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when you get up in the morning don’t
think just roll out of bed do any
lifecycle or go on a passing a ride or
go to the chamber you know that’s what
you have to do and then read something
and learn something so don’t even think
about it stay hungry as soon as you
think that you’re perfect that’s when
you scoop
I gotta get better I gotta lose more
weight I get a trip down my tummy I
gather they get bigger calves
I gotta get bigger tablets so if you’re
not quite reaching you go because you
didn’t do everything that you could do
you have time you make the time too much
is not enough if you fall down I have no
fear of fainting in a gym because I know
it’s great it could happen as throw up
many times farm is working out because
it’s all versus stay hungry I do
everything that I can to be a winner and
to get the party the time vision if you
do something then do it go all out you
have time you make the time you can do
it you can do it you can be the greatest
do it go for it I look forward to
another thousand reps of of sinners I
look forward to another 500 pounds of of
a leg brace was
I look forward to more girls do my arms
fall off why because I knew that every
rep didn’t did every set that it did and
more weights to the lifted I get one
step closer to turning that vision into
reality you can do it why do you want to
work out what is your call if I can see
it
and if I can’t believe it then I can
achieve it you know everything seems to
be almost impossible until someone does
it don’t want to be mr. universe I don’t
want to be the greatest bodybuilder of
all time to win the championship over
and over and over again and to lift the
trophy overhead so that was a great core
you have to have the cord beauty
business trailers you can do it I wanted
to make sure that out of the 24 hours of
the day that I don’t waste one single
hour because ours were too precious you
have time you make the time
little victories add up and that is what
gives you them ultimately confidence you
can be the greatest stay hungry we all
fail the key thing is is to keep in mind
what is you forward and keep looking at
that as you get up and dust yourself off
grip your butt off it is so important
that you work your butt off down ever
look for shortcuts keep pushing forward
it wasn’t easy
amid there were moments where I felt
like we were pushing an impossible
weight up the giant mountain if it be
fell back down several times people
thought that that was a crazy freak I’m
always hungry for more
I want one and I think all of you want
more
I believe that self-discipline is the
definition of self-love
of course I’ve always believed in
setting goals really high
I always like to sit or so hide that
than they says always it’s impossible
let the train destroy you let it strip
you let it remake it mold you don’t be
afraid this Millennials are stuck with
the degrees that are not usable and
bills that they can’t pay for middle
America is frustrated because the jobs
are gone and they felt seem to be coming
back the inner cities are frustrated
because there’s no economic
opportunities in there each of us has a
responsibility to stop waiting on
someone to rest to us and redesign our
lives and create the kind of life you
want to live Northern a sales deceitful
course and to have a big vision yes
everything is always impossible until
someone does it we can do the impossible
let’s get started do what you can’t
knock it out build up extra free time if
you need a break take a break doing what
you can if you need a break take a break
the video relaxation take some
relaxation you don’t waste your time
though people do relaxing but they do
what they don’t and do it good they
didn’t feel relaxed when they get done
what they did is they did something
stupid true and how they watched youtube
videos for now that did that help you
know called side go for a run do some
burpees go surfing go do see to Jitsu
play with your kids whatever do
something that actually has some value
if you don’t know where you are going
you don’t know what it takes to get when
you get up in the morning don’t think
just roll out of bed go any lifecycle
all the water passing right or go to the
chain will cut you know that’s what you
have to do and then read something and
learn something so we don’t even think
about it as soon as you think that
you’re perfect
that’s when you school I gotta get
better I got to lose my way I get a trip
downtown I gather they get bigger caps
I gotta get bigger deltas
Oh
we can do whatever
you’re not quite reaching you goal
because you didn’t do everything that
you could do you have time you make the
time you don’t fix this you will be a
bitch for the rest of your life what the
fuck are you doing watching some
mind-numbing TV making that list you
need to go to the store next time making
those phone calls to those people and
just chit chatting and gossiping about
dumbass things the epidemic you’re
talking about is a lot of people bitch
about fucking everyday they bitch about
not having time they fix about the boss
to bitch about to husband that bitch
about their lives did this about
everything
your feelings are screwing you I don’t
care how you feel I care about what you
want and if you listen to how you feel
when it comes to what you want you will
not get it
because you will never feel like it you
can’t put your foot down you can’t say
yes you can’t say no you don’t own
yourself you’ll be a made a bitch for
the rest of your life but
congratulations red flag you noticed it
you’re gonna deal with it now so you win
and it’s not about being overly
aggressive and hysterical
but it’s about owning yourself you need
to get outside your comfort zone it’s
not about taking risks it’s about
getting out side your comfort zone those
first three seconds when you push
yourself out of bed they blow but once
you’re up it’s great mr. resistance will
be there every morning morning noon and
night and while you are sleeping riding
