DON’T GIVE IN! – Powerful Motivational Speech For Success | 2017 MOTIVATION |
most of you won’t be successful because
when you’re studying and you can tie it
you quit I’m here today today if you got
somebody care my office the other day
crying I said look don’t cry to give up
cry to keep going don’t cry to quit you
already in pain you already hurt get a
reward from it don’t go to sleep until
you sixteen listen to me I’m here to
tell you today that you can come here
you can jump up you can do flips you can
be excited when we give away money but
listen to me you will never be
successful once I don’t have to give you
a dime and do it you too you won’t be
successful until you say I’ll need that
money cuz I got it in here so if you
want to make six figures you can’t just
be talking about you want to make six
figures when you want to succeed as bad
as you want to breathe then you’ll be
successful and when you get to the point
where all you want to do is be
successful as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful and I’m here
to tell you number one that most of you
say you want to be successful but you
don’t want it bad you’re just kind of
wanting you don’t want it badder than
you want a party you don’t want it as
much as you want to be cool you most of
you don’t want success as much as you
want to sleep something is wrong sleep
more than you love success and I’m here
to tell you today if you’re going to be
successful you’ve got to be willing to
give up sleep you got to be willing to
work off for three hours of sleep two
hours if you really want to be
successful some days you will have to
stay up three days in a row because if
you go to sleep you might miss the
opportunity to be successful that’s how
bad you gotta learn you got to go days
not listen to me think I don’t want to
be successful so bad that you forget to
eat but listen to me emma smith said
this at the end of the commercial if it
spits there all men are created equal
some work harder and free season
i’ma say it again because you might have
missed it all men are created equal some
work harder and preseason so that means
that there are some people who are going
to see the professor going to see the TA
and even when the professor says I don’t
meet with you my ta meet with you you
say I want to talk to your TA I don’t
pay the TA I pay you to teach me so you
won’t have to find some time to meet me
if I got to meet you at the mall if I
got to meet you at your house you are
going to see me listen to me all men are
created equal some work hard at first
even when I went to college guys were
way smarter than me 4.0 3.0 they went to
the Ivy League high schools came the oak
board from these great high school most
of them are not doing what I’m doing why
because it’s not about where you come
from it’s about heart you come to a
place where you know being smart enough
you got to have heart that’s number one
wife number two number two test number
two I wrote it down I want to make sure
that it says to be watch this watch this
we talk about sacrifice now the
important thing is this you’re right and
why I’m saying it cause I only have
about three more minutes listen to me
the most important thing is this to be
able at any moment to sacrifice what you
are for what you will become
that’s the number two thing you got to
catch that one to be able to listen to
me at any moment some of you you can
make sacrifices when monday night
football is not on you can make a
sacrifice but when the game come on with
some reason you just attached to it but
some of you when your favorite show come
on you can be you can make sacrifices
are funny when they not going on but
when your favorite show comes on money
best some of you folks into the fall
week and you like I gotta answer it if I
don’t answer the phone I’m gonna die I’m
saying you today that there are some of
you if you give up your cell phone you
would be successful but your cell phone
is more important to you than your
success
I’m gonna sit again I’m gonna hurt
somebody imma hurt somebody some of you
need to give up your cell phone because
the time you spend on your cell phone
could be healing for your success the
time you can be using to be successful
you’re using on the sale and the cell
phone is not bringing you nothing but a
field and somebody has told you you
couldn’t live without it I’m still not
going deep not giving up stuff watch
what I said to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we can
see I don’t do well in math you’re right
you ain’t never studied I’m not good in
writing cuz you have never written
before but I dare you to fail in writing
for a whole year to see if you can get
to the end I dare you to fail
I dare you take that same class over and
over guys I dare you stop dropping
classes like you saw always want to give
up I’m dropping why you dropping I’m so
grateful that the slave didn’t write and
quit say I’ve just don’t stop I’m a
slave on this gonna be explained I’m
equipped listen to me the slave said we
will live because one day we will become
see whatever you’re doing however you
spend your time that tells you who you
are so think about what it is you like
to create your life experience once I
look at how you commit your time once I
