NEVER LET ANYONE OUTWORK YOU – Motivational Video Compilation for Success & Studying
the bigger your dream is the early you
will have to get up longer you gonna
have to stay up the bigger your dream in
the more effort you will have to put in
but do you do when a thousand other
people want exactly what you want I’m
fascinated by the game of opportunity if
you want to be an anomaly you’ve got an
awkward one listen to me look is for
leprechauns and you a agree then I’m
begging you to see yourself right now
today as average as know better than
anyone else the wonderful news about the
human condition is you can get good at
anything that you set your mind to it’s
just not gonna be easy if you’re willing
to go these moles you can have whatever
you want but this is not a time for any
of you to take your foot off the gas
pedal it’s not a time for any of you to
kind of slow down and it kind of get
complacent
what do you 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 you
think I’m gonna work hard for 10 years
then I’ll relax and that’s what you’re
thinking
this ain’t for you
if you do not do what you’re doing right
now well your goal is just going to be a
fancy desire isn’t it whether it’s fear
or anxiety whatever it may be I believe
that every single person is going out to
chase their dreams has those voices in
their head I think it’s part of the
human experience
stay strong have faith keep pushing
through I’ve said this before and and
I’m living proof of it is that on the
other side of your struggle is something
good on your other side in your struggle
is something better on the other side of
your struggle is some sort of success so
I’m here to tell you today do you can
have anything you want be anyone you
want but you’re gonna have to work see
dreams aspirations they’re not easily
attained but what hardest things to do
is to keep going it’s to keep chasing
you don’t realize your dreams are so
important because your DNA who you are
as a person is wrapped up in your dreams
go after this thing called life don’t
look back and have regrets
understand that you’re at a place in a
position right now
with hard work and valuing people
nothing can stop you I promise you work
in your land will change anybody’s life
there’s a proverb that says he who works
his land will have abundance but if you
chase fantasies you lack wisdom and
people say well what’s your land your
land is what’s in front of you if you’re
in the seventh grade work your seventh
grade land if you’re if you’re the
cameraman work your land if you’re a
janitor work your land if you’re a
single mother work your land your land
is what’s in front of you
so I started studying the law of the
harvest of working your land to get a
harvest
you got to plow the ground you got to
plant the seed
you got to water the seed and then you
reap a harvest and I think that mostly
in the age of social media people see
guys like you and Gary Vee and others
and they think that they can go from cam
to BAM it’s not going to happen you got
to work your land you’ve got a plow plow
plow plow plow plow plow and you’re
gonna plant the right seeds see if we go
back to your life somewhere some house
somewhere somehow you were planned some
good seeds and one time and if I bring
up Oprah once a while because I love her
she’s she’s my real sister we were just
meeting her in her backyard and she goes
I love to work young man because she
goes it’s right I planted the right
doggone seeds see every day you got you
got negative seeds and positive seeds
and and people that are selfish man you
just plant negative seeds that are not
gonna come back positive so when you
plow and you plant the right seeds
and you water which is repetition it
doesn’t look like it’s gonna grow come
on man you’re working at Taco Bell
making gorditas taking care of the
Chihuahua doesn’t look like it’s working
and all the sudden man payday is on its
way and that harvest just starts to kick
another sunrise provides another
opportunity for you to undo the unwise
things that you did that almost led to
your academic demise since health as
well you exercise your option to revise
your study habits and to the surprise of
not only you but all of your instructors
and advisors you all of a sudden
appeared smarter and wiser see they had
you flagged for failure but never had
the heart to tell you
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I know so many students can relate to
the struggles in this story but very few
ever overcome and achieved the glory
because so many fit until the low is me
category instead of the OS me category
which 9 out of 10 times it is so you’re
the one that keeps getting to class late
you’re the one who decided not to study
because you had that date you’re the one
that never asked questions
and keeps making mistake after mistake
after mistake you’re the one that keeps
making excuse after excuse after excuse
for why your academic status is in an
unsatisfactory State so the question I
have for you
why are you even enrolled in school if
you have no desire to try think another
reason
it’s because she forgot about you
and this is the very moment I need you
to go stand in front of a mirror and
look yourself item
it’s heart-shaped because you were born
with great is embedded in your soul you
were born with a gift to share in a
phenomenal story to be told you were
born with a will to succeed and the
brilliance to create and achieve goals
you were born to be mentally and
physically rich and receive your pot of
gold but up to this point your storms
have not produced a rainbow and that’s
it’s time for you to take a different
angle a different approach so right now
I’m your new mentor I’m your new coach
and I’m not here to stroke your ego I’m
gonna get you away from them turkeys and
back to soar with them Eagles because
you forget that you said your wife was
