you're born with a gift if not that then you get good at something along the way and what you're good at you don't take for granted you don't betray it what if you do betray your gift you betray yourself that's a sad thing the obstacle is the path never forget that inside every problem obstacle adversity is an opportunity to improve your condition we understand at a superficial level that's what we mean when we say the obstacle is the way other than death all failure is psychological other than death all failure is psychological think about that
just just just think about that this failure this upset this this catastrophe if you aren't dead then it's just psychological it's in your head now this does not mean that you won't lose some battles because you will we all will rent is due is just this idea that like you have to pay your dues every single day I am a big believer that you have to do hard things everything you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks that means getting cold that means getting hot that means moving fast that means
lifting heavy sh it means having tough conversations it means being present it means being focused all of those things are hard and everything good comes on the other side of doing those hard things that is rent that you have to pay every single day do the tiny daily deposit that compounds positively in your life consistency isn't about frequency it's about identity what do I mean by that well the reason you fail at staying consistent is because you think consistency is about doing the same thing over and over that is a dangerous mindset consistency is about
becoming the kind of person who does what needs to be done no matter what stop asking how do I stay consistent and start asking who do I need to become the moment you shift from I have to do this to this is just who I am consistency becomes effortless make plans of your own guess what you'll probably fall into someone else's plans guess what someone else may have planned for you not much so take a look at the next 5 years of your life it's going to be like the last five unless unless unless unless
you can't anybody that's successful they've dealt with failure more than success because you have to fail in order to succeed in order to become that spirited person that knows how to have that dry and that's an anything before I got put on I failed many times the real enemy of consistency isn't laziness it's your indecision you think you struggle with being consistent because you're lazy but that's not it the truth is you haven't decided what truly matters to you every time you waffle on your priorities you break your own momentum make a decision commit to
it fully and eliminate the noise it's the lack of decision that's killing your consistency not your lack of effort make this note don't become a victim of yourself even if you have to fight the enemies that are within yourself forget the thief in the alley that's after your purse what about the thief in your mind that's after your promise most people are going to quit all of your enemies all the people making fun of you all the people laughing at you they're all going to quit so all you have to do is just not quit
it's so true you guys think you're weak you're really not weak you allow yourself to behave weak but you're not weak but you've got to train that up you've got to push yourself you have to put yourself constantly in uncomfortable situations hold yourself accountable to results and being tough and pushing through and persevering and when you get to that point where you think I can't go another inch you're only 40% of the way there [Music] people always try to box you in to what they know you best for but never stop fighting no matter no
matter what anyone says no matter how they try to compromise you compromise your vision if it's in your gut if it's in your soul there's nothing there's no worldly possessions that should come between you and your expression when we were kids my mom hung a poster over our bed it had a picture of a Bumblebee and under the picture the caption read a according to all aerodynamic laws the Bumblebee cannot fly because its body weight is not in the right proportion to its wingspan but ignoring these laws the bee flies anyway stop breaking promises to
yourself when you say I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7: a.m and when the option comes to hit the snooze button don't do it there's one win that you've got for the day that's action what if everything you're going through is preparing you for what you asked for think of it like this the universe is using every challenge to adjust your energy and frequency getting you ready for what you really want each tough moment is a lesson helping you manifest Your Dreams by ensuring you're ready to receive them when they arrive everything in your
life is a reflection of a choice you have made if you want a different result make a different choice be sad but get up you can't stay stuck forever if there was ever a time to turn things around it's now stop waiting for things to feel normal again you need to be the one to take the first step put in the effort make the decision today because the only person that can save you is you be humble enough to know that you can be replaced but be wise enough to know that there's no one quite
like you humility keeps you grounded but never forget your uniqueness because you bring something to the table that no one else can so try to stay as humble as possible and don't ever doubt your worth pay attention to the voice in your head that says you're not enough where did it come from dear self dying with regrets is something my life can't afford so from this day forward I'm choosing the suffering that leads to my rewards so from this day forward I'm picking the pain that leads to my better life so from this day forward