your ass kicking your ass unless you
turn around and you start throwing
punches we bitch about everything in
life about it I’m gonna say all these
fucking things
what the fuck are you doing about it you
gotta take action in your life you gotta
stop bitching you gotta start being find
a solution to your fucking problem don’t
be the problem take action for every
action there’s an opposite reaction if
all you do is bitch nothing’s gonna
happen in your life take action take
control stay hard
you’ve got to get comfortable in getting
uncomfortable and the minute that
discomfort begins to woo you you are no
longer in control now the circumstances
are so put yourself purposefully in
uncomfortable situations then go back to
the gym I mean because really that’s the
battleground for you right now then go
back to the gym not leave you exerted
your courage of these particular ways no
one can teach you virtue
see I think Aristotle once said there’s
no virtue is developed in a vacuum
essentially no virtue is developed in
the absence of the practice the
especially we’ve got to do the thing to
have the power Ralph Waldo Emerson
you’re gonna do the thing to have the
power so you don’t go read a book about
merging
don’t go read a book about courage don’t
ask any more questions don’t send any me
any more questions or ask another
youtuber don’t read it man
don’t think about it I’ll talk about it
with your friends go and fucking do this
thing go practice that virtue of courage
it’s the one you’re like and go to the
gym and try again go out there take no
prisoners have no regrets have no fear
lay it all out on the line if you mean
real dream
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you live in bragging in your blood
in your phone
you’re fucking genetic if you think
that’s where real strength lies you
badly you think bad in your faith the
only consistent life once and you only
get certain opportunities once at the
age that you are right now and I know a
lot of you are sort of in this age
bracket you know somewhere where you’re
graduating from high school graduating
from college getting on with your life
you don’t develop start character
virtues it’s really difficult it’s gonna
be more difficult later on to do it
because now you’re in the protocol real
world get to the gym every day how do
you become fear of failure fear of
success or or fear of fear itself
believing in yourself is the first
secret to success you have to find your
inner passion the thing that wakes you
up in the morning the thing that you
think about all day the thing that you
wish you were getting paid for once you
find it you need to believe you can do
it could I become committed to the
process of what I was doing without
being emotionally attached to the
results what I was doing in other words
if I didn’t get what I thought I was
gonna get can I still show up be just as
dedicated just as committed and just as
on fire as I was at day one right
because everybody knows how to respond
when they get what they’re supposed to
get and things go the way it’s supposed
to go I think that’s the reason the
quote says you’re just a character of a
person not by whether they stand in
times of comfort in pavilions you just
the character of a person on where they
stand in terms of challenge and
controversy you got some of the most
grow you
face of this planet and he had adversity
can’t fight themselves out the paperback
and it’s not even that they don’t have
the will like they got it it’s that the
perspective about the adversity isn’t
right and I firmly believe perspective
drives performance every day of the week
our individual view what they do will
always affect how they do what they do
from can’t understand why they’re trying
to pulls it down but you’re still rising
but they don’t want to see you make it
but you’re still drivin you still livin
good you’re still eating well but they
may have tried everything they know to
pull you away closer and closer to your
going on your breakthrough no matter
what happens never stop believing in
yourself it is the strongest factor of
success
self-esteem is every day believe he
deserved believe you can do it believe
you have the ability believe you are on
the right path the lead will get it and
most importantly believe in yourself you
gotta take my life before you take my
drive I wasn’t working just to be a
great football player I want to be a
great man I want to be a great father
for my children
I want to be a great husband for my wife
I want to be a great servant in the
world
I don’t want when that mercy or rain
comes I’m the guy I was great before the
adversity with the woman that versity
hit I never turned back the to long I
don’t want to be that person that’s
great when everything is going all good
but when something goes wrong they flee
and they won’t nothing to do it
it’s going to show up rain sleet or snow
and they gonna give you everything
you gotta take off arrogance
you gotta call
take off ends it
booze
Maximus
thank you so much
you seen my dreams and ambitions of what
is live here they keep me moving in a
direction motivation gets me there
faster you see you can look for outside
motivation but this won’t sustain you
unless you have an inner desire you
don’t know how close you are to success
so why stop now you’ve come so far so
why give in now you are a champion we’re
just waiting for your time to shine keep
pushing the same as you’ve always been
doing you should never give up on
something you can’t go a day without
thinking about don’t quit on your
passion don’t give up on your dreams you
are the only person who can bring them
to life you are the only one who can
write your book make your film be the
athlete you were destined to be help
those people you can help it is only you
who was destined to do those things
fight scenes that could happen might
happen might not happen
50 years I spent like that I named
myself awake at 3:00 in the morning
you know what ever since my diagnosis I
sleep just fine my history did not have
