YOU CANT DEFEAT ME (Powerful Motivational Video) ERIC THOMAS

foreign [Music] listen to me don't write this down it's not a principle listen quickly I'll give you the first principle number one this is not the principle it's going to be a dog fight I would love to tell you that on the road to success everything is going to work out is not it's gonna be a dog fight it's gonna be a dog fight for those of you watching my videos on the road to success I lost five odds to cancer it's a dog fight in the midst of my business I lost aunts I had to go to funerals we had to get on a plane we had to drive we had aunts that are close to my age who died who didn't have insurance we had to raise money a dog fight I had cousins shot in stores execution style shot back in the back of the head twice it's a dog fight like you don't see that on YouTube you don't see that on my TGI it's a dog fight my wife three years ago seven Legions following the brain it's a dog fight it hasn't been easy it's a dog fight it hadn't been the road hadn't been success like it's just a paved roll and like each he go this way it's been rough it's been crooked it's been hard but I've made up in my mind that I will get a reward for the pain that I go through I will not stop in the middle of the process I will not be defeated I will not be destroyed I will take everything that happens in my life and I will allow the pain to push me to Greatness you will not break me you will not stop me you will not defeat me the only way I lose is if I quit it's going to be a dog fight and so if you're ready to quit then don't get started if you're ready to quit don't get started if you're looking for this Easy Pass don't get started if you think they're not going to close the door on you and say no a million times don't get started but every time they close the door I just get excited why because I am not a no I'm one yes away I'm young I'm one yes away you can't keep telling me no forever you can't keep denying me forever this type of energy this type of passion you can't stop it you can contain it for a while but you cannot stop this is life and you can't defeat me there's there is not you don't have enough power you don't have enough energy you don't have enough strength to stop this contain it for a year you might [Music] two years you might you do not have hate does not have enough energy to destroy love [Music] destroy this so I'm telling you today it's going to be a dog fight and the sooner you realize it's gonna be a dog fight okay so let me let me just say this to you so so in in America right and I'm sure it's the same thing here but they're they're in our Armed Forces let's just pick one the Navy for instance we just picked the Navy right well let me tell you guys this is this is good let's let me very closely the first thing they teach you somebody somebody over here help me out you were in the Navy right you're going they're teaching you War right what's the first thing they teach you boot camp the very first somebody jumped over here just take a wild guess what's the first thing they teach soldiers [Music] good courage okay decide discipline so give me something practical what's the first practical thing that they would teach you said again defending yourself somebody over here how to swim listen to me very closely the first thing they teach you the very first thing they teach you is how to respond when you have a jam gun and number two how to carry a dead body not the first thing they teach you they don't teach you how to defend yourself they'll teach you how to swim the first thing they teach you is when your gun is jammed the first thing they teach you is a dead body how to carry a dead body and somebody tell me why would they start you there that's the worst case scenario that's what you're not prepared for that's what you not think you're not thinking when you go out there to defend yourself that your gun is gonna Jam you're not you're not thinking when you go out there that your boy gonna get killed and you gotta drag you're not thinking that so listen to me it's not it's not hardships that hurt us it's not my cousin getting shot twice it's not my cousin spending 50 years in jail it's not my eyes down to cancer it's not my wife but she's being diagnosed with seven Legions on the brain that will break you what will break most people that you didn't prepare for that so you put all your little goals and all your little dreams together it's not the thing that broke you that broke you it was you never even thought about the fact that you could be broken [Music] you never you never prepared you never you never prepared for worst case scenario and the reason why I eat here started here cause I'm prepared for it if you know anything about me I still lay on Floors I still eat chips off the floor do some stuff that to most people is crazy like et why would you do that because I'm always prepared that we may not live in a house one day one day something might happen and we might have to go back to that and if I have to go back to that it's not gonna break me [Music] and so I'll present to you a diamond most women love them and most men spend a lot of money on them I'ma say it again most women love them and most guys have to work a long time to be able to get a nice one the thing we covered the most and then for a diamond to be produced it must first go through extreme heat extreme heat extreme pressure are you hearing what I'm telling you for a diamond to be produced it has to go through extreme pressure extreme heat and if that wasn't enough what makes a dime with a diamond is the cut so I put you are put through if you want to be a diamond you must go through extreme pressure if you can't take pressure then you're not a diamond then you go through all the pressure you thought you could not handle and you think it's over then they turn on the heat of all the stuff I've gone through in my life eating out of trash cans slipping in abandoned buildings the worst thing that ever happened is when I went to the hospital and they told me my wife had a chronic illness and she might not be able to walk one day people say ET have CJ it never broke me why cause I've been broken so much I've been defeated so much I've been disappointed so much in my life that I know what it feels like and I can't handle it it did happen to me at 19. it did happen to me at 20. it didn't happen to me at 30.

