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Everybody's trying to grow

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and there is an incentive for you to stay in the same place

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because not that many people grow. The best revenge is to not be like them.

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How serious are you about your dreams? Is the first thought when you wake up in the morning, how am I gonna take one step closer towards my dreams today? How am I gonna make today count? Because today is all that matters. What if I die next week and I have one week to make my dreams come true? How serious would I be then? Because that could happen. You don't even have tomorrow guaranteed,

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let alone next week. Your first thought in the morning should be those dreams. And if you're not that serious about your dreams, then you need to get clear on what those dreams are, what you really want. But you can't know that until you know who you are, until you get to know who you are.

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Are you willing to accept the responsibility?

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And part of the answer to that is reduce the damn responsibility until it's tolerable.

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You don't have to fix everything at once. You could just start by fixing the things that you could fix.

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So do it. See what happens.

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Ordinary people, they hate progress. They love to say oh, that's impossible. That's why they stay ordinary. That's why they stay where they are. These people, they preorder their own life failures. How are you sitting around saying, oh, I can't do that. You haven't even tried. If you tell yourself things are impossible, your mind is gonna do everything within its power to justify that thought. Therefore, you're not gonna do anything. You're gonna forever stay ordinary because your mind didn't even think possibility.

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Depriving yourself of the ability to think experimentally,

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it deprives your whole life. It deprives your life of even being alive. You just trapped yourself. You put yourself in a prison and said, this is my reality. Impossible,

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useless,

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unable. All these words are stupid. These are the words that people who don't do anything notable in life, they love to use those words. They love to say that's impossible. For you, not for me though.

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And I made a promise to myself

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from that day that I was gonna work that hard every single day so that when I do retire,

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I have no regret. And that was the most important thing for me is to leave no stone unturned.

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If they can do it, I can do it. And that's the mentality.

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If somebody else can do it, you can do it.

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And I said to myself,

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I will do it and I will do it better.

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That's the mentality.

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And another thing, whatever everybody else says is not important.

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So if they tell you your best is not important.

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The important is that you say you're the best.

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It's a lot easier to sit around and make a list of what you're gonna do in the future.

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What's easier?

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It's easier to take out a pen and a piece of paper and write things down.

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And so people will substitute that action for the action will actually change them and make them better and move them closer to that version of who they know they can become.

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So let's just be careful.

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Just be careful. Be careful of getting caught in that planning phase

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of who you can become. Be careful of that planning phase because the planning phase

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should be about three seconds long

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and it is time to go get after it.

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Make your move before you're ready. I'll tell you where

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big dreams go to die.

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They go to the planning place,

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preparing myself

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and it's the biggest con job we work on ourselves.

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There are so many bones of big dreams in that great chart where people

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there's always

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gonna be a set of reasons to wait.

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When you wanna achieve the highest goal of all time, you are gonna have to learn how to get your ass kicked all the way up that damn mountain. If I wanna be way up here, it's gonna take a bunch of small

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micro failures

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along the way. But you have to understand that that is part of the process.

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The reality is when you do things that are easy in life, you don't value them as much.

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When you do things that are difficult

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and that require you to dig really deep, then you value them more. It's easy to quit. It's easier to try something that's already been done before. It's harder when you don't know what the end result would be. It's harder when you face the uphill challenge and you deal with it. You face it head on. It's where you build confidence in yourself. That's where you you build your own self esteem. You know, things are given to you, you never have a sense of how difficult it is to actually earn it.

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Regret hurts more than discipline.

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Because when you're disciplined and you act on the things that you're supposed to do,

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you won't ever have to look back and say, dang, woulda, coulda, shoulda.

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So

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do it now so you don't have to do it later.

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The most powerful voice you'll ever hear is the one inside your own head because that voice is often fueled

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by fear and insecurity.

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Your mind can remind you of the past.

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It can criticize you and make you question your self worth,

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but you can change that. Don't be afraid to question the stories you create in your head.

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Focus on what you want and you'll start to see opportunities

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where obstacles once were.

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You get up in the morning, what are you gonna do? I'm a win today.

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Well, just by saying that you're gonna win today, you ain't gonna win today. It's a jungle out there. See, most of us, we come out to compete every single day. The jungle comes to win because the jungle is always prepared.

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You know, the things that you think about all the time that you don't tell anybody.

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Right? You can do that for. You actually can achieve it and you should believe in yourself. You should believe in those things because they're there for a reason. They're not in your mind. They're not in your heart just to be there.

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Ever you feel negative or unhappy about anything, you say, wait a minute, I'm responsible.

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I'm responsible for my life. I'm responsible for what happened. I can't change the past. I'm not gonna spend a second worrying about the past.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

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Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

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Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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And most important,

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have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

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Everything else is secondary.

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Your biggest enemy is you.

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People don't understand it's you against you.

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The only person that gets in your way is you.

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Nobody else.

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And stuck is a signal that you've stopped growing. And when most people feel stuck,

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they don't understand

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that it's tied to a fundamental need for growth. We believe it's an existential crisis and we blow up our lives. For most human beings, what actually will get you feeling like you're not stuck is having something in the future that you're looking forward to.

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Learning anything

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gets you back in touch with a fundamental need. It makes you start to feel like things are moving, and from that place

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of feeling a little bit more empowered,

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you'll be able to make better decisions about what

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big things need to change in your life.

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Your current situation is not your final destination. There's more to your life and I know right now it's hard for you to believe that, but I need you to believe it.

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Like everything everything you're currently facing

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is building you for something greater. You're more than your struggles, you're more than your pain. I know you feel like nobody understands you, nobody gets you, I know you feel alone and isolated.

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So I wanna tell you, I'm proud of you for not giving up

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when it's so easy to.

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I know what darkness looks like.

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I know what it feels like to be alone

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with no motivation,

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no drive,

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no passion.

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And what has to come out of your fucking soul

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in the darkest of times,

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but if you are able to get up every morning,

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have no passion,

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no drive,

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no motivation,

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and still get up with that kind of fire,

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you will be successful in life. I guarantee you that.

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The darkest place someone can be is standing still. The darkest place someone can be is when they are alive,

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but they are not living. The darkest place someone can be is when they are no longer making progress.

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Everyone talks about the destination,

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but very few people talk about the journey.

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That's where the iron is forged. In the monotony of doing the right thing day in and day out, your part of the deal is to keep showing up for yourself,

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to stick around and see what happens when you really go all in. Don't just settle for mediocrity.

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Just hold up your end of the bargain

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and watch how life will turn in your favor.

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We all know when we're relaxed, exactly the person we wanna become.

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The question is, do we believe we can make humble?

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Very few people are gonna tell you this, but growth hurts.

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Becoming the best version of yourself comes with a lot of goodbyes. Sadly, the only way for some people to learn to appreciate you is to lose you. It's really

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uncomfortable,

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but you need to do it if you wanna grow. The pain that you feel today though is going to be the power that you're going to feel tomorrow.

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It's not glamorous,

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it's lonely.

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As you start changing,

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everything around you starts changing. It's not even fun in the beginning.

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And so you'd either have to have an incredible amount of hope or a ridiculous amount of inspiration and delusion,

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or you have to be in so much pain

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that the alternative to continuing

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this pain that you're in is to try something different because it's the only thing that might be slightly less painful than what you're doing.

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Most people lack the ability to master the mundane task. They get bored very easily. They don't feel like doing things. They don't understand that to build a life, it is mundane. It is the same things day in and day out, operating at a high level, holding a high standard, executing with discipline. Most people just can't do that because they don't have the endurance to do that. Don't have the fortitude to do that. They don't have the perseverance to do that, which is why it's important for you to build yourself in someone who does. That way you can follow the path to success because there is only one path and the only path there is is day by day by day by day over the course of a period of time.

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You've gotta be okay that there's gonna be people that don't think you're qualified.

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You gotta get okay that there's gonna be some people that wanna see you fail. You're gonna have to get okay that there are gonna be some people that never understand you, that never support you, that never cheer you on, and you're okay to do it without their applause. You're okay to do it without their approval. You gotta get to a season and a space and a time where it's okay. I wasn't doing this for you anyways.

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Nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned.

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Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. You

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have to remember that whatever you've gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured and they overcame them. And if they overcame them, you can overcome them too.

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Courage.

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Courage is the key to life itself.

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A lot of people were born in situation was about just I'll never get out of this. So they won't.

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I say to people say, well, I I would like to have done so and so and so. So many could have done it. So well, I couldn't get out of there.

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Man, the bus runs every day.

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You will offend people as you're pursuing your vision. You even believing that anything is possible will offend people. You maximizing

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your potential will offend people who are so limited in their thinking that instead of progressing

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their lives and their mindsets,

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they want to stop you from being the best version of yourself. And you can either live your life to please them, shrink yourself to a point where they will be happy and comfortable with you or you can have the shameless audacity

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to do it anyways,

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to go after your dream anyways, to learn, to grow, to maximize your potential anyways regardless of who it offends.

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You do what you love,

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you will work harder than you ever have worked and are harder than you could ever imagine. Your dreams

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will call for that kind of commitment. It took an insane work ethic for me to get here. It took time and commitment and sacrificing.

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If you continue to believe as you have always believed,

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you will continue to act as you have always acted.

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You will continue to get what you have always gotten.

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If you want different results in your life or your work,

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all you have to do is change

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your mind.

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You feel that pressure inside of you and it's very heavy. You're motivated. You feel it. I've got to get up in the morning. I've got to do this. I've got to accomplish this. When that pressure goes away

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and and you don't feel any pressure in your life, you can do anything and there's no consequences for it. You'll just waste time, you'll waste years, you'll waste months, you'll never accomplish anything.

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You give somebody a deadline,

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right,

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they'll accomplish

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in two months what it would take some two years to do without a deadline. It's that necessity, it's that sense of this is this is sword at my back. I've got to get it done.

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Of your life, you know, find the things that you can enjoy. Be curious.

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You don't have to have all the answers. I'm a hardcore believer

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that everybody has something

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that they're really really really good at. That could be world class great every single human being on this planet. And the hard part is just finding what that is.

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It is not everyone's job to make sure that you feel good. It is not everyone's job to solve your problems.

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It's not everyone's job to make sure you're happy. That's on you.

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Only you. Understand that you are where you're at because of the decisions you made and the actions that you took. And if you manage to convince yourself that it's everyone else's fault that you're miserable, not only is your entire life a lie, but you will be stuck in that misery forever.

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Sacrifice temporary fun

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for permanent dreams or

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sacrifice your permanent dreams for temporary fun. And the reality is a lot of you guys are willing to sacrifice your permanent dreams for some temporary fun.

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It's never been so easy to win because so many people are checked out, so many people are scared,

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so many people aren't doing the work. It's the time to roll up your sleeves

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and

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in many ways,

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spend the next month getting lost from the world,

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optimizing yourself, building your battle sheets and game charts.

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Dialing in your daily habits

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so that you bring it on when you come back out into the world.

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Fenica famously said, while we wait for life, life passes.

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When you understand that your days are counted, that your days are limited, you begin to work with urgency towards your goals, you begin to work with urgency towards the things that you want in life. People say, well, I'll start tomorrow or I'll get started when the new year hits. It doesn't work that way. Life passes you by with no urgency,

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but day by day. And so many people live and wake up like accidents that they forget this beautiful principle that life is in your control. And if you want to experience a certain type of outcome and a certain type of future, you must input the necessary labor today.

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On the one side, you can make your ideas about

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what you would like to have, where you would like to be.

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This is the one side. So your focus is on what you would like to have, where you would like to be. Other question is,

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what are you willing to sacrifice

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through how many different pains,

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conflicts,

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challenges

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are you willing to go through?

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Because there is something that goes hand in hand, like walking up the mountain. Walking to the peak is not gonna get more easy. The higher the altitude, the more difficult it becomes.

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The challenges are not gonna get easier the higher you reach.

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There's two sides of pain that I don't think a lot of people really understand.

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Right? There's there there's one side of pain that's the suffering and the discomfort side of pain because that hurts. You remember what that felt like.

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But then there's another side of pain

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that's called effort.

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It's called glory.

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It's called if you can find a way to push through pain, there's something greater on the other side of it.

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Imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential.

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The ghost of the ideas you never acted on. The ghost of the talents you didn't use.

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And they're standing around your bed angry,

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disappointed

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and upset.

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They say we we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say.

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And now we have to go to the grave together.

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So I ask you today,

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how many ghosts are gonna be around your bed when your time comes?

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Being a human being is not easy as opposed to an animal because we're born and nobody gives us a direction. And it's a very, very difficult process. You wake up in the morning and you don't really know what you can do. You could choose 12 different paths can be very confusing and very overwhelming.

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When you find that sense of purpose, when you find what I call your life's task, everything has a direction. Everything has a purpose. Your energy is concentrated. It's not like you're just going down a single narrow pathway. It's not like life becomes boring and it's just about discipline and solving problems. It's actually the most exciting thing that could ever happen to you because you never have that lost feeling. You wake up in the morning, you go, yeah, this is what I need to accomplish.

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Yesterday ended last night.

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If you were successful, I got something for you. It ended last night. You you can't live on yesterday's success. If you failed, I I got good news for you. It it ended last night. Today matters.

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Yesterday. We overestimate tomorrow, and we underestimate today.

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And and it's today what matters.

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Fastest way to losing yourself

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is to try and make everyone else happy. The best thing you can do is be a true north. Be you. Shine your light.

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Know what your core values are. Know what your belief system is. Know what your morals and your character should be

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and live by that.

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I learned recently

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how grateful

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I am for storms.

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Quiet skies

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don't show you how strong you are.

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Calm

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doesn't force you to level up.

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No, it's when the ground shakes we learn to endure.

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We're forced to find within ourselves a resilience

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that was once tucked away.

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They say confidence is earned and well it's earned because when we walk through hell,

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we give our greatness permission to walk alongside us.

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The perfect moment has already come and gone time after time,

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but you're sitting here still waiting for it. You think it's gonna knock on your door and say, hey, I'm the perfect moment. I'm here. But the truth is there's two types of people. The person that says, oh, I really care. I'm gonna die one day. What does it matter?

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Or there's the person that says,

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I've got one life and I'm going to live it.

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My definition of a creative life is any life where your decisions are routinely based more strongly on your curiosity than your fear every single day in all your realms of your life.

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And then your life itself will become a work of art, and it doesn't matter what you make or produce or leave or influence. It's just that you will create a life that will be really interesting

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for you.

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You don't have to feel good about it. You just have to keep going. The feeling will pass,

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but you will remain.

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You are greater than your feelings.

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Going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won't kill you. You're not going to burn out, you're doing what it takes.

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Hard times last long, but an epic story feels like a lifetime.

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It's always darkest

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before the sun breaks in the morning. It's always darkest.

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But you know

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the sun is going to come up.

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Think of the sun.

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Think how dark it is before the sun comes up.