no more running from my fears I'm bringing Faith to this fight dear self unapologetically I'm going to go get the life that's made for me I'm caping up because I will be the hero in my story when you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in that's what the storm is all about right now in the midst of the storm a lot of people feel like man I lost this I lost that right but when you come out of the storm the perspective that you gained right the person that
you have become right the happiness that you gained the joy the peace that you gained right you always gain something in spite of what you consider to be a loss your belief system has to be really really strong you know you have to really really believe it and really really want it otherwise it's just too much to endure I mean because you know everybody's questioning you and and uh these challenges are hard to endure everybody's built for it if you can just believe in you and no one else believes in you that's enough it's very
important that to take risks in life this is the key in my opinion this is the difference between very successful people and people who don't take risks you're not done yet it's not over for you yet it's not over it's not going to be over you've come so far and you didn't come this far to get this far and to just stop being this far you have so much inside of you so much potential inside of you to go forward be proud of you be proud of how you've gotten here be proud of who you've
built yourself to be to get here and say I have more I have more in the tank I have more in my life I have more for my life there was more called in my life there was more put inside of me to build my life I'm proud of you be proud of you move forward so many people that think they have to know everything before they start they have to have all the answers and have all the knowledge and and listen to all the podcasts and read all the books before they even start the
truth is you know enough to get started make that one adjustment do it now you know enough to do something and that something will start the snowball that inevitably leads to you being competent with the thing that you're trying to do even if you know nothing to start you know enough to start doubt is such a strange thing I mean it's uh you know there'll be times where you succeed and there times that you fail so waste wasting your time doubting whether you're going to successful or not is pointless it is and you just put
one foot in front of the other you control what you can't control and then you see what the outcome is right if you win great you're going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again if you lose sucks but you're going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again anyway that feeling of I don't know what I'm doing here like I don't have this figured out that is the number one Telltale sign that you're doing something right in life that doubt is the
number one Telltale sign you are actually pushing yourself you woke up today and someone was proud of you and most importantly I hope that person was you I pray that you woke up and you gave yourself the flowers you deserve we all feel alone but we all feel alone in this together take peace with it give yourself flowers you deserve be your number one fan be your number one supporter but also understand that I'm here and I'm rooting for you there's plenty of time there's plenty of time if you prioritize yourself uh properly and and
you make sure that you you uh you don't let Al look be the controller of your time there's plenty of time just don't do everything prioritize your life make sacrifices don't let Outlook control what you do every day turn the TV off stop scrolling on social media you need to focus and you need to ask yourself am I the most productive when I have this platform on in the background take some time to take the slower route and it's going to feel weird because everything in life no matter where you live it's designed to stay
on go to be fastpaced but you need to find out ways to move at a pace that really supports the lifestyle that you're trying to live you may thrive in an environment that keeps going but most of us need to continue being grounded we need to continue being centered in some way shape or form and if you don't take time to figure out what that is time's going to make you figure it out there's no difference between respons ility and Adventure that's a killer thing to know the heavier the responsibility the more profound the adventure
progress is not a straight path it is a winding rope Shattered by doubt and lit by fleeting moments of Hope there will be days that you feel lost as if the darkness is closing in and every step forward is met with resistance this journey will test you breaking you down to your core stripping away your comfort and leaving you exposed but in these moments of Despair when the road seems endless remember that growth comes from the deepest struggles so trust the process even when it feels like the night will never end people change all the
time dude it's just a decision that you got to make and you got got to take the actions of the person that you want to become make the decisions that that person that you know you want to be like would make even when you're you now and eventually you become that person so decide who you want to be start making the decisions that person would make and eventually you legitimately become that in your life and it won't feel like that today and it won't feel like that tomorrow probably going to take a minute for you
to adjust to being the kind of person you want to be but if you keep following with those actions over and over and over and over and over again of the person that you want to be like eventually you become that person and it's reality [Music] are areas in this life where you are like a passive driver you're sitting at the back seat somebody is driving and yeah you can enjoy the view but in this case when you want to make that fire grow you need to become the driver you must be the one directing
