[Music] [ __ ] time I set out a goal two years when I came back to bring a championship to the city I gave everything that I had i p my heart my blood my sweat my tears to this game and against all ODS against all ODS just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do you don't have to live anybody else's story um sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or or crazy life story in order to be successful in this world doesn't matter where you come
from what you have or don't have what you lack what you have too much of but all you need to have is is faith in God an undying passion for what you do or what you choose to do in this life and a Relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful and whatever you put your mind to there is a per period in everybody's Journey where they are so different because they've started to do new things that they no longer fit in with the old set of friends but they're not
sufficiently developed that they've gained their new set of friends and they're unsure should I go back should I lean back into getting a bag in with the boys on a weekend is that the highest you know way that I can live my life passion forward CU that's what everybody else does and all of my friends are taking the piss oh not drinking again too good for us are we not going out again this week oh okay well like enjoy staying in home and reading nerd so you're going to feel the pain of being ostracized from
the group of friends that you used to have but you're stuck in this messy Middle where you haven't yet worked out who you are on the other side of this and that lonely chapter that's in the middle is something that I I would say almost nobody that I've ever met who has gone from a place where they are to a place where they want to be hasn't gone through but what it takes is a a discipline that no one can ever even they they just don't they don't understand it they don't understand but everybody has
the ability to do it but they just don't want to they want to keep asking questions and keep going to seminars and the greatness is right in you and that's why once again I'll say this a million times here I do not feel sorry for you I will not sugarcoat what I'm going to say to you because all of you know what I'm saying is the truth everybody knows it's the truth this is what it looks like and you know it too you know it too this is what if if you ain't got nothing I
hate to tell you what it looks like it's ugly it's not a documentary it's not a HBO special you ain't going to watch but hey man you guys got to watch this no it's like oh God this looks like a train wreck look like a nightmare this looks like this guy got no that's what it looks like hard work looks horrible it's not motivating it's not motivating at all it a like Rocky round 14 he gets knocked down and goes like this to Apollo Creed looks like a man being stuck in a dungeon and there's
no way out but you had the key but you refuse to use it bro what are you doing with your life bro what are you I I thought you said you want to be a great I thought you said you want to be the best but you don't act like you don't move like you wake up late you sleep late you don't study you don't work out you don't want this and no one's going to feel sorry for you when you don't get it that's your problem he's heavy I know he's heavy I'm bu on
of strength then you negotiate with your body to find more strength but don't you give up on me Brock you keep going you hear me you keep going you're doing good you keep going do not quit on me you keep going it hurts I know it hurts you keep going you keep going it's all hard from here 30 more steps you keep going Brock come on keep going burn and Let it burns are burning it's all hard you keep going Brock come on come on keep going I'm trying to build people up I'm trying to
armor their mind I'm trying to get them the belief because this world we live in is tough it's tough it will beat you down the world and the life that we liveing is the ultimate competitor it will try to take you out it will it will find your weakness and it will just Hammer you you can't be comfortable with yourself if you don't know who yourself is and you can't know who yourself is is if you don't stop looking at how everybody around you is uh and start looking at what makes you comfortable and What
Makes You uniquely you maybe not today maybe not tomorrow and maybe not the next month only one thing is true I will be Champion one day I promise I promise I think the best way to prove your your value is to work is to learn is to observe AB orb um to be a sponge but you always want to outwork your potential you know as hard as you believe you can work you can work harder than that am I happy I don't know never really thought about it no really care about it cuz all I
really cared about was I looked in that mirror I saw a piece of [ __ ] it doesn't matter where you start it's where you're going and how you pick yourself back up from those Falls um and just dream big and then dream bigger after that cuz you never know what where your dream will take you I love that 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 hey bro I need you to give back in that mode again that mode where nothing can take you off your PIV and you just putting in that work every single day see that version of you is different you got to tap back into it don't be out here playing with your potential but cuz
you one of the ones bro you special and you weren't meant to be a person that could have been the one you are the one so I need you to get back moving like it before it's too late but I don't need money I don't need Fame I don't need so I give it all away what I do need is to make sure that that will power is worked on every day and every night for the rest of my life cuz that's the one thing that's can keep me feeding you keeping you where you need
