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Don't really want to get up and get out of bed?
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Yah. I get up and get out of bed.
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I don't really want to work out, I work
out.
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I really don't want to hammer on a project, I
hammer on the project. As an
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overall rule I do not like procrastination. You need
to get things
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done but if you are going
to rest that is one thing that you should
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procrastinate on, that's the one
thing I want you to put off until tomorrow.
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Now these could be signals that you need
some time off and those signals might be
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right. They could be
correct, but don't take today off.
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Don't give in to the immediate
gratification that is whispering in your
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ear, shut that down. Do not listen to that
little voice instead go through the
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motions, lift the weights, sprint the hill,
work on the project, get out of bed.
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If you only have 24 hours in a day, your
success is dependent upon how you use the
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24. You got to hear me people talk about
Oprah Winfrey, you know Ted Turner, Warren
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Buffett, listen to me. I don't care how much money you make. You only get 24 hours in a
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day and the difference between Oprah and the person that's broke is Oprah
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uses her 24 hours wisely. That's it.
Listen to me, that's it. You get 24. I
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don't care if you broke, you grew up
broke, I don't care if you grew up rich
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I don't care if you're in college, you're
not in college, you only get 24 hours
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and I blew up literally. I went from
being a high school dropout to selling
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6,000 books in less than six months.
What happened? About 24 hours. I was like okay
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Eric you got to get a grip on your 24
hours because you bout to be broke for
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the rest of your life and that's all I
need you to do for me. I can tell you all
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about your life if you just write down
your 24 hours schedule for me. You let
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me look at it, I can tell you where you
going to be in 5 years, I can tell you where
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you're going to be in ten years, I can
tell you where you're going to be 20
-
years if you keep that schedule. I had a
teacher in eighth grade, eighth grade
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tell me I wasn't gonna make it to high
school. Eighth grade I had a teacher
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telling me that foolishness and what did
I do I prove them right I went to high
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school wiling out. Ninth grade year wiled out so bad that school kicked me out. They was like
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you, we can't even take this no more,
kick you out. Go to another school, I
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completely flunk that. Go to a third
school and finally begin to get my act
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together. I've proven everybody who did not believe in me right and the few people
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who did believe in me, I proved them
wrong.
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Again we dealing with, it matters of the heart now. A lot of times we behave in the way we
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behave because we don't feel like we got
worth or value. We don't really
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recognize the heritage or who we are and
what we can do so we just on that I'm
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just going to do whatever and get a
couple of laughs but when you recognize
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how great you are, when you recognize
that champion that's inside you you'll
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say you know what I got more to give.
There's more than life than this right
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here. I deserve better. You deserve better and then you'll say you know what, what I'm
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going to do I'm gonna prove everybody who didn't believe in me wrong and the few
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people who do believe in me imma prove
them right and when you do that
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everything inside your life changes. I
just started saying before I make
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decisions, I just started saying okay, is this going
to make my momma proud or all the
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people that's hating on me it's just
going to make them say 'see, I told you.
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I'm in India speaking, I've found out the culture in India there, in Bangalore I was
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has the highest suicide rate because
if these kids do not do well in high
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school they know they won't go to
college and they know for the rest of
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their life they'll end up with poverty
and they said I'd rather die than be in poverty.
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That's what you call desperation. What, you're going to settle
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for whatever the world gives you? You're
going to settle for living how your mom
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and dad live now? I'm telling you all my
young friends, you ain't gotta settle for that.
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Most people think that the people that
are at a very high level in society are
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cut from a different cloth. They think
that they're, they're literally a different
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breed than them and that they're and
that they can't get those things. So
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that's kind of interesting right and
it's always kind of a shocker to have
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the, the myth of that person burst but
see here's the thing.
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Although we're not cut from a different
cloth, the fact that I mastered
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consistency is the difference and most
people will never do that.