the thoughts directing the actions directing the energy the world will drown out your intuition if you are if you're going looking to any outside source to to bring you the answers you can't hear it the universal force of life is is always speaking and breathing through you and so you have to get still enough removed enough disconnected enough from the world to actually know what you are feeling and any time you're going around asking everybody else what should I do what should I do what should I do what should I do it means the the
real response is for you to get still and ask yourself that question and just to stay still until the answer comes what type of reality are you even living what type of reality are you living are you living a proactive reality where you're continually problem solving and looking at all the different ways that you could manipulate guide or push your reality that you want in your favor or are you living a reactive reality where you just continually allow what is going to happen happen it is what it is what can I do I don't have
any control over any of this getting knocked from one thing to the next sitting there complaining all sad that nothing's changing well I can tell you right now if you live in a reactive reality you need to stop because if you really want to live the life of your dreams you have got to start living a proactive reality I honestly believe discipline is Freedom Live Your Dream you're free to do the things that you love and then you start to come to love the discipline and then when you don't have the discipline that's when the
anxiety sets in cuz you know you're not paying the price and if you don't pay the price you get nothing so you got to pay the price and then you have to have discipline and then the world is open to you we never say we're never going to to do it we don't say I'm not going to do it we say I'm going to do it later we're going to say I'm going to do it when I have a better chance in meditations Marcus says you could be good today instead you choose tomorrow it's actually
more pragmatic I would argue to do good today while you have the chance all of us have this conflict going on at all times inside of us and it's between two forces the first force is your survival Instinct that's been with us for thousands if not tens of thousands of years and this is a thing that that noise in the bushes that could possibly kill you it wants this inject into you fear and doubt and worry and anxiety that's kind of your voice of fear and your inner critic and that's really loud that voice is
in your mind all the time and then there's another voice this second voice it's been called your intuition it's been called Source the universe your soul your true self that voice is a little quieter and that voice isn't in your head a lot of times it shows up in your body unfortunately that first voice really drowns us out a lot of times the voice of fear will lead you to A Life That's too small you already know this you feel this you feel this conflict this distance and tension when you're in that position when you're
doing something that's too small if you want to reach full power in this one life of yours it's in the second voice it's in the voice that's the real you this contains your dreams your path it contains your energy and when you stop denying who you really are there's really no end to what you can accomplish three elements to happiness am I practicing discipline am I living a a lifestyle that allows me to control the things that I'm in control of two am I full of gratitude do I have gratitude for where I'm at sometimes
we're very thankful sometimes we're not sometimes we are again sometimes we aren't we feel better when we are and the last thing is and this is the big one is what is my purpose and what is my mission is it very clear defined do I go after it every single day and if you have those three elements it never really gets boring uh it gets boring when you're missing one of those elements and that's where you start to feel unfulfilled and unhappy in what it is that you're working on because life puts us in certain
areas that helps us grow but often time we fight it and I can't say a thing I just got to listen right and so when things don't go your way really press growth when things are going your way great be grateful for growth but when things are not going your way really press growth as a Young Man all right life what are you trying to teach me what's the lesson in this what's the blessing in this what can I get from this what can I extract from this you don't attract what you want you attract
what you are now think about that if you want to attract what you want you've got to see yourself already with it you've got to understand that you've already got it use your imagination see yourself already in possession of the good you desire that will flip your mind onto a spefic specific frequency and you do think on frequencies it's on that frequency that good you desire is going to start coming toward you and you will start moving toward it if you want to attract what you actually want you've got to see yourself now already with
it and know it's only a period of time until you moving toward it and it moving toward you and you become one with it there is a silence that lingers after a missed opportunity it is a quiet that fills the space where action should have been you cannot Escape it it echoes in your mind a constant reminder of the path you did not take these moments of Silence they Stack Up creating a void where your dreams once lived but you do not have to live in the silence you can choose to make noise by taking
action before the silence consumes you take the chances you've been avoiding and allow the noise of your actions drown out the [Music] silence there's magic in people who take redirection or even rejection as a message to slow down and reset and aim higher minute that you trip and fall when you hit that ground that's who you are and if you really want to know who you are it's how you get back up to me that's what this is all about right it's it's that discomfort it's like the way that you react to that is sort