to be cuz once that willpower is gone 300 lb David gogin he may not be look like it but I will walk around with it so the things that are important to you in life you must do always or your nobody and that's how handle relationships f b against me bet against me tell me it's not going to happen tell me it's going to fail I love it I love every minute of it again don't please don't call me arrogant because what I I'm saying is true I'm European Champion so I'm not one of of
the bottle I'm a I think I'm a special one I'd rather die I would rather die than be that loser guy think about that do you want to walk out that door a damn loser or do you want to walk out the door a winter you know I I I'll fight to the death and sometimes I actually went close to death it sounds crazy but you got to give it that much if you want results otherwise you'll be like everybody else the majority of the population they think they're training hard that was hard there's been
this unrelenting voice in my head we all have this voice it's the right or wrong voice and a lot of times that voice guides us into comfort and my voice guided me into Comfort a lot but I have this other voice I heard my whole life saying hey mother what are you doing no man we got to go over here we got to go over here to to that rock pile over in the corner where nobody's at that's that's where victory's at we're over there that corner I wasn't real smart kid growing up but I
had this crazy voice in my head saying over there is where the answers are and I want to listen to it cuz over there was pain over there was me looking in the mirror over there was me being accountable for all these things that went through my life even though people put them on me it's now a mind to own and I didn't want to go over there by myself but I had to and this voice was guiding me there I it's God whatever you want to call it U but that's what that's what it
was in me hey bro you better get ready to buckle up cuz this get no easier bro what you think the grind gets easier come on bro you silly man this grind is only for the strong ones bro and if you weak I suggest you go ahead and leave it's tough but it's true be safe and over the years I've developed me me what works for me what I like what I'm comfortable with whether it be my wardrobe whether it be the beard whether it be the hair whatever it is it's me and I don't
ask what is everybody around me doing and so that's what I need to do I don't know why we want to take the hardest road I don't know why the man above giv me the hardest road but there's nothing man above don't put you in situations that you can't handle and I just kept that same positive attitude like instead of saying why me they're saying this is what he want me to do the most frustrating thing in the world for me is when normal people judge a man like myself on what it really takes to
extract greatness from nothing it takes every bit of who you are if you choose that route if you don't Merry Christmas do what you got to do but yeah all these things for me like like I told you man I'm I'm going to keep it real I I'm not coming here to talk about like you know perform without purpose cuz I go through when I write these books I go through I try to dumb down David goggin how can I give normal people and I'm normal but I found something that most don't want to find
how can I speak to people and give them something from this crazy psychotic brain that I've developed how can I give them that so I sit down with Jennifer for years and write down perform without purpose callous your mind armor your mind the cookie jar I'd say just listen to yourself don't listen to anybody else not one person because God forbid anything went wrong you can't blame other people and start pointing the finger always know that you're only to blame yourself because you made that decision and whatever you do in life never regret it never
if buts shter would a cter give everything while you can when you can and leave nothing to behind so never give up without commitment you'll never start but more importantly without consistency you'll never finish it's not easy keep striving never give up fall down seven times get up eight it is hard yeah it's hard when you're young to wake up in the off seon at 6:00 a.m. to go train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes it's hard when you're on your way to practice way down with all
your gear and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach and your body is already completely exhausted from workouts in two days but the biggest key to success in anything you do is you got to have have an unlimited supply of Fu you this drive and passion and 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 on
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 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 so that's the big thing for me man I was always fired up at all times make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day and I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves be humble
and be grateful for all the blessings in your life and I'm truly honored to be your MVP this year so thank you very much ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship keep moving keep growing keep learning so you at work most people are missing something because they don't know who they are they never examined themselves they they've never done this experiment on themselves the lab rat we're all Lab Rats but you're also the scientist you create your own self most people are missing something because there's so much trapped in there I want I
want to say potential I think that's word used out too much too there's so much in you that that you have not un unlocked that you walk around with this gorgeous wife or or great husband all this money like God I feel like I'm missing something yeah because it's about 75% of you is stilling in there still chained up because you just didn't want to find your willpower didn't want to find your soul your will your heart your determination your guts your courage and what that looks like it looks scary it's hard to throw catch