to become my future for whatever reason
most people their associations are to
avoid anything that’s uncomfortable but
it’s so illogical because when you look
at comfort and you look at success and
progress and that eventual the feelings
of accomplishment and of getting past
certain hurdles and in terms of like how
you feel about life a lot of those are
connected to discomfort like discomfort
is your friend I was one who swam
against the tide of what is expected and
what is but the establishment wants from
us I began to see the possibilities of
not being where I was
I came to realize it’s that fear that’s
the worst of it that’s the real I will
stand I will put both of my feet in the
ground and I will stamp my something
because if I don’t stand for something
I’ll fall for anything if you live your
life just acting constantly on the
momentum of other people’s expectations
of you wanting to be liked by these
other people so get up get out
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we yield
we’re gonna come
inch by inch play by play over finished
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 what you’ll realize is that
you’re more powerful than you can ever
begin to imagine what you will realize
is that you’re greater than your
circumstances that you don’t have to go
through life being a victim who was born
in Miami Florida the area called Liberty
City in an abandoned building on a
hardened Olien floor someone’s opinion
of you does not have to become your
reality when I’m broken I relish it
that’s what i’ma do
I’m gonna use it because if I’m broken
then I just found my limitations and
until I know what my limitations are how
can i push how can I get better
once once I see once I feel it once I
see where I was broken then I can attack
that weakness I can fill in that gap
some of you have bring divisions and
businesses and ideas and concepts and
they’re beautiful but until you pay the
sacrifice that’s where you can’t have
success where you have not had sacrifice
that’s where you won’t get it just
because you want it but just because you
think you’re worth it you will succeed
in the areas and to the degree of your
sacrifice you never say no you never say
thank you Doug don’t you ever sell out
your mouth it can’t get done even if you
feel in your heart
they can’t you’re dumb you don’t say it
out loud you let the poor folk say that
I can reinforce that breach you let the
folks they fire it first to that you
always said if you duck you’d be the
markups they three or it can be the
marks of 50
mr. jr. you have to be careful when you
hang around at these people all that’s
going to do is tell you what they can’t
do and that’s okay that they can’t do it
we can go from being hopeless it has to
drop out to have a PhD write a book and
becoming the voice of a generation we
can do whatever we believe I am
and I don’t know anybody in the policy I
am going to do great things and I don’t
owe anybody an apology I
I was created to be great
for us to have and be into everything we
were born to do is number one we have to
kill the noise we have to stop going to
other people and looking to other people
for their permission to do what only we
can do nowadays it’s very easy to be a
coward why is the problem our young
people are having is that they live on
social media and social media only shows
you success so I get an email the other
day this young man wants to be a ranger
be afraid to go to Ranger School not
because our harder training is but
because he’s afraid if he fails
what people are gonna say but just know
one thing in life
this applies to everything in life
anytime you move from being normal to
try to be exceptional people aren’t
going to like that number people it
makes them feel like they’re judging
most folks don’t deign to your face
they boast about that cow look that care
of yeah one of the things that we know
about life is that it is always changing
sometimes you’re up sometimes you’re
down sometimes things go real well and
sometimes they don’t
sometimes you’re happy and sometimes
you’re sad now that’s that thing called
life people who live on social media
live on the mountains of your life but
then when they cut off social media and
they find the dip and then they give the
press because my life doesn’t look like
your pitch and when we begin to
understand and know that accepting that
reality that that we will never ever
have things just on an even keel all the
time but you’re gonna have some upset
you’re gonna have some downs but during
those down moments that’s where the
growth takes place so my reality
doesn’t look like your image and now I’m
depressed because I can’t get out of the
dips with your real power is in the tips
that’s where the work is see anybody can
feel good when they have their health
their bills the paid they have happy
relationships the children are acting
normal so you think you saw the most
powerful parts of 2016 but but the peaks
are among the most powerful parts is how
do you survive the valleys anybody can
be positive then anybody can have a
larger vision then anybody can have
faith under those kinds of circumstances
am I correct simple the real challenge
real challenge of growth mentally
emotionally and spiritually comes when
you get knocked down the hell we went
through in between the pictures
that would make you respect the position
the reason you think you can handle
stuff you’re not ready for is that we
always shown you the good stuff you may
be watching this right now and you have
these incredible ideas and what you
think is missing is motivation some
point everything’s gonna go south on you
everything’s gonna go south and you’re
gonna say this is it this is how I end
now you can either accept that or you
can get to work that’s all it is you
just begin you do the math you solve one
problem then you solve the next one 400
trillion to one I just want everybody to
hear this this is the reason I’m happy
24/7 365 for the rest of my life
four hundred trillion to one the odds of
