foreign [Music] for the greatest blessings of all times when challenges and issues come back to back to back to back and it seems like something is after me something is attacking me something is attacking my journey then you cannot stop it so what do you do are you going to get angry frustrated are you gonna lash out at people are you gonna start going down the spiral of negativity are you gonna let the horrible situation dictate the way you feel and the way you handle it are you gonna fall over fall down fall apart or
are you going to face this issue with courage and resolution I say step up be the one who people look to absorb the impact and the negativity no matter what is happening no matter how hard the fight is as long as you keep fighting you win only surrender is defeat only quitting is the end so fight on when you want to become a diamond your whole attitude change your whole mindset your thinking your relationship the decisions that you make how you spend your time your energy all of it changes see this is something that you
can't be in this business this business has to be in you for a diamond to be produced it has to go through extreme pressure stay encouraged keep your head up chest out continue to walk with pride and know that not only shall we overcome many of us have already overcome and if it was easy everybody would do it it's not gonna be easy but we have what it takes it's in our DNA don't look at night at Darkness look at Nike as a new beginning [Music] the single most determining Factor of the quality of your
life is predicated upon your mindset you're gonna be attacked betrayed exposed and humiliated life is going to break you and it's going to see how bad you really want it that's the moment when you are truly alone and what will you do then can you send in the will to fight on through all the pain and rise again you'll think this is it for you and other people will think you're done too they'll be telling you to give up but when you're down in that hole I want you to remember something the only person who
can save you is you if you spend 30 minutes thinking about the fact you can't do something I need you to spend an hour dreaming about the fact that you can who are you live your life and I think you already know the answer because your pain is your power you suffer so you can be much stronger everybody wants to be a beast everybody wants to be number one everybody wants to be the best everybody wants to succeed everybody wants to have to be and do what they feel they've been called to do the challenge
becomes that most of us when it's time to do what beasts do we don't do it we want to go to the other end of the spectrum you want to know some way somehow things are going to get better how I don't know and I don't have to know I just have to have faith and believe that everything's gonna be all right all I need to do is to know it to expect it and to keep on doing what I can where I am with what I've got right now it's one thing to talk about
your dreams but it's another thing to wake up when you know you're supposed to wake up to try again when you failed for the hundredth time to say no to quitting when your body is screaming that you stop decisions they are the path to your dream you have to learn to train your mind well beyond motivation if you have motivation that's great that's some kindling to the fire all it takes is a little bit of spark you can burn the whole four stuff but motivation you have to learn to exist without it you have to
be your best self and your least motivated and that's the tricky part about all that motivation is just a word you have to have these different things in your mind on where you want to go and know that motivation is not going to give you that I've never met a person who was not successful that didn't have a great amount of self-discipline within their life self-discipline and being able to perform and being able to keep your life on schedule and being able to keep commitments and promises and meet deadlines is essential to success because what
you're going to discover as you're going towards your dream as you're going towards your goal you're going to be so many people that come up against you so close so many miles so many tribulations like for real for real E I know you can give me 20 things that you've done to help yourself to become successful but E.T I just need like one or two can you give me one two and one of the things I tell people is I outlasted the pain I outlasted the pain when I was sleeping in those abandoned buildings I
kept telling myself one day you'll be a homeowner every time I walked into that abandoned building I told myself that this might be your current circumstances but this will not be how the story ends all you have to do each eat is to survive today start planning and preparing for what it is that you want because you expect to get it if you want to come out here and reach your goals and make your dreams come true you don't want to do it by dragging and doing it casually no you want to begin to put
out more energy and more effort than ever before you've got to become Unstoppable because there will be many things to turn you around you've got to think constantly on why you're doing it what are the rewards what's there for you across the goal lines what are the things that'll make it worth it for you everything you imagine is a preview to a Coming Attraction once you understand that and quit looking at your imagination as Hocus Pocus it opens up a wide range of things and possibilities and if you're bold enough if you're strong enough if
you can handle the pain you can make it happen you just can't quit in the middle of the journey when you've tried your best when you've given a hundred and twenty percent you should never feel bad you pick yourself up you look at it from another perspective you come up with another solution and you go at it again you're a problem solver you're not soft you're not weak you don't quit you don't surrender you fall seven times you get up eight you chase after that thing you believe you deserve until you get it and you
let nothing stand in your way you know you have the desire to achieve more and so what's it going to take for you to start rewriting the story in your life see the problem is you have bought into this false narrative that you are destined for failure because you come from a failed family you come from a divorce family you come from a family of Alcoholics a blue collar Blue Collar we're just supposed to be blue collar no you're not no you're not you can make as much money as you want you can have as
