DON’T WASTE TIME – Best Motivational Video 2020
what would you do if a doctor told you you only had seven days left to live if in only seven days from now you’d be gone forever and your time here would be over the most important commodity in this world is time time is priceless time is the essence of what you do each and every day i often ask undergraduates how many hours a day you waste or how many hours a week you wasted the classic answer is something like four to six hours a day you know you think well that’s 20 25 hours a week it’s 100 hours a month that’s two and a half full work weeks it’s half a year of work weeks per year it’s been said that time is free but it’s priceless you can’t own it but you can use it you can’t keep it but you can spend it once you’ve lost it you can never get it back i’m willing to bet if you were told that this was the end that your time here was up and in seven days you’ll be gone you’d do something you’ve always wanted to do how many seconds how many minutes how many hours have we wasted how many weeks how many months even how many years have we wasted when i say you can do it and don’t quit sometimes it just takes a little bit of help as well you can’t make excuses and be successful at the same time we can’t shy away from the things that are tough so if your life isn’t everything it could be you could ask yourself well what would happen if you just stopped wasting the opportunities that are in front of you listen we’re all going to make mistakes all right life is about making mistakes so many people just try to avoid it so much they never get anything done the secret is to not dwell on that shit too many of you that listening that are watching are just dwelling on stuff that happened yesterday guess what you can’t do jack shit about what happened yesterday you can only change what happens tomorrow you have been built for this nothing just happens you are in this situation for a reason and you are built for this so many people forget the fact that we can’t change what’s happened we can only change what’s gonna happen the reality is is that we have to maximize our time in order to make our dreams reality too many of us go through life living like we have all the time in the world and we take for granted everything around us the fact that you’re gonna die should light fire under your ass and get you to start seeing the world differently so the question then becomes why do you need to be told that you’ve only got seven days until you die for you to finally live stop wasting time we can never get it back i looked over on the side of the room and there’s a science lab and it had an ant farm i was able to look at those ants as the students show me each and every ant crawling around and moving and quickly i began to realize that the ant was a symbol of a person working each and every day i mean those ants to those students symbolized people working to achieve their goals those ants were creating a life for themselves without wasting time you know if you take people and i’ve told you this and you expose them voluntarily to things that they are avoiding and are afraid of you know that they know they need to overcome in order to meet their goals their self-defined goals if you can teach people to stand up in the face of the things they’re afraid of they get stronger so the secret is to learn from those mistakes look at what happens yesterday but don’t dwell on it don’t live there don’t live at that mistake don’t live at that point in your life where everything change for the worst don’t live there because all the time you’re living there and you’re going over every single possible scenario in your mind blaming yourself for making the wrong decision you’re not looking forward you’re not going anywhere especially forward if you’re constantly looking back you can’t do it all right what did i do okay great that’s what i did so guess what don’t do it again that’s it end of end a story move on that’s all you can take from that situation i can live with no responsibility whatsoever the price i pay is that nothing matters or i can reverse it and everything matters but i have to take the responsibility that’s associated with that i am here today to encourage you to stop wasting time tell yourself that you will do it making yourself believe that you can do it is a part of the process the mind is a powerful thing and it will tell you time and time again that you can do it and the body will follow training our mind to get better each and every day that’s in you you have built been built for this because those are the things that make us get better and better and better that’s practice that’s in and out that’s rep after rep time after time lap after lap lesson after lesson paper after paper book after book the human mind has a mindset that once it gets focused on the goal and buckles down and realize what it wants to do human beings can do extraordinary things and you don’t know what the upper limits to that are because you might ask yourself like if for 10 years if you didn’t avoid doing what you knew you needed to do by the depth by your own definitions right within the value structure that you’ve created to the degree that you’ve done that what would you be like the wright brothers once they did achieve flight after time and time again of making mistakes 66 years later the human race was able to put a man on the moon sitting around and dwelling and just constantly going over it in your head is gonna do nothing but drive you fucking mad move on it’s done learn from it change move forward the light is there it’s at the end of the tunnel and no matter how dark it’s been up until this point no matter how dark your life has been up until now the light is there even if you can’t see it you’ve got to keep moving forward learn from what you’ve just done move forward learn from what you’ve just done move forward repeat repeat repeat all the way forward until one day you’re gonna get to the end of that tunnel and you’re gonna see the light oh when we put our minds to it we can do extraordinary things nothing is impossible when you don’t quit you can do it i know it’s tough but time and time again the tougher it is the better it’s gonna make you you