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When you're and down

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and you see no hope or no way out of your condition

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and you're

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seething in these emotions,

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try to remind yourself,

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do you think the sun is going to come up or is it not going to come up?

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The sun always comes up and that's your hope.

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You think that big changes

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are what are gonna make you happy. That's not the answer. What makes you happier are the little things. Happiness is the smallest things because your whole life

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is made up of all the little things that you do every single day. That's how you build a happier life.

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So pay attention to

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when you wake up,

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the first thing you look at every morning,

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being kinder to yourself.

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The little things are everything

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because

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they add up to one big happy life.

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Real self worth

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comes

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from doing hard things.

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We keep talking about self love. We keep talking about loving yourself,

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believing in yourself.

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That happens naturally

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when you go through something difficult.

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The day that turns your life around.

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And under this subject, we're gonna talk about the emotions that can change your life. Human beings are emotional creatures

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and emotions are powerful for life change.

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Now, of course, emotions are so powerful, they can go either way on you. Emotions can either build or destroy.

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So you really have to employ emotions properly. We call civilization the intelligent management of human emotions.

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If you can intelligently apply your emotions in the right direction, no telling what can happen could turn your life around one day would be sufficient.

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You have to become the kind of person that can push through the hard times. Most people can't do that. Most people cannot push through the challenging,

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draining, the frustrating times that make everybody else quick. So you have to build yourself into someone who has the discipline, the fortitude,

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the grit, the perseverance to become someone who is literally incapable

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of quitting.

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What I've learned is to always keep going.

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Always. No matter what happens, the storm eventually ends. And when the storm does end, you wanna make sure that you're ready.

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Don't cheat yourself. Don't sabotage your dreams by chasing cheap dopamine. Delay your ratification.

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Understand that the game is long and the road is difficult

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and that you're by yourself. And if you cheat yourself,

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well, you're gonna be cheated by everybody else. Level up, focus on becoming the best version of yourself,

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and don't do the things in life that are gonna set you back. That which you know you're not supposed to do, you don't do it.

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The life that you have is the life that you chose. If the life that you have is not a life that you like, make different choices.

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So if the life that you have is not a life that you enjoy, you are responsible.

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Cling to it.

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Things will get better once you

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get over this downtime

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and the difficulty is that people can't think of that when they're so depressed and so hopeless

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and they reach bottom.

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They can't visualize that things will ever get better. But for those who have courage

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and have faith and hope that

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things will get better in my life,

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they can look back a few years later and say, wow,

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look at me now. Some have it and some don't.

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Some will stay down, they will never get up off the floor and others will endure and they have courage and they have hope and

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and and life will get better.

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It always does.

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Loneliness is a timeless thing, tragically. Stoicism is founded in a moment of loneliness. Zeno loses everything in a shipwreck. Seneca's best writings come from exile when he's sent far away from the people that he loves. Marcus Aurelius is the most powerful man in the world, but also by the very nature of his power and responsibility

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and fame, he was isolated. He was lonely just as you might be today.

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You have to start looking at uncertainty and transition

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and that feeling of

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I know there's much more to me as a positive and not a negative and start leaning into it. Because let me tell you something, there is so much more to you. Like you haven't even figured out

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who you fully are yet. Like that is a beautiful thing to know that there's still more to discover about yourself. There's still more to learn about yourself, you know, and and that's a beautiful thing to know that, right? And so often we just allow fear,

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doubt,

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or I wanna control everything to keep us from exploring that, from really really, you know, stepping out of our shell and expanding who we really are.

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Most people never succeed in life

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because they're waiting for conditions to be perfect. They're waiting for the sun to shine, the temperature to be right,

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all the stars to align,

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and then have some sort of sign that tells them to go. And I'm here to tell you guys

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that

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will never happen. Conditions will never be perfect.

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Things will never align.

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There will always be a reason

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for you to put off what should be done right now

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for a later time. That

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is a success

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and life truth.

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There's two ways to see the world.

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Some people see the thing that they want and some people see the thing that prevents them from getting the thing that they want.

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Don't spend your life living for other people,

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being a box checker for what feels right to them. Put yourself first.

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There's nothing worse than living with regret.

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So take a risk,

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bet on yourself,

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do the thing that nobody thinks you can do,

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shock the world.

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What do you have to lose?

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A

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blade does not become strong

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until it's been through the fire several times

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and this is just your first or second time through the fire and there's a lot of hammer work that has to take place and then you're gonna have to go back in the forge again and it's hot and it melts you down and you're uncomfortable.

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You've got a lot more forge time left.

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You've got a lot more hammer blows left and it takes time. Embrace the process. You say Duane want process?

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Life.

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Embrace

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the journey and the process of life.

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If you will change,

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everything will change for you.

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You don't have to change what's outside. All you've got to change is what's inside.

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To have more, you simply have to become more.

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I wish you the courage to be warm and the world will prefer you be cool.

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I wish you success sufficient to your needs.

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I wish you failure

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to temper that success.

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I wish you joy in all your days. I wish you sadness so that you may better measure joy.

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I wish you gladness to overbalance degree.

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I wish you humor and a twinkle in your eye. I wish you glory and strength to bear the burdens. I wish you sunshine on your path

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and storms to season your journey.

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In order for something new to come, something old must go.

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And that old can sometimes mean

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let go of what you know until now.

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Most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn't work. You literally have to become

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someone else.

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If you keep thinking the same thoughts,

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keep demonstrating

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the same behaviors,

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keep living by the same feelings and emotions,

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your personal reality is going to stay exactly the same.

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But if you have new thoughts

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that lead to new choices that demonstrate new actions that create new experiences,

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that cause you to feel differently,

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you will begin to walk into a new future.

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Sometimes you will have to convince yourself that it's possible. That you can go from zero to hero, from peasant to kiwi, if you change the way that you think. And if you don't know how to change the way that you think, begin to digest new information. Stay away from the haters. Stay away from the losers. Stay away from the people with weak minds and weak mentalities, and find those people that empower you. Find those people, elevate your spirit and your soul, and understand that your potential my friend is limitless.

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You my friend are limitless, but you must believe. And if you can believe, all things are possible.

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All you have is this moment, so you have to continuously

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focus on bringing intention to this moment and keep reminding yourself that what decision can I make in this moment that is aligned with the best version of myself, that is aligned with the vision of where I'm trying to get to?

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If you look at stories

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of great men, of great women in history,

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that story always has a lot of disadvantages

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that were overcome.

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There is something in the process

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of overcoming hardship

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that creates greatness.

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Most people quit through that process.

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If you can survive it,

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then your story will be a great one.

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You gotta bet on you. It's so funny that you believe in others.

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You would bet on others.

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You would support others.

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You would be there for others.

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But when it come to you, you take a darn back seat. I don't understand it.

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I'm a bet on me.

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I needed somebody

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and they didn't do it. So I decided at that point, I guess,

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I don't need you. The only person I need is me.

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And I'll be damned if I'm ever gonna need somebody.

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I ain't needing somebody.

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I'll be damned if I'm ever gonna need somebody again.

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Don't be afraid of people rejecting.

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Stick to your guns. That fear, it just withers the soul and makes what you create just like everything else out there. But when you think, no,

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I'm gonna be myself,

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I'm gonna mind what's different about me, I'm gonna be bold and confident. Confident. Those who are who are trying to follow all the trends don't have impact.

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Find out what you're good at.

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Find out what craft or

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thing or what are you good at. What you have an aptitude for? Do you like history? Do you like math? Do you like artwork? Do you like music? Do you like You find out what you have a natural inclination towards. You find out what you're good at and then you figure out how to help other people with that thing that you're good at. And once you figure that out, that's purpose.

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Two plus two equals four. So what are you good at? How can you help other people? That's your purpose.

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Everything around you that you call life

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was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

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And you can change it. You can influence it. You can you can build your own things that other people can use. Shake off this

00:34:10.175 --> 00:34:18.540
notion that life is is there and you're just gonna live in it. Embrace it. Change it. Improve it. Make your mark upon it.

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Remember, you guys only have one life on this earth. Okay?

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It's not too late to change everything.

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Get up, guys.

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Late today the day.

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The more I listen to this, the better my life gets.

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If they don't have what you want, don't listen to what they say.

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There's no greater waste of time than justifying your actions to people who have a life you don't want.

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Build a vision of what you would like to accomplish between now and the end of the year

00:34:51.790 --> 00:34:54.990
and then make a written description of that vision.

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Paint the picture with words.

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Vision.

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Vision

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is going to direct your life

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if you like it. Use it constructively.

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See what you want.

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Don't spend any time thinking of what you don't want. When you get a picture in here, make it big, make it beautiful.

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You'll be glad you did.

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What we feel is what manifests.

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It's the energy that we put out that we get back. Claim it in your heart right now. Who do you wanna be? How do you wanna feel? What do you want to give? And what do you want to receive? And ask yourself that. Design your day every single day. You have the power within you to design your life. What you see is a reflection of what you believe.

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So are we gonna say yes to a new belief system now?

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Do the thing and you'll get the energy to do the thing. Do the thing and you'll get the energy to do the thing. Don't wait. Start right now whether you're ready or not. Just say, I'm going after it. I'm going to get it and your present circumstance has got nothing to do with where you're going.

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You've gotta accept yourself

00:36:07.260 --> 00:36:17.260
for what you've done wrong. Do your best and also find some difficult to do because that gets away a lot of the anxiety that you carry around in your body. Difficult

00:36:17.260 --> 00:36:20.140
things make regular life less difficult.

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Anything is possible here that you're only limited by your imagination.

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Now, it's not gonna be handed to you. You have to you have to find your way through

00:36:30.625 --> 00:36:41.090
and there will be times that you're going to hit dead ends, but you have to pick yourself back up. You have to be smart. You have to calculate another route, and then you keep moving forward.

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At some point,

00:36:43.810 --> 00:36:47.570
everything's gonna go south on you. Everything's gonna go south, and you're gonna say this is it.

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This is how I end.

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Now you can either accept that

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or you can get to work.

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That's all it is.

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You just begin.

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You do the math. You solve one problem

00:37:03.350 --> 00:37:04.790
and you solve the next.

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And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life because that's gonna happen.

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All that matters is that you gotta get up.

00:37:13.830 --> 00:37:14.870
For God,

00:37:15.430 --> 00:37:16.070
be somebody.

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Be something more than what you see in the mirror.

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Let the world be your mirror.

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Don't let them judge you

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because the mirror can't judge you. You judge what you see in the mirror.

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There's a great Chinese expression, a great old proverb, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

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Just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

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Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or or crazy life story in order to be successful in this world, but the truth is you you really don't. It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have,

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what you lack. All you need to have is an undying passion for what you do and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful.

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There's a moment

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when every boy realizes no one's coming to save him,

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and that's when he becomes a man.

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And some boys never get there and stay children forever.

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You're not allowed to give excuses

00:38:30.070 --> 00:38:32.550
because excuses are a sign of weakness.

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We give no excuses when we fail.

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Failure is just fertilizer

00:38:38.390 --> 00:38:40.230
to help us grow as a team.

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Guys,

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in life,

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you know, winning isn't everything,

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but training to win is. Having the will to win, that is everything. Whether you win or not, you're gonna you wanna fail. You gotta get back up and try it again. But if you don't have the will to win and you aren't trained to win, that's where you're really missing missing the mark, guys.

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You ever had a gut feeling that

00:39:06.310 --> 00:39:07.910
maybe you were meant for more?

00:39:08.630 --> 00:39:10.390
What if you were everything you could be?

00:39:12.535 --> 00:39:14.935
Fall down seven times, get up eight.

00:39:15.495 --> 00:39:16.295
Ease

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is a greater threat

00:39:19.735 --> 00:39:21.095
to progress

00:39:21.815 --> 00:39:23.015
than hardship.

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We're all trying to improve ourselves. No one's perfect.

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This is not I'm not perfect now. I never will be. You're not and you never will be, but you're better than you were yesterday and you're gonna be better tomorrow.

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You know the greatest lesson my mother ever taught me? When I was a kid, whenever I started, I had to finish it.

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Whether I got in the midst of something and then care for a coach, whether I got in the midst of an organization and then care for a leader, my mother would never let me start something and stop because she would always say, the person that you will become by enduring the process is far more important than the person that you have to deal with in the midst of the process.

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Your present or past results

00:40:00.830 --> 00:40:02.430
have absolutely

00:40:02.430 --> 00:40:14.165
nothing to do with what's gonna happen from this point forward. You see, I kept thinking, well gee, I'm such a mess up. You know, I've done everything wrong up till now. I'm 26. I'm broke. I'm not happy.

00:40:14.885 --> 00:40:17.925
Everything was wrong. That's all in the past.

00:40:18.405 --> 00:40:20.245
Every moment is a new moment.

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Success is a strange thing. Presumably, we want success because we think a more successful life will bring us more happiness, meaning, and fulfillment. Here's the problem. We sacrifice the thing we want, happiness,

00:40:32.670 --> 00:40:35.245
for the thing which is supposed to get it, success.

00:40:35.725 --> 00:40:42.205
Failure can make you miserable, but I'm not sure that success will make you happy. I am only worthy of love, acceptance, and belonging if I succeed.

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Now powered by internal feelings of insufficiency,

00:40:45.245 --> 00:40:57.550
this person is driven to achieve many things. They're prepared to outwork, out hustle, and out suffer everyone else because they're not just running toward a life they want, they're running away from a life that they fear. Success and progress ameliorates the feelings of insufficiency.

00:40:57.630 --> 00:41:10.645
Therefore, success and progress have become prioritized above everything else. Character is at the core of a person. Something they can't control. Something that comes from deep within and it causes people to have patterns of behavior.

00:41:10.725 --> 00:41:21.030
And you wanna find people who have a strong character to associate with as opposed to a weak character. And what a strong character is is people who are adaptable,

00:41:21.030 --> 00:41:22.070
who are fluid,

00:41:22.150 --> 00:41:25.910
who could admit that they are wrong, who can learn from their experience,

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who can take criticism.

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So I want you to focus not on people's charming exterior,

00:41:30.725 --> 00:41:42.645
instead focus on that deep inner quality, that core, that character, because that's who they really are. Your character is creating what happens to you in life. There's the famous quote of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus,

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character is fate.

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As I continue to experience life

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and find myself,

00:41:50.610 --> 00:41:51.570
I realize

00:41:51.810 --> 00:41:52.850
that hope

00:41:53.090 --> 00:41:54.690
isn't what I thought it was.

00:41:56.130 --> 00:41:59.805
Through a lot of sorrow, it's actually been redefined for me.

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And I asked myself the question,

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what if my pain

00:42:05.005 --> 00:42:07.005
is actually my hope?

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So many of us are at war with ourselves within. We have that inner conflict conflict because

00:42:14.650 --> 00:42:16.970
we're trying to portray this image that is,

00:42:18.250 --> 00:42:19.770
you know, acceptable

00:42:20.010 --> 00:42:33.045
in the world around us that we think is acceptable instead of just staying true to you. And yes, when you stay true to yourself, you're gonna people are gonna look at you a certain way. People are gonna try to knock you off your path. There's gonna be a lot of external things that,

00:42:33.445 --> 00:42:37.205
you know, try to sway you this way or that way, but you gotta stay true to you.

