DO IT ALONE, DO IT BROKE, DO IT TIRED, DO IT SCARED—JUST DO IT. - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

And a lot of us are afraid to be great. You know why we're afraid to be great? Because in order to do something that I know I need to do, there's going to be some challenges that's involved with it. There's gonna be some intentionality that's involved with it. There's gonna be some accountability that's involved with it. There's gonna be some discipline that's involved with it. There's gonna be consistency that's involved with it. All of these things are muscles. If I haven't atrophy discipline muscle, if I haven't atrophied accountability muscle, now when it's time for me to do what I need to do, I'm not even accountable enough to be able to do it that's why but I'm telling you this is how you tap into your greatness so to be great do what you know you need to do bare minimum I do things that I don't want to do because I know I need to do it the reason why I do it because I say I have greatness inside of me and every time that I do that was something that I know I don't want to do I'm watering my seed of greatness and eventually that mother got a sprout up and that's what the world's gonna see all the paths lead to heart all of them and once you understand that your perspective changes now it becomes what kind of hard would I like to have in my life okay what I like to have hard with a bunch of money or I like to have hard and no money because it's gonna be hard either way and if you grasp that and accept that then you have a much easier time going after the things that you actually want you can just do things you can just do it anyway and do it tired and do it with no self-belief do when you don't want to you can do anything it's not gonna work you can just do things you can have no self-esteem and show up anyway you can have no self-belief and things still go well Ryan Holiday says self-belief is overrated generate evidence how bad do you want this 85 to 90% of life is just showing up 365 days a year it's a huge sacrifice if you want to be really great at something you kind of have to be out of your ******* mind but you also have to have an iron will yeah you don't want to work out every day yeah there's gonna be days you just want to eat cake and sleep yeah but if you want to get past the guy who eats cake and sleeps you don't eat cake and you don't sleep you can use a simple trick the moment you feel yourself hesitate the moment you've got one of those moments where you got to step outside of your comfort zone and you've got to lean into your passion and you've got to really take some risks and you got to feel the fear and you got to do it anyway that's the moment where you just woke up and now you got a decision to make are you gonna drift back into the habits are you going to awaken your prefrontal cortex and drive forward and focus and do something new you have two voices in her mind and boy I know the truth I've heard of I'm here now haha and the real is that one voice that voice I used to love the in here that we love to hear it's that soft mother it's okay it's that calling voice you want to be hugged and nurtured they said it's gonna be okay well we love a mother voice that wakes you up in the middle of the night it's not your girlfriend it's not your boyfriend it's that demon voice we're not good enough you gotta work harder you have a good enough time in it's that voice you want to run away from it's that voice you don't want to hear but guess what it's that voice you need to listen to should I quit should I give in I'm constantly I spent the first five years daily contemplating quitting it wasn't fun and and even there's just a part of you I think in anything you're doing when you're struggling is this really for me is this my destiny should I be doing this and we misread failure from some sign you know is this a sign I shouldn't be doing and you know is this a sign I am you know not cut out for this instead of looking for signs that you can win right and so I spent the first five years literally trying to find ways to quit trying to find ways to get out struggling and struggling and struggling and they believe the very meaning of life is to find out how many skills you can acquire that have utility and then put that utility to the test and service of someone else I've worked my ass off for this set of skills they are unique to me and they help other people and in being able to help other people with something that I worked very hard for I feel good about myself and I will make you guys one promise right here today the game you're playing please listen to this the game that you're playing is not success the game that you're playing is not money the game that you're playing is brain chemistry it's about fulfillment the only thing ultimately that's ever gonna matter in your life is how you feel about yourself when you're by yourself I think everybody has fear all wrong people have so many theories about fear they talk about oh I'm afraid of success no I'm afraid of failure I'm afraid of intimacy I'm afraid of heights I'm afraid of this I'm afraid of that I'm afraid of the other thing there's actually only two fears only two life is about persuading people life is about influencing people and fear is the invisible force that will make you ineffective at that it will stop you impossible is not a fact that's an opinion things are impossible till somebody does it but most people have strategies available or they could get them or you could create them but the problem is you got a story and your story is why it isn't working oh I've got this great idea but I just don't know if it's the right time and you know I say that I say yeah you