to be the first one from your family to
graduate with honors you said your wife
was to never again be average and to do
that you had to be a Scarlett
you said your why was you fill in the
blank and let that be all the fuel that
you need to put back in your tank and
now that you realized I expect you to
quickly rise up your class rank and get
back on track to graduate which means
more money in the bank you can thank me
later but right now you got a paper
that’s due and you got to do what you
got to do which means focus
concentration and execution until you
get through so this is the moment that
your gray skies of academia turn blue
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you told all your slack and friends to
do them because you’re back to do you
because you refuse to being at 57% of
students that don’t graduate on time
your light was still in flickering but
now it’s about to shine they might not
like it but they got a respected
greatness requires planning so you
created a daily success checklist
because you were failing miserably
because you were unprepared and reckless
and so you had a one-on-one with your
advisor and even visited your own campus
career spatulas
definition of an overcomer because you
would never fall even in the winter
spring awesome through all your pitfalls
and blunders you kept on easy
even if it was too
so this is for any student who feels
like their life and school balance is
unbearable for any student who feels
like in a certain class they’re just
doing terrible any student feels like
the damage to that grade is not
repairable
any student who feels that giving up is
acceptable because giving up is
unacceptable and for an incredible
individual like you I know you’re human
and the times you will be skeptical but
please believe me when I say any mistake
you made it’s correctable and you just
have to remember you have impeccable
strength to power through and overcome
any hardship so let this propel lift and
give you the air to fight to remember
your life and your gift and help you
create that mental shift that allows you
to pick yourself right back up whenever
you slip and remember all of your files
and trips are preparing you for that
magical trip and the ultimate feeling of
satisfaction and elation you’ll get when
you walk across that stage with your
arms held high get your diploma and
throw your cap up in the sky
spray the celebrate job well done it’s
what that moment will signify you are an
unbreakable force and don’t you never
ever ever forget that this is great
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through our biggest failures sometimes
the most amazing opportunities will
sprout right before us how many of you
in the last six months has had an idea
that you would have liked to implement
that you did not act on that you wish
you would have I have the opportunity to
step on the campus of Princeton
University the youngest of seven mom
went to high school and I’m looking up
and I’m in Princeton New Jersey and I’m
I have so much passion inside
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there’s so much pride in me and the way
in which I’m walking on campus is not
just like everyone else
right there’s something that’s pulling
inside of me because I know how many
people have sacrificed for me to be in
that situation in the beautiful thing
about being in a situation where people
have sacrificed for you is that you have
the power of so many people why are we
doing this right and there are certain
people in our lives that allow us to
continue on that allow us to push forth
I stand here as one person but I come as
10,000 I stand as one but 10,000 support
me because the way in which we operate
many of us operate in the in the
practical what we’re doing every day we
do what we’re doing I know that my job
from 9:00 to 5:00 is to do this right
then several of us maybe take that next
step how we do it do we do it with
passion do we do it with conviction but
there’s this next step that’s amazing
why are you doing what you’re doing
who’s your wife
who are the people in your life right
now who are the people in your life who
you can see their face and you say you
know what because of you I will do more
be more and become more because of you I
will do more be more and become more
every time I get the opportunity to tell
my story
I start with my mom she is me her heart
is my heart everything that I do I know
the sacrifice I know the sacrifice and
the most amazing part is I believe that
each and every one of us can bring that
passion to what we do if we remember who
our why is each and every one of you has
a story to pull from has an experience
like nobody else each and every one of
you has sacrificed each and every one of
you has had people who have sacrificed
for you to be in the situation you are
in today and sometimes sometimes as we
go through the day-to-day of what we do
and how we do it we forget that why we
forget about the people who have
sacrificed and we lose our fire
there were so many times I didn’t think
I was going to graduate I’ll be a
hundred percent honest with you there
were so many times it was so difficult
and I remember in 2013 and this is kind
of my story the reason where that TED
talk came from the reason where why I
wrote how to network in college for
students and I can remember graduating
imagine from the number one academic
institution in the country unemployed
and going would and spending the next
six to nine months thinking what on
earth is going on in the world I thought
I did everything right but it’s a
beautiful thing how many of you guys
know that through our biggest failures
sometimes the most amazing opportunities
will sprout right before us right and
amazingly that failure for me made me
change my questioning it made me change
my questioning I returned to Princeton
University worked just like you in
