BELIEVE – 2020 Motivational Video (Listen Every Day!) MORNING MOTIVATION
I was miserable in my life I didn’t like
waking up I have no purpose I know what
I was supposed to be doing Oh October
8th 1985 I walked in a comedy club for
the first time signed up for the
following week the following week a girl
took me down then she said you got to go
to comedy club you the funniest person
I’ve ever met
I’ve never even heard of comedy clubs at
27 I walked into comedy club
I signed up for the following week I’m
gonna sit here and learn I knew I was
funny I just said no one to do it
they had 10 acts go up 9 up a window I
didn’t laugh at one joke
I was just sitting there just man I wish
that was me man they should have said
this every joke they told I knew the
punchline for they said it and I wrote a
better punchline in my mind what they
should have said he got to God number 10
they called his name he wasn’t there
they said well he’s not here we’re gonna
go to next week’s list Steve Harvey
where are you
long story short I won Amateur Night
that night I won $50 it was 45 minute
drive to my house with this girl named
Gladys I cried 45 minutes she said what
you crying for
it ain’t worth $50 I said no no you and
him understand how I was born tonight I
now know what I opposed to do I went to
work the next day October 9th and quit
my job
with $50 I had nothing I just never gave
up I’m gonna tell you something that
decision cost me everything I think I
lost my family I lost by just Sony’s
assadís saw this vision I just pursued
and I said why I said you have to take
chances in life life is about risk if
you play it safe in life you ain’t gonna
have much of a life if you play it safe
you won’t have much of a life life is
risk it take courage to pursue your
dream that’s gonna cost you something
most people are not willing to pay what
it costs to go after your dream cause
you gonna have hurt
most people don’t like being a couple
don’t want me
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life is hard see for every time you have
a plan a dream an aspiration or a goal
do you know what happens every time you
have one of those this thing comes alone
called life it happens to everybody
life has disappointments got peaks and
valleys
you’re gonna lose somebody you care
about one day
that’s a valley somebody gonna close the
plate you thought was gonna stay open so
you can retire
that’s a valley somebody gonna fire you
for unjust cause that’s a valley the
people have got your credit card gonna
sell they company don’t sell a business
to another credit card company you’re
18% go up to 26% you don’t even know why
now your minimum didn’t change cuz its
life
you can stop thinking that life didn’t
be easy cuz I got news for you it ain’t
that’s a false hope to think you’re
gonna have a wonderfully carefree life
that’s unthinkable we all live in this
bubble what you got to do you got to put
more air in your bubble you got to blow
your bubble up expand yourself take
yourself out your comfort zone do not
live in your bubble put some more air in
your bubble if you stay in your comfort
zone that’s where you will fail you will
fail in your comfort zone success is not
a comfortable procedure it is a very
uncomfortable thing to until so you got
to get comfortable being uncomfortable
if you ever want to be successful start
putting some pressure on put some
pressure on yourself
get out here and get about it look I’d
love to sugarcoat this thing for you I’d
love to tell you look you go out here
and get rich do a couple of things
damn there you got get real doggies you
gotta get downright if you want to
make now like I was telling you before
if you want to be ordinary you ain’t
even got to listen to me just go about
your business if you think ordinary
school
ain’t no problem is some really really
wonderful ordinary people but if you are
sitting in this room and you have
extraordinary aspirations then you will
have to do extra you put extra on top of
extraordinary and you come up with
extraordinary there’s no other way I’m
sorry but here’s the fact all of you
have extraordinary capabilities all of
you you have to decide if you are
willing to do the things to put you in
that category if no one thinks you’re
crazy you’re not yet operating to the
outer limits of your potential
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doesn’t matter how old you are can’t
blame your gender doesn’t matter where
are you from doesn’t have matter how
smart you are
doesn’t matter what your personality is
doesn’t matter how many strengths you
have or what your strengths profile is
at all
doesn’t matter how creative you are or
empathetic doesn’t matter how many years
of experience and doesn’t matter how
much you get paid you can’t blame them
any more the data doesn’t prove it out
now some people say well burn in Brendan
Brendan those things must matter I’ve
seen studies no I’m not saying those
things don’t matter many of those things
are very important especially at certain
parts of your life but in high
performance it’s not the study of
initial success okay initial success is
nice and it’s not the study peak
performance either because at the
papaver peak it’s a valley I think
people are tired of the ups and downs in
life and they want that steady path to
growth I’m the creator but it’s not what
made me a high performer there are a lot
of people who are creative who can’t
organize their way out of box there’s a
lot of people who are also empathetic
deeply caring but they can’t get stuff
done there are a lot of people who are
extroverted who also push away people so
we can’t say that any of those things
lead to long-term success but when we
get it right everything changes high
performers are more successful than
their peers in almost every category of
measurement you could take whether how
much they earn what they do how far they
succeed in their own industry etc
they’re also less stressed more success
only stresses you out when you don’t
have the habits to handle it
don’t fear success get better habits
that’s all
high performers are prolific in their
field no matter what that means if their
salesperson it’s more sales calls right
if they’re an artist it’s more paintings
if it’s a musician it’s Beethoven right
it’s just cranking out the product that
matters in your area of expertise
they work passionately whether you pay
them high or not because they’re driven
by intrinsic motivations the care the
passion the art the fulfillment of what
they do they’re admired and they’re
adaptive they change faster they make
decisions faster they’re happier than
most people they’re healthier than most
people they get better grades and they
also feel appreciated about their work
that there’s no loneliness at the top
they feel like people appreciate them
understand how hard they work and they
feel rewarded for it in other words a
lot of these people you might not
initially like these people are
extraordinary but not by accident and
not by birthright buy habits we proved
it there’s 11 effective habits that
makes a person successful in general but
when we tried to bust it down and we
said look can we prove that they’re
doing it on purpose can we prove to
rewatch it and observe it and track it
and measure it can we change it that’s
what malleable means is it trainable
meaning can they get better at it and we