becoming a human being if you want to be
a grocer or a general or a politician or
a judge you will invariably become it
that is your punishment you can decide
to life they’ve crunched the numbers on
you being born and do you realize that
the odds the odds of you at the moment
in time he was born to the parents you
were born to with the DNA structure that
you have won and 400 trillion if you
never know what you want to be if you
live what some might call the dynamic
life but I will pull the artistic life
if each day you are unsure of who you
are and what you know you will never
become anything
if you can keep your head when all about
you are losing theirs and blaming it on
you if you can trust yourself when all
men doubt you but make allowances for
their doubting too if you can wait and
not be tired by waiting or being lied
about don’t deal in lies or being hated
don’t give way dating one and four
hundred trillion all day long you have
ideas that could change your life that
could change the world that could change
the way that you feel now what do you do
with them things we’ve worked the
hardest for we value the most so I think
you know the purpose of the goal is not
getting it anyway the purpose of goal
you know is what who you become
well you becomes gonna make you happier
it’s gonna make you sad so I’m not
looking for an effortless approach it’s
too late to be scammed
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not had an encouraging bloody word a
real encouraging word in their entire
life it just takes a little bit of
encouragement and care so that they’re
willing to accept themselves straight to
some degree and start trying it’s just a
catastrophe that that’s that’s so rare
in their lives that if you’re doing
something that you’re not totally
committed to if you’re doing something
that you’re not totally passionate about
you’re compromising yourself every day
some people want do ultra racist they’re
starting to PR during training some
people will be a lawyer or a medical
student so they’re taking these practice
tests guess what happens once you get
the event your mind isn’t ready your
minds not prepared you’ve been studying
you’ve been training you’ve been working
up with your minds not prepared
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transforming the walls into doors
changing obstacles into opportunities by
the time that they closed the second
restaurant it was an $800,000 loss I
don’t I mean that meant our entire home
equity line gone run it meant kids come
I get just choked up just thinking about
how terrifying it was and so I found
myself at the age of 41 like just
feeling like a complete failure
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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 of a spouse
to do all those things that you know you
want to do with your life with your work
with your dreams you’re gonna 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
motivations garbage you you only feel
motivated to do the things that are easy
right and at some point I think we all
hit that moment in life where things
just are not going how you thought they
would go and and what’s amazing about
those moments is we all respond very
differently
I believe desire and will to win is
everything I don’t know why I’m like I
am but my butt’s always burning there’s
always something say aren’t dadgummit
you’re supposed to go for it
alright dadgummit you’re supposed to be
somebody you’re supposed to make a
difference with you lie what does the
$500,000 your person do the $50,000 your
person doesn’t do you looking outside
and study those two individuals
everything seems to be the same they
both are the same sex they both are the
same aids have the same train the same
positions the same contract the same
fringe benefits
they both are successful they work hard
they’re good family P
we’ll make tough commitments but what’s
the difference what does the $500,000
your person do the $50,000 your person
doesn’t do he pays the price and a
little bit more he works hard and a
little bit more he’s loyal to the
cutting a little bit more he believes in
a little bit more he makes Maine a
little bit more he saves money a little
bit more if you want to win in these
United States you got to be tough and
you can’t quit I wore one branch manager
down to the point that he says to me
Gardner based on persistence alone we go
give you a shot cause at some point we
all bought into this lie that you’ve got
a feel ready in order to change you know
what you said I couldn’t do it but guess
what I started two weeks we bought into
this this complete falsehood that at
some point you’re gonna have the courage
at some point you’re gonna have the
confidence and it’s total bullshit maybe
watching this right now and you have
these incredible ideas and what you
think is missing is motivation
failure is part of life the difference
for me though is I like a failure as a
stepping stone to success it’s a speed
bump every time you learn something you
learn because something you did didn’t
work and that exposes you to the part of
the world that you don’t understand
every time you’re exposed to a part of
the world that you don’t understand
you have the possibility of rebuilding
the structures that you use to interpret
the world I know I’m gonna fail but it’s
not failure if you learn something and
so every time I do it just becomes it
becomes a way for me to explain to
someone else what it takes that’s often
why it’s more important to notice that
you wann that it is to prove that you’re
right people don’t value what they don’t
fight for baby steps count to as long as
you go on forward and one day you had
all those baby steps up in you might be
surprised at where you can get to people
have an unbelievable capacity to face
and overcome things they don’t
understand and not only that
that’s essentially what gives life its
meaning the Buddhists say life is
suffering and you think well if that’s
the case why bother with it well now