administration in the athletic
department and I’m looking around and
I’m remembering how much pain and how
much confusion I had and and I remember
asking the question why didn’t I get a
job when I graduated why was it so
difficult for me and there was a turn
when I asked a new question and things
started to change
instead of saying why doesn’t Princeton
do this for me
I asked what can I do for Princeton and
it hit me and I said you know what there
might be other student athletes just
like me who don’t understand the concept
so I created a program the program was
called profound I view as a mentoring
program and I said can I get some of the
student athletes together and we’ll come
in and we’ll talk about networking and
professional development and academic
efficiency and the athletic department
looked at me and they said oh that’s
awesome we won’t pay you for it but this
is great go ahead and so that’s what I
did 9:00 to 5:00 you work and then 6:00
to 9:00
is doing my own thing of how I could
contribute back and it was interesting
because the group grew right it was
eight students and then it was twelve
students and there was 25 students and
then it was 40 students and then it was
70 students and then I get an email from
the university president and says did
you create the profound Ivy mentoring
program yes it’s me it’s like well I
would like to come support it and
financially support it as well is that
okay you guys can clap for that there’s
a point here I’m trying I want to drill
this in and I remember at that moment
profound Ivy was it was a mentoring
program for student athletes and has
been running ever since I left the
campus and I thought to myself I was
just one guy out of a hundred thirty
person department with one idea that
came from me changing my question from
being a selfish act to a selfless act
from what can this community give me –
what can I contribute to this community
I’ll say that one more time
I changed the question in my head from
what can this community give me – what
can I contribute to this community and I
learned something amazing and I hope
that you can take this nugget right here
is that when you switch the question in
your mind from what can I get from this
community – what can I uniquely give the
doors open up opportunities come
flooding through it’s an amazing mindset
perspective it’s amazing change
something that I learned at the age of
24 and I will never forget to this day
every community that I’m a part of any
door that I walk in my first question is
5149 what can I give to this situation
5050 when you meet someone new of 50 50
hey how are you doing hey my name is
Isaac hey nice to meet you Rick boom
5149 be the 51 everybody repeat after me
be the 51 a little bit more be the 51 in
any situation or an environment you want
to be a part of and you want to say how
do I extract that value I promise you
this wins every time if you guys see I’m
walking around and I have this shirt and
two words are plastered on my chest and
it says one says inform and the other
says inspire and there are two words
that I absolutely live by inform write
inform means the information is coming
to you from the outside right how do we
take information from the outside to
make us better second word is inspire
everybody say inspire so I took a little
bit of Latin so inspire inspir RA right
so spur RA is the spirit so the spirit
within so information comes from without
inspiration comes from within and when
you put the two together you can do some
amazing things there’s a guy by the name
of Howard Thurman and he was the mentor
to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
he was a deeply spiritual and reflective
man and the way in which he wrote in the
way in which he spoke everything that I
read from him it’s just like powerful
but this one quote is fitting don’t ask
what the world needs
ask yourself what makes you come alive
because what the world needs is people
who have come alive don’t ask what the
world needs if you saw the most amazing
part of what each and every individual
was sharing their idea can you feel how
much emotion and impassioned they had in
their idea right gripping the mic like
just ready to because this was an idea
when you have a great idea it comes from
somewhere deep right it allows you every
single one when I’m listening and you
guys are listening to these stories
there’s a passion behind it there’s a
helping a community behind it there’s
not only a what’s your why but who’s
your why behind it there’s a vision so
the quote again is do not ask what the
world needs ask yourself what makes you
come alive because what the world needs
is people who have come alive
you either know what you want to do or
you don’t and if you don’t the more you
keep hitting your head against the wall
trying to figure that out it’s not going
to come to you and so we’re faced with
this cold hard reality that we need to
make decisions about our career before
we’ve got any knowledge of how to make
them we know that most people will get
the choice wrong in their heart there’s
a study by the University of Phoenix
that says that over 70% of people under
the age of 30 we want to change careers
so you’re forced to make this decision
before you know how to make the decision
and then once you do you’re gonna feel
like it’s wrong so we’re forced to feel
like we’re failures in this sense the
majority of people come out of school
and feel like the choice they made was
the wrong choice so instead of putting
so much pressure on the answer to that
question what do you want to do we need
to help students get much more excited
about the question to explore that
because it’s not about the right
platform creating the right life there
is no right platform you find a platform
and then you start to build it and start
to adjust it to make it fit your life
so many people feel like I got the
