I don't believe in the word for procrastination, like I don't really believe
in that word. I told the young lady in Australia who told me she's a
procrastinator, I said look if I told you to meet me here tomorrow at
5:00 a.m. and I'ma give you $3,000,000, where would you be? She said, I'd be right
there at 4:59 ready to get that three million dollars. I said so there's no such
thing as procrastination. What it is, is it's not important to you, right. It's not
it's not meaning for you, to you. It's not, it's not something that's urgent to you
and when something is not urgent you put it off. So yep you're in school, yes you
probably are getting grades, etc but if it's not meaningful to you, if it's not
important to you then you're not going to make it a priority. So what you have to
do is find out how can you make it meaningful? How can you make it purposeful?
How can how can you make it stick and when you can find that out I promise you
you will get up early, you'll get there first and you'll do whatever it takes to
make that goal a reality. So for me, no such thing as procrastination, it's such
thing as it's not a priority to you. You said that you're gonna graduate this year
you're gonna finish college this year, you said you were gonna run a marathon right?
This is what you said, out of your mouth. All I'm doing is, I'm saying, listen I'm
not telling you what to do. I'm not telling you you should do this, you should do that, you should do this, I
didn't tell you all year what you should do but what I did tell you is don't talk
about it, be about it.
You should be tired, alright you should be tired of talking about it and you should be at a
place where you're doing something about it alright. The reason why you have not become
successful, the reason why you are not like a locomotive, the reason why you're
not having success in your life is because every single day you got an excuse and
I need you to do me a favour. I made my last excuse yesterday, my last reason.
I came up with my last reason yesterday of why I can't do what I'm supposed to
do and so I need you to do me a huge favor.
All your excuses, all your good reasons, everything, every everything that's
keeping you from doing what you're supposed to do, I need you to put it
behind you and say yesterday was the last day for that foolishness. Yesterday
was the last day to say I don't have enough money to do this, I don't have enough
money to go to school, I don't have enough money to get a computer, I don't have
what it takes, I'm not smart enough right, I don't write well enough, I don't sing
well enough that's why I didn't do my CD, I didn't write my book because I'm not on
that level. Listen to me - you gotta hear what I'm saying, yesterday was the last
day that I want to hear an excuse. It's over with. I was embarrassed, I said
listen to me, no more defeats. No more defeats man, no more. I was tired of
feeling defeated. I was tired of talking about I was gonna do it
and didn't do it and I hated the feeling of when somebody asked me, yo E, where the
book? I ain't got it. I was tired of getting beat, I was tired of defeat. I
said I'm gonna get it done.
Every time you set this big goal, you never get it accomplished because you
never break it up in manageable pieces. This is it, I'm talking about
procrastinators. You still have time. Don't quit, don't give up, you still have time. You
can do it. You can make it happen but you can't do it procrastinating, you can't
do it talking about it, alright? So I just want to go back and recap because I
wanna make sure you hear what I'm saying. I dare you, I double dare you to do exactly
what you said you were going to do when the year started because it's not too late. I'm
gonna say it again, I'm gonna hurt somebody. i'ma hurt somebody. I don't believe in
the word procrastination, like I don't really believe in that word. She said
I'll be right there 4:59, ready to get that three million
dollars and I said so then there's no such thing as procrastination. What it is, is
it's not important to you, right? It's not, it's not meaningful for you, to you. Don't
really want to get up and get out of bed?
Yah. I get up and get out of bed.
I don't really want to work out, I work out.
I really don't want to hammer on a project, I hammer on the project. As an overall rule
I do not like procrastination. You need to get things done but if you are going
to rest that is one thing that you should procrastinate on, that's the one
thing I want you to put off until tomorrow.
Now these could be signals that you need some time off and those signals might be
right. They could be
correct, but don't take today off.
Don't give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your
ear, shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice instead go through the
motions, lift the weights, sprint the hill, work on the project, get out of bed.
People are always wondering what the next step in life is and I say life's a little bit
like a maze, you know? until you walk down one hallway and try to open the door you
don't know if it's a dead end or not and people are trying to sit back and that's
where the procrastination comes in and look real far down the hallway and I'm
like, just walk
small and steady wins the race what's the fastest way to change your life?
For me I think it's understanding how to set up daily routines with alternating brain and body training
and, killing procrastination the little win, with your family
when you feel like watching TV sets you up for another win the next day
a little win of getting up at 5 o'clock and running your morning routine sets
you up for a habit, of a 5 a.m. club morning routine, small daily
improvements over time will lead you to stunning results, it comes down to this
Elvis, I think you have to work hard like, just so everybody knows, we haven't gotten into
this subject yet. Working hard, is the cost of entry to anything. You know zero
people that are successful that don't work their face off. You know zero people
now, they may have money as mummy and daddy made money and gave it to them but
people that actually built their own success, you know zero people that have
had success, that did not put in obnoxious amounts of work. What's the most important
key to success? I think it's hunger, it's not getting satisfied. A hunger that
doesn't go, a hunger to learn, a hunger to grow, a hunger to serve, a hunger to give
a hunger to create breakthroughs most people are hungry until they make a
certain amount of money and then they get comfortable and there's nothing
wrong with that but it's not about the money, it's not about the business, it's
about your growth because every one of us either grows or dies. People ask me
all the time, what does it take to be happy? I say one word, progress. Progress equals happiness
because achieving a goal feels good for how long? A week, a month, three
months? And then there needs to be something else and the reason for
something else is because you gotta grow imagine a conversation with your
future self in that, lets imagine that the you of 20 years from now
shows up at your doorstep, and that you is stronger, smarter, wiser, wealthier,
healthier, happier and that you shows up at your door and it looks at your life
and it looks you in the eye if that future you is going to give you advice on what
to stop, what to start what's the first thing they would tell you to be? Or do?
Take a step back right now and think about who we all admire in the world right?
They're all people that punted the system, they're people that practice
singing since they were five there are people that shot 10,000 basketballs
every morning, it's always that. It's always that. 99% of the people right now that
are listening to this are playing in the middle they're playing in a game that
was structured for them they're risk adverse, they fear, and most importantly,
they fear what other people think.
Look, I believe that we're all born with lots of goodness in us but life throws
curveballs. Life, the ambition of being alive, helps us dream, and if you've been
given a dream don't discount that because you're not good enough yet.
Develop yourself, weaponize yourself teach yourself to be so good at
something that is necessary to serve in the area of your dream that now you're
never even thinking about your comfort zones, your comfort zone is irrelevant.
What matters is, what are you trying to do with your life? How are you trying to
contribute? the one thing that discipline definitely does help you with, is it
helps you get things done and when you get things done, when you actually do
things you have more success if you have more success, and sometimes a big
part of success is just not being lazy and just doing it, it's
like 90% of it is just showing up get there and start working, like you're not gonna
feel perfect everyday it's pretty much the same with everybody that
actually gets good at something. There's gotta be those
days you push through and they're probably gonna be more numerous than
the days you don't and so the benefit of discipline in my eyes has always been
that through discipline I get things done. Those days when I'm tired or worn
out or just basically sick of the grind, what do I do on those days? I go anyways.
I get it done even if I'm just going through the motions, I go through the
motions. So yep, you're in school, yes you probably are getting grades, etc but if
it's not meaningful to you, if it's not important to you then you're not going to
make it a priority. So what you have to do is find out how can you make it
meaningful? How can you make it purposeful? How can you make it stick and
when you can find that out, I promise you you'll get up early
you'll get there first and you'll do whatever it takes to make that goal a
reality so for me no such thing as procrastination it's such a thing as, it's
not a priority to you.