0:05 when you are struggling
0:08 and when you encounter obstacles because
0:11 I guarantee you you will and you start
0:14 thinking about giving up. I want you to
0:17 remember something that has carried us
0:20 through every moment every moment of our
0:25 lives and that is the power of hope. The
0:29 belief that something better
0:31 is always possible if you're willing to
0:36 work for it and fight for it.
0:39 There's this gap between cynicism and
0:41 hope. I believe both are a choice. Like
0:44 hope is a choice. And for me, it was the
0:46 hardest choice cuz I was I was the guy
0:48 who was cynical when I graduated
0:50 college. I was 23, 40 grand in consumer
0:52 debt. And I was angry at the world. I
0:54 was like, I followed this path. I got
0:56 good grades. I got the degree. Where's
0:59 my wonderful life? Cynicism becomes the
1:01 easier choice. So, I think it starts
1:04 with do not be cynical because life is
1:06 so much better and richer when you
1:07 choose hope. Even though it's the hard
1:09 thing to do, it's the stupid cheesy
1:11 thing to do. You're drinking your own
1:12 poison. When you just walk around
1:14 cynical towards the world, hope is a
1:16 choice. Cynicism is a choice. I hope you
1:17 choose hope
1:19 because when you're stuck and when you
1:22 are on a downward spiral, whether it's
1:23 just in your own head or it's in
1:25 self-destructive behavior, the thing
1:28 that's missing in your life is hope.
1:31 What matters is do we have that vision
1:34 of hope? Do we see a possible future for
1:36 us to step into that will make our lives
1:38 better? You know, what's going on in the
1:41 material world is not the point. It's a
1:43 side effect. For you to have any vision
1:45 of hope in the future, you need to
1:46 decide that something is more valuable
1:49 than what you have today.
1:52 If I have learned anything in my time
1:55 traveling the world, it is the power of
1:58 hope. The power of one person, a
2:01 Washington, a Lincoln, King, Mandela.
2:04 One person can change the world
2:07 by giving people hope.
2:09 When you give up hope, you stop
2:11 dreaming, my friend. If you stop
2:14 believing, don't you ever lose hope.
2:16 Don't you ever give up your mindset.
2:18 It ain't going to be easy. Most of the
2:20 time, you're going to feel like there's
2:23 no way out. That you can't do it. But
2:25 listen to me when I say there is always
2:27 hope. You got to stare all that in the
2:30 face and say, "You can't beat me. I'm
2:32 too strong." If you don't have belief,
2:34 if you don't have hope, if you don't
2:36 have faith, you ain't got nothing. You
2:37 hear what I'm telling you?
2:40 Love and hope and optimism is hard. Fear
2:43 and negativity and cynicism is easy and lazy.
2:44 lazy.
2:46 You see, you don't have to accept
2:49 everything that has been handed to you.
2:52 You can create the lifestyle you want.
2:53 You can create the business you want,
2:56 the friendships you want. It's all up to
2:58 you. So, there is no need for you to
3:00 feel hopeless. You got to get out of despair.
3:01 despair.
3:04 And it's not the end until you've given
3:07 up. And just the fact that you're here
3:09 should persuade you that you have
3:13 another chance to get back up.
3:15 There's still hope.
3:17 What if I told you this was the last
3:19 Monday morning of your life? What if I
3:21 told you you die this week? Would you
3:24 complain about your job or that test you
3:27 don't want to take? I doubt it. I just
3:29 don't get the mentality of being head
3:32 down sad on a Monday morning. Take a
3:34 step back. recognize that you can attack
3:36 the world in a totally different way and
3:40 think about how awesome it actually is.
3:41 I heard somebody tell me they not a
3:43 morning person. What kind of foolishness
3:46 is that? You're not a what? What does
3:48 that mean exactly? You're not a morning
3:51 person. If I got to get up early in the
3:52 morning and get the money, I'm I'm a
3:54 morning person.
