This content is a motivational speech emphasizing the power of the human spirit, resilience, and unwavering determination in the face of adversity. It asserts that true success is not about avoiding failure, but about the persistent effort to overcome it and the internal strength to keep moving forward.
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When you want to give up,
[music] when it doesn't look like things
are going to work out and things are
working against you and you run into
difficulties [music] and you've done
everything you can, you run out of money
and run out of friends and you can't
borrow and anything that can go wrong,
it will and at the worst possible moment
and everything else. How do you handle
that? What can keep you in the game
where you can retreat and maintain a
sense of integrity even when your dream
seems so far away and you can't reach
it? What you can do to keep yourself
strong? Keep your head clear. Operate
with a strong sense of integrity. Here's
what you know deep in your heart. If
anybody has done it, you know it's
possible that you can do it. You've got
the [music] brains. You've got the
stamina. You've got the vitality. You've
got the interest. You've got your life
ahead of you. You got the future. But if
anybody can do it, you can do it. If one
of us can do it, hey, we all can do it.
There is nothing you can't accomplish.
>> Have you ever heard people say, "Look,
you have done everything I can do. I'm
only human." And when they say, "I'm
only human," they're saying it from the
perspective that I'm limited. You can
only do so much. No, no, NO. MOST PEOPLE
GIVE UP on themselves easily. You know,
the human spirit is powerful. There's
nothing as powerful AS THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
YOU CAN'T DESTROY. You can pervert it,
BUT YOU CAN'T DESTROY. THE POSSIBILITIES
FOR YOU ARE UNLIMITED. IF YOU'RE IN A
rebuilding process, if you're coming
back FROM ADVERSITY AND DEVASTATION,
IT'S UNLIMITED OF what you can do. See,
a dog can't be anything but a dog. Tree
can't be anything but a tree. Human
being, you got unlimited potential. YOU
CAN PUT EFFORT on you. AND BY
CONCENTRATING on you and developing you,
you can transform your life wherever you
are right now. And at some point or
another, we're all going to get knocked
down. The people who lose, they stay
down. [music]
And they look for something to blame,
giving themselves a reason why they
stop. But the winners, they accept it.
They take responsibility for it. They
learn from it. They grow from it. And
they find a way to get back [music] up.
I will never quit. I will persevere and
I will thrive on adversity. I hold
myself to that standard. I will be
physically harder and mentally stronger
than anything that comes against me, my
family, my business, my brothers, my
sisters, my team. I will be the one that
is physically harder and mentally
stronger and I will work to maintain
that position. And what that looks like,
it looks likeing hell. [music] It looks
like hard work. It looks like suffering.
It looks like a dedication that people
don't understand. And it is that. But at
the end of all that [ __ ] my friend, the
bigger the struggle, the bigger the
peace. Regardless of how bad today was.
[music] When you feel like quitting,
which you will, do not quit right now.
That's emotion. Quit tomorrow. If you
can keep quitting tomorrow, you can do anything.
anything. >> [music]
>> [music]
>> You've been in it for 3 years and you
watch to quit. You've been DOING IT FOR
5 YEARS AND IT DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU
THINK. PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT YOU CRAZY.
YOU PUT ALL YOUR MONEY IN IT. You put
all your time in it. Hold on. YOU PUT
TOO MUCH IN IT TO QUIT NOW. YOU CLOSE.
YOU ABOUT TO DROP OUT. YOU GONE TOO FAR
NOW. HOLD ON. YOU AIN'T QUIT NOW. HOLD
ON. BUT THIS IS MY SIXTH TIME TAKING IT.
YOU GOING TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH. HOLD
ON. BUT YOU BETTER GET SOMETHING FROM
ALL THAT HELL YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH. YOU
CLOSE, FOOL. DON'T GIVE UP NOW. YOU
CLOSE, my brother. alone. Don't allow
that inner doubt in you to talk you out
of it. You ignore that inner voice.
DON'T JUDGE THE POSSIBILITIES for what
you can do based upon the circumstances
because the circumstances won't
determine who you are. It is you and you
alone that determines who you become.
You must work on yourself [music]
continuously. You want to read books
that inspire you and motivate you over
and over and over again. And as you
continue to work on yourself, you will
begin to expand your vision of yourself.