much Freedom as you want you can have as much opportunity as you want but you got to go out and get it because I can tell you right now every single one of you out there have exactly what you deserve you want your stuff it's necessary you take responsibility for it now you make it happen that you don't give up that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats personally that you keep on keeping on that you're all decide that I can't make it because you can't see the light at the end of the
tunnel that you realize that's a part of the program and here's something you've got to resolve say this to yourself every day see as long as you believe that you got a shot at your dream all that stuff works for the good do you understand that you needed everything that's happened to you to happen to you in the exact order that has happened in order for you to be the person that you are today [Music] the sun doesn't shine every day the storms will come there are times when the nights will be long and dark
and you will be alone there will be times when the darkness seems to consume everything but don't let it consume you even in the darkest times even in the strongest storms even when the sun is blotted out and the world is falling apart Darkness cannot extinguish your light you it's about a commitment to you that's what's wrong with a lot of you because you want somebody else to be more committed to you than you want to be to yourself and you got to get to the point where no other human wants it for you more
than you want it for you all you have to do to kill procrastination start just go and procrastination dies no one's coming to save you the only person that's going to make a drastic change in your life is you you have to do for you all great people start they start anywhere at any place and at any time they start whether they're hurting they start whether they're excited it does not matter where they are they just start you have control over your mind you just have to assert it weakness doesn't get a vote laziness does
get a vote sadness doesn't get a vote it is time to go for mediocre to meteoric time to decide clubs partying trying to fit in and socialize rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird why are you so anti-social because I'm trying to get it why are you staying on the basketball court so much because I'm trying to get it why are you out there practicing in the hot sun when ain't nobody else out there because I'm trying to get it why are you not clubbing like every time I text you and
invite you to go do something fun and cool you always study it because I'm trying to get it the more weird you are is a reflection of how committed you are to focusing on your sh molding and shaping and developing your ideas and your craft so that when it's time for you to make your rounds You're Gonna Fly when it just doesn't make any logical sense to go on that's when you use your emotion your anger your frustration to push you to say I don't stop when your feelings are screaming that you have had enough
override that emotion with concrete logic and willpower that says I I stopped you have to force yourself anything that's a break from your routine is going to require force and the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable get out of your head get out of your feelings your feelings are screwing you I don't care how you feel I care about what you want and if you listen to how you feel when it comes to what you want you will not get it because you will never feel like it so don't
wonder how you overcome procrastination it's easy all you do to overcome procrastination is go choose the hard path the path of responsibility hard work and sacrifice that ultimately leads to Freedom when you are misunderstood to the point where people think you're psycho and you're nuts you're this and that why are you in a [ __ ] gym at one o'clock in the morning was wrong but people don't understand you anymore you're in that spot of obsession and drive I don't care if it's nine o'clock at night do something productive towards what it is you're trying
to become because I can tell you right now the people who tell themselves I'm going to start Monday never [ __ ] start Monday be the best at what you do you have to be unbalanced to fight every bit of [ __ ] energy and strength that you have to pull it off and it takes being [ __ ] obsessed to where people think you're crazy [Music] there's nothing in your life that's worthwhile that's quick and easy everything worthwhile is uphill does it come to you you have to fight for it every day you have
to climb for it every day just start just do the work you just go and procrastination dies sometimes will hurt deep inside in time of adversity you don't have an obstacle to deal with you have a choice to make which sets up this problem for all of us you're never gonna feel like it it's your job to make yourself do the crap you don't want to do so you can be everything that you're supposed to be and you're so damn busy waiting to feel like it and you're never going to keep standing no matter how
rough the sea you keep standing no matter what you don't give up you keep standing you got to be bowling life ladies and gentlemen if you're not bold if you're not standing up inside yourself if you're not willing to call into being the highest and the strongest that's within you when you're facing life's challenges life will trample you motivation won't make you exercise every day discipline will motivation won't stay up late and finish a project for you discipline will motivation isn't going to get you out of bed in the morning discipline will while he was
golfing I was studying while they were shooting Hoops I will studying while they was playing games and sit up and eating and joking in the restaurant I will study it you are putting things off because in the short term it's easier it's more comfortable doing something else than it is to sit down and do the actual work to create the outputs that matter when they are needed you still got work to do stay on that basketball court stay on that football field goal a homies texting and calling and trying to make you feel bad about