know you're right the recession it's it's huge you should wait those dreams yeah put them on hold that's right you should you should stay in the job you can't stand just a little bit long you get college bills to pay I mean you know what you're doing it's fine you're busy right you know that's right you know exactly what you want and the only thing that you need to do is to admit it now this may sound weird because I know most of you came in here because you're like I know what I want I'm here at success let's try to figure it out I'm talking about something bigger much bigger what's the decision you already know I could go backstage now there's something you've been hesitating on there's a contact you need to make isn't there there's a job you need to quit there's a relationship you need to engage in maybe there's a relationship you need to leave I don't know what it is but I know there's a decision that you need to make to take you to the next level just like I know that's true for me because decisions shape our destiny when they're backed up by some massive ass action okay but you can't take the action if you don't decide people avoid being desperate think of the fact they come here tonight and they're down they're not where they want to be financially the relationships aren't what they want maybe they're in a desperate place and you might think that's a negative thing but when you're in a desperate place you take the best actions desperation is a great place to be those you that are achieving one of the reasons the achievement is slowed down is you've allowed yourself to feel less desperate when you were broke and starting your business or when you were brand new in your relationship when you remove desperation all this bullshit creeps into your life where you think you have to have the perfect plan and look the perfect way and have the thoughts and be all Zen and perfect what you need is to be desperate and one of the things I emphasize that changing is not easy but changing your life changing habits reinventing yourself picking yourself up after life has knocked you flat on your back I've got a saying when life knocked you down try and land on your back because if you can look up you could get up well that sounds cute but that's not easy so I've got to dig in and got to fight more because at the end of the day life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want what you don't want will automatically take over and so it's a fight it's a challenge in life every day and what we have to do is embrace it what we have to do is see it as a project to be worked on I've read something once that I lived by said in life you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges and if that's the game that we're playing if I can construct my belief system if I can choose at any moment believe something that's more empowering than I was believing the moment before and that that will actually find its way into my actions allow me to do things that I couldn't do the moment before any moment you can choose to believe something new about yourself now the weird thing about belief is as soon as you change that belief it becomes true turn your wounds into wisdom you will be wounded many times in your life you'll make mistakes some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying excuse me you're moving in the wrong direction partly because you have something valuable to bring into the world it's the thing about being an individual as an individual you have a light that you have to bring into the world and then if you don't bring it into the world the world is a dimmer place and that's a bad thing because when the world is a dim place it can get very very very dark you need to take care of yourself because you're in the best position to do that when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe young man then you will be successful in any area of your life I I truly believe that thoughts are the greatest vehicle to change power and success in the world everything begins with us hard thing to accept but in our lives we are getting out of our life right now exactly what we believe we're worthy of exactly what we think we deserve our life is a direct reflection of our identity which is the thoughts concepts beliefs values and worth we hold true to be about ourselves and so as hard as it is to accept we're getting out of life right now what we believe we're worth fighting yourself to maintain positivity is the hardest fight you ever gonna have and it's like that struggle to just stay my course to you know be the person in the world that that I wanted to be no matter what people said I started to call it offensive positivity weak people are a problem in general and I don't mean physically weak I mean cowardly let's say and deceitful because I'm thinking it more in terms of moral weakness don't make your pathway if you don't pick a forthright and useful and noble pathway through life then you'll become bitter and to hurt by the tragedy of existence and then you tend to seek your revenge wherever you can get it and that's not good and what you have to figure out if you're stuck is are you the kind of person that is guilty of needing wanting and waiting for external forces people an event some outside force to kick you in the ass that you'll finally do the stuff that you've been dreaming about doing I want to tell you something no one's coming no one ate the highest grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe if you can be still long enough in it in all of your endeavors the good times the hard times to connect yourself to the source I call it God you can call it whatever you want to the force nature Allah the power if you can connect yourself