[music] You thought you was just going to have a dream and a goal and you was just going to wake up and just walk into the sunset. [music] It don't WORK LIKE THAT. DON'T THINK THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is think positive and everything's going to work out okie dokie for you.
People have these goals, have these dreams, they have these high aspirations to do all [music] these great things and they get up day after day and life punches them in the face and say, "I'mma see how bad you really want it. " >> That goes with it. THAT GOES WITH THE TERRITORY.
[music] There are some times when things aren't going to go right. That when you want to grow, when you want to achieve, WHEN YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE MORE, all hell will break loose. You said you wanted it.
Now, let's see how bad you really want it. But you're going to have some ups and you're going to have some downs. But during those down moments, how you handle it, that's where the growth takes [music] place.
It's going to hit you and you're going to feel it and the pain, you won't have [music] any control over it. That's scary. There's going to be things that go on that are out of your control.
The worst thing you can do is let something that's out of your control you. Get control of [music] yourself. Get control of your emotions.
Don't get angry. Don't get frustrated. Instead, stay calm and figure out how to move forward.
The thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if [music] you give up, the guarantee is it will never happen. That's the guarantee of quitting. People ask [music] me, "What are your greatest moments?
" Every single one of them tell you. That's why I got to learn who I was. The pressure in your life right now has a purpose.
It's pushing [music] what's on the inside of you out. It shows you who you are. A lot of people go, "Oh, all these things.
Look at all these hard things in my life. It must mean I'm on the wrong track. It must mean I'm not good enough.
It must mean I'm never going to get my due. " I'm [music] like, "Oh, all those hard things are placed there for you to get stronger. " You walk into a gym and you look at all those heavy [music] weights, all those heavy weights are the path to strength.
Same thing in life. All these heavy things you're dealing with, either those heavy things [music] are going to break you or they're going to make you stronger. It's either going to break you or it's going to make you.
It's not in falling that makes us failures. It's in not getting up [music] that makes us failures. Is failure going to break you or is failure going to make you?
You get to decide failure does it. You get mad when haters come your way. You get mad cuz they talking about you.
You get mad cuz you get a setback. You get mad cuz you get thrown off course. You get mad cuz you get a detour.
[music] That's just dirt. You get mad cuz you you lost your mama. That's dirt.
But show me something that has grown into something beautiful that didn't have no dirt on it. Because dirt is fertilizer. Dirt is nutrient.
Dirt gives you the strength for your seed to push through. You got to have dirt on you to grow into what life got for you. I have failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that's why I succeeded. CUZ AT THE END OF ALL THAT PAIN IS SUCCESS. And some of y'all saying, "I've been doing it 6 months, a year, and I ain't seeing nothing.
Should I quit? Should I give up? " I ask you this question.
What's in your seeds? What is it worth to you? What's the value of your seeds?
I know my seed. I COULDN'T GIVE UP. CUZ THE VALUE, WHAT IS WORTH?
What I put in? I put in too much. I've given up sleep.
I'VE GIVEN UP FRIENDSHIPS. I'VE GIVEN TOO MUCH. I SWEAT too [music] much.
I invested too MUCH TO QUIT. I MADE TOO MANY SACRIFICES TO GIVE UP. I PAID TOO MUCH.
I WILL DEFEAT THIS. What price have you paid for? What has it cost you?
And if it cost you some, [music] then you better not quit until you get a harvest. You better not quit till it's fully developed. You have come too FAR TO QUIT NOW.
YOU HAVE INVESTED TOO MUCH TO QUIT NOW. YOU HAVE LOST TOO MUCH TO QUIT NOW. GET A REWARD FOR YOUR PAIN.
You will never be a diamond every time there's pressure you want to break. Success consists of going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. You wasting your superpower crying about something that happened 3 4 hours ago that you can do absolutely nothing about.
So what we want to do is use our superpowers, our human powers to make our dreams become a reality. TAKE QUIT NOT your vocabulary. Take it out.
Rest if you must. Cry if you must. Get emotional if you must.
Get it out. But get your butt back up after you finish crying. And [music] put a time limit on the grind.
YOU SAY, "I NEED 30 MINUTES. " DON'T TAKE IT. But when you come back AFTER THAT 30 MINUTES, YOU BETTER GRIND because if you don't, you'll be stuck at that [music] adversity for the rest of your life.
Oh, I'm going to feel depressed. I'm going through it. Stay focused.
Stay focused on the goal. E, I had a meltdown in class. I said, [music] "You might have a couple more before success.
" IT'S A PART OF THE GAME. YOU CAN'T BE SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT SOME MELTDOWNS. YOU GOT TO PUT THROUGH THAT BECAUSE WHAT THAT DOES, THAT TENSION PRODUCES GREATNESS.
