CONSISTENCY AND DISCIPLINE IS ALL YOU NEED - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

No one tells you this part. Growth can feel very isolating. You start changing. Your priorities shift. Your conversations start to feel different. Suddenly, you don't relate to everyone the same way. That's not arrogance. That's evolution. When an athlete trains harder, they spend less time at parties. When a business grows, some relationships, they don't scale with it. Loneliness isn't always a warning sign. Sometimes, it's the very proof that you're actually moving forward. You're not meant to carry everyone with you. Some people are chapters, not the whole book. You see, the way that you become unstoppable is by refusing to stop. It's not a quality that you develop in a week or a month or by reading or listening to something inspiring. It's a habit of mind and character that you develop by practicing the quality of persistence over and over in every circumstance until it locks in and becomes a permanent part of your character. Your family, your friends, everyone who questioned you, who doubted you, the reality is that they will never believe you until it actually works out and then you're a genius. I'm sure you've heard that. You're crazy until it works. That's how it is with everything in life. You don't want to be the person who didn't pursue their dreams and everything that they wanted and didn't go after the challenging things in life just because someone told you. Be realistic. If all you ever do is listen to those comments, you will never get anywhere. You will be stuck in the same place for the rest of your life. You know what you've got to do in this life, yeah? You just got to get up and push. No one's going to get you out of bed to do what you need to do. You've got to do it yourself. You've got to trust yourself and believe in yourself. What a privilege to be tired from the work you once begged the universe for. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. And what a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for. There's so much knowledge out there, so much information, so many ways to get better. And we make so many mistakes. We're the product of our mistakes. And oftentimes the lesson is sitting there right in front of our face. It's there to be learned, but we miss it and we don't pay attention to it or we think we know better until it punches us in the face. And the most important thing to learn is that we have so much to learn as far as regrets and things I wish I would have done differently, of course. Hindsight is 20-20. And looking back, of course, who wouldn't want to take another go at something? The fact is you don't get that chance. You get one shot, one shot at this gig right here. Life, one life, and that's all you've got. And regret in and of itself, it's worthless. It does nothing for you. In fact, the only valuable thing in regret is the lesson you learned, the knowledge that you gained. But walking around filled with regret, it gets you nothing. It's all about mindset. That's it, man. You have to change the dialogue within your head. And one thing I guarantee you, there's some stat out there about January 1. All that kindling that you started, all that motivation usually burn out by about 10-12 days later. So let's see how far you can take that ----. Usually it's 10-12 days, man. People always come to me, hey, I want a workout program. I no longer get them anymore because you're going to waste my ******* time. Because I know most people out there, once that ******* one o'clock goes off, the wrong time of the day, I'm not going to the gym. All this new year, new me bullcrap can stop right now because it is the same exact you with the same exact tendencies and the same exact defaults in your mind when times get tough. The society-wide marketing campaign is not going to change you for the better because if it was, it would have worked last year. The best day to start looking to make serious changes is the day you least want to do it because that's exactly what it's going to feel like when all your motivation wears off. So either look to genuinely change the way you think through endless effort or don't even bother with the idea of a new you. It's January 1. Nothing has changed. This year is not going to be your year. You're not magically any different because the calendar switched from December 31st to January 1st. You're still the exact same person that you were the day before with all the same tendencies and all the same temptations and the same bad habits that you try to avoid. You're the same person. The only way this year is going to be your year is if you treat every single day the way you treat January 1st. If you treat every single day like a brand new opportunity to improve upon the person that you've been with the same intensity and the same intention and the same focus that you bring to January 1st, there's no doubt that this year will be your year and every subsequent year after that will be your year because who you are and the way you execute is not dictated by a calendar. It is dictated by your decision to act. It's a blank slate, a brand new year. Everything that happened last year, every win, every loss, every lesson brought you here and that's exactly where you're supposed to be. 2025 isn't about waiting for the right moment. It's about creating it. You don't need permission or a perfect plan. You just need to decide right now. Decide to bet on yourself. The best year of your life doesn't just happen it's built day by day and choice by choice. This is your year not because it's guaranteed but because you decided it will be. So make it