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Here's my best advice.

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Welcome

00:42:40.805 --> 00:42:42.325
all experiences.

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You never know which one is gonna turn

00:42:46.380 --> 00:42:47.660
everything

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on.

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But as a matter of conscious experience,

00:43:02.835 --> 00:43:04.355
the reality of your life

00:43:05.075 --> 00:43:06.435
is always now.

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And I think this is a liberating truth about the nature of the human mind. In fact, I think there's probably nothing more important to understand

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about your mind than that if you want to be happy in this world. The past is a memory.

00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.480
It's a thought arising in the present.

00:43:25.025 --> 00:43:27.345
The future is merely anticipated.

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It is another thought

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arising now.

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Okay. What what we truly have

00:43:35.985 --> 00:43:36.945
is this moment.

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It will not be easy.

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You will get knocked down.

00:43:43.370 --> 00:43:44.810
You will be copied.

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People may even try to destroy you.

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You will feel like giving up,

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and it absolutely

00:43:51.450 --> 00:43:52.650
will

00:43:52.345 --> 00:43:52.985
be

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worth it. If world class

00:43:55.865 --> 00:43:57.065
was easy,

00:43:57.705 --> 00:43:58.585
everyone

00:43:58.665 --> 00:43:59.385
would

00:43:59.625 --> 00:44:00.825
be doing it.

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The people will never rise above the opinion of themselves.

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Work on yourself.

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What do you wanna choose to focus on? When we commit to self mastery,

00:44:12.490 --> 00:44:14.650
we give ourselves the best shot of becoming

00:44:14.970 --> 00:44:17.850
the best and greatest versions of our self that we can be.

00:44:18.490 --> 00:44:21.530
And then we get to become the example and the invitation

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to others.

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Be the change you wish to see in the world.

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The life, the existence that we are living

00:44:31.245 --> 00:44:33.645
is connected with suffering.

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So the reason why we suffer is either because of greed, we want more than we need,

00:44:41.660 --> 00:44:42.700
of hate,

00:44:43.100 --> 00:44:45.420
we get something we don't want to have,

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or

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ignorance or sometimes called not knowing

00:44:51.045 --> 00:44:51.925
because

00:44:51.925 --> 00:44:54.965
we don't know the outcome of our actions.

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You were born to do something great with your life. You were not born for any other reason. Now it could be in a big way or a small way. You were born to do something special with your life. And when you were a little boy or a little girl, there was probably somebody. I pray, but I bet you there was somebody who made you feel a particular way about you. As I got older, that feeling went away because the rest of the world didn't make me feel that. I want you to picture the face of that person who made you feel that way. I don't care if it was your mom, they could be gone now. Right? Okay. Let me tell you something about them. Okay? They were right.

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You have no

00:45:29.530 --> 00:45:30.570
idea

00:45:31.210 --> 00:45:33.530
when lightning is gonna strike

00:45:33.930 --> 00:45:39.690
in your life, but I stay wildly attuned to the potential magic. Right?

00:45:40.410 --> 00:45:42.705
And it's like always

00:45:42.705 --> 00:45:44.065
paying attention

00:45:44.465 --> 00:45:45.265
because

00:45:45.425 --> 00:45:50.545
like the universe is trying to give you what you want. The

00:45:50.625 --> 00:45:52.145
universe is fighting

00:45:52.145 --> 00:45:56.065
so hard to give you what you want and you're just missing it.

00:45:58.280 --> 00:45:59.080
Patience,

00:45:59.720 --> 00:46:02.920
the thing that goes beyond hustle and hard work,

00:46:03.640 --> 00:46:10.040
the discipline of patience. Right? Because we all talk about hustle, we talk about working hard, we talk about grinding,

00:46:10.120 --> 00:46:13.555
this, that, and the third, but nobody talks to you about patience.

00:46:14.195 --> 00:46:16.595
Nobody speaks about that patience

00:46:16.675 --> 00:46:20.835
because in the patience that's where you're make it or you're gonna break.

00:46:29.050 --> 00:46:32.170
All great things in life come from delayed gratification.

00:46:32.170 --> 00:46:45.445
From like the ability to say, I know that the thing I want is on the other side of something that sucks. Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. Be willing to endure that in order to get the thing you want.

00:46:46.405 --> 00:46:48.245
Our issue is depth perception.

00:46:48.885 --> 00:46:57.205
We think it's further away than it is and because we think it's so far away, we create patterns and behaviors in our life that perpetually keep it there

00:46:57.525 --> 00:47:01.340
and that's what we do in our life. But what if that's the great lie of life?

00:47:01.500 --> 00:47:02.940
And what if the truth is

00:47:03.260 --> 00:47:07.660
that you're one relationship away, one meeting away, one conversation,

00:47:07.820 --> 00:47:08.940
one new thought,

00:47:09.100 --> 00:47:11.980
one new emotion, one new tactic or strategy

00:47:12.060 --> 00:47:12.940
away

00:47:12.940 --> 00:47:15.580
from completely changing the trajectory of your life?

00:47:16.595 --> 00:47:20.435
And this thing that people do, they avoid discomfort.

00:47:20.995 --> 00:47:24.515
It sounds ridiculous, but then it just creates more discomfort.

00:47:24.675 --> 00:47:29.395
You don't realize that in embracing discomfort and forcing yourself

00:47:29.475 --> 00:47:32.440
to do something very uncomfortable that you can control.

00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:43.960
I am happy if I discover limits. This can be physical limits. It can be limits in terms of strength. It can be limits in terms of your level of stamina.

00:47:43.960 --> 00:48:03.940
Because always when I hit them, I know this is my next project. This is the next area in my life right now which is directly being mirrored in front of my eyes. This is your limitation. And so on the one side, this is motivating to me, but on the other side, it also just cultivates this constant

00:48:03.940 --> 00:48:06.340
drive, this constant fire.

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:14.740
Most difficult thing is keeping keeping your goal and your eyes set on that and not being distracted.

00:48:15.285 --> 00:48:22.005
I think the easiest thing in life is to give up on whatever, you know, whatever you're focused on or whatever you're hopeful for.

00:48:22.565 --> 00:48:28.405
The hardest thing is to continue to keep going, but we have to. Like, we have to continue to hold on.

00:48:28.980 --> 00:48:33.220
And I would imagine for so many people out there that is that is probably the most difficult thing.

00:48:34.900 --> 00:48:43.060
It's not about what was or what could be, but what is. And being where your feet are and putting yourself in a position to appreciate

00:48:43.060 --> 00:48:48.445
even if you want more and you aim towards achieving more, be grateful for what you have.

00:48:50.925 --> 00:48:51.725
And this

00:48:53.245 --> 00:48:56.365
and and we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth,

00:48:56.685 --> 00:48:59.470
repudiating it, fleeing it, overlooking it

00:48:59.790 --> 00:49:01.710
and and the the horror

00:49:02.190 --> 00:49:03.630
is that we succeed.

00:49:04.830 --> 00:49:06.430
We we manage to

00:49:06.990 --> 00:49:11.710
never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there because we are we are

00:49:13.455 --> 00:49:16.335
continually hoping to become happy in the future

00:49:18.015 --> 00:49:20.015
and the future never arrives.

00:49:23.695 --> 00:49:25.695
You're not gonna find yourself overnight.

00:49:26.175 --> 00:49:29.800
You're not gonna become everything you hope to become become in a day.

00:49:30.680 --> 00:49:32.040
Everything takes time.

00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:35.320
You're not supposed to know everything about how your story unfolds.

00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:38.120
You grow by making small decisions

00:49:38.200 --> 00:49:39.880
over and over again.

00:49:40.535 --> 00:49:43.335
So be patient and give yourself time

00:49:43.655 --> 00:49:45.975
because even with all the uncertainty,

00:49:46.455 --> 00:49:47.655
one thing's for sure,

00:49:48.375 --> 00:49:49.655
you will get there.

00:49:54.775 --> 00:49:55.655
Just remember,

00:49:56.420 --> 00:49:57.700
slow progress

00:49:57.700 --> 00:49:59.620
is better than no progress.

00:49:59.940 --> 00:50:01.460
Just stay positive

00:50:01.540 --> 00:50:03.060
and never give up.

00:50:03.220 --> 00:50:04.100
You will get there.

00:50:12.865 --> 00:50:14.305
First step

00:50:14.705 --> 00:50:18.545
before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.

00:50:19.905 --> 00:50:24.545
There's no reason to have a plan b because it distracts from plan a. Very

00:50:24.545 --> 00:50:25.345
simple.

00:50:25.585 --> 00:50:27.105
This is what I believe

00:50:27.390 --> 00:50:28.110
and

00:50:28.590 --> 00:50:30.990
I'm willing to die for it. Period.

00:50:33.070 --> 00:50:34.830
I mean, are no manuals,

00:50:35.310 --> 00:50:37.070
no shortcuts, no secrets.

00:50:37.390 --> 00:50:40.350
You write your own manual, you develop your own shortcuts,

00:50:40.350 --> 00:50:41.875
you find your own secrets.

00:50:42.675 --> 00:50:47.235
You go where you're drawn to go and you learn by doing the work.

00:50:47.555 --> 00:50:55.075
I mean, you're scared, if it all seems like too daunting, if the the machinery of it all seems too big and scary and overwhelming,

00:50:55.235 --> 00:50:55.795
it's great.

00:50:56.860 --> 00:50:58.940
You wake up in the morning and you do it anyway.

00:51:00.060 --> 00:51:03.740
Don't get better automatically. You only get better because you

00:51:04.140 --> 00:51:04.940
intentionally

00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:07.020
make a decision to get better.

00:51:07.580 --> 00:51:11.275
You have to go from being a person of good intentions

00:51:12.235 --> 00:51:14.075
to a person of good actions.

00:51:14.875 --> 00:51:16.715
That's the great separator.

00:51:19.515 --> 00:51:25.440
Most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal

00:51:25.600 --> 00:51:26.560
and then

00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:27.680
launch.

00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:38.235
Get started. Take action. Do something. Move. The act of taking the first step is what separates the losers from the winners or the winners from the losers.

00:51:39.355 --> 00:51:42.715
There are times in life when you're going through a hard time

00:51:43.195 --> 00:51:45.675
and you think you're going through a test.

00:51:46.635 --> 00:51:47.995
That's not a test.

00:51:48.155 --> 00:51:52.660
The test is how do you go through the hard time.

00:51:53.220 --> 00:51:57.540
And if it's a test that you are designed to fail, how do you handle

00:51:58.100 --> 00:51:59.140
that failure?

00:51:59.940 --> 00:52:22.310
Your story is gonna be the greatest story that's ever been told. I'm so glad that you got overweight. I'm so glad that your mindset's all over the place. I'm so glad you haven't been treating the people that you love the greatest. I'm so glad you haven't been working your ass up. I'm glad you haven't changed people's lives or make enough impact yet. I'm glad you got comfortable with complacent because when you change, the story is gonna be that great.

00:52:23.750 --> 00:52:25.030
The understanding

00:52:25.510 --> 00:52:27.430
that winners write history,

00:52:28.310 --> 00:52:32.085
which means that no matter how difficult whatever the season that you're going through is,

00:52:33.125 --> 00:52:34.485
just win.

00:52:35.045 --> 00:52:36.245
Like, keep going

00:52:36.805 --> 00:52:38.165
until you win.

00:52:38.405 --> 00:52:41.605
And then once you win, you can rewrite whatever history you want.

00:52:44.140 --> 00:52:51.340
And that has gotten me through those harder periods because I just knew that I needed to get through to the other side.

00:52:53.980 --> 00:52:55.100
You really want son?

00:52:56.225 --> 00:53:02.785
You're gonna find a way ultimately and it might not be today or next year or five years or ten years, but

00:53:04.145 --> 00:53:07.425
this thing takes priority and precedent over all other things.

00:53:08.070 --> 00:53:09.750
When you don't want something

00:53:10.150 --> 00:53:19.430
as much as you think you do, of course bro. Just like you said, don't nobody wanna live a hard life. We all wanna make life easy for ourselves, for our families, for our mothers, boom boom. That's amazing.

00:53:19.590 --> 00:53:21.190
And the thought of that is amazing.

00:53:21.430 --> 00:53:24.485
Is sometimes your desire might not be enough fuel.

00:53:25.445 --> 00:53:29.125
You gotta have a strong desire and when you have a strong desire

00:53:29.285 --> 00:53:30.485
that outweighs

00:53:30.485 --> 00:53:31.605
all other.

00:53:41.260 --> 00:54:22.720
You are going to die one day and every single person whose opinion you're afraid of is also going to die one day and in three hundred years, it's probably not going to matter to people whether you did the thing you said you were going to do or you let people's opinion beat you into submission. And I got news for you, whether you do it or not, people are gonna see it. They're either gonna make fun of you for trying or they're gonna say that you had so much potential and you just didn't try in life or whatever. No matter which direction you go in, it's gonna come with some bullshit. You can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and actually do the thing you want to do or you can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and die with regret. What you choose to do with your life as long as it doesn't harm anyone else isn't that important to people. Most people are just focused on their own shit, doing their own thing, worried about their own life. So fuck it.

00:54:24.465 --> 00:54:27.185
There is no guarantees. Even if you work hard,

00:54:27.505 --> 00:54:29.745
there's no guarantee it's gonna work out.

00:54:30.465 --> 00:54:38.640
I do believe hard work pays off but no one tells you when and that's the that's the the the test. Can you maintain your patience

00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:44.320
when you don't know when the end is coming? You don't know when it's gonna pay off. You just believe in yourself

00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:46.560
regardless of who who believes in you.

00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:50.480
Take ownership.

00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:52.455
Don't make excuses.

00:54:52.535 --> 00:54:56.375
Don't blame any other person or any other thing.

00:54:57.335 --> 00:54:59.175
Get control of your ego.

00:55:00.375 --> 00:55:01.495
Take ownership

00:55:01.495 --> 00:55:05.415
of everything in your world, the good and the bad.

00:55:06.630 --> 00:55:07.670
Take ownership

00:55:07.670 --> 00:55:09.190
of your mistakes.

00:55:09.190 --> 00:55:11.430
Take ownership of your shortfalls.

00:55:11.430 --> 00:55:13.350
Take ownership of your problems,

00:55:13.430 --> 00:55:16.070
and then take ownership of the solutions

00:55:16.070 --> 00:55:18.310
that will get those problems solved.

00:55:20.765 --> 00:55:22.525
If it seems impossible,

00:55:22.845 --> 00:55:23.965
it's even better.

00:55:24.765 --> 00:55:26.045
You do it anyway.

