when you are struggling
and when you encounter obstacles because
I guarantee you you will and you start
thinking about giving up. I want you to
remember something that has carried us
through every moment every moment of our
lives and that is the power of hope. The
belief that something better
is always possible if you're willing to
work for it and fight for it.
There's this gap between cynicism and
hope. I believe both are a choice. Like
hope is a choice. And for me, it was the
hardest choice cuz I was I was the guy
who was cynical when I graduated
college. I was 23, 40 grand in consumer
debt. And I was angry at the world. I
was like, I followed this path. I got
good grades. I got the degree. Where's
my wonderful life? Cynicism becomes the
easier choice. So, I think it starts
with do not be cynical because life is
so much better and richer when you
choose hope. Even though it's the hard
thing to do, it's the stupid cheesy
thing to do. You're drinking your own
poison. When you just walk around
cynical towards the world, hope is a
choice. Cynicism is a choice. I hope you
choose hope
because when you're stuck and when you
are on a downward spiral, whether it's
just in your own head or it's in
self-destructive behavior, the thing
that's missing in your life is hope.
What matters is do we have that vision
of hope? Do we see a possible future for
us to step into that will make our lives
better? You know, what's going on in the
material world is not the point. It's a
side effect. For you to have any vision
of hope in the future, you need to
decide that something is more valuable
than what you have today.
If I have learned anything in my time
traveling the world, it is the power of
hope. The power of one person, a
Washington, a Lincoln, King, Mandela.
One person can change the world
by giving people hope.
When you give up hope, you stop
dreaming, my friend. If you stop
believing, don't you ever lose hope.
Don't you ever give up your mindset.
It ain't going to be easy. Most of the
time, you're going to feel like there's
no way out. That you can't do it. But
listen to me when I say there is always
hope. You got to stare all that in the
face and say, "You can't beat me. I'm
too strong." If you don't have belief,
if you don't have hope, if you don't
have faith, you ain't got nothing. You
hear what I'm telling you?
Love and hope and optimism is hard. Fear
and negativity and cynicism is easy and lazy.
lazy.
You see, you don't have to accept
everything that has been handed to you.
You can create the lifestyle you want.
You can create the business you want,
the friendships you want. It's all up to
you. So, there is no need for you to
feel hopeless. You got to get out of despair.
despair.
And it's not the end until you've given
up. And just the fact that you're here
should persuade you that you have
another chance to get back up.
There's still hope.
What if I told you this was the last
Monday morning of your life? What if I
told you you die this week? Would you
complain about your job or that test you
don't want to take? I doubt it. I just
don't get the mentality of being head
down sad on a Monday morning. Take a
step back. recognize that you can attack
the world in a totally different way and
think about how awesome it actually is.
I heard somebody tell me they not a
morning person. What kind of foolishness
is that? You're not a what? What does
that mean exactly? You're not a morning
person. If I got to get up early in the
morning and get the money, I'm I'm a
morning person.
What matters is just being present for
the thing. If you're doing something
that you want to do and you're fully
there for it, that's the only thing that
matters. What's happening in front of
you is literally has all the meaning in
the world. Make the best of it.
We can be the happiest and the most
grateful we've ever been while we are
going through the most difficult,
painful, scary time in our lives. You're
going, "This sucks, you know, but I'm
going to make the best of it."
How do you start your day? Now, for
real, I really want you to think about
that. How do you start your day? Because
here's what I believe. I believe that if
you start your day right, you can end
your day right. Once you leave your
beautiful house, the war starts. So in
the morning time, what I'm doing is I'm
building my armor. It gets broken every
night. I build the armor cuz now I know
there's going to be some disappointments
along the way every day.
That's life. If you wake up in the
morning and you're breathing and you're
standing in front of that mirror and you
have survived the stuff you have
survived and you are still waking up and
trying to do better, that's a win.
What's your morning routine like?
Because your journey to greatness all
starts with the first decision you make
in the daylight.
If I get up early, if I have time to
myself to have a little routine, I've
almost got this like resilient bubble
around me. For me, redefining what is a
perfect day and living as many of those
days in a row as I possibly can. To me,
that's winning.
The greatest gift you have as a human is
choice. You control whether you get up
and drive forward or not. Do you wake up
in the morning and love your life? Take
the time to enjoy taking deep breaths
and looking at sunrises and seeing the
beauty of life all around you and go,
"Oh, life can be really beautiful. It
can be really good." Who feels good? Yeah,
Yeah, [Music]
for me personally, there's no there's no
lack of urgency when I wake up in the
morning to think, "Oh, don't worry. I
got all the time in the world." Because
I know I don't, and I'm lucky to be
here, and I'm going to try and live in a
way that will at least do justice for my
friends that aren't here. But I think
about that every day.
