1 00:00:01,355 --> 00:00:02,808 I remember years ago 2 00:00:02,808 --> 00:00:04,778 when the alarm used to go off in the morning 3 00:00:04,781 --> 00:00:06,451 The first thing I did was roll over 4 00:00:06,451 --> 00:00:07,997 and hit the "snooze" button. 5 00:00:11,907 --> 00:00:15,218 In that instant where you have a choice 6 00:00:15,218 --> 00:00:17,509 a choice to either hit the "snooze" button 7 00:00:17,509 --> 00:00:18,728 and go back to sleep 8 00:00:18,728 --> 00:00:21,313 in your nice, warm, fluffy, cozy bed 9 00:00:21,313 --> 00:00:24,481 or open your eyes and get out of bed. 10 00:00:24,481 --> 00:00:28,121 That's a choice that take discipline. Now I didn't have any discipline. 11 00:00:28,121 --> 00:00:30,221 I always took the easy route. 12 00:00:30,243 --> 00:00:32,289 The most comfortable 13 00:00:32,289 --> 00:00:34,629 The problem is when you make this decision 14 00:00:34,629 --> 00:00:36,914 because it's the first that you make 15 00:00:36,914 --> 00:00:38,501 literally the second you wake up 16 00:00:38,501 --> 00:00:40,640 you're letting yourself off the hook 17 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:44,310 you are literally training your mind to take the easy way out 18 00:00:44,310 --> 00:00:45,415 throughout the whole day 19 00:00:45,415 --> 00:00:46,977 which leads to you taking 20 00:00:46,977 --> 00:00:49,078 the easy way out the whole month all year! 21 00:00:50,510 --> 00:00:52,637 Discipline is not something that any of us are born with. 22 00:00:52,637 --> 00:00:55,066 It's a muscle that we have to train 23 00:00:55,066 --> 00:00:59,389 and I don't care what anyone says it all starts that first second. 24 00:00:59,389 --> 00:01:02,831 How you start your day and that decision you make in that instant 25 00:01:02,831 --> 00:01:05,831 isn't as small as just getting up a bed or not. 26 00:01:05,831 --> 00:01:08,151 It's the decision that can shape the rest of your (f*#%ing) life 27 00:01:08,151 --> 00:01:11,011 [dramatic music] 28 00:01:14,612 --> 00:01:18,447 This is ain't some motivational, inspirational bullshit. 29 00:01:18,467 --> 00:01:19,832 This is the truth. 30 00:01:19,838 --> 00:01:22,873 When I was younger I dreamed that one day I'd get a job 31 00:01:22,873 --> 00:01:25,306 that paid me fifty grand a year. 32 00:01:25,306 --> 00:01:29,951 That-- for a boy where I come from was a dream come true. 33 00:01:29,951 --> 00:01:33,156 If you told me back then that I'd be running a seven-figure company 34 00:01:33,156 --> 00:01:36,814 and building a business of my own, I would have laughed in your face. 35 00:01:36,814 --> 00:01:40,815 It wasn't until I started to believe that I and I alone could shape my world 36 00:01:40,815 --> 00:01:44,153 that I started achieving anything I wanted to. 37 00:01:44,153 --> 00:01:47,453 That little decision in the morning if you open your eyes and get out of bed 38 00:01:47,453 --> 00:01:49,663 the next decision you face that day 39 00:01:49,663 --> 00:01:54,558 you're gonna now be disciplined to not take the easy way out. 40 00:01:54,558 --> 00:02:00,033 People don't realize it but that bed can basically represent your entire life. 41 00:02:02,343 --> 00:02:06,222 If you stay in that bed, you'll literally stand in your comfort zone 42 00:02:06,232 --> 00:02:08,812 which means your day will be spent in your comfort zone- 43 00:02:08,812 --> 00:02:10,762 and your month, your year and before you know it 44 00:02:10,791 --> 00:02:13,531 you've spent your whole life in your comfort zone, 45 00:02:13,534 --> 00:02:17,625 never pushing yourself to new heights, never trying anything new, 46 00:02:17,625 --> 00:02:19,514 taking risks, moving forward. 