00:55:27.405 --> 00:55:31.245
And as you go, like I said, remember that amidst all that machinery,

00:55:32.620 --> 00:55:34.700
you're the one who's gonna make the picture.

00:55:35.820 --> 00:55:37.100
You and the spark,

00:55:37.500 --> 00:55:39.180
in the end they're one in the same.

00:55:39.820 --> 00:55:42.300
You guard that because it's precious.

00:55:44.540 --> 00:55:45.740
Now it's time to get to work.

00:55:48.395 --> 00:55:52.395
Maybe this chapter of your life is meant for you to do it alone.

00:55:52.635 --> 00:55:55.515
Maybe this is the time for you to practice independency,

00:55:55.595 --> 00:55:57.355
to do the things you've always known

00:55:57.595 --> 00:56:07.630
but kept putting off for some reason. Maybe this phase is for you to be a little bored and lonely because it might be what you need as you're putting the pieces back together.

00:56:07.870 --> 00:56:09.230
It might not be fun,

00:56:09.790 --> 00:56:10.910
but it's necessary

00:56:10.990 --> 00:56:13.950
because in order to evolve into the next version of yourself,

00:56:14.835 --> 00:56:17.635
you need to find out who you truly are.

00:56:19.795 --> 00:56:37.800
Everything you do, every choice you make move you in the direction of what you say your vision is. And when you do that, the forces of life rise up to meet you. The reason why most people have such chaotic lives is because they're living in chaos in their head. And as soon as you get clear, it clears up.

00:56:48.205 --> 00:56:50.205
You may be in your darkest hour,

00:56:51.325 --> 00:56:53.725
know that night don't last forever.

00:56:54.460 --> 00:56:56.620
There's a morning coming in your life.

00:56:56.860 --> 00:56:58.700
Stay down till you come up.

00:57:05.500 --> 00:57:07.100
The only way to get good

00:57:07.580 --> 00:57:09.100
is to start

00:57:09.985 --> 00:57:11.425
with just okay.

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A current life today is the result of the price you have sown up to now. If you don't like what you're getting out, what you have to do is you have to put in something different. We find that all successful people are goal oriented. There's an old saying, you can't hit a target that you can't see. So you have to ask yourself, what is the price that you have to pay to achieve the success that you desire?

00:57:33.560 --> 00:57:37.320
And you have to write it down and make a plan and work on it every day.

00:57:39.015 --> 00:57:41.975
Never say you can't do it. Say I haven't done it yet.

00:57:42.775 --> 00:57:49.255
I haven't done it yet. And that's true with everything. It's like there's nothing that you can't do. You may not have done it yet.

00:57:49.655 --> 00:57:53.095
We don't know if you can do it or not until you really

00:57:53.095 --> 00:57:53.975
practice

00:57:54.500 --> 00:57:58.020
and then you find out if you can do it or not or how well you can do it.

00:57:58.420 --> 00:58:00.660
So if you notice but you only get one life.

00:58:02.660 --> 00:58:04.260
One shot, one chance.

00:58:05.300 --> 00:58:07.140
And every single day you have a choice.

00:58:08.020 --> 00:58:10.100
You can sing your song with greatness

00:58:10.495 --> 00:58:12.655
or you can let the world silence that voice.

00:58:13.535 --> 00:58:17.055
You see millions of people die with regret. My question is, is that gonna be you?

00:58:18.175 --> 00:58:22.415
Getting to your final days of life knowing you're about to die with your dreams

00:58:22.655 --> 00:58:23.775
because you never acted.

00:58:26.120 --> 00:58:28.200
A lot of you expect more

00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:29.800
out of people like me,

00:58:30.200 --> 00:58:32.600
out of people on Instagram, people on TV,

00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:36.920
people in the world. You expect more out of people like us than you do from your self.

00:58:37.745 --> 00:58:41.905
You need to stop expecting more from other people than you do from yourself.

00:58:42.305 --> 00:58:47.825
Start looking inward on exactly who you wanna be and exactly how you wanna get there.

00:58:50.065 --> 00:58:52.305
If you wanna be the best of the best,

00:58:53.210 --> 00:59:30.080
if you wanna survive no matter what happens, if you wanna thrive no matter what happens, you can't second guess yourself. I can't gamble on you if you're not willing to gamble on yourself. I can't trust you unless you trust yourself. You're asking me to be honest with you. When was the last time you were honest with yourself? There's always a reason. If your business is not thriving, there's a reason. If your health is not thriving, there's a reason. If your relationship is not thriving, there's a reason. And you know what the crazy thing is? Everybody in this room knows exactly what that reason is. But you won't have that honest conversation with yourself. But you tell everybody else, be honest with me. Everybody wants somebody to be honest with them until it's time to be honest.

00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:55.120
Just start with one little habit. Just one little good thing that you do and do it a lot. Once that becomes part of your nature, part of who you are, add another. Expand upon that. Because here's the thing, you didn't get here overnight. These things don't happen in a day, a week, or a month. It started with one little bad habit that grew and evolved to a point where you had to step back and look at your life and say,

00:59:55.520 --> 01:00:12.255
what the hell happened to my life? So what makes people think that moving in the opposite direction is gonna be any faster? Start with that one little habit, grow it, evolve it, and then one day you'll step back and look at your life and say, what the hell happened to my life? Except this time, you'll have a smile on your face.

01:00:13.055 --> 01:00:16.030
Only when effort always goes unnoticed.

01:00:16.030 --> 01:00:21.870
Get used to it. No one roots for you until everyone roots for you. That's just how it works.

01:00:23.950 --> 01:01:00.595
If you're complaining more than you're talking about your vision, then your inertia. Energy goes into those lower frequencies, doubt, worry, fear, and now you're in that dynamic. But if you start talking about possibility, even if you don't know how to get there, then your energy starts to go up. You know, what if you ask a what if question? What if all my needs were met? What would I be doing in my life? What if everything is really working together for my good? What if all the bad things that have happened in my life are leading me to activating some great potential in my experience? Ask them what if question and you start to notice little tiny miracles happening in your life. Things start to manifest. You don't know how they got there.

01:01:01.555 --> 01:01:03.555
How do you know that you're on

01:01:03.795 --> 01:01:04.915
your path?

01:01:05.315 --> 01:01:07.555
Because it disappears. That's how you know.

01:01:08.035 --> 01:01:14.530
How do you know that you're really doing something radical because you can't see where you're going? That's how you know. But

01:01:14.530 --> 01:01:17.250
everything you have lent on for your identity

01:01:17.570 --> 01:01:18.530
has gone.

01:01:21.090 --> 01:01:46.670
Ever you take on anything worthwhile in life, you're going to go into the valley of death in that process. You're going to get to a place where you wanna quit. Everybody goes through the same journey. You're gonna be in the valley of death. You're gonna wanna quit. Most people quit. If you have purpose, there's a reason why you're doing what you're doing. You gotta have purpose, your why. If you don't have your why, when you get into the valley of death, which everybody goes into, you're gonna quit. Because why are you doing this? It's too hard. Go do something else.

01:01:49.390 --> 01:01:50.430
I get it.

01:01:51.070 --> 01:01:52.030
It hurts.

01:01:52.750 --> 01:01:53.550
But you know what?

01:01:54.485 --> 01:01:55.765
It's supposed to.

01:01:56.165 --> 01:01:58.725
Because if it didn't, you wouldn't change.

01:01:59.365 --> 01:02:00.565
If it was easy,

01:02:00.805 --> 01:02:02.165
you'd just stay the same.

01:02:02.405 --> 01:02:03.685
All of this pain

01:02:03.845 --> 01:02:07.685
is medicine for your soul. It's part of learning and growing

01:02:08.245 --> 01:02:12.060
and you're stronger now because of it. So don't shy away from the pain

01:02:12.380 --> 01:02:13.580
because sometimes

01:02:13.900 --> 01:02:15.500
it's our greatest teacher.

01:02:18.300 --> 01:02:19.900
Just don't quit today.

01:02:20.220 --> 01:02:23.500
Tomorrow take care of yourself. Whatever we gotta do tomorrow, just don't quit today.

01:02:24.775 --> 01:02:25.815
Little step.

01:02:26.615 --> 01:02:32.695
Alright? I'm not gonna worry about quitting for the rest of my life. I'm not worried about quitting tomorrow, tiny step. Tomorrow,

01:02:33.015 --> 01:02:35.975
what are we gonna do? Well, I don't know, but

01:02:36.375 --> 01:02:39.050
I'm not gonna do that today. Just today.

01:02:41.850 --> 01:02:43.930
You just wanna outdo yourself

01:02:43.930 --> 01:02:53.975
every day. I say life is like a gym. If you look over to the right, there will always be somebody in better shape than you. But if you look to your left, there's someone who would die to be in your position.

01:03:08.210 --> 01:03:09.090
Look up.

01:03:10.610 --> 01:03:11.490
Get up

01:03:11.730 --> 01:03:13.490
and don't ever give up.

01:03:15.170 --> 01:03:17.970
You tell everyone or anyone

01:03:18.290 --> 01:03:20.210
that has ever doubted,

01:03:21.335 --> 01:03:23.975
thought they did not measure up,

01:03:24.295 --> 01:03:25.895
or wanted to quit.

01:03:26.295 --> 01:03:27.495
You tell them

01:03:28.295 --> 01:03:29.415
to look up,

01:03:30.535 --> 01:03:31.415
get up,

01:03:32.135 --> 01:03:33.255
and don't ever

01:03:33.575 --> 01:03:34.295
give up.

01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:37.600
I promise you it's possible

01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:40.160
because only impossible is that exist

01:03:40.640 --> 01:03:42.160
are the ones you create.

01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:45.840
You'll miss a 100% of the shots that you don't take.

01:03:46.160 --> 01:03:47.040
So shoot away.

01:03:47.775 --> 01:03:50.655
Stop playing it safe because the only strikeout in life

01:03:51.935 --> 01:03:53.775
is not stepping up to the plate.

01:03:55.295 --> 01:03:57.135
Said the only strikeout in life

01:03:58.095 --> 01:03:59.855
is not stepping up to the plate.

01:04:01.375 --> 01:04:05.000
Don't get better automatically. You only get better because you

01:04:05.240 --> 01:04:06.280
intentionally

01:04:06.520 --> 01:04:09.560
make a decision to get better. Here's how this works.

01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:13.480
You have to go from being a person of good intentions

01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:15.560
to a person of good actions.

01:04:17.705 --> 01:04:27.705
Old shows you who you are if you watch and pay attention. Why? Because you are a reflection of it. So what you see in the exterior is a reflection of what's happening inside, but you can change what's inside.

01:04:29.940 --> 01:04:34.580
This may sound really elementary and you've probably heard it a thousand times before,

01:04:35.140 --> 01:04:36.980
but don't quit. Don't stop.

01:04:37.700 --> 01:04:38.900
If you're in it,

01:04:39.300 --> 01:04:43.555
if you're in the trenches, if you feel like you can't do it anymore, if you feel like there's no light,

01:04:43.795 --> 01:04:47.155
if you feel like you have no idea what in the hell

01:04:48.195 --> 01:04:49.795
tomorrow is gonna look like,

01:04:50.435 --> 01:04:54.195
just keep going. Take another step. Even if you're taking an inch, just move an inch.

01:04:54.435 --> 01:04:57.380
Move another inch. Just keep going. Don't quit.

01:04:57.940 --> 01:04:58.980
Don't quit.

01:04:59.380 --> 01:05:00.420
You quit,

01:05:00.820 --> 01:05:02.340
100% certainty,

01:05:03.220 --> 01:05:06.740
you won't make it. You keep going inch by inch,

01:05:07.140 --> 01:05:09.780
a little bit, I guarantee you'll get there at some point in time.

01:05:11.635 --> 01:05:29.430
A strong person isn't someone who's never knocked down. A strong person is someone who can recover quickly, is someone who can get back up, is someone who can shake themselves off and keep going. So do not envy the people that you see on your left or to your right that just keep on climbing with no difficulties.

01:05:29.430 --> 01:05:31.990
Hard times may build character,

01:05:32.150 --> 01:05:34.470
but ultimately it exposes it.

01:05:35.030 --> 01:05:36.550
When you're nothing,

01:05:36.870 --> 01:05:37.270
nothing.

01:05:38.255 --> 01:05:40.575
And change yourself into something

01:05:40.815 --> 01:05:42.495
to extract

01:05:43.535 --> 01:05:44.415
greatness

01:05:44.415 --> 01:05:45.455
from nothing.

01:05:46.095 --> 01:05:49.775
It takes every bit of who you are if you choose that route.

01:05:52.940 --> 01:05:56.300
No matter what it is that you are walking through right now,

01:05:56.860 --> 01:05:58.540
you have what it takes

01:05:58.860 --> 01:06:00.780
to come out on the other side

01:06:01.100 --> 01:06:05.685
full of life and with a new found gratitude.

01:06:06.085 --> 01:06:07.365
The dark times,

01:06:07.765 --> 01:06:09.045
they're just a lesson.

01:06:09.765 --> 01:06:11.205
They're not a life sentence.

01:06:12.885 --> 01:06:16.965
You can't stay motivated, stay consistent. Consistency gonna bring back your motivation.

01:06:17.285 --> 01:06:27.440
No matter what it is, that consistency staying on points, staying disciplined, staying focused no matter on days that's hard, they will make the other days that you are motivated that much greater.

01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:30.800
Get the last rep.

01:06:31.835 --> 01:06:34.955
You will get tougher every time you push through,

01:06:35.195 --> 01:06:36.475
you build

01:06:36.555 --> 01:06:39.835
strength. Not just physical strength, mental strength,

01:06:40.155 --> 01:06:41.035
tenacity,

01:06:41.595 --> 01:06:42.315
will.

01:06:43.755 --> 01:06:47.640
Not just born with will, you create it, you develop it

01:06:48.680 --> 01:06:49.800
through effort.

01:06:49.880 --> 01:06:52.120
And every time you put forth effort,

01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:55.960
your will, your discipline becomes stronger. And every time you quit,

01:06:57.240 --> 01:06:59.955
your will and your discipline gets weaker.

01:07:01.395 --> 01:07:02.835
Do not allow that.

01:07:03.315 --> 01:07:04.755
Cannot allow that.

01:07:05.475 --> 01:07:07.635
Every rep counts.

01:07:08.275 --> 01:07:11.075
Not just in the weight room, but in life.

01:07:11.955 --> 01:07:12.995
Every rep counts.

01:07:15.110 --> 01:07:16.150
Don't wait

01:07:16.630 --> 01:07:19.190
until they tell you you are ready.

01:07:19.990 --> 01:07:21.110
The world

01:07:21.670 --> 01:07:24.150
might say you are not allowed to yet.

01:07:26.875 --> 01:07:29.355
I waited a long time out in the world

01:07:30.155 --> 01:07:33.115
before I gave myself permission to fail.

01:07:33.915 --> 01:07:34.795
Please

01:07:34.955 --> 01:07:36.955
don't even bother asking.