answer wrong and I’m screwed you’re not
screwed you just need to start thinking
about it a different way and so that was
the epidemic and it’s not just you it’s
not just me it’s almost everyone that
idea that you’re gonna change career is
five or seven times there’s actually no
group who study so there’s no group that
says this is a career change and you’re
going to do it this many times because
nobody can define what a career changes
the best way to think about this is you
have one career you have one journey of
work one life’s work and so the
important thing is to figure out how to
navigate that one path as opposed to
feeling like you’re going able to do
something for a little while and then
jump onto a different track because
here’s the challenge
people come to school in their career
and they feel like they made the wrong
choice and so they feel like they’ve got
one of three options they can either
just keep doing the same thing even
though they don’t like it they look at
their boss’s job you don’t want it so
they can either just keep doing that
climb that ladder or they can disengage
and feel like this isn’t for me I’m
gonna live for my evenings and my
weekends or the third option is they
feel like they can start all over again
but starting all over again becomes very
difficult even though in our brain it
makes sense because a couple years into
your career you actually earn a bit more
than when you started
but your life cost a little bit more as
well and so very quickly you feel like
you’re stuck on this path and so we see
so many people start to lose
satisfaction of work lose happiness it
works they feel like I made the wrong
choice and now there’s nothing I can do
about it
this is what I’m doing and it’s not
ideal so this is what I want to do and I
can find a way to start to bend my path
to do more and more and more of that
because I’ve only got one path I’ve only
got one journey so how do I make the
most of that one journey that’s the
question
but the first question is what’s your
dream life and so many people have a
general idea of that they’ll see the
success of somebody else and feel like
well that looks like a dream that must
be for me but they’ve never put the time
in to actually figure out what is the
specific life that I’m looking for
what’s the specific mix of life and work
that I’m looking for so for me I’m
seeking extreme flexibility through my
work extreme flexibility so I can go and
do the things that I want to do and
still work as I’m doing it so I’m not
running away from my work when I go away
to different countries I’m actually
embedding that in my life’s work and so
as a result I needed to get really good
at something unique something so unique
that others had value it and when I did
that it allowed me to be in control one
of the challenges we have with jobs
nowadays is that we allow somebody else
to own our control of work we allow
somebody else to write down our job
description to define the boundaries of
our work and so as a result we never
declared for ourselves and it’s totally
a mistake that people make you need to
be in control of your life’s work you
need to be in control of what you do
with your productive time and once you
start to own that once you start to own
the path get good at something very
unique that others have value in you can
start to shape the career and life that
you want graduates I have some very
important advice for you this is the
very thing that I wish someone had told
me when I was graduating when I was
graduating I felt hopeless I felt lost I
felt alone my parents have been sending
me letters for the five months leading
up to my graduation counting down to the
moment where they were no longer going
to help me financially and so as I
walked out a university I had no idea
how to make the dream that I had in my
head actually come true and I think that
my life would be very different if
somebody had told me the following it is
okay to be poor right now
it is okay to be poor right now so your
goal right now should not be to make the
most money possible it should be to
build your ideal life and the way that
you’re going to do that you’re gonna
find the person who’s already living
your ideal life and you’re gonna give
them the following speech I will work
harder and smarter than anyone you’ve
ever met and I will do it for free for
90 days at the end of those 90 days if
you’d rather pay me then lose me then
I’ve got a job and if not we shake hands
and we part ways no hard feelings
because you will have gotten knowledge
and connections and knowledge and
connections is the currency that you
should be obsessed with at this point in
your life because that is gonna be the
thing that shapes you that’s gonna be
the thing that sets you up for your
career I believe that my life would be
fundamentally different if somebody had
told me that this is me having to
stumble my way into them so my challenge
to you guys is this week I want you to
identify the people that are living your
ideal life I want you to reach out to
them as many as you can and try to get
in front of them so that you can make
that appeal and then the person who lets
you in the door I want you to actually
make good on your promise and work
harder and smarter than anyone else to
put more energy into something to be
more enthusiastic more upbeat and to
never let anything be beneath you the
person that comes in with that level of
hustle and is uplifting other people
they’re gonna be the kind of person that
people want to stick around so if you’re
going to take this challenge on I want
you to drop in the comments below that
you’re in and then put who it is that
you think is living your ideal life all
right guys get after it I’m telling you
if I had had that advice it would have
changed the course of my life
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