how much time can you give to this 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 and your wife and kids are on your ass cuz you don't know how to support them anymore there comes aing day where push comes to show where being mediocre being like average and [ __ ] just in Burns and sucks so much because if someone says I want to eventually be
professional bodybuilder and I've got nothing but time in my week to do the thing very different plan nothing ever goes as blend in this accursed world the longer you live the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain suffering and futility listen everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well as long as there's a concept of Victors the vanquished will also [Music] exist and hatred is born in order to protect love Step One is quite psychological
because it's all well and good me having the tactics and strategies and the information but if I don't have the motivation none of it's going to matter anyway so is step one psychological in some way absolutely so many people forget the fact that we can't change what's happened we can only change what's going to happen learn from it change move forward the part of you that nobody sees where's your integrity behind the scenes come on where are your values behind the scenes what do your hambers look like behind the scenes come on what kind of
work are you putting in behind the scenes come on drop down to give me 50 come on light it again come on believe it again come on sing again record the song again come on I'm talking to that athlete I'm talking to that musician come on who are you out there you can't deal it one more day and you get off your ass and you create something that's always been there it's always been inside of you you finally come out but you never wanted to unwrap it CU it's too much campaign and commitment I need
you to get up I need you to wake up the time me Al lot don't you did it I need you to get up because we got work to do if you're going to do it if you're going to accomplish it if you're going to achieve it even if you're confused and it's cold and it looks crazy and you're going to need to know the difference between contribution and commitment because there are two very different things see everybody wants to contribute to Destiny but nobody wants to be committed to Destiny the light is there it's
at the end of the tunnel and no matter how [ __ ] dark it's been up until this point no matter how dark your life has been up until now the light is there it doesn't matter how hard you work I'm willing to work harder than you I know every [ __ ] ain't going to do what I'm going to do that's how you level up stop being average when your potential is crying to come outside of be more than that no one will outwork me no one it's so easy to be great nowadays my
friend cuz most people are weak most people don't want to go to the extra mile we don't want to find that extra cuz it sucks of course Talent without work is nothing you got to be hungry people that are hungry are willing to do the things today others won't do there's no excuse not to be the hardest mothering worker in the room you have to want [Music] it sometimes you got to take a break from just about everything disappear come back and shock the world I'm talking to that athlete I'm talking to that administrator I'm
talking to that nurse that doctor I'm talking to that student I'm talking to that communicator I'm talking to that Pioneer that inventor I'm talking to that entrepreneur I'm talking to that preacher I'm talking to that person who refuses to stay where they are I'm talking to that person that doesn't have a problem laying in obscurity because you know that when you come out of the dark room all eyes on you we live in a culture of busyness distraction and Noise and sometimes the only way something's going to change is if we [Music] disappear listen up
yes I'm talking to you if you can hear my voice you've got work to do this is something you all need to understand if you want to be the best in whatever you do you got to start acting different than everybody else you don't have to compare yourself to anyone because you have the ability to create the life you want you've been put in a position where you ultimately doubted yourself you started to believe you don't belong here you're not that good you don't fit the criteria of what the rest of the world is looking
for I didn't want to be like everybody else I wanted to be be the [ __ ] best at everything I did do you realize how difficult it is to be different winning requires discipline commit to making things happen you've got a destiny to fulfill you've got a purpose to walk into you've got dots to connect I want to be remembered forever and in order for that to happen I realized I needed toing act like it so don't just talk about what you want to happen be an actioner and recognize that you don't have to
be jealous of anyone we all want to do something we all want to be somebody we all want to go somewhere you can't be doing the same [ __ ] that everybody else is doing if you want to be the best you achieve your goals only when you are disciplined enough to keep showing up when you don't feel like it the best of everything comes with aing price success stories have a humble beginning it's your turn you shouldn't feel guilty it's your turn it's your time you've blessed everybody else you've set everybody else for Success
you've compromised you for them and look where you are it's time for you and so for a lot of you you're not doing nothing because you don't have any purpose right now you don't have a sense of purpose you're not waking up for nobody and I need you to get that engine I need that drive because you know what to do you you're the right person to do it but you just can't seem to get out of bed you can't seem to do what you're supposed to do every time you come up against a trial