01:07:37.435 --> 01:07:40.075
Don't bother telling the world you are ready.

01:07:42.210 --> 01:07:43.010
Show it.

01:07:44.450 --> 01:07:45.250
Do it.

01:07:46.450 --> 01:07:47.570
Ever try.

01:07:48.290 --> 01:07:49.410
Ever failed.

01:07:50.210 --> 01:07:51.170
No matter.

01:07:51.810 --> 01:07:52.850
Try again.

01:07:53.410 --> 01:07:54.290
Fail again.

01:07:55.615 --> 01:07:56.815
Fail better.

01:07:58.735 --> 01:08:00.975
The world is yours.

01:08:03.535 --> 01:08:04.735
Make mistakes

01:08:05.375 --> 01:08:07.215
because if you make mistakes,

01:08:07.775 --> 01:08:08.975
then you're building something new.

01:08:09.690 --> 01:08:11.050
It means you're learning,

01:08:11.210 --> 01:08:11.930
living,

01:08:12.170 --> 01:08:13.370
and pushing yourself

01:08:13.610 --> 01:08:15.130
to overcome your fears.

01:08:15.530 --> 01:08:17.050
Mistakes are not failures.

01:08:17.770 --> 01:08:19.050
They don't define you.

01:08:19.290 --> 01:08:21.290
Everyone's afraid of making mistakes,

01:08:21.930 --> 01:08:27.445
but I hope you're one of the few people who embrace it. Because that's how you make a difference in your life

01:08:27.845 --> 01:08:29.445
and to the rest of the world.

01:08:31.605 --> 01:08:36.005
Always keep going. No matter what happens, the storm eventually ends.

01:08:36.485 --> 01:08:42.400
And when a storm does end, you wanna make sure that you're ready. And so I've really learned to put one foot in front of the other,

01:08:42.800 --> 01:08:45.280
good, bad, or indifferent, because eventually that storm

01:08:45.360 --> 01:08:46.160
passes.

01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:51.680
If you don't exercise or draw out the potential in yourself,

01:08:51.680 --> 01:09:16.560
you are going to feel depressed. You're going to feel anxious because you know in your heart that you are leaving everything that you could potentially do and potentially become on the table, and that is gonna bother you. That is gonna make you feel depressed. That is gonna make you feel dark. What is it you're trying to do? What is your mission? What kind of shape are you in? How do you eat? How do you train? What are you reading? What's your environment like? Are you spending all this time scrolling,

01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:18.800
or are you spending time moving forward?

01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:23.120
What matters is that dash between your birthday and your death date.

01:09:23.785 --> 01:09:26.584
There's millions of people that say it next year, tomorrow,

01:09:26.985 --> 01:09:33.945
when I get time, took their talents, took their vision, took their gifts, took their dreams, took their passion, took their purpose, took their standard

01:09:34.345 --> 01:09:35.225
to the grave.

01:09:37.480 --> 01:09:39.160
So no more one day.

01:09:40.040 --> 01:09:41.320
No more someday.

01:09:42.120 --> 01:09:43.400
Start today.

01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:46.280
Make today your day one.

01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:48.760
If you made that decision,

01:09:49.625 --> 01:09:50.505
welcome.

01:09:51.305 --> 01:09:53.145
Because the road to the greatest you

01:09:53.545 --> 01:09:54.825
has just begun.

01:09:55.385 --> 01:09:56.905
Like I always tell you,

01:09:58.025 --> 01:09:59.145
it all starts with you.

01:10:05.490 --> 01:10:07.010
First step

01:10:07.410 --> 01:10:11.249
before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.

01:10:12.530 --> 01:10:17.205
There's no reason to have a plan b because it distracts from plan a. Very

01:10:17.285 --> 01:10:17.925
simple.

01:10:18.325 --> 01:10:19.765
This is what I believe,

01:10:20.245 --> 01:10:20.805
and

01:10:21.285 --> 01:10:23.685
I'm willing to die for it. Period.

01:10:25.765 --> 01:10:27.525
I mean, are no manuals,

01:10:28.005 --> 01:10:29.445
no shortcuts, no secrets.

01:10:30.020 --> 01:10:33.060
You write your own manual, you develop your own shortcuts,

01:10:33.060 --> 01:10:34.580
you find your own secrets.

01:10:35.300 --> 01:10:39.860
You go where you're drawn to go and you learn by doing the work.

01:10:40.260 --> 01:10:47.805
I mean, you're scared, if it all seems like too daunting, if the the machinery of it all seems too big and scary and overwhelming,

01:10:47.965 --> 01:10:48.765
it's great.

01:10:49.565 --> 01:10:51.645
You wake up in the morning and you do it anyway.

01:10:52.765 --> 01:10:56.365
Don't get better automatically. You only get better because you

01:10:56.845 --> 01:10:57.725
intentionally

01:10:57.900 --> 01:10:59.740
make a decision to get better.

01:11:00.300 --> 01:11:03.980
You have to go from being a person of good intentions

01:11:04.940 --> 01:11:06.780
to a person of good actions.

01:11:07.580 --> 01:11:09.100
That's the great separator.

01:11:12.315 --> 01:11:18.075
Most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal

01:11:18.315 --> 01:11:20.315
and then launch.

01:11:20.475 --> 01:11:30.910
Get started. Take action. Do something. Move. The act of taking the first step is what separates the losers from the winners. Start the winners from the losers.

01:11:32.030 --> 01:11:35.390
There are times in life when you're going through a hard time

01:11:35.870 --> 01:11:38.350
and you think you're going through a test.

01:11:39.310 --> 01:11:45.295
That's not the test. The test is how do you go through the hard time.

01:11:45.935 --> 01:11:50.255
And if it's a test that you are designed to fail, how do you handle

01:11:50.815 --> 01:11:51.855
that failure?

01:11:52.655 --> 01:12:14.965
Your story is gonna be the greatest story that's ever been told. I'm so glad that you got overweight. I'm so glad that your mindset's all over the place. I'm so glad you haven't been treating the people that you love the greatest. I'm so glad you haven't been working your ass up. I'm glad you haven't changed people's lives or make enough impact yet. I'm glad you got comfortable with complacent because when you change, the story is gonna be that great.

01:12:16.405 --> 01:12:17.685
The understanding

01:12:18.165 --> 01:12:20.085
that winners write history,

01:12:20.965 --> 01:12:24.740
which means that no matter how difficult, whatever the season that you're going through is,

01:12:25.780 --> 01:12:27.140
just win.

01:12:27.780 --> 01:12:28.980
Like, keep going

01:12:29.460 --> 01:12:30.820
until you win.

01:12:31.140 --> 01:12:34.180
And then once you win, you can rewrite whatever history you want.

01:12:36.785 --> 01:12:44.065
And that has gotten me through those harder periods because I just knew that I needed to get through to the other side.

01:12:46.625 --> 01:12:48.145
You really want something?

01:12:48.945 --> 01:12:55.460
You're find a way ultimately and it might not be today or next year or five years or ten years, but

01:12:56.900 --> 01:13:00.420
this thing takes priority and precedent over all other things.

01:13:00.820 --> 01:13:02.420
When you don't want something

01:13:02.820 --> 01:13:12.075
as much as you think you do, of course, bro. Just like you said, I don't wanna live a hard life. We all wanna make life easy for ourselves, for our families, for our mothers. Boom boom. That's amazing.

01:13:12.235 --> 01:13:13.835
And the thought of that is amazing.

01:13:14.155 --> 01:13:17.115
It's sometimes your desire might not be enough fuel.

01:13:18.075 --> 01:13:21.755
You gotta have a strong desire and when you have a strong desire,

01:13:22.075 --> 01:13:22.715
that's out

01:13:40.565 --> 01:14:22.340
You are going to die one day and every single person whose opinion you're afraid of is also going to die one day. And in 300, it's probably not going to matter to people whether you did the thing you said you were going to do or you let people's opinion beat you into submission. And I got news for you, whether you do it or not, people are gonna say it. They're either gonna make fun of you for trying or they're gonna say that you had so much potential and you just didn't try in life or whatever. No matter which direction you go in, it's gonna come with some bullshit. You can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and actually do the thing you want to do, or you can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and die with regret. What you choose to do with your life as long as it doesn't harm anyone else isn't that important to people. Most people are just focused on their own shit, doing their own thing, worried about their own life. So fuck it.

01:14:23.460 --> 01:14:26.500
There is no guarantees. Even if you work hard,

01:14:26.820 --> 01:14:28.740
there's no guarantee it's gonna work out.

01:14:29.795 --> 01:14:37.955
I do believe hard work pays off, but no one tells you when. And that's the that's the the the test. Can you maintain your patience

01:14:38.755 --> 01:14:46.169
when you don't know when the end is coming? You don't know when it's gonna pay off. You just believe in yourself regardless of who who believes in you. Take

01:14:48.970 --> 01:14:49.850
ownership.

01:14:50.250 --> 01:14:51.770
Don't make excuses.

01:14:51.930 --> 01:14:55.370
Don't blame any other person or any other thing.

01:14:56.635 --> 01:14:58.475
Get control of your ego.

01:14:59.595 --> 01:15:00.795
Take ownership

01:15:00.795 --> 01:15:05.035
of everything in your world, the good and the bad.

01:15:05.915 --> 01:15:08.155
Take ownership of your mistakes.

01:15:08.490 --> 01:15:10.730
Take ownership of your shortfalls.

01:15:10.730 --> 01:15:12.650
Take ownership of your problems,

01:15:12.730 --> 01:15:15.370
and then take ownership of the solutions

01:15:15.370 --> 01:15:17.930
that will get those problems solved.

01:15:20.090 --> 01:15:21.530
If it seems impossible,

01:15:22.225 --> 01:15:23.345
it's even better.

01:15:24.145 --> 01:15:25.425
You do it anyway.

01:15:26.705 --> 01:15:30.945
And as you go, like I said, remember that amidst all that machinery,

01:15:31.985 --> 01:15:34.065
you're the one who's gonna make the picture.

01:15:35.185 --> 01:15:36.385
You and the spark,

01:15:36.785 --> 01:15:38.570
in the end, they're one in the same.

01:15:39.130 --> 01:15:41.690
You guard that because it's precious.

01:15:43.850 --> 01:15:45.370
Now it's time to get to work.

01:15:47.690 --> 01:15:51.370
Maybe this chapter of your life is meant for you to do it alone.

01:15:51.935 --> 01:15:54.815
Maybe this is the time for you to practice independency,

01:15:54.975 --> 01:15:56.735
to do the things you've always known

01:15:56.895 --> 01:16:06.655
but kept putting off for some reason. Maybe this phase is for you to be a little bored and lonely because it might be what you need as you're putting the pieces back together.

01:16:07.200 --> 01:16:08.560
It might not be fun,

01:16:09.120 --> 01:16:13.600
but it's necessary because in order to evolve into the next version of yourself,

01:16:14.240 --> 01:16:16.960
you need to find out who you truly are.

01:16:19.120 --> 01:16:37.490
Everything you do, every choice you make move you in the direction of what you say your vision is. And when you do that, the forces of life rise up to meet you. The reason why most people have such chaotic lives is because they're living in chaos in their head. And as soon as you get clear, it clears up.

01:16:47.410 --> 01:16:49.170
You may be in your darkest hour,

01:16:50.725 --> 01:16:51.525
noted

01:16:51.845 --> 01:16:53.365
night don't last forever.

01:16:53.845 --> 01:16:55.925
There's a morning coming in your life.

01:16:56.245 --> 01:16:57.685
Stay down till you come up.

01:17:07.470 --> 01:17:12.590
You have to learn to do things you hate in order to do the things you love.

01:17:13.310 --> 01:17:15.470
No payoffs come without sacrifice.

01:17:15.470 --> 01:17:28.015
Imagine how much further you'd be if you did things even when you didn't feel like doing them. People think there's some complex formula to winning when the most basic one is do what you said you were going to do before it became inconvenient.

01:17:30.015 --> 01:17:36.720
Practice. Practice. Practice. And do not accept failure. Maybe it shouldn't be repetition, maybe the answer should be persistence.

01:17:37.120 --> 01:17:40.480
Because we all repeat something, but very few of us really will persist.

01:17:41.280 --> 01:17:44.400
Get out there. Do what you wanna do. Not accept no.

01:17:46.735 --> 01:17:49.855
If you love what you do and it's making you happy,

01:17:50.335 --> 01:17:52.815
all the hard work and perseverance will pay off.

01:17:53.215 --> 01:17:56.815
I once had a guidance counselor tell me that I shouldn't play basketball,

01:17:57.855 --> 01:18:03.100
that it would never amount to anything for me. His negativity towards me made me stronger.

01:18:03.260 --> 01:18:05.980
You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams,

01:18:06.060 --> 01:18:08.860
but you can stop it from becoming a reality.

01:18:09.260 --> 01:18:10.940
Your dreams are up to you.

01:18:17.335 --> 01:18:18.935
The more you value comfort,

01:18:19.495 --> 01:18:21.095
the less you value progress.

01:18:21.655 --> 01:18:24.695
Discomfort is a necessity for fulfillment.

01:18:24.855 --> 01:18:26.775
We are made to face challenges,

01:18:27.575 --> 01:18:29.415
to set goals and conquer them,

01:18:29.735 --> 01:18:36.190
and to build great things. Realize that the resistance in your mind is the only thing that makes things hard.

01:18:36.350 --> 01:18:37.950
So embrace the difficulty

01:18:38.670 --> 01:18:41.390
because that's where you'll find your true purpose.

01:18:53.365 --> 01:18:56.325
We all know when we're relaxed exactly the person we wanna become.

01:18:57.470 --> 01:19:00.110
The question is, do we believe we can become them?

01:19:01.630 --> 01:19:05.070
Very few people are gonna tell you this, but growth

01:19:05.150 --> 01:19:05.870
hurts.

01:19:06.110 --> 01:19:16.005
Becoming the best version of yourself comes with a lot of goodbyes. Sadly, the only way for some people to learn to appreciate you is to lose you. It's really

01:19:16.165 --> 01:19:17.525
uncomfortable,

01:19:18.085 --> 01:19:23.685
but you need to do it if you wanna grow. The pain that you feel today though is going to be the power that you're going to feel tomorrow.

01:19:25.240 --> 01:19:26.840
It's not glamorous.

01:19:27.160 --> 01:19:28.440
It's lonely.

01:19:28.600 --> 01:19:35.080
As you start changing, everything around you starts changing. It's not even fun in the beginning.

01:19:35.320 --> 01:19:41.195
And so you'd either have to have an incredible amount of hope or a ridiculous amount of inspiration

01:19:41.195 --> 01:19:42.315
and delusion

01:19:42.555 --> 01:19:45.274
or you have to be in so much pain

01:19:45.515 --> 01:19:48.155
that the alternative to continuing

01:19:48.155 --> 01:19:55.210
this pain that you're in is to try something different because it's the only thing that might be slightly less painful than what you're doing.

