Tom Bilyeu Best Ever Motivational Speeches COMPILATION | MOST INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO EVER
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 well 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 all the excuses you
making them you could stop giving in to
them no matter how valid they are no
matter how real they may seem you can
finally decide that you’re going to get
a permit that you’re gonna 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 but you find an
answer or as Hannibal said that you’re
going to find the way or make one if you
have to carve through trucking rock do
it because human before you have done it
and that’s the simple truth that is the
simple truth and everything else
is everything else is the weak
voice in your mind holding you back and
making you a less version of yourself so
I ask 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 animal what do you
want to be if this isn’t the life you
want to live do something about it
as Albert Einstein said try not to
become a man of success but rather try
to become a man of value this is
something that I think about a lot at
the end of the day success is incredibly
motivating and accomplishing your goals
and your dreams is something that I
wanted to do since I was a little kid
that’s been a driving force in my life
but through all of that the times that
I’ve felt happiest the times that I felt
most secure the times that my anxiety
and my stress had been at zero are the
times where I felt like I was being most
true to myself where I was trying to
really become a person of substance I
wasn’t looking for something extrinsic I
was focused inward and trying to develop
the person that I’m becoming that I had
some code that I was living by that I
was really deciding not just what
outwardly success looks like but what
does it mean to be a good person what
does it mean to be an effective person
what does it mean to be worthy of trust
and those things at the end of the day
those things are something that when you
invest in finding value in that that it
takes you somewhere amazing and as Bruce
Lee said knowledge will give you
power but character will give you
respect and at the end of the day I
really can’t think of anything better
than that I can’t think of anything that
will keep me company when I’m alone when
there’s nothing but silence around when
all I can hear the sounds of my own
thoughts the only thing that is going to
bring me or you comfort is respect this
self-love is knowing who you are really
and knowing that you’re true to that
even when nobody’s looking and that
concept that notion of having a guiding
light of principle something by which
you steer by that you are always true to
and then in your moments of stress chaos
confusion of them desire that in your
moments of deepest desire that you’re
still true to that that all you think
about is that Norstar of being that
person that you want to be when you let
that be your guiding light when you stay
true to that nothing can hurt you
because nothing will be able to make you
feel badly about yourself because once
you know who you are and you’re true to
it nothing else matters
as Walt Disney said if you can dream it
you can do it now what makes me laugh is
I know right now some of the people
listening to that they say that’s
they’re just limits to what humans can
do and I get that response I understand
it I used to respond to everything like
that I used to see only the difficulty I
used to see only the ways in which it
couldn’t work out and I couldn’t see I
was literally blinded by fear I was
blinded by some bizarre sense of pride
that wanted to justify my limited
existence that didn’t want to have to
face that I could be doing more that I
couldn’t be more that my life was
somehow less than what it could be and
so I would laugh at quotes like that and
I know right now of the chills I know
right now there are people that are
laughing at that and all they can think
about are the limits all they can think
about are the things that prove him
wrong and guess what he is wrong there
really are limits but if you
waste your time focused on that you’re
never going to create the momentum that
you need to actually make something come
true in your life you can build
virtually anything but if you get hung
up on the virtual part if you
let that stop you if you immediately go
to the things that ultimately limit you
and hold you back that is where you’re
gonna stay
forever because if you argue for your
limitations guess what my friend they
become yours and congratulations you now
get to live in that box you get to live
in that self-defined prison but if like
Teddy Roosevelt said instead of that you
keep your eyes on the stars and your
feet on the ground and you don’t act
like somebody who can’t see that sure
there are limits there are edges to this
universe but you’re looking
not at that you’re looking at how he
really executes you’re dreaming big and
you’re remembering that your feet
ultimately is that contact point it is
where the rubber meets the road it is
that moment of doing and so if instead
of rejecting it because your feet must
stay planted on the ground remember that
in keeping your feet on the ground
