especially as
I saw last night it causes
disappointment.
I've often said a man's character is not
judged after he celebrates a victory
but by what he does when his back is
against the wall. So no matter how great
the setback, how severe the failure, you
never give up. You never give up. You
pick yourself up, you brush yourself
off, you push forward, you move on.
Everybody here, everybody that's watching, I won't
be stopped! I can't be stopped!
You're either committed or you aren't
you're either willing to do everything
it takes whatever that might be or you
aren't. You either are willing to go
through hell and high water and fire and
fucking brimstone to get to your goals
or you aren't. And that's why you'll never be
what you want to be. That's why you'll never
have what you want to have. That's why
you will never accomplish it, well, you are all over
the place.
Success guys is a very very lonely road, man. 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.
Decide what you're doing, what you believe in, is it a worthy cause and win every fight.
I wish I could tell you you're tired
go take a break. I wish I could tell you
you're tired, rest for a year. I wish I could tell you
that that it's going to get easier.
I wish I could tell you it's going to get easier.
I wish I could tell you that if
you just keep going it's going to get
lighter but the wait, the wait is gonna get lighter.
I wish I could tell you,
you get to the point where enough is
enough you get to the point where it
hurts real bad, you get to the point when
it's over, when they're tired, when
they're frustrated, when they're ready to
give up, when they spent their last dime
that's when they get started but what
you cannot do is you cannot quit doing
the process you cannot give up because
it ain't what you see you cannot give up.
Work on yourself, work on your focus, you
cannot stop you got to work. The problem
with you is you see difficult as
something negative I want you to see
difficult differently. Are you hearing me?
I need you to push through that stuff.
Push through it.
You can get through it. The more you go
through the more difficult it is, the
more challenging it is, listen to me, the
harder it is. Are you hearing me? The more
challenging it is all you doing baby
is building muscles. In life you're
either going to a store, in a store, or
you coming out. It's a part of life
there's no way around it so just be
careful not to allow the trials and the
tribulations to consume you. I don't care
if you're a billionaire, I don't care if
you a CEO or the most important companies
I don't care if you an entertainer, like I
don't care who you are. You will go to
the moon
we all have problems what I'm trying to
tell you is this though problems are a
part of life but guess what
they're not like it's not going to be
easy.
There are moments when you're going to
doubt yourself. The rough times are gonna
come but they have not come to stay no
matter how bad it is or how bad it gets
you've got to make it your personal
business to make it happen.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to make
it in life you got to make no your
vitamin. You've got to know every no
brings you a step closer to a yes. Anybody
can stop because someone said no but
there's something in you, in your heart
of hearts thats saying i'm not a quitter.
There's something in you that says I've
got the will to do it there's something
in you that says I'm going to find a way.
People can help you out and won't
help you out because they know too much
about you
and they don't believe, they can't see
this new you. Don't allow those negative
naysayers, the people suffering from
possibility blindness to stop you.
Detoxify your life let all the negative
people in your life go, can I change them
no. It's a full-time job changing
yourself. You are not like everybody else
you can walk outside and find pigeons
but if you're looking for eagles it's
going to take you a minute. You are
different and as you think about your
goals and dreams, your personal goals
your financial goals, whatever that
number is I want you to multiply it a
hundred times and I want to warn you
don't ask yourself how you're going to
do it. How, is none of your business
I just want you to listen to me, you have
something special. You have greatness
within you, you have the ability to do
more than anything you can ever begin to
imagine. You have million-dollar ideas
billion-dollar ideas, in you. There are
people waiting to hear your voice. You
have a vision of yourself doing more
achieving more, taking care of your
family, making your mark, leaving a
legacy. You were born to be successful. Is it
easy? Of course it's not easy. It's
challenging. It requires patience, it
requires persistence, it requires
a willingness to do whatever is
required to create a new life for
yourself. Don't be afraid to close your
eyes and dream but then open your eyes
and see. For a lot of people the distance
between their dreams and the reality
is intimidating and they get stuck. They
get paralyzed just like I was in that marathon
and the only way forward is to be real
about what it's going to take for you to
achieve those dreams. You have to be
honest with yourself. You have to tell yourself
the truth.