of who you are that's where we can really see a true illustration of your [Music] DNA you could become anyone and anything you want at any time in your life like there is no limit you just do the work and you get there the human mind the human body the human psyche is so pliable you can literally become anyone and anything multiply that over time and experience and don't quit even when it sucks you really really really wanted this what would what would you actually do if you were really really really desperate what would you
actually do if you had a gun to your head what would you do have a conversation with yourself where am I bullshitting myself where am I bullshitting others am I bullshitting people in my ambition am I bullshitting people on my my level of desperation am I bu people on the things that I've achieved am I trying to posture that I've done more in my life than I actually have where am I being dishonest either to others or to myself be willing to be honest about the answer these are the golden years you can't wait until
you've got no stress or worry in your life before you decide to be happy because guess what you will always have stress and worry and anxiety and problems and issues to deal with so you have to decide now that happiness is something you're going to have it's a great heris to always think that when you look back these times right now will be the ones that you cherish and to approach them with requisite Joy only in retrospect can we see how beautiful the present actually was problems are feature of life not a bug there will
never come a time when you have no problems what did you think that one day you're just going to wake up and cease having problems like completing a video game and leveling up to a map where there's nothing there that's never going to happen your problems will change but having problems is going nowhere whatever negativity is consuming your thoughts probably won't matter in 3 months time in 3 months you won't remember the negative texture of your mind or the boring repetitive things you thought or maybe even what you were worried about but the time that
you spent worrying will have passed so you're sacrificing your joy and presence in the moment for a problem which you won't even be able to recall in the future immortality would be the only life in which such flippancy with the days that you live for is acceptable we all have to serve someone right everyone has to serve so who you going to serve well if you're going to be selfish about it Serve Yourself but 24 hours in the future what could you do today that you tomorrow would be glad you did and it's just 24
hours ahead cuz living 5 years in the future like we don't we don't rise to our goals we fall to our systems you know so those systems those habits those everyday things is what life is procrastination is a thief it steals your dreams your time your potential each time that you say I'll do it tomorrow you let another piece of your future slip away and it feels harmless in the moment just a small delay a temporary pause but those moments add up turning days into years and dreams into regrets procrastination is a slow poison it
does not destroy you all at once but it will eventually act now before tomorrow becomes a memory of what could have been without Vision you will not be able to say no to the parties without Vision you will not be able to say no to the drugs without Vision you will not be able to say no to the things in your life life that are preventing you from getting to that next level from becoming the person that you were meant to be from bringing your dreams into reality what's the difference right like when Talent meets
talent talent is no longer enough like what's the difference what separates them in right because it has to be more than talent and skill set it has nothing to do with Talent it has everything to do with mentality Spirit DNA e those how I show up what I take pride in what I live for every single day I live by two words as a man honor and Legacy I honor the ones that pave the way for me I work to leave a legacy for the ones that's coming behind me everything I touch I want to
make it better you live in a time where information comes at an excess but implementation is harder than ever I need to be consistent and I need to trust the process once I started and what you see is that a lot of people aren't consistent because in the moments that the process is not giving you an immediate reward word you stop and you do something else being consistent means showing up over and over and over again when it's inconvenient when it's uncomfortable when you don't feel like it when you're busy when other things happen and
especially when you know that nobody else is there to know if you show up many people want to be exceptional but they're afraid of being an exception wanting an outcome without the requirement that the outcome has we can't do the same thing that everyone else approves of and then somehow get a different outcome than everyone else does why do you believe what you believe if you have a belief and you can't explain why you believe it it's not yours it's someone else's most people walk around paring other people's words for the vast majority of their
lives and so they basically act as recorders where they clicked record at one point of their life and then they click play and another time in their life and they're just clicking record play record play record play over and over again none of those words are yours it makes sense that people feel alone and they feel like they're acting because they never say what they think and as a result they also sound like everyone else because they were never themselves to begin with what shall I do well for Progress you must decide don't think well