that’s the moment of action that’s the
moment of doing something about it
that’s the moment of seeing the
possibilities and then moving doing
something making it real so right now
give up on those weird mental mechanisms
that make you actually want to fight for
the things that aren’t possible to get
people to believe in it to get people to
understand why you’ve chosen to stand
still instead of that convince yourself
that you should be moving and don’t do
what you know you’re destined to do
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here’s the hard truth about getting
great it takes time and dedication it
takes a willingness to accept that
you’re not yet good enough it takes the
ability to stare at the places that you
know that you’re weak to really look at
those things and not let it affect your
sense of self-esteem and not let it
affect your sense of self-worth so that
you can still get the momentum going but
you have to understand that in the
beginning we’re all terrible and as
Henri cartier-bresson said your first
10,000 photographs are your worst and so
the thing that really makes great art
are the people that continue to push and
the people that continue to work and
face how inadequate they are and really
understand that at the end of the day
greatness is a craft greatness is a
process greatness is a habit greatness
is the little things that you do every
day
overtime going out every day unafraid of
whether or not this is one of the 10,000
terrible things that you’re going to do
it’s being unafraid to make those
mistakes as being unafraid that you’re
not yet great and as Marianne rad maker
said courage doesn’t always war
sometimes courage is the quiet voice at
the end of the day saying I will try
again tomorrow
and that’s it if you want to be great
that’s what you have to do you’ve got to
get up again tomorrow you’ve got to be
willing to face another day you’ve got
to be willing to accept that you’ve got
to get through the bad ideas before you
can get to the good you’ve got to
understand that you have to start as an
apprentice you have to start as a person
going and getting tea and you have to
accept that that’s the job that you
should be playing that you should be
working for somebody else you should be
looking up to somebody else’s seeing
what they can teach you because what you
know is that you’re there
what you notice that you’re there to get
through the ten thousand bad photographs
that you need to get through to
ultimately achieve greatness and if you
make the catastrophic error that’s so
many make to try to tell the world that
you’re extraordinary today to try to get
the world to follow you and look up to
you and think that you’re something
today because the people that living win
are the ones that are best today the
ones that listen today the ones that
spend every ounce of their energy
amassing mastery getting better every
day working their asses off to improve
their skill set to relentlessly look at
the things that they’re not doing well
to understand that they have to break
themselves down and get rid of all of
their ego before they can really find
greatness those are the people that we
remember so if you want to be remembered
if you want to achieve real greatness
you just need to have the courage to
show up every day and take another swing
take another photo try another task do
something that scares you and do those
little things over and over and over
until you win
greatness is the most demanding mistress
you’re ever going to encounter and I
understand the advice that I’m about to
give you is not for everyone most people
should turn this off but if you’re gonna
stick with me if you’re going to listen
to what I have to say it’s because you
want something tremendous in your life
you want to stand out from everyone else
you want to do something more than other
people think as possible you literally
want to stand outside the norm and if
that’s the case for you then understand
that as Albert Einstein said only one
who devotes himself to a cause with his
whole strength and soul can be a true
master
for this reason mastery demands all of a
person if you want to get great if you
really want to make a skill set your own
if you want to be able to do something
and at the end of the day if you want to
transform the world if you want to make
grand changes if you want to do all of
that all the empty words that
people spout all the time let me tell
you the only thing that’s going to
separate you from all the other
blowhards we’re just talking words and
we’ll never do anything is to give
yourself over completely to let that
obsession let that thing that you love
completely consume you and in that your
only chance to really become great lies
as friends Kafka said don’t bend don’t
water down don’t try to make it logical
rather follow your most intense
obsessions mercilessly can you do that
can you become mercilessly obsessed
can you let something occupy you to
where all logic and reason is gone out
the window and the only thing that
matters is whether or not you
accomplish will you hold yourself
accountable to metrics will you look at
the world and see am I actually making
change are you prepared to hold yourself
