Mayday, mayday, mayday! Bravo 160 heavy. Emergency descent! We have as humans We have something that no animal has And what is called is, imagination And what imagination allows you to do it allows you to see it Before it actually happened What I mean by that is I need you to go 10 years into the future 20 years into the future And I need you to see yourself Actually becoming the person you want to be You gotta live in the forward Block the whole world out Put some music on Some classical music Right, the piano music I don't know what you need to listen to But I want you to take 30 minutes Go in the closet, go in the basement Go to the library, go into a room alone. And I want you to take 30 minutes And I want you to imagine I want you to take 30 minutes And I want you live in the forward See the problem is I'm talking to some of you guys The problem that you're having is You're living in the future and you're living in the present And you keep talking about the mistakes And you keep talking about the past And you keep talking about your trials And you keep talking about your situation And I want you to know That everybody that has ever been great Everybody has had a obstacle to overcome They had a barrier that they had to climb There is no individual who's ever reached success And he didn't have to go through A obstacle or a barrier to get there I need you to live in the future I need you to go in your future every single day I need you to go in your future I need you to see what you're going to be Listen to me What you are to be, you are now becoming So you gotta use your imagination And your imagination has to take you beyond the pain Your imagination has to take you beyond the trouble Your imagination has to take you to the next level We have to see ourselves there long before it happens The second tool is We've gotta embrace faith I had to have faith and believe that the thing that I see 10 years from now 20 years from now That one day that thing is gonna be successful When I was homeless at 16 I could have quit When I was homeless I could have given up There were many a day that I thought about Commiting suicide But I said to myself "E just keep imagining, keep thinking, keep seeing" Keep seeing what you're not now But what you're going to be Sometimes it's gonna be hard Sometimes you gonna look all around you And nowhere do you see success Nowhere do you see anything that Remotely looks like success But you gotta embrace Number 2: You gotta embrace the faith You gotta believe that Although it's not happening right now If you keep pressing If you keep pushing, guess what? One day is gonna be your day That's right I need you to say that with me One day is gonna be your day Embrace the faith You gotta be able to see it and believe it When there is no evidence around you When there is no evidence around you When you got pain in your life, when you are tired When you feel like giving up And you feel like quitting When you look around you And you don't see anything that looks anything like success You gotta embrace the faith And believe that one day is gonna be my day But one day can't be your day if you give up If you quit If you quit, no day will ever be your day I want you to fail forward That's right. I said it. Fail forward. I want you to get to a place in your life That every mistake you make Every setback you get Right, every obstacle that you don't overcome Every barrier you can't climb I don't want you to give up But I want you to fail forward You gotta learn from your mistakes That every mistake you make You failed that class? Get back up and try again! You lose a job? Get back up and try again! You put all your money in an investment? Get back and try again! If you start a business and it don't work Don't stop, don't quit! Fail forward Learn from each and every one of your mistakes Don't quit. Don't give up Listen to me. Don't quit. Don't give up. If it gets hard, you tie a knot around yourself You double tie it if you have to, but you hold on But I want you to know, you'll never reach your goal You'll never reach your dreams If you don't use your imagination So when you failed that class Don't drop it When you failed that class don't just stop going You're going to the end of that class And you're going to the end of that class And you're going to the end of that class And you're going to the end of that class Because I want you to know something When you start that class over the next semester You won't be starting from scratch You won't be starting from the bottom Because you were all the way up here when you quit And now all you gotta do is go a little further And a little further So keep reaching Keep climbing But it started with a vision Fear Is not real The only place that fear can exist Is in our thoughts of the future It is a product of our imagination Causing us to fear things That do not, at present and may not ever, exist Fear is a choice Only those who risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go I want your dream be so clear That when you wake up in the morning All you gotta do is step in your dream And the first step for me Was seeing something I was not before I was You can do it Where you are is temporary You will not be there for rest of your life I don't care what happens in your life I don't care what it looks like I don't care where you are Every single day you wake up If you're gonna have energy If you're gonna have passion If you're gonna have drive Every day you wake up You gotta start with that vision This is the mentally like You gotta live this You gotta eat this Every single thing you do It's not a cute saying It is a way of life It's got to possess everything you do It's got to own you There's no reason to have a plan B Because it distracts from plan A I wanna see how far I can go I wanna see what I can accomplish I wanna see what I can do What I can be What I can have. I want to see. I don't want to see what I think I can do I don't want to see what I think is possible I wanna see what my life will look like If I don't count the cost And I was willing to go further Than anybody was willing to One problem The violin Because to do what you do You have got to be a world class violinist Because if you don't When you're moving around Being thrown around and still trying to play You end up doing what you did That is missing loads of notes And there were times when it sounded to me Like a bunch of rats being strangled. Seriously, that bad. But you’re not good enough, I don’t think To get away with flying through the air And trying to play the violin at the same time I don't think what you're doing right now Is enough to fill a theater in Vegas That much movement made you not as great as you were Made you not as great as you were Anytime there's a change to be made You have to realize that There is somewhere else you wanna be And I want to basically be happy You can't do anything without faith it's impossible to accomplish anything without faith So i need you to believe There is still time As long there is a breath in your nostrils As long as you can wake up in the morning The first step Before anybody else in the world believes it Is you have to believe it So I need you to believe Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you wanna get Who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished Something you really want to do Something you never said to someone, something... And you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody It's your right to listen to your gut It ain't nobody's right to say no After you earned the right to be where you want to be And do what you want to do You gotta do what you was called to do You gotta do what you was born to do You gotta do what works for you Because if you do what works for you you're gonna blow up! It's in your DNA! It's who you are! Even if you get knocked down You get back up, you get back up, you get back up And you continue to throw shit against the wall! You have a vision, but listen to me You are where you are because of who you are And if you're going to get somewhere else You're gonna have to change something