I don't know how to do this so I can't do it but anything of significance that a person has achieved over their life they didn't know how to do it when they started a Quantum Leap is one of those things that's dead solid perfect within the realm of possibility for you you just haven't done it yet people get frustrated not achieving what they want because they assume that they're going to jump across a cavern in one Leap but if you picture your goals like you're trying to build a bridge across that crevice and every brick
that you put on that bridge is progress and each one of those bricks represents a skill that you need to learn along the way it just takes all the way until you get to the other side that you can actually walk across and so the walking across is the outcome it's the external perceived achievement but if you can reframe your progress as what are the hundred things on this checklist what are the hundred skills that I need the micro skills that I need then you can have much faster feedback cycles of wins that you're achieving
along the way and I think if you can Define it that way then you can feel like you are winning a more often but B with higher intensity because as you win skills stack on top of each other the greatest gap between successful and unsuccessful people is the gap between knowing and doing sometimes the biggest step in the right Direction ends up honestly being the biggest step of your life every action you take is like a vote for the type of person you wish to become the real reason that habits matter is that they reinforce
your identity each action is like a little vote building up some evidence for being that kind of person no doing one push-up does not transform your body but it does cast a vote for I'm the type of person who doesn't miss workouts and no writing one sentence does not finish the novel but it does cast a vote for I'm a writer take a little bit of time to think about that who is the type of person I want to cast vote for you're not the best version of yourself if you don't have your mind right
if you don't have your body right if you don't have your money right if you don't have your spirituality right if you don't have your character right and you're trying to help other people you're going to be ineffective so we have to take care of ourselves we have to build ourselves up into the best possible us and we have to have our together in the best possible way in order to actually benefit other people you can have more than you've got because because you can become more than you are work harder on yourself than you
do on your job if you work hard on your job you can make a living which is fine if you work hard on yourself you can make a fortune which is super fine success is something you attract by becoming an attractive person I started hearing those ideas and it revolutionized my whole life your brain is like a supercomputer and your selft talk is a program it will run so if you tell tell yourself you're not good at remembering names you will not remember the name of the next person you meet because you program your supercomputer
not to they say the two most powerful words in English language are also the smallest I am because whatever you put after that complete that sentence with is going to determine your destination your destiny there's a full range of emotions you're not here to pursue happiness it's not that experiencing happiness isn't something that you shouldn't want more than experiencing pain obviously I'm going to want pleasure more than pain it only makes sense but life is a range of emotions to not want to experience something one is inevitable but two it's the fear of the pain
that comes attached to that that you don't want when you understand that that's naturally a part of life you embrace it and you navigate through it because that's what life has to offer you only focus should be on getting better at what you're doing everything that you're worried about is going to be gone like that all this work worry and concern is wasted time and energy focus on what you're doing get better at what you're doing everything else is a complete waste of time a lot of people are very very very ambitious with their words
and very very very unambitious with their actions and that's what ends up costing them everything that they want you have to explore examine the insides of yourself and what do you really want out of life a lot of people out here just don't want it so guess what have fun with your [Music] life you can change yourself human beings can live one way for 5 years and then tear up that script and live a totally different way the next 5 years you're not a tree you don't have to stay you're not a goose you don't
have to fly south I'm telling you anytime you want to you can say I'm going to change my attitude I'm going to change my income I'm going to change my abilities I'm going to do more than I've ever done before take on that as your god-given right as a human being to change your life to whatever degree you want it to change people won't like it when you work on yourself because every time you do you'll be holding up a mirror for them it's important to remember that the person holding up the mirror is enough
to get you they don't get to decide what you see in it it's up to you to front what's there so start living for yourself and see what happens I kept saying this to myself on repeat if you've worked this hard that you will not be rewarded you have to believe that this moment is preparing you for something amazing that hasn't happened yet keep going and so I repeated that over and over and over and over and over again be like no there's just no way I'm going to believe that something amazing isn't going to
happen I've worked too hard something amazing that hasn't happened is coming and when you get yourself into that mindset it creates a sense of resilience and momentum and resolve that you need in order to keep going when the hits the fan or when you feel disappointed or when life is beating you down time is slipping it moves silently slipping through your fingers as you are distracted promising there's always tomorrow that there's always another day but in truth time is Relentless it is ruthless it does not wait and it does not return What It Takes the