the best one yet. You got this. Every ambitious person who wants to do something in their life or has done something in their life has gone through the exact same chapter you're going through right now. It's the lonely chapter. It's the chapter where you don't fit in with your old friends but you don't have the achievements to fit in with a new group of friends and you're doing everything you can. The free tutorials online, you're reading everything you get your hands on, you're going through it and you're thinking to yourself like is this is this going to be worth it? Is this actually going to work? Because you're seeing no signs of success but the signs of success are the hate that you get along the way and what you can't do is bend your knee to their hate and try and go back and conform because it's comfortable and it's warm because you know deep down you can do more than this and you begin to see the person that you could be and you realize how far you need to go but despite how far away it seems you look back down that dead-end road and know that's not where you want to be and so you keep going. Fail big. Today is the beginning of the rest of your life so do what you feel passionate about. Take chances. Don't be afraid to fail. There's an old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was to go outside the box. Don't be afraid to think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big but remember dreams without goals are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment. So have dreams but have goals and understand that to achieve these goals you must apply discipline and consistency. You have to work at it every day. You have to plan every day. Hard work works. How many times in life have you ever driven by an orchard or driven by a massive farm and you see these crops, these fruits, these vegetables just growing? Do you ever think what it started with? It started with one seed. It's one seed just like the ideas you have in your head to grow your business, to grow you personally and you're creating a strong relationship. It's that one idea that is watered and nurtured that make all the difference in the world and from that one little tiny seed you can have massive farms, massive trees to produce so much wealth and growth in all areas of your life. So from one little seed, one idea that you created, that you have in your mind and when it's planted and cultivated and watered and nurtured what do you think you're capable of doing? Because your capability is not limited. Your capability is as much as you want it to be when it comes to your imagination. The only thing that limits capability is listening to other people's limitations of what they can do, not what you can achieve. What you can achieve is way more than you think. The question is you know you can. Are you willing? Because if you're willing from one idea, one seed you can create the most incredible farms, the most incredible lifestyle that you know you deserve. We know that when it comes to life we want to be growing. We want to seek opportunities for growth. We want to be doing things that make us more competitive, better to be in situations in the future than we are today. We know we need that growth. One of the most effective ways that we can continue to ensure that we grow through our life is to seek out change. When the fact of the matter is the only difference between whether we embrace change or fight change is the perspective that we see it with. And all we have to do to see change as a positive and an opportunity for growth in all aspects of our life is to make a choice that change is good. That change doesn't happen to us, change happens through us. And by embracing that concept by seeing it as something that's positive, I can use that to continue to grow individually. Because those only two options that exist right growing or dying and if change makes me grow then I want to start seeing change as an opportunity. I want to start not just embracing it happening but I want to seek it out. Clarity means you see more clear. When you see more clear interrelations become more apparent. When you see more clear there is no need to believe anyone or believe anything. Seeing clear means you can distinguish for yourself which is the proper direction to take and which decisions do I have to make in order to make my goals or aspirations start to shape. I can't and I won't tell you which way to go. It's just that along your personal journey you will encounter challenges. Those challenges will either prevent you or some of them even stop you from moving on and climbing that mountain. Every moment of your life is building the story of your life. Some chapters will break you wide open and others will remind you of just how strong you are. But the reality is they're all necessary. Your job isn't to avoid the hard parts. It's to show up for them, own them and use them to write the story that only you can tell. Because your life isn't a rough draft. It's a masterpiece in the making. Let the fear of regret fuel you to take action today, now. To take action now to become a better person. Not filled with regret but filled with knowledge. Filled with knowledge and strength and power and filled with life. You use the word destiny over and over throughout the book. What does that mean to you? It's a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have on your mind of what you're about will come true. It's kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self because it's a fragile feeling and you put it out there somebody will kill it. So it's best to keep that all inside. Revisit your dream. You know it doesn't cost