DON’T LET LIFE BREAK YOU - POWERFUL Motivational Speech Video

one thing you have to learn early in life i didn't learn this till later on you can't care what anybody thinks about you there is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential no excuse and i stopped being a victim i stopped saying i've got to wait for good things to happen to me and i said i'm gonna ride i'm going to fight i'm going to work i'm going to press toward i'm going to learn i'm going to do everything in my power every single day to become a victor not a victim well why do meaningful things well first of all what is meaning but then why do meaningful things and the answer is well because life is suffering and malevolence it's inerratical at its core it's like that will take you out make no mistake about it you need something to you need to be armed with virtue in order to for that not to turn into hell really you really need that so the system wants you to feel mostly powerless because they have power you don't and it also wants you to feel inadequate until you buy more stuff because that's what marketers sell us is the idea that until you buy this you're incomplete it turns out those two things don't make people happy what makes us happy is agency knowing that we have some sort of control over what's going to happen in our life and unfortunately the economic structure that we live in isn't going to be easy for most people to fix not in short but what we can fix right now is how we respond or react to what's happening in front of us if you're in your 20s and you're listening right now you're like yeah yeah whatever i don't need mindset just give me that thing that makes me the money or fixes my relationship or puts me in shape just give me i'm a hustler i'll do it but we're wrong you know i would think mindset in my 20s was 10 and 90 was the thing and now i realize it's 90 mindset and 10 the thing most of us think we need more resources if i had support from my family somebody lent me the money someone would just show me how to do it all these things because we think if we had the resources we could make it work and what i realized at 51 looking back having more success than i could ever imagine possible i feel blessed every single day in my life it has nothing to do with resources it has to do with resourcefulness winners win and losers lose i can't explain it any better than that i don't know how it happens what winners win and if you create a culture of losing if you keep being a victim if you keep letting losing happen to you if you keep letting people do you and treat you any kind of way it's going to become a culture [Music] nobility of purpose that's it you have that then you can then then you have something to set against the suffering and the malevolence it's an instinct meaning it's the instinct of life my life is meaningless the spirit has gone out of you it's like well me but and you know modern people it's part of this process of criticism we've criticized the idea of meaning so much that we don't really believe in it anymore it's like well that's fine you cannot believe it but try living without it see how far you get with that what if today was the last day of your life what's on him who would you need to speak to what gifts still remain in your heart and i truly hope that each of us live a long life but to me the real success of life is not the duration but it's how you live while you're living it what if today was the last day of your life how would you need to live your life rearrange your life so that if death came you could throw your arms wide open and say yes i'm ready if you are happy where you are then congratulations it's so good to have you here but if you're someone who wants to move away from something that's not perfect or you want to move towards something that's better know that your beliefs your best beliefs your best thinking got you to this point and the only thing that takes you to the next point the next level of your business starting the business scaling the business intimate relationship passion in shape is new beliefs it's like the beliefs that got you out of egypt are not the beliefs that will take you to the promised land we could dig deep into emotional labor not the physical labor of digging latrine but the emotional labor of sitting when we feel like running of whispering when we feel like yelling we could dig deep and say in this moment i'm going to choose to be the best version of myself and seek possibility it turns out that that's a life that you can build an entire life merely doing that and then what happens more often than not is the world responds by inviting you to play on the bigger stage you get ready to go back into your lives you live every single day in such a way so that every single moment of your life you can say yes yes it's a good day to die i believe it's then in that moment you will be fully alive we want people to make guarantees to us but we're not willing to make guarantees to ourselves somebody gave you a guaranteed 30 30 day guarantee in 30 days and then you don't make what they told you is going to make in 30 days you got an attitude you want your money back but you've never demanded your money back on yourself it's like okay you need a reason to get out of bed on a terrible day okay what's that reason going to be well let's think it through you know people who can get out of bed on a terrible day do you admire them yes what are those people like are they taking responsibility for themselves definitely do they have excess capacity so they're taking responsibility for other people yeah are they doing difficult things yes obviously the more you respect them the more you also see that they're doing difficult things and doing them well so what does that mean do some difficult things so this is not about hustling i'm not a fan obsolete i'm a fan of a generous hustle and the generous hustle says how can i do things in the world to leave a better trail and to help other people not how do i do things so i get my fair share because the world doesn't respond well to hustlers they don't like being hustled but the world responds really well to people who take responsibility and give away credit so for those of you that don't know what to do and how it's going to happen and how where the resources are going to come from you just say yes and watch lightning your job is not to go out there and make it happen go out there and manifest it everything is already manifested everything is already available your job is to simply say yes and get yourself the hell out of the way find out who you are whoever that may be i'll get what you are find out who you are and own that [ __ ] and tell people to go themselves don't ever worry about anybody and what to think about you do that i guarantee you your life will be in shambles you've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said you let you down until you get to that point you let you die that's the problem with some of you you always want to blame 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