to that standard because if you are
there is nothing you can’t do if
you’re willing to take that
responsibility on to transform yourself
as a human being if you give your self
over to getting great if you give
yourself over to that obsession if you
feed it like you would feed a beast if
you feed it like you would feed a fire
that can wipe out an entire mountainside
then you’ve got a chance but it’s got to
burn within you like that you’ve got to
feed it like that you’ve got to feed its
skills you’ve got to get better every
day you’ve got to constantly wake up and
understand exactly what it is you’re
building towards that and build towards
it with a relentlessness that other
people think is mania that other people
can see only madness in what you do and
if you can push yourself to that level
then the world will bend to your will as
an evolved avi Kant said the only way to
truly learn something is by doing it yes
listen to guidance but don’t wait that
is such a powerful idea and I know right
now you’re listening to this because you
want motivation you want to be inspired
but my greatest fear is that
you’ll get motivated you’ll get inspired
and that’ll just be a declining art for
a few minutes after you listen to this
video that ends with you doing nothing
and what I want what I really hope for
and the reason that I give myself over
to making these so completely is I know
some percentage of you on the other side
of this will ultimately be prepared to
take that first step
you will realize that the only thing
that matters is action and you will take
that action and it’s in that action
that your potential greatness Waits and
as Martin Luther King said take the
first step in faith you don’t have to
see the whole staircase just take the
first step you’ve just got to believe
that you can learn you don’t have to
believe that you’re already capable of
doing what you want you don’t have to
believe that you can already build that
thing that you dream you don’t have to
believe that you already are
extraordinary you simply have to believe
that if you take that first step you put
yourself on a journey not of execution
you put yourself on a journey of
learning so that you can execute and
that when you understand that difference
that’s when you really will be on that
path to greatness and that is the thing
that I want for everybody listening to
this please understand the only thing
you need to know is that you have to
take the first step whatever the vision
is that you have for your life you
absolutely can make it come true and the
process is very simple the process is
about learning the process is about
growing and getting better it’s about
recognizing what you’re not good at it’s
about recognizing what you have to learn
it’s about taking that first step on
faith on faith that you can get better
not on faith that you’re great on faith
that you can become the greatest of all
time once you have that faith once you
know that simply being a human being
puts you in this rare category of
creature that can get better through
pressure through pain through difficulty
through failure those are the things
that are going to be the building blocks
of your success but in order to begin on
that road in order to have your first
glorious failure you must first take
that first step so please don’t waste
your time being motivated or inspired
spend every second of your time
moving forward that’s how you’re gonna
get where you want to go
as Daniel ping said people fail to
achieve mastery not because they aren’t
talented but because they aren’t
disciplined the wonderful news about the
human condition is you can get good at
anything that you set your mind to it’s
just not going to be easy and it’s not
gonna be fast but the willingness to put
in that work is what’s going to separate
you from everybody else and I’m begging
you to see yourself right now today as
average as know better than anyone else
but I beg you with more force than I
know how to convey with this language to
see yourself as malleable to see
yourself as capable of becoming anything
you want to become to become truly
extraordinary if you can find within
yourself the discipline to stick with it
long enough and as Steve Martin said
perseverance is a great substitute for
talent
everybody wants to talk about who’s
talented everybody looks at the person
with innate talent as if they have
something magical but to me it’s a gift
it’s a handout it’s a freebie it hasn’t
been earned and no matter what it is
it’s only the beginning even somebody
that has talent even if you get an early
win if you let somebody outwork you if
you let somebody who has more
perseverance more grit
you than they are going to outperform
you on a long enough timeline the only
thing I can guarantee is you will be out
work by somebody unless you pour your
heart and soul into getting great if you
don’t take days off if you put yourself
into it as if your life depended on it
when you act like that then you’ve got a
chance to be great and as Robert Horry
said pressure can bust pipes but it can
also make diamonds you’ve got to want
that pressure you’ve got to want things
to be hard you can’t seek out the easy
life
you can’t just hope and pray that you
can uncover inside of you some talent