All that fear that's in your head, all
the whatifs and the scenarios that you
create inside your own mind that are way
worse than anything that is actually
going to happen, they all disappear when
you go. So just take action and start
moving forward. That is the moment that
can last a million years is waiting to
go. And I found I'm pretty good at it
now where oh I'm like, oh yeah, I know
what that is. this feeling of caution
and fear and all that stuff in the back
of my head. Yeah, I just need to get rid
of all that and just go.
It seems to go away when I move toward it.
it.
Yeah, it does go away. The more you sit
there and think about it, the worse it's
going to get in your own head.
The single greatest skill that you can
develop is being in a great mood in the
absence of things to be in a great mood
about. Most people don't question
someone who's in a bad mood. Like, I'm
just in a bad mood. So it's like, well,
if you can be in a bad mood for no
reason, it's like you might as well be
in a good mood for no reason, cuz that
one at least serves you.
On one degree, there's like, let's count
things to be grateful for. On the other
side, why do I have to have things to be
grateful for in order to be in a good
mood? Why is trying to find things a
requirement of being in that mood? Can I
not find things and still choose to be
in a good mood? Because I've certainly
not had things to be in a bad mood about
and been in a bad mood.
What if I can just be in a good mood?
And so I've just tried to break that
relationship between the two because
then it makes it contingent on something
that I can find.
How successful have you been at that? Mediocre.
Mediocre. [Music]
[Music]
But what's funny about it all
is that we don't take a second to realize
realize
the purpose is always there. The purpose
never leaves us cuz the very purpose is
you. You are always the purpose. There
may be another purpose like being a seal
or going to college or whatever but the
main purpose in life is you. So if you
wake up in the morning and you don't
want to do something,
you don't care enough about yourself
and that's what you need to really
research is man why am I not doing this
for myself? Because that is that is the
number one purpose in life is to better oneself.
oneself.
So the reason I get up every day even
though there's no race or there's no
school or there's nothing in front of me
is because I have pride in myself. Well,
where do you go to? You wake up on a
morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark,
you've got these problems.
I need you to keep talking about what
you were just saying.
It's warm on the couch. Your MS says
stay in bed. It's comfy. It's cozy.
You've got work later on. You had an
argument last night. You're slightly
hung over.
That fires me up. I know only I can fix
these problems cuz I have to face these
problems. That brings joy to my life
right there because I know there's so
many people that have the ability and
just refuse to get off that couch,
refuse to study a few more hours, refuse
to go deeper, to go further. And that's
where I gain the advantage. It's so easy
to be great nowadays, my friend, cuz
most people are weak. Most people don't
want to go to that extra mile. Most
people don't want to find that extra cuz
it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely
and that used to hurt me. Now after I've
been there,
that's the only place to be. So that's
the only purpose I need.
For me, it's it's it's going to
accomplish something, to have some sort
of purpose. I've got to I'm still
working on getting better on vacations.
I'm much knows that I'm much easier to
get along with on vacation if I get a
couple hours to write in the morning and
get a workout in. I wish I could go two
weeks with going, "Hey, man, whatever."
But I get I get antsy. I get edgy. I'm
not present because I need a little I
need a little time to go break a sweat
mentally, physically.
And then I can be then, man, the rest of
the day I'm great.
You have to do things to take care of
yourself today, but you also have to
take into account the well-being of your
future self. Find a passion or an
orientation that takes care of you
today, that satiates your today, but
that also doesn't alienate the people
that you love that are around you.
Perhaps the answer to your problems
today is to work abroad.
Figure out a situation where you can
work remotely. Develop a routine where
in the mornings you work out, you drink
coffee, and you do your work for 4 or 5
hours. And then every afternoon you
commit to doing a different hike or to
doing a different kind of hobby. So,
you're kind of ticking all those boxes
of satiating your need for novelty and
adventure and enthralment while being
responsible and meeting the criteria of
taking care of your future self and
taking care of yourself.
At the end of every day, you look
yourself in the mirror and you ask
yourself, did I get better today? If the
answer is yes, and you do that for 5
years, 10 years, 15 years,
how much better are you going to be? Are
you getting better every single day?
That's the question, right? And it's
just taking small steps. You don't try
to get it all done in one day, in one
week, or one year, right? It's the
process of getting better every day. And
you know, the idea is a very simple one,
trying to be the best version of yourself.
yourself.
If you make your bed every morning, you
will have accomplished the first task of
the day. It will give you a small sense
of pride and it will encourage you to do
another task and another and another and
by the end of the day that one task
completed will have turned into many
tasks completed. Making your bed will
also reinforce the fact that the little
things in life matter. If you can't do
the little things right, you'll never be
able to do the big things right. And if
by chance you have a miserable day, you
will come home to a bed that is made
that you made.
And a made bed gives you encouragement
that tomorrow will be better. So if you
want to change the world, start off by
We are very unique creatures on this
planet. We live on three different
planes, don't we? Only we have self-awareness.
self-awareness.
