2 MONTHS LEFT...DON'T BREAK THE PROMISE YOU MADE TO YOURSELF - Motivational Speech

Fear has excellent manners, it'll sit there and let you call it patience. Fear knows how to sound responsible. It didn't argue, it just as a better name than waits. You tell people that you're waiting for the right time and everybody respects that. You get to keep talking about what you're going to do without ever actually having to do it then the opportunity comes, the thing that you said you were waiting on is finally here. Now you need more suffering, pain, adversity The adversity challenge is what you need. You need to go towards it. You need to embrace it. Choose not to pursue the validation, the instant gratification, and the public approval. Choose to pursue that person that you see in your head. Choose to become the absolute best that you can be, and the rest will follow. Every day that you're not working is another day somebody else is getting better than you. So as much crap as you're going through, I can always look at it as, what a privilege, what an opportunity that I have to make this better. If you're truly ambitious most people in your life are never going to fully understand you because ambition takes this almost insane level of self-belief. You have to believe in a version of yourself that doesn't even exist yet and then live under the pressure of becoming that version of yourself every single day. Sometimes you have to go beyond what you're feeling. You know, okay this hurts, that hurts, you can just sit down and do nothing. You want it so badly because the future version of you already has it. In your head, you can see that version of you with everything that you currently desire. And the distance between now and then is really what kills you. The only thing that stands in your way is action. To the man doing it all alone with no rich relatives, no team, just himself, this video is for you. You haven't lost yet. I know it hurts deep down to watch everybody else succeed, to have everything you could have ever dreamed of. But believe me when I say, you are going to win. This life ---- was never meant to be easy. And you got dealt these cards because only you could handle them. But now you have a decision to make. Are you gonna let life beat you down, or are you gonna forge your way through the fire and succeed no matter what? I think I know which option you're choosing, bro. No nobility in being a poor little me. There's no nobility in sitting around and letting your potential just evaporate. That's not noble. You can't call me lucky if I've failed more than you've tried. And in no way am I saying I'm better than anyone. Because I'm not. I'm just not afraid to fail. Not afraid to start over. Because I know there's a price to pay to get to where I want to be. Except that all your excuses are lies. They are lies, all of them. Think about the things That you tell yourself the lies you use to rationalize taking the easy road. Taking the easy road and leaving discipline behind. Think about them. That's a lie. And you're too tired or you're too sore, too sore or you're just plain not feeling it. Lies, lies, lies. Because life does not reward people who wait to see what happens. Life... And the way it works, and no matter what you want to do when I say this, you can get mad about it, you can argue with it, you can say it's not true, it doesn't matter. And if you think that life doesn't work in a very simple equation, which is, what you put in, you will get out. Mindset has to be destroy any limitation and move forward, move forward, move forward. There is a way, move forward. Most of us have been conditioned not to take a risk. People ask me all the time, what does it take to be out? and i always tell them it's really simple one word progress progress equals happiness if you keep growing you're gonna feel alive and if you keep growing you're gonna have more to give and when you're growing and giving is when life is magnificent it doesn't matter how many statues oscars they give you or emmys or how much money you have in the bank so it's really an inner game Once you understand that what the human animal is designed to do is learn, then you have to ask yourself if what has made the human animal the most apex of apex predators the world has ever seen, the most capable of completely changing its environment, what is it that allows them to learn fast? And the answer is failure. So the only way out of pain is more spiritual growth, as simplistic as that sounds or overgeneralized. Spiritual development means seeing more of life than just yourself. And the list goes on and on and on. And it doesn't stop if you don't make it stop. So recognize, recognize excuses are not valid. You know why the results are never there? Because you can think about it, you can wish for it, you can hope for it, you can think all about it all as long as you want. But unless you get out every single ******* day and put in the work inch by inch by motherfucking inch, you will never get there. So I want you to think about that moving into 2022. I want you to think about what you hope to gain in 2022. I want you to think about what you hope to achieve in 2022. And I want you to take the word hope, and I want you to throw it on the motherfucking ground, and I want you to replace it with the word, I will do in 2022. Everybody's focusing on the outside world. Now, there's a lot of things in the outside world you'll never be able to control. You can influence, but you can't control it. This, your mind, your emotions, your body. You have 100% control over what you do with these things and that's where the game is won. You win the inner game, then you win the outer game. It's your stuff. It's necessary you take responsibility for it. 