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No one wants you to succeed right? Only your mom and
even your mom doesn't want you to succeed
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cause she's afraid you're not gonna call her back. Your brain doesn't want you to be a
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big success. Your brain just wants to
keep you alive. All your brain wants you
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to do is just pump out one or two kids
so that the DNA can continue on, that's it.
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Your brain will trick you. You are your
own worst enemy. I know that if I fail to
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do that, that I am not instilling those
habits, that's going to have, going
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to have a big-picture long-term goal.
Dudes, talent is overrated homie. There's
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no price too great for me.
There's nothing too great. I would die
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for, for my dreams.
You know what I'm saying?
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I'm willing to risk it. There's, there's nothing too great, there's
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no amount that I'm not willing to go but
you could accomplish anything you want man.
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If you're willing to do it. Right? But
again you'll realize that what you think
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you are is not what you are. You become
something else. You literally become
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something else. If
you want to be someone who's tireless
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you cannot be tired down, you'll become
something else. So you don't have those
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limitations a normal human being has, you don't have that because you become
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something else. You become something that embodies certain things that you're trying
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to move forward. You'll go to any length you, so you're not going get tired because
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that because do that, at that point you have God on your side. That's not even you anymore dude.
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It's like, you know how? What I do is I focus on maybe one or two or three
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things at a time and then I just do it
and then I get that done and then I do
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the next thing and then I get that done
and then I do the next thing. No one's
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going to put you on. You got, you have to
put yourself on. No one's going to put
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you on. So, so you make that choice you just do your small tasks and you do it but see
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no one wants to hear that. Success is
about just quiet little actions. Getting
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rid of anything that's unnecessary.
Success is like a quiet daily set of
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tasks, real small. Real real small.
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It's very quiet. It's a very quiet process where
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you're just drawing your state from within
yourself doing these like simple little
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tasks but finding love in those simple
little tasks. It's not this big rah-rah
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speech where you do this one thing and
something big happens.
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I'm tired. I don't want to do it and I got a
million reasons not to do it but what I
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do is I make the choice that I say if I
can't make myself go do this, how am I
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going to live my dreams? I found that if
I miss one day, I'll miss every day.
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people are always wondering what the next step in life is and I say,
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ife's a little bit like a maze, you know? Until you walk down one hallway and try to open the door
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you don't know if it's a dead end or not
and people are trying to sit back
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and that's where the procrastination comes in
and look real far down
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the hallway, and I'm like, just walk
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small and steady wins the race
what's the fastest way to change your life?
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for me I think it's understanding how to set up daily routines with alternating brain and body training
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and, killing procrastination
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The little win, with your family
when you feel like watching TV
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sets you up for another win the next day
a little win of getting up at 5 o'clock
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and running your morning routine
sets you up for a habit, of a 5am club morning routine
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small daily improvements over time will lead you to stunning results
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it comes down to this Elvis, I think you have to work hard
like, just so everybody knows
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we haven't gotten into this subject yet
working hard, is the cost of entry to anything
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you know zero people that are successful
that don't work their face off
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you know zero people now, they may have money as mummy and daddy made money and gave it to them
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but people that actually built their own success
you know zero people
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that have had success, that did not put in obnoxious amounts of work
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what's the most important key to success?
I think it's hunger
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it's not getting satisfied a hunger that doesn't go, a hunger to learn, a hunger to grow, a hunger to serve,
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a hunger to give
a hunger to create break throughs
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most people are hungry until they make a certain amount of money and then they get comfortable
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and there's nothing wrong with that
but it's not about the money,
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t's not about the business, it's about your growth
because every one of us either grows or dies
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people ask me all the time, what does it take to be happy?
I say one word, progress
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progress equals happiness
because achieving a goal feels
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good for how long? A week, a month, three months? And then there needs to
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be something else and the reason for something else is because you gotta grow
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imagine a conversation with your future self
and that, lets imagine that
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the you of 20 years from now
shows up at your doorstep, and that you
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is stronger, smarter, wiser, wealthier, healthier, happier
and that you shows up at your door
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and it looks at your life
and it looks you in the eye
-
if that future you is going to give you advice
on what to stop, what to start
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what's the first thing they would tell you to be? Or do?