3:56 What matters is just being present for
3:58 the thing. If you're doing something
3:59 that you want to do and you're fully
4:01 there for it, that's the only thing that
4:02 matters. What's happening in front of
4:04 you is literally has all the meaning in
4:06 the world. Make the best of it.
4:08 We can be the happiest and the most
4:12 grateful we've ever been while we are
4:14 going through the most difficult,
4:16 painful, scary time in our lives. You're
4:18 going, "This sucks, you know, but I'm
4:20 going to make the best of it."
4:22 How do you start your day? Now, for
4:24 real, I really want you to think about
4:26 that. How do you start your day? Because
4:29 here's what I believe. I believe that if
4:32 you start your day right, you can end
4:34 your day right. Once you leave your
4:37 beautiful house, the war starts. So in
4:39 the morning time, what I'm doing is I'm
4:42 building my armor. It gets broken every
4:44 night. I build the armor cuz now I know
4:45 there's going to be some disappointments
4:47 along the way every day.
4:50 That's life. If you wake up in the
4:51 morning and you're breathing and you're
4:53 standing in front of that mirror and you
4:55 have survived the stuff you have
4:57 survived and you are still waking up and
5:00 trying to do better, that's a win.
5:03 What's your morning routine like?
5:05 Because your journey to greatness all
5:07 starts with the first decision you make
5:09 in the daylight.
5:11 If I get up early, if I have time to
5:13 myself to have a little routine, I've
5:15 almost got this like resilient bubble
5:18 around me. For me, redefining what is a
5:20 perfect day and living as many of those
5:22 days in a row as I possibly can. To me,
5:23 that's winning.
5:25 The greatest gift you have as a human is
5:28 choice. You control whether you get up
5:30 and drive forward or not. Do you wake up
5:33 in the morning and love your life? Take
5:35 the time to enjoy taking deep breaths
5:38 and looking at sunrises and seeing the
5:39 beauty of life all around you and go,
5:41 "Oh, life can be really beautiful. It
5:46 can be really good." Who feels good? Yeah,
5:47 Yeah, [Music]
5:57 for me personally, there's no there's no
5:59 lack of urgency when I wake up in the
6:00 morning to think, "Oh, don't worry. I
6:02 got all the time in the world." Because
6:06 I know I don't, and I'm lucky to be
6:08 here, and I'm going to try and live in a
6:11 way that will at least do justice for my
6:13 friends that aren't here. But I think
6:15 about that every day.
6:18 All that fear that's in your head, all
6:20 the whatifs and the scenarios that you
6:23 create inside your own mind that are way
6:24 worse than anything that is actually
6:27 going to happen, they all disappear when
6:30 you go. So just take action and start
6:32 moving forward. That is the moment that
6:36 can last a million years is waiting to
6:38 go. And I found I'm pretty good at it
6:40 now where oh I'm like, oh yeah, I know
6:43 what that is. this feeling of caution
6:44 and fear and all that stuff in the back
6:46 of my head. Yeah, I just need to get rid
6:47 of all that and just go.
6:50 It seems to go away when I move toward it.
6:50 it.
6:53 Yeah, it does go away. The more you sit
6:54 there and think about it, the worse it's
6:56 going to get in your own head.
6:58 The single greatest skill that you can
7:00 develop is being in a great mood in the
7:02 absence of things to be in a great mood
7:04 about. Most people don't question
7:06 someone who's in a bad mood. Like, I'm
7:07 just in a bad mood. So it's like, well,
7:09 if you can be in a bad mood for no
7:10 reason, it's like you might as well be
7:12 in a good mood for no reason, cuz that
7:14 one at least serves you.
7:17 On one degree, there's like, let's count
7:19 things to be grateful for. On the other
7:22 side, why do I have to have things to be
7:24 grateful for in order to be in a good
7:27 mood? Why is trying to find things a
7:30 requirement of being in that mood? Can I
7:31 not find things and still choose to be
7:33 in a good mood? Because I've certainly
7:34 not had things to be in a bad mood about
7:37 and been in a bad mood.