that we can see how short life really
can be what are you going to do with the
rest of your life that’s a trigger
that’s the biggest trigger that I have
ever experienced what are you gonna do
the rescue of cavalry ain’t coming you
got to do this yourself ain’t no backup
okay
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as 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 hmm 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 wait
wait why is he hesitating he didn’t
hesitate when he put on his killer spiky
sneakers he didn’t hesitate with the
really cool track pants he didn’t
hesitate with the NASA tee 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 is called the spotlight effect it’s
a known phenomenon where your brain
magnifies risk Y 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 has
those are decisions and what I do and
what’s changed my life is waking up and
realizing that motivations garbage I’m
never going to feel like doing the
things that are tough for difficult or
in certain or scary or new so I need to
stop leaving until I you 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 relationship with my
kids your life comes down to your
decisions if you change your decisions
you will change everything now it’s time
to see who now is the time to prove to
yourself worthy
and you’re able to do something special
and no one else alive can do a champion
is filmed here
every president has felt it every King
has felt that every lion has felt that
every winner as felted every soldier as
Sultan everything Toya’s person are as
Felton
never say no
go to half a salchow Wow it can be done
good new film no hard
you’ll said I love you have at home say
that you can’t
get on
go
to
some of you have planes and pieces of
business
and ideas and concepts and their
beautiful mother to you
I swear
where you live is
that’s where you want
just because shoes became too
you will succeed
of your son
not take the easy way out
do not give up based on
forced to stand
to retreat so that you can
soon
alternative money
and you don’t have the background
thank you twice as long you may have
taken courses in class
don’t you every champion has felt it
every president has felt it every King
has felt that every lion has Felton
every winner has felt it every soldier
has felt it every victorious person has
felt it the earth
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why you wanna clubs when you broke why
do you have a latest iPhone when you got
no money move the needle for do
something to a self-help education
instead of like you know what I’m just
gonna live my life freeloading and
coming up offer everybody else what
people think about you and the
possibilities for your dream is none of
your business
no imagination ladies and gentlemen
there
the memory the attitude as it can’t be
done because they haven’t seen it
they’re judging according to appearances
people are gonna make it in the future
the people that I’m making it today let
me share something with you history is
being read but it’s also being written
by people with imagination I want you to
understand never ever allow anybody to
make you feel bad about being so blessed
when you work your ass off to live your
life and lifestyle feed your kids feed
your family be there the people when
they need you the most
who don’t like you
they smile in your face
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the effects staff while the people are
giving up feeling like victims feeling
powerless becoming negative turning on
each other rather than to each other
feeling that they can’t make it be not
conformed to this world but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind
with the mind set up that it’s possible
I can create a new life and it’s
necessary that I become actively
involved and becoming a positive force
in my life and on the planet and it’s me
yes it’s you pulling together working
together to create this brand new future
but if it’s hard we will do it hard
whatever is required to snatch victory
from the jaws of defeat it’s worth it
yes it’s worth whatever we have to do
and once we know that it is done it is
done you got to create that new norm
that has to be your lifestyle you are
the master of your own mind to make that
masterpiece be proud yourself very
integral we’ve kind of lost touch with
the cultural narratives around death
that gave it some meaning so now when it
happens it’s just this absurd scary
thing that we don’t know what to do with
the only narrative we have that we have
absorbed I guess is that of the brave
battle that someone’s fighting if you’re
going to try go all the way otherwise
don’t even start that this is this is
when we can bring our if we have the
opportunity to bring our stories to some
kind of ending what’s your film we’ll
read a book that final scene makes sense
of everything that’s happened before
this doesn’t happen in life author of
our stories more than at any point
before death if you are going to try go
all the way this could mean losing
girlfriends wives relatives jobs and
maybe your mind main characters are our
loved ones or the doctors or people
making all these decisions and we kind
of get sideline
go all the way it could mean not eating
for three or four days it could mean
freezing an apartment
it could mean jail it could mean
division mockery isolation isolation is
the gift it’s not okay for you to be
weak loser it’s not okay and the reason
it’s not okay is because you could be
way more than that and it’s a crime an
ethical crime for you to allow all that
necessary potential to go to waste it
hurts you it hurts your family hurts the
world really really it does
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all the others are a test of your
endurance of how much you really want to
do it and you’ll do it despite rejection
and the worst odds when I was 15 years
old I had a very important person my
life come to me and say who’s your hero
and I said I don’t know how to think