it happened to me at 40 after I had been through all this all the pressure I thought I could go through life said you finished with all the pressure I said yeah I said let him bring on the heat then when I went through the pressure in the heat y'all I thought it was over the Creator said now you ready to get cut you say you wanted to be great son you said you wanted to travel the world you said you wanted to help people inspire people and you gotta be a diamond but listen to me very closely if you've ever studied the diamond once it goes through that type of pressure and it finally becomes a diamond at that point you can't break it no more [Music] are you hearing what I'm telling you once you get to that point you cannot be broken anymore and the only way they could tell if a diamond is a diamond or if it's fake is by a pro applying pressure is how they tell they're just looking at you thinking she's looking to think like I looked in the thing they'll just bring it here put it on some glass ah okay it's real so I'm being honest with you I'm not giving you the seven principles too I'm trying to tell you the very first thing I want to tell you before we go through the principles this is going to be a doll fight [Music] and if you solved this ain't that you want to get out now this is where you like I quit but if you're willing to say I'm not gonna quit I guarantee whatever success you want to have you're going to have it all right so here's number one I apologize it took a long time to get to number one number one Denzel Washington you must be very intentional and deliberate you must be very intentional and deliberate the stuff that you wrote down on that piece of paper is not going to happen by osmosis you're not gonna wake up one day and find a law degree you're not just gonna walk out of your house there it is with my name on it turned out it's not gonna work like that if you're married it's not gonna if you're married I promise you I've been married over 26 years if you're gonna have a good relationship you're gonna have to work for it if you have a business you're gonna have to work for it if you have a healthy relationship with your children but I made up in my mind that nothing's going to stop us from having a daily relationship I will do whatever it takes make whatever adjustments I need to make so it's gonna be a dog fight but I'm telling you from personal experience you don't have to start with anything I'm a living example you don't have to have anything to get started not even a daddy not being real with you not not a bank account not a name not a camera we need to have a camera when we first started not even business cards we don't still don't have business cards people say how are you so successful with our business card I don't know we just sit here take our number down if you're serious it's here here's my number call me so number one you need to be very intentional to live I'm gonna give you three four things I'm letting you go the first one is you need to be very intentional and deliberate and what I mean by very intentional and deliberatives please you have to hear this I believe in rugby that both teams are professionals correct listen to me both teams are professional both guys have you know started young and are they all have you know are all you know physically able to play the game but what happens is you have one team that's good in spurts you have another team that's dominant come on come on hear what I'm telling you when I say when I say I need you to be intentional and deliberate hear me I want to paint the picture you have one team that that has the ability to score they have the ability to do well they have the ability to score on the opponent what their challenge is is that they can't do it they can't sustain it the teams that are dominant all black dominant because they can do it from beginning to end right listen to me and they can do it team after team after team right they can do it over and over and over they dominate because they put pressure on you from the time you start to the very end like oh even when they're up they continue to dominate and your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate you wake up on Monday you might be strong but by Wednesday somebody told me E. T it's Wednesday it's hump day I thought every day was hump day it's holiday I thought I thought Sunday was all day I thought Sunday is where you really get started are you hearing what I'm telling you you're not intentional and deliberate you are hoping you are hoping that the best is gonna happen to you and the best never happens to you listen to me very closely as a Christian I remember going to God and crying out and saying I'm doing all the right stuff I'm doing all the right stuff I'm not hurting nobody I'm finding folks wallet and I'm finding a way to get their wallet back I'm not I'm not disrespecting female like I'm trying to do all the right stuff why am I broke God's saying good being a good person has nothing to do with making money that's absolutely you're a good person and you're going to be rewarded for that at CJ I can lose my computer and somebody's going to send it back to me I lose stuff all the time I'm like all right I'm not going to lose people but I lose stuff it's like it's not that deep listen to me I'll leave money and somebody I'll leave money not even in the wallet just money sitting there and I'll come back and somebody said did you lose