01:19:55.690 --> 01:20:29.540
Most people lack the ability to master the mundane task. They get bored very easily. They don't feel like doing things. They don't understand that. To build a life, it is mundane. It is the same things day in and day out, operating at a high level, holding a high standard, executing with discipline. Most people just can't do that because they don't have the endurance to do that. They don't have the fortitude to do that. They don't have the perseverance to do that, which is why it's important for you to build yourself into someone who does. That way you can follow the path to success because there is only one path. And the only path there is is day by day by day by day over the course of a period of time.

01:20:30.820 --> 01:20:35.460
You've gotta be okay that there's gonna be people that don't think you're qualified.

01:20:35.860 --> 01:21:00.350
You gotta get okay that there's gonna be some people that wanna see you fail. You're gonna have to get okay that there are gonna be some people that never understand you, that never support you, that never cheer you on, and you're okay to do it without their applause. You're okay to do it without their approval. You gotta get to a season and a space and a time where it's okay. I wasn't doing this for you anyways.

01:21:00.910 --> 01:21:01.870
Nobody

01:21:01.870 --> 01:21:04.590
is going to give you anything that you have not earned.

01:21:05.585 --> 01:21:08.545
Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was.

01:21:09.745 --> 01:21:17.265
You have to remember that whatever you've gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured,

01:21:17.265 --> 01:21:21.265
and they overcame them. And if they overcame them, you can overcome them too.

01:21:25.880 --> 01:21:26.680
Courage.

01:21:27.480 --> 01:21:30.040
Courage is the key to life itself.

01:21:31.160 --> 01:21:37.395
A lot of people who are born in situations that say, well, I'll never get out of this. So they won't.

01:21:37.955 --> 01:21:45.715
I say to people who say, well, I I would like to have done so and so and so. Some of you could have done it. Some of couldn't get out of here.

01:21:46.355 --> 01:21:48.115
Man, the bus runs every day.

01:21:55.140 --> 01:22:02.100
You will offend people as you're pursuing your vision. You even believing that anything is possible

01:22:04.605 --> 01:22:10.525
potential will offend people who are so limited in their thinking that instead of progressing

01:22:10.525 --> 01:22:12.605
their lives and their mindsets,

01:22:12.685 --> 01:22:26.790
they want to stop you from being the best version of yourself. And you can either live your life to please them, shrink yourself to a point where they will be happy and comfortable with you, or you can have the shameless audacity

01:22:26.790 --> 01:22:35.065
to do it anyways, to go after your dream anyways, to learn, to grow, to maximize your potential anyways regardless regardless of who it offends.

01:22:36.585 --> 01:22:44.505
You do what you love, you will work harder than you ever have worked and are harder than you could ever imagine. Your dreams

01:22:44.825 --> 01:22:52.080
will call for that kind of commitment. It took an insane work ethic for me to get here. It took time and commitment

01:22:52.080 --> 01:22:53.040
and sacrificing.

01:23:10.550 --> 01:23:13.910
If you continue to believe as you have always believed,

01:23:14.070 --> 01:23:16.790
you will continue to act as you have always acted.

01:23:17.030 --> 01:23:19.670
You will continue to get what you have always gotten.

01:23:19.910 --> 01:23:23.430
If you want different results in your life or your work,

01:23:23.750 --> 01:23:25.750
all you have to do is change

01:23:26.015 --> 01:23:26.975
your mind.

01:23:28.255 --> 01:23:38.334
You feel that pressure inside of you and it's very heavy. You're motivated. You feel it. I've got to get up in the morning. I've got to do this. I've got to accomplish this. When that pressure goes away

01:23:38.495 --> 01:23:49.600
and and you don't feel any pressure in your life, you can do anything and there's no consequences for it. You'll just waste time, you'll waste years, you'll waste months, you'll never accomplish anything.

01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:51.760
You give somebody a deadline,

01:23:52.320 --> 01:23:52.640
right,

01:23:53.295 --> 01:23:54.575
They'll accomplish

01:23:54.815 --> 01:24:05.615
in two months what would take somebody two years to do without a deadline. It's that necessity. It's that sense of this is this is sword at my back. I've gotta get it done.

01:24:05.935 --> 01:24:10.490
Love your life, you know. Find the things that you can enjoy. Be curious.

01:24:10.810 --> 01:24:14.810
You don't have to have all the answers. I'm a hardcore believer

01:24:14.970 --> 01:24:17.050
that everybody has something

01:24:17.370 --> 01:24:26.265
that they're really, really, really good at. That could be world class great. Every single human being on this planet. And the hard part is just finding what that is.

01:24:27.465 --> 01:24:34.025
It is not everyone's job to make sure that you feel good. It is not everyone's job to solve your problems.

01:24:34.105 --> 01:24:38.585
It's not everyone's job to make sure you're happy. That's on you.

01:24:38.985 --> 01:24:54.125
Only you. Understand that you are where you're at because of the decisions you made and the actions you took. And if you manage to convince yourself that it's everyone else's fault that you're miserable, not only is your entire life a lie, but you will be stuck in that misery forever.

01:24:54.685 --> 01:24:56.445
Sacrifice temporary fun

01:24:57.005 --> 01:24:59.165
for permanent dreams or

01:24:59.245 --> 01:25:05.965
sacrifice your permanent dreams for temporary fun. And the reality is a lot of you guys are willing to sacrifice your permanent dreams for some temporary fun.

01:25:08.860 --> 01:25:15.419
It's never been so easy to win because so many people are checked out, so many people are scared,

01:25:15.820 --> 01:25:20.459
so many people aren't doing the work. It's the time to roll up your sleeves

01:25:20.620 --> 01:25:21.340
and,

01:25:21.580 --> 01:25:26.275
in many ways, spend the next month getting lost from the world,

01:25:26.595 --> 01:25:27.395
optimizing

01:25:27.395 --> 01:25:31.155
yourself, building your battle sheets and game charts,

01:25:33.475 --> 01:25:35.555
dialing in your daily habits

01:25:35.850 --> 01:25:39.050
so that you bring it on when you come back out into the world.

01:25:46.890 --> 01:25:54.335
You deserve everything you're going through because you'd rather become good tomorrow than be good today.

01:25:54.735 --> 01:25:55.615
And this

01:25:55.855 --> 01:25:56.735
immense

01:25:56.815 --> 01:25:57.775
universal

01:25:57.775 --> 01:25:59.295
and timeless truth

01:26:00.095 --> 01:26:02.415
is really boils down to the fact

01:26:03.455 --> 01:26:06.820
every single thing, every single challenge,

01:26:06.980 --> 01:26:07.780
struggle,

01:26:09.060 --> 01:26:13.220
or behavior that you ever want to adapt or avoid

01:26:16.180 --> 01:26:17.460
asks of you

01:26:17.705 --> 01:26:23.065
to attain it or to fight it in this present moment.

01:26:24.425 --> 01:26:39.399
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 elect to sit on the couch and waste away day after day, week after week, consuming everything

01:26:39.480 --> 01:26:56.835
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,

01:26:57.155 --> 01:27:18.485
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 wanna 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.

01:27:19.605 --> 01:27:30.000
And once you start dreaming about what you can become, the effect you can have, the joy it's gonna give you, the return that's gonna come, you just start designing this incredible purpose for your life.

01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:32.400
You can see yourself

01:27:33.280 --> 01:27:35.360
being uniquely benevolent,

01:27:35.360 --> 01:27:51.525
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 gonna make you feel, the kind of person you're gonna become from it, the joy you're gonna get from it. You just must ponder that and think about it, talk about it, and design it.

01:27:52.245 --> 01:27:54.810
What's your life gonna look like if you don't do it?

01:27:55.530 --> 01:28:14.665
What's your life gonna look like if you don't fucking go out and build what the fuck you wanna 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 gonna feel like if you don't go do that? What are you gonna feel like in a year, five years, ten years, twenty years?

01:28:14.905 --> 01:28:20.105
When you die, what are you going to be saying? Because I can promise you, bro, that dream ain't going away.

01:28:22.850 --> 01:28:25.730
Most people dream of one day doing something.

01:28:26.290 --> 01:28:29.810
And because they dream of doing it, that never becomes a reality.

01:28:30.210 --> 01:28:35.250
If you ever wanna do something impactful, if you ever want to leave a mark on humanity,

01:28:35.330 --> 01:28:40.124
you've gotta be able to write down those goals, write down those plans, write down that dream,

01:28:40.205 --> 01:28:43.805
and then chase it down like it owes you absolutely

01:28:43.805 --> 01:28:44.685
everything,

01:28:44.685 --> 01:28:47.325
like your life depends on it because it does.

01:28:47.805 --> 01:28:50.605
A life worth living is a life worth recording.

01:28:51.170 --> 01:29:05.825
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.

01:29:07.025 --> 01:29:07.985
Ecclesiastes

01:29:07.985 --> 01:29:12.625
in life is nothing that stops you, because it is so heartbreaking,

01:29:12.625 --> 01:29:17.905
because it goes so deep. It carries the potential for the highest transformation.

01:29:17.905 --> 01:29:22.510
If you wanna see bad, it's gonna be bad. What happened to you is not gonna change.

01:29:22.990 --> 01:29:24.670
You can only determine

01:29:24.670 --> 01:29:27.150
what is going to be the consequence

01:29:27.470 --> 01:29:30.590
of what comes to you. How will you transform it?

01:29:30.990 --> 01:29:35.225
Will you let it stuck inside of you and it slowly eats you up from the inside?

01:29:35.385 --> 01:29:38.105
Or do you make something different about it?

01:29:39.465 --> 01:29:42.265
If you recite your excuses

01:29:42.345 --> 01:29:43.705
long enough,

01:29:43.865 --> 01:29:44.985
you will actually

01:29:45.305 --> 01:29:57.780
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 psychologist call it a self fulfilling prophecy.

01:29:58.980 --> 01:30:10.255
Often in life, we go back to our old patterns of this means this. I'm not the best. I'm not that good. The 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.

01:30:10.735 --> 01:30:12.415
Thinking is the process

01:30:12.575 --> 01:30:16.570
of asking and answering questions to yourself. That's what a thought is.

01:30:16.970 --> 01:30:23.530
So when you wanna change your life, you change the questions you ask yourself. You begin to take control of the questions you ask yourself.

01:30:23.850 --> 01:30:31.025
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.

01:30:32.785 --> 01:30:36.705
Hear me very closely when I say this. A person's

01:30:36.705 --> 01:30:39.745
only limitation is in their development

01:30:39.985 --> 01:30:42.305
and use of their imagination.

01:30:43.265 --> 01:30:47.900
The mind could produce anything the mind could conceive

01:30:47.900 --> 01:30:50.380
and believe. If your imagination

01:30:50.460 --> 01:30:56.220
could see it, it could come into this world. Whether everyone calls it unrealistic

01:30:56.220 --> 01:31:01.115
or whether everybody supports it, everything you see started in the imagination.

01:31:11.520 --> 01:31:15.760
But Seneca says, a mind that has settled a character

01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:17.840
that is at peace with itself

01:31:18.480 --> 01:31:20.320
will always be home

01:31:20.560 --> 01:31:22.000
wherever it is,

01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:23.760
both in location

01:31:24.000 --> 01:31:28.295
and in time. Problem lies with us and not with the situation.

01:31:28.535 --> 01:31:31.735
And outrunning this or that occurrence

01:31:31.735 --> 01:31:33.815
of that fundamental problem

01:31:34.375 --> 01:31:35.735
is not a fix

01:31:35.975 --> 01:31:38.375
and it only makes us more stressed,

01:31:38.770 --> 01:31:39.970
more tired.

01:31:42.610 --> 01:31:47.090
See, nighttime can sometime be the darkest time in your goals, dreams, or aspirations.

01:31:47.330 --> 01:31:52.290
And that's why it's so important for you to set your goals while the light is still there.

01:31:53.575 --> 01:31:55.735
One day, the light will go out for good.

01:31:56.455 --> 01:32:00.615
And as it begins to flicker and the days of our lives begin to wind down,

01:32:01.095 --> 01:32:05.415
you will have a regret about what was, what could have been, what should have been.

01:32:06.055 --> 01:32:09.040
But not if you go ahead and chase down your dreams.

01:32:09.440 --> 01:32:11.040
I mean, you hunted down.

01:32:11.360 --> 01:32:16.000
You set trap short. No way I'm letting you get away. Every being

01:32:16.240 --> 01:32:26.675
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,

01:32:27.315 --> 01:32:30.515
then through universal law that intention is matched

01:32:30.835 --> 01:32:35.590
because so many people are listening to so many voices in their head, they're listening to so many external

01:32:35.670 --> 01:32:36.710
authorities,

01:32:37.110 --> 01:32:39.270
but within each being,

01:32:39.830 --> 01:32:41.670
there's a destiny trying to emerge.

01:32:51.645 --> 01:32:54.365
Incrastination is caused by the fear of success.

01:32:55.165 --> 01:33:05.770
Oh, if you did it, you'd win and you'd be better. So I didn't do it so I could be my comfortable self. Next thing I knew the opportunity passed. It felt so good just to be me again.

01:33:07.050 --> 01:33:11.050
All I'm saying about vulnerability is that when you are in uncertainty,

01:33:11.610 --> 01:33:13.050
when you feel at risk,

01:33:13.370 --> 01:33:14.805
when you feel exposed,

01:33:15.045 --> 01:33:16.245
don't tap out.

01:33:16.725 --> 01:33:18.965
Stay brave, stay uncomfortable,

01:33:19.045 --> 01:33:22.405
stay in the cringey moment, lean into the hard conversation,

01:33:22.645 --> 01:33:23.925
and keep bleeding.

01:33:24.405 --> 01:33:25.525
Stay brave.

01:33:27.205 --> 01:33:32.300
When it comes to being the person you want to be, what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for to get started?

01:33:33.100 --> 01:33:38.060
If this journey that you want to go on is something that you truly are passionate about and committed to,

01:33:38.460 --> 01:33:42.380
then waiting for everything to be perfect is absolutely the wrong answer.

01:33:42.700 --> 01:33:43.899
Getting started,

01:33:43.980 --> 01:33:45.495
taking that first step,

01:33:46.055 --> 01:33:47.175
that's the answer.

01:33:48.055 --> 01:33:55.255
Nobody starts out as an expert. Nobody starts out as a tremendous athlete or an incredible piano player or the

01:33:55.255 --> 01:33:56.455
expert in their field.

01:33:56.990 --> 01:34:00.190
They all start at the very beginning as a novice.

01:34:00.510 --> 01:34:03.390
They commit to the craft and they spend the time necessary

01:34:03.470 --> 01:34:05.390
to get to where they want to be.

01:34:07.870 --> 01:34:11.230
Understand that your story is being written as we speak.

01:34:11.870 --> 01:34:19.465
Oftentimes, wait we until we see some sign or some alert, a notification on our phone that tells us a guy, that opportunity,

01:34:19.545 --> 01:34:23.225
that relationship, that big break you've been praying for, it's coming.

