i'm jordan belfort and this is sales school guys i want to talk about something that's really a core principle of mine or something just drives me crazy right it's people that make excuses or you just making excuses for yourself like mothers let me just tell you something right you know you know in your heart when you're being the absolute best that you can be and you also know when you're not doing that you also know when you're not working as hard as you can when you're really selling yourself short when you're quitting early you're not
putting in the preparation let me tell you i'm kidding nobody but yourself i'm dead serious you know it's time at a certain point in time you know what being an adult is on some level on many levels it's about not having to have someone looking over your shoulder to try to ensure that you actually protect your own life that you set yourself up for greatness that you make your life everything it should be those when you're younger your parents they're always saying you know oh please you know study hard and i want to help you
keep your options open for the future and make sure you you don't cut options off you know that's what being a child is about when you're a child you don't have the emotional wear with all the strength the muscle emotionally to do the smart thing for yourself so if you're lucky you have parents who watch out for you they look after you and they force you to do the right thing even when you don't want to and you might be pissed at them if you could resent them but the end of the day you'll thank
them because by doing that they set you up for greatness but now that you're an adult now that you're in the real world let me just tell you something that doesn't work anymore you have to be your own vigilante for success if you think that you're gonna be able to rely on someone else whispering in your ear other than me i'm the only person you got okay this is what i do all right that's gonna help you it's gonna guide you that but i gotta i gotta empower you by telling you the truth sometimes which
is meaning like dude it's up to you if you can't get yourself to face the facts that it's within your control that it's the moves that you make the decisions you make the abilities that you have right now to force yourself to essentially harness the power you have to focus on what you want to do where you want to go and to force yourself to put in the time the energy essentially put in the preparation that's necessary to achieve massive success if you can't get yourself through that then honestly you're going to be broke the
rest of your [ __ ] life you seriously you will there's nothing i can say there's nothing i can do to protect you from yourself if you have that mentality that like you know oh you know you know half measures are okay maybe you know because i'm not really in the mood today right i don't really feel like working that hard i'll still be no you won't be okay let me tell you something the people who get ahead in life the people who soar to success the people who really end up living a first-class life
you know what the difference between them is in other people they don't make excuses they don't put half of their effort into anything when they do something they go out at full tilt they put every last bit of themselves into it there are no like you know let me you know i'm tired today so like you know i i i i did i did my best but losers always whine about doing their best winners go home and [ __ ] the prom queen i heard that and by the way the movie the rock great line
right when is going to prom creep and here's the point okay bottom line is is that the loser's mentality is like um i really tried hard i did my best that is not enough your best is not enough it's really not i'll tell you what is enough what's enough is if at the end of the day you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and say you know what i wouldn't have done anything differently in terms of my work ethic the amount of energy i expended i did what i needed
to do i'm not saying you want to change certain actions you took that's a different story okay you're gonna execute it better but you don't look at your life on that for that day and say you know what oh god i really you know i was really kind of going at things half-heartedly i really was tired i was lackluster if you you have to cut that out if you want to live a first-class life let me just give you a reality check man you've got to start training yourself to be the best you can be
every single day and that means stop making excuses stop thinking it's okay to be your best fifty percent of the time it's not you gotta show up at the top of your game every single day because let me tell you the rest of the winners are they [ __ ] they they don't have their good days to have their bear they're gonna show up fully invested fully engaged fully into it every single day and they win their wins and losses right there days where they're more on or more off but their energy was into their
their emotion was into it they were there that's what i'm talking about here it's a decision you make and that's what it is it's a decision because this is not like um some sort of skill like i'm going to teach you how to give it your oil you can't teach someone to give it your own it's got to be a matter of pride it's your pride say for me i could not imagine being thought of as a human being that went through life and didn't give their all to everything they did i could not go
through i could not feel okay about that there's no strategy it's just about who are you what are you capable of stop thinking that it's okay to just go at things halfway or even 75 of the way i want 120 of the way seriously when you're going at life just go at it go at it with reckless abandon that doesn't mean not using the right strategies it doesn't mean being unethical i'm talking about going at things and just ra attacking each morning get to the habit of doing that and watch what happens to your life
it's like anything else it's like a muscle you build muscle with this stuff you get yourself into the habit of just going out and being a force of nature i'm a force of nature and you know what you every last one of you you're all forces of nature whether you know it or not you are you have the ability to turn that on at a moment's notice and be whatever you want to be to design whatever life you want anything less is just your story conditioning bad programming when you were growing up where your parents
conditioned you for mediocrity and averagism average sucks you know that how many times have i said to you that what stops people achieving really achieving in life is not that they set their goals too high and they miss them that's not what it is it's people set their two goals too low and they hit them the enemy of great is average because when you're average there's no pain and when there's no pain no discomfort people don't really change average sucks moose [ __ ] it's my thoughts for today and i know i'm right you know
why because i see it in my own life the way i live what i do do what i go through i make my mistakes uh my wins i have my losses my victories my successes my fears but let me tell you i go at in life and look how extraordinary my life has been you all be you'll be the same way you know don't get a movie made about you but you'll be a force you'll be someone that when you enter a room and you move through life there's freaking ripples don't let yourself settle for
anything less that's a gift you give yourself i love you all we'll talk again to our kick ass today right kick some serious ass you
