DO WHAT IS HARD – Best Motivational Video
you can’t connect the dots looking
forward you can only connect them
looking backwards so you have to trust
that the dots will somehow connect in
your future you have to trust in
something your gut destiny life karma
whatever because believing that the dots
will connect down the road will give you
the confidence to follow your heart even
when it leads you off the well-worn path
and that will make all the difference
your time is limited so don’t waste it
living someone else’s life don’t be
trapped by Dogma which is living with
the results of other people’s thinking
don’t let the noise of others opinions
drown out your own inner voice you’ve
got to find what you love and that is as
true for work as it is for your lovers
your work is gonna fill a large part of
your life and the only way to be truly
satisfied is to do what you believe is
great work and the only way to do great
work is to love what you do if you
haven’t found it yet keep looking and
don’t settle have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition they somehow
already know what you truly want to
become but you’re gonna have some ups
and you’re gonna have some downs most
people give up on themselves easily you
know the human spirit is powerful
there’s nothing is powerful it’s hard to
kill the human spirit anybody can feel
good when they have their health their
bills are paid they have happy
relationships anybody can have a larger
vision then anybody can have faith under
those kinds of circumstances the real
challenge of growth mentally emotionally
and spiritually comes when you get
knocked down it takes courage tag part
of being hungry when you’ve been
defeated it takes courage
to start over again their kills dreams
fear kills hope fear put people in the
hospital fear can age you fear can hold
you back from doing something that you
know within yourself that you’re capable
of doing but it will paralyze you at the
end of your feelings is nothing but at
the end of every principle is a promise
behind your little feelings it might not
be absolutely nothing at the end of your
love feelings but behind every principle
is a promise and some of you and your
life the reason why you not at your goal
right now cuz you just all about your
feelings all on your feelings you don’t
feel like waking up so who does don’t
allow your emotions to control you we
are emotional but we you want to begin
to discipline your emotion if you don’t
discipline and contain your emotions
they will use you you want it and you’re
going to go all out to have it it’s not
going to be easy when you want to change
it’s not easy if it were in fact easy
everybody to do it but if you’re serious
you’ll go all out I’m in control here
I’m not gonna let this get me down I’m
not gonna let this destroy me I’m coming
back and I’ll be stronger and better
because of it you have got to make a
declaration that this is what you stand
for you’re standing up for your dreams
you’re standing up for peace of mind
you’re standing up for health take full
responsibility for your life except
where you are and the responsibility
that you’re going to take yourself where
you want to go you can decide that I’m
gonna live each day as if it were my
last
most people life we really feel like the
level of stress in our life comes to how
much of life do you feel like you
control or how much does life control
you do you tend to control more of
what’s going on or events controlling
you it’s very easy that those events
start to take control unless we take
control what’s between our ears our own
mind you see what you and I focus on
massively affects how we feel whether
we’re thriving or surviving if you focus
on what you can’t control if you focus
on the past if you focus on what’s
missing from your life constantly that
pattern of focus will make you
frustrated overwhelmed and depressed it
won’t even matter if you’re you know
taking any of the presents if you keep
focusing on what you can’t control
what’s missing from your life you’re
gonna feel depressed though you think as
many antidepressants as you want
focus equals power if you want to thrive
you got to focus on what you can control
you got to focus on the difference you
can make you gotta focus on what’s
already in your life that you’re
grateful for and I have a little process
here at the end that’s my gift to you
which is just a simple ritual that can
bring you back to this place so one
thing that leaders do is they focus on
the things they want they focus on what
they can control they focus on what they
have they have a combination of
gratitude strength and commitment they
really unleash the second element they
have a vision they have something that
they’re after something they want to
create something they want to contribute
something they want to give something
you want to make happen and that’s when
you become a creator again instead of a
manager of life and it’s easy to lose
that sense of vision in your life
through disappointments hey we’ve all
had them you get all excited about
something and then you know life seems
to crush it
somebody betrays you you betray yourself
you don’t follow through and then you