7:39 What if I can just be in a good mood?
7:41 And so I've just tried to break that
7:43 relationship between the two because
7:44 then it makes it contingent on something
7:47 that I can find.
7:48 How successful have you been at that? Mediocre.
7:51 Mediocre. [Music]
7:58 [Music]
8:00 But what's funny about it all
8:02 is that we don't take a second to realize
8:05 realize
8:08 the purpose is always there. The purpose
8:11 never leaves us cuz the very purpose is
8:14 you. You are always the purpose. There
8:17 may be another purpose like being a seal
8:19 or going to college or whatever but the
8:22 main purpose in life is you. So if you
8:24 wake up in the morning and you don't
8:26 want to do something,
8:29 you don't care enough about yourself
8:31 and that's what you need to really
8:34 research is man why am I not doing this
8:37 for myself? Because that is that is the
8:40 number one purpose in life is to better oneself.
8:42 oneself.
8:44 So the reason I get up every day even
8:45 though there's no race or there's no
8:47 school or there's nothing in front of me
8:51 is because I have pride in myself. Well,
8:52 where do you go to? You wake up on a
8:55 morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark,
8:57 you've got these problems.
8:58 I need you to keep talking about what
9:00 you were just saying.
9:02 It's warm on the couch. Your MS says
9:05 stay in bed. It's comfy. It's cozy.
9:06 You've got work later on. You had an
9:08 argument last night. You're slightly
9:09 hung over.
9:13 That fires me up. I know only I can fix
9:15 these problems cuz I have to face these
9:18 problems. That brings joy to my life
9:20 right there because I know there's so
9:23 many people that have the ability and
9:27 just refuse to get off that couch,
9:29 refuse to study a few more hours, refuse
9:33 to go deeper, to go further. And that's
9:36 where I gain the advantage. It's so easy
9:38 to be great nowadays, my friend, cuz
9:40 most people are weak. Most people don't
9:42 want to go to that extra mile. Most
9:43 people don't want to find that extra cuz
9:47 it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely
9:50 and that used to hurt me. Now after I've
9:52 been there,
9:56 that's the only place to be. So that's
9:58 the only purpose I need.
10:00 For me, it's it's it's going to
10:02 accomplish something, to have some sort
10:03 of purpose. I've got to I'm still
10:06 working on getting better on vacations.
10:08 I'm much knows that I'm much easier to
10:10 get along with on vacation if I get a
10:11 couple hours to write in the morning and
10:14 get a workout in. I wish I could go two
10:16 weeks with going, "Hey, man, whatever."
10:18 But I get I get antsy. I get edgy. I'm
10:21 not present because I need a little I
10:23 need a little time to go break a sweat
10:26 mentally, physically.
10:27 And then I can be then, man, the rest of
10:30 the day I'm great.
10:32 You have to do things to take care of
10:34 yourself today, but you also have to
10:36 take into account the well-being of your
10:39 future self. Find a passion or an
10:41 orientation that takes care of you
10:44 today, that satiates your today, but
10:46 that also doesn't alienate the people
10:48 that you love that are around you.
10:50 Perhaps the answer to your problems
10:54 today is to work abroad.
10:56 Figure out a situation where you can
10:58 work remotely. Develop a routine where
11:00 in the mornings you work out, you drink
11:02 coffee, and you do your work for 4 or 5
11:03 hours. And then every afternoon you
11:06 commit to doing a different hike or to
11:08 doing a different kind of hobby. So,
11:11 you're kind of ticking all those boxes
11:13 of satiating your need for novelty and
11:15 adventure and enthralment while being
11:17 responsible and meeting the criteria of
11:18 taking care of your future self and
11:20 taking care of yourself.
