well I mean look everyone has a problem with time but the day is 24 hours and we
sleep six now I know there's some out there that say oh whoa whoa whoa whoa
I need eight but I say just sleep a little faster because the bottom line is we
have six hours of sleep 24 hours are available so you have 18 hours now available
do your work your family your hobbies and also to learn something new or to do
something new which could easily be that you want to learn a new language or that
you want to read and as a new year's resolution I have to read a book every
week where you say I'm gonna go and reshape my body so you're gonna go and
take this hour out of your schedule and say I'm gonna train an hour every day so
this is for most people a huge challenge but it is totally doable where I can
tell them because the kind of things that I did when I came to this country I
mean I went to school I was working in construction I was working out my five
hours a day I was taking acting classes from 8 o'clock at night to 12 midnight I
was doing all of those things I wanted to make sure that out of the 24 hours of
the day that I don't waste one single hour because hours were too precious and
so they'll just want to tell people don't give me this thing I have a
difficult time of it the time and I don't have time for this neither of that
you have time you make the time if the President of the United States has time
to work out when the Pope has time to work out then you have time to work out
you either win or you learn mmm especially in that high school college
setting you're learning about yourself if you if you went out there
and you got your handed to you then you just got beat and didn't learn
anything well yeah you're a loser you take the moment reflect on it build on
what you did wrong and you now you're actually in a way you've won if now you
know more about yourself you know what more your your limitations or what you
need to improve and expand your talents your limitations so I guess whenever I'm
doing a thing I'm always looking at it a learning perspective so there aren't
necessarily mistakes unless they're fatal and then we wouldn't know anyway
so whatever that really is the right way to look at everything you win or you
learn yeah you know you have great experiences because you're successful or
you have very beneficial experiences because you realized what went wrong
yeah but is just one more wrinkle one more piece of information or one more
experience that you can add to your database of knowledge
and it'll make you better at everything how do you stay motivated and how do you
motivate people when they start to slack no motivation is it's kind of a strange
word because it doesn't really mean what we think it means we think it means that
we're fired up to do something we think that it means we're eager and passionate
to make something happen and we think that somehow we should just be able to
turn on that eagerness and turn on that passion but we can't cuz you just can't
turn on passion you can't just turn on the desire to execute a task this
doesn't work that way and honestly that isn't even what motivate means motivate
doesn't mean to yell and scream and encourage no to motivate actually means
to provide a motive a reason why so to motivate someone is to explain to
them why they're doing what they're doing how it will help them where it'll
take them why they should continue to work and to struggle and to fight and
when you need motivation yourself look for someone to scream and yell don't
look for someone else to give you motivation look at yourself look at
yourself and remind yourself why why you are doing what you are doing remind
yourself that this struggle this temporary pain this fight this fight
that you're in this is what will make you stronger and faster and smarter and
better and then with that motivation go forward into the fray into the storm
once you make that willingness to change the book falls off the shelf or the
teacher shows up in a form that you could have never imagined or or you hear
something on the radio or you meet a cab driver or some enlightened conversation
comes into your realm that all of a sudden is that shift that you needed to
make that change and create that catalyst that becomes your greatest
accomplishment your greatest shift and so that's all we need at first is that
slight willingness that willingness that I had that desire to change that moment
to shift was all I needed to become the woman I am today to live that life
beyond my wildest dreams and so when I became ready I opened up and I said okay
I'm ready for change but what's beautiful and was the main purpose of
what I teach is that once you make that decision to change you do not have to do
it by yourself you cannot be expected to make these
changes on your own all you need is that slight willingness I just like try to
always push myself more than I push myself before and you know I wasn't
trained with dancing or anything like that so I'm always trying to learn as
much as I can from my choreographer and my dancers and I'm around I just try to
have fun though you know I really love what I do
and I think I'll be doing myself a terrible disservice if I didn't push and
try to reach for more and I would be doing my fans a terrible disservice to
so that's my inspiration my fans and just wanting to be as great as I
possibly can I came up with a slogan and I told it to my kids all the time I say
there's no losing only learning there's no failure only opportunities and
there's no problems only solutions so to me what failure is failure is the mother
of all success if it wasn't for Michael Jordan getting cut from his ninth grade
basketball team he wouldn't became Michael Jordan you know if it wasn't for
I've seen an article the other day where they were talking about Oprah Winfrey