47 00:02:19,514 --> 00:02:22,571 It all starts in that first second of your day. 48 00:02:22,571 --> 00:02:24,680 So don't take it lightly. 49 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,431 Start building discipline. 50 00:02:26,431 --> 00:02:29,414 It's something I started doing and it helped me massively. 51 00:02:29,414 --> 00:02:34,467 It ain't easy but it's worth it. 52 00:02:34,467 --> 00:02:37,043 One of the worst phrases we've ever created was 53 00:02:37,043 --> 00:02:39,303 "You've got to see it to believe it." 54 00:02:39,317 --> 00:02:42,630 It's a phrase created by cynical people with small minds 55 00:02:42,630 --> 00:02:45,232 that have not got any hope that things can get better. 56 00:02:45,232 --> 00:02:47,112 Can you imagine what the world would be like 57 00:02:47,117 --> 00:02:49,407 if everyone believed that this was true? 58 00:02:49,407 --> 00:02:52,917 We'd have no cars, no planes, no light in the dark 59 00:02:52,939 --> 00:02:55,558 We'd never have computers or mobile phones. 60 00:02:55,558 --> 00:02:59,618 We'd never climb mountains, break records or go to the moon. 61 00:02:59,646 --> 00:03:01,466 I used to believe this rubbish. 62 00:03:01,467 --> 00:03:03,551 People had it completely the wrong way around. 63 00:03:03,551 --> 00:03:07,225 Nothing can be achieved, conceived until first it's believed. 64 00:03:07,225 --> 00:03:09,615 You have to believe it to see it. 65 00:03:09,635 --> 00:03:12,460 If there's something that you want to do with your life, 66 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:15,510 that thing deep inside you that whispers day and night, 67 00:03:15,510 --> 00:03:19,980 it will always, always just be an idea until you choose to believe it's possible. 68 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:24,196 You have to believe it so much that you already think it's happened. 69 00:03:24,196 --> 00:03:28,043 You have to walk like it's there, talk like it's there, believe it's there. 70 00:03:28,043 --> 00:03:30,235 People are going to think you're mad, 71 00:03:30,235 --> 00:03:32,131 they're going to look at you and think you're insane. 72 00:03:32,131 --> 00:03:35,661 They're going to tell you sh*t like "It ain't possible, it's risky, 73 00:03:35,662 --> 00:03:39,321 You shouldn't do it. Be careful, stick to what you know, 74 00:03:39,321 --> 00:03:41,392 stick to what you do." 75 00:03:41,392 --> 00:03:43,665 Fu*k that. Follow your dreams. 76 00:03:43,665 --> 00:03:48,135 These people have to see it to believe it but you have to believe it to see it. 77 00:03:50,826 --> 00:03:54,741 I was in a tough position, 19 years old, kid on the way 78 00:03:54,741 --> 00:03:57,856 Earning twenty-seven pounds a day. 79 00:03:57,856 --> 00:04:00,529 I could have chosen to focus on all the problems I was going to face, 80 00:04:00,529 --> 00:04:01,869 all the pain. 81 00:04:01,877 --> 00:04:04,786 Instead, I decided to change my stars. 82 00:04:04,786 --> 00:04:10,779 I decided to say enough was enough and focus on ways to change them. 83 00:04:11,989 --> 00:04:14,829 It's easy to say that "I'll try that thing tomorrow" 84 00:04:14,833 --> 00:04:18,199 or "I'll do that tomorrow." "One day I'll get in shape" 85 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:20,669 "One day I'll tell that person how I feel." 86 00:04:20,669 --> 00:04:23,849 "One day I'll start that business", "One day I'll leave this job" 87 00:04:23,867 --> 00:04:27,486 "One day I'll leave this abusive relationship". 88 00:04:27,486 --> 00:04:30,166 We've all had times we find ourselves constantly telling ourselves 89 00:04:30,166 --> 00:04:32,639 that one day we'll do that thing. 90 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:35,729 The problem is we look at all these opportunities around us 91 00:04:35,729 --> 00:04:37,155 and we say they're risky. 