11:22 At the end of every day, you look
11:23 yourself in the mirror and you ask
11:26 yourself, did I get better today? If the
11:29 answer is yes, and you do that for 5
11:32 years, 10 years, 15 years,
11:35 how much better are you going to be? Are
11:37 you getting better every single day?
11:38 That's the question, right? And it's
11:41 just taking small steps. You don't try
11:45 to get it all done in one day, in one
11:48 week, or one year, right? It's the
11:49 process of getting better every day. And
11:52 you know, the idea is a very simple one,
11:54 trying to be the best version of yourself.
11:56 yourself.
11:58 If you make your bed every morning, you
12:00 will have accomplished the first task of
12:03 the day. It will give you a small sense
12:05 of pride and it will encourage you to do
12:09 another task and another and another and
12:10 by the end of the day that one task
12:12 completed will have turned into many
12:15 tasks completed. Making your bed will
12:17 also reinforce the fact that the little
12:19 things in life matter. If you can't do
12:22 the little things right, you'll never be
12:24 able to do the big things right. And if
12:27 by chance you have a miserable day, you
12:30 will come home to a bed that is made
12:32 that you made.
12:35 And a made bed gives you encouragement
12:38 that tomorrow will be better. So if you
12:40 want to change the world, start off by
12:47 We are very unique creatures on this
12:48 planet. We live on three different
12:50 planes, don't we? Only we have self-awareness.
12:52 self-awareness.
12:54 We have this sense of purpose and we
12:56 live on three planes. The physical plane
12:58 like this is a vehicle. This, you know,
12:59 your body is a vessel, a vehicle. And
13:01 and so we live on that physical plane,
13:03 but we're also energy. We're radiance,
13:05 we're a soul, we're a spirit, we're energy.
13:06 energy.
13:08 And then somewhere beyond between those
13:10 two, there's the thoughts, feelings, and
13:12 emotions that you have. So you're living
13:14 on life on three planes. And as you get
13:15 older, assuming you're doing the work,
13:18 cuz wisdom is not just age, wisdom is
13:20 experience, your soul, your
13:22 consciousness gets wiser, as your body
13:24 begins to deteriorate. And this is why
13:26 you hear old folks always saying, "If I
13:27 could just go back, like what do they
13:30 say? Age is wasted on the youth." That
13:33 term exists because if I just knew what
13:34 I know now, then oh my gosh, what I
13:36 could have done in my 20s, they say,
13:38 right? I have greater self-control,
13:40 greater self-mastery,
13:42 more in line with what my God-given
13:45 source purpose is. And there I still
13:46 have thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
13:48 And I have to master those so that I
13:50 could keep driving towards my God-given
13:54 purpose. And so the inner voice is
13:55 constantly fighting with those three
13:58 factors. The reasons our negative selft
14:00 talk exist is just that's your
14:02 conscience. Your conscience has no other
14:05 way of getting your attention other than
14:06 making you feel bad, making you feel
14:09 shame, guilt, anxiety, depression.
14:11 That's how your conscious knocks on your
14:12 door and says, "Dude, you're living in
14:14 congruently with how you believe you
14:16 should be living.
14:18 And that's why I'm giving you negative
14:20 thoughts, negative voices in your head.
14:23 Just literally flip the switch and
14:25 tomorrow live congruently to the man you
14:27 want to be."
14:30 I'm inspired by practicality and reality
14:33 and the truth which is it is
14:35 ridiculously impossible to become a
14:39 human being. I am one. I have other good
14:41 things going for me as a human being and
14:43 I'm just grateful.
14:45 You're dwelling and looking at what you
14:47 don't have versus looking at what you
14:48 have. I'm trying to get people to
14:51 practice reframing their perspective. If
14:53 I wake up in the morning and nobody I
14:55 love passed away or came down with a
14:57 terminal illness, then my day starts off
15:00 great. There's nothing you'll ever
15:01 accomplish that's more remarkable than
15:03 that you have a chance to accomplish
15:06 something. Anything you could think of,
15:08 if you could actually think of it, it
15:10 means you can do it.