to the source and allow the energy that is your personality your life force to be connected to the greater force in the thing is possible for you responsibility for that you make it happen that you don't give up that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats personally that you keep on keeping on that you don't decide that I can't make it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel that you realize that's a part of the program and here's something you've got to resolve say this to yourself every day see as long as you breathe then you got a shot at your dream that's the way I resolve say this please it's not over till I win the victim mindset it is real in the sense that there are definitely people in the world that have a harder situation than others that's fact there's no debating that point that there are people who have it are harder than other people and in our small bubbles our hardship feels like the worst thing that could ever happen and that's the craziest thing about pain is that you only think pain is bad when you're really going through it and we compare our pain with other people's pain we so the reason why I encourage people to get out of that mindset is because that's just a one-way ticket to a lifelong commitment to sadness disappointment lethargy complacency and feeling stuck and lost there's nothing gained out of feeling sorry for yourself and we believe we're worth it because of these patterns and our identity the highest level is to choose the emotions we want to experience and to begin to run patterns that serve us and eliminate the ones who move us further from them life life is an openness death is closing isn't it death is a closure life is a possibility if you're just alive everything is open this all people are doing to themselves I like this guy I don't like that guy this is somebody I love that somebody I hate this is belongs to me this doesn't belong to me they're just killing themselves step by step they are planning to die in installments if you want to live here you are you must make up your mind whether you want to live or you want to die you want to know the certainty of death in life this is called belief this is called belonging this is called identification because you are trying to find the certainty of death in the seamless process of life not weakness vulnerability that's that's a whole different thing to admit to to admit to the fact that you're vulnerable that's a form of courage that's not a form of weakness but that leads you to take whatever steps are necessary to deal with that property it isn't some facade that you're invulnerable no one is invulnerable by any stretch of the imagination and to stand up and face that this is the best route that you have where other people are seeing a failure or setback or even a little problem you want to look for the gold live your life from truth and you will survive everything everything you will survive everything if you can live your life from a point of view of truth but life can be a lot broader than that when you realize one simple thing and that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you so build a life don't live one build one if you wake up in the morning you start having negative thoughts man this ain't my day I woke up on wrong side of bed I'm tripping I just don't feel myself in the middle of the day if you feel yourself doing that stop just stop for a second and start going over in your mind everything you have to be grateful for not everything you want everything you already have because what you have is substantial life is not easy it is not don't try to make it that way life's not fair it never was it isn't now and it won't ever be do not fall into the trap the entitlement trap a feeling like you're a victim you are not get over it get on and yes those things are more rewarding when you break the sweat to get them you should never have to question something that's real all right you go through it to grow from you go through it to learn from you don't go through it just to go back to it that's like putting your hand on a hot stove that you know is hot and expect it or not to burn wake up stop teaching yourself the same lessons that you should have learned from you will never move forward with your life living your life through the rearview mirror and we've all had experiences where we were working on something and we knew it was possible and we did those things that were necessary to bring it into reality we took the responsibility to make it happen other people couldn't see it a lot of people didn't believe it you were attacked you were criticized people were opposing you but you kept on doing it it was hard it was rough it was difficult but to you it was worth it and eventually you got to a level you know can nothing stop me now I don't care where you come from I don't care where you were raised plus one is always gonna equal to ten years of motherfuckin work when everybody else is partying making excuses doing the cool thing on the weekend it's gonna pay off you can't do this small minds discuss other people gossip good minds discuss events great minds discuss ideas fear of failure fear of failure can keep you from taking risk it can leave you sitting there paralyzed into not taking action and that is obviously bad but I don't want you to overcome fear of failure I want you to be afraid of failure fear of failure is good fear of failure will keep you up at night planning rehearsing going over contingencies fear of failure will keep you training hard fear of failure will stop you from cutting corners fear of failure will keep you working thinking striving and relentlessly trying to be more prepared for battle your mind has