anything to dream and our dreams need auditing. As you go into this next year shouldn't just be doubling down on the same dream. Really take some time and evaluate your real purpose. D.O. Moody said our greatest fear should not be that we fail. Our greatest fear should be that we succeed at something that doesn't matter. And so if you really believe what you're doing matters it gives you a peace through turmoil, through difficulty, through ups and downs. If I fail in the attempt to do something that matters, I can live with that. You do realize that this could be the year you change your life you just lock in. Me and you both know you didn't stick to the script last year but it's okay though because this year we come for everything that we lost and more. We ain't hearing the excuses no more. Your future is tired of that. You're the only one that can make it right but you're also the only person that can mess it up. Lock in and change your life like your life depends on it because it do. Understand that 2025 is right around the corner and if you want to make the most of it this is what you're going to do. Work on your personal craft because it is only through a project that you are genuinely able to improve and most importantly take action because you will accomplish nothing unless you go out there and will it into existence. If you're able to do all of those I guarantee that you will have the best year of your life. How much did they first pay you to give up on your dream? 27 grand a year. And when were you going to stop and come back and do it? I see guys who work at the same company for their entire lives. Guys exactly like you. They clock in, they clock out and they never have a moment of that. You have an opportunity. This is a rebirth. I think having a purpose is that thing that that makes us tick, that gets us up every day and gets us over the hump of opposition and adversity. And the reason that I champion adversity and opposition is because I think for the most part in life people pretty much know what to do when things go right, right? Like when things go right they know how to feel, they know how to act, how to react. But it's when that opposition and that adversity comes and it creates a level of misunderstanding, right? Now the vision is blurred. Now you don't have clarity about what you're supposed to do. Now you question if your existence matters. And I think when you have a purpose it's powerful because in the midst of the opposition it makes you realize that you've been put here for a certain reason. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you then you become something else entirely. This year you can't fear change. In one of the beautiful passages in meditation Mark Struis reminds himself that everything in life comes from change, good and bad. And by trying to keep things the same not only are you of course focused on something that you don't control but you're preventing yourself from all the wonderful opportunities that exist that could come your way. We live in a time of disruption, we live in a time of institutions that are falling apart, we live in a time of innovation, new institutions that are being created. So you can't fear what's going to come of that. The Stokes would say all you could focus on this year is embracing those things, adapting yourself to change, acquiescing to that change rather than fighting it, rather than fearing it, rather than resenting it. Because it's going to happen regardless of how you feel about it. So what you should focus on, the Stokes would say, is what you're going to do about it. Life is hard on the good days when you expect so much of yourself and when the bad days come around keeping the promises feels almost impossible. I wish I could explain to you the pit in my stomach in those moments but I'm not sure I have the right words to be honest. Somehow I always see the other side of the promise kept though and the difficult part is that it doesn't provide the relief you'd hope it would. My only consolation at times is that I know I did the right thing to maintain who I am because that is the one thing I cannot let myself lose. One guy came over to me frustrated but man I keep on failing. Took me four times to pass the bar. I'm trying to start my business. I keep on failing at that. The whole time he was talking to me I started smiling. He goes, why are you smiling? I said, because you missed it. I don't see failure. I see grit, determination, try, sacrifice. Failure means you're trying. A whole bunch of people out here never fail because they never try. He said, how do you handle failure guys? I said, I don't look at it as failure. I look at it as my first, second, third attempt. One thing in life that's for sure but then your mother always wins. Stay hard. The year's almost over. It's been a tough year right but we're not going to talk about that right now. This is for making it through this tough year. There's been a lot of good and bad but I'm happy that you've made it this far and that you're still here. Thank you for hanging in there and I'm proud of you for staying strong. If you wish to be the king of the jungle, it's not enough to act like a king. You must be the king. There can be no doubt because doubt causes chaos and one's own demise. Start something you believe in and give it everything you have. Not for the applause, not for the outcome but because it's yours. Focus on the work. Let it consume you. Take small steps every day and watch how they compound. What feels impossible now becomes inevitable over time. Forget perfection. Forget shortcuts. Mastery lives in repetition and the timeline for greatness is a