15:14 So if it so if it pops up in your brain,
15:16 it means that you have the ability to do
15:18 it. Why? Because the brain would never
15:21 think of something that it could not do.
15:22 See, let me share something with you.
15:25 The easiest thing I've ever done
15:29 was to earn a million dollars.
15:31 The most difficult thing I've ever done
15:36 was to believe it could happen to me.
15:39 That was the most difficult part to believe.
15:47 What does it mean to be resilient? To be
15:49 resilient means that you are able to
15:53 withstand or recover quickly from
15:56 difficult conditions.
15:58 The role of just that dogged
15:59 determination to keep going. And that's
16:02 not a thing of being brilliant. It's
16:04 just trying to keep going. Often sliding
16:05 another step back, but keep moving
16:07 forward. And that's a great thing
16:09 because it's not something only some
16:11 people can have. You know, it's
16:13 universal for us all. We can all become.
16:15 People think it's a God-given gift to
16:18 someone be resilient. Resilience is that
16:20 muscle. You build it by failing, trying
16:22 to stay positive and and trying to get
16:24 back your feet and going again. As my
16:25 wife is saying, if anybody knows how to
16:27 get back up when they get knocked down
16:30 is you. So my wife looks to me to see
16:32 what what we going to do. And I looked
16:35 at her and smiled. And I said, we'll get
16:36 through this one like we've gotten
16:38 through every other storm. We're resilient.
16:39 resilient.
16:41 And I can't tell you exactly what we're
16:42 going to do today, but I'm going to tell
16:42 you this. We're going to get through
16:45 this. And a year from now, we'll laugh
16:47 at this. 2 years from now, we'll talk
16:48 about this like it was a distant memory.
16:50 Listen to me very closely. Life's going
16:51 to hit you in your mouth, and you got to
16:53 do me a huge favor. You got to tell
16:54 life, I don't know who you've been
16:55 dealing with, but you ain't dealt with
16:56 me. But you come up against the wrong
16:58 one this time. You know, in the
16:59 beginning, you're like, I feel bad. And
17:00 then you think that that should weigh on
17:02 the decision of whether you do the thing
17:03 that you're supposed to do. And then you
17:05 start realizing that you can do the
17:06 thing even though you don't feel good
17:08 about it. And so I think the ultimate
17:09 version of the resilience that you were
17:10 referencing earlier is when you don't
17:12 even consider how you feel. It's just
17:14 not a thought.
17:16 You just do it.
17:19 Then it's almost irrelevant and I can
17:23 just keep living my life. Resilience.
17:25 See what you become in the process is
17:27 more important than the dream. The kind
17:29 of person you become, the character that
17:32 you build, the courage that you develop,
17:34 the faith that you're manifesting. You
17:35 get up in the morning, you look yourself
17:36 in the mirror, you're a different kind
17:38 of person. You walk with a different
17:41 kind of spirit. You knew it was hard,
17:43 but you did it hard. You got to get
17:45 yourself up. I'm going to need you to
17:47 stand up. I'm going to need you to rise
17:49 up. Why? Because if you get up, you're
17:52 going to win. I know you're tired. I
17:54 know it hurts, but keep getting up. And
17:56 you got to be able to bounce back. You
17:58 got to be resilient. Sometimes you're
18:00 going to face obstacles, and you got to
18:02 have the ability to get back up and
18:04 brush it off. You acting like you ain't
18:05 never failed in the first place. Are you
18:06 hearing me?
18:09 Dig down deep and find that warrior that
18:13 lives inside of us all. Use that warrior
18:15 to get back up. You have the power to
18:18 fall down nine times and get back up 10.
18:21 You have the power to lose the lead and
18:24 still come back and win.
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