01:34:23.785 --> 01:34:25.225
But that's not how life works.

01:34:26.220 --> 01:34:28.379
Good stories have plot twists in them.

01:34:28.780 --> 01:34:32.220
And up until this point, maybe every plot twist of your life has been negative.

01:34:32.540 --> 01:34:35.180
Family members got sick or passed away.

01:34:35.660 --> 01:34:43.695
Got fired from a job, the business deal fell through. That just means you're due for a positive plot twist. Twist. Make no mistake about it, it's coming.

01:34:44.175 --> 01:34:45.615
So keep your chin up,

01:34:46.175 --> 01:34:47.135
stay ready,

01:34:47.535 --> 01:34:49.135
your story is still being written.

01:34:53.550 --> 01:34:56.110
The magic that you're looking for in your life

01:34:56.910 --> 01:35:00.990
is found in the work that you are not doing. The supernaturalness

01:35:00.990 --> 01:35:03.310
that you are wanting in your life

01:35:04.030 --> 01:35:06.750
is found in the sacrifices you're not making,

01:35:07.435 --> 01:35:10.235
The community you're not in. The generosity

01:35:10.235 --> 01:35:11.355
you withholding.

01:35:11.595 --> 01:35:15.275
You're gonna have to confront fears. You're gonna have to do stuff you never done.

01:35:17.195 --> 01:35:24.590
What matters most is how you walk through the fire. You can walk through the fire complaining along the way or you can walk through the fire

01:35:25.070 --> 01:35:25.710
and

01:35:26.510 --> 01:35:30.430
create an example for everyone else so that the trials

01:35:31.470 --> 01:35:33.975
and tribulations of their own life seem trivial

01:35:34.135 --> 01:35:37.255
because they're comparing themselves the way you handle things.

01:35:39.335 --> 01:35:47.175
Tension is not what you can achieve, it's who you can become. There's a saying if you're too focused on results, you'll never change.

01:35:47.415 --> 01:35:49.320
But if you're focused on change,

01:35:49.400 --> 01:35:51.800
then the results are inevitable.

01:35:51.800 --> 01:36:00.440
If you achieve success without changing, you will not hang on to that success because maybe everything on the outside changed, but nothing on the inside

01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:09.535
changed. Pray to become the person who can achieve and sustain success. Potential is all about who you can become.

01:36:11.935 --> 01:36:16.815
And really what you need to do is just get off the couch and take that first step to whatever that journey is.

01:36:17.450 --> 01:36:19.130
Wherever you want to be,

01:36:19.770 --> 01:36:20.890
start it today.

01:36:21.450 --> 01:36:29.370
Not tomorrow, not once I get something done, start today. Take the first step no matter how small, no matter how ugly, no matter how imperfect.

01:36:29.930 --> 01:36:31.450
Take that first step

01:36:31.855 --> 01:36:36.495
because that first step is the beginning of getting you to the end.

01:36:37.055 --> 01:36:43.775
And it's the journey, it's the getting there, it's the falling down along the way and getting back up and dusting yourself off and learning through failure

01:36:44.550 --> 01:36:47.990
growing through challenges instead of going through them

01:36:48.230 --> 01:36:51.430
that will make you the person you want to be on the other side.

01:36:52.230 --> 01:36:55.990
Greatness is in you, but you have to take the first step

01:36:56.230 --> 01:36:56.870
to fight.

01:36:59.235 --> 01:37:03.635
Believing in something worth fighting for is when you unveil the true meaning and strength.

01:37:03.955 --> 01:37:09.874
The true realization of how it feels to carry on past the point that once broke you. Remember?

01:37:10.195 --> 01:37:19.940
Now look at you fueled by the fire of faith and belief that no matter what darkness throws at you, no matter what setback or excuse doubt has for you, you have an unshakable resolve

01:37:20.020 --> 01:37:22.420
that you are a warrior,

01:37:22.900 --> 01:37:24.340
a warrior of the light.

01:37:24.820 --> 01:37:30.905
You are the catalyst of cataclysmic change. You are the one with words that will change the world

01:37:31.305 --> 01:37:35.865
because you are guided by something greater than any enemy can challenge you with.

01:37:39.305 --> 01:37:42.450
Like, I can't say this enough. Stop waiting.

01:37:43.250 --> 01:37:46.210
You could get hit by a bus next week.

01:37:47.890 --> 01:37:50.210
Do not waste your life

01:37:50.370 --> 01:37:51.330
waiting,

01:37:51.650 --> 01:37:52.530
worrying,

01:37:52.690 --> 01:37:53.490
or wishing

01:37:53.825 --> 01:37:55.185
for things to change.

01:37:55.585 --> 01:37:58.624
You gotta want it enough to do the work.

01:37:59.585 --> 01:38:00.865
I prefer

01:38:01.025 --> 01:38:03.105
to be the kind of person who

01:38:03.425 --> 01:38:09.530
steps up and facing the challenge, than the kind of person who stays below the line and avoids the challenge.

01:38:10.330 --> 01:38:13.530
What kind of person do you wanna be? What do you want? How

01:38:14.010 --> 01:38:16.650
badly do you want it? How much do you want it to suffer?

01:38:19.075 --> 01:38:24.435
Learn how to handle the winters. They come right after falls with regularity.

01:38:24.435 --> 01:38:28.515
Some are long, and some are short, and some are hard, and some are easy, but they keep coming.

01:38:28.595 --> 01:38:33.540
You must learn to handle the nights. They come right after days. You must learn to handle difficulty.

01:38:33.540 --> 01:38:35.220
It comes right after opportunity.

01:38:35.220 --> 01:38:36.900
You must learn to handle recessions.

01:38:37.060 --> 01:38:48.735
They always follow progressions. See, it isn't gonna change. The lesson you must learn is how to handle it. And there's all kinds of winters. Right? The winter when you can't figure it out. The winter when it all goes smash.

01:38:48.735 --> 01:38:56.415
The winter when it turns belly up. The winter when it won't work, when you've run out of money and you've got a broken heart. See, those are winter times.

01:38:57.855 --> 01:38:59.055
Don't waste the failure.

01:38:59.680 --> 01:39:13.040
Because oftentimes what do we do when things don't go the way we want it to go, we throw the experience away. Right? But we learn more in moments of defeat than we do when we get the victory. Because when you get the victory, nobody can tell you nothing. But when you lose, you listen it.

01:39:17.495 --> 01:39:30.830
After you lose or when you get knocked out, stay down the front door. Understand why you lost. What were the reasons? Why are you down here? Why did you lose? Why did you get knocked down? Because if you just jump right back up, you're gonna lose again

01:39:30.990 --> 01:39:35.790
and again and you're gonna lose the same way. So every time I lost,

01:39:35.870 --> 01:39:38.270
I stayed down for a second. Minutes,

01:39:38.590 --> 01:39:39.310
hours,

01:39:39.550 --> 01:39:39.950
days,

01:39:40.885 --> 01:39:41.605
weeks.

01:39:42.725 --> 01:39:44.965
But when I stood up, I was different.

01:40:03.530 --> 01:40:05.530
If tomorrow was not a guarantee,

01:40:05.530 --> 01:40:06.810
how far would you push?

01:40:07.050 --> 01:40:17.755
If you thought that today was your last opportunity to ever do the thing, how far would you go? How far would you go? How fast would you run? How much would you sacrifice knowing you're never gonna lace it up again?

01:40:18.475 --> 01:40:21.755
You are willing to make the decision

01:40:22.475 --> 01:40:23.910
with the mindset,

01:40:23.910 --> 01:40:27.990
what if it does work out? I think at some point in every person's life,

01:40:28.310 --> 01:40:34.470
there is that collision between somebody else's expectations and hopes and dreams and yours.

01:40:35.670 --> 01:40:45.965
You have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing and it's totally true and the reason is is because it's so hard that if you don't, any rational person would give up.

01:40:46.525 --> 01:40:54.920
It's really hard and you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing it, you don't really love it, you're

01:40:54.920 --> 01:40:55.800
gonna give up.

01:40:57.480 --> 01:40:58.440
What if

01:41:00.600 --> 01:41:06.825
a lot of times I'll be in a tournament or I'll run or something like that and I'm all jacked up.

01:41:07.465 --> 01:41:10.105
Bodies broken, minds broken, spirits broken.

01:41:10.505 --> 01:41:12.905
I started to say, what if I could pull this off?

01:41:13.625 --> 01:41:17.065
It's the what if I can pull off a fucking miracle.

01:41:17.870 --> 01:41:21.790
What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be?

01:41:22.030 --> 01:41:25.230
When you when you say you're gonna do something and then you follow through and you do it,

01:41:25.630 --> 01:41:32.510
not not not at the end when you you know, you cross the marathon, you finish it or or your hands raised. I'm talking about right now.

01:41:33.605 --> 01:41:38.165
The small steps in between the big successes everyone sees. No one sees this.

01:41:40.085 --> 01:41:41.125
Don't panic.

01:41:41.445 --> 01:41:42.245
Right now,

01:41:42.725 --> 01:41:44.245
this is a rebuilding stage.

01:41:44.485 --> 01:41:50.240
You need to stop looking at everything that's going wrong and start looking at everything that can go right tomorrow

01:41:50.400 --> 01:41:53.200
if you put in the work today. No more excuses.

01:41:53.520 --> 01:41:59.360
No more blaming other people for the hand that you're dealt. Take ownership of everything in your life.

01:41:59.680 --> 01:42:04.655
Move past the negative thoughts that tell you that you can't. You can get back everything else,

01:42:05.215 --> 01:42:06.895
but you can't get back today.

01:42:07.535 --> 01:42:08.335
So make it count.

01:42:17.500 --> 01:42:19.820
When a hero stumbles,

01:42:21.420 --> 01:42:23.340
but cowards rejoice.

01:42:24.300 --> 01:42:29.020
Nothing feels better to a coward than to watch a brave dyed fall.

01:42:30.140 --> 01:42:36.385
This life is not here to make you suffer. This life is here to make you understand what is your potential.

01:42:36.705 --> 01:42:42.385
Maybe there is something bigger that you can become. This is also meaning discover your potential.

01:42:43.985 --> 01:42:55.890
You may be frustrated with where you are right now, but think about the story that you can tell later when you're where you want to be. If you're working some shitty job right now or you're broke or you're in debt or you just got fired, it sucks

01:42:56.050 --> 01:43:15.005
right now. But one day this will be a chapter of your life that you'll not only be grateful for, but one that you can use to inspire other people. So before you start feeling sorry for yourself, remind yourself of the story that you're gonna tell later. Knowing how far you've come and being able to tell that story is going to be worth whatever you're going through right now.

01:43:17.260 --> 01:43:23.740
But when you come out on the other side, I guarantee you you're gonna be stronger than you ever thought possible.

01:43:25.020 --> 01:43:31.955
You lose more life trying to optimize everything than just living it. The stress of trying to be perfect is killing you more quickly than your imperfections.

01:43:31.955 --> 01:43:39.874
I will never wish for fewer epic stories at the end of my life. And I've never regretted failures. I've always regretted things that I didn't try.

01:43:41.555 --> 01:43:43.075
Dreams have a purpose,

01:43:43.315 --> 01:43:45.420
but those dreams are not necessarily

01:43:45.580 --> 01:43:47.340
to be fulfilled.

01:43:47.900 --> 01:43:50.300
They are a vehicle that gets you moving.

01:43:50.780 --> 01:44:12.600
Very easy to stay in that realm of comfort with the people at the bottom, but you'll never fly high enough. You may have to go at it alone and you may be your only supporter, but that's okay because that's the most important supporter. That's the one that you can rely on to put in the work every single day despite what you're going through because it's hard to rely on people especially ones who don't see the vision.

01:44:13.480 --> 01:44:20.680
This is one of the best questions I think to ask yourself when faced with a decision which is what would you tomorrow

01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:22.360
want you today to do?

01:44:31.485 --> 01:44:33.485
You might be dealing with a lot right now,

01:44:34.045 --> 01:44:36.125
and it might be easier to hide

01:44:36.285 --> 01:44:37.725
and run from it all.

01:44:38.525 --> 01:44:39.005
Don't.

01:44:39.540 --> 01:44:40.820
Embrace the storm.

01:44:41.380 --> 01:44:47.300
Let it harden you because on the other side of the struggle is a version of you that is stronger,

01:44:47.620 --> 01:44:48.500
healthier,

01:44:48.740 --> 01:44:50.260
and more unstoppable

01:44:50.260 --> 01:44:51.540
than you ever thought possible.

01:44:52.215 --> 01:44:54.615
Running away from the challenge won't get you anywhere,

01:44:55.175 --> 01:44:59.415
but showing up for yourself even when it's hard will stay

01:45:00.295 --> 01:45:01.015
strong.

01:45:01.735 --> 01:45:02.455
You got this.

01:45:06.920 --> 01:45:21.584
There's a self in you that wants to come out, that's there, that's buried within, that will feel better. When we bring it out, we feel better. The lower self is our animal nature. When you're bringing out the higher self, you're becoming human. Your lower self is your addictions.

01:45:22.065 --> 01:45:39.630
You're always wanting something easy and fast and quick. And when you indulge in that, you don't feel good. You wanna bring out that higher self, and I want you to confront that and not deny it anymore and see that it's in you, it's in everyone. It's not like every human has it. It's extremely democratic.

01:45:40.190 --> 01:45:45.870
Ultimately, happiness comes down to the decision of choosing to become aware of our mental afflictions

01:45:46.190 --> 01:45:50.234
or choosing to be ruled by them. This is what hard feels like.

01:45:51.675 --> 01:45:54.794
Did you think the thing that you wanted to try and achieve was going to be easy?

01:45:55.435 --> 01:45:55.995
No.

01:45:56.475 --> 01:45:57.195
Okay.

01:45:57.835 --> 01:46:03.490
So what's the entry price of trying to achieve this thing? Well, it's hard. Like you were here to be

01:46:04.450 --> 01:46:05.330
challenged

01:46:05.410 --> 01:46:07.890
by things. This is what hard feels like.

01:46:09.170 --> 01:46:11.890
You can be very grateful

01:46:11.890 --> 01:46:27.500
for what it is you have right now and still be ambitious with goals and dreams and visions that you want for yourself. And in fact, being grateful is part of being happy along the journey. Being happy along the journey takes three components. It takes gratitude,

01:46:27.580 --> 01:46:35.820
it takes a mission, and it takes discipline. And if you have those three things operating in your being, you're going to be happy along the way. That's reality.

01:46:37.100 --> 01:46:46.195
Do it sad, do it angry, do it heartbroken, do it miserable, do it excited, do it energized, do it happy, do it tired, do it confident, do it discouraged,

01:46:46.435 --> 01:46:47.475
do it anyway.

01:46:48.675 --> 01:46:50.755
Life is not just the passing of time.