being so focused it's grind season homie it's not about today it's about the future do the work now and all of this that you could ever want to do for your family your kids your loved ones it's all going to be on a whole another stratosphere for you to make your dream happen stop negotiating a Priceless negotiation you keep doing in your mind is this really where it's supposed to be this is what I'm supposed to be doing steals all your energy it steals your focus but those who get laser focused that know those babies
of yours your parents they're worth the sacrifice the only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill I will not be outworked I don't have that natural beauty or that natural Talent or this gift for creativity or intellect or humor I don't have any of those things but what I got is I will outwork you when it's 45 on the treadmill I do 46 when it's supposed to be 20 phone calls I make 21. when it's supposed to be an eight hour work day I
work nine you can suffer or you can choose to do whatever you need to do to liberate yourself whatever you need to do to reinvent yourself whatever you need to do to overcome whatever you are stuck in right now see when you discover the truth of this goodness this power that you have within you that truth will set you free from ever being a victim in life that truth will enable you to handle things with a level of equanimity that will surprise you term thinking says the donut tastes good eat it short-term thinking says one
workout doesn't matter I can skip it short-term thinking encourages you to make short-term emotional decisions that hurt you in the long run and they definitely don't move you toward your overall strategic goals the more short-term decisions you make decisions that are based on that immediate gratification decisions based on quick emotional satisfaction the further from the path you will stray everybody has a turn back moment everybody has a crossroad you can either decide to continue or to quit [Music] you have to make a choice either you're going to Resort back to your old place and remain
comfortable and miss the opportunity or you're gonna have to want it bad enough to get out of your comfort zone I don't care who's doing better than me because I'm doing better than I was last year it's me against me there are many people who have the limitations in their minds who have lost that fire in their eyes think about the things that you tell yourself the lies you use to rationalize taking the easy Road you don't have time you don't have support you don't have the equipment or the gear you're too busy and you're
too tired or you're too sore or you're just plain not feeling it lies lies lies there are some things that you're not going to give instantly you have to wear them down by continual pressure over and over and over again consistently consistently you got to be consistent consistency is having go and when you wake up that day and you don't feel like it you still do what you told yourself you was gonna do there's no easy way to the Top If you want to win in this life you got to do what you're supposed to
and a little bit more and you can't ever stop in the Finish Line you know what you got to do to hit a golf ball like me you got to get up at five o'clock in the morning you go down you hit a thousand golf balls you it's a mini golf balls that your hand starts bleeding then you run up to the clubhouse you wash that blood off and you go down you hit another thousand golf balls yeah you'd love to hit a golf ball like me if it was easy well nothing good comes easy
it's you you're going to determine the outcome of your life you're going to determine whether or not your life is exciting or whether or not exploring right then right now don't give in don't be like everybody else don't give up Don't Settle because things are hard you have to live your life with the expectation that great things are coming your way have to expect it you cannot let your impulses govern and Rule your life so if you had a place in your life and you ain't happy with it you have to change some things but
you have to make a conscient interest decision that you're going to change and it's not dependent on anybody else it don't matter what your mama think it don't matter what your children think it don't matter they have nothing to do with it this decision is yours and yours alone a lot of people never try anything differently because they have been convinced by people in their lives that they can't do it they're living within the context of the opinions that other people have of them the low expectations many people doubt themselves because when they thought about
doing something in some critical point in their life somebody they respected and honored someone they trusted said you can't do that and they accepted that people want to find peace immediately you're gonna find peace from going to war with yourself make a declaration to yourself declare all-out war that you're going to get out of this rut people's opinion of you is none of your business nor should you make it yours we are in control of our mind we believe it's the other way around no we put in our minds what we should do we have
to reprogram it and tell us no no we're good this sucks but it's okay you actually have a say-so in how your life goes you have a determining voice into where your life can go there are moments that try the human soul so violently and so perplexing that if the truth we're told all of us have had moments that we wanted to throw up our hands and walk away you don't have as many opportunities in life to take that Gamble and allow life to play you you must play Life now will it be turbulent yes
would it be easy no will you have some opposition yes will I make a lot of mistakes yes will I get hurt yes but guess what there's no gain without pain how do you stay in the race less when you lost your money lost your car had no place to stay sleeping in people houses on the floor on their couch how do you handle the times when you're borrowing money couldn't pay it back you felt humiliated when people you love who didn't believe in you tell you you ain't nothing how do you keep on coming
