you be that warrior in that garden and you stand strong you be a strong man you be a good man and you just let the world rage around you that most men live lives of quiet desperation it's one of my favorite quotes ever because it's true and I've been that guy you're just in this world where you just can't wait to just run away but the only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21 when I was dead broke and had my cars repossessed and all that
stuff that's the only way you ever get where you want to go you have to you have to take a path that's dangerous and most people want to take the safe path the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation almost every time it's hell reminder that if you want to be exceptional you're going to be different from everyone else that's What Makes You exceptional you can't fit in and also be exceptional both have disc when you fit in you have internal conflict because you're not being 100% you when you're exceptional you have external conflict
because everyone sees you as different pick one when your friends start to say you've changed remember it's because they don't know how to say you've [Music] grown you see that look right there don't ever let a man see you like that did you give him the power over you if you got to take a l you take it with your head up chest out like a man your family is looking for that one guy right now they're looking for that one guy who's strong who's that pillar for the family at Hard Times make sure when
they look around they look around and find you these are the times right now for you to step up be that guy that can take anything everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player everything everything you know we have a million and one excuses that we can go to fact of the matter is we're not going to make any uh they play better than we did in the series we had our opportunities to win it didn't go for us uh you know so we have to regroup like I said
next season starts right now and uh you know come back next season and play how much harder will you work in this offseason now to get back to the championship I pushed myself to exhaustion and so when you have that point of view then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft out of the 100 men that go on war 10 shouldn't even be there 80 of them are just targets 10 do most or nine do most the fighting one is a warrior and it's a true quote to
life I saw it going through train I saw it everywhere I went there's so many people who just show up to life that shouldn't even be around and there's few people who do all the work I wanted to be part of that nine and I'm working towards being that one if you had to create a human what would you put them through to make them tough it probably wouldn't be a really chill life yeah what would you put them through to make them patient you probably wouldn't give them things immediately and so it's like we
want these traits but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it and it's just like do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing and so I think if if people reframe the the the period of life that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet but the wallet is their time is the seconds of life that they're trading for it then I think more people be willing to make the trade because at least when I look at myself like when I'm 80 something years
old and I'm looking back on my life I want to have these trads but in order to have those trades I know I have to go through these things and I think for me that's given me a lot of comfort in hard times you are a man stand up and be a man make the hard decisions make the sacrifices make the unpopular decisions and become comfortable in your own skin and if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with that is the one person in this universe that you have full power
full right and full responsibility to change it's the moments in life the decisions you make on a on on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy tonight I did something you know that feel more of a guy for me who I am my guy your pride and your ego has been killing your career growth your could be on another level you know better but you're deciding to not do better you are a lazy unprofessional mean attitude having And yet when things are not happening good for you
when things are not coming your way when things are not happening as fast as you want them to happen you blame everybody else and what they're doing and saying and you completely disown everything that you're doing to contribute to your career not going to another level you know better but you don't want to do better my personal goal is to squeeze every ounce of potential out of whatever I have and I think that if you feel like you have potential left over then it will eat you alive until you do something about it winners always
show up they're willing to lose in order to gain big mental thing there guys this body is great as you are as sharp as you make the Arsenal it can't do anything if you don't have confidence in yourself We All Fall Down in life the question is who gets back up you go after and you give it all you have if you lose at least you try man I failed it's 10 times more of a man and someone said what if cuz what if never went to the arena when you guys find a fear that
fear will either create you or destroy you I love fear and the reason why behind every fear is the person you want to be fear is self-imposed meaning it doesn't exist you create it you can destroy it too it's an intangible if you face your fears guys you will realize it's not that big and once you face it you got my God man I spent all this time running from it it was so small if I just faced it my God not only did I face I beat it back energy is never lost transferred that
negative energy that fear it's destroyed it comes back in it's confidence you're like what else am I what else am I capable of what else am I hold my back from that I'm capable of more what am I running from I don't need to what else can I overcome you face your fears you become the person you want to be you run from your fears you're not living you're alive it's easy to give up easy it's the easiest thing in the world to do I man I'm I'm done I ain't going yeah I ain't going
to keep going I don't feel like going to work done it's easy it's very easy but what's hard is going yo yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could nothing happened from that I'm going to do the same thing again a day but I'm going to try to go harder that's the hardest thing in the world to get up every day and give 100% And and be in the same position that you were each day but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying that's that's a real that's a real grind
success is the only Revenge as you expand they shrink into irrelevance as you get louder no one can hear them you don't beat them you cast a shadow so big no one can see them to begin with when people copy they copy the wrong stuff because they don't know why it worked to begin with and when it breaks they don't know how to fix it because they didn't build it so don't sweat it copycats will always be behind everything counts everything that you do counts the biggest mistake that people make is they think that only