lifetime. Patience and you come out the other side and you realize how much you grew through that. You start becoming grateful right. One you become grateful for what you just went through. You become grateful for the past experiences but also you become grateful for when you are going through tough situations in the future because you understand that literally the situation in the season I'm in right now is developing me in a certain way that maybe I can't see right now but I know that if I keep showing up, keep taking it day by day, step by step, moment by moment, I'm gonna come out a better version of myself. Man, I'm grateful for that. There's a quiet kind of pain in starting over. It feels like failure. Like all the effort, all the time, all the dreams you poured into something have been erased. Like you're back at square one staring at the wreckage of what could have been. Starting over isn't just hard, it's humbling. It forces you to face everything you thought you'd left behind. Your fears, your doubts, and the heavy weight of regret. But here's the thing, starting over isn't the end, it's the beginning. It doesn't feel like that though, does it? When you're in it, when the dust hasn't settled and all you can see is what you've lost, it's hard to imagine that this could be the start of something better, something stronger, something worth all the pain. And yet, that's exactly what it is. You see, life isn't linear. It's not a straight path from point A to point B. It's messy. It's filled with detours, dead ends, and moments where you have to stop, turn around, and begin again. And that's not failure. That's life. The people who never start over. The ones who cling to what's broken because they're too afraid to begin again. They're the ones who stay stuck. They're the ones who never grow, never change, never find out what's waiting for them on the other side of the storm. Starting over is an act of courage. It's standing in the ruins of what you thought your life would be and saying, this isn't where it ends, this is where it begins. It's choosing to believe that no matter how many times you've fallen, no matter how many times you've failed, you still have something left in something worth fighting for. And here's the truth. Starting over doesn't mean erasing everything that came before. It doesn't mean forgetting the lessons, the strength, the resilience you've built along the way. It means taking those things, those hard-earned truths, and using them as the foundation for what comes next. Because every time you start over, you're not starting from scratch. You're starting from experience. And that makes all the difference. Think about a tree that's been cut down. On the surface, it looks like the end. The trunk is gone. The branches are gone. The leaves are gone. But deep beneath the soil, the roots remain. And those roots? They're still alive. Still strong. Still capable of growing something new. That's you. No matter how many times life has cut you down, your roots are still there. And from those roots, you can rebuild. You can grow. You can rise. But rebuilding takes time. It takes patience. And most of all, it takes faith. Faith in yourself. Faith in the process. Faith that even though you can't see the end yet, it's worth the work. And it is worth. Starting over means showing up. Every day. Even when it feels like nothing is happening. Even when it feels like you're getting nowhere. It means planting the seeds of your future self. Watering them with your effort. And trusting that, eventually, they'll grow. And they will grow. Because that's what life does. It grows. Even in the face of loss. Even in the face of failure. Even in the face of uncertainty. Life has a way of finding a path forward. Of creating something new from the ashes of what was. And you are no different. You are life. You are growth. You are the possibility of what comes next. Starting over also requires something else. The ability to forgive yourself. To let go of the mistakes you've made. The opportunities you've missed. The times you've fallen short. You're not perfect. You never will be. And that's okay. Perfection isn't the goal. Growth is. Progress is. Becoming a little bit stronger. A little bit wiser. A little bit more yourself every day. That's the goal. So if you're standing at the edge of a new beginning, unsure of whether you have the strength to start again, let me tell you this. You do. You've already survived the worst. You've already faced the pain. The heartbreak. The loss. And you're still here. That means you're stronger than you think. That means you're capable of more than you know. And when you start again, when you take that first step, it's not going to feel monumental. It's not going to feel like a movie montage where everything suddenly falls into place. It's going to feel small. Quiet. Maybe even insignificant. But that first step? It's everything. Because it's proof that you're not done yet. It's proof that you're willing to try. And that willingness? That's where transformation begins. Starting over doesn't mean you've failed. It means you're brave enough to keep going. It means you're willing to leave behind what no longer serves you. To let go of the life you thought you wanted so you can create the life you're meant to live. And that life? It's out there. Waiting for you. Waiting for you to take the steps. To put in the work. To believe in yourself enough to try. You deserve everything you're going through because you'd rather become good tomorrow than be good today. And this immense universal and timeless truth is really boils down to the fact every single thing, every single challenge, struggle, or