I am not coach right now, I am your conscience.
You're in a fight between will and skill. I say will first because that's what you are.
You're locked and loaded with skill. You're practicing every day, you're putting in your work.
You're buying everything, you're making investments. You're living your dream,
you're walking like your dream. You're surrounding yourself around your dream,
you got mentors - everything. You're putting more work in. You got your skill.
Now is the test of your will. It is a mindset thing you are in right now
it is a mindset thing because your challenge. Your challenge ain't moving, your
mountain, it is not moving. You don't feel like you making any progress.
You are not physically moving when you see everything else around you, other
people around you moving, you're not making progress, you're in the
test of your will right now cuz life says it has a little more test for you.
It's no different because we messed up, because you fell off the wagon, you've
been on alcohol and drugs and you gave up on life and you dropped out or you've
been to jail one time, two times, three times and you really want your dream to
happen and you putting in your work and nothing's happening yet.
Every transformation always gets worse before it gets better.l
It's supposed to be that way. When you embark 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. The action of making progress is progress. The, the
push itself, the fight, you get up and swing and miss - that's progress. You get
up and you run at - get what you want with everything you got and you miss,
that's progress. The effort of making the attempt. it's progress. It must happen. It
can't do anything but move. You can't do anything but make progress. You're pushing
and you're pushing and you're pushing and you're pushing and you're doing
everything right. You're tired, you're exhausted and ain't nothing happening yet.
That word is what you're waiting for. 'Yet.' Because I promise you, if you keep
pushing, if you keep giving me all your effort, it will happen. You have to be
equipped mentally to endure this process. Knowing what you're about to go into is
step one. Knowing it's an uphill battle, but a winnable one and one that's
achievable and at the end of this race guys, you're going to be more capable. The
first step guys, is knowing it's a tough road. As soon as you decide to stop
looking for answers in other people and miracles somewhere down the yellow brick
road, and click the heels of your mind, and set your affections on
things that are above, you could have been free years ago. All
jealousy, all pettiness, all unforgiveness, all strife, all malice, all confusion, all
blaming other people for your mistakes. You got till midnight to get rid of
every poison that's hindering you, every inflexibility that's stopping you from
what God is about to pour into your life woe be unto you if you go into
another year and waste another year with the old mentality while somebody in the hospital
begging God for the opportunity that you have right now. You better step into this moment.
My COMMITMENT and obsession is always to be better today than I was yesterday
If I have to make sacrifices to do that: so be it. If I have to tell that person I
can’t go out drinking with him anymore: so be it. Because that’s not what I value.
Anything or anyone that is taking me further away from my dreams has to go.
I’m committed to self development not self destruction, and you know, any person
that is meant to be with me on the journey, will choose that higher road
with me. Yes, a tougher road, but it is also a much more rewarding one. I want my life to
mean something. To be able to look back at my life and say, yeah, I made some
tough decisions, but they were the RIGHT decisions. So many people don’t get it.
They piss their life away every weekend for what? So they can complain
about their current circumstances for the rest of the week? THERE'S NO CHANCE!
I’m in charge of my own life! It’s all on me! I take responsibility. I take action.
You will never hear me complain about another person or circumstance as the
reason I’m not where I want to be. If I don’t like where I am… Time to knuckle
down and work harder! I am a perfect reflection of the hard work or lack of
work I put in. And luck, that only comes to those who have paid their dues.
If I am weak in a certain area, it won’t be for long.
Because I’m committed to be better. I will learn, I will read. I will make it happen.
I will FIND A WAY. I will WORK until that weakness is turned into a strength.
No one can beat me, because i don't give up! I'm RELENTLESS! You might knock me down,
but i NEVER stay down! It’s time to RISE. RISE UP to your potential!
RISE UP past your limitations! RISE UP past your family or friends limitations!
Set the standard for those around you! Don’t conform to the standard,
like a sheep. Get out and LEAD THE WAY! GET UP. RISE UP! MAN UP!