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're breathing, you've got a shot at your breathing. Those days when I'm tired or worn out. Or just basically sick of the grind. What do I do on those days? I go anyways? It's not about the rain, but the rain represents. Life is always giving you a test. Trying to give you a way out. Trying to give you an excuse not to show up. You've got to have the mentality to show up every day of your life. Try what life throws at you. It's our responsibility to show up to the coliseum of life. Prepare for battle. I don't care what you're going through. What life throws at you. I go through the motions. I don't really want to work out, I work out. Don't really want to get up and get out of bed, I get up and get out of bed. Work to build the skills that it takes to actually adhere to the plan, meaning your discipline, your fortitude, your ability to endure, your grit, your determination. Your self-esteem, your self-worth, your confidence that you can achieve what it is you want to achieve, these are all skill sets. When you learn to develop these skills, even if you don't have the talent, continuously sharpen these skills, the ones I'm talking about, I can achieve great things. Don't give up. Don't let the world get you down. When it does get you down, get up and write what you want out of your life and don't ******* stop. You know what I'm saying? There ain't no vacations. You get up every ******* day, you look in the mirror and you tell that mirror, I'm a bad ************ one way or another. I'm going to make it happen today. Guess what? If you keep writing it down after a while, the power of the mind, you'll believe it. If you don't have what you want, stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money, you have the time. That's bullshit. It's because you haven't committed yourself where you would burn your boats. If you want to take the ******* island, burn your ******* boats and you will take the island because people, when they're going to either die or succeed, tend to succeed. Here's the truth. This is the reality. Nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it. Nobody's going to come and celebrate with you until you've already done it. Just stand. You keep standing. You keep standing. No matter how rough the sea, you keep standing. And I'm not talking about just water. You keep standing. No matter what, you don't give up. How the difficult and challenging times to demoralize you are He said, in life you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities. brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. And I'm saying, in your hands, you have ideas. You have been given something to bring to the universe that was not here before you showed up. You need a little bit more work, and a little bit more work. The results are going to come more. More people are going to believe. Nobody ******* believes in you because you haven't done anything yet. That's the reality. Today is the day that you let go of that hurt and release that pain forever. Your tears have served the ground for far too long. It's time for you to practice that smile, baby. It's time for that smile to no longer be a stranger. And it's time for you to let go of the things that are stripping your heart of this happiness. You can heal by going back to the hurt. You can't receive your future by holding on to your past. So stop pressing replay on the things that need to be deleted from your life. He had this beautiful quote and it read, rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart. I believe there's time for resting at the end. That time is not now. To have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle. When people can't get up in the morning, I'm going to tell you why. Because they can predict the feeling of everything that's going to happen in their life. And their bodies resigned to the familiar. It's another mundane day. But remember when you were a kid and you were going on a field trip? What happened then? You were up and dressed and ready to go before your parents were up. Because you knew something unexpected was going to happen. That's how we should live our lives. Waking up with the understanding to expect the unexpected. And something unusual should happen in our life. As a result of our efforts, it doesn't matter what is your level of intelligence, what is your level of capability, introvert, extrovert, this, that, doesn't matter. Do you have the courage and commitment to make the possibility into a reality? Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others exists in you. Do not judge so you will not be judged. Radiate and give love and love comes back to you. I will try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times, if I fail and I give up, do you think that I'm ever going to give up? No. But if I fail, I try again and again and again. For as long as I try, there's always that chance of getting up. And it's not the end until you've given up. You have to start living your life in expectation. You have got to start expecting great things to happen for you in order for it to happen. If you live your life in expectations, that's what happens to you. If you live your life in despair, that's what happens to you. Disengage your sense of self, your sense of self-worth from achievement. Once you are wholly focused on sincere pursuit, everything changes. I'll never be rich. You won't. You won't. The moment you change the frequency that your tower emits, different things come back to you. If you change your attitude, you change your altitude. Most of us go through life pretending. Pretending that we're satisfied where we are, pretending that everything is okay, pretending that that we don't have any special goals or ambitions or desires, when really deep down inside we do really want more. Because you have to judge a tree by the fruit it bears, not the fruit that it talks about. See a lot of people pretend that they want more out of life, but all you have to do is watch their actions. So you really have to work hard For a set of skills, that matter to you a fool never learns a smart man learns from his mistakes a wise man learns from the mistakes of others so you've got to completely divorce yourself from this notion of outcome and become completely obsessed with the idea of sincere pursuit and so when you look at the night sky and that sense of awe grips you and calls something out of you To respond to your encounter with the infinite, even your encounter with mortality, your encounter with finitude and limitation, all of that in relationship to the infinite. That sense of awe is also the calling forth of something out of you that can respond to the challenge of that infinite. Well, that's the microcosm within. It's a reflection of the structure of the cosmos itself. That's the divine ideal. The only thing that's going to make you happy, my friend, in this year or any other, is to step up. It's to raise the standard. It's to discover what you're capable of and feel that incredible power pushing through whatever's holding you back and get to the other side of more of your true self. That's what this game's all about. So life is real short. So yeah, if all you're traveling, and if all you're sleeping, and if all you're schooling, and if all you're entertaining, you've probably been half your life doing nothing. Out of 30 years, I might have about 16 years to be productive. So it's how we can all break individual lives down. You've got to completely divorce yourself from this notion of outcome and become completely obsessed with the idea of sincere pursuit. Now, why sincere pursuit? The reason to tie your... Your sense of self, your self-esteem, your pride, your ego, your identity, all of that, the reason to tie that to sincere pursuit is it's the only part you can control. I cannot promise you that you'll ever be successful. You cannot promise you that you will be successful. But you can promise and know, if you actually did it, to show up every day and really pursue it. What do we say? But there'll always be tomorrow. Oh no! There's no guarantees you're going to show up tomorrow. People who were here yesterday, that they're not here today. There are a lot of opportunities that were around yesterday. They're not here today. You should never have to question something that's real. All right, you go through it to grow from it. You go through it to learn from it. 