Keep moving forwards. You got to keep
moving forwards. I just need you to keep
moving. I need you TO MAKE UP IN YOUR
mind that the only way you can lose is
if you quit. AND I JUST NEED YOU TO keep
going. And so you going to have to learn
to wrestle [music] with it. You going to
have to learn to fight with it. You
going to have to put in a little bit
more sweat, a little bit more blood, a
little bit more tears. If you tell that
thing, I'm here just like you here. AND
I PROMISE YOU, I ain't leaving without
the degree. I will not leave without
that goal. I will not leave without that
dream. I will not leave this university
until I'm successful. You got to fight
with that thing until that thing, you
will quit before I quit. You don't give
up before I give up. We going to do this
thing all night long, but I'm telling
you that I'm not going to let you go
until you bless me. decide that when
things become challenging, and they are,
that you're not going to personalize it,
that you're going to look at it, and you
do whatever you must do in order to work
things out and learn from it. You will
always be faced with a series of god-
ordained opportunities, [music]
brilliantly disguised as problems and
challenges. If you've lost your job,
don't say that I've been laid off. Just
say, "I've been given an opportunity by
the universe to find my life work." Now,
you become an active force in your life.
Now you are the one rather than running
from things as they begin to change, you
become a change driver because you know
that you've got the power within you to
make [music] the difference. This energy
that you have, that's more powerful than
You don't know who you really are
You don't know what you can take [music]
until the pressure is applied to your life.
life.
You don't know how much courage you have
until you've been under fire
and under struggle
and under tribulation.
These are the ups, the downs, successes,
failures. This is the totality and the
process of life. And you can't escape
[music] it. Cuz sometimes we don't
understand like what is this thing? What
is my purpose? Why am I here? Why do I
have to go through this pain? Why can't
I just be peaceful all the time? Then
there wouldn't be life. Success is not
measured on the days when the sun
shines. Success is measured on the dark,
stormy, cloudy days. And if you can't
absorb failure, you're never [music]
going to meet success. There's going to
be bad days. There's going to be dark
days. But you got to embrace it [music]
because that pain is what makes you
stronger. You live life long enough,
you're going to have some extreme
stress. But what you do with that stress
is what your life is about. Anybody can
do well when things are going their way.
What do you do when everything is
unjust? What do you do when your own
control of things is taken from you? You
have to get to that place where you let
go of what is and you got to create a
new. When you're going through hell,
what do you do? You keep going. [music]
You put one foot in front of the other.
Don't allow your mistakes to bury you. I
want you to expect good things to
happen. Even when something bad happens,
you have to live your life with the expectation
expectation
that great things are coming your way.
There ain't nothing you can do about
what's going to happen to you. You can't
stop life from happening. You can do
something about it. I am the creator of
my life. I am not the manager of my
circumstances anymore. There is
something I can still do. When I think
there's nothing can be done, that's when
I know something can be done. Life is
10% what happened to you is 90% what you
do about it. You've got to stop tripping
every time something happened to you
like it's the end of the world. It ain't
your track record for surviving bad days
is 100%. YOU SURVIVED ALL the trouble
you EVER BEEN IN. I DON'T CARE WHAT'S
going on around you because it's NOT
WHAT HAPPENS AROUND YOU THAT DETERMINES
YOUR SUCCESS. IT'S WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE
YOU. Your belief, your faith, your
drive, your determination, your
persistence, your perseverance, your
spirit. Greater is he that is in you and
what's out here in this world.
This is not THE TIME TO WORRY.
THIS IS THE TIME TO BE A WARRIOR. THIS
MIGHT BE YOUR CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT
THIS WILL NOT BE HOW THE STORY ENDS. ALL
YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO SURVIVE TODAY. GIVE
IT ONE MORE DAY. GIVE ME ONE MORE
CHANCE. GIVE ME ONE MORE OPPORTUNITY.
TODAY MIGHT NOT BE THE DAY, but soon it
will be my day. AND I WILL RECYCLE MY
PAIN. BUT THAT DAY CAN'T COME IF I GIVE
UP TODAY. YOU WILL fail if you give up.
I can guarantee you that. I can
guarantee you will be a failure if you
quit. And I don't know what's going to
happen if you keep going, but just keep
going just to see what's on the other
side. AND WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS TO YOU,
DON'T EXPERIENCE IT AS A FAILURE, AS A
DEFEAT. LOOK AT IT AND FIND OUT WHAT IS
IT THAT I DIDN'T KNOW. WHAT IS IT THAT I
CAN LEARN from this experience so I can
come back again? Persistence, [music]
patience, perseverance. When something
doesn't work, there's always another
solution. There's a way that you can
begin to handle this. There's a way out
here somewhere there's a solution. Where
there's a will, there's a way for me to
begin TO CREATE A WAY OUT of now way. If
you're creative enough, can you find the
answer? Yes or no? If you're determined
enough, can you find the breakthrough?
Yes or no? If there's no way that you're
committed, can you find the money even
if you don't have it? Yes or no?
Creativity, decisiveness, passion, these
are the ultimate human resources. And
when you engage these resource, you can
get any other resource on earth. What
reason can you remember that you can
call on that you can reach on THAT CAN
MAKE YOU