or a tribulation you let it stop you got to find your why and your why is what's going to start you and the problem with some of you in this room you don't have no drive you ain't got nothing pushing you you ain't got no reason for waking up in the morning you ain't got no reason for pushing past that pain you have no reason you better find one before you get out of here today you better go inside you still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside you still looking for someone to save
you when you already your superhero bro you looking for some information from somebody when you already got what you need in your head it's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you it's not an option and the reason why some of you are not where you supposed to be you've given yourself an option you've given yourself an out you've given yourself an excuse you've given yourself room not to do it but you have what it takes give me some energy I can I can I will I will I must
I must come on I can I can come on I will I will I must I must I can let's go let's go let's go let's [Applause] go I can means I have the ability to do it I got what it take I have the ability to do it I will I have the willpower to make it happen I must my wife needs me I must my son need I must my daughter needs me we can we will and we must get through this let's go I want to ask you a question seriously this going
to be hard cuz some of you young and you like still worried about what people think about you so you don't want to be honest in front of people want you to think about what level you want are you giving 90 80 70 list see what I'm saying for a minute I I gave everything I got I have no more to give like I really put 120 into this so raise your hand if you giving 120 like I ain't got no more to give e e I'm giving I'm giving a 100 e i I know
I got I'm just doing at least what coach want me to do I'm doing everything coach want me to do I'm giving about 90% he I'm be real I'm giving about 90% let me see your hand of my effort let me see your hands I'm giving about 80% let me see here 70% let me see your here I need you for you to admit where you are what is it going to take for you to give every single thing you got what is that going to take it's consistency and so I got to go to
bed at a certain time I got to wake up at a certain time there's certain things I can't eat certain things I can't watch certain things I can't do and I'm talking about that grind I got an opportunity you got an opportunity so here's the deal when you have an opportunity why would you give 80% when you have an opportunity somebody answer that for me y'all y'all talk why would you give 80% 70% why wouldn't you always give 120% this right here for a lot of y'all y'all ain't got no discipline it's killing you it's
killing you and you don't even realize it's killing you it's killing you if you're not giving 120 I'm not mad at you my job is not to to dog you out cuz once we go back out my goal is to come here and take you to that next level from today on you play whatever your best game is you play that level every single time it doesn't mean you going to score every time but the effort has it you can always give 120% effort life going to go on regardless mental toughness it is in those
times we have to be stronger than we've ever been before why because they need us more than Ever Needed before I just want to make sure that the light we got left that is sweeter than the light that if I wasn't focused and I wasn't do what I supposed to do and we going to make it the best possible it's your life you got it what you going to do with it I want to ask you a question seriously how many of you'all in this room you like yo E it is my life but I
ain't been in control of it as much as I should be in control of it and after the day I'm taking more control of it let me see your hand be honest with me come on let me see your hand is and so you looked up to who when you play ball like who are the people you looked up to Kobe Kobe Kobe LeBron CP D way Kobe I was the same thing with me with Dr mther King in Washington like all those people I got a dream when I saw Malcolm like boom and I
saw hundreds of black men boom like let's go I'm like like I could do that and then when I found out I could make money doing it and I could take care of my family I was like Showtime like you only got one shot e so here what I'm saying opportunity you have an opportunity of a lifetime when you understand you have an opportunity you just you play a little [Music] different here's what I want to tell you if you going to get it you going to have to have that dog you going to have
to have that dog you going to I had to be that dude that say I'm not just going with skills there's a there's a one type of dude who feel like because he's gifted that it's just an automatic role for him let me tell y'all something you are gifted but you better humble yourselves you got skill and you got will two total different things you were born with certain things but to get to the next level and not just get to the next level to stay at the next level you got to have will when
you get to that next level so when you play you have to compete it's Sports it's basketball why wouldn't you give 120% talk to me what would what would make you not give 120% you got to answer it you play that level every single time it doesn't mean you going to score every time but the effort hasn't you can always give 120% effort you can't dictate if the ball going to always go in you can't dictate what kind of game you going to have you can't dictate how your body is going to respond to moving
around but you can dictate your what you can dictate your good you can dictate your you can always give 120% effort like here's the deal when y'all go play tonight tomorrow my goal is for you to go 120 so you going to have the right people in here helping y'all but if you do giving me 70 80 90 you ain't giving me 120 you're not going to get out of this experience what you're supposed to get out that's my job why don't you always give 12% effort it's your turn something I want to share with