don’t trust yourself at the same level
what makes somebody a leader is they
build this certainty and not only with
focus and nobody do they get a vision
for what they want but they bring that
certainty in their body listen if you’ve
ever been to one of my live events you
know that one of the greatest things
about let’s say unleash the power within
it is you go through a weekend where you
literally train your nervous system they
have certainly I mean how the heck did
you get people to storm through fire
it’s not about fire walking it’s about
getting yourself to be able to take
action and the areas of your life that
normally you would more than hold back
or your brain would take over and say I
can’t do this are you crazy somebody
else did it but not me what we do is get
people in a state where you’re gonna
follow through we’re gonna face your
fear and do it anyway and the way we do
that besides changing people’s focus
showing you how to direct and control
that focus is also by learning how to
use your body as the tool to change your
state listen if I drop my shoulders
enough I were to breathe shallow enough
and I would have slow down and say you
know I don’t know I’ll give it a try and
go into this state
I’d be like Samson get us hair cut off
because what we don’t realize is that
our mind is directly affected by the way
we use our body if you change the tempo
what you move then you change the way
you breathe then you change the way you
use your voice you literally change your
biochemistry and the one thing that
you’ll see that’s the same with a
greatest golfer in the world or the
greatest musician or the greatest you
know actor is they have this sense of
certainty and it isn’t born it’s
something that you make as a habit you
drill it into yourself I sure as heck
didn’t have that sense of certainty
growing up not even close and what I
found myself doing early on is I felt so
uncertain I couldn’t get myself to do
anything so I did all these rituals
these rituals of certainty I would go on
these runs and on the run even though I
didn’t feel like it I would do these
incantations where I would say out loud
over and over again you know gods wealth
is circulating in my life his wealth
flows to me an avalanche is of abundance
all my needs desires and goals are met
instantaneously by infinite intelligence
from one with God and God is everything
and I would say that over and over and
over for 30 minutes just crazy I would
envision that God circling is well
circling my life and I see the wealth of
love and friendship and impact and
growth and economics and all these
things physical fitness and aliveness
I’ve seen this wealth of abundance
flowing oceans of it into my life as I
went and did these things if you
envision something clearly enough and
you bring certainty to it over and over
again if you engage your physical body
in a simple ritual it could be as little
as 10 minutes a day I call it my hour of
power or 15 minutes to be fulfilled and
all you do is you take five minutes and
in those first five minutes you get
yourself moving and you get yourself in
a state of certainty and the way you
move and the way you breathe you focus
on what you’re excited about in your
life you focus on what you want to
create what you want to bring to your
children you want to bring to the world
and it it changes your state we all know
what happens when you’re out of state
when you’re burnt out when you’re
frustrated when you’re overwhelmed you
snap at people sometimes feel bad about
it you didn’t mean to it’s just the
state you’re in
so to thrive this year take uncertainty
and bring certainty to it to thrive this
year get what I call a compelling future
pick anything a goal a dream and desire
something to excite you so much that
you’re gonna feel yourself compelled to
actually find a way to make it happen
you’ve done it before
you’ve got an abscessed you know you
know how you did it but things happen
and you got yourself to where you want
to be let’s make that happen this year
right now regardless of its later in the
year the beginning you’re watching this
I made this so that hopefully I’d remind
you of what you know that your main to
thrive not survive what’s the third
element that makes somebody an effective
leader makes them a thriver even when
the environment is crazy
well they bring certainty and
uncertainty that’s that’s leadership
skill by focus and physiology by the way
they move by the way to breathe by what
they do they bring that certain because
there’s something they want so bad that
it makes them overcome the fear they
focus on what they want to create what
they want to give not oh my god what if
I fail but the third thing they do is
they’re decisive listen nothing changes
your life like decision I mean real
decision though not Whoopie well you
know I’ll try or I kind of decided I
want to give it a shot the word decision
comes some incision in Latin to cut off
from and when you make a decision you
cut off from any possibility except the
thing you’ve committed to well if I
always tell people if you want to take
the island burn the boats I mean if you
make a real decision every bit of you is
committed to something
it’s amazing how life will move for the