92 00:04:37,155 --> 00:04:41,412 What you've got to realize is that life itself is risky. 93 00:04:41,512 --> 00:04:46,134 It ain't important how long you live what's important is how you live. 94 00:04:46,134 --> 00:04:50,098 When life gets on top of you and you feel like it's all becoming too much 95 00:04:50,098 --> 00:04:52,738 it's easy to let things spiral out of control. 96 00:04:52,738 --> 00:04:53,783 I've been there. 97 00:04:53,783 --> 00:04:55,327 That place where you feel like 98 00:04:55,327 --> 00:04:57,418 the weight of the world is on your shoulders, 99 00:04:57,428 --> 00:05:00,414 things don't go your way, that promotion at work you don't get, 100 00:05:00,414 --> 00:05:03,180 you don't make the team, that person you asked out said no, 101 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:07,540 your business is struggling, the bills are piling up. 102 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:11,630 We all go through dark times. 103 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:18,314 My advice to you is to focus on finding the light. 104 00:05:20,147 --> 00:05:23,597 If you spend all your time focusing on all the problems in the world 105 00:05:23,597 --> 00:05:28,854 and all the problems in your life you ain't going to be happy. 106 00:05:28,854 --> 00:05:31,281 It's easy in the world that we live in today 107 00:05:31,281 --> 00:05:36,428 to be consumed by all the media-fueled negativity in the world. 108 00:05:36,428 --> 00:05:40,192 You can't turn on the TV without seeing some negative story, 109 00:05:40,192 --> 00:05:41,112 all the bad. 110 00:05:41,112 --> 00:05:42,722 Everyone has problems. 111 00:05:42,786 --> 00:05:46,446 The difference between the people who are happy and the people that ain't 112 00:05:46,446 --> 00:05:49,875 is that the people who are happy choose to focus on the solutions 113 00:05:49,919 --> 00:05:55,109 to the problems they face, rather than the problems themselves. 114 00:05:55,109 --> 00:05:58,466 You always have a choice. 115 00:05:58,466 --> 00:06:01,497 Amazing things happen when you believe you have something. 116 00:06:01,497 --> 00:06:04,359 Your brain actively goes out to make it happen. 117 00:06:04,359 --> 00:06:06,865 It starts to know its little subtle opportunities 118 00:06:06,865 --> 00:06:10,255 that you would have otherwise deleted because it knows it's got a job to do 119 00:06:10,255 --> 00:06:12,916 to get you what you want. 120 00:06:12,916 --> 00:06:15,393 It's all about perspective. 121 00:06:15,393 --> 00:06:19,763 Constantly tell yourself how much worse things could be 122 00:06:19,776 --> 00:06:24,286 and you could actually be thankful for the way you've got things at the moment 123 00:06:24,289 --> 00:06:27,729 Your world and your life can truly be anything you make it, 124 00:06:27,729 --> 00:06:30,049 but you've got to make it. 125 00:06:30,057 --> 00:06:32,472 Don't take it lightly. 126 00:06:32,472 --> 00:06:37,281 Start building discipline into your life by not taking the easy way out. 127 00:06:37,281 --> 00:06:41,661 Most of us are told growing up that we can be anything we want to be 128 00:06:41,676 --> 00:06:43,596 and most of us hear it, but we don't listen. 129 00:06:43,626 --> 00:06:45,402 We don't believe it. 130 00:06:45,402 --> 00:06:49,781 I'm here to tell you today that it ain't a load of rubbish, it's true. 131 00:06:49,781 --> 00:06:53,161 You can be who you want to be. You can do what you want to do, 132 00:06:53,161 --> 00:06:54,934 see what you want to see. 133 00:06:55,014 --> 00:07:00,781 It's all in your power and no one else's but you've got to believe it. 134 00:07:00,781 --> 00:07:04,032 If you believe it you can achieve it, baby! 135 00:07:04,032 --> 00:07:05,270 Whatever it is. 136 00:07:05,270 --> 00:07:08,430 I used to believe to my core that I was going to run my own company 137 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,619 and make more money than I currently did 138 00:07:10,619 --> 00:07:12,239 and have a family and be happy. 