do an evaluation on how you spend your
time I can tell you exactly what you’re
committed to
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how much time do you spend working on
you how much time do you spend every day
working on your dream in the last 90
days how many books have you read
in the last year what new skill or
knowledge have you acquired what kind of
investment have you made in you a lot of
people as soon as they punch out they
rush home to fit on the couch they rush
home to do nothing they rush home just
to sit there and figure out okay I’m
going to go sleep do it all tomorrow
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you have to give it everything you got
no more TV no more parties no more plan
if you have a 4.0 what you need to be
doing a study this is a life class that
means that we have an opportunity to
learn how to maximize our lives think of
the things that you’re doing that
somebody else could be doing and think
of yourself as a precious commodity that
you are going to reserve your energy for
your highest and best use
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all the successful people at that same
amount of time that you have each day so
what did they do that you may not be
doing they invested in themselves on the
weekends afterwards and the evening they
put time and something that they wanted
to do they invested their own time in
themselves
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we are busier than any other generation
we have seen in the last three to four
hundred years we are just as busy as we
can be and we think because we’re busy
we’re effective but I want you to
challenge your schedule for a minute and
ask yourself are you are you really
being effective or is your life
cluttered with all kinds of stuff that
demands you and brings you and taxes you
and stops you from being your highest
and best self and are you substituting
busyness all the chaos of those a lot of
the business from being effective
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it takes time to be creative you were
meant to be creative you were created in
the likeness and the image of a creator
and in that likeness and in that image
you had creativity if you had time you
would be creative the most important
thing is to value our time so what are
you going to do with this time how much
of it do you think you’ve already used
up what are you going to do today the
only thing that you can control that
influences success in life is how hard
you work how honest you are and how well
you deal with others you can control
those are variables when you have a
dream and the dream isn’t something you
dream then it happens the dream is
something you never knew was going to
come into your life dreams always come
from behind you not not right between
your eyes it speaks up on you
but when you have a dream it doesn’t
often come at you screaming in your face
this is who you are this is what you
must be for the rest of your life
sometimes a dream almost whispers and
I’ve always said to my kids the hardest
thing to listen to your instinct your
human personal intuition always whispers
it never I mean we had what was since I
was in my late teens early 20s and I
just never got around to it
I finally started realizing as I was
getting older by you know my early 40s
that I better really do it it’s either
now I’m never going to do it we are here
and and as you struggle to to make your
dreams happen to live the impossible
we’re thinking of you
I think some people and maybe I used to
think what you got successful you could
ah you’re successful in it okay you now
you can kind of just relax a little bit
and but that’s not the case at all you
have to pedal even harder you have to
work even more there are more
opportunities that need more time and
dedication in order to do them well you
have to really really hunker down and do
the hard work
but I’ve never been afraid of hard work
and I always tell people when I’m asked
and it’s pretty often that I’m asked
about dreams and achieving creative
goals that I always believe that the
bridge between reality and a dream is
work and I always in moments of despair
and doubt and dark days a focus on on
the work I show up and I work and I work
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cd3 weeks we’ve been talking about the
Platt Amendment what are you people on
dope what I like me to do right now I
want you to think about your dream
because I’m in a room full of dreamers
think about your dream right now what
you think about it and envision it now
ladies and gentlemen let me share
something with you I do not believe that
any of us have dreams that were not
given to us well the purpose of
accomplishing those particular dreams
and I want to share something with you
that has changed my life I started out
as was indicated by jazz very humble
beginnings I don’t know what that dream
is that you have I don’t know how to
care how far-fetched it might appear to
be I don’t care how disappointing it
might have been as you’ve been working
toward that dream but here’s what I know
that that dream that you’re holding in
your mind that it’s possible see
sometimes we can’t say I can do that but
what we can say that it’s possible
then I can have my dreams as we run
