good times create weak people weak people create bad times bad times create strong people strong people create good times my whole thing is leaders anticipate losers react if you can anticipate what's coming you can really take advantage if you wait till it hits you you're in trouble the biggest problem people have is they think they're not supposed to have any problems are the fuel for growth it's like you don't have any problems you're either a liar or you might call them challenges it feels better i understand that anybody doesn't have problems these either totally asleep
with the wheel or they don't have much of any kind of a life [Music] but then there's fulfillment and fulfillment is living what you're made for is that lack of confidence no it's a lack of mission i like winning i like being the best at what i do so i'm not going to settle for less than that why would i michael jordan making a thousand shots before you take a break so you look at jordan or you look at you know lebron or you look at anybody who's the best in the world of what they
do and you go aren't they lucky but if you actually study them you'll see they're doing things they're practicing in private things that make them certain in public and they get rewarded for what they do [Music] when you just know you're gonna mess up it's not gonna be perfect you're gonna get forget that line that you really wanted to say but just put all the energy on the audience everything starts to change if you stay ready you don't have to get ready it's a shift in your identity every single day six days a week what
matters a few subjects your body because your energy matters that energy is low everything i just said is worthless to you because when you're low energy you don't use your full intelligence or ability you need emotion if you don't know how to master your emotion emotions start wars emotion creates peace emotion gets you children emotion is what can make that business work or fail and most people don't know how to direct their own emotions let me be conscious about feeding my brain things that are going to give me not only inspiration but insight and skill
and tools 68 of the fortune 1000 were started in either a recession or a depression well the first skill you got to master to be great is the ability to recognize patterns when humanity recognized the pattern of the seasons the whole world changed because we went from hunter-gatherers trying to survive from place to place where we're exposed to everything to wait a second if we plant in the springtime we protect in the summer we reap in the fall and then we hang on to some of that so we can live through the winter that created
communities for the first time and then eventually cities and states and countries so that changed the world what will change a person's life is when you realize there's also a set of seasons in your own life [Music] and so think of it this way 0 to 21 is springtime things are easy to grow in springtime you don't have to do that much growing as a kid happens naturally but overall life is supporting you it's sending you teaching you sharing with you now when you get from you know 21 to 41 or 22 to 42 whatever
range you want to talk about you now are in the real world and now you go test what you learned in your springtime so you start to learn tests figure out what's real and it's an important stage of life 42 43 to 62 63 is the power of your life if you worked hard in the spring in the summer and you put yourself out there and you planted it's a reaping time it's a time when you really become a leader and then if you're lucky you go from 63 to 83 and maybe 83 to 103
and you have an extended final season of your life where you could be the mentor you get to share you get to make a difference and maybe towards the end of your life people look out for you again after you looked out for everybody else that's kind of the cycle of life what if you're born in 1910 war one ends the world looks like it's a great place new technology cars radio and then what happens an explosion of abundance the roaring 20s and so you're a kid you're 14 15 years old and you're like i
can't wait to get a car to go but what happened when that person hit the next stage of life 19 20 21 years old as they came of age it's 1929 and suddenly people are jumping out of buildings total depression dust bowl nobody's got jobs it looks horrific and it was horrific but then did they get a break no when they turned 29 it's 1939. it looked like the whole world was going in hitler was sweeping across europe bombing london it literally looked like the world as we know it was over this is what gives
me great optimism for everyone watching here winter's not forever no pandemic lives forever everything changes and everything ends and the good news about winter is it's always followed by springtime what follows the night the daytime what a cool way to set it up if you were god or the universe the first thing i do every single morning is i go in freezing cold water and when you jump in it never feels good to go in but getting out you feel incredible but i do it for a different reason i do it to train my brain
to say when i say now it means now when i say go we go i don't stand there because it's cold and go maybe in a minute when i'm ready but i always do it because i've trained my brain this is how we work and if you train your brain to do that every single day then it'll do it on the more difficult and important things in life but the essence of it is i change my body radically and i do three things to make sure that my brain is primed and what i mean by
primed is most people think their thoughts are their thoughts louis and you and i know better most people just don't understand that you are being primed all the time and unless you prime yourself you're going to be primed by the environment so i want to take control of my brain so i do three quick things one i take three minutes of those 10 minutes after i've changed my body and i focus on three different events in my life that i'm grateful for i usually pick two big ones and one small one it could be as
simple as a smile on my daughter's face and it changes your biochemistry then real fast i do this three-minute process that's kind of like a blessing and then three minutes the last three minutes are called three to thrive where i focus on three things i want to accomplish but instead of thinking i want to accomplish i see feel and experience it is done i feel grateful i celebrate it and it trains your brain so in 10 minutes i'm done third thing that i'll do i immediately send a message or a text or an audio message
to somebody as a sincere compliment and i don't go dude great job or wow you're cool i say listen i saw you on tuesday with those kids and i saw you take that extra 20 minutes no one else did i just want you know i saw that i thought that was incredible so i'm always very specific so they know it's not just some positive thinking [ __ ] call it's sincerely doing and it makes me constantly look for the good in the people i work with fourth thing i do is whatever i don't want to
do the most challenging part of the day what's the story we all love it's the comeback story it's the comeback it's the rocky it's that music where all of a sudden you step back up and you take control and rock good times create weak people weak people create bad times bad times create strong people strong people create good times [Music] you
