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 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
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