You have to tell yourself the truth
of what its going to take for you to be
successful. You cannot achieve success
without failure.
That's why you're here. Theres a
voice in you that said
I can do this.
There's something in you, in your heart of hearts
that said I'm not going to let anybody pull
my strings. It said i'm going to
control my own personal economy. It
said I've got a dream I want to achieve
I want my children to have a choice of
the kind of education they want
that said I am the captain of my ship
that said I'm going to control my destiny and
whatever it takes I'm willing to do the
work. There is something in you that
said I've got to make this happen
there's something in you that said
there's a bigger life waiting for me
calling my name. There's something in you
that says i'm on my way to a greater
life. I want you to remember three things
number one I want you to never be afraid
to make a decision.
Be decisive. Don't be afraid to fail. Be
fearless. Number two I want you to remember
the power of you.You gotta feel that power
you got to believe in that power
you have that power. Trust me. Last
but not least number three can't stop, won't stop.
The most important element for you to be
able to do this, to be able, to establish the
most important one, where you really are in
your life today. Where are you and
where do you really want to go? What's
going to create this extraordinary life
and to look at it brand new because some
of you right now, if you continue the
direction you're going are going to be
successful and unfulfilled, unhappy and
stressed. If I can change and you can
change, everybody can change. There are two reasons of why
people are not successful. There are two
reasons of why people do not go after
their dreams. There are two deadly
killers of what causes people to give
up. There are two deadly killers of
dreams, there are two deadly killers of
goals. There are two deadly killers of
focus and purpose and those one one of
those things is procrastination. To
continue to put stuff off, to continue to
put stuff on the back burner, to continue
to say oh I'll get to that later,
why do we do that we do that? We do that because
we're afraid of something. What are we
afraid of? Are we afraid of failing? A
lot of us are not really afraid of
failing but we're afraid of the unknown
we're afraid of that success. We're
afraid of the thing that is going to
possibly come to pass we all say we want
the big things but we're not afraid of
how it might change us so what I want to
tell you today is in the midst of being
afraid of being successful you cannot be
afraid of successful. Successful, success
will only make you better. Success will
only make you a better who you
are. A better version of you. Yeh it's going to
change your life thats exactly what its
supposed to do.
Yes its gonna change your mind that's
exactly what it's supposed to do but
that is what we call success you cannot
be afraid. There's two elements of fear
fear one is you can forget everything
and run, you can forget everything and
leave all your dreams behind, you can
forget everything, you leave your family
behind, you can forget everything you can
leave your goals behind, you can forget
everything and leave your purpose behind
or you can face everything and rise. If you
face everything and rise, you're gonna face
those insecurities, you're going to face
those self-doubts,
you're gonna face the, the
scrutiny of others, you're going to face
the, the lies that people speak you
gonna face everything and you're going
to rise above that. Why? Because you're
now focusing your purpose, you're now
focused on your goals, you're now focus on
who you are and you're now focused on
where you want to be. The other thing
that is a deadly killer of dreams is giving
up. You cannot give up on yourself you
cannot ever give up on yourself. Why?
Because when you give up on yourself you
give up on your family, you give up on
your goals, you give up on your purpose, you
give up on your future, you give up on
your all your future success and you
just live a basic life. You live a basic
life of doing nothing. You live a basic
life of just saying, oh okay this is
just what i'm supposed to do. You
know you have something deeper inside of
you. You know you have greater inside of
you you know theres purpose down inside of
you and you have to give up, you have to
give up on giving up. You have to let go
of giving up and you have to fight
sometimes it's hard but you still have
to fight. The hardest fight is the fight
within it's not really so much the
money issue, it's not so much really
the, the naysayers. It's not so much
of what people are going to say but it's the
who, how you perceive yourself it's
the fight of what you think about
yourself so now start thinking positive about who you are.