block and tackle and hit kids when they're way bigger and way more developed than you only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained but knowing you have to show up again the next day for the just the chance to try again but understand this life is hard whether you like it or not from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed a lot of us are at war with ourselves and within that war you have several battles those battles are basically choices no I'm not talking about a war
that you might find in the Coliseum I'm talking about a war that's in your brain that war exists because life has so many choices within those choices you got to make right decisions but you know what yeah when the alarm goes off in the morning you have to wake up don't wake up don't worry about that when you're in school you know man it's too hard to study so don't study you know what don't eat healthy cuz you don't have to so guess what when you fail don't blame your mom don't blame your dad don't
blame teachers one person you have to blame is yourself I hope that it's G given the millions of people that I've touched the optimism and the desire to achieve their goals through hard work perseverance and positive attitude one day you might look up and see me playing the game at 50 because limits like fears are often Just an Illusion maybe you're piece of sh maybe you're you want to be nobody maybe you're happy exactly where you are in life cuz obviously you are maybe you don't have the determination to be somebody better than who you
are and if you want to live with that if you're good with being who you are I'll support you in that I'm thinking about my plan for the next day I'm thinking about all these different obstacles that may come up so basically a lot of us aren't prepared for life we get up willy-nilly and it's hope life is going to happen it is going to happen but it's going to happen with a prepared mind or unprepared mind most people attack life with the unprepared mind I've been listening to laugh all my career yeah I've been
listening to them laugh my whole career they've been laughing what an Irish man win a win a cage Warriors World title hell no you serious an Irish man an Irish man win a fight in the UFC hell no laugh laughs all around and I okay you got to win now he wants to win a world title hell no he's all talk he's all hype he's a joke laughter all around at the Joker then the Joker Goes and wins the world title then we wants to win a second world title more laughter the sound of laughter
and the sound of Doubt motivates me so what you doing here don't you have practice not anymore I quit oh well since when are you the quitting kind I don't know I just don't see the point anymore so you didn't make make the dress list there are greater tragedies in the world I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad to prove to everyone that I work prove what that I was somebody oh you are so full of crap you're 5 ft nothing 10 and nothing and you got hardly a spec of athletic
ability and you hung in with the best college football team in the land for 2 years and you're also going to walk out of here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame in this lifetime you don't have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself and after what you've gone through if you haven't done that by now it ain't going to never happen if you have to ask how to get motivated to go to the gym you don't need to be going to the gym you don't want it enough you don't want it and
that's a harsh reality I can't give you this is your new life take it or leave it there's no happiness about it there's no peace behind it it sucks it just sucks and that's the one thing if I could teach anybody anything it just sucks and it's going to continue to suck and then you get even more depressed this is what I went through and then you're hungry cuz now you're depressed it's it's just a vicious cycle and if you're not strong mentally and you have no willpower you're going to continue falling back in this
hole versus the man that sits back and goes all right mother when you're sick and tired of looking and feeling like you'll show up mother I'll see you there cuz you're going to look in the mirror and you're going to be like that you're going to want to be in the gym and if you're going to make this a lifestyle and you have to raise the impetus goals inspiration and and godamn real desire to be there the people that have no problem showing up to the gym are the people that want to be there and
no amount of Rocky baloa movies are going to get you to that place this is what it took for me to be me sorry it didn't take hey okay we're going to do this today no this really sucks this is real dude I just hopefully keep going that's it there's nothing I can do about it so I think physic I'm fit tennis is mental you know it's all mental we've always started great athletes as the strongest the fittest chisel to Perfection but what's a strong body without a sound mind we're so focused on strength that
we forget to strengthen our Focus the mind is like a muscle the more you train it the stronger it becomes and while the greatest Master with the body the greatest Master the [Music] mind I've had my shares of ups and downs I've had many struggles I've had blood clots in both my lungs at the same time I lived through tragedies and controversies people look down on me put me down because I didn't look like them I had critics say I will never win another grand slam when I was only at number seven and now here