about that give me a couple of weeks I
come back two weeks later this person
comes up says who’s your hero I said I
thought about it you know who it is I
said it’s me in 10 years so I turned 25
ten years later that same person comes
being this so are you a hero and I was
like not even close no no no she said
why I said because my heroes me at 35 so
you see every day every week every month
and every year of my life my heroes
always ten years away I’m never gonna be
my hero I’m not gonna attain that I know
I’m not that’s just fine with me because
that keeps me with somebody to keep on
chase
only perspective really more accountable
with myself the second I stopped where
people complain myself I change it will
be better than anything else you can
imagine
if you’re going to try go all the way
there is no other feelings like that you
will be alone with the God and the
nights will flame with fire
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do it
do it
do it do it
all the way
whoa the way you will ride life straight
to perfect laughter it’s the only good
fight
there is now somebody once said you
could take all the money in the world
out of the hands of everybody out of all
the wealthy people in the world who are
really successful given to other people
it wouldn’t take too long those people
have it back in their hands it’s not
because they’re manipular that’s because
they have a standard the reason people
don’t put themselves in a position to
fail the reason people aren’t patient is
they value other people’s opinions too
much you have to monitor your self-talk
monitor your self-talk if you go around
people tell people oh I have a horrible
memory I’m not smart enough I’m getting
too old fill in the blank take those
three magic words and live them raise
your standard if you fight for your
limitations you get to keep them you got
to be willing to do it
afraid see you might be waiting for the
fear to stop should leap leap afraid you
chose to withdraw because you were
afraid we’re actually tougher than you
think you never knew that and maybe you
didn’t want to take on the
responsibility people are rewarded in
public for what they’ve practiced for
years in private Farren guard to your
mind because your mind is always
eavesdropping on your self-talk your
mind is always eavesdropping on your
self-talk either die leaping then on the
edge figuring out how to get the courage
to leave okay I’m gonna go make this
happen I’m gonna go make this much money
I’m gonna transform my kids I’m gonna
create the ultimate relationship of my
life I’m gonna transform my body
whatever it is and then you don’t have
strong enough reasons and you don’t lose
use it you don’t follow through it’s
because you didn’t back up your
standards with what makes those
standards real and that’s rituals you
constantly remind yourself after every
defeat after every setback every time
you get knocked down I’ve got a saying
if life knocks you down try to land on
your back because if you can look up you
and get up see a lot of people because
of failure they stop they stop believing
let me share something with you you will
fail your way to success so many times
we’re waiting we’re waiting I’m waiting
8 out of 10 millionaires have been
financially bankrupt you will fill your
way to success it doesn’t matter how
many times you fail it doesn’t matter
how many times people tell you that you
can’t do it it doesn’t matter if you
don’t have a dime in the bake you will
fail your way to success what’s the
standard they hold himself to and then
what are all those little rituals that
up because think about it success and
failure are not giant events they don’t
just show up you don’t just suddenly
become successful or suddenly have this
cataclysmic event that makes you fail
may look that way but failure comes from
all the little things you’re just kind
of waiting you’re waiting to get
everything in order you’re waiting
you’re waiting so that everything is is
Inuits together you’re waiting to not be
afraid you’re waiting to have the
courage you’re waiting to have all the
money you’re waiting you’ve got five
seconds and that’s it should die seconds
gone talk yourself out of it
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failure to make the call its failure to
check the books its failure to say I’m
sorry
all the results in your life are coming
from your rituals rituals define us
knowing that you’re never gonna feel
like doing all the work that it takes to
have this business be everything that it
possibly could and all those little
failures day after day come together to
one day some Cataclysm if it happens you
blame Matt that event happened because
you missed all the little so what you
want to do it right and you want to wait
to you not afraid you want to wait you
have all together oh you made it about
you again see Nelson Mandela did it he
just did it not knowing if you were
right Mahatma Gandhi just did it not
knowing if it were right mother Teresa
just did it not looking for affirmation
or confirmation is this right Martin
Luther King did it not even knowing if
it would happen before his life ended
what are you waiting on are you willing
to do it afraid are you willing to do it
knowing that you got so much work to do
to get it better to get it more perfect
but are you willing to do it inside your
imperfection do you realize that in your
imperfection you’re perfect for the job
no bite-sized steps little things you do
each day that after you do them you get
so much momentum that it’s easy to
succeed you’re not overwhelmed
you have these victory day after day
after day I’m little fits the brain it’s
gonna screw you over the brain is gonna
go into autopilot the brain is going to
tell you it doesn’t feel like doing
things raise your standard from the
moment that you have the idea from the
second you have that idea you’ve only
got five seconds to take action
otherwise it’s gone there’s only one
rule when it comes to productivity
there’s only one rule when it comes to
success