that’s laid dormant that you didn’t know
about that’s gonna let things be easy
for you don’t want the easy want the
hard want the pressure want the thing
that’s gonna turn you into something
because when it’s easy you don’t work
for it
when it’s easy you don’t push when it’s
easy you get surpassed by the person who
has to give it their all who’s prepared
to do blood sweat and tears in order to
become that thing that they want to be
so badly because they are so
angry that they were never given
anything and with that chip on their
shoulder they’re determined to become
anything that they set their mind to so
whether you have talent whether you
don’t the only thing that matters is
will you persevere will you stick with
it long enough to get great
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as Thomas Edison said our greatest
weakness lies in giving up the most
certain way to succeed is to always try
one more time I know they’re gonna be a
million times in your life where you
want to give up where you absolutely
ache with the desire to quit where
nothing sits inside of your gut
other than the certainty that you are
going to fail that you are not good
enough to push forward but that is to
fundamentally misunderstand the nature
of a failure the nature of a failure is
not to tell you who you are the nature
of a failure is to tell you a way that
didn’t work it’s to inform it’s to
educate you it’s to test you it’s to be
a gut check to find out if you believe
in yourself enough to push forward even
when the world seems to be telling you
not to and as Brian Tracy said
attempt the impossible in order to
improve your work think about that for a
second attempt the impossible just to
get better to try the things that you
know are going to fail things that the
world is going to tell you simply cannot
be but even if it violates the laws of
physics if there’s something in that
attempt that you’re going to learn you
owe it to yourself you have a
moral obligation to try because all of
the people that will lie in your wake
are the people that didn’t try simply
because they didn’t believe that they
could do it you have to be willing to
look at the world you have to be willing
to see things that you yourself think
are impossible and try because in that
you will stretch yourself you have to be
willing to look inward at the state of
your current skill set and say I’m going
to play outside of that I’m
going to play words safe I’m going to
play where it hurts I’m going to play
where I feel clumsy I’m going to play
only in the areas that make me feel
stupid because in that I know that the
way that the brain responds is to
adaptation but I have to stress myself
you can’t ever lose sight of that the
only way that the human animal adapts is
through stress you have to be willing to
break things in order to build something
new so if you want to push the
boundaries if you want to see just how
far you can go if you want to succeed at
the highest level if you want to play on
a global scale you have got to be
willing to try the impossible because
right now the things that you need to do
are impossible for you but they won’t
remain that way forever and as Aristotle
said pleasure in the job puts perfection
in the work this doesn’t have to be a
tale of always being terrified everybody
myself included screaming at you telling
you that you need to go do something
great the part they’re leaving out is
why the should you care
you should character this is the
greatest joy you should only listen to
this if it’s leading you down a path
that makes you feel more alive and
that’s the point the point is to get in
touch with something that makes you feel
great but not to let yourself starve or
be stopped by a fear that you’ll fail by
a fear that it can’t be done
have fun have the guts to enjoy yourself
have the guts to go out and attempt
something audacious and terrifying
knowing that all along if you’re doing
it right you’re gonna have a good time
so all of this going balls out trying to
prove something to yourself trying to do
something amazing never lose sight that
it’s to build a better life never lose
sight of the fact that you’re doing it
to create
the person that you want to be never
lose sight of the fact that it should be
fun
as Kurt Vonnegut one of the greatest
authors in modern time said when I write
I feel like an armless legless man with
a crayon in his mouth but he still did
it and that’s the kind of thing that
you’re gonna hear from the greats you’re
not gonna hear that it was easy you’re
not gonna hear that they felt suave and
cool even the greatest of all time have
that awkwardness not clumsiness they’re
never quite as good as they want to be
but what I want you to understand is
even though Kurt Vonnegut said those
words he wrote tons of books that
changed people’s lives that changed the
landscape of literature because despite
the fact that he felt awkward and clumsy
he kept doing it and doing it and
forcing himself to move forward to take
one step after another even when the
process was not exactly rewarding
he believed in something he knew that
what he was trying to do would
ultimately get better he knew that if he
wanted to accomplish something great
