Develop A STRONG Mind || BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH
commit to a path of action today not monday morning i’m gonna start why would you start monday morning when you have today right now so whatever you’re trying to do man you planning on eating right start today you plan on exercising start a day if you plan on saving save today if you plan on having a better relationship with the person you love start right now as you begin to look out on your life this is challenging this is not easy acting you’ve got to bring it out and look at it you got to take the power out of it you’ve got to expose it to the truth and the truth is that it has no power over you so write down something you want to act on but for some reason that you’ve been holding back and look at it ask yourself the question is it helping you to continue to put it off if it’s an asset for you to continue to procrastinate then continue to do that ask yourself what’s blocking you what’s preventing you from acting why don’t you have the courage to handle that why won’t you face that what are you running away from what kind of avoidance behavior are you engaged in before the feeling passes and before the idea gets dim action pronto action immediate action as soon as possible because if you don’t here’s what happens we call it the law of diminishing intent we intend to when the idea strikes us we intend to when the emotion is high but now if you don’t translate that into action fairly soon now the intent starts to diminish diminished diminish and a month from now it’s cold a year from now can’t be found so act set up a discipline when the emotions are high and the idea is strong and clear and powerful that’s the time to set up when we look out on our lives you ask the question what are you going to do look at as you think about this that you know you need to handle what are you going to do and then write down three strong reasons on why you know you must take action and be explicit and descriptive in your reasons because your reasons have power your reasons will drive you when you have doubt when your faith becomes weak your reasons will fortify your faith when you have an inner conversation say no don’t do that your reasons will become your rod and your staff to comfort you to take you through those challenging moments so write down your reasons and what you will find that when you decide to act when you decide to take life on and let me warn you it can be painful it will be uncomfortable and that’s where the growth is i want to tell you what people don’t want to tell you why you stop is because you’re lazy it’s because you don’t mind getting bad grades in school it doesn’t bother you enough to be mediocre to be average to sit around and watch people do great things you don’t mind it so there’s your answer your answer is you don’t care enough about yourself so you don’t stay in the fight stay hard planning now that you’ve decided and you’ve started you start making plans it’s in incredible what can happen as a source of inspiration when finally what’s in your head what’s in your imagination now finally starts to take shape on paper when i first heard about network marketing i was 25 years old and i heard some of the testimonials and i heard that people have gotten rich and i’ve heard that it’s changed people’s lives and i’ve heard that you could start with nothing and become something but let me tell you what was exciting when i finally made the decision yes i was going to be part of the industry yes i was going to make it part of my marketing future what was really exciting was when i sat down and started making plans i started committing imagination and belief to paper i started writing it down i started started as we often do drawing those circles you know what if i had five what if i had ten and then when i had a concept of what that could bring for me then i said how can i reach the first five how can i reach the first ten uh what could i do starting to make those plans i’m telling you i remember those days as if they were yesterday they were so exciting i had a concept of what i wanted i had a dream of of what could happen for me if it could happen for others maybe it could happen for me but when i started putting it on paper and started making the plans that was an incredible source of inspiration for me because the plan seemed to now start making it real that what i had thought about what i dreamed about now i’m actually getting to it by making a plan however you can make all the plans in the world and it is a source of inspiration for only so long and you can make one plan and then you can make another plan and you can make some plans today and the next day you can make some more plans and the next day you can make some more plans and it is a very exciting source of inspiration but only for a while i’m sure we would all agree that making plans that inspiration wouldn’t last for a week now that inspiration now must drive you uh to do number three the first source of inspiration is deciding second source of inspiration is planning and now here’s a big source of inspiration beginning getting started actually turning thought and the notes on the paper the plans actually now committing it to action getting started and beginning can be an incredible source of inspiration guess what you can say when you begin a change in your diet but you can say i’m on a new track i have carved out for myself a new beginning i’m on my way to the most incredible health i will never be the same again i’m leaving the old undisciplined part of me i’m leaving that behind i’m a new person i’m taking my first shake i’m swallowing the first tablets i made my first you know walk around the block that i thought about for slow along and never did i finally did it today i’ve started i have begun that is an incredible source of inspiration and that is to start to begin you cannot