you guys I think you might find helpful is this idea about balance and how we're always looking to find that balance in our lives but I think a few things are important number one acknowledging just how hard it is and how difficult it is to find that balance it's much easier said than done like you guys I've got babies to raise babies to feed uh bills to pay food to put on the table relationships to maintain businesses to run it's hard but what I also found is two keys number one is discipline apply discipline to
take care of yourself the other one is communication and this is really important cuz I found if you get curious and you communicate with people around you like hey guys I I need some help finding my balance you'd be surprised how fast people come to help you you got to take care of the thing that allows you to do what you do that thing is you so take care of you and find that balance I've learned this over time I've learned it through experience it's taken me a while it's taken me years uh but I
have learned the power of intention the power of purpose and having real purpose and drive behind your thought process is you know when you have that level of intentionality and you have real drive and purpose behind what you do what you say how you act um on the other side of that you are slowly defining day by day your [Music] legacy so think about that for a second right you think about the Legacy cuz that's one of the words that can often get lost in any event power and purpose find your intention let's set it
today and let's [ __ ] go what are the keys to success what's your secret to success well there really is no secret I I think it's the same BAS B building blocks and tenants that we all know surround yourself with high quality people who believe in the same values and and principles and philosophies that you do and not just in business as entrepreneurs but just as as human beings you want to treat people right treat them good make them feel good um think big think outside of the box be disruptive with your thoughts and
remember just because something's never been done before it doesn't mean it can't be done it just means we haven't figured out a pathway on how to get it done and we will get it done I always like to say too it's nice to be important it's more important to be nice uh now the B side to that is every once in a while you got to tell somebody to [Applause] off as you guys know football was my dream my goal was to make it in the NFL and then go on and play in the Super
Bowl and football gave me purpose especially a time when I needed it especially here in Hawaii as a teenager I was running around here I Wasing up all the time I was getting arrested so football gave me purpose that didn't work out for me but of course pro wrestling gave me life but the thing I want to share with you is sometimes the thing we want most in life is the best thing that never happened it's like the dreams that don't come true because it sets us on a path and gives us blessings we never
otherwise would have [Music] anticipated it's about drive it's about power we stay hungry we devour and we have some things to fix and we're going to get there I'm optimistic I'm always optimistic we got to have faith we got to keep putting in the work and I do believe we're going to get there we'll get there we'll definit get there and as I always like to say you guys have heard me say this in the past look I don't give a [ __ ] what color you are where you come from what religion you practice
what you identify as what your bank account says what car you drive where you live what part of the country you live in doesn't matter to me I don't give a [ __ ] the only thing I care about is whether or not you are a good hardworking decent kind human being who treats other people fairly and you're inclusive because everybody is created equal and of course if you're always willing to put in that hard work with your own two hands I got a saying as you guys know it's one of my favorite it's nice
to be important but it's more important to be nice they want to understand what's inside of me what makes me tick what's between my rib cage uh what's up here between my ears well not a lot up here but there's a lot going on down here um and we use words like hope and optimism and I said yes I am hopeful and optimistic by nature but let's underscore tenacity and you've got to have a passionate burning desire to get after your goals and I believe when you take that kind of action with tenacity and purpose
the universe will meet you halfway it might not happen overnight but incrementally with consistency it will happen so get after your goals use tenacity hope and optimism for sure have a productive week let's fuing go while the rest of the world is sleeping you are wide awake and you are on the attack for your success it doesn't start with them and they it starts with me so I'm just wondering when you going to make it personal are you really prepared to grind it out everybody wants Public Authority but nobody wants private discipline when your habits
change behind the scenes when your private life begins to shift when you put aside the things that are not serving you if it's going to be personal make it personal don't just be great in public be great in private success doesn't always have to be loud sometimes it's necessary to be quiet and and just move are you really prepared to do what you need to do to get what you want out of your life you got to live you have to breathe you have to eat this purpose every single day you are either losing ground