I stand today with 21 Grand Slam titles and I'm still going I cannot help but think of my favorite poet May Angelo she has palm called and Still I Rise so here it goes you may write me down in history with your bitter Twisted lies did you want to see me broken bowed head and lowered eyes shoulders falling like teardrops weakened by my Soulful cries out of the Huts of History shame I rise from a past that's rooted in pain I Rise bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I arise I am the dream and
the hope of a slave arise you have no idea how great you really are because you are using such minimal minimal of what you have and if people can learn to focus this is what's possible while it may not be pretty I will have normal everyday people picking me apart on his life is miserable who wants to live like that he looks it's crazy how he someone's like he's sick he's psychotic I always felt it was my job and my responsibility ability to come out and play the game at a high level and be as
great as I can be because there is a kid in the inner city somewhere that's looking for inspiration and that's going to need it and maybe get it from me so and the only message I want to get across to people is once you change one thing your mindset you can attack everything and I find it fascinating I'm fascinated because I'll be in these moments I put these guys on some pedestal yeah which people do with you they do with me and they shouldn't I was this guy who was piece of looking at my God
how are you guys this amazing but once I work my way up there I said my God man we can all compete mother let's go you ain't good man you ain't never arrived and that's just my mentality you may have more but you nevering arrived you want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people period uncommon amongst uncommon people is one of the greatest ways to put it there's no magic pill or a magic potion all you can do is outw the man that God created or woman in you and what that looks like is unfun that's
why I said do not do a documentary on me because people will not see the truth they will see what they want to see is I don't want to live like that good good and you will live exactly the way you live now questioning who you are wondering what is possible wondering what you are capable of doing that's how that looks or you can be me what doubts do you have about yourself internally it's not I've never doubt is such a strange thing I mean it's um you know there'll be times where you succeed and
there times that you fail so waste wasting your time doubting whether you're going to be successful or not is pointless it is you just put one foot in front of the other you control what you can't control and then you see what the outcome is right if you win great you're going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again if you lose sucks but you're going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again anyway right so it's really pointless to sit here and
debate or have doubt or this that the other you train as hard as you can and you step out there and you let it flow senica famously said that the mind focused on future events is miserable I see so many people focusing on the things that they cannot control they want to make a million dollars but obviously you can't dictate the specific day that you're going to become a millionaire they want to develop a better physique but you can't specifically dictate the day where you'll be proud of the body that you have if you're overweight
or if you're too skinny you need to understand that you can't be focused on the future what you need to be focused is on the present moment what you can control today the habits that you input today the amount of work ethic and good attitude that you portrayed today these are the things that matter the stoics used to speak about these things because it is so easy to either reminisce in the past or to be Conjuring imaginary scenarios of the future often times negative that lead a present moment of stress and a state of being
miserable so if you want to be in a life that is full of equinity equinity means the calmness of the soul in a life that is full of Peace you need to be here now focusing on what you can control if you want to make more money perfect CL in if you want to become more financially literate you're going to have to pick up the books and get educated if you want a better physique you're going to have to eat healthier food and you're going to have to exercise not focus on the future but focus
on what you can do today and by natural law for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction the universe will give you exactly what you deserve don't live a life of Misery by living in the past or living in the future but live a life of peace and Equanimity by being here right now one thing about life is that people in life they're the ultimate Puppet Masters they exploit your weakness and they love to walk you around life and own space in your head one of the biggest ways to cut those strings and walk
on your own two [ __ ] feet to your own destination in life is to build self-respect self-esteem self-discipline all those things stay hard is not just about going to the gym stay hard is about going that extra step and you [ __ ] can that's what builds self-esteem and self bet stay hard I can't fight him he has all my weapons I have nothing when you began your journey you were determined nothing could stop you and now that you are so close are you willing to give up so easily it was easier at the
beginning Beginnings are often easier but think of all that you have accomplished along your journey what's the point of fighting my way up the mountain when someone else is just going to come up the easy way there is always going to be someone who does things the easy way but that should not stop you from doing things the right way it is your journey young Warrior these moments it's this journey and like like I felt this before having the trophy around my neck it's your journey it's experience is knowing that you pushed Past Times where