can show it and does it work across
domains it works for you your team your
brother your sister your mother your
grandparents everybody that you can it
work across life is it universal in
other words was our question that broke
it down then to only six habits which
I’ll show you with you now the first one
seek clarity high performers seek
clarity before they do almost anything
they don’t get clarity as if one day in
life they wake up and everything’s
perfectly clear they know exactly what
to do no it’s not get clarity it’s seek
clarity they are consistently seeking
clarity more than anybody else men you
guys know I’ve been blessed to do some
online courses with Oprah Winfrey and
one thing I love about her is every
meeting she starts her first question in
all the meetings after hi how you doin
‘he’s our what’s our intention for this
meeting
what’s the intention for this meeting
she’s seek before the meeting starts she
wants them not what’s the agenda who’s
talking about what’s the intention what
are we trying to do here that’s seeking
clarity we found that high performers
look to the future
more than general population by over 70
percent in a positive frame meaning they
look to tomorrow and they say who can I
be how do I want to interact with people
what skills do I need to develop how do
I want to serve they’re seeking clarity
in those ways and now we all seek
clarity high performers do it more often
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common sense is not always common
practice and that’s why so many
potentially great people fail to ever
reach their full potential common sense
is not always common practice high
performers have made seeking clarity
common practice they also generate
tremendous amounts of energy by will
they generate energy they like they fire
themselves up but it’s not just
generating energy by will in every
measure mentally emotionally and
physically high performers peak out over
the general population by almost 70
percent they deal with stress 70 percent
better they’re in better physical shape
for their age it’s just like they it’s
not by accident they’re generating the
energy they need to serve in the world
they’re not waiting for it see a power
plant takes energy from one area
transforms it into a different form of
energy stores it then transmits it high
performers do the same thing they don’t
hope one day they’re gonna be satisfied
they make themselves feel satisfied they
don’t hope to find peace after they’ve
accomplished everything as they’re
accomplishing they’re making themselves
find peace
they don’t have you know wait for it
like Christmas to bring them joy they
into each moment bring the joy they
raise their sense of necessity in one
way it means they have higher emotional
commitment they stoke necessity
necessity means the difference between I
should do it I’d like to do it versus I
must do it I know you guys are in
personal development and you’ve heard
this a million times
it’s just that high performers do it
every morning they’re aware of what must
I do today to move the needle forward
they’re very clear on what they really
must do to progress and they do it and
they do it because they’ve associated
their internal identity with their
external obligations so they know my
internal standards and values line up to
make me go there and they’ve set up
their external life so that there’s
deadlines and duty to other people it’s
why the military is so high performing
duty right internal standard I’m a
soldier
external standard duty to my country
identity external RAM together then you
have to do it they do that on purpose
mentally start figuring out right now
what we call PQ o PQ o cents for
prolific quality output high performers
have figured out what would make them
not only effective but sometimes wealthy
sometimes well-known sometimes more well
respected by figuring out what’s the
quality output that really matters and
then they go all-in
it’s the story of Steve Jobs coming back
to Apple after he was fired and seeing
over 20 product lines and saying this is
too much clear the decks that we’re
gonna focus on these five things that’s
it that’s what brought us the first iPod
then the iPhone then the iPad then the
Mac Pro like all that build was because
he came any cleared houses what is our P
Q oh I didn’t use that language but
that’s essentially what we found all
high performers actually do
they figure out what’s the stuff that we
need to produce the route of
productivity is produced so busywork is
not the same as your life’s work you got
to figure out your life so what is the
things that you need to create that will
shift and change everything and leave
your legacy high performers actively
consistently are seeking to develop
influence with people and they work so
hard at it they’re very very conscious
of how they’re impacting their kids how
they’re impacting their friends how
they’re impacting the world around them
they’re doing it on purpose to there
they want to be role models think about
anybody who’s ever been influential in
your life who’s been the most positively
influential person in your life for a
moment think about that and once you
have that I guarantee you I can tell you
exactly why they were influential
because our studies proved it out what
makes somebody influential number one I
bet that person who made such a
difference in your life they taught you
how to think influential people are
telling you how to think about yourself
sometimes about your relationships
sometimes about how you contribute
sometimes how to think second thing they
didn’t they challenged
they challenge what you contributed what
you gave what you were capable of
they said you’re better than this young
woman you’re better than this young man
you got more Enya come on let’s go they
push they challenge and third they role
modeled the way they role modeled the
way for you and that changed everything
high performers demonstrate more courage
than most people they demonstrate more
courage than most people these six
habits change everything but this last
piece is so highly correlated with high
performance you gotta get it
demonstrating courage means it is time
for you to tell your family what you
really think need believe dream of same
with your team same with your spouse all
the holding back of what you really want
in life in silence there is suffering
high performers share what they really
want of life because if you can’t share
it you can’t get it out there you can’t
attract it you can’t move it high
performers deeply care about sharing
what’s true for them and they’re willing
to step into uncertainty even when they
don’t know what to do
maybe someone’s gonna reject you if you
start your dream no likely somebody is
going to reject you but either you can
look in the cave of an uncertain ego I
don’t want to go in I’m so scared I’m so
scared to go what’s this gonna be like
and you wander in with a flashlight of
curiosity and you say oh no what this
could be and now your curiosity starts
looking like courage and it goes wow you
got a lot of guts and no you’re just
being curious again sometimes allowing
yourself to put yourself out there and
start asking more questions that’s
courage too but at the end of the day
we’ve got to take more action
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