This is your year. This is your time. This is your moment.
What are you going to do with it? Are you going to capture it? Or are you going to let it slip away?
Eminem said it. If you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you've ever wanted, would you capture it? Or would you let it slip away?
And so I asked you the question, how bad do you want it? How bad do you want it? Do you want it as bad as you want to breathe?
Or do you just kinda want it? What's the single most important key to success above anything else? It's not talent, it's not skill, it's hunger.
The common backstory for the successful people is hunger. Intelligence is not it. There are people, less intelligence, less skill, less ability, perform at a higher level because they never lose their hunger.
How do you create your life? You get hungry for something, don't you? If you get enough hunger going in you for an answer, you'll find the answer.
If you get a hunger enough inside of you, that says, I got to take things to a next level, I got to achieve, I got to make a difference, I got to expand, you will find the answer. People's intelligence will expand if they got enough hunger. But if you got everything and you're not hungry, you're not going to have much.
Anybody can do anything and set their mind to, but it depends on how bad you want it. And if you want it as bad as you want to breathe, nobody can stop you. Personal power means the ability to take action.
To follow through. To take the steps that are necessary to take an idea and translate it into reality. And it's the number one tool that most people in life never exercise, and it's the gift that every one of us has right now and at any moment in our life.
You could start using your power. You could start following through. You could take this idea in your head and turn it into physical reality.
Whether the idea is how you want to make your relationship or the kind of money you want to make or a business you want to start, it doesn't matter. It is available right now. All you do is decide and then follow through.
See, Michael Jackson can move the way he does because every single day, the question he asks himself is, how can I make this better? Where focus goes, energy flows. What are you going to focus on?
'Cause whenever you focus on you feel and you move towards. It's your decisions that are controlling your destiny. So the first decision you make every moment is what are you going to focus on?
You want to change your life? Make a new choice. You want to change your income?
You can go to a million classes on making more money. Until you make a shift into what is a must for you, you won't. When you do, you'll find a way.
Concentration of power says this: if you focus on something every single day, and you ask yourself, how can I improve it? And you demand from yourself that somehow it has to get better, you will master that area of focus. I don't care what it is.
And if you don't have what you want, stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money, you don't have the time, that's bullsh*t. It's because you haven't committed yourself where you would burn your boats. If you want to take the f*cking island, burn your f*cking boats.
And you will take the island. 'Cause people, when they're going to either die or succeed, tend to succeed. The power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure, the hunger, the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up.
When you're hungry, you don't care about the facts. You don't care about the odds. This is a winner's quality.
You have that quality within you. The people that are running at their dreams are the people that are hungry. That know if it's going to happen, it's up to them.
They know they're going to have hard times. They keep on running. Because they're saying within themselves, I'm the one.
No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it. Commitment. It means taking a stand.
Taking a stand for you. Commit means to carry into action deliberately. Commit means to make it happen no matter what.
See, when you make a commitment, I'm going to become wealthy, when you make it important, when you decide, I'm gonna do it no matter what, life changes for you. See, most people don't keep their commitments to their commitments. That's why they lead lives of misery.
Lives of unhappiness. Whatever commitment that you make, keep your commitment to your commitment. No matter what.
If it's hard, then do it hard. We say, oh, it's too hard. It's too hard.
We don't challenge our spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing as powerful as the human spirit. You can't destroy it.
You can pervert it, but you can't destroy it. The universe responds to the man or woman that refuses to be denied. That business that you want, that book you want to write, that dream that you have of controlling your destiny, that is yours.
But you've got to be willing to stand there and face disappointment. Not have support. Be lonely.
Doubt yourself sometimes. Be rejected again and again and again. And refuse to turn around until life gives it up.
If you just decide, I'm gonna keep my word, if I say something, I'm going to do it regardless. Being more disciplined. More focused.
Don't look for any gains where there's been no sacrifice. Don't look for your game to improve. Don't look for the record to improve.
Without sacrifice, there are no gains. Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. Look, you gotta want it as bad as you wanna breathe.
And when you want it as bad as you want to breathe, says, I'm willing to make any sacrifice, I'm willing to go through any pain, I'm willing to go through any suffering, I'm willing to go through whatever it takes, so when I get in there, that I guarantee you, at the end of it, I won't be the one that surrenders. When you want something bad, you can't count the cost. Because if you count the cost, and you see how much it costs, you might quit, you might give up.
So you gotta go in knowing that I don't count the cost. I do as many push ups as it takes. As many reps as it takes.
I study as long as it takes. I'll pay whatever the price is, why? Because If I start counting the costs, I might quit, I might give up, I might surrender.
Don't count the costs. You just do whatever it takes to get whatever you want. And those times when you want to quit, you make sure you remember one thing.
All those times and hours and days you sacrificed to be the best. You will never regret making a sacrifice, ever.
