Greatness.
It's just something we made up.
Somehow we've come to believe that greatness is a gift
reserved for a chosen few
For prodigies
For superstars
And the rest of us can only stand by watching.
You can forget that
Greatness is not some rare DNA strand.
It's not some precious thing.
Greatness is no more unique to us than breathing.
We're all capable of it
All of us
I always believed leaving no stone unturned.
That's what makes you a champion.
But when you're out there
partying, horsing around,
someone out there at the same time is working hard.
Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning.
You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.
But if you want to win,
there is absolutely no way around hard, hard work.
No pain, no gain.
Rewired differently.
We have to set a goal that if we hit that goal
we're guaranteed to make sure
all that other stuff in the middle,
It was going to happen.
Why three o'clock in the morning?
Why don't you sleep?
My appetite, my appetite said,
"ET, I want more, I can do more"
if I accomplish this without a father,
would II accomplish this
with my mom being a teenage mom,
If I accomplished this as a high school dropout.
How many of you believe in your life
that your worst day can become your best day
If you turn it around
If I can accomplish these things
from this start now that I'm at this place,
knowing what I know now, what can I count?
And I want you to think about that.
I want you to think about more than just
what you're going to do financially
more than what you're going to do in this industry
in the next three years.
More than that, what's your appetite?
what are you going to do
that will ensure that when the alarm clock goes off,
that you're already up
10, 20 minutes before your alarm goes off.
Why?
You got to grind, grind, grind.
You got to go through
setbacks and disappointments.
You got to go through it.
I'm talking about grit.
I'm talking about endurance.
Just having more stamina than they got.
In order to get to the next level,
you gotta sacrifice,
you gotta take risks.
You gotta be willing to do by faith
whatever you're asked to do.
Listen to me, there are no shortcuts to success.
There are no discounts to success.
It's always sweat,
it's always blood,
it's always tears.
You always have to give all to be the best.