139 00:07:12,239 --> 00:07:15,307 Even when I was dead-broke, skinned as a bean 140 00:07:15,307 --> 00:07:16,551 I would never worry 141 00:07:16,551 --> 00:07:20,319 because I believed with everything in me that I could change it. 142 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:26,859 You've got to stare all that in the face and say, "You can't beat me, I'm too strong." 143 00:07:26,859 --> 00:07:30,349 What most people do is they roll over, but you can't. 144 00:07:30,349 --> 00:07:32,149 It ain't going to be easy. 145 00:07:32,149 --> 00:07:35,299 Most of the time you're going to feel like there's no way out, 146 00:07:35,299 --> 00:07:37,049 that you can't do it, 147 00:07:37,049 --> 00:07:40,128 but listen to me when I say there is always hope. 148 00:07:40,128 --> 00:07:43,968 You have to take control and attack it head-on, 149 00:07:43,968 --> 00:07:47,579 Because as soon as you do this, just once, 150 00:07:47,579 --> 00:07:50,929 just like a muscle lifting weights, you've become stronger. 151 00:07:50,929 --> 00:07:53,643 You've become comfortable being uncomfortable, 152 00:07:53,643 --> 00:07:56,253 and before you know it, you've become a machine 153 00:07:56,273 --> 00:07:59,690 and nothing, nothing on the outside can affect you 154 00:07:59,690 --> 00:08:02,937 because your mind's trying to beat it down. 155 00:08:02,937 --> 00:08:06,357 Never run, always fight. 156 00:08:06,467 --> 00:08:12,479 Take control of your life and you'll change it forever. 157 00:08:12,479 --> 00:08:15,902 Go get in shape, go tell that person how you feel, 158 00:08:15,942 --> 00:08:18,472 go start that business, go leave that job, 159 00:08:18,472 --> 00:08:20,372 go leave that abusive relationship. 160 00:08:20,372 --> 00:08:23,982 Deep down you know you should do it, but you've got to risk it all. 161 00:08:24,059 --> 00:08:27,589 Not doing it definitely guarantees one thing, 162 00:08:27,589 --> 00:08:32,039 that you'll get to the end of your life and regret that you didn't even try. 163 00:08:32,043 --> 00:08:35,533 You can either be a victim of your life or the master of it, 164 00:08:35,533 --> 00:08:38,220 but the choice is always yours. 165 00:08:38,220 --> 00:08:40,690 Go out and get it, don't take 'no' for an answer. 166 00:08:40,690 --> 00:08:43,270 If you get knocked down, get back up again. 167 00:08:43,270 --> 00:08:46,530 You can never foul if you never give in. 168 00:08:46,530 --> 00:08:49,425 Stop being a victim, stop letting life push you around 169 00:08:49,425 --> 00:08:52,067 and start fighting back, 170 00:08:52,067 --> 00:08:55,101 because the minute you tell yourself that you control this shit 171 00:08:55,101 --> 00:08:57,911 is the minute you can start to change it. 172 00:08:57,932 --> 00:09:00,279 It all starts the moment you take responsibility 173 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:03,742 and say to yourself "I can make out of this life what I want 174 00:09:03,742 --> 00:09:08,058 and no one and nothing is going to shape my destiny but me." 175 00:09:08,058 --> 00:09:11,428 I'm here to tell you today that you can have anything you want, 176 00:09:11,428 --> 00:09:13,922 be anyone you want. 177 00:09:13,922 --> 00:09:16,138 Believe you can do it and work hard to get it 178 00:09:16,138 --> 00:09:17,138 and it's yours. 179 00:09:17,138 --> 00:09:22,398 Never wait and 'see to believe it', believe it and you'll see it.