you wanted to quit and you got done you pushed through it so everyone out there whose dreams are scaring you who dreams make you want to quit just don't quit it's good your dreams should be big they should be scary just keep pushing through I have this thing I say Champion mentality it's not about winning it's not about a trophy it's about having no quit it's about giving everything you have so that when you show up on game day before the results are over you're proud of yourself and you know the work you put in
one way to increase the probability that things will unfold for you properly is to is to not lie just stop lying period stop saying things you believe to be untrue talk stop doing things you know to be wrong just start with that you'll get closer and closer to the truth and the truth is the truth is the adventure of life that's the advantage to the truth you have the world on your side but obviously CU if you're lying about things you're opposing reality that is your glory you know that is your glory your failure and
then you're getting back up the man who never fail the man who never fa has no glory the man who fell and got back up that's where his glory is the man who fell 20 times and got up 21 times that man has even greater glory wow that man has more courage way more courage than the guy who was so strong from birth that he never fell there's no glory in that you have to accept that all your excuses are lies they are lies all of them think about the things that you tell yourself the
lies you use to rationalize taking the easy Road taking the easy Road and leaving discipline behind think about them you don't have time that's a lie you don't have [Music] support that's a lie you don't have the equipment or the gear lies you don't you don't know the best way who cares that's a lie or you're too old or you're too young of course you're too old or Too Young lie and there's you're too busy sure you are that's a lie when the narrative should be you need to work harder you need to discipline your
mind better we need to help people more than just saying it's okay it's okay that you're not willing to help yourself out that's not okay it's not okay it's not acceptable even though it's your life if that's if if that's acceptable that's unacceptable and there's a lot of people in this world me included that if I accepted that I wouldn't be anywhere so yeah a lot of people just they started creating a narrative about themselves that make it okay the ultimate G jail free card and now the world is set up to have so many
G jail free cards everything is okay and you can't say a mother thing about it I'm fine it's all right it's a bed that I I made for myself I happily lay in it and I'll be fine fig figing it out moving forward Sun don't stop for nobody man Sun don't fck Sun going to be up in the morning regardless that Sun is going to be up in the morning regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am the Sun is going to shine in the morning and at night time the moon going to
be there and you going to look up these days going to keep going by so do you let the days go by and look up and you done wasted the year doing what or do you just pick it up all right figure it out made some mistakes life goes on me figure out life from this point at the end of the day nobody cares what we're going through how your body feels nobody cares we got to we got to do our job and uh we we emphasize that to each other again today you know hey
I got your back you got mine nobody cares man we got to go and before practice during practice after practice you know we're we're always just trying to push whoever's listening that is it fair no you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you tired who cares you tired or not nobody care about you you know kid in times like this my buddy tone here says you got to put your behind in your piss no no no I mean amateur lie down before you hurt yourself it's
you got to put your past behind you look kid bad things happen and you can't do anything about it right right WR When The World Turns its back on you you turn your back on the world it's all fun in games the guns are going off it's like a pep rally yeah who yah yeah yeah mother yeah but then what they do is they shut that [ __ ] off they shut it off all that hooah all that hype gets real quiet and they March you out to that surf zone for something called surf torture
that water that Pacific Ocean is cold as so no more prep rally is now in your head your linked arms with you know your brothers beside you you don't know if they could be there long or not you don't care you think about yourself you lay back in that first wave hit you your mind goes straight from Hour 2 all the way to hour 130 fear is my friend uh-huh I love fear fear fear fear allows me to reach my Highest Potential the fear of failing is an illusion yeah fear is an illusion but we
have to have desire we have to have something that pushes us fear pushes us uhhuh is that stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over so if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress that's a uh a warning flag for me what it means is there's something that I haven't completely identif ified perhaps in my conscious mind that is bothering me and I haven't yet taken any action on it I find as soon as I identify it and make the first phone call
or send off the first email message or whatever it is that we're going to do to start to address that situation even if it's not solved the mere fact that we're addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it so stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn't be ignoring don't have AET don't have asset boy that never goes out of style does it I mean think about it if you're going to do something if you've chosen to do something whatever it is easy hard if you give it your all and you don't