to be stronger than your feelings think about every poor decision you've made in your life there was more emotion that was involved in it than there was mind every single one of them think about it your feelings keep you in bed your mind tells you get up practice and practice and practice practice makes one practice makes improvement you can always better your best you can always go beyond anything that you have ever done you never hit a state of perfection you're always bigger than what you do and so are you looking for new breakthroughs through practice and practice and practice you'll get better and better and better first thing to do is to forsake what's in front of you because the attitude that you bring to what's in front of you will color your entire experience it will change your character into that of negativity and you'll never ascend you'll never get more you'll never expand you'll stay stuck you can think about it you can wish for it you can look for it you can can think all about it all as long as you want but unless you get out every single motherfucking day and put in the work inch by inch by motherfucking inch you will never get there empty your mind be formless shapeless like water now you put water into a cup it becomes the cup you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle you put in a teapot it becomes the teapot now water can flow or it can crash be water my friend do you have the guts to fail if you don't fail you're not even trying to get something you never had you have to do something you never did imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset they say we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and now we have to go to the grave together so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes we've got to be excited about the future we've got to do things that make us want to live it cannot always be about problems every day I mean do you want to wake up every morning everything is just a problem or what didn't what inspires you and what makes you excited about the future there's got to be some things like that you need to make it a habit to start every day validating yourself cheering for yourself because life is a marathon and this might be a challenging leg where you're like I'm just gonna throw in the towel I'm not gonna do that thing hell no if you're standing in front of that mirror you deserve to feel the support and empowerment and encouragement that you need you are doing so much every single day that you don't give yourself credit for I don't care how good you are in anything you don't have discipline you ain't nobody you're nothing without discipline because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline discipline is doing what you hate to do but do it like you love you know too many times we allow yesterday's troubles to turn into today's struggles we allow yesterday's worries to turn into today's stress too many of us are good too good at carrying the things from our past into our present and we live our whole entire life in stress a whole entire life in worry and we don't use our one superpower that we have which is appreciation when you get in your own way that's what self-doubt is the fastest band-aid ripped-off remedy to fixing this terrible situation is to do the thing you're afraid to do do it it's not about feeling confidence about going into the situation it's not about knowing that it's going to work out it's not about having the most detailed plan for how this thing will happen it's about doing it courage you've got courage is what you will experience and what you will grow when the doubt is there but you do it anyway so your problem isn't doubt your problem is courage doubt is going to be there but doubt gets out of the way when you express courage if you can't be a pine on the top of the hill be a scrub in the valley but be the best little scrub on the side of the real be a bush if you can't be a tree if you can't be a highway just be a trail if you can't be the Sun be a star but isn't by signs that you win or you fail be the best of whatever you are but also to remind you like everything you're going through is preparing you I would remind you of that like everything that you're going through is preparing you for something greater right everything that you went cuz you're here you made it through and the things that you made it through it's preparing you for what's meant for you everything that you went through it made it through I'm sure you can think right now all the times when you felt like man my life is over my story is done but you made it through it everything that you went through and made it through is preparing you what's preparing you for what? It's meant for you. What's your why? You need a why. Why do you need a why? Because some days you're gonna look at that alarm clock, you're gonna look at that alarm clock and it's gonna say 6 and 6 is the time you wake up and you're gonna look again it's gonna say 6 o 5 and you're gonna say I don't want to get up. But that why is gonna say I'll push yourself, get up. Your mama needs you, your daddy needs you, your children need you, your community, get up. Your why is gonna push you when you can't push yourself. When you want to quit and give up, your why is gonna give you that edge you need, that advantage you need, that lift that you need to get to the next level. Your why. Do the thing and you will have the power. We're waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for the power, waiting not to self-doubt any longer, right? Whatever it is that you're deciding that you want to do with yourself, that you're doubting your ability on, just do it. Great ideas are never gonna interrupt you. They have to