God has made you better than who you are
God has made you stronger than who you
are. You can never give up on God, never
give up on yourself and never give up on
your dreams. So you begin to look at this
decade and affirming that this is your
decade as you set goals that will make
you stretch that will bring out the best
in you as you begin to remove the
negative toxic people from your life as
you decide to take some chances in life
and that's one of the things that's very
important this starts it if you're not
willing to risk you cannot grow and if
you cannot grow you cannot become your
best and if you cannot become your best
you cannot be happy and if you can't
be happy then what else is there?
Every single thing you said you wanted
you wanted to accomplish, you wanted to
do, guess what we still got time baby it
is not lost. You still have time, that's
right. You still got time baby. Who are
you right now and who must you become in
order to create what you want? What has
to change about you? What is it that you're
doing right now that would be a
liability for you? As you begin to look
towards the future and take inventory of
yourself what is it about you right now
that you've got to leave this behind
because this no longer fits. Looking at
where you want to go and the kind of
person that you must become, the kind of
standards that you have for you what is
it that you must do differently? The one
commodity that is most valuable on this
earth is time. Time to love, time to live
from the moment the human body is born
it begins dying. I don't think you quite
caught that, let me say it again. From the
moment the human body is born
it begins dying. Some happen faster, some
happen slower, some of us help them
happen faster, and some of them prevent it from
happening sooner than later. How many seconds
how many minutes do we waste every day
doing things that are nowhere near the
goals and aspirations and passions that
we have inside?
How many times are you going through the course of a
day and realize did I do anything I set
out to do today? Write down those goals
each and every day no matter if there's two
goals a day if you can accomplish those
then you're doing more than just making
it through the day. You are living and
achieving your dreams.
Find time to better yourself, read
explore, research, live life do things
you've never thought of doing before
that's what it's all about when you're
born
that's that date that they put on the
left side of the tombstone when you die
they put another date on the right side
of the tombstone but that - in the
middle is the most important thing on
that tombstone that is a line that
throughout that entire time frame you
were able to impact and touch others
lives you were able to leave your mark on
this earth you were able to build a
legacy that nobody could change you were
able to have it to where people
remember who you are no matter what
when you're living for that - in the
middle you're going to remember your why
your why, why are you here not, not the
why, why did you do something your why
your, your reason for getting up in the
morning, your reason for pushing yourself
past the brink of exertion and giving up
your reason for moving on and getting
things done in life that - in the middle
that's the thing that pushes you.
How do you rate yourself on a scale of
one to ten in terms of your physical
appearance, in terms of your health, do
you take care of yourself? Are you
allowing yourself to get overweight and
out of shape? Are you conscious of your
health, are you watching the food that
you take into your body? Do you make a
deliberate effort to exercise, you know
it was George Burns who said we cannot
help getting older but we don't have to
get old and many of us get old before
our time because we don't take time to
take care of ourselves. Your environment
is a very good indicator on a scale of
one to ten is it what you want it to be
do you find it desirable are you
satisfied, the job or career that you are
involved in someone said that 85% of the
American public are unhappy with their jobs
are you spending eight hours a day just
doing time? Doing something that you
don't find challenging, that does not make
you stretch mentally that does not
stimulate you, that does not inspire you
something that you don't find a sense of
fulfillment in it. If you're doing that
day in and day out it has to affect how
you feel about yourself, your level of
motivation, your relationships
what kind of impact is that having on
your life is it nourishing or is it a
toxic relationship? Does it drain
you or does it build you up? Ask yourself
that. How motivated are you to do
something about it?