have asset win lose draw get what you want don't get what you want whatever the outcome is if you don't have fet at least you're not going to have to wonder oh would the outcome have been different what if I did give it my all and boy wondering that is what keeps us up at night uh let me be very [Music] clear I'll never give up never get scared easily when I I may be doing halfling training but when I go on that track it's it's like I a transform the confidence I have when I'm
out there is is different no matter how far you think you're all right of me I'm I'm going to catch actually that's all that's my mentality that I go there with I'm I'm never scared of anything never scared of anyone it's all about business when I go and and everything comes together and I'm want to tr try to do your best in training but sometime i' I've watched and I've seen different athletes over the years are not only Jamaicans which athletes when they're trained they they try to overdo it you got to work with what
the code says a lot of people they run hard hard hard hard and then you can't finish said it's never like that one thing I've learned over the years from my coach that the last one is the most important one that's when you improve so if you run if you got 16 you're run five and you're tired you're dying you got to even take one take a little bit more time take one more minute and go cuz that's when it you start improving that's when the work pays off now cuz your legs are dead and
you got to push your body you got to overcome it's like you're moving past a barrier Mo moving a step forward a lot of people just want to stop because they're dead tired but you got to do that extra one that's going to be improved small minds discuss other people gossip good Minds discuss events great minds discuss ideas knowledge and experience and wisdom takes time wisdom comes from from experience and experience takes time the more experience you have the more you learn from that experience the wiser you can get if you haven't lived long enough
to have a broad enough portfolio of experience then you can't expect to have knowledge and wisdom but what's interesting about this brain area is there now a lot of data mhm in humans not some Mouse study showing that when people do something they don't want to do like add 3 hours of exercise per day or per week or when people who are trying to dieet and lose weight resist eating something right when people do anything that they and this is the important part that they don't want to do it's not about adding more work it's
about adding more work that you don't want to do yes this brain area gets bigger y the anterior mid singulate cortex is smaller in obese people mhm it gets bigger when they diet mhm it's larger in athletes mhm it's especially large or grows larger in people that see themselves as challenged and overcome some challenge right and in people that live a very long time mhm this area keeps its size mhm in many ways scientists are starting to think of the anterior mid singulate cortex not just as one of the seats of willpower right but perhaps
actually the seat of the will to live be the hero of someone else spoke to me the way that I speak to myself you I'd have to kill that son of a cuz you know I couldn't tolerate that I don't know why we're just so mean to ourselves man you know I get I don't know why I get so addicted to things you know I'm even addicted to damn nasal spray that's about the hardest thing I've had to kick to be honest with you um man I appreciate your honesty here uh but yeah man I'm
sorry that you are so mean to yourself you know and I don't mean that as a reflection of who uh you are because I know like me you don't want to be I'm proud of you I'm proud of you cuz I know how hard it is to take care of ourselves you know I know how hard it is to take care of ourselves I know that um for me uh I never wanted to take care of myself because if I took care of myself then uh then I was doing somebody else's job instead I wanted
to show I just always wanted to show you how much I was hurting you know build momentum build confidence and momentum with each good decision that you make from here on out you can do it anyone can do it we live in unique times we live in one of the rarest times in human history where you can choose almost all the input that comes your way whether it's the movies that you watch the books you read the podcasts you listen to you can choose to be inspired do that do that and be the hero of
your own movie the biggest mistake a person can do right now no matter in which situation you are is to give up you might not reach the best best version of yourself in this lifetime but a better one than you are right now the main point is to find something that you are not standing still where you are right now at least prepare yourself slowly step by step to get out of that hole right now with the idea that like I started thinking like every day I was like I hope I don't wake up you
know what I mean um and that was the that was that was the thing where I was like this is a big enough problem that like if you don't want to wake up then what have you got to lose exactly and that was it and it was like I have nothing to lose and that was when that was when I think in the last podcast we talked about this where it's like if everybody who's like at the bottom and feels like they have nothing going for them reframe that as I have nothing going for me
which also means that I have nothing to lose by taking action it makes you a much more dangerous person and I think that was the flip that I've had repeatedly shown to me in my life that allowed me to take the step that I was afraid to take let me tell you about a voice not this voice but the one inside the one that Whispers it tells me what's right and what's not when to leave and where to go it's not Shakespeare it does not speak in memorable lines my inner voice always gives it to