be pursued and if you don't pursue them, you're gonna get what everybody else has, which is all this fear, all this uncertainty, all this stuff that won't work because everybody's focused on what won't work, what can't happen, why? Because they're afraid. They're afraid to fail, they're afraid to try and feel like they're not enough. So you got to stand guard of that mind by feeding your mind. You know Jim Rohn used to say to me, success leaves clues. If you want things to get better, you got to get better. If you want things to change, you got to change. But you got to do it deliberately and consciously. And so what happens is we very often reinforce things when we put things in the negative, right? I can't get apart, I can't get apart, can't get apart or I can't do this versus I'm gonna keep doing this. It's the same thing for you. If you focus on the obstacles, all you will see is obstacles. It's your choice how you choose to perceive your own career. It's literally perspective. If you watch a great movie, if you read a great book, you know the size and the power of the hero, how much you become as a hero is defined by how tough an obstacle you face, how difficult is the villain, the opponent. The things you know you're supposed to do, do them and be as strong as you can mentally, physically and emotionally for yourself, for your team, for your family. Hold the line and be strong. Listen to me, many of you right now, life's got you up against the rope and you got to do me a favor. Like you can't give up, you can't give in. Like listen to me, if it was easy, everybody would do it. And if life's got you backed up, I need you to do what Western Douglas did. Western Douglas start fighting back. He said, I know you knocked out 30 other people before me, but I won't be the 31st. You got to tell life, I don't know who you've been dealing with, but you ain't dealt with me. You got to tell bankruptcy, you got to tell divorce, you got to tell sickness, I don't know, I don't know who you've been dealing with, but you come up against the wrong one this time. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You see, you can't be consistently kind or fair or humane or generous. Not without courage, because if you don't have it sooner or later, you'll stop and say, ah, the threat is too much, the difficulty is too high, the challenge is too great. There was someone before me, someone found the path, someone made the road before me, and I have the responsibility of making the road for someone who is yet to come. You know, most people say they want something. They want to be great, they want an opportunity, they want leadership, but then when opportunities start to come, they wilt. The reason why most people bail on it is because they don't believe they can live up to the standard. They don't want even to face the idea that perhaps everything that I've said was just talk, because when the opportunity comes, you got to seize it. You have to go after it. If the ball fumbles and hits the ground, you got to be the person that goes after it. It's not by strength, it's not by might, it's not by height, it's by desire to go after and achieve. You want it, now prove it. No matter what you face, no matter how bad it is going to be, when there is a challenge, and by a challenge I mean anything in life, any challenge, anything that you're facing, the only way to overcome the challenges that you face is to start walking. Take that step every day, no matter what you are facing, get up and start walking. What is it that you looked at at some point in time and you decided that you couldn't do it, that you talked yourself out of it? Whatever it is, bring it back out there. Because there is enough things coming after your confidence, there are enough vampires trying to suck it out of you through bad relationships, bad parenting, family members, and there are times you're going to have to separate yourself from everyone that wants to stop you from being great. No matter how close they were to you in the past, if you want the future that is really yours, you got to separate yourself from those who are trying to separate you from your dreams. So you don't get in life what you want, ladies and gentlemen, you get in life what you are, not what you want. This is about subtraction and addition. Add yourself into a circle, that is about absolutely motivating you to be more. What are you leaving out if you're leaving out responsibility? An answer might be, well maybe you're leaving out the meaning of life. That's what it looks like to me, it's like here you are, suffering away, what makes it worthwhile? Responsibility, that's what gives life meaning. It's like lift a load, then you can tolerate yourself, right? Because look at you're useless, easily hurt, easily killed, why should you have any self-respect? Pick something up and carry it, make it heavy enough so that you can think, yeah well, useless as I am, at least I could move that from there to there. See the good news is that we can always become more by working to develop ourselves. So the first process of making this your decade, you've got to begin to take a look at your life and look at where are you right now? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? What gives your life a sense of fulfillment, a sense of joy? What does a full, rich life means to you? What is it that you could love doing seven days a week that'll bring a smile to your face? The rest of us can only see the outside, see the potential, but you can't teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar. I can't teach you by speaking to you. I have to speak to your spirit, to your will, to get up and tell you to go get it. You got to have that such a desire that no matter what happens, you're getting it. If it means you got to spend an extra year, you have to realize that being delayed is not being denied. That what you experience by being delayed is just a greater gratitude when you get it. You're a damn fighter. Fight for it. I don't care how many times you've been knocked down. I don't care how many times life hits you in your damn mouth. You still living? You still breathing? You still standing back up? Go get what's yours. Go get what's yours. The fight ain't over, man. Don't no dance out. You see, when you're not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you're stretching for and reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone, you'll find out some talents and abilities you have that you didn't know you have. Because when you finally get your hand around success and around the things you've been waiting on, that deep breath, that sense of satisfaction, that goal achieved, that's what people admire. Because you became more. Because you desired it. You wanted it. You desired it. You dreamed it. You wanted it. Now you walk in it. And there was nothing more beautiful than the dream. Because the dreamer of dreams is someone who was living inspiration that God gave them. And inspiration means it's the thing that's in you that drives you. It's about facing your fears. It takes discipline to face your fears so you can conquer them. And that's what discipline is. Discipline is taking the hard road. The uphill road to do what's right for yourself and for other people is so often the easy path. The easy path that calls to us to be weak for that moment, to break down for that moment, to give in to the desire and the short-term gratification. But the discipline will not allow that. The discipline calls for strength and fortitude and will. What stops people from becoming successful is you look at your end goal and you see how far you are from it. And then a year later you realize you're still not there. Success is not how far you got. Success is how far you've gotten from where you started. Short-term thinking says the donut tastes good, eat it. Short-term thinking says one workout doesn't matter. I can skip. Short-term thinking encourages you to make short-term emotional decisions that hurt you in the long run. Think strategic. Think long-term. Act strategic. Take action that improves your long-term position and moves you toward your long-term goals. Operate out of your imagination, not your memory. Because whatever you look at where you want to go, I wanted to warn you, you will have some conversation back here after you go through the data that you've experienced in life saying you can't do it. And so what you want to begin to do is ignore that inner conversation. You need to win battles in order to win the war. You need to get out of bed. You need to run. You need to work out. You need to read and study and practice. And you need to do things that you don't necessarily want to do. And then you need to get up, get out of your damn bed, get off your phone, get out of the soft and addictive comfort zone. And you need to go out there into the world and get after. Your perspective can be your prison or it can be your power. That choice is always up to you. How you see life is on you. And it starts right here. Your biggest battle is not with them, whoever them is. It's not external. Your biggest battle is with you inside yourself right between here. Because how you think about life is how you see life. How you see life is how you feel about life. How you feel about life is what you do in life. And what you do in life is what you get from life. It starts right here. The fact that you're full of faults doesn't mean you have to stop. And thank God for that. That's a really useful thing. And the fact that you're full of faults doesn't mean that you can't learn. And so you can posit an ideal and it doesn't matter that it's imperfect. It just matters that you do it and that you move forward. Beginning to embrace that, it's possible. I'm blessed and highly favored. I got a lot going for me. I got some good stuff in me. And it's possible that I can bring my greatness out here in the universe. That I can do what I want to do. It's possible. I can write my own book. I can have my own business. I can take the trip and travel around the world. It's possible. I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life. It's possible. Regardless of where I am, the things can get better for me. Set yourself up on your crutches and you struggle up the bloody hill. That's what you do. And you struggle up the hill towards the kingdom of God. That's what you do. Because the alternative is to descend into the abyss. That's the alternative. Not happiness. Forget about that. If it comes, well great. Accept it. Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. It's as though our thoughts go out into the universe and are accepted and brought back to us as experienced. Now that is a very simple thing that most people don't get it. They don't understand it. They've never heard it before and they think it's ridiculous. But if you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word, you are literally painting your future, making your dinner, whatever you want to call it. You are creating and you're creating your own life. Now, how do you hang in there during the hard difficult times? Les, you must have faith. You've got to believe in yourself. You've got to believe in your abilities. You've got to believe in your service, your company, your ideas. Unquestionably, you've got to have faith. And that faith gives you patience. That it's not going to happen as quickly as you want it to happen. A lot of things are going to