believe what can happen to your self-esteem and many of you have already experienced it i’m just asking you to begin something new in all the areas of your life maybe you’ve always thought about benevolence and you just haven’t gotten started or you haven’t made the plans or you haven’t made the decision i’m asking you to start taking that stuff now that’s in your head that imagination which is very powerful and it’s a great source of inspiration in itself but then i’m asking you then to decide use that inspiration then i’m asking you to make plans begin to make plans use that inspiration and then if you take that first step it can be the first step of an incredible journey and beginning can be many things beginning a new commitment to learning you say i’m going to have a library second to none and i bought the first book of my new library today i’m going to be surrounded by information and inspiration of the cassette tapes and the videos and the books i’m going to have a library second to none i’ve thought about it it wouldn’t be wonderful and you know i’ve i’ve started making plans you know i’ve provided some space in my room for my expanded library but here’s what’s exciting i got the first book today i’ve gotten started uh this is just the first of many many books this is the first of a whole flow of information for me this is the first time you want to learn a new skill and you sign up for a class let’s say you want to learn accounting or something and you you sign up for the class and you take the first class you get started you thought about it you made some plans for it you made some time for it but there’s nothing like sitting there in the class with the pen in your hand and the pad ready to take notes here i am i’m starting on a new journey of learning you know you called me the master of motivation and i think motivation is complete garbage so maybe we should start there that is a perfect place to start so i totally agree with you i said that in the spirit of i know what you’re trying to do so it is meant with absolute reverence but why do you say that it’s garbage well um and we’ll we’ll talk a lot about this but um i think it’s garbage because at some point we all bought into this lie that you got to feel ready in order to change yeah we bought into this this complete falsehood that at some point you’re going to have the courage at some point you’re going to have the confidence and it’s total frankly it’s it’s complete garbage and so there are so many people in the world and and you know you may be watching this right now and you have these incredible ideas and what you think is missing is motivation and that’s not true because the way that our minds are wired and the fact about human beings is that we are not designed to do things that are uncomfortable or scary or difficult our brains are designed to protect us from those things because our brains are trying to keep us alive and in order to change in order to build a business in order to be the best parent the best spouse to do all those things that you know you want to do with your life with your work with your dreams you’re going to have to do things that are difficult uncertain or scary which sets up this problem for all of us you’re never going to feel like it motivation’s garbage you only feel motivated to do the things that are easy right what do you think that is oh i know exactly why that is because i i’ve studied this so much because for me one of the hardest things to figure out was why is it so hard to do the little things that would improve my life and what i’ve come to realize and what we’ll talk a lot about today is that the way that our minds are designed is our minds are designed to stop you at all costs from doing anything that might hurt you and the way that that that that this all happens is it all starts with something super subtle that none of us ever catch and that is with this habit that all of us have that nobody’s talking about we all have a habit of hesitating we have an idea you’re sitting in a meeting you have this incredible idea and instead of just you know saying it you stop and you hesitate now what none of us realize is that when you hesitate just that moment that micro moment that small hesitation it sends a stress signal to your brain it wakes your brain up and your brain all of a sudden goes oh wait a minute wait why is he hesitating he didn’t hesitate when he put on his killer spiky sneakers he didn’t hesitate with the uh really cool track pants he didn’t hesitate with the nasa t-shirt now he’s hesitating to talk something must be up so then your brain goes to work to protect you it has a million different ways to protect you one of them’s called the spotlight effect it’s a known phenomenon where your brain magnifies risk why to pull you away from something that it perceives to be a problem and so you can truly trace every single problem or complaint in your life to silence and hesitation those are decisions and what i do and what’s changed my life is waking up and realizing that motivation’s garbage i’m never gonna feel like doing the things that are tough for difficult or uncertain or scary or new so i need to stop waiting until i feel like it and number two i am one decision away from a totally different marriage a totally different life a totally different job a totally different income a totally different uh relationship with my kids not like one decision i’m divorcing you in the marriage example but one decision on you know you could be having a conversation with your spouse and you feel your emotions rise up and within a tiny window those emotions can take over and can impact how your marriage goes or you can learn how to take control of that micro moment and make a decision to act in a way that actually shifts your marriage your life comes down to your decisions and if you change your decisions you will change everything