or gaining ground you are not going to win anything until you understand what struggle means you can never quit but you got to work hard and silage you got to work where nobody's watching you got to sacrifice behind the scenes when you take it personal your private life changes success is a process the process comes before success the struggle comes before the process everybody wants to contribute to Destiny but nobody wants to be committed to Destiny what kind of work are you putting in behind the scenes what can you conquer in the dark how personal
is your purpose this is what we call grinding than silence [Music] not everyone needs to understand your true motives not everyone needs to understand your purpose not everyone needs to understand your mission but the truth is it's about passion it's about discipline it's about about awareness it's about accountability that's right ladies and gentlemen you got to be accountable for your actions but are you prepared to grind it out are you prepared to dig a little bit deeper are you prepared to fight a little bit harder are you prepared to put in overtime somewhere along the
line you you lost your footing you lost your place it got cold too cold for you and see one thing about an achiever is rain sleep or snow they keep building but you have not sacrificed you have not suffered you are not committed when you are committed you give everything you have and every single week every single day every single hour every single minute 720 hours a month you are beating on your craft even when you're at work you're dreaming you're thinking you're Vision casting you're writing it down making it plain communicating to your destiny
connections so that it can become a reality if you can see it in your head you can hold it in your hands but the question I want to ask you is are you committed now it's time to grind now it's time to fight now it's time to believe now it's time to know that your success story has yet to be told don't sit back and have a pity party don't sit back and wait for an opportunity to happen it is up to you to go out there and get the opportunities you want success then go
get it you want to be better then be better you want something more than what you have right now then you got to have the desire within your heart and go strong and go with everything you have I don't know who I'm talking to you I don't know what you've been called to do what you've been called to accomplish what you've been destined to build who you've been called to be connected to but the dots will connect every single moment that you have is an opportunity of a lifetime are you committed or are you just
contributing the choice is yours this time make it personal [Music] hear my voice know that you do have some work to do the work that you do will determine the outcome in the end but do it in Silence the ones that need to be a part of your development they will always be there and the ones that doubt with you I'm talking about the naysayers just simply say sh be quiet cuz you have nothing to do with my [Music] success you got to give 110% and get it to a point where all you got to
say is you don't have nothing to do with Were My Success the noise that you making can't stop my purpose the noise that you making can't stop my fight the noise that you making can't stop my grind your noise is just empty it means nothing to my success I didn't get it overnight and yes I had many sleepless nights and I had amazing dreams of what I could become can you stretch yourself can you condition yourself come on can you believe again can you see it again can you write again can you make this thing
personal that it doesn't start with the people connected to you it starts with you it doesn't even start with your past it starts with where you are and where you're going can you look ahead can you stretch forth can you condition yourself can you prepare yourself for the next thing come on make it personal but you got to work hard in silence you got to take it personal I make this thing personal so while you're sitting around second guessing yourself my beautiful people get back on your grind be productive keep your head up high stay
in the moment live every moment move in silence and from the bottom of my heart conduct your business you got to learn how to move in silence no one's good at everything I mean that's just not the way life Works what you know is very limited and what you don't know is Limitless the man will let us to six Super Bowls those who stay will be Champions War number 12 the greatest of all time right here at Tom Brady if I want to be the best I got to beat the best man if I want
to be good I got to I got to wake up in the morning I got to do the extra work and I got to show up when other guys aren't and I've got to learn I've got to continue to be open to learning but I had to take it to a new level that the other guys wouldn't nothing was given to me so I'm going to go out there and compete as hard as I can and I'm going to treat practice like a game and I'm going to gain the respect of my teammates every day
through my work ethic I'm going to work hard in the weight room I'm going to work hard in the film room I'm going to work hard to be a good student whatever they asked me to do that's what I'm going to do to the best of my ability I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time I'm just a story like everybody else I wanted to be the best I could be period And I said be proud of the man in the glass be proud of that man
that wakes up every day and does the best you could do with his priorities so we're all talented at certain things but we can really continue to improve our weaknesses if we're humble enough to identify them and we can build on our strengths focus on what you can control focus on what you're getting not what anyone else is getting whenever you get an opportunity you take advantage of you treat it like it's the Super Bowl you treat it like it's game day go out there and treat practice like no one else does and you have