01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:55.720
Life is a collection of experiences,

01:46:57.000 --> 01:46:58.360
their frequency,

01:46:58.600 --> 01:46:59.880
and their intensity.

01:47:02.920 --> 01:47:04.200
Life is not just

01:47:04.760 --> 01:47:06.520
watching clock tick away.

01:47:06.840 --> 01:47:09.335
Life is a collection of experiences.

01:47:11.975 --> 01:47:13.095
Their intensity,

01:47:13.095 --> 01:47:19.175
their frequency. Whatever the span of your life turns out to be, here's what you want to fill it up with, experiences

01:47:19.175 --> 01:47:22.250
and the intensity of those experience. Success

01:47:24.250 --> 01:47:29.690
without fulfillment is the ultimate failure because the human mind is not gonna make you happy.

01:47:30.810 --> 01:47:33.690
This brain of yours won't do it. You have to direct it.

01:47:35.290 --> 01:47:36.410
And there's no

01:47:36.805 --> 01:47:38.005
worse fate

01:47:38.725 --> 01:47:41.285
than to achieve everything and not be fulfilled.

01:47:42.725 --> 01:47:49.445
There are a lot of voices in life trying to define us, tell us who we are. Sometimes they're uplifting,

01:47:49.525 --> 01:47:56.050
a parent telling us that we're talented, we can do great things. Other times they're negative. You're not attracted.

01:47:56.130 --> 01:48:00.930
There's nothing special about you. You made too many mistakes. You missed your chance.

01:48:01.330 --> 01:48:11.545
When you listen to all these voices, it's easy to think who's telling the truth? Who am I? Here's the key. The only voice that matters is your voice.

01:48:17.225 --> 01:48:23.370
The fastest way to change your life is to start keeping the promises you make to yourself. You chose this

01:48:23.690 --> 01:48:25.370
and even though it might be hard,

01:48:26.090 --> 01:48:29.850
you still owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't live with regret.

01:48:30.410 --> 01:48:36.655
Put it all on the line and let it play out the way it's supposed to. The last thing you wanna do is wonder what if.

01:48:37.295 --> 01:48:38.895
Don't give yourself that option.

01:48:39.935 --> 01:48:40.895
Make it happen now.

01:48:57.040 --> 01:48:58.320
Understand this.

01:48:58.880 --> 01:49:00.960
Keep rebuilding yourself in private,

01:49:01.440 --> 01:49:03.200
but make sure when you come back,

01:49:03.920 --> 01:49:05.925
you come back an absolute beast.

01:49:07.925 --> 01:49:39.055
Most people spend their entire lives wishing shit was easy. Wishing it was fair. It's not fucking fair. Wishing it would line up to be perfect for them and because they're waiting for this and because it's never coming, they never go. And when they never go, they never become anything. And that's what leads to a a wasted life. Conditions are never gonna be perfect. Things are always gonna be hard. The only hope that you have is to become someone who could push through that hard regardless of what the is going on. And if you can build that level of discipline, that level of mental toughness

01:49:39.055 --> 01:49:40.255
to execute

01:49:40.335 --> 01:49:42.335
when things are not ideal,

01:49:42.415 --> 01:49:45.775
when things are extremely hard, nothing can stop you.

01:49:47.340 --> 01:50:16.125
How many really uncomfortable situations are you putting yourself in that challenged you, that grew you, that pushed you to get to that next level of being who you are? Are you under the illusion and I love you as a friend, but I think sometimes you're under the illusion you're gonna get these external things you want without growing who you are. You could not be further from the truth. In fact, if you were to acquire those things without growing who you are, we understand the power of identity. You will eventually lose those things

01:50:16.340 --> 01:50:19.300
because they're not congruent with who you are as a person.

01:50:25.300 --> 01:50:26.740
Do all that you can do

01:50:27.220 --> 01:50:29.780
and when you've done all you can do

01:50:30.420 --> 01:50:31.300
and

01:50:32.005 --> 01:50:33.765
hell still comes to breakfast,

01:50:34.805 --> 01:50:36.245
let it finish out,

01:50:36.645 --> 01:50:38.085
then pick up the pieces,

01:50:38.325 --> 01:50:39.525
learn from it

01:50:40.005 --> 01:50:41.605
and start all over again.

01:50:42.805 --> 01:50:56.590
There's a a really great quote from Mark Manson where he talks about the most important question to ask yourself is what pain are you willing to endure in your life rather than what pleasure do you want? Because any pleasure or any pursuit that you want is going to come with an in kind payment of pain.

01:50:56.910 --> 01:51:20.950
Beautiful thing about life is that you get to choose your hard. Everything in life is hard, but you get to choose what your heart is. It's really hard to live a life of purpose working on something you care about. It's also really hard to live without purpose. You get to choose the thorns that you're gonna have on the path of your journey. It's something that I think about constantly. It's like how can I just endure this a little bit longer? How can I just embrace this hard of whatever it is that I'm going through?

01:51:22.790 --> 01:51:27.455
And the right choice is you can either go out and build your dreams, go all the hardship,

01:51:27.695 --> 01:51:47.690
get knocked down a million times, get punched in the face a million times, get told you're shit by everybody that you love and everybody that's around you, get made fun of, get laughed at, get picked on, become the joke, and continue to move forward, and then build your dreams and let your life speak for itself. Or the other choice is you can quit, and you could be worse than what you were when you started trying to be better.

01:51:49.210 --> 01:52:03.105
Don't talk about what you're gonna do. Don't just dream about what you're gonna do. Don't criticize somebody else for what they're not doing. You be it. Be about it. Be about that action and go do it. Keep your eye on your intention.

01:52:03.425 --> 01:52:08.385
Don't let any outside distraction or your own insecurity stop you from your goals.

01:52:08.785 --> 01:52:09.585
Embrace

01:52:09.660 --> 01:52:10.540
that struggle.

01:52:10.700 --> 01:52:13.420
Surviving that struggle will strengthen you.

01:52:16.540 --> 01:52:18.940
What can one man do except forgive his best?

01:52:19.420 --> 01:52:21.100
If you fail, you try again.

01:52:21.835 --> 01:52:27.515
If you win, you try again and get better. So as long as you maintain and you stay consistent,

01:52:27.835 --> 01:52:37.440
you'll forever be a winner and a champion and the people who love you in their eyes because they support you nevertheless as long as you try again and again and again.

01:52:37.840 --> 01:52:43.040
Legacy that you leave has gotta mean something to somebody.

01:52:44.160 --> 01:52:46.800
We gotta live for something bigger than ourselves.

01:52:50.075 --> 01:52:52.395
Some people will tell you that you don't need to change,

01:52:53.195 --> 01:52:57.515
but they're wrong because in order to achieve the things that you want to achieve,

01:52:58.075 --> 01:53:00.715
you have to destroy the current version of you.

01:53:01.035 --> 01:53:02.990
Improvement and growth is change.

01:53:03.390 --> 01:53:09.390
You can't expect to get the things that you don't have if you don't change the things that you always do.

01:53:09.870 --> 01:53:11.150
Change is inevitable.

01:53:11.390 --> 01:53:13.950
You either progress or regress.

01:53:14.590 --> 01:53:15.790
The choice is up to you.

01:53:19.205 --> 01:53:22.645
You're not being defined by a vision of the future,

01:53:23.045 --> 01:53:29.925
then you are left with the memories of your past and you'll be predictable in your life. If you're not creating anything new,

01:53:30.085 --> 01:53:37.040
that means you're believing in your past more than you're believing in your future. So then if the person is living in anger, impatience,

01:53:37.040 --> 01:53:38.560
resentment, frustration,

01:53:38.880 --> 01:53:54.745
and they're holding the intention of their future, there's no vibrational match between anything in their future because they're saying why hasn't it happened? They're waiting for their success to feel abundance, waiting for something outside to change how we feel inside. And if you're living in that lack

01:53:55.065 --> 01:53:57.624
and you know that you're creating your future,

01:53:57.865 --> 01:54:07.590
you're creating more lack. And if you're reacting to the people and conditions in your life that are all known to you, then your thoughts and feelings are equal to everything that you know. You keep creating the same life.

01:54:09.270 --> 01:54:12.070
It it is simply you are thinking

01:54:12.150 --> 01:54:14.790
a thousand different thoughts in one hour.

01:54:15.270 --> 01:54:17.430
You are doing around 500

01:54:17.430 --> 01:54:18.470
different actions

01:54:18.765 --> 01:54:21.405
in that hour and experiencing

01:54:21.805 --> 01:54:23.325
20 different emotions.

01:54:24.445 --> 01:54:29.085
And when you think about it through that lens, it is now this finite structure

01:54:29.325 --> 01:54:34.445
that if you live within complete intention

01:54:32.910 --> 01:54:35.390
to use your thoughts with intention

01:54:35.630 --> 01:54:41.470
that lead to intentional actions that create the feelings and emotions of joy,

01:54:42.270 --> 01:54:44.270
for the majority of your life,

01:54:44.990 --> 01:54:50.325
that little framework right there is how you can literally take control of time

01:54:50.485 --> 01:54:52.405
and ultimately create

01:54:52.485 --> 01:54:54.965
a harmonious existence for yourself.

01:54:56.005 --> 01:54:59.605
Really look back and think about all the things that led to you reaching those moments,

01:55:00.280 --> 01:55:07.160
it's gonna be the tough times. It's gonna be that depression. It's gonna be that anxiety. It's gonna be that heartbreak. It's gonna be that setback,

01:55:07.240 --> 01:55:09.640
that injury, whatever it is, that loss.

01:55:10.360 --> 01:55:11.480
All those things,

01:55:12.280 --> 01:55:21.865
right, in the moment felt like the end of the world. You're gonna look back in hindsight and see how they were actually building you up in a way that you just couldn't see in that moment.

01:55:22.265 --> 01:55:23.065
Remember,

01:55:23.385 --> 01:55:25.305
there is nothing in this world

01:55:25.625 --> 01:55:26.985
that can hurt you

01:55:27.330 --> 01:55:32.610
as much as your thoughts. And there is nothing in this world that can heal you

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as much as your thoughts.

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Most important conversation is the one you have with yourself.

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You wake up with it, you walk around with it, you go to bed with it, eventually

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you act on it.

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The fact is that you're more amazing than you've ever imagined.

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You're more qualified, more gifted, more useful, more meaningful than anyone has ever defined or told you you could be. There are times where you've tried to talk yourself into believing your value by looking in the mirror and you haven't gotten the right reflection because you haven't set it with the right inflection.

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You're missing out on everything

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because you're waiting for someday.

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You're waiting for someday to feel ready, someday for it to be perfect, someday

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Well, I'll tell you what, today

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is that Sunday.

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If you want to attract what you want, you've got to see yourself already with it. You don't get what you want, you get what you are. You've got to become what you want. You've got to realize the minute you hold your mind in harmony with the good you want, then you've already got it. It's only a period of time till it manifests in physical form. That's called the perpetual transmutation of energy. That is a law, first law of the universe.

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How badly do you want it?

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You've got to pay a price to be the best. The best pay a big price.

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You've got to work harder. You've got to commit more. You've to take more responsibility,

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you've got to deal with more ups and downs.

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If we can deal with that question, how much do you want it to suffer?

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The size of your dreams

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must always exceed your current capacity capacity to achieve them.

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If your dreams do not scare you,

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they are not big enough.

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If you start off with a small dream, you may not have much left when it is fulfilled

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because along the way,

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life will test your dreams and make demands on you.

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That's not you.

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Spend the block, man. Spend the block. It might might be your day. It might not be your week, your month, your year. Spend the block. Knock again. Knock again. Keep calling. Keep showing up. Keep doing what you've been doing. It's gonna pay off. You don't see it right now.

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But I promise you, I promise you,

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it's happening.

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The roots are growing. The fruits are coming.

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I never ran track, but I've always heard that like if you ever wanna be faster, you gotta run with a bunch of people who are way faster than you. And there's something that happens with us as humans. When you are surrounded by those

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who are superior

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in their performance than you are, you're bound to be lifted up if you're as ambitious. If not Yeah. You're wasting everyone's time. You're more than a ripple. You're the one that will cause waves in life, but you gotta keep going.

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There's a thing called flow.

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You have to get into it and the only way to get into it is to get through the things that try to interrupt your flow. You're developing as a person, you're the whatever it is you were born to do, you gotta find out that one thing and invest yourself in it so much so that you gotta hold stock when everyone tells you that it has no value.

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You matter and you always have matter.

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Success is something you attract, not something you pursue.

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Success is looking for a good place to stay.

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So instead of going after it, you work on yourself,

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personal development. See, the major question to ask on the job is not what are you getting. The major question to ask on the job is what are you becoming?

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You wanna know the secret to achieving

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everything that you dream about? Don't quit.

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See, when you know what the destination is, there's a million paths to get there and it took me a long time to learn

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that the greatest

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moments of growth and success

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happen right after you feel like quitting

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but you don't.

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That's the secret.

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Keep going.

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Don't even panic. Don't panic. Don't panic. Right now there's a rebuilding stage. Right now. Right now you have a chance to rebuild. Look, go because what you're doing is you're looking at everything that went wrong, but you're not looking at what's gonna go right tomorrow. Once you sit back, just sit back. Write everything down. Write your list. Write that list down of where you wanna be, who you wanna be, where you wanna go. Look look at the world. Look around you. Look at your environment and say to yourself, what do I need to move out of the way in order so I can get to the places I'm trying to go?

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Your skill set is being developed under pressure, under denials,

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under rejection,

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under the people that have told you no. Those no's are things that you need.

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It needs you to fortify and believe in yourself until you can get to the point where it doesn't matter what anyone else says. You believe it with all your soul that I matter, that I was born to do something, and the greatness within me is going to touch other lives.

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You're not here just for you. The good that you have is to be presented to God at the end of your life, and when you present it to him, he'll ask you, how many other people did you bless? How many other people did you give it to?

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Because the one thing you don't want is regret,

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Not with the dash that we have. Our lives are way too short to live it just for us.

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That's why people have scars.

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They're a reminder in their memory.

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There's something you get past and there's something you live through but

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At the end of the day, they're almost there.

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All fools in life have one thing in common important for the stoics.

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Seneca says what they all have in common is that they're always getting ready to start. They are delaying

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to live because they think they have the future. They think they have forever. They say I'm not ready or they say I'm gonna do it after. I'm gonna do it once this thing happens when conditions are more favorable. They never say to themselves I'm never going to do it. They say I'm going to do it later. But no one knows what the future holds. No one knows how much time we have left. Life is happening right now the second. In fact, the time ticks by, the Stilts say, belongs to death. It's dead. It can never be recovered.

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So don't be a fool. Don't delay. You could be good today. Ruth's Reilly's reminds us. Instead, you choose tomorrow.

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You have to work harder than you think you possibly can. You can't hold grudges. It's hard. And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life because that's gonna happen.

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All that matters is that you gotta get up.