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take a step back right now and think about who we all admire in the world
-
right? They're all people that punted the system, they're people that practice singing since they were
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five, there are people that shot 10,000 basketballs every morning
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it's always that
it's always that. 99% of the people
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right now that are listening to this are playing in the middle
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they're playing in a game that was structured for them
they're risk adverse, they fear, and most
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importantly, they fear what other people think
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look, I believe that we're all born with lots of goodness in us but life throws curveballs
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life, the ambition of being alive, helps us dream, and if you've been given a dream
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don't discount that because you're not good enough yet
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develop yourself, weaponise yourself
teach yourself to be so good at
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something that is necessary to serve in the area of your dream that now you're
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never even thinking about your comfort zones
your comfort zone is irrelevant
-
what matters is, what are you trying to do with your life?
How are you trying to contribute?
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The one thing that discipline definitely does
help you with, is it helps you get things done
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and when you get things done, when you actually do things you have more success
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if you have more success, and sometimes a big
-
part of success is just not being lazy and just doing it
it's like 90% of it is just showing up
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get there and start working, like
you're not gonna feel perfect everyday
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it's pretty much the same with everybody that actually gets good at something
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there's gotta be those days you push through
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and they're probably gonna be more numerous
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than the days you don't and so the benefit of discipline in my eyes has always been
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that through discipline I get things done.
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Those days when I’m tired or worn out or just basically sick of the grind. What
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do I do on those days? I go anyways. I get it done even if I’m just going
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through the motions. I go through the motions.
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So yep you're in school, yes you
probably are getting grades, etc but if
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it's not meaningful to you, if it's not
important to you then you're not going to
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make it a priority. So what you have to
do is find out how can you make it
-
meaningful? How can you make it purposeful?
How can how can you make it stick and
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when you can find that out I promise you
you will get up early, you'll get there
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first and you'll do whatever it takes to
make that goal a reality. So for me, no
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such thing as procrastination, it's such
thing as it's not a priority to you.
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This is kinda hard to understand but
sometimes you can try so hard at something
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sometimes you can be so
so prepared and still fail
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and with every time you fail it's painful
causes sadness
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and especially as I saw last night it causes disappointment
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I've often said a man's character is not judged
after he celebrates a victory but
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by what he does when his back is against the wall
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so no matter how great the setback
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how severe the failure
you never give up
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you never give up, you pick yourself up, you brush yourself off, you push forward,
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you move on, you adapt, you overcome, that is what I believe
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everybody here, everybody watching, I won't be stopped, I can't be stopped
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you're either committed, or you aren't
you're either willing to do everything it takes
-
whatever that might be
or you aren't you either are willing to go
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through hell and high water and fire and brimstone to get to your goals
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or you aren't. Work on yourself, work on your focus
you cannot stop, you gotta work
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the problem with you
is you see difficult, as something negative
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I want you to see difficult differently. Are you hearing me? I need you to push through that stuff
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push through it. You can get through it
the more you go through, the more difficult it is
-
the more challenging it is
listen to me, the harder it is
-
are you hearing me? The more challenging it is
all you're doing baby is building muscle
-
in life, you're either going through a storm
in a storm, or you're coming out
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it's a part of life. There's no way around it
so just be careful not to allow
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the trials and tribulations to consume you.
I don't care if you're a billionaire
-
I don't care if you're a CEO of one of the most important companies, I don't care if you're an
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entertainer, like I don't care who you are,
you can go to the moon
-
we all have problems
what I'm trying to tell you is this though
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problems are a part of life
but guess what
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they're not life. It's not going to be easy. There are moments when you are going to doubt yourself
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there are rough times are gonna come but they have not come to stay
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no matter how bad it is
or how bad it gets
-
you've gotta make it your personal business
to make it happen.
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For me, it - it has been the - to be that guy
that does what people say can't be done.
