GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER | POWERFUL Motivational Video Speech
if you want to do something
extraordinary you have one job leave
your fellow humans in awe you probably
don’t think of your life in this manner
but I now invite you to think of your
life in this matter your entire life has
been nothing but an attempt to exert
control over some part of your internal
or external environment you do not have
control you never had control you never
will have control you only have the
illusion of control the thing that I
find most interesting in the thing that
I think a lot about is who are we sort
of at our core what are we are we
changeable are we malleable the whole
nature versus nurture thing has really
come to define my life is it doesn’t
matter who you are today it certainly
doesn’t matter how you were born the
only thing that matters is who you want
to become and the price you’re willing
to pay to get their legacy is planting
seeds in a garden that you’ll never see
the capacity to strengthen and increase
your hunger is the one common
denominator amongst the most successful
people you don’t Richard Branson’s good
friend of mine and Peter Guber
Steve Lynn all these guys they’ve never
lost their hunger most people are hungry
to achieve a certain amount make a
certain amount of money and then they
get comfortable and relax or to get a
certain level of fitness and then they
relax hunger is the ultimate driver
because if you’re hungry you can get the
strategy get the answer if you can’t
model it you can find it
I would lay in bed for up to four hours
a day every single day because I
couldn’t motivate myself to get out of
bed I didn’t have a job and the only
thing that would get me out of bed 15
years before I’m capable of building a
billion-dollar company the only thing
that got me out of bed
shame as I had one failed
misunderstanding I believed that my
talent and intelligence were fixed
traits because what’s happening in the
mind seems invisible we can’t see it we
don’t understand what’s happening and so
as shame was the only thing that would
drag me out of bed I didn’t understand
that the same thing I believe to be true
of my body was true of my mind what you
build your self-esteem around matters so
I want you to realize the spots are
invisible which you turn on TV it takes
invisible waves and depending on the
channel you’re gonna see a love story on
adventure or a drama or a comedy so what
I’ve tried to do in this area beautiful
state assembly you start to feel the
stress you see it as thoughts going by
and then you focus on something to
appreciate and joy or love appreciation
love and joy destroy something you can’t
be grateful and angry simultaneously as
possible you can’t be worried and
fearful and grateful simultaneously so I
tell people gratitude is one of the
emotions to cultivate they’ll destroy
the sufferer stop trying to control your
life you can’t do it think instead in
terms of controlling the experience of
your life a lot of the time in your life
you have the ability to decide what you
are going to experience mental chatter
is an internal monologue that you have
going on in your heads all the time it
begins right up when you get up in the
morning is with you throughout the day
mental chatters always been a part of
your life most of the time we try to
ignore it we suppress it we work around
it we try to live our life as best we
can in spite of our mental chatter
that is a huge mistake and the reason
it’s a huge mistake is because we build
our lives with our mental chatter we
create the world that we live in with
our mental chatter we all think we live
in a real world but we don’t we live in
a construct we live in the matrix and
whether you realize it or not each and
every one of you has something that sits
at the core of how you feel about
yourself and from that your identity
your sense of self-worth your
self-esteem it is all built around that
thing now when you think about my job as
a parent as an entrepreneur as an
athlete as a speaker as a whatever you
want to be you’ve got to get so good at
that thing that when people see you do
it
you make them experience the most potent
human emotion and that is to get that
good is a terrifying journey of
self-discovery and confronting who you
really are because you cannot make
change until you acknowledge where
you’re actually at the most important
decision of your life is deciding
whether you’re truly committed to being
happy no matter what because life is
gonna throw all kinds of curveballs of
all of us and there’s the one thing
that’s in common in this lifetime is
extreme stress but it’s just true
someone you’re gonna care about it’s
gonna die someone’s gonna take advantage
financially if you’re not careful you’re
gonna find yourself in a position the
government might change the rules and
you can’t do what you’re doing before
somebody call like I’ve got the call
saying got a tumor in your brain those
days alter you so the greatest gift you
could give yourself besides making this
life about love
making us life about giving because to
give you have to keep growing is I
believe to make that decision and say
life is too short to suffer we are all
very good at shooting second arrows of
ourselves how many times have you laid
yourself low how many times have you
buried yourself for taking some
damn-fool
action in retrospect how many times have
you compared yourself unfavorably with
someone else
we don’t just shoot second arrows which
we shoot third fourth fifth sixth and
seven arrows of ourselves the important
thing for you to note is the second
arrow is always delivered by means of
mental shatter what you don’t recognize
is the stuff that you believe that you
have not subjected to the same scrutiny
is equally false and back to will
crumple so the question to ask yourself
is not is this true or false right or
wrong good or bad the question to ask
yourself is does this mortal work for me
in my life now better than what I am
currently using you get to build
yourself in any direction you want in
any way to become anything you want
there will be an extraordinary price to
pay but you can go in any direction now
I don’t think that we’re born blank
slates
but we are so close to that to worry
about where your limits are is to miss
how much you can improve so focus on how
much you can improve there’s an amazing
quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn the
author of the Gulag Archipelago and what
he said was the line between good and
evil runs through every human heart the
most important decision any human being
has to make is whether they live in a
friendly or a hostile universe decision
the most important decision anyone has
to make because neither of those two
states is empirically true but either
will immediately appear true once you
decide to believe it that the secret to
life is to get outside yourself and find
the way that value to others there’s
nothing that’s more fulfilling than
doing something beyond yourself I think
one of things makes me proud to be human
being as human beings will do more for
others that they care about then they’ll
ever do for themselves and when you tap
into that you have more energy anybody
else you have more joy yet more
excitement because I always say life
supports whatever supports like motive
matters the idea of being obsessed with
learning growing and adding value to me
is the most important thing in life
because you know the only way we’re
happy is by making progress
you know we grow and we feel alive you
give when we feel ten times more alive
but you got to grow to have something to
give brick-by-brick
day after day I transformed myself it
was not an uncovering of something that
was real and already there it was simply
acknowledging I am a hopelessly average
human but humans are the ultimate
adaptation machine so I can change can
become whatever I want and I just became
single-mindedly focused on how much I
could grow and now that I was getting
value and self-esteem
of growing instead of out of being
everything in my life changed because if
you want to do something extraordinary
you have one job leave your fellow
humans in awe
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