and how she got fired because she wasn't good for television you know you got
people like Walt Disney who got fired if I'm not mistaken from a newspaper saying
he had no imagination
these are the same people that I got a deal with telling me what's not a
hit record so what do you tell them you tell them you know you know that that
all they can do is learn and come back bigger better stronger because all is
gonna do is lead you in the right direction see if you're always winning
and you don't really understand what it is to win you gotta take those
losses you gotta take those hits there's got to be the valleys the peaks the ups
the downs in order for you to when it does happen you go wow
you know this is what it's all about and not only that it's never about
making it guys it's always about maintaining that's the toughest part you may
have setbacks and you may have failures but you're not done you're not even
getting started not by a long shot and if you ever forget that just look to
history Thomas Paine was a failed corset maker a failed teacher and a failed tax
collector before he made his mark on history with a little book called common
sense that helped ignite a revolution
Julia Child didn't publish her first cookbook until she was almost 50 Colonel
Sanders didn't open up his first Kentucky Fried Chicken till he was in his
sixties Winston Churchill was dismissed as little more than a has-been who
enjoyed scotch a little bit too much before he took over as prime minister
and saw Great Britain through its finest hour
Ellen fired a former football player stocking shelves at the local
supermarket would return to the game he loved become a Super Bowl MVP and then
come here to Arizona and lead your Cardinals to their first Super Bowl your
body of work is never done each of them at one point in their life didn't have
any title or much status to speak of but they had passion a commitment to
following that passion wherever would lead and a working hard every step along
the way I want you to really get in touch with first of all the fact that
you are interested in all of it and that you could be interested in any one of
these topics genuinely right this is something you have to kind of like pause
and admit to yourself you have to say to yourself okay wait a minute what's
really going on here sure maybe there's a subject that I do like a little bit
more than another subject like maybe math I don't really like math but like
let's say history I really am really fascinated by people and history that's
cool you could have those preferences but also don't be so close-minded to say
well you know what I'm just bad at math I just hate math if you say that what I
want you to do is actually I want you to ask yourself pause and ask yourself wait
a minute why do I hate this thing called math isn't it a part of reality isn't it
fascinating that that we can use mental concepts and numbers and these numbers
seem to have certain patterns to them they work in certain very logical and
interesting ways and we can use this math to do science we can use this math
to do advanced technology isn't that fascinating to you it should be
fascinating to you no matter who you are and even if it's not your like Forte and
your most passionate thing this is important because in school you're gonna
have a diversity of subjects you can learn to focus by practicing focus until
it becomes automatic one of my favorite quotes is from good
to the German philosopher and he said everything is hard before it's easy so
the formation of any new habit is hard before it's easy you have to keep
working at it it's just like a bicycle you keep falling down you have to keep
getting back up again until finally it becomes easier and easier and soon it
becomes automatic and when you automatically get up each day plan your
day and work on your most important goal the whole life will transform how do you
stay driven I am gonna ask you a question how don't you stay driven well let me
get this right you won the lotto of the universe which is you are a human being
on earth you I'm just gonna say this I mean I don't think people think about
this you won the lotto you in the universe you're not some weird specimen
and Mars that does nothing you're not you know a bird you know you know you're
not a sunflower like you are a human being on earth you won the ultimate
ultimate lottery and you're not driven and you're not fired up and you're not
going for it and you're willing to sit like a lump and just wait till you die
you suck like I don't know you suck like I how do I stay driven because I
couldn't even comprehend the alternative we start to shift our perceptions when
we start to see things with a better perspective when we start to see our
experiences as obstacles turning into opportunities or a resentment as a
divine assignment to forgive more or a moment of lack as an opportunity to
focus on what we're grateful for rather than focus on what we don't have we
start to make these shifts within our life what begins to happen is that we
begin to have more faith in that way of being
and so the neat thing that occurs and this has been my experience that past
six years of practicing the life of a spirit junkie is that now my choice is
my moment-to-moment choices are choosing more of a positive perspective when
there's traffic my first thought is okay I welcome the traffic to go I try to
start to think about the weight or if I'm supposed to be late maybe I'm meant
to be there late maybe there's something greater coming
or if something doesn't happen the exact way that I believe it should happen I
know and my first thought is there's something way greater coming so this is
just the type the types of miracles that occur in the ways that your mind begins
to shift when you start to practice these principles in your every corner of
your life