me straight tells me who my real friends are when to say yes when to say no whether the person sitting next to me is the one I'll be spending the rest of my life with or not sometimes that voice is Crystal Clear go stay right wrong sometimes it merely Whispers don't let it drown in a noisy world because in the end no man woman or algorithm knows what's right for you always trust your inner voice everybody has one few listen to it I think a lot of times the decisions that we make are predicated on
the on the conversations we need to have because usually like the and what's interesting is like you can Define commitment by eliminating Alternatives so if you are committed you've eliminated alternative actions right like you can say I'm committed but until you eliminate other options you're not committed there's always a get out of jail free and so a lot of people make decisions to end relationships to quit their job to start the new thing but they don't become committed to the decision until they remove the other options and then you're forced to take action on it
and so I think actually defining those two two different things now you could Define you know decision is to kill off like diader from Latin but from a from an from a collo thing I think there are two different instances it's like I need to change this and then I do change it and the making the decision is when it becomes a commitment you've done it all why do you still come to the gym you know 75 years old I mean you you you did the my universe but for the same reason you know we
talked about that for the same reason is why am I having breakfast today I had breakfast yesterday at breakfast 10 years ago why am I still having breakfast training is part of my life it's that simple nothing will ever change until I die I will be working out and I will be having a great time in the gym and I will be getting the pump and I I and I want to feel good you know and like I said it's tough enough as it is with when you get older but you have to hold on
as much as you can before I go I want to say one thing um one of my mottos is that you know anything is possible don't think limits on I and I feel that I've proven that throughout the years I never thought I would be this great that what I've done but I want to say to the young kids growing up just Live Your Dream Work Hard stay focused and just be strong and just keep on pushing and it will come true so thank you you know people give up right before they get what they've
always wanted to get people quit and they give up and I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted or what I needed or what I felt I was supposed to have you know like and if that wasn't for me it wasn't for me I'mma keep grinding I'mma keep knocking on the door until I get what I feel one of the most important things never ever quit never quit periods in my life that I've had internal growth which was this work work work work work no results but I'm a little
bit better work work work work work work work work work no results but I'm a little bit better work work work work work no results I'm a little bit better work boom just got paid I just got paid and it looks like overnight success only you can appreciate the genius that is you and everybody has a genius in themselves because at the end of the day you're not going to die with the feelings of these people you're going to die yourself right so you just have to love who you are and do what you want
to do whatever makes you happy Rock horn I was like so lost yeah and who brought you back me I think you're the only person who can bring you back everybody can surround you everybody can say hey man what's going on are you all right at the end of the day you just have to take that love that you're offered and say you know what it is it is life is pretty kickass that's why losing in life is so important whether it's getting dumped getting fired losing a game Lo loss those feelings where things didn't
work out your way that's important because it lets you know this is the bad feeling that comes when it goes wrong and you improve and then it makes the good feelings of Victory all the better and I mean that you know in a relative sense like even getting good at something forget about Victory like making a terrible book that gets rejected by every publisher and then writing a really good one and people accept it and you're like I got better yes like there that feel interesting yeah those feelings of failure are really critical for your
motivation yeah the uh conversation around people who try their best do as many things right as they could and yet still fall short because the world is random and unfortunate things happen happiness as far as I can see it sits in the gap between your expectations and reality but the problem here is that people who have high standards often end up feeling a lack right how can people who strive like this avoid feeling despondent at falling short of their own high standards I've heard you talk about the Statue of David saying something like you are
not all that you could be then you've created a dragon that you don't have the tools to master and so what you have to do is you have to scale the dragon down to size and you want to scale the dragon down to size until it's a size that you are willing to move toward however small that is now you know if you're here and your ideal is here and that Gap is unbearable then you reduce the Gap and you reduce the Gap and you're going to have to do that anyways because you're not going
to move from where you are to perfect in one Fell Swoop right there's going to be incremental steps so you have to fill in that that hierarchy of progression so what I do in that one second cuz we all think about quitting it's hard but what you have to do in that one second it's hard to process information during pain because that pain takes over and you can't think rationally you're thinking about fight ORF flight save yourself that's not a rational thought it's not a thought that's going to get you through hard times most people