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 expecting it 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 rear view 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've come from. I don't care where you were raised. Plus one is always going to equal two. Ten years of motherfucking work when everybody else is partying, making excuses, doing the cool thing on the weekend is going to pay off. You can 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. So you got to go start your journey. And the journey starts with you finding, why the hell am I here on this planet Earth? Why am I here? If you don't know that, you will live the rest of your life searching, always asking the question, why? I'm saying answer your call. The universe is calling you. Here's something about life. You can't get out of it alive. Hello? You can't get out of life alive. Live now like Maria said. Live your dream now. There's people out there that are threatened by your greatness. They can't handle you. They know they can't compete with you. They know they can't beat you. So their goal, their plan is to make you beat you. All the great ones in life, one thing they had was composure. No matter what people do with them, hate, negativity, gossip, drama, rumors, no matter what they do with them, they stay focused on where they were trying to go. No matter what's going on in your life, it's not permanent. Everything is going to change. So there's two things you can do with change. You can react to it or you can participate in it. It's going to change anyway. So if you keep waiting around, you're going to have to react to the change. And now you're behind. But if you participate in the change, if you know the job you have is not going to last forever, where you go to work at every day, that's going to change. So what you've got to start doing is you've got to start anticipating that it's going to change and just start living your life with the preparation for change. I want you to be aware of this. Like most human beings, we don't really understand the value of time because we've always had time. We say we value time, but do we really value time? Like some of us, we're holding grudges with people that we love. If you really value time, you will let go of that grudge. We don't think that at some point, this is going to end. At some point, your parents might not be here. So the more you future think and think that this is going to come to an end, at some point, we think that we have forever. And I want to tell you, forever comes with an expiration date. Make today. Every day. Go forward. Get aggressive and attack, whether it's on the battlefield or on the beat, in the factory or on the farm or on the construction site or on the website, in the garage or in the firehouse. Don't hesitate. Step forward. Get after it. It's going to be hard either way, okay? Being broke is hard. Being successful is hard. All you get to do is choose which hard you're going to be and you don't get to opt out of it being hard. That's the thing when people **** up. They think they can opt out of life being hard. No, life is going to be hard. But you get to choose the result that it's going to produce because of it. It is not the darkest moment that's the problem. You're the problem, and your perspective is the problem. You thought you were just going to have a dream and a goal, and you were just going to wake up and just walk into the sunset. You have a dream, and then life, life punks you. You're going to lose friends. Do you really want this? Do you really want this? And so I'm telling y'all, you have come too far to quit now. You have invested too much to quit now. You have lost too much to quit now. Get a reward for your pain. This is the only life that I have. And I'm going to take the leap of faith. I'm going to jump in it. I know the universe will never give me anything I don't have the capacity to handle. 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 we live our whole entire life in stress our 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 confident 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 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 road. 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. For it isn't by size 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 want to remind you of that. Like, everything that you're going through is preparing you for something greater. Right? Everything that you went through, you made it through. Because you're here. You made it through. And the things that you made it through is preparing you for what's meant for you. Everything that you went through, you made it through. I'm sure you can think right now, all the times 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, was preparing you, for what'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 six, and six is the time you wake up, and you're gonna look again, it's gonna say six o' five, and you're gonna say I don't want to get up. But that why's gonna say, push yourself, get up! Your mama needs you, your daddy needs you, your children need you, your community, get up! Your why is going to push you when you can't push yourself. When you want to quit and give up, your why is going to 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, Whatever it is that you're deciding that you want to do with yourself, that you're doubting your ability on, just do it. Good ideas are never going to interrupt you. They have to be pursued. And if you don't pursue them, you're going to 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've 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've got to get better. If you want things to change, you've got to change. But you've 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. I can't get apart. Or I can't do this versus I'm going to 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. Be as strong as you can mentally Physically and emotionally for yourself, for your team, for your family. 