what they want to count counts no when you read a book when you listen to an audio program when you go to a course when you go to bed early and get up early and go work it all counts if you haven't gotten what you want then you're not worthy of it period and that's okay now you can admit that you suck and improve better to know you're bad for a season than pretend you're good for a lifetime you're not making as much money as you want because you're not as good as you think you
are you're a stent stent and pretending to be a teacher no students say they feel like frauds for trying to learn you're a fraud when you get up to teach the class and you've never done it you know there comes a day man everyone's going to have this day there comes a day where being average being mediocre is just sickening to you it's just sickening it makes you want to throw up because you've seen people with far less Talent than you as you're growing up with them their childhood buddies whatever else they didn't have what
you had yet now they're going to become something that you haven't there comes that day it's either when you're young you know and and it strikes you on the baseball field cuz you're sick of striking out or it's it's when you get fired from your fifth job you know when your wife and kids are on your ass cuz they don't know how to support anymore there comes a day where push comes to shelf where being mediocre being like average and just burns it sucks so much you can't deal with it one more day and you
get off your ass ass and you create something it's always been there it's always been inside of you trying to come out but you've never wanted to unwrap it cuz it's too much pain and commitment you were scared you're going to fail you're scared if you started you never finish it you didn't want to tell anyone about it you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it until something hits you get fired or somebody else gets success remind you what you could have been and then the spark is born and no
matter what happens I'm never going to be in this boat again and you get up and you go even it gets knocked down you keep going keep going you're a wild man and life has never been so sweet that can happen at an early age it can happen at a later age it's going to happen to somebody every you know no matter what it's going to happen to you and when it does happen to you thank your lucky stars that finally you're alive it's time to unwrap the potential you can be superior man it's within
you it's within every single one of us and the people that have that have have risen to that level were no different than any one of us it's just they believe it and they're willing to work their ass off to get it it's time to stay focused it's time to decide clubs partying trying to fit in and socialize rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird we don't want to be left alone by ourself with oursel so we come in and we sit down and we get on our phone or we turn
on the TV or or we go wherever we do whatever because we don't want to face the reality of being by ourself with ourself start making yourself a companion that you're comfortable with if you had a friend if you had a person you going to sit down and spend all the time with what would you want from that person what would you want well I would want to spend time with somebody who's honest makees sense I don't want to spend time with somebody who's going to be lying to me all the time someone who's going
to gently tell me the truth about myself you got to face the reality of who you are you got to face the reality of what you are all right and uh and nobody's going to tell you that like you yourself will tell you that you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't finish your to-do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for yours this is what hard feels like and that's okay everything worth doing is hard and the
more worth doing it is the harder it is the greater the payoff the greater the hardship if it's hard good it means no one else will do it more for you this is all about the quitty mind so what's the quitty mind so let's say it's day one of a job interview we all know what that feels like you have your clothes laid out you got your food ready to go in the morning you've been preparing for weeks and weeks and weeks you show up and you bring your best self you get the job Merry
Christmas all right after a couple of months you start showing up to work a little later you don't look as good your clothes aren't laid out your breakfast isn't ready your mind's getting softer we do that everything in life when New Year's coming up guess what don't have a quitty mind repetition every day stay hard I'm astounded by how many people want to be spectacular in life but also want to be normal by being normal You Are by definition aiming for average normal people get normal results exceptional people get exceptional results you literally can't do
what everyone else does and expect to not get what everyone else has got by doing what everyone else does you guarantee average results how bad do you want this if it's as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep whatever the hell it may be I can work with you but a lot of people most people people don't want it that badly which why they always ask the question man how did you get to where you are you know how to do it you know exactly how to be you or how to be
me you don't want to do it so I can't make you do it nor do I have the time or energy to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it there's no luck in this game man it may be a little bit of luck but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation luck doesn't happen you put yourself in that situation where luck might happen if you haven't gotten what you want then you're not worthy of it period and that's okay
now you can admit that you suck and improve better to know you're bad for a season than pretend you're good for a lifetime you're not making as much money as you want because you're not as good as you think you are you're being to yourself man not getting out there and squeezing that soul out every day yeah if you grind hard man I got time to worry about your money I i't got time to worry about you man cuz tomorrow I got to go back to the grind and tomorrow got go back to the Grind
again and again and again and again I don't have time to put you into the hate bank there's no hate it's all filtered out man through the grind people don't get it there's there's great joy in The Grind Great Joy in the suffer it's it totally cleanses your body out man if any kind of hate makes you grow up you're not running the day the day is running you you always be the servant not the master guys if you find to fear the quickest the easiest way you can beat it is initially right when it