force of nature of a human being man or
woman that says this is how it will be I
don’t know how I’m gonna get it done but
I know this is what I’m gonna do I know
why I’m gonna do it was a Martin Luther
King you said it’s a man any man hasn’t
figured out what he’s willing to die for
isn’t fit to live if you can find
something you’re so excited about if you
can find something that will drive you
with that certainty and you add to that
decisiveness you can change anything you
don’t like your job change it you know
but there’s no jobs out there pull right
change it start the job change who you
are in the job
you are and enjoy yourself change your
perception change your appreciation
change your gratitude change your daily
ritual so you start to enjoy things
change what you notice change from
trying to get something to try to give
something the whole game will change
decisiveness is the ability to make a
decision even though you’re uncertain
once again what keeps people make a
decision fear of failure I remember I
had a chance to get to know general
Norman Schwarzkopf during the time in
which he was commanding our forces an
amazing man and he would step over there
Desert Storm as they called it in those
days and he could command a guy that was
just brilliant you know an officer who
came out of you know Harvard or
background of Princeton and he could
take a kid from the inner city and just
have that same command in connection
with them and I think part of what they
respected about him is he respected
everyone himself he had this connection
with people but the other thing
everybody respected was the man was
decisive and I asked him where he
developed that decision-making
capability just the willingness to just
make a decision in trust he said Tony
I’ll tell you where I worked for this
general when I was very young and I was
his assistant and he said I remember
there was a research project that the
you know the Pentagon had worked on for
that time he said I remember right like
five years and their arguments it was a
very strategic decision for where the
Defense Department was gonna move
towards in the future how they were
going to operate and he said there were
arguments for both sides and for five
years they’d gone back and forth and
nothing was resolved and they came to
the general that he was serving at that
time as the assistant and they had a
meeting and the meeting lasted one hour
and at the end of the hour they didn’t
generly stood up and said do that and he
picked one of the two and he did it with
absolute certainty and in the military
you usulutan you take your orders and
you go he said but Swartz cop said he
was just curious really curious to know
you know how can I get up and make a
decision like that because swear Scott
said I was the one doing all the
research and there was just there was
loads and loads of research and I know
he hadn’t read at all he said it
bothered me just to make a decision like
that without knowing everything he could
possibly know and so he said Swartz God
said I finally went to him and said sir
permission to
express myself freely he said permission
granted
he said sir how could you make that
decision he said there are reams and
reams and reams of information you got a
one-hour meeting you heard what 20
minutes of discussion for both sides and
you decided the entire direction where
things are gonna go for their armed
services with it this part of the armed
services and he said how could you
possibly do that you don’t have all the
information he said no one does in fact
information is important to an extent
but ultimately action is what needs to
be taken
someone needs to decide it was about how
you know you made the right decision he
said no one has made a decision young
man in five years a half a decade what I
decided will be right because either
we’ll put all our resources and we’ll
make it right or if it’s wrong we’ll
discover that quicker than sitting on
the fence for them in the five years and
we’ll find out it’s not right it will
change leadership is making decisions if
you’re gonna lead your own life you got
to make decisions and what’s worse Scott
says he realized rule number one in life
is when put in charge I’m put in command
take charge make the decision if it’s
right or wrong you’re gonna find out
quicker than if you sit around and the
interesting thing is the more you make
decisions the better you get what makes
somebody a leader what makes somebody a
leader is they’re willing to make the
decision other people won’t make they
want to put themself on the line knowing
that you’re gonna be wrong in some of
those decisions but you’re gonna find
out quicker and you can simply adapt and
change your approach to still get where
you want to go be decisive don’t like
your body change it don’t like your
relationship change it start by changing
you if you’ve changed you it’s still not
right then change it but the way you
make any change happen starts with a
decision all action all results our
mother door fathered if you would by a
decision what’s one small decision you
could make right now they would take you
in a direction you know you need to go
what’s a big decision that might be