YOU GOT TO POSITION YOURSELF [music] AND STOP BOUTING. STOP LOOKING AT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE are getting and look at what they're doing. And if you start doing it, you'll start getting it.
You don't got [music] to like WHAT YOU WANT. YOU GOT TO LIKE WHAT YOU EARN. YOU'RE GOING TO understand that pain is a part of the process.
YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THE more pain you go through and you can get through that you qualify for this work. You qualify for [music] the rewards. you're qualified for success.
The third year you going to grind and you're not going to look for reward. The fourth year you going to grind and you're not going and the fifth year you going to grind and you going to grind so hard you're not going to have to look [music] for them. They going to come to you.
You're going to work one year, 2 year, 3 year, four year, 5 year and the only thing you [music] going to focus on is grinding. We all have these moments. These moments in time that either make you or break you.
That can determine the rest of your life. Rest of your life can be determined by one simple decision. >> You have a choice to either give up or keep going.
[music] There's so many times that we're in these dark ass tunnels, the tunnels of life, when hard times are coming at you, man, and you feel alone and you feel trapped and you feel like there's no way out, and all you want to do is run the out of that tunnel because it's dark [music] and it's scary. But if you can find just enough courage to stay in that tunnel just a little bit longer, your eyes start to adjust to [music] the night. And what happens?
That darkness becomes the light. I can accept failure. Everyone fails at some point.
I cannot accept not trying. I don't feel rejected. I try.
How do YOU FEEL REJECTED WHEN YOU TRY? THE PERSON WHO DIDN'T TRY SHOULD FEEL REJECTED. THE PERSON THAT DIDN'T TRY SHOULD FEEL DEFEATED.
I TRIED. I DON'T FEEL REJECTED. I FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF.
I DON'T FEEL BAD. I GAVE IT 120%. YOU can't never feel bad when you put forth 120%.
YOU CAN'T LET THE OUTCOMES MAKE YOU FEEL WHACK. I'M NOT WHAT? I'M A WARRIOR.
I'M A problem [music] solver. I'm not soft. I'm not weak.
I don't quit. I don't give up. I don't surrender.
I don't always win, but I always try. You chase something that you believe you deserve until you get it. And it doesn't matter what happens to you.
Doesn't matter how many times you've been fired. Doesn't matter how many people don't believe in you. Just go until you get it.
Cuz if you're willing to go through all the battle you got to go through to get to where you want to get, who's got the [music] right to stop you? Nobody. It's your right to listen to your gut.
It ain't nobody's right to say no. And to earn the right to be what [music] you want to be and do what you want to do. Every single person that you look up to, all of them dealt with their family and friends looking at them funny and making jokes.
The difference is they continued to move. When people told them to get back in line, they didn't get back in line. They continue to become what they knew they were inside of their soul.
Everyone's like, "Oh, Craig, you're lucky. If you got this, Craig, you're lucky. " Everything is like Cuz before it was luck.
It was a belief. And every day with no one watching at 5 in the morning by myself, I trained it cuz I believed in it. Then I mastered it.
When I remastered and remastered in hopes that one day my TRAINED ABILITY [music] COLLIDED WITH an opportunity to show it all. That's what success is. that every single module inside of it you create, you own.
Nothing [music] subjective in there. It's all you. And when you know what you want, you won't do anything it TAKES TO GET IT.
YOU will study as long as it takes. You won't go to sleep until YOU HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT takes to [music] do what you're able to do. I want what all other men want.
But when the pressure hits, when the opposition hits, WHEN THE CHALLENGE HITS, when the pain creeps in, when the uncertainty creeps in, when the cuts, when the scars, when the bruises come, I just wanted a little bit more than they wanted. If you ain't got no heart than me, if you ain't been working harder than me, if you ain't sacrificed more than me, I'm going to destroy you. And I'm not retreating.
I'm not running. I don't care what they say on paper. I don't care if you say we outnumbered.
We live by this and we die by this. We don't work, we don't retreat. YOU KNOW HOW HARD I work to get here.
And you think I'm about to get us up? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? I PUT IN TOO MANY HOURS.
I sweat too much blood. Too much tear. I worked hard to get here.
Did nobody give me this. I didn't grow up with wealth. Did nobody PAY ME.
I WORK FOR THIS. SWEAT, BLOOD, TEARS. I EARN EVERY dime I get.
I work for this. I DIE. YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW NOT TO GIVE UP or how not to give in.
YOU GOT TO TRY. YOU GOT YOU. Whatever you do, YOU CANNOT GIVE UP.
YOU CANNOT GIVE IN. YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON that can stop you. So, stop talking like a victim.
Stop thinking like a victim. Stop acting like a victim. And walk into your destiny.
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