comes in if you allow it to sit it will grow root and start breaking you down destroying the potential the person you can be again the Champions guys it's not their potential it's not their genetics it's their perseverance to always show up always willing to fail cuz then failure that's part of success success is not you know a marathon of Life of just UPS success is formulated through failures fear is never Reaching Your Potential that's it that always falling short always quitting before you're done always procrastinating always not doing the right thing and then one
day you're an old man yep and you look back and go God I could have been great yep I could have been great everybody's asleep man or getting home after a long night you know going out their party it's Friday night it's a close it's 3:00 in the morning right now you know the thing is man it's always going to be a party it's always going to going to be a time to celebrate and a time to join friends and or a day I mean the bars are always open always open no matter how old
you are they're always open you know what's not always open is the opportunity to to check the box in life you achieve your dreams that's not always open [Music] mind I would like to know when you're in that moment failing mhm and you have to keep going what do you say to yourself what if a lot of times I'll be in a 200 mile run or something like that and I'm all jacked up body's broken mind's broken spirit's broken I started to say what if I can pull this off when I first walked into the
Navy SEAL Recruiters Office he looked at me and said there's only been 35 African-Americans in 70 years make it through you know I said to myself what if I can be the 36th it's the what if I can pull off a miracle what if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be and just that just me talking about that I have the hair going up on my arms cuz it makes me just like what if I can be that guy that people who called and this and that and now I'm speaking at
Tom Fair event through facing your fears through falling down and getting back up that's what creates the champion success does not define us we Define the success why would you not go for it why would you not take a chance at one point in time you got to take a chance on you what you know is very limited and what what you don't know is Limitless you know so man go in there and listen go in there and try to learn go in there and try to open your ears up and say what can I
take from this and apply to my life so that I can be a little bit better every day for myself and my family and the people that I'm closest with you guys must be be the now what you want to be later and starts right now if you're not doing the now don't ever expect the later to be the person you want to look in the mirror everyone's like oh later in life I want to do this later in life I want to do that later in life is turning around looking the mirror right now
that's the later in life and unless that turn around is something in progression later in life ain't going to be anything different Rel when you turn around you're going to see something or put a smile on your face it's going to make you turn around the next day for Action turn in belief in the productivity realiz why you in here man you in here to grow what for think guys think of where you want to be before you start what it is now it's too hard man the Giant's too hard you guys start trying to
follow someone else's path say you guys are da and Confused you must travel your individual path success someone else's path's already been done it's not for you to incorporate what you believe in make your own [ __ ] almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year but many years of doing work without reward where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting that most people want to do during that entire season of their life
and they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most but if you want to see if you're a brave person what they call the 4:00 in the morning courage wait when things go completely to Pieces when things are the worst when your very best deal falls apart and your rent is late and you're tired and you're sick and everybody is mad at you and your car doesn't work then it's the person that picks
himself up and says nothing is going to stop me but the quality is to develop the quality of being Unstoppable I had to figure out I wasn't going to be a punk kid all my life so the only way I could turn around was to suffer I had to build calluses in my brain the same way I built calluses on my hands so I broke the Ginsburg Ryals record for pullups a long time ago but I failed at it twice and I did 67,000 Pull-Ups and trying to break this record so to do 4,030 pull-ups
I had to do 67,000 for training for that and so what I realized is for me to become the man I wanted to become I saw myself as the weakest person God ever created so I wanted to change that to be the hardest man ever created am I that I don't know but you had to have a goal and my goal when I was sitting there not going to school being bullied being having no self-esteem my goal was the only person that's could turn this person around is me everybody has a turn back moment you
have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up but the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up the guarantee is it will never happen that's the guarantee of quitting that it will never happen no way under the sun the only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what the fish just don't jump in the boat you know meaning you better go out there and do it yourself you know don't wait around and wait
for someone to hand deliver something go make it happen my personal goal is to squeeze every ounce of potential out of whatever I have and I think that if you feel like you have potential left over then it will eat you alive until you do something about it almost every successful person that I have ever encountered has gone through not a month or a year but many years of doing work without reward where they have to do things that other people find boring and they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting that most people
want to do during that entire season of their life and they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to to do because of the one thing they want most and instead of lasting 5 minutes it just usually lasts 5 or 10 years stop running around here trying to live up to the hype homie it's easy to give up you it's easy it's the easiest thing in the world to do I man I'm I'm done I ain't gone I ain't going to keep
going I don't feel like going to work done it's easy it's very easy but what's hard is going yo yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could nothing happened from that I'm going to do the same think again a day but I'm going to try to go harder that's the hardest thing in the world to get up every day and give 100% And and be in the same position that you were each day but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying that's that's a real that's a real grind it's grind