really tough but have you really made it
truthfully it would take you on a new
direction of your life because whatever
direction you head into will lead to an
ultimate destination or destiny when you
know what’s right it’s time when you’re
still fearful it’s still time you want
to change your life decide decide
something you’re gonna do decide
something radical to commit an act that
moves you forward instead of thinking
more because we all can get caught up
you know I tell people you
in your head you’re dead the brain is a
great thing to strategize with but
there’s a point what you got to get back
in your heart and you got to put
yourself on the line and do something so
if you’re gonna thrive this year bring
certainty to your decision-making by
just putting yourself in that state and
trusting trust your Creator not just a
manager of life what do you have to do
get a vision for what you want what else
decide and step for real quick act there
is no such thing as a decision without
action a real decision you kind of
things off and you make it happen you do
something and I’ve always found in my
life never leave the sight of making a
decision until something that’s
important without doing something in
that moment that commit you to follow
through take some action in that moment
because otherwise here’s what happened
you get excited or something makes sense
to you you’re passionate about it and
you go I’m gonna go do this and then you
go home and you get caught up in emails
and phone calls and other people need
things from you the mixing you know
you’re out of state you know
follow-through has it happened to you
before and promise you if it hasn’t it
will in the future people that succeed
when opportunities there they trust they
trust if I’m going to thrive this is
here in my life for a purpose life isn’t
happening to me life is happening for me
even this pain or challenge or this
opportunity is something you’re gonna
find a way to make yourself I need to
make a decision and I need to do
something right now to move things
forward in the direction of what I
really want for my life even if I don’t
know the final destination I need to
move in that direction I need to take
some form of action most people they
have all these visions maybe start to
make a little sort of decision but they
don’t make a real decision cuz they
don’t act on it and if you don’t act on
it your ideas your dreams will die in
your mind they’ll die in your lips and
think about most people in North America
around the world the Western world are
they truly fit strong and healthy do
they truly have a relationship that’s
totally passionate do they love their
work are they economically free the vast
majority you and I both know the answer
is no if you want to be like most people
then what you gotta do is figure out a
survive if you want to lead you got to
thrive and you have that capability and
you’re probably already doing and I’m
probably speaking to the choir to some
extent if you’re still watching this
right now you have turned
is a raging maniac who’s on a rant
because that’s why I am I’m gonna win
right now a rant to call to your soul to
say you know what our great life is take
it to the next level find the way to
thrive on the very things that stop
other people in the tracks thrive on
what produces fear inside you and and
other people thrive on something that
you envision that you have a higher
purpose for thrive by being decisive
thrive by taking massive action and if
the massive action doesn’t work what you
try doesn’t work just simply try
something else and if that doesn’t work
try something else that doesn’t work try
something else until you find what works
now you can speed that up try modeling
by finding somebody who’s already
getting the results that you want to get
in your life somebody already has lost
30 pounds and kept it off they aren’t
lucky it’s been five years somebody who
started with nothing and now they’re
financially free and their family has an
extraordinary part of life why not
figure out what they do somebody who
truly is happy not because everything’s
going their way because they find a
deeper meaning and a richness and
everything around themselves whether it
be their children or nature or even
problems because obviously if we have no
problems we feel dead inside problems
can either destroy you or call you to
become more if you look at the biggest
challenges in your life if you brought
certainty to it if you better vision
beyond the problem if you made some
decision of what you’re gonna change
even if you know how and if you took
immediate action with enough intensity
massive action you probably found the
cure-all
you probably found a way to adapt and
get where you want to be that’s what
thriving is really all about
but the ultimate thriving is not just
breaking through and making things
happen the open thriving for this year
any year of your life is to remember the
secret to living is giving it’s too as
corny as that sounds it’s to connect to
something bigger than yourself and it
can be done so easily it can be doing
right there at home instead of running
past your kids looking at your phone
it’s stopping connecting it’s getting