that he had to push through the
awkwardness and that is the very trick
to getting great you just have to do it
you have to go you have to take that
first step you have to push you have to
drive you’ve to strive every time to get
a little bit better you have to strive
not to fall prey to your own doubts and
insecurities and as Joan Amos said if
you aren’t going all the way why go at
all but it’s doing that in face of the
fear it’s doing that in face of the
difficulties it isn’t only because
someone is great that they say you
should either do it all the way to play
hard or go home they’re not saying it
because the process is in and of itself
rewarding they’re saying it because
there is something that they’re trying
to accomplish that demands it that
they’re prepared to play on a world
stage and once you know why you’re doing
what you’re doing once something sits at
the core of your
and despite how difficult painful
awkward it may be to push forward you
push forward no matter what the odds and
as Hannibal said one of the greatest
military leaders of all time I wider
find a way or I’ll make one and he said
that as he was getting elephants across
the Alps now when you think of the
difficulties that you face and trying to
do what you’re trying to accomplish
think about that man
amassing an army and getting elephants
to climb a mountain and saying not this
is impossible but rather if there’s not
already a way present I will make one
and when you can look at that when you
can look at your own inadequacies when
you can accept that you were not yet
good enough but you know that you’ll put
in the work to get there you know that
you’ll learn the things you need to
learn that you will push and you will
practice and you will shape yourself
into someone capable of doing it if you
have to literally carve your own path
out of these stone granite of a
mountainside you will do that because
that’s what your goals demand and when
you’re prepared to do what ever your
goals demand you will accomplish
whatever you set your mind to
as ernest hemingway noted the world
breaks everyone and afterward many are
stronger in the broken places but my
question is why isn’t everyone to me it
comes down to the strategies that you
use there really isn’t anything
objectively good or bad there isn’t
anything that happens to you that can’t
be overcome there isn’t anything that
could happen to you
anything that when you turn inward you
can’t find a reason to overcome you
can’t find a way to put those pieces
back together and that becomes your job
it becomes literally up to you whether
you’re going to sit and wallow and woe
is me because what happened happened and
there’s no way to take it back but how
you respond what you bring to that table
whether you meet fire with fire whether
you meet that adversity with falling
apart becoming weaker in the areas that
broke or you bind them and mend them and
it becomes like a weld that literally
makes you stronger is a choice and it’s
a choice only you get to make but as
Stephen Hawking said when you complain
nobody wants to help you there are many
things in your life do you have every
reason to complain about you have every
reason to be upset by the things that
have happened to you the most sinister
thing about excuses is they’re valid
there’s a million reasons why you should
be able to give up there’s a million
reasons why you shouldn’t need to try
that thing that broke you you should be
allowed to just sit on the ground and
here’s the thing that’s your right
you have every reason to do it and maybe
people won’t even think less of you
but here’s the truth why they become
weaker or stronger in the places that
broke and that’s a choice of how you
react moving forward the great news is
the best thing that you could do to
become stronger is love yourself and as
Kamal Ravi Kahn said loving yourself is
a practice
people think that it’s something that’s
gonna feel right that it’s gonna feel
natural that you’re just gonna turn
inward and there is this spark of love
and joy for yourself inside yourself and
the truth is that’s just not the human
experience that’s not the way that it
works there’s gonna be a voice inside
your head and it’s going to blame you
it’s gonna say that it’s your fault and
no matter how many times people on the
outside tell you that that is not true
that this thing happened to you that it
isn’t you it doesn’t define you there
will be a voice that’s going to tell you
that it does and that’s where you have
to fall back on process that’s where you
have to realize that you literally have
to practice loving yourself and that
it’s okay
that no matter what happened there is
absolutely nothing that invalidates that
you’re worthy of your own love but
you’ve got to practice it you’ve got to
be willing to do it you’ve got to be
willing to put in the reps you’ve got to
know that it’s not gonna feel right but
you’ve got to know on the other side of
that is a vision of your life where you
actually do love yourself because you
took the time to say it you took the
time to practice it you took the time to
sit there and feel stupid and say that
you love yourself and sometimes just
putting in the work is what you need to
do to get strong so put in the work