season homie it's not about today it's about the future you do the work now do the work now and all of the that you could ever want to do for your family your kids your loved ones it's all going to be on a whole another Stratosphere it's time to stay focused man don't settle make sure that whatever life that you want you strive for that you make sure you go for that don't let anyone tell you it's not possible don't let anyone tell you that it's not practical you make sure that you go for it
you hungry you want it then get it get the I went to a homeless shelter to get what I have now I went to a homeless shelter I struggled I went hungry three nights in a row every week to get what I have you don't let no one stop you no one tell you what the to do you make sure you get it don't let no one stop you all right you're driven you the the the energy that you need the drive you need to get it you pull that from yourself cuz when you pull
it from yourself no one can influence it just you we're running from the truth man so the only way I became successful was going towards the truth as painful and as brutal as it is it changed me it it allowed me to become in my own right who I today courage courage is the key to life itself there are a lot of people who are born in situation they say well just I'll never get out of this so they won't I say to people who say well I I would like to have done so and
so and so some you could have done it so well I couldn't get out of here man the bus runs every day you have to be your own motivator your own coach your own your own trainer your own everything so to do that you have to come into work and work is whatever your work may be ready to go and what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday but you come to work like people like man you just lost everything how the hell are you just damn motivated cuz this is what it takes
this is what the it takes and you got to get it from wherever you can whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated Whatever Gets You motivated it's got to be here at the tip of your brain at all times cuz in those dark moments you got to you got to pull it out say in yourself that no matter what life throws at me it'll never stop me no matter how rough it gets I will never quit and nothing will ever stop me make the decision that
you can be tired you can be worn out but nothing is ever going to stop you that's a wonderful decision because then no matter what life throws at you you pick yourself up and you say okay give it you know do give it your best shot as fony says why would you not take a chance at one point in time you got to take a chance on you I'm astounded by how many people want to be spectacular in life but also want to be normal by being normal You Are by definition aiming for average normal
people get normal results exceptional people get exceptional results you literally can't do what everyone else does and expect to not get what everyone else has got by doing what everyone else does you guarantee average results well I believe that you have to build belief belief is like there's an after school special belief where the mom says believe in yourself and that's all great but there's also a built belief and the built belief is one where you are constantly like for me I came from a bad place How I build belief is through the the daunting
tasks I put myself through so that's proof positive that I can so it correlates and that's how this piece ofid I once thought I was built belief by saying hm I was in three hell weeks I went to Ranger school I tried out for of selection undeniable stack of proof that is proof so whenever you think whenever you think you can't confidence comes from the thing that you built you must build belief you must build confidence it can't be like hey um I'm going to go knock that out you got to look over here and
say I can knock that out it's belief and it's built on what you put in to yourself that if you're not a little bit afraid at least three or four nights a week you're not trying hard enough if you're not falling your face over and over again if you're not trembling when you go to sleep with your heart pounding what is happening is you're not trying hard enough you're living too far within your potential that all really successful people live on the outside edge of what they're capable of and it's always a little bit scary
on the outside is because we all have feelings of uncertainty we all have fears we all have doubts that hold us back but the brave person is simply the person who moves forward and keeps taking the chance most people the bottom 80 % are lazy and they're looking for an easy way they're looking for a shortcut to be successful and there are not there aren't any but if you do something repeatedly over and over you develop a habit so most people are in the habit of looking for easy ways to get the things they want
every day it's just constant Improvement constant curiosity constantly getting better the results don't really matter uh it's the figuring out that matters they say to your mother this kid's going to be the the best kid in the world this kid is going to be somebody better than anybody ever knew and you grew up good and wonderful it was great just watching every day was like a privilege didn't the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world and you did but somewhere along the line you changed you stopped being you
the biggest key to success in anything you do is you got to have an unlimited supply of you this drive and passion and it and it may come from nothing like for me there was no passion no drive no nothing but I had this fire that I'm going to be somebody and it has to be there because on all those bad days and all those days you don't want to do you have to be your own motivator your own coach your own your own trainer your own everything so to do that you have to come
into work and work is whatever your work may be ready to go and what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday but you come to work like people like man you just lost everything how the hell are you just damn motivated cuz this is what it takes and you got to get it from wherever you can whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated Whatever Gets You motivated it's got to be here at the tip of your brain at all times cuz in those dark
moments you got to you got to pull it out so that's the big thing for me man I was always fired up at all times you let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good and when things got hard you started looking for something to blame like a big Shadow I think most people have the potential to be exceptional because most people are peculiar in their own way they just stifle that because they want to be accepted by most people but in so doing never accomplished what they want to do
because they conform uh and so like if there's probably a lot of things about the world or even your world around you that you're like this never made sense to me but then you do it anyways and I I think that a lot of innovation and a lot of what makes people exceptional is feeling you know thinking that thought or seeing that thing and then being like huh I don't think I'm going to follow that rule anymore