toward it as we work on it day in and
day out no one ladies and gentlemen
could have convinced me when I started
out just over six years ago working on
my dream and I want you to think about
whatever your dream is because I was
willing to take the chance and most
people won’t do that most of the people
that you talk to to try and bring them
into the business these are not
risk-takers most people have done all
that they’re ever going to do they raise
a family they earn a living and then
they died but people were running toward
their dreams life has a special kind of
meaning and here’s what I will share
with you that in the process of working
on your dreams you are going to incur
incur a lot of disappointment a lot of
failure a lot of pain a lot of setbacks
a lot of defeats but in the process of
doing that you will discover some things
about yourself that you don’t know right
now what you will realize is that you
have greatness within you I don’t have
any college training but I met a high
school teacher who one day changed my
life I was waiting on another student
and when he came in he said to me young
man go to the board and write what I’m
about to tell you and I said I can’t do
that turn he said why not I said I’m not
one of your students he said it doesn’t
matter follow my directions town I can’t
do that sir he said why not I said
because I’m magical mentally retarded
and he came from behind his desk and he
looked at me he said don’t ever say that
again
someone’s opinion of you does not have
to become your reality if you want to
make your dream become reality the
people that are running at the three
oh that it’s possible that you can live
your dream that’s it’s necessary that
you’re religious that you have a plan of
action that you are creative the people
that are living their dream of finding
winners to attach themselves to the
people that are living your dreams of a
people that no that is if it’s going to
happen it’s up to them and they’re
resolving within themselves it’s not
over until I win
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do
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it takes your doing because if you don’t
have the room we’ll never find for seven
to ten ounces
I can guarantee it was business we’re
all busy you’re working at the
dry-cleaning you’re making dinner you’re
taking the kids back you’re paying the
bills you gotta sleep eat all those
we’re using 24 hours of every day all
right sure what does if you’ve got to
find it you need something that will
take you to the same of mine then we
will change the way we live we will
change the daily actions we take and we
will change your mindset for two to four
year period
you got to set yourself up to win you
got to set yourself up with a process
that allows you to consistently grow
consistently enjoy your life and
consistently produce the results that
you’re really asking somebody told you
to halt work on pill I’m here to tell
you if you work forward if you want to
put in that sweat that blood and those
tears I’m telling you you can have what
you want me what you won’t do what you
want
are you hear me keep going to use these
don’t quit don’t give up with the to me
don’t give up don’t give it you hang in
there you hang in there because if you
quit right now do it will never see this
but if you hold oh if you hold on
everything you’ve dreamed of everything
you envisioned everything you worked for
it’s common but you can’t quit or give
up before you did if you work hard you
can’t have it in a nun you can have new
things are man and ain’t nothing to play
have is he willing to work for and the
United State have is he willing to
persevere if you’re willing to stick in
there people in the space you want to
fight nothing
they have are you here with your
intelligence is your is your I’m coming
I’m telling you is your you can have it
enjoy you can do it it’s yours you can
be enjoyed if he can do it listen to me
anybody should do high school dropout
only lived in abandoned buildings 12
years ago for your degree if you want it
if you want it as bad as you want to
breathe if you really really want it
like this
say you want it you can have it this
ain’t for a week in the uncommitted are
you hear me success is not for the weak
anonymous this is physical sometimes
it’s going hard sometimes painful is
hard yep is hard
yes is difficult yep why because the
process is we out the week it’s reading
out the week and so sometimes you got to
play hard
you got to play physical you got to play
tough execution is versa you got into a
place that we started who gets in the
middle of it to zone room and anything I
can hear me and I just finish you finish
crawl this is gonna be very close to
most people reason why you’ll never do
successful is because you’re
procrastinating we procrastinate you
never finished up don’t get caught up in
well I’ve tried it four or five times
and things didn’t work out if there’s
something that you want and you’re
hungry for you’ve got to do whatever is
necessary until and when you give the
best you can and that’s not enough you
must do what is required
and don’t give up on yourself don’t
throw the towel in so quickly
the secret to success gets finished it
execution is worship are you here oh you
