Eric Thomas – STOP MAKING EXCUSES (Eric Thomas Motivation)
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no excuses guys I wish I could I wish
you could pay me a thousand dollars
today I could tell you 70% is enough I
wish you could pay me 15 I wish you
could pay me 1500 and I could say to you
80% is gonna get it I guarantee me a 15
on it I guarantee you I guarantee you
that a magic wand you and 80% will be
equivalent to a hundred percent for you
booth but it’s not gonna happen so I
need you to understand something you
could have it if you wanted but the
bigger the dream bigger the dream bigger
the dream guys the bigger the dream
bigger the dream they’re harder to grind
and can I be honest with you guys I’m
grinding harder now I’ve ever grind
before somebody said Ichi somebody
called me as I said Ichi I don’t know if
you’ve been paying attention they were
right I have it Ichi we’ve been going
online and if you go on YouTube and you
put the best motivational video of all
times right now Ichi that’s your video
how do you feel ichi ichi ichi i don’t
know who did it but I did it the top
motivational speakers in the world and
in some categories in 10 you there
you’re like number 10 you’re number 5 DG
how you feel each guys I’ll be honest
with you it was easier when I wasn’t on
the list because I wasn’t focusing
we want people to make guarantees to us
but we’re not willing to make guarantees
to ourselves
somebody get you a guarantee $30 30-day
guarantee in 30 days and if you don’t
make what they told you is gonna make in
30 days you got an attitude you want
your money back but you’ve never
demanded your money back from yourself
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what does it do when you’re not the only
one that wants to make a million dollars
a year company you’re not the only one
that wants to be the president you’re
not the only one that wants to be a CEO
what if you’re not the only one that
wants what you want what if there are
thousands of other people who want what
you want you have to outwork them the
reason why I’m not successful is because
of my boss have you ever looked at
yourself in the mirror and said I’m not
getting up on time
what do you do when a thousand other
people want exactly what you want you’ve
never looked at yourself in the mirror
and said you let you down until you get
to that point you let you die you’ve
never you’re not brave enough you want
to put it on somebody else I changed and
I stopped being a victim I stopped
saying I’ve gotta wait for good things
to happen to me and I said I’m gonna
ride I’m going to fight I’m going to
work I’m going to press toward
I’m going to learn I’m going to do
everything in my power every single day
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you got our brine them you gotta get up
earlier you got to stay up later
you’ve got to execute and you’ve got to
go from 70 to 120 and if you create a
culture of losing if you keep being a
victim if you keep letting losing happen
to you if you keep letting people do you
and treat you any kind of way it’s going
to become a culture you’ll probably
think 80 you’re doing less now than you
did we’re doing more now every video we
got a spell check now we don’t have to
spell check meals you can put up with
your misspelling nobody care didn’t know
who I was now every single videos being
scrutinized now every single thing we’re
doing people are talking about now every
single video we do has to be taught now
we go back to the first one I didn’t
even say thank God his money I said
magical Mondays I have standards I have
values I don’t care how much you pay me
if I speak at an elementary school for
$300 I chose to do that you always want
to blame other people you always want on
you want to hold other people to the
fire but you’re not holding yourself to
the fire you owe you an explanation you
need to look at yourself in the mirror
and say why are you only giving 50%
what’s wrong with you you need to put
yourself on punishment
those of you with dreams and goals I
want you to be honest with me seven days
a week seven days of the week you can
honestly say as it relates to your goals
DS mode you give 120% every every single
day you get up hundred to 20% be smaller
the greatest feeling in the world God
the greatest feeling in the world is
execution the greatest feel in the world
is doing what you said you were going to
do there’s no greater feeling in the
world I need you do me a favor when you
leave I mean I need you to be honest
with yourself I need to be transparent I
need you to say my and my dreams I’m
beast mode beast mode my business plan
be smooth my income that I have myself
be smoke what I want to do for my
children be smoke in the university the
scores I need be smoke I’ve got to go
into beast mode to get it and I want you
to look at your time you look at your
time Saha gazelle gazella you look at
your habits gazelle and as long as your
habits are gazelle but your mindset is
beasts you’ll never see it let’s do me I
would prefer that you have a gazelle
literally I would prefer to church here
your thought pattern is your dreams of
gazelles
I would prefer income gazelle
but what you get every day was beast and
without you saying award without you
telling the world and you gazelle tattoo
but you act like a beast that’s what you
would get you would get more than what
you bargained for because that’s what
happened to us all we were doing was
videos we never knew that we would be a
global company we never knew we would be
a multi-million dollar company we never
knew we’d have stores a nice truck we
never knew we would sell our books in
Africa we never knew our stop with being
England we never knew so we were these
small kids doing small stuff but when
you looked at our schedule and our
activities peace mode
listen to me very closely if you don’t
have belief if you don’t have oh if you
don’t have faith you ain’t got nothing
the first level to success in the
classroom the first level to success in
school the first level to success in
sports the first level to success in
life listen to me the very first level
the very first level is you seeing it
like it’s clear to you like you know
exactly exactly what you walk you know
exactly when you want it that’s a joke
you know exactly what it tastes like
you know what it looked like you know
what it smells like before you really
blow up blow up and you get success like
you literally have it in the palm of
your hand without having it what does
your dream look like what does this
smell like what does it taste like
who gave me five grand when I was at
Michigan State doing my program I didn’t
get it how did he had no budgets when I
didn’t need a budget I had a dream I
didn’t need no help the president never
came and said to me ET we’re gonna help
your program for this institution boy
the president never take and I never
quit I never gave up why because it
wasn’t her dream in the first place it
was my dream
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it was my goal
I don’t expect you to believe in my
dream like I believe in my dream and the
problem some of y’all is you want
someone else to support your dream
it’s joke train if you want to have it
get your butt up and make it happen if
you wanted to happen
rise & grind I had a teacher in the ph.d
program to tell me I love that she said
Eric you don’t write well enough to get
a PhD I say thank you
you gonna be the first person I call
when I finished and find you a copy
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the people who blew up they blew up
because there was something that was
doing wrong in a life and they took that
pain and they turned that pain in the
Sun
how are you going to class when it’s ten
degrees at 12 inches of snow you know
how you do it because you know your mama
broke and she working two jobs and
taking on the loan for you to go to
school I laugh at kids whose parents are
broke and they up there partying like
everybody else
so my boss we check it out loans and
sitting at home so people could pay when
that money ain’t even going to college
and we still going to parties I’m saying
what kind of Brotherhood is that well
you got my man up at 2 o’clock in the
morning washing your car and going to
get you groceries when you should be
helping this kid to study
listen to me if you don’t have hope if
you don’t have faith if you don’t have
belief
you ain’t got nothing I want my son to
have a better life than I had
I don’t want my son begging like I had
to beg I want my son that everything he
got to sell dope or he got a steal from
the mall
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