behavior that you ever want to adapt or avoid asks of you to attain it or to fight it in this present moment. You are capable of so much, yet you choose to do so little. You have the physical and mental capacity to contribute something valuable to the world and you would like to sit on the couch and waste away day after day, week after week, consuming everything and contributing nothing. You have the option to go out in the world and do something that makes the world a better place and you just choose not to. You know, there are people that don't have a choice. There are people who are confined to the reality that you are choosing. And even on the days where they feel like going out in the world and doing something, they can't. And I guarantee those people would be willing to trade everything to be able to work out, to be able to go to work, yet you have the audacity to complain. You don't even see how fortunate you are that you can do these things that you don't want to do. And that choosing to not take advantage of that opportunity is an insult not only to the people that believe in you, but to the people who don't get to make that choice. Once you start dreaming about what you can become, the effect you can have, the joy it's going to give you, the return that's going to come, you just start designing this incredible purpose for your life. You can see yourself being uniquely benevolent, providing things for people they never dreamed they could have, helping them to accomplish things they never dreamed they could have come. How that's going to make you feel, the kind of person you're going to become from it, the joy you're going to get from it, you just must ponder that and think about it, talk about it, and design it. What's your life going to look like if you don't do it? What's your life going to look like if you don't go out and build what you want to build? That you have this little vision in your heart and in your mind of what your life should be like, and what are you going to feel like if you don't go do that? What are you going to feel like in a year, five years, 10 years, 20 years, when you die? What are you going to be saying? Because I can promise you, bro, that dream ain't going away. Most people dream of one day doing something, and because they dream of doing it, that never becomes a reality. If you ever want to do something impactful, if you ever want to leave a mark on humanity, you've got to be able to write down those goals, write down those plans, write down that dream, and then chase it down like it owes you absolutely everything, like your life depends on it because it does. A life worth living is a life worth recording. You have to write down those things. You have to set these goals, set them higher each month, set them higher each year. It doesn't happen overnight, but it happens every day and every night because the decisions made at day last at night. Equalities in life is nothing that stops you because it is so heartbreaking, because it goes so deep. It carries the potential for the highest transformation. If you want to see it bad, it's going to be bad. What happened to you is not going to change. You can only determine what is going to be the consequence of what comes to you. How will you transform it? Will you let it stuck inside of you and it slowly eats you up from the inside, or do you make something different about it? If you recite your excuses long enough, you will actually hypnotize your subconscious mind to think they're true. Most people, you can tell their beliefs by their words and then their behaviors. The positive psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Often in life, we go back to our old patterns of this means this, I'm not the best, I'm not that good, that people won't believe in me, people won't follow me, what are people thinking about me? We have all these questions that don't serve us. Thinking is the process of asking and answering questions to yourself. That's what a thought is. So when you want to change your life, you change the questions you ask yourself. You begin to take control of the questions you ask yourself. That will change the meaning, it will change your life. The question creates the meaning, the meaning creates an emotion, the emotion gives you the quality of your life. Hear me very closely when I say this, a person's only limitation is in their development and use of their imagination. The mind could produce anything the mind could conceive and believe. If your imagination could see it, it could come into this world. Whether everyone calls it unrealistic or whether everybody supports it, everything you see started in the imagination. But Seneca says, a mind that is settled, a character that is at peace with itself, will always be home wherever it is, both in location and in time. The problem lies with us and not with the situation. And outrunning this or that occurrence of that fundamental problem is not a fix. And it only makes us more stressed, more tired. See, nighttime can sometimes be the darkest time in your goals, dreams or aspirations. And that's why it's so important for you to set your goals while the light is still there. One day the light will go out for you. And as it begins to flicker in the days of our lives begin to wind down, you will have a regret about what was what could have been what should have been. But not if you go ahead and chase down your dreams. I mean, you hunted down, you set traps for it. No way I'm letting you get away. Every being has a destiny loaded and coded within them. People want their dreams to come true. Well, you have to come true to yourself to have your dream