I think that you are so incredible in all areas and you are so talented in so
many ways obviously but and you seem to have always been this I mean obviously
we grow and we get better and better but what what was the driving force have you
always been on some kind of quest to be better you know there was a there was a
moment when I was about nine years old and I was at the resurrection Baptist
Church where the church I went to growing up and my grandmother was always
in charge of all of the recitals and Easter recitations and all that stuff so
I was playing the piano and I remember my grandmother was standing back off
stage and she put me last in the show and everything and I had learned
Für Elise and I was playing Für Elise and I'm going and going and going and I
never learned how to end it right so I was just playing play and play and my
grandmother was standing backstage and I was looking and playing and that look of
pride and happiness on my grandmother's face is that that's my life force
everything I do I just need that look you know in my wife's eyes and my
daughter's eyes it's just I realized very very young that
there's no easy way around it no matter how talented you are your talent is
going to fail you if you're not skilled you know if you don't study if you don't
work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day
you'll never be able to communicate with with people with your artistry the way
that you want so it's a that moment I just remember so distinctly and how good
it felt and and I just got needed stripping that all back to the start of your
career a man with a dream you know training in the gym day in day out somebody
said to you you'll have or you'll be as successful as you are now what would you
have said back then I believe you
that's what I would have said because I did believe I believed in it I had very few
people who told me that I had a small small small group of people that would
tell me something like that other than that it was just me telling myself yep
so if someone came up to me and told me that all the way back then I'd say you're
damn right if you're going to get in the zone if you're going to do
fourth-quarter living you've got to be comfortable with hitting the wall if I
got any runners out there any fighters out there any athletes out there
anybody's ever stretched the limit you know that in order to get to the zone
you got to hit that wall first you got to hit that brick wall first what does
that mean you got to get to a place in your life where all your strength is
gone and you're no longer operating on strength but now you begin to operate on
will you get listen to me you get to a place where you're not it's not this no
more it's not your strength it's not your natural strength you are for will
and many of you I declared right now many of you have never gotten the will
you've never operated on will and so you got to hit the wall and what I mean
by hitting the wall is if I run for thirty minutes right if I work for 30
minutes I got to say to myself every time you run Eric you got to get to 35
now you got to go five more once I get to 30 my body say yo ET let's stop
because the last five days we did 30 we did 30 Eric it's time to stop we did 30
minutes and what I got to do is I got to push it to the limits I got to push it to
the limit I got to be willing to hit the wall I've got to be willing to get past
crying I got to be willing to get past hunger I got to get past
self-defeat saying you can't do it I got to be willing to get past a low
self-esteem and saying I deserve it if anybody else deserves it I deserve it
it's mine listen to me you got to be willing to hit that wall and for most of
you when you get to that wall you give up you quit you got to get to the place
where you can hit the wall I don't know if you'd agree with me on this but in
many ways one of the key factors to legendary success isn't your natural
ability it's not whether you have the right product it's not whether you're in
the right field it's not whether you've had a blessed background it's not
whether you have the right IQ I want you to really think about and deconstruct
and play with maybe later tonight in your journal I want you to deconstruct
this idea of confidence and it seems like a very simple word but just think
about it in your own life when you have confidence or we could even call it fire
when you have that fire within you that confidence that interior bravery
you almost have this power to do whatever it takes to get your brave
vision done you see in this world it's not about you know in many ways your
strategy in your business or your ability in your life
it's about this thing called confidence and we have all had these times in our
lives when we are full of confidence and what other people see as a problem we
simply do see as an opportunity other people see it as a stumbling block or a
wall and we see it as a stepping stone or this solution and so confidence is
something that you really want to wire in confidence is something you really
want to develop confidence is a practice confidence is a muscle and like any
muscle the more you focus on it and practice it and train it the stronger
your confidence is going to grow and I just have to say it again when you are
at a place in your life when there is an ongoing steady stream of
confidence moving through your mindset moving through your heart set you do the
heroic in your business and you achieve the remarkable in your life setp up
hard and fast rules in your life rules that cannot be violated because from a
willpower perspective it is very draining again to go back and forth in
your head so it's much easier to say okay I will not drink soda and I'll only
eat foods off of this list then it is for you to go okay I ate really
good yesterday and I worked out extra hard now I'm at dinner and they just
gave me a free dessert is it okay for me to have a small portion because that
takes a lot of mental energy to process when you sit up hard and fast rules as
draconian as this might feel and sound at first it actually creates a
tremendous amount of freedom in your own life to spend your brainpower on the
things that matter the most so set up rules you must work between these hours
you need to go to the gym five days a week for me I set a rule I have to
release one YouTube video every single Monday and that's why I am here right
now so setup rules if you're good at what you do people will recognize that I
really believe it people will notice it that's it that's all it is it's that simple
product placement and labels and ANR people and all that it doesn't matter
I swear to God it doesn't matter really I just kept at it I work work work
work I don't I don't believe in I hate lazy people I hate laziness I just
don't like procrastination I don't like people that make up excuses just get it
done and I've always taken that approach with my life and my career and I guess
that's why you know I guess that's why I've been around and I haven't just
gotten around you know I've been in you know what you guys yeah
so I've been trying for a long time and it just goes to show you like you know
what if you really want something you work hard at it you know I'm saying
eventually people that come around it's just it's just up to you to stick with
it I think the problem is a lot of people just give up because it's so
difficult you know you want to go and you know it's like you you've got bills
to pay you can't keep them on your studio you guys do too so a lot of
people just give up but I just didn't I just kept working your hardest tasks
you should set for the morning in the morning you typically have the highest
willpower your brain is refreshed glucose stores are pretty good even though
you've been fasting overnight you're refreshed you're ready to go
you're more likely to make smart decisions because you can think you have
clarity you're not exhausted by the day yet so whatever is hard for you whether
that's exercise some new thing you're trying to do try to do it for your day
before the long day which is why most successful people in history have some kind of
smart morning routine so they wake up they do the most important tasks first
while they're fresh and then they do the rest of the stuff throughout the day or at the
end of the day when they're more tired confidence secret number one is eliminate
negative people from your life negativity is more contagious than crabs
when you surround yourself or have negative little cancerous people in your
life they directly impact your confidence in a negative way negative
nasty people nasty not like good nasty bad nasty as in like
get the freak away from me I want nothing to do with you now here's the
issue when I say hey just get rid of negative people it's like poof they're
gone right wrong because a lot of times we have these negative people or these
energy vampires all around us they might be at work they might be at school they
might actually even be related to us does this mean that you may need to find
a new job yeah maybe a new relationship quite
possibly is it going to suck for a little while now yes in the long run is
it going to pay off big-time in terms of your confidence yes
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