an opportunity every day to surround yourself with people to help you grow you know I always said we play for the name on the front of our Jersey was a Patriots or the [ __ ] or and I play for the name on the back of the Jersey which was my family and the people that encouraged [Music] me I was so blessed to have this discipline over a really long period of time it was a lot of tough [Music] competition but I was never I would say like a prodigy you know I wasn't like the
kid where you see Tiger Wood swinging on the Johnny Carson show at two or three years old and you know his swing looks as good as it did at 3 years old as it did you know as he as he grew older or you know certain players that had that had this unbelievable uh Prodigy aspect to themselves I I I saw myself as someone who probably had some other traits that maybe were hard to identify but that were really sustainable over time which was I would say work ethic and and [Music] discipline there was this
discipline that I had that even as 13 14 15 years old where all these other boys were I went to an all boy School in the Bay Area and I remember showing up my first day is freshman year I didn't have much you know hair under my arms or anything like that I was like and these other kids came in shaving I'm like what the hell is this I didn't know how to put the pads on in my pants when I tried out for freshman football I mean I had never played until that point except
in the streets so these kids came out there they had you know helmets and shoulder pads that they had worn for 4 years I went on the field and I was like I'm going to get killed out here you know and my freshman year I didn't even play I was the backup quarterback on a team that went 0 and8 I couldn't get on the field and we never won a game anyway I mean it's one thing to be the starting quarterback and to lose if they don't even think you're good enough to be a starting
quarterback on a team that's own eight you must really suck so naturally I was like oh cool I'll continue to you know work on my skill a lot of it was even going into my second year in high school there were workouts in the morning at 6:00 a.m. before school and I was like okay I can I can get up at 6:00 a.m. and I can go do these rope drills where you'd run through the ROP you see a lot of people do that there were these Hills that we would run up and there was
probably less than 10 people there but I was probably one of the three that were there almost every single day to try to continue to push myself to grow in these maybe physical areas that I was really behind a lot of other people that and I went in there competed really hard my third year and I lost the starting job to Brian greasy so I go into my fourth year and I was like now's my time I worked hard to compete my first three years going into my fourth year I got a great opportunity to
play and they recruited a kid named Drew Hensen and I was like the competition's Relentless at first I was looking at the guys ahead of me now I got to be looking down at the guys behind me too and going into my fourth year my teammates named me team captain and I won the starting job we had a good year we finished 10 and three you know beat everyone out and then I showed up and Coach car says well you're going to compete with Drew Henson to be the starter going into your fifth year and
I was like you got to be kidding me you want me to compete that's what we're going to do I competed really hard again in my fifth year took it to a new level thought about my conditioning my strength thought about how I was doing my making my decisions off the field I was starting to play really good and I thought you know I'm going to I'm going to have a chance coach Carr called me in he said well Tom this is what we're going to do you're going to start Drew you're going to play
the second quarter and I'm going to decide at halftime who plays the rest of the year coach car said the platoon's off Tom's playing the rest of the year we didn't lose a game the rest of the season it was a tough battle for me going it was a tough go it was tough in high school it was really tough in college so of course now I'm going to the NFL draft and I'm like all these Pro coaches must have seen how good I was man I'm going to be a second round pick round one
two and here we go sixth round pick 199 and I was like all right I'm going to make all those other teams pay like I said I wasn't The Prodigy I learned about work ethic I learned about resilience I learned about gaining the trust and the respect of my teammates and coaches to name me Captain I learned about how to dig deep within myself a long way from home without a ton of support I was so motivated to be the best I could be that it wasn't I wasn't motivated to be the starter I wasn't
motivated to win the Super Bowl I just was motivated to give my best do the best with the opportunity I got and to never let my teammates down all those experiences that we think are the hardest things in our life end up being the best experience in our life because if you approach it with humility and you look inward they become the best opportunities for growth and [Music] learning but most people could say man I want to exercise for one day well I want to be more hydrated for one day well can you do it
for a week well that's more dis IPL right can you do it for a month that's more discipline can you do it for a year that's even more discipline how disciplined are you to maintain that routine over a period of time and I think that will determine your level of success Fame didn't motivate me I didn't give a about any of it I always took less money cuz I wanted a good team around me I didn't care about going to all these different places and doing those things I just wanted to to be my best
I wanted to go out there and the team believed in me I didn't want to let him down if I want to be the best I got to beat the best [Music]