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. Life, 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 Buster Douglas did. Buster Douglas started 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've got to tell bankruptcy, you've got to tell divorce, you've got to tell sickness. I don't know who you've been dealing with, but you've 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. So tonight, the question I ask you is, what things in your life are you going to give a funeral to? What things in your life have to die? What things in your life have been keeping you from seeing the greatest version of yourself? Have been keeping you from knowing your worth? Have been keeping you from seeing how special you are? Have been keeping you to live in depression? Have been keeping you to live in pain? What things are you allowing to live in your life that need to be dead? Because the truth of the matter is, and I'm not trying to put fear in your heart, but I'm putting reality on your mind. The truth of the matter is, we're all going to die. But the truth of that is, not all of us are going to live. It's one thing to be hungry. It's another thing when you're starving for greatness and starving for success. I know what it's like to operate every single day, regardless of the success that I've been a lucky son of a bitch to achieve. I operate every day as if I'm starving. Self-confidence is really someone who keeps promises of themselves because self-confidence is really like your reputation with yourself. If you've got a great reputation with yourself and you know you can trust you, you're not so concerned about your reputation or what other people think about you. But more important, I want you to be horrified, terrified of sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing. That is what I want you to be afraid of, waking up in six days or six weeks or six years or 60 years and being no closer to your goal. You've made no progress. That is the horror. That is the nightmare. That is what you really need to be afraid of, being stagnant. So, get up and go. Take the risk, take the gamble, take the first step, take action. Don't let another day slip by. I'm a cheerleader for those who wanna be better, not for those who wanna stay the same. But we're so stuck in this comfort zone, and the comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there. We're so stuck where it's convenient. We're so stuck in this ritual where it feels good, and so if God tries to shake us up a little bit, the problem always happens before the miracle. The lessons always come before the blessing. How bad do you want your goal right now? I think there's a lot of people in the world today, because it's a really niche thing to talk about. I want this. This is my outcome. This is my goal. Like, how bad do you want? Do you want it as bad as breathing? Do you want it as bad as anything you've ever wanted in your life? And if you calibrate it at the highest enough levels, what I found is the people that are the hungriest, they find a way. You choose to stay comfort. You choose comfort. You choose to stay comfortable. You choose to stay in a place that you know your life shouldn't be at anymore. Some of us we've been living in the same place for the last decade, for the last 15 years, for the last five years. And we've been keeping ourselves in a place that has done no good for our life. Some of us need to give that funeral to the environments in our life. As you know, what you surround your life around is what you will become. And when you go through something, you're gonna learn some lessons but it's not always easy to extract lessons from a bad situation. Every day is a beginning, a new day, a new week, a new shot at life. An opportunity to come out of the gate like a man possessed and attack the day without mercy. Today, I'm taking scalps. I'm putting the pressure on. I'm the aggressor. I'm on the attack. And of course, I will get tired. I will get beat up, I'll get knocked down and drained, and I will have some bad days, but I not. When you know why you want something, when it's desperation, the power of being desperate is something that most people avoid. They think desperation is a weakness, and I'm here to tell you, desperation is one of the most powerful emotions you could possibly possess, because when you're desperate, you find reserves and reservoirs of ideas, talents, and a strength that you don't know you have when you find yourself in a desperate situation. So the number one thing we need, more than anything to win, is hunger, which comes from a state of desperation. Yet we're constantly trying to comfort ourselves in the real world to avoid the state of being desperate. And so I love the process. I love it. I love working for what I want. I love the sacrifice. I love the dedication. I love the commitment. I love that. Everybody wants the prize. Nobody wants the process. Everybody wants to be a diamond. Nobody is willing to get cut. Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die. And I'm saying to you, whatever you got to do, do it, because if you don't, life is going to whoop you until you surrender. So if it's hard, then do it hard. These are not tears of sorrow. These are tears of joy, because the thing I understand, the only thing I need you to do is deal with it in the right way. And watch what God not only does in your life, watch what God does in everybody's life that's connected to you. And the thing about every storm, every storm has an expiration date. So when I don't see the point and I feel like my life is being dismantled, could it be that God's preparation comes packaged as pain? And maybe if you could see it that way, it wouldn't take the pain away, but it would give the pain a purpose. If you could see what you've been calling a failure, really wasn't a failure, it was a foundation. You're 25, you could be an idiot. It's no problem. Okay, well now you're the same person at 30. It's like people aren't so thrilled about you at that point. It's like, what the hell have you been doing for the last 10 years? Well, I'm just as clueless as I was when I was 22. Yeah, but you're not 22. You're an old infant, right? And that's an ugly thing, an old infant. So part of the reason you choose your damn sacrifice, because the sacrifice is inevitable, but at least you get to choose it. Part of the proper path of development in the last half of life was to rediscover the child that you left behind as you were apprenticing. And so then you get to be something and regain that potential at the same time. Make a decision. Because if you don't decide, well, you know, life decides for you. Indecision is still a decision.