come true. But if one establishes an intention, then through universal law, that intention is matched. Because so many people are listening to so many voices in their head, they're listening to so many external authorities. But within each being, there's a destiny trying to emerge. Two things we get every day. That's a chance and a choice. Let's put more value on the choices that we make because our choices will determine our destination. Believe in your vision when no one believes in your vision or the world believes in your vision. You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-learned path. And that will make all the difference. Maybe the secret to success isn't in everything that we once thought. Maybe the secret to success instead is asking ourselves what if. Maybe it's in the curiosity. The curiosity to want to know what would happen if. What would happen if I got up one more time, even though I've fallen flat on my face 10 times? What if I got up 11 times? What if even though I'm tired and I'm out of breath and my heart is ready to beat out of my chest, what if I made it to the top of the hill? If you reach for the stars and fall, that landing will not hurt as bad as the regret of never jumping in the first place, of never going after your dreams, of never truly finding out what you're made of, of never truly finding out how far you could go in this life. That mindset of success, that mindset of I can make this happen, that mindset of I can be that, that person that I'm talking about and dreaming about. But in order to do better, I have to get better. See, it starts with me. It starts with me improving who I am. That makes me better at everything that I do. When I improve who I am, when I focus internally, when I invest in me first, that's what makes me better at all the things that I do. And in order to be successful, I have to believe that I can be successful. And that happens through self-improvement. When I invest in me, when I invest in me wholeheartedly, I can start to believe and see those things coming to fruition. Paying too much attention to the immediate pleasures of life. There's so many of these other distractions going on. You want to be paying attention to yourself. And the problem with people in the world today is you're not paying attention to yourself. You're not inside your own head. You don't hear those voices. You don't hear what you love, what you like anymore. And so you're always like attuned to what other people like. Self-awareness, being able to hear those voices is the key to everything. If you let people's perception of you dictate your behavior, you will never grow as a person. But if you leave yourself open to experience despite what others think, then you will learn and grow. Those who can do, those who can't, talk about those who can. Now, can you or can you not? Are you just one that sits on the sideline to talk about other people or can you step up? What do you want to make happen in the next six months of your life? We're almost a third of the way through the year already. And the fact is six months, it is going to just pass in the blink of an eye. Do you know how fast that time is going to go? Just take a minute and think about the next six months and imagine what you want your life to look like. What's it feel like in your day-to-day life? What's happening in your career? How have your relationships or your friendships changed? I really want you to stop and visualize it. What do you want to make happen? Who would I become? How would I think about the world? Maybe it's the curiosity to discover what is around the next corner. Maybe you become the person that changes your family's legacy forever. Wouldn't that be worth getting up just one more time? Wouldn't that be worth getting up 30 minutes earlier than your alarm? It's believing that you can and believing that something greater is in store for you. Because I promise if you are going out into the world, attempting to leave everything better than you found it, using your gifts for good, I promise you it will be impossible to call yourself a failure. This is it. This moment, that is it. No need jumping in the past. No need looking for anything in the future. You will not get more than you have right now. It's just here. You don't get the world class by doing easy things, taking easy projects. It's not an easy world class is about victory. It's achieving victory over your fears, your doubts, your disbeliefs, your procrastinations, your limited self. So don't be in the business of looking for easy. There's no joy there. There's no energy there. We come most alive as human beings when we achieve victory over difficult things. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. Nelson Mandela said there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. And the greatest fear you face is yourself because we all have dreams and it's very scary sometimes to accept the dream that you have. And it's scarier still to say, okay, I want that. It's scary because you're afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail, then how are you going to feel about yourself? Right? So being fearless means putting yourself out there and going for it, no matter what, go for it, not for anybody else, but for yourself. Your mindset can either be your superpower or your prison. It can elevate you or limit you. When you reinforce doubt and fear, you become trapped within the confines of your own mind. The world is what it is, but what's important is how you perceive it. You are the author of your own story. Don't let your mind put the governor switch on your potential. Use it to live the life of your dreams.