fail that one second so what happens what I do in that one second it's and there's a bigger process to all this but in that one second I physically stayed in that water because if I get out of the water I quit it's an urge truth be told every Champion has felt it every president has felt it every King has felt it every lion has felt it every winner has felt it every Soldier has felt it every Victorious person has felt it the urge to qu don't you give up on your dream 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 because God is always coming he's never too late it was very hard and here's what I want to say to you for
those of you that have experienced some hardships don't give up on your dream no one could have convinced me by Holding On by continuing to push forward by continuing to run toward my dream that one day I would have my own talk show it's a long shot ladies and gentlemen from Liberty City in an abandoned building on a floor never knowing my mother a father it's a long shot being here with you today in this Dome in Atlanta it's a long shot no College training labeled educable mentally [ __ ] but I kept running toward
my dream I don't care if you don't have the money you don't have the help and you don't have the family for it and you don't have the background for it and you don't have the friends for it don't you give up on your dream don't you do it don't you do it don't you do it it may take you twice as long you may have to take courses and classes you might not read as fast you might not move as quick you might not have as much but don't you quit don't you quit don't
you quit you do make a difference you do make a difference you do make a difference as weak as you are as tired as you are as many mistakes as you made you do make a difference there is something they would lose if you were not there there was something that they would miss if you were not there you do make a difference you do make a difference you do to make a difference keep hopping and I will not be the person who quit before I got what I wanted or what I needed or what
I felt I was supposed to have you know like and if that wasn't for me it wasn't for me I'mma keep grinding I'm keep knocking on the door until I get what I feel that's been something I've always felt see so having the name Michael Jordan and understanding that there was another guy out there they Michael Jordan that was the best ever to do something and and and and for the people who are listening who you know who do have you know that doesn't feel like they can change their circumstances with the way they think
or they feel just hold on just endure endure you know when I was in the military we going these instructure Le runs most of the time we knew the start and end point so on the way back I start seeing people getting happy and because the end was near but there were some [ __ ] instructors that would hear the happiness and go right on past the end point when that happened everybody stopped talking heads sto dropping and I start taking Souls at that time I knew what happened in their minds they were living off
the Hope Factor they hoped the instructors would stop running they hoped the water was never cold they hoped the weather was good I don't live off that hope I wish the water was cold I wish the mother instructors keep on running I wish the rain when the end is unknown and the distance is unknown that's when you know who the you are stay hard everything that's in your imagination God going to make it come true for you you just got to believe that God make dreams come true he take poke kids with speech impediments and
put them all over TV he take drug dealers and turn them into doctors if God can do that for me explain to me how he can't do it for you you just got to believe man don't ever give up and keep believing cuz God is real don't you listen to nobody telling you God ain't real they done lost their ever loving mind lay hold of it you lay hold of it and when that thing tells you to quit you look at it in his eye and say I ain't going nowhere I will break you before
you break me you will not defeat me you will not destroy me some of you are so ignorant you've been through so much hell you going to quit now you should have quit 10 years ago when you got raped you should have quit 10 years ago when he walked out on you you should have been quit you don't quit now it's the 10th round you got two more to go and when you get to success it's not about skill when you get to a certain level success it's about stamina it's about stamina it's about you
won't break me you can't take me I fought too long I fought too hard if I was going to quit Satan you should have got me a 7 homes you should have broke me when I was eating out of trash can it's too late now it's too late you should have broke me a long time ago I'm unbreakable now your only chance at this point is you got to kill me mther King you got to kill me now and then when you you kill me MLK my legacy will live are you hearing what I'm telling
you you not hearing what I'm telling you y'all thinking it's about Talent it's not it's about taking the gift you got and and laying hold of it have you ever laid hold or something you created that thing this ain't no job that thing speaks about who you are as a person how you approach life this ain't no this ain't no gig this is the essence of who I am this is my spirit this is my character this ain't no job why you Trea it like a job it's your calling lay hold of it some of
you need to stop listening to motivational speaking and you need to become one you need to stop being inspired and you need to start inspiring I don't know who you are but you know you feed out you you watched enough videos no more video ain't going to do nothing for for you action is going to do something for you now