there’s only run rules to getting
everything you’ve ever wanted and here
it is you’re never gonna feel like it
ever in any area of your life that you
don’t have what you want whether it’s
the amount of money the amount of people
on your team the amount of sales the
amount of trips for your family the reef
you only did the things that you don’t
feel like doing you’d have everything
you’ve ever wanted
the cave you fear denter holds the
treasure you seek you have these victory
day after day after day on little things
if you’d went to ultimate edge I’m sure
you learned about the hour of power or
the fifteen minutes to be able to be
fulfilled or 30 minutes to thrive where
you literally just condition your body
and emotion with a couple little rituals
so it doesn’t matter what’s going on in
your world you feel that strength and
it’s not fake it’s not some pump up it’s
coming from inside you and it works
rituals define us
every time I come back here to the
islands to Oahu Honolulu where we used
to live I always make sure that I take a
day I’d go by myself and I go visit all
my old haunts so today I went by first I
visited my grandfather my grandmother’s
grave then I went by my old high school
then I went by my old middle school and
all the places I used to get in trouble
all the places I used to get arrested
was a victim when I was 14 years old but
I’ll show you where we slept it’s a
three story apartment efficiency
building and I lived right there on the
first and then we were forced off the
Island of Hawaii to move of all places
we had moved to Nashville and we lived
in a little motel and I was trying to
remain as positive as I could and it’s
crazy because life is so ironic and so
unpredictable and that’s the place when
we were evicted from
that’s where we came home and there was
a vixen noticing and we were forced to
move off the island because we couldn’t
afford to pay the rent going through it
stay strong keep pushing through cuz
again on the other side is a little
something better cuz I’m living proof of
that cuz years later I’m sitting right
outside here put your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
on and you swing away I slept in the
bedroom there’s a one bedroom efficiency
I slept in a bedroom my parents left on
a pull-out couch in the living room and
every day I still walk down they must be
so cool to live in a place like that I I
hope one day you know I can live in
something like that a week of living
something like that no I wanted to be
something and it was important to me to
be something it was it was important to
me that I didn’t fail if you are out
there and you’re struggling and a lot of
you are and you struggling to make ends
meet struggle and pay the rent you know
when you go eat at a restaurant you
gotta look at the prices first before
you actually look at this elections I
know what it’s like I’ve been down that
road and that shit is hard it ain’t easy
but I’m telling you that if you’re going
through it
stay strong have faith keep pushing
through I’ve said this before and I’m
living
is that on the other side of your
struggle is something good on your other
side of your struggle is something
better I’m nervous I’m on the other side
of your struggle is some sort of success
so keep pushing through if you’re
struggling whoever lives in my apartment
they’re going through it stay strong
keep pushing through cuz again on the
other side is a little something better
cuz I’m living proof of that because
years later I am sitting right outside
your apartment
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well when that didn’t happen for me I
went up to the Canadian Football League
I played up there I got cut from there
flew back down to Miami
my old man was living in Tampa mm-hmm I
said I called him at midnight when I
land I said you got to come get me I’m
on the way back up to Tampa I said God
you know let me see how much money I got
I pulled out my wallet opened it up I
took out a 5 a 1 and change and that’s
why we have 7 bucks
7 bucks for them we’ve had a long
conversation in our culture about the
necessity for self esteem and happiness
I tell my audiences and my readers very
straightforwardly that life is difficult
and that there’s a lot of suffering in
it
and that you have to learn how to
conduct yourself in the face of that
problem with the pursuit of happiness is
that when life’s storms come along
happiness disappears and then you’re
left with nothing and so you need to
pursue something that’s deeper than
happiness people say you you have to
have a lot of passion for what you’re
doing and it’s totally true and the
reason is because it’s so hard that if
you don’t any rational person would give
up and if happiness comes along well
then hooray for you you don’t want to
despise it because it’s fleeting to do
it over a sustained period of time so if
you don’t love it if you’re not having
fun doing it you don’t really love it
you’re gonna give up but it’s much
better to pursue things that are
meaningful than things that make you
happy it’s deeper and and it Orient’s
you more appropriately in it and it
keeps you centered in your own life it
makes you more useful for your family
your community looking at the ones that
ended up you know being successful
unquote the eyes of society and the ones
that didn’t oftentimes it’s the ones
that are successful love what they did
so they could persevere well you know
when it got really tough
we would want to put up with this stuff
if you don’t love it it’s a lot of hard
work and and it’s a lot of worrying
constantly if you don’t love it you’re
gonna fail so you got to love it you got
to have passion because in the end what
we get will never make us not to be
doing something that you’re truly
passionate about
it could not be I just want to make a
stranger’s change can be there were
times when it was hard to imagine that
my life would be what it is today what
makes us happiest progress progress
equals happens if you’re not growing