My college ball career was over. I got offered a job to become a hospital
administrator. 2-year program, $75,000 job
and right before I took the job, my daddy called me on the phone. Let me tell you
about my daddy. When I was a little boy, my daddy would
always pick me up. When he came home from work he picked me up, when he saw me in
the nursery after church, he picked me up. No matter how long he worked, no matter
how tired he was, my dad would always pick me up. So when I had my kids, I would
always pick up my kids. When I got home, sometimes I was tired and they would have a bottle in
one hand, and they just lifted up their other hand, and they knew what
daddy was supposed to do, my job was to pick them up.
This is a spiritual interaction. When you pick up a child, it is a spiritual
transaction. When you pick up a child, you change their
perspective.
When you pick up a child, all of a sudden they can see the world the way you see it.
I don't care what your children have done, there is nothing they can do for you to stop picking
them up. Whether my daughter's a drug addict, I don't
care I pick her up. My son messes up, I don't care
pick him up. I don't care. You pick them up.
That is your job, Mama. That is your job, Daddy. That is your job
grandma, that is your job granddad, your number one job is to pick them up and
change their perspective.
My saddest day, one day my daddy looked at me and said boy you too big, I can't pick you
up anymore but when he couldn't pick me up physically, he would pick me up
emotionally, he would pick me up spiritually.
I had a great dad because he would always pick me up.
He would always change my perspective.
So my daddy called me on the phone and he asked me a question he said son you
had a tough year, what's next? I said dad I'm gonna be a hospital administrator.
He said not bad but let me ask you a question, son do you believe you're an
NBA player? You cannot produce yourself in there son, if you don't think so, go take the
job. But if you believe you're an NBA player, go for it.
My dad had self-control and discipline and waited for my answer and
my answer was yes, you're right Dad. I can't work the rest of my life. Playing in the NBA is a dream
I've had ever since I was a little boy.
He said, go for it son.
I limped back into my coach's office with a cast on my foot,
tears in my eyes. I said Coach what do I need to do to play in the NBA? He said, do
two things and you can play in the NBA. Lose 20 pounds and shoot a three-point shot
with range you can play in the NBA. If you lose 20 pounds and shoot the three-point shot with
range you can play in the NBA. I lost 20 pounds and every day I would shoot 500
shots a day, every single day. I got invited to training camp with the
Dallas Mavericks and not only did I make the team, I became the first ever undrafted
rookie free agent in the history of the Dallas Mavericks to start opening night!
Could you imagine what was going through my mind:
I had not started a basket-ball game since high-school. I got to the arena, they dimmed the lights, and they put
the spotlight right on me. Right in the spotlight I saw my mama right there, and all my brothers and sisters
and then I saw my dad,
and i pumped my fist,
and he pumped his fist, and tears streamed down my face. Thank you for all those timeouts,
thank you for making sure I was always home when the streetlights came on.
Thank you for making sure I could always hear your voice. Thank you for always
changing my perspective. I got a simple simple simple question for you..Here is
the question - Do you believe that one day you are not going live in the world that
was given to you that's right but you are going to actually live in the world
that you dream of..
You gotta make every single second count.. You gotta go in the future and see it baby..
And than you gotta come come back in the present...
And you gotta take that big goal, that big dream, that big reality, that;s what I said,
You gotta take that big reality... And you gotta take small steps to make it
managable... To make it so your dreams become a reality..
Think BIG, Dream BIG but start small.. That's right START SMALL - remember what I
told start where you are... with what you have, because what you have is plenty..
But the biggest enemy you have to deal with is yourself... There is an old African
proverb that says: If there's no enemy within.. the enemy outside can do us no harm...
You don't have to personally be perfect.. Do you hear me?
There are those of you right now you should've cut a CD, you should've wrote
a book, you should have gotten in school and get that degree.. You should've
started your own business.. There are so many things you should've done..
You should've done.. But you didn't do it because you are.. SCARED...
You say scared of what? - I ain't scared... You are scared... You are scared
of failure, you are scared to make a mistake.. You are scared.... that you are not perfect...