dreams you set aside the Ambitions that you've delayed they hang in the balance threatened by the passage of time each second is a gift and each day is an opportunity and the future that you long for it begins with what you do now in this very moment your life is so much bigger and more beautiful than you know you are not limited in any way shape or form by what family you were born into or by where you live in the world you are capable of more than you know the most amazing people that you're
going to meet in your life there are ahead of you all those dreams that you have you can achieve them you got to just wake up every day and just do a little bit better and one of these days you're going to wake up like I have and you're going to be astonished by everything that you've achieved all I want you to do right now is trust trust that where you are it is leading you exactly where you're meant to go that someday in the future it's all going to make sense and right now that's
all you need to do is to wake up and believe that the future is big and beautiful and bright and I promise you it will be [Music] every magician used to use the phrase Abracadabra when people would hear that people thought that it was some mystery behind it some great thing but the truth is it is simply meaning show up now manifest now you've been wanting to see your dreams come true Abracadabra manifest now speak it as if it already happen talk about it as if it has already occurred don't worry about having some kind
of imposs syndrome because you're facing the impossible and you realize if I separate it it is I'm possible there is no impossible speak it as if it's already happened Chase it like it belongs to you speak it as if it you demand it out of the Universe I want to see my family together I want to see growth I want to see my business I want to see my health improve and then put the actions to your words because one without the other is like a coin with no other side there's no value you need
to have real currency in life you need to have a promise that you make to yourself that not only will I speak it I will become it and if I become it I can overcome it whatever it is that tries to stop me I know that I'm becoming a better version of me and whatever I have to hurdle in order to become that I end up showing others that there's a way around whatever you have to do keep speaking life over your life I dare you to go attack your impossibilities everything was once impossible until
somebody did it and don't let people place their impossibilities on your life what they couldn't do has nothing to do what you can do it's a thing called post-traumatic growth you talk about most people most people people are resilient man people are naturally resilient the average person when they encounter a challenge or encounter adversity opposition or tough time the average person will figure out a way to get through it that's not the task the task is two weeks 3 weeks a month two months later where they revert back to the same behavior same habits same
thought process and same language psychologically and physically and then there's something called post-traumatic growth to where when an individual goes to a challenge goes through change adversity and opposition post- tramatic growth when they get on the other side of it they're never the same because of their level of growth and how they see it psychologically and physically because they give the adversity and opposition a narrative why do I have to go through this pain why do I have to go through this fear all the time why can't it just be peaceful all the time and
there wouldn't be life it's one thing to get up there and perform it's one thing to show your kids a wonderful day it's one thing to go make the sale it's one thing to put in a full 12-hour shift it's another to do it as your G grieving it's another to do it when you're filled with shame it's another to do it when you feel totally alone terribly alone stoicism is not the absence of emotion we have stories of Marcus Aurelius crying multiple in fact these were people that felt no question but they also understood
that life especially leadership requires being able to balance these emotions with the responsibilities and duties that each of us have we have to process these emotions to be sure we may also have to put them aside for a second cuz our children are depending on us because we've got to go make our living cuz we made a commitment cuz the world is counting on us life doesn't care if you have a broken heart only that we hit our marks in the Silence of your mind there is war one side dreams aspires pushes for greatness it
is an unyielding force that propels you toward the future in which you reach your full potential but the other side the other side Whispers doubts stirs fears plants the seeds of hesitation this war rages on unseen by the world yet it is the most crucial fight you will ever face because Victory here means everything it means pushing through when the weight of uncertainty feels too heavy it means choosing to act even when your heart trembles with fear you see winning this war is not about defeating an external enemy it is about conquering the one within
and when you do you you will find that the world bends to the will of the warrior that you have become the reality of life is it's up to you to pick up your broken pieces and put them back together even though someone else might have caused the damage it's up to you to put yourself first even though you're used to believing that you shouldn't it will be exhausting but every every step towards healing is a step towards reclaiming your power let go of the anger that chains you to your past so you can become
the person you need to be
