The only thing that I see
that is distinctly different
about me is
I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.
I will not be outworked. Period.
You might have more talent than me
you might be smarter than me
you might be
all of those things you've got it on me
in nine categories
but if we get on the treadmill together
there's two things
you're getting off first
or I'm gonna die.
It's really that simple.
You gotta be very intentional and deliberate.
The stuff you dreaming about,
the stuff that you want to happen,
it's not gonna happen by osmosis, like,
you gotta get up and you gotta go after it.
And what the devil wants you to do,
what the enemy wants you to do
is get distracted
and focus on stuff that you shouldn't be focussing on.
He wants you to stay in bed.
What he would love to do
is for you to waste these next 2 or 3 weeks.
Who on this f*cking earth
would still be going right now?
You are.
The belief of the individual
overrides thousands of people
with just intent
Safety,
comfort zones are dead zones.
You have to continue to push yourself
cause your true potential will never be matched guys.
Nobody
is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain't about how hard ya hit.
It's about how hard you can get hit
and keep moving forward.
So what I say to you,
that you are powerful.
You have miracle working power
in your life right now.
But you've got to work on yourself,
you've got to develop yourself,
you've got to talk to yourself,
day in and day out.
Selling yourself on you
and on your potentials.
You always have more to do.
Another mission,
another task,
another goal.
So don't be finished.
Be starting.
Be alert.
Be ready.
Be attacking.
Be relentless.
You've gotta stop telling yourself
that you're doing enough.
You have to do more.
In life
it's never enough
until you feel
this overwhelming feeling
of sh*t man
I'm outworking the crowd.
I'm outworking everybody.
I'm doing more.
Once you get there
that's when you f*cking know you've done enough.
You've gotta do your best work
when you're least motivated.
So those days you don't want to do it
you gotta say get the f*ck up and do it.
And you've got to know that
you are worth all of your effort.
And that the key to your motivation,
as you get a larger vision
of yourself,
is to know
that you have something to give.
Is to know that you have a reason
for being in the universe at this point in time.
Take that leap of faith.
Trust yourself
and believe.
Let the enemy stop,
let the enemy rest,
let the enemy finish.
You?
Don't finish.
Don't stop.
Don't rest.
Not until the enemy is completely destroyed.
It's time to get real.
It's time to get raw.
It's time to look ourselves in the mirror
and come to the resolve
that this version of ourself
is not going to carry us in the stretch
I've been this version of myself long enough
that if I don't change
if I don't do something about this
then I'm going to find myself bankrupt.
Your problem is you start something, you stop it,
you start something, you stop it,
you feel good, you do it,
you don't feel good, you quit.
People who do stuff consistently
and on time,
they surpass people who talented
and gifted.
All men are created equal.
Some just work harder.
And the problem with some of y'all,
is you want somebody else to support your dream.
It's yours.
I ask myself the question about the lion.
And I said the lion is not running to be rewarded,
the lion is running to eat.
Because the lion realizes when he kills the gazelle,
not only does he eat the gazelle,
but he brings it back home.
So you've gotta ask yourself
what's your why?
What motivates you?
What pushes you?
What drives you?
And if that thing is internal,
if nobody has to call you,
if nobody has to prod you,
if nobody has to reward you,
if you are self-motivated
and self-regulated,
you can have it,
you can be it,
you can do it.
And when your feelings are screaming that you've had enough,
when you think you're going to break emotionally,
override that emotion with concrete logic and willpower that says
one thing:
I
don't
stop.
Fight weak emotions with the power of logic.
Fight the weakness of logic
with the power of emotion.
And in the balance of those two,
you will find the strength
to say to yourself,
I
don't
stop.
You got to write,
even if no one published your book, right?
Because that was given to you to do.
You do what it is you're supposed to.
You're supposed to build something.
You're supposed to create something.
I don't know how to do it. Learn
Do whatever is required.
And so I started going to work earlier.
I started being the last one to leave there.
I started working harder than anybody else.
The other guys could not,
"Why would you work so hard Les?"
I said I'm not working for them,
I've been cheating myself and my family.
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing,
do it with everything that you have.
Develop the habit
of giving more than what you're paid for.
Develop the habit of setting standards
that others will be measured by.
Someone said,
do not go where the path may lead,
but go where there is no path
and leave a trail.
When you quit, your mind does this.
When you quit, your mind says, we're done.
So it doesn't expand.
There's no expansion.
When you quit, when you say, f*ck you,
ah ah, this sucks, I'm drowning,
I'm miserable, i'm suffering
I'm broken, but I'm not going anywhere.
See, we can't control the thoughts that come in our minds
but we can control the thoughts that we dwell on.
So your thoughts have magnetism
and the most challenging thing
is to discipline your thinking
to hold the vision of what it is that you want.
The difference is not
the genetic code
the potential.
It's the guy
that's willing to get knocked down
find the intestinal fortitude
stand back up
the perseverance
to see it through.
The never say die attitude.
And I go in there, man
and if I don't win, I showed up
I gave my valid effort.
And tomorrow I'll do the same thing.
I'll continue
to throw sh*t against the wall.
And every day, I'll throw more up there
and try it again, and try it again.
And I'll never get comfortable.
The spirit of resiliency,
the spirit of grit,
it's in your DNA,
it's in your blood.
Overcoming is in your blood,
getting through adversity is in your blood.
Your ancestors got through so much more.
We will be alright.
We need to focus on where we're going,
not
where we come from and what's happening.
When crisis strike in your life
and in the Chinese language crisis mean
danger
but it also means opportunity.
I didn't get to where I am,
I didn't get here being lazy,
I didn't get here binge watching TV,
I didn't get here taking days off.
I personally know what it takes.
One day I made a decision
that enough is enough,
I'm tired of being average.
I'm tired.
I'm tired of being good,
I'm tired.
I made a decision,
enough is enough.
It's showtime.
You have a right to what you're feeling,
but just because you feel it
doesn't mean it's real
Feelings are not facts.
And I would try to get myself to question
those negative thoughts and really try and understand
that just because you feel a certain way,
just because you feel people are staring at you,
just because you feel less than doesn't
mean you have to invest in that thought.
If we all invested in every thought we had,
we'd probably be crazy.
You know, we get some negative random thoughts
that come across our mind sometimes.
I'm not a crazy positivity hippie, so to speak,
you know, I wouldn't be standing in a burning
building chanting positive affirmations
I would get the hell out.
My job is to not let my mind take over
And that's when I win
and when I lose and everything in between.
So in talking to that 20 year old version of myself,
you're valid for what your feel,
but at the same time, y
it's not a necessity to act out those feelings.
You have a choice between what you think
and what you do, and that choice is everything.