better hear what I’m telling you baby
listen to me very closely at reducing in
worship
we’re getting these nets and the world
was telling me I was a loser my my
teachers were telling me a loser my
friend’s parents weren’t saying my face
that I was a loser but I could see him
there I the guys just sit there as a 13
14 15 16 year old and look at my class
my teachers are like I’m gonna show you
I’m gonna show all of you
you think I suck I’m gonna be the
biggest best person on earth I come here
to remind you that there’s only one
thing you can do the only thing you can
do the only thing that can trump your
DNA the only thing that is controllable
if you want it if you want this is work
world like there’s gonna be nothing else
like yes work smarter Lions can hear the
fin of the morning yes it’s better to
have a better strategy and to work
smarter but here’s the punchline nothing
about it and I mean a lot of it and the
more you want a bulwark against the
bigger your ambition more you got to
punch back to walk and gotta give up
bugs and leisure and laziness
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this message is for the people like oh I
don’t have time like what was me like
why am I not as big as you I don’t have
money I don’t have fat like I didn’t get
a check if you’re complaining you better
stuff bought it yourself because if
you’re complaining and I audit you I
promise you I promise you I will find
for hours that you’re not doing Jack
you’re sleeping and by the way I’m a fan
of sleeping leave is important
so let’s but but you might be sleeping
eight hours and sevens cool too that’s
one right you’re playing local teams
like you got time for Angry Birds and
you’re complaining a cheesy thing that
if you complain a little irrespective
you start the sentence with a setback
and not in any way it’s just important
to people understand that complaining
has no valid and if you complain about
not having enough money for pills
keep it simple let your actions dictate
because sitting there in the open
your actions my friends are much much
much louder than your words if you’re
going to come to me and tell me you
don’t have time in a world where I work
every second for 18 hours a day right
you’re going to have a tough time making
me feel bad that it’s not happening for
you because that’s part of it
if you ever say to somebody else why are
you up so early that is the quickest
tell to you or not a living place and
that has ever crossed your mind you guys
you need to work harder and passionately
there’s really nothing else I mean how
do I
I’m exhausted every day but I’m making
enormous enough things happen in my team
out right not only am i working 18 hours
but I’m working fast as hell in those 18
hours and I’m prioritizing what’s
important what’s not you’ve just got a
push to deal no matter what
and so I think if you want to cry if you
want to be an anomaly you got to act
like that all of us
at some time or another have agonized
over making a decision some decisions of
major decisions and also there are a lot
of small decisions that we don’t make
that they tax our minds they drain our
energy they create a lot of anxiety and
nervousness and mental torment because
we don’t take care of it we decide not
to decide which is the decision deciding
to decide to act it’s a major major
challenge for all of us at different
points in different areas of our lives
and there are things that happen to us
along the way experiences that we have
that prevent us from working through the
mental block of acting of doing those
things that we know we ought to do so
what I want you to think about is what
is there that you know you need to do
that you want to do this but for some
reason or another you’ve been holding
back for some reason or another you just
have not been able to gather your nerds
or be able to work through the
procrastinating or putting it off or
justifying or blaming some reason or
another you just haven’t done it and you
know you want to do this you really want
to do this but you don’t know why you
haven’t done we know that this is not
easy because in order to begin to
reinvent your life you’ve got to make a
conscious deliberate determined effort
that you really got to put all of
yourself into it it’s very challenging
to act to do those things the times when
you’re looking at everything
I know I need to do this but I don’t
feel like I don’t want to do it I know I
need to do it yet leave me alone no I
don’t want to do it so what do we do one
of those things that that calls us to do
like that I think that among the things
that prevent us from acting is the fear
of failure and if you’ve already failed
you want to fail again the pain of that
the disappointment the fear of law is
another thing because many times when we
do those things that we know we need to
do we feel that we might lose somebody
that we love very much in care about we
don’t want to hurt anybody
many of us don’t act because we want
other people’s approval we want
everybody to like us and to accept us
and that’s not possible
many of us don’t do the things that we
want to do and don’t act because of lack
of self-confidence
we don’t believe enough in ourselves
there are many reasons why we don’t act
there are other things though that