happen that will catch you off guard. And so therefore, you've got to deal with and handle it as it comes. And not only that, but that faith and patience drives you into action. You've got to keep moving and keep grunting away. Once something's important to you, it never leaves your mind. If you always dreamt about being a singer-songwriter and you never did it, you will be haunted by that at the age of 70. Because it's still right here, stored in the back of your mind. It's something that's meant for you, that's trying to call to you. You see, your dreams, you either pursue them or they f***ing haunt you. I want you to be wealthy and rich so you can take care of your family, give back to your community, hopefully. But my question to you, if you want to be wealthy and rich, how much would you be worth if you lost the money? Like if you became wealthy and you got it and you came into it, but one day you lost it, then how much would you be worth? And I say that to say, how much would your last name be worth? Every day I wake up, I think about what if this was the last day of my life on this earth? I wouldn't want somebody to report to my son, my daughter, or my wife on my behalf if I leave this world and I'm not in their presence. How much would your last name be worth? Meaning, can you see that the people that you reproduce coming to this world, can somebody go up to them and say, oh that was your father? You good. Because of what their father once stood for. Faith to act on whatever your dream is. When you decide I'm gonna do it no matter what, life changes for you. See, most people don't keep their commitments to their commitments. That's why they lead lives of poverty. The darkness. The sun doesn't shine every day. The storms will come. There are times when the nights will be long and dark and you will be alone. There will be times when the darkness seems to consume everything, but don't let it consume you. Don't let it consume you. It's a mindset. There are those of you in this room, you don't need another book. There are those of you in this room, you don't need another course. There are those of you in this room, you don't need to do anything else. You are enough as you are. You just don't believe in yourself in the way you supposed to believe in yourself and it comes out when you talking to other people. Even in the darkest times, even in the strongest storms, even when the sun is blotted out and the world is falling apart, the darkness cannot extinguish your light. Socrates said the uncommitted life isn't worth living. It's a part of what you must do, whatever commitment, whatever covenant you make with God while you're here. To go back to be a better father, to go back to make a difference in the community, to go back to change your life, to decide not to ever to use drugs or alcohol again, to decide that you're going to begin to recreate yourself, that you're going to be reborn to a new state of consciousness. Whatever commitment that you make, keep your commitment to your commitment, no matter what. You, your will, your determination, no matter what is happening, no matter how hard the fight is, as long as you keep fighting, you win. Only surrender is defeat, only quitting is the end. If the game of break go against you, don't let up, put on more steam. If the game of break goes against you, don't let up, put on more steam. In life, with your goals, your dreams, your aspirations, the things that you seek to do, the things that you aspire to do, the things that you want to accomplish, never forget first and foremost how brilliant you are. Never forget the people that played a part in you getting this position. Never forget what you're made out of. But on the road to success, on the road to accomplishment, on the road to evolving and development, if the game of break goes against you in life, the only favor I ask of you, because in life, people don't burn out, people don't quit, and people don't underachieve because of what they do. People burn out, people quit, and people underachieve because life makes them forget why they do it. And so the only favor I ask of you, if the game of break of life go against you, don't let up, put on more steam. When you are struggling and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to remember, and that is the power of hope. The belief that something better is always possible if you're willing to work for it and fight for it. It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives. Our hope that if we work hard enough and believe in ourselves, then we can be whatever we dream, regardless of the limitations that others may place on us. The hope that when people see us for who we truly are, maybe, just maybe, they too will be inspired to rise to their best possible selves. Your life is before you. You fill these pages with your hopes, with your passion, with your dreams. You write, you write the greatest story ever told. You can't outrun the demons. They always find you. The only way to beat them is to look in the mind's eye and make them your friends. Mindset is the only thing that gets you through hard times. When you make the decision to do what you want to do with your life, just know this, because the family and the friends in your life do not share your vision. But know this, only those that can see the invisible can do the impossible. When it all boils down to what it is, mano y mano, and if you ain't got more heart than me, if you ain't been working harder than me, if you ain't sacrificed more than me, I'm gonna destroy you. And I'm not retreating. I'm not running. I don't care what they say on paper. We live by this and we die by this. We don't retreat. We don't run. Every man must search his own soul.