you’re dying and can’t be there has got
to be something that the Sun can’t come
up so nothing on it
because you want to go do your thing
just some time to pursue greatness I
think you should go get a job as a
busboy or something to you find
something you’re really passionate about
because it’s a lot of work because in
the end what we get will never make us
happen through how many stars on your
chart I’m an Academy Awards how much
money you make
and I’m convinced that about half of
what separates the successful
entrepreneurs from the non successful
ones is pure perseverance I work eight
to five and literally I’d come home I
get a by D and then I’d start my work at
6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. and I go from 6:30
to 2:00 a.m. and I’d get another seven
eight hours in and that’s how I built
everything in the beginning it is so
hard you pour so much your life into
this thing there are such rough known as
the time and most people below
that’s honestly what’s required and to
not do that is to cheat yourself and I
knew this is where I’m supposed to be a
war one branch manager down to the point
that he says to MacArthur base don’t
four sisters alone we would give you a
shot and it consumes your life it’s
rough because it’s a pretty much it you
know an 18-hour day job seven lives we
bless you have a lot of passion purpose
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don’t ever let somebody else tell you
we’re two kings when somebody else is
saying something can’t be done which you
got to hear them saying as they came to
either it’s times when something is
important ufff
but you do it in spite of the baby steps
Kel – as long as you’re going forward
that one day you had all those baby
steps up in you might be surprised to
where you can get to the cavalry ain’t
coming you got to do this yourself ain’t
no backup so you got to have an idea or
a problem or a wrong that you want to
write that you’re passionate about
otherwise you’re not gonna have the
perseverance to stick it through mr.
Hitchcock what is your definition of
happiness a clear horizon uh ‘then to
worry about on your plate only things
that are creative and not destructive
when that within yourself and you can
look forward and the road is clear ahead
and now you’re going to create something
Alan s as happy as I would ever want to
be it’s like starting companies like
staring into the abyss and eating glass
and there’s some truth to that and that
goes on for a long time
and that bathroom I finally had to
understand what my mama used to say to
me where she would say boy to Calvary is
not coming ain’t no back up I was 28
years old when that part of my life
happened change was coming fast and you
know what changes everywhere
given that you know even if you if
you’re the best the best there’s always
a chance of failure so I think it’s
important that you really like whatever
you’re doing if you don’t like it life
is too short the most urgent question
today is not so much as one of my values
and who are we the urgent question on
these times of constant changes how
exactly are you going to navigate these
new realities put another way what are
you going to do so the idea of I drove
here is empowering because the other
side of it is if I drove here that means
I can drive out of here I have to own it
but it’s hard to look at the mirror and
say how did I get here past 33 years
I’ve looked in the mirror every morning
and asked myself if today were the last
day of my life what I want to do what I
am about to do today and have the answer
be I’ve drove here I had something to do
with it and whenever the answer has been
no for too many days in a row I know I
need to change them there’s no one else
like Steve Jobs can generally say that
if they’re masters there’s nobody else
that can take their place and that is
the ultimate position of power
the greatest danger that all of you face
is that you’re basically going to be
replaceable that’s the fate that most
people have the end game is to be
unreplaceable you’re one of a kind
you’re original the minute I dropped out
I could stop taking the required classes
that didn’t interest me and begin
dropping in on the ones that look far
more interesting
if I had never dropped out I would have
never dropped in on that calligraphy
class and personal computers might not
have the wonderful typography that they
do 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 so a lot of what people find
in life that provides them with a
sustaining meaning is a consequence of
not the pursuit of Rights or the pursuit
of happiness or or the development of
self-esteem but the adoption of
responsibility and the more
responsibility in some sense the better
it’s people who take responsibility that
are the ones that you admire and that’s
the right pathway through life
that’s where meaning is to be found 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 and most important have the
courage to follow your heart and
intuition they somehow already know what
you truly want to become everything else
is secondary
you can’t change something until you own
it so if you’re 50-plus and you’re
sitting out there and pointing fingers
at other people you can do that for a
long time but it’s hard to look at the
mirror and say how did I get here it’s
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
I’m convinced that the only thing that
kept me going was that I loved what I
did you’ve got to find what you love and
that is as true for work as it is for
your lovers your work is going to 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 no one is supposed to
live in here no one is supposed to just
spend extended periods of time in here
this is a public restroom this is not a
living space but were not for this space
there were some days we would have no
place else to go
I mean a lot of decisions a lot of hard
decisions were made right here about
what are you going to do with your life
where are you going to go how are you
going to get there
you