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You know and I think it started with
trying to please my mother and trying to
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please my grandmother and they always
wanted higher for me. They always wanted
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more for me and it got to the point that
I wanted to be something. I wanted to be
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somebody and it made me choose certain
roles, it made me turn down certain roles
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there is more than an image that I want
to project. I want to be the person that
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is the first person there and the last
person to leave. That's what I want to be
-
because I think that the the road to
success is through commitment and
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through the strength to drive through
that commitment when it gets hard and it
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is going to get hard and you're going to
want to quit sometimes but it'll be
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colored by who you are and more who you
want to be. I definitely found that
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wanting to be an actor stems from
wanting to be somebody.
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My mom wanted me be a truck driver
because that would mean I would make
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$24,000 a year if I went to Truck
Masters and I'll be twice what my father
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made and she thought that would happen
but something inside of me said I don't want
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to drive a truck. There's something else that
matters more to me and I decided I was
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not going to go for money instead of
passion and the rewards been pretty
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amazingly better than being a truck drive. It's
not bad being a truck driver it's just
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not what I was after and I, I look back
and one of the things that helped me was
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my original teacher Jim Rohn, who was a
personal development speaker I went to hear when
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I was 17 he said so the first time I
heard him he said 'you know it's really
-
simple if you want life to change, you
got to change. If you want life to be
-
better you've got to get better. It's the only
way it happens and luck will show up for
-
people and it will leave them but if you're
constantly improving who you are and
-
what you give, game over.
See if you can find some ways to
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multiply your value to the market
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and he said your income will immediately
start to change. See if you go through
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life holding back and most of us do, most
of us if we ask ourselves have we done
-
all we can do? Most of us will have to
answer, no we haven't. We've been holding
-
back. We have ideas that we don't act on
things we want to do, we're afraid to take
-
chances, we go through life trying to
seek security and not coming outside of
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our comfort zone and we take most of our
stuff with us to the grave. Up until then
-
I was hoping that the economy would
change, I was hoping that my company would
-
change, I was hoping that my paycheck
would change, I was hoping that circumstances
-
outside would change and here's what I
found out. It isn't going to change. So
-
then my question was if it isn't going
to change, how will my life ever change
-
and here's what my teacher taught me.
When you change, when you change,
-
everything will change for you and I'm saying
that the fact that you're still here
-
that you're still breathing
you've got some more work and you owe it
-
to yourself. You owe it to yourself so
when you get up in the morning that you
-
can look yourself in the face and say
hey I'm living my life on my terms.
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Change your question, change your life. When
it comes to planning your life I want to
-
get you to learn to ask three questions
now. The question you want to ask yourself is
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what do I want?
What's my outcome? What's my result? The
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word R.P.M. The first one is to get
you focused on the target. The target is
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not the activity, the activity can change.
Its what the - what's the result I'm after.
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If you know exactly what it is you
really want, what you desire, what you're
-
really after, clarity is power. The more
clear you are in specifically what you want
-
the faster your brain can get you there
but if you're generally saying things
-
like what do I want, 'well you know I want
more money', 'fine, here's a dollar get out
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of here.'
Whether you get the outcome or not
-
whether you get that result will be
based firstly of clarity and the second
-
thing is whether you get enough
emotional juice to keep going after it
-
when things don't work out. Did you
achieve the outcome? Yeah, when you're
-
that general, you might be - you think you're not getting your goal, you are. The way
-
you language your goal, the way you think
about it, you're receiving it. You know
-
you know, I, you know I want to feel a bit
better. I want to lose some weight
-
fine, you lost the pound you're done. When
you get better, everything will get
-
better for you and
that's where I picked up that phrase: for
-
things to change, you've got to change.
You don't have to change the marketplace
-
you don't have to change the marketing
plan, you don't have to change the
-
economy, you don't have to change
countries, you don't have to change
-
circumstances out there, all you've got
to do is look within and see if you can
-
change yourself for the better and as
you change, things will start to change for you.
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What's the result I'm after, what's the ultimate result, what do I want out of this week, out of this thing,
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out of my business, out of my life, for my body.