kissing your spouse in a way where those
sparks happen like when you’re first met
instead of how you doing I’m moving on
most of us are moving so fast trying to
manage our lives that we’re not thriving
thriving comes with depth you’re not
gonna find thriving in a friendship
happens in milliseconds online nothing
wrong with its great connection but a
depth of a real friendship is not your
Facebook friend it’s not the same as
being with somebody and actually having
your full attention not while you’re
monitoring what’s going on on your cell
phone just the experience of being with
somebody but contributing your caring
contributing your interest contributing
you know in a simple way finding some
way to give love attention care joy or
happiness to any human being it doesn’t
have to be working in a soup kitchen but
I could be pretty wonderful too
volunteering an hour in a month an hour
and a week can change a person’s life
but it can be outside world can also be
really on the inside world if you want
to thrive then you got to remember
life’s not about me it’s about we you
already know it it’s in your soul you
know that doesn’t matter words I say if
I’m saying something that’s BS you can
feel and if I’m saying something’s true
you can feel at your heart and soul and
the thing that’s true is we’re here for
more than just ourselves and we feel
most alive when we’re doing something
that’s beyond ourselves when there’s
something well we think that by this
interaction someone’s gonna feel more
loved somebody’s gonna feel more lifted
someone who is down is gonna get up
someone’s gonna know that they’re cared
for or I’m gonna help somebody
physically through the skills ability
talent whatever helping a stranger or
helping someone you love help comes from
a place where you’re abundant you’re not
scarce so the most important time the
help is when you think you need it so
next time you’re really feeling down and
out if you find somebody else who’s much
worse off because there’s always
somebody there if you look around and
see what you can do to help them and
watch what that does to change your
entire spirit psychology and state
you’ll find yourself thriving when you
step into a life of meaning beyond you
and ironically life is about you too and
when you’re in that thriving state of
growing and giving in that state of
certainty and that state of a vision of
what you want with a sense of purpose in
that state of decisiveness and that
state of action and that state of giving
oh how can you break a loose and you’re
still gonna thrive oh how could we break
a loose and you’re having a great time
so next time you’re feeling uncertain
remind yourself you’re a creator of life
not a manager of circumstances and I
hope this little trigger will remind you
that also what’ll help you have this is
not just this video that you watched
here which maybe watch it it’ll be
helpful maybe not it’s up to you but if
you get the heart of what I’m really
sharing it leads to the end
understanding that we are really our
lives are reflection of our rituals you
know if somebody tells me this is their
dream this is their goal I said that’s a
wonderful tell me your plan
but more importantly let me see your
rituals and we all have rituals will
they know it or not rituals equal
results if you’re overweight it’s
because your rituals just find out what
they are and change them if your rituals
are to get up every morning and go to
Starbucks and have a mocha smoke or
whatever the hell it is you have you
know and bunch of carbs and who everyone
knows what it’s not hard to figure out
your blood sugar is gonna be dropping if
you’re looking for how to coffee a few
hours later that does a great life of
energy that’s on fire that creates a
place where you’re riding the roller
coaster of how much energy you have for
now there’s an unlimited level of energy
with a different ritual when you start
out your day doing what I call really my
hour power of my 15 minutes to be
fulfilled so at 3 or 4 days a week five
days a week it took five or ten or
fifteen minutes one every now and then
you’ll get so much momentum you’ll give
yourself an hour an hour for yourself an
hour to connect to what matters most and
Howard to be grateful an hour to get
strong working out at least fifteen
minutes I’m gonna tell you it’ll frame
your life in a different level and
you’ll find yourself thriving so take a
look at rituals you have that don’t work
and what might be some new rituals like
instead of focusing what you don’t have
being truly grateful for what you do
have instead of focusing on what you
can’t control
think what you can do right now to
participate in your own rescue not
waiting for someone else to do it
rituals define us and so my hope is
maybe these five things to thrive can
trigger you to get in a state where you
create some new rituals as they will
create the habits and the experiences of
the life that you desire and that you
deserve so that’s my rant I hope it
touched you if it didn’t I apologize
because my intent is pure blessings to
you and I hope I have a chance to serve
and see you soon maybe at an event or
somewhere else in the world and
LIVESTRONG and
with passion