some money if I can email my name on it like I'm being honest the Beats By Dr I left them on the plane the other day did some work came back I walked I walked like I just randomly walked up to 48 exit gate 48 randomly just walked up and said I lost some headphones and you say oh oh are they black with red I said yeah he said I think that they're down in the security I'm like security that's two miles from here I got to catch a plane another 15 minutes he said oh I'm sorry what's your name I said Eric Donald he said oh they're right here we're talking about in Los Angeles California I randomly walk up to a gate and this guy just happens to have my so God said to me good stuff is always going to happen because you're doing good stuff money's not gonna come to you because you're not doing money stuff come on you got to hear what I'm telling you he said you got to be intentional and deliberate about money stuff you've got to create a product that people need and you got to give it to them regularly like thank God on Monday for the last eight years you just gotta keep giving it to her in the first year nothing the second year nothing the third year a little something the fourth year a little bit more about the fifth year boom you're a household name you got to be intentional and deliberate whether you're making money or not making money you got to decide that you're going to do something and you got to do it every Monday every Tuesday every Wednesday every Thursday probably some of you in this room you're not intentionally deliberate you're a good person that just hope the good stuff is gonna happen to you so you need to be on Facebook because Facebook they're not just good people they do the analytics and tell you who's watching your stuff and who's not watching it you the numbers hear what I'm saying if you are intentional delivery so I wake up every single day see I don't care what country I'm in I don't care how long we've been on the flight I don't care what our schedule is what time do I wake up every day see okay when we were in Poland what time do I wake up okay what about England what about Australia I just sent my family to talk I'm in New Zealand I'll be looking at what time it is at home and said yesterday I said yesterday I like this I need to be a bad man I said it's yesterday 18 negative 18 hours I'm still getting up at the exact same time since we've been here we just finished working out how long did I run on the treadmill nothing changes nothing changes guys I'm very intentional and some of you could be so you you you'd be so much better if you just didn't leave things a chance Eric what are you saying I thought you were a man of faith I am faith without works is dead they kind of go together Faith Works not one of them by themselves don't work magically you can't work your way to it you can't Faith your way to it it's a beautiful blend of faith I believe the plane is going to land in Australia but I still got to get on it I believe that people don't show up when we're in Brisbane we we're in Perth we're in Sydney we don't know that people are going we take we bring her I brought my wife if I if I crash with my wife that's it for like are you here what I'm telling you so so faith is great we believe we're gonna get here we believe things are gonna work out but I still gotta get on the plane I still gotta land I still gotta work out I still gotta do TGIF we still gotta do the podcast like nothing changes because I'm in a different country and I'm in today or tomorrow I'm literally in tomorrow right now [Music] need you to write this down how can you be more intentional and deliberate about your life and when you get home you're gonna answer it for me all right two more things I'm gonna let you guys get out of here I promise I need you to be intentional and deliberate we do do we do the podcast at a different time every week same time do we do thank God it's Monday on Wednesday [Music] do I do my as a preacher do I have my services on Thursday same same thing every come on come on guys I'm not trying to make this deep I'm trying to make this as simple as I can when you leave this room you're gonna go to a whole other level a year from now two years around three years from now Denzel walked in and said 16 seconds [Music] principal number two he was aware heightened sense of awareness you need a heightened sense of awareness some of you are making the same mistakes over and over and over and over and over and over and over I need you to have a heightened sense of awareness when you walked in a room before he moved he studied and many of you in this room you are moving and then studying and you keep making the same mistakes over and over and over and over again come on hear what I'm telling you making the same mistakes over and over and over and I remember crying why are these guys motivational speakers traveling all over the world and I don't get to travel all over the world I'm trying to do right by people I'm speaking all over the world what's going on and as I looked at my as I did my homework I said oh Eric you're doing something wrong you are motivating and they're empowering you're just telling your story but you're not you're not making a connection between their life and your story you're not there are no principles you're not you're not principle driven you're not there's not enough content in that you I didn't cry or complain I just looked at my life and said E.