effect it is that not wanting to take
personal responsibility we want somebody
else to do it and we many times we pick
up our inability to do certain things
from people that we love people that we
admire we identify with them and we live
in the context of their ideas their
opinions and their life patterns we buy
into it unconsciously but there’s some
people it takes that kind of crises to
bring them into reality in order for
them to act in their own best interests
some people have to hit rock bottom in
order to rise I don’t know
you want to begin to look out on your
life what you want for you and I think
that when we begin to focus in the area
of what does it take for us to act I
think we can say events can inspire us
to act
I got particular VIN and his life
circumstances see life also a things
that can inspire us that see we don’t
have the courage and that’s what it
takes courage it takes guts to do that
which you know you need to do if you
don’t have the courage to act like many
times we’ll move on you and make you a
life will whoop your got so bad you will
be so miserable you will get so much
hell you say yeah I will do it what do
you want me to do take me so I’m saying
that look at something in your life it
might be just writing a letter to
somebody to say thank you it might be
just to apologize so much these many
things we don’t do is because the fact
we want people to like us there’s some
necessary losses in life when you decide
acting in your best interest you going
to lose some friends everybody’s not
going to approve of you there are some
people that won’t like you who do you
think you’re you’re an arrogant what do
you think you can do you think you can
get away with that you’re selfish it’s
my life and so what I’m saying to you is
that as you begin to look out on your
life this is challenging this is not
easy acting so what are the things that
we can begin to do to harness our will
number one you’ve got to bring it out
and look at 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 the next
thing is ask yourself the question is it
helping you to continue to put it off if
it’s an answer for you to continue to
procrastinate then continue to do that
but if it’s a liability for you if it’s
causing you some mental and some
emotional challenges or perhaps a
financial problem look at that examine
that for what it is next step ask you
something what’s blocking you what’s
preventing you from acting why don’t you
have the courage to handle that why
don’t you face that what are you running
away from
what kind of avoidance behavior are you
engaged in so what is the worst thing
that could happen I want you to
visualize that experience that filled
with nervousness and the discomfort and
the more you run it in your mind the
less power that it will have next is how
will you feel after taking this action
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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
qualify your faith when you have an
inner conversation say no don’t do that
your reasons will become your rod and
your staff to comput you to take you
through those challenging moments so
write down your reasons and what you
will find but when you decide to add
when you decide to take life oh and let
me warn you it can be painful it will be
uncomfortable and that’s where the
growth is when you are uncomfortable
when you’re stretching out when you’re
taking life by the color you’re going to
get thrown to the ground again and again
and again but when you have
determination and you know that what
you’re doing is right it gives you your
life it gives a special meaning and
power to you you will have some power
from on high
you will discover some things about
yourself then will begin to electrify
your personality you’ll begin to
discover some things about you that you
don’t know you’ve got when you put
yourself in that type of challenging
situation it’s a wondrous thing that a
decision to act releases energy in the
personality for days on in a person may
drift along without much energy having
no particular sense of direction and
having no will to change then something
happens to alter the pattern it may be
something very simple and
inconsequential in itself but it stabs
awake it alarms it disturbs in a flash
one gets a vivid picture oneself and it
passes the result is decision shop
definitive decision and the wake of the
decision yes even as a part of the
decision itself energy is released
the act of decision sleeps all before it
and the life of the individual may be
changed
cliff
when you decide to make decisions to act
you begin to access power within you
that will increase your self-esteem that
will increase and enhance your personal
power but that puts you in charge of
life and light has a whole new meaning
point as a sense of personal freedom
doesn’t mean you’re not going to have
any struggle doesn’t mean that you’re
not going to have any challenges doesn’t
mean that you’re not going to suffer any
defeat no no no doesn’t mean bad but
what it does mean that you’re putting
yourself in the position to grow you
putting yourself in line with your
higher calling and your higher self and
that’s what life is about
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