Your contribution, your actions. What are
you giving? Many people will leave the
universe without a trace. No one will
know they were here and
in fact under their name we could put
under there, not used up. Will anybody
know that you came this way? What
contribution are you giving? What will
you leave, what will be different because
you came this way? Just stop for a
second. Write down your why. What are you
doing this for in life? If your why
doesn't make you cry then that's not your
why. Again, if your why doesn't make you
cry then that's not your why. Your why
should be something so big that it moves
your family tree. Your why should be
something so big that it changes the
whole outlook on how things are with you
and your home, your family, your religion
your purpose. Think about your passion
think about your opportunities and that's
how you find your purpose. OPP. When that
why meets up with your passion, your
opportunity, your purpose then you'll
find out the most important day in your
life is the day you remember why you
were born and you're going to have to
look that darkness in its eyes and not
look away from the darkness but rather
look straight in the eyes and say I no
longer need you I am no longer that
darkness and so that darkness will not
thrive, it will not survive, that darkness
will die that darkness will go away not
because you forced it out but because
you no longer fear the darkness you let
go, you let go the darkness, free up
space for the light and when the light
gains power when the light regains its
power it will overpower any darkness
that may try to seep and seek
into your mind and body and life it will
stride far greater than any darkness has.
But you must free yourself from the
dark by going deep into a depths of it
and understanding it by not running your
entire life from it but instead right now
today, tomorrow, soon look it in the eyes
and say I no longer fear you I have a
life to live
nothing is hopeless, nothing is
worthless, I am powerful, I am beautiful, I
am amazing and it's time for me to start
believing it no longer do I want to stay
in the same routine, stay in the same
mindset, the same condition, mind, I want
to unleash the power of my mind I want
to dive deep into the depths of the light,
into the depths of inner peace, into the
depths of joy and happiness, in the state
of being. Not into the depths of worry
and stress and depression and anxiety
and shame and guilt but stay away not
because I'm scared of it but because i'm free from it.
Because i no longer need it. Because i
have one life and I'm going to live
it to my fullest ability.
I just knew in my heart to just go, go
all into this endeavor and so I went no
questions asked and it wasn't a picnic the
rise up is tough but its who you become
in the process when you're chasing
this unknown when you eliminate fears and
so my offering is to really analyze what
you love to do and to go chase it because
making money should not be your focus to
do something that you don't really love
to make money what is that? Thats, all that
is, is a transference of stress you are
taking on stress at this job that you don't like,
this is stressful for you so
that you have less stress when it comes
to finances so is that eliminating the stress?
No, you're transferring it from
finances to eat at a little better place
to live in a little better apartment to then
develop more stress while you're at work.
Does that make sense?
The money will come when you're really
good at something
I can guarantee it when you really have
an effect because that will create a
polarizing reaction in people that they
will be drawn to you and you cannot be
really good at something if you don't
love what you're doing. That's the bottom line.
Chase this uncertainty where your
heart is telling you to go because it
knows that it will discover itself if
you choose to go down this ambiguity
if you choose to go unfold this
mystery because you will discover what
you're really made of if you choose to
go down this abyss.
many will love you for it
the majority will hate you because your
success makes them feel insufficient in
their current endeavor reminds them of where
they could have done it but they came up
short and how they didn't revisit it
where they went out and failed and failure
is what stood they never revisited it
again. The difference between a winner and a
loser the failure is there every single
time it's just that 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 how do you
know you 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 of life. How do you do that
when you wash your car and spend an hour
washing your car, when you finish washing you
put the hoses and everything away and
the brushes and you come outside to look at the
job you did but you notice some spots
missing what do you do? Do you regrab the
hoses and pull it all out and finish the job
right or do you say you know that's good
enough, ya it's good enough. See the thing
about good enough is we don't know if its
enough until the end our final hour
and everything is on the line
well that's when we find out if
it is enough and if we come up short man,
doesn't that suck. I promise you guys if
today you never say good enough
tomorrow you're 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, the
character defines a success, defines the
fame and it starts right there. Championships
aren't won in the theatre or the arena they're
won in the thousands of hours in the training
room, and the labs, and the 5 a.m. runs and the training
when everyone else is sleeping that's when it's
won. The Harvard 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 if your name's
attached to it and you do it right the
best of your ability every single time.