Don't concern yourself too much with
-
how you're going to achieve your goal
leave that completely to a Power greater
-
than yourself. All you have to do is know
where you're going the answers will come
-
to you of their own accord. Here's my
best advice: welcome all experiences, you
-
never know which one is going to turn
everything on. Are there going to be some
-
moments when you want to give up? Yes.
Will there be some moments when it's
-
going to seem like it's impossible, the
pain that you're experiencing, the
-
disappointment that you're experiencing
that you're going to say it's not worth
-
it? Yes, that's - that's going to be right
there for you. It's going to be in your
-
face telling you to go back. When we
think about changing our lives usually
-
that means changing your behaviors or
retraining yourself, getting new habits,
-
oing out and trying them out and
changing your life. This is about
-
changing your thoughts and then your
life will change. Change your thoughts
-
change your life. Benjamin Disraeli said
nothing can resist a human will that
-
will stake its existence on its purpose.
Shortly put, I'll do it or die. Know that
-
all you have to do is hold your goal
before you. Everything else will take
-
care of itself and I can tell you that
it doesn't make any difference what age
-
you are, whether you're a teenager
watching this or whether you're someone
-
in your 60s, 70s, 80s or anywhere along
the way, you can make that change. Every
-
thought, every feeling, every emotion you
experience in this lifetime is shaped by
-
beliefs and values. All of your life is
controlled by decisions you make.
-
Decisions about what to believe, decisions
about what to feel, decisions about what to
-
do and most of us are on automatic pilot
letting the world trigger us instead of
-
taking back control of our life and when
you do that, just think of it this way.
-
Anything you want to change, you want to
change your body, you want to change your
-
career, your business, your relationship
what to do requires the right strategy.
-
If you want to lose weight and keep it off
you can't obviously just throw your
-
pendulum and go on some silly diet. You
have to know the things that're going to give you
-
lasting results, so we teach those
strategies but some people even know
-
what to do but they don't do it and why
are we able to get people to do it, to
-
follow through because 80% of success in
anything my friends, is psychology and
-
20% is mechanics. What that means is
there's how to do stuff and there's why
-
to do stuff. How to do it, is not that
complex and if you really learn from
-
somebody who knows those refined
distinctions they can - they can show you
-
those tipping points. Those things you
can do where in the least amount of time,
-
you get the biggest result. As you look
at yourself as a business operator, as
-
you look at yourself as an entrepreneur
as you look at yourself as a person that
-
wants to make a mark with your life, that
wants to leave a legacy, you've got to be
-
hungry. It's better to be prepared for an
opportunity and not have one, than to
-
have an opportunity and not be prepared.
-
You want to find people who master that
because success leaves clues and that's
-
the same thing I'm suggesting to you.
Whatever area that you want to go in, if
-
it's finances and business, insurance
industry, whatever area that you're
-
interested in, find the people who are
mastering that and follow their example.
-
Watch your relationships. They are nourishing
relationships and there are toxic
-
relationships. Nourishing relationships,
they bring the best out of you, they inspire
-
you. Toxic relationships, they drain you.
People that are hungry, are willing to do
-
the things that the others won't do, in
order to have the things tomorrow others
-
won't have. People that are hungry
believe always strive to get on top in
-
life because it's the bottom that's
overcrowded. People that are hungry know
-
if you want to be successful, you must be
willing to do the things today others
-
won't do, in order to have the things
tomorrow others won't
-
have. If you do what is easy, your life
will be hard. Complain, point at your
-
circumstances, give up your power, blame
the government, blame the economy. If you
-
do what is easy, your life will be hard
but if you do what is hard, your life
-
will be easy. It's
hard to make a radical change in your behavior.
-
It's hard to take ownership, it's hard to
swallow the bitter pill that wherever
-
you find yourself, at some point in time
you made an appointment to be there.
-
It's hard. It's hard. If you
do what is easy,
-
your life will be hard. If you do what is hard,
-
your life will be easy.