I MADE MY MARK – Best Motivational Speech 2020
as Haroon Yahya noted I always wonder
why birds stay in the same place when
they can fly anywhere on earth and then
I ask myself the same question as Mark
Twain put it the secret of getting ahead
is getting started and that’s where
people get stuck you’re literally like
the bird you could fly anywhere you want
you can go anywhere you want to go and
look I know you’ve got a litany of
excuses and all of them are valid you’ve
got a job you can’t just leave when you
don’t have a job and you don’t have the
money your family is in one place it’s
the only thing that you’ve ever known
you only speak one language you’ve never
traveled before you don’t have a
passport you can’t afford the gas money
there are a thousand real reasons not to
go but the truth is that none of them
matter the truth is if you want to build
something in your life that you have to
remember what Mark Twain said you have
to get started because at the end of the
day that is literally the only thing
that’s holding you back
you’re not moving and once you get the
simplicity of that once you understand
that you could act right now you could
say call the excuses you can
making them you could stop giving
insulin no matter how valid they are no
matter how real they may seem you can
finally decide that you’re going to get
up a movie you’re going to create that
momentum that you’re going to take a
step that you’re gonna make the demand
that you create momentum that you get
something done that you find an answer
or as Hannibal said that you’re going to
find a way or make one if you have to
carve through rock do it because humans
before you have done it and that’s the
simple truth that is the simple control
and everything else
else is the weak voice in your mind
holding you back and making you a less
version of yourself so I asked you why
doesn’t the bird fly wherever it wants
to go because that’s all it’s known
because that’s what’s safe because
that’s what’s comfortable or because
it’s a dumb can animal what do you want
to be if this isn’t the life you want to
live
we’ll do something about it only those
that can see the invisible can do the
impossible you have to be able to see
what doesn’t exist in order to be able
to pull off or achieve what in most
people’s minds seems to be impossible
only those that can see the invisible
being able to see what’s not there what
is your vision what is your idea what
was that god-sent dream only those that
can see the invisible can do what seems
to be impossible the road to success is
through commitment and through the
strength to drive through that
commitment when it gets hard and it is
gonna get hard and you’re gonna want to
quit sometimes but it’ll be colored by
who you are and more who you want to be
greatness is not this wonderful esoteric
illusive godlike feature that only the
special among us will ever taste
you know it’s something that truly
exists in all of us it’s very simple
this is what I believe
and I’m willing to die for it period
it’s that simple I Know Who I am I don’t
know what I believe I know who I am I
know who what that’s all I need to know
that’s all I need to know so from there
you do what you need to do some of y’all
have a habit of dreaming within your
bank account
some of your thoughts and visions are so
big and so outlandish and so powerful
and amazing you’ll end up talking
yourself out of that dream from saying I
can’t afford that well guess what
there’s a lot I can’t afford
there’s a lot of visions and dreams that
I still can’t afford I’ve always always
had this idea
at one day I’m gonna meet a
multi-billionaire
and with this multi-billionaire we’re
gonna become the best of friends and
he’s gonna say to me Tyrese I got all
the money in the world but I don’t have
your visions or your ideas and I’ll say
to him
I got you I’m not gonna lie to you
I’m not gonna waste your time I got big
visions and ideas I can’t afford them
all but it’s not gonna stop me from
having these visions and ideas I came
here to remind you that when people
laugh at your visions and ideas it’s
only because they don’t have their own
visions and ideas around what they’re
supposed to do with their life or their
careers b-but I don’t have any dreams
for themselves they tend to be dream
killers people that don’t have their own
visions they become vision killers they
want nothing more than to talk you out
of your own visions they don’t have
dreams for themselves they don’t have
any hopes they’re hopeless they’re
uninspired unmotivated
they have no dreams they have nothing
that they’re ambitious about but I want
to remind you to continue to dream and
dream big I have a habit of dreaming
with my eyes open
I get very inspired by the things I see
I’m inspired by architecture I’m
inspired by photography I’m inspired by
ideas I’m inspired by the idea that
someone could have a vision and if that
vision had stayed in their mind they
would have robbed the world of the
opportunity to experience that vision
I mean think about this as big as this
is the fact that it’s in the middle of
the street if they had kept this idea
inside their minds I wouldn’t be here to
look at it or experience it this is the
power of visions and ideas right here
you see
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this is the power of not allowing anyone
to laugh at you when you say I want to
build something of sculpture they can go
in the middle of the street and it can
be an iconic sculpture that will last
forever
long after I’m dead and gone this could
be a sculpture that could stand in the
middle of a street here and the streets
of Paris and if this person who built
this but of a lot of people to talk to
mounted their dreams and their visions
it wouldn’t be here
for us to see or experience
my voice is gone
we had a sold-out show here in Paris I
just wanted to remind you to dream and
dream big
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and understand that your family and
friends and loved ones in most cases
boyfriends/girlfriends they will be the
first to try and talk you out of your
dreams your visions and ideas as to what
you’re supposed to do with your life
they will say who wants you when you
two or three kids who wants you and you
put on all that weight who wants you
when you’re looking like this and been
through this and been through that
nobody’s interested in you nobody’s
checking for you they’ll laugh at you
they’ll call you names because they have
no dreams they have no hunger for
success
they don’t have an appetite they don’t
want it I want to win so bad
my hunger and appetite for success is
intimidating it scares the people I come
up with new visions and ideas every
single day and people around me say slow
down stop you’re doing too much your
appetite is too big I can’t help myself
I want to build I want to win I’m a
billionaire I was a I was a change air I
was a doll in air I was a thousandaire I
am a millionaire there’s only one step
left the billion I don’t think I’ll see
a trillion but I know I’ll see you
billion I believe it I believe it and
there’s no one in the world that can
talk me out of that feeling
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sending my love all the way from Paris
if you make it to the end of this video
I want you to write only those that can
see the invisible can do the impossible
you have to be able to see what doesn’t
exist in order to be able to pull off or
achieve what in most people’s mind seems
to be impossible only those that can the
see the invisible being able to see
what’s not there what is your vision
what is your idea what was that god-sent
dream only those that can see the
invisible can do what seems to be
impossible you have to be relentless you
have to never let off the gas never stop
never quit never allow anyone to talk
you out of the dream division and ideas
that God has sent you
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