We have this sense of purpose and we
live on three planes. The physical plane
like this is a vehicle. This, you know,
your body is a vessel, a vehicle. And
and so we live on that physical plane,
but we're also energy. We're radiance,
we're a soul, we're a spirit, we're energy.
energy.
And then somewhere beyond between those
two, there's the thoughts, feelings, and
emotions that you have. So you're living
on life on three planes. And as you get
older, assuming you're doing the work,
cuz wisdom is not just age, wisdom is
experience, your soul, your
consciousness gets wiser, as your body
begins to deteriorate. And this is why
you hear old folks always saying, "If I
could just go back, like what do they
say? Age is wasted on the youth." That
term exists because if I just knew what
I know now, then oh my gosh, what I
could have done in my 20s, they say,
right? I have greater self-control,
greater self-mastery,
more in line with what my God-given
source purpose is. And there I still
have thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
And I have to master those so that I
could keep driving towards my God-given
purpose. And so the inner voice is
constantly fighting with those three
factors. The reasons our negative selft
talk exist is just that's your
conscience. Your conscience has no other
way of getting your attention other than
making you feel bad, making you feel
shame, guilt, anxiety, depression.
That's how your conscious knocks on your
door and says, "Dude, you're living in
congruently with how you believe you
should be living.
And that's why I'm giving you negative
thoughts, negative voices in your head.
Just literally flip the switch and
tomorrow live congruently to the man you
want to be."
I'm inspired by practicality and reality
and the truth which is it is
ridiculously impossible to become a
human being. I am one. I have other good
things going for me as a human being and
I'm just grateful.
You're dwelling and looking at what you
don't have versus looking at what you
have. I'm trying to get people to
practice reframing their perspective. If
I wake up in the morning and nobody I
love passed away or came down with a
terminal illness, then my day starts off
great. There's nothing you'll ever
accomplish that's more remarkable than
that you have a chance to accomplish
something. Anything you could think of,
if you could actually think of it, it
means you can do it.
So if it so if it pops up in your brain,
it means that you have the ability to do
it. Why? Because the brain would never
think of something that it could not do.
See, let me share something with you.
The easiest thing I've ever done
was to earn a million dollars.
The most difficult thing I've ever done
was to believe it could happen to me.
That was the most difficult part to believe.
What does it mean to be resilient? To be
resilient means that you are able to
withstand or recover quickly from
difficult conditions.
The role of just that dogged
determination to keep going. And that's
not a thing of being brilliant. It's
just trying to keep going. Often sliding
another step back, but keep moving
forward. And that's a great thing
because it's not something only some
people can have. You know, it's
universal for us all. We can all become.
People think it's a God-given gift to
someone be resilient. Resilience is that
muscle. You build it by failing, trying
to stay positive and and trying to get
back your feet and going again. As my
wife is saying, if anybody knows how to
get back up when they get knocked down
is you. So my wife looks to me to see
what what we going to do. And I looked
at her and smiled. And I said, we'll get
through this one like we've gotten
through every other storm. We're resilient.
resilient.
And I can't tell you exactly what we're
going to do today, but I'm going to tell
you this. We're going to get through
this. And a year from now, we'll laugh
at this. 2 years from now, we'll talk
about this like it was a distant memory.
Listen to me very closely. Life's going
to hit you in your mouth, and you got to
do me a huge favor. You got to tell
life, I don't know who you've been
dealing with, but you ain't dealt with
me. But you come up against the wrong
one this time. You know, in the
beginning, you're like, I feel bad. And
then you think that that should weigh on
the decision of whether you do the thing
that you're supposed to do. And then you
start realizing that you can do the
thing even though you don't feel good
about it. And so I think the ultimate
version of the resilience that you were
referencing earlier is when you don't
even consider how you feel. It's just
not a thought.
You just do it.
Then it's almost irrelevant and I can
just keep living my life. Resilience.
See what you become in the process is
more important than the dream. The kind
of person you become, the character that
you build, the courage that you develop,
the faith that you're manifesting. You
get up in the morning, you look yourself
in the mirror, you're a different kind
of person. You walk with a different
kind of spirit. You knew it was hard,
but you did it hard. You got to get
yourself up. I'm going to need you to
stand up. I'm going to need you to rise
up. Why? Because if you get up, you're
going to win. I know you're tired. I
know it hurts, but keep getting up. And
you got to be able to bounce back. You
got to be resilient. Sometimes you're
going to face obstacles, and you got to
have the ability to get back up and
brush it off. You acting like you ain't
never failed in the first place. Are you
hearing me?
Dig down deep and find that warrior that
lives inside of us all. Use that warrior
to get back up. You have the power to
fall down nine times and get back up 10.
You have the power to lose the lead and
still come back and win.
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