And I'm telling you today you ain't gotta be perfect. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
You don't have to be perfect to get what you want.. to do what you want,
to have what you want, to be what you want... You don't have to be perfect.... It's a LIE.
There will never be a point in your life... where it's the right time...
to do a great thing... If you are waiting for that perfect perfect
moment... That perfect timing... is not going to happen.. You know what you have to do?
You have to create the perfect time and the perfect opportunity and the perfect situation.
So a lot of people become comfortable... They stop growing, They stop wanting
anything.. They become satisfied....
People getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like, jobs that are making them SICK
You see when you are not pursuing your goal you are literally
committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you are
reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone.
You'll find out some talents and abilities you have... That you didn't know you had.
When the messenger of misery visits you? What are you going to do?
What will keep you in the game. There are things that you think you'll never need to know
that you may only need to know one time
in your life but that could save your life because you had that knowledge.
Unless you attempt to do something beyond that which you have already
mastered you will NEVER GROW. What is it that you looked at some point in time
and you decided that you couldn't do it. That you talk yourself out of it.
You waiting for your next door neighbor.. to make it happen for you... It may not happen.
If you want on your mother or your father... They may be so ancient in their thinking.
that they don't understand this opportunity that you have
and if you wait on them that may never get done. You don't pay average
people to be phenomenal, you don't pay good people to be phenomenal.
You just are phenomenal and you will attract phenomenal. What reason can you
remember that you can call on, that you reach on, that could make you
get back up? Find that reason. If you are not where
you are, if you're not where you wanna be... If you don't have what you want to have
If you are not where you think you should be at this particular place, it has nothing to do
with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you're not making
a sacrifice. I want you to make that dream become a reality. Because if you
don't you will be working for somebody else to make their dreams become a
reality. The Question is - What are you gonna do with your time?
What drives you? - Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
Day after day.. Workout after workout.. Day after day... When things don't
work out for you, when things happen that you could not anticipate, what are the
reasons that you can think of that can keep you strong.. You will never ever be
successful.. Until you turn your PAIN INTO GREATNESS. Until you ally your pain
to push you from where you are, to push you to where you need to be. Stop running
from your pain, and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize
a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself. See it's easy to be
on the bottom. It doesn't take any effort to be a loser, doesn't take any
motivation, any drive in order to stay down there on a low level. But it calls on everything in you
you have to harness your will to say I am going to challenge myself. What you did
last week don't count. Today, Today is the only important day.
There are 86 400 seconds in a day... And how you use those ate critical.
You got 86 400 a day.. And what you do today is going to seep into who
you are. Nobody's gonna talk about what you did last week. You have this opportunity
of a lifetime. It means absolutely nothing if you don't take advantage of it in the
lifetime of this opportunity. I got a saying that when life knocks you down
try and land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up and if you want
a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it,
to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it, if all that you dream and scheme
is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it see it's time now
if you wanna make this your decade, you gotta start saying yes to your
life. You gotta start saying yes to your dreams. Yes to your unfolding future.
Yes to your potential as opposed to saying no.
When you die, die or leave, leave no dream left behind guys, leave no opportunity
left behind when you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you can accomplish.
Listen to me. You're gonna be here one day but you'll never get here if you give
up, if you give in, if you quit and finally guys you gotta want to succeed
as bad as you wanna breathe.
What people think about you and the possibilities for your dream is none of
your business. The attitude is it can't be done because they haven't seen it
history is being read but it's also being written by people with imagination.
It's necessary you take responsibility for it. That you make it happen, that you
don't give up, that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats
personally, that you keep on keeping on, that you don't decide that I can't make
it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, that you realize
that's a part of the program. As the physically weak man can make himself
strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make
them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
To put away aimlessness and weakness and to begin to think with purpose is to
enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the
pathways to attainment. Who make all conditions serve them and who think
strongly, attempt fearlessly and accomplish masterfully.
He who would accomplish little, must sacrifice little. He who would achieve
much, must sacrifice much, he who would attain highly, must sacrifice greatly.
What are you gonna do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference? Major step to
human progress - discipline. If there's one thing to get excited over
that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the
necessary things.