back again and again or you've lost your business or lost your job I lost your home and you've been completely devastated how do you come back people without goals dreams and aspirations and what they want to accomplish but you very rarely hear people say what they're willing to sacrifice in order to make it happen they'll tell you to go with the dream the aspiration they'll tell you they want to be elite they'll tell you they want to be great but they're not going to say I'm gonna stop going out on Friday night most people are
not living their dreams because of fear ladies and gentlemen fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases fear kills dreams bear kills hope there put people in the hospital Fear Can Aid you there ladies and gentlemen can hold you back from doing something that you know within yourself that you're capable of doing but it will paralyze you and I ask you a question what is the benefit what's the benefit of allowing fear to hold you back what's the benefit of giving up on yourself I'm not stepping out on life and taking life
on what is the benefit for you what's the Plus in that you got to ask yourself how long am I going to allow this to hold me back it's not what they say about you that matters it is what you say about you that threatens your destiny you will never be defeated by what they say about you you will be defeated by what you say about you what would your life be like if you decided not to care what people thought of you what would your life be like if you decided to give up some
of your fears what would your life be like if you decided to become courageous if you do the work consistently if you invest in yourself consistently one plus one is always going to equal two two plus two is going to equal four and ten years a [ __ ] work is gonna pay off you can do this you've got to remind yourself I know I got what it takes to do this and it's necessary that you go at it with everything in you fully deep down within challenging yourself I'm better I'm better than it was
when I went down it was good for me that I've been Afflicted I'm better for it I didn't like it but I'm better for it I couldn't see down there but I'm better for it see I was planted in a dark place but I'm better for every time you go through something dark and you can't see your way out remember you've been planted not been buried I'm not buried in this mess I'm planted in it I'm planted in it and if I'm planting in it expect me to come back up again imagine you're on your
deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you never acted on and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset they say we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and now we have to go to the Grave together so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes regret the things I could have done differently or learned sooner there's so much knowledge out there so much information so many ways
to get better and we make so many mistakes we are the product of our mistakes and oftentimes the lesson is sitting in front of our face there to be learned but we miss it oh we don't pay attention to it or we think we know better until it punches Us in the face why is it that most people don't ever reach their goals or live up to their true potential one is fear and there are only two kinds of fears that we're born with the fear falling and the fear of a loud sound all other
fears we learn like the fear of failure we all fail it's okay what is not okay is that when you fail you stay down whoever stays down is a loser and winners will fail and get up fail and get up fail and get up you always get up that is a winner there are some things in life that are out of your control that you can't change and you're going to live with the choice that we have though is either to give up or keep on going 95 of our decisions are made by how you
feel in the moment and that is the problem do you feel like getting up no do you feel like making that cold call no you don't do you feel like doing that third set of reps no you don't we make decisions based on our feelings and that is robbing you of joy and opportunity fight go down swinging and I'll tell you if you fight with all you have more often than not you won't go down at all you will win but you have to make that attitude a part of your everyday life do the extra
repetition run the extra mile go the extra round make the right choices give the full measure the one thing I know about emotions is that they change one hour from right now you will not feel the same way and I want to encourage you tonight that you might be in your darkest moment you might be going through hell and high water but I know this it is always too soon to quit you have a reason to live your best days are in front of you get up your future is brighter than your past get up
your ladder is greater than your former get up because the best is still yet to come to become a warrior we must betray the victim in us now you can either make excuses or make history choose one I'm gonna be real with you you underperforming that's right you're underperforming you're way better than this and you know it you inside you are better than this it is time to show the world you know you are meant for more than this it's like a discipline this lack of commitment there's failure to make the decision to go all
in is put in your future your destiny in Jeopardy cause real lions like the heart they love the process just as much as they love the prize and some of y'all just want to score you're not in love with the process and there's some of you you know what you want but you are not personally willing to do the work it takes to get it what you're trying to do is do what you've done on this level and get the next level stop running from it and run to it stop telling me what you're going
through the greats that get to it they go through it put yourself in a position where you can't Retreat where it's Do or Die sake or smell so as we look in the future we can decide that from this day forward I'm going to do all I can do to develop me [Music] every day you say no to your dreams you might be pushing your dreams back a whole six months a whole year that one single day that one day you didn't get up could have pushed your stuff back I don't know how I lost
about winning it's the battle itself but it's ruggle it's the daily test that's what life's about Everyone likes that warm bed everyone needs just five more minutes of Slumber in the morning so they hit snooze they roll over they go back to sleep are those 15 minutes that sweet that you're gonna push back your dream that you're gonna push back your goal foreign