Because the story you have about your life, or about your business,
about the area of life, is not where you want to be.
Your story is what's making this stuff.
Yes, it's hard, it's hard, and we will do it hard and once if we do it hard, and we got through it, and
we realize it was worth it and once you discover it was worth it, it is done.
Study the things that can change your economic, social, spiritual, personal life
so you don't want to wind up at the end of your life and discover that you've
lived only 1/10 of it.
Maybe you're at the darkest point of your life and you're ready to give up. You're at a point
in your life when you feel like it's do or die. You're going through so much pain
you're going through so much agony, you're ready to give up, you're ready to quit.
I've got one word for you - warrior! Woo! Warrior! Fear. It's not real.
The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future.
It is a product of our imagination causing us to fear things that do not at
present and may not ever exist.
Fear is a choice.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I want your dream to be so clear that when you wake up in the morning all you got
to do is step in your dream and the first step for me was seeing something I
was not before I was. You can do it. Where you are is temporary!
You will not be there for the rest of your life.
I don't care what happens in your life, I don't care what it looks like, I don't
care where you are, every single day you wake up if you're going to have energy
if you're going to have passion, if you're going to have drive, every day you
wake up you've got to start with that vision. This is a mentality like, you got
to live this, you got to eat this, you got - every single thing you do is not a choosing
it's a way of life. It's got to possess everything you do, it's got to own.
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
I want to see how far I can go, I want to see what I can acomplish, I want to see
what I can do, what I can be, what I can have, I want to see I don't want to see
what I think I can do, I don't want to see what think is possible, I want to
see what my life will looks life if I don't count the cost and I was willing to go
further then anybody was willing to do. You can't do anything without faith it's
impossible to accomplish anything without faith, so i need you to believe.
There is still time, as long there is a breath in your nostrils, as long as you
can wake up in the morning The first step before anyone else in the world
believes it, you have to believe it So I need you to believe Cause if you're
willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you
want to get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got
something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to
someone, something... and you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the
right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't
nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be
and do what you want to do!
you gotta do, what you was called to do you gotta do, what you was born to do
you gotta do, what works for you, because if you do what works for you gonna blow up.
It's in your DNA! It's who you are!
You are a warrior. It's time for you not to back up. Not to give up. Not to give in.
Either you get knocked down and you get back up you get back up, you get back up and you continue
to throw shit against the wall. Listen to me very carefully you are a warrior.
It is time for you to fight.
I know you have that warrior inside and now I just need you to activate it.
Keep going, as dark as it gets keep going.
As difficult as it gets, as much as it seems as if the world is
crumbling down around you and there's no way out, keep going.
See most people stop, they don't get it, they quit, they quit reaching for their dreams.
I noticed that there are those who are squashers of dreams. Now, I don't know why these people do this.
I don't know why the naysayers or squashers do this. Grow stronger and then inspire
others to become the strongest version of themselves that's how we evolve.
I go beyond the fears and limitations of other people. I control my life.
No matter what road you take in life there are always going to be things
you have to do that you just don't want to don't do. Go and do the thing. Look, you
only get this life once. Every experience that we have leads us to who we are and where we stand
and that's always the right place to be. If you can't, you must. If there's something that
you can't do because there's an obstacle in your way
that means it's your responsibility to do that thing so that you can destroy
the obstacle.
Failure is necessary.
Failure is success and success is failure. They need each other. The more failings you
have, the more success you have, the darker the night, the brighter the day.
The harder the ball hits the ground, the higher it goes up.
Pain is a beautiful thing. Challenge is what life is about. A life without
challenge, a life without pain, is a life without growth. So not only do I embrace
the challenge, embrace the pain but I even look forward to it. Send me a
challenge, please give me some challenges here because I need to be tested, I need to
be stronger, I need to grow. You know they say there's a Judgment Day. I believe we
face multiple judgment days while we're walking on earth. The judgement today is
today. Judgment Day is now and the judgment is
going to allow you to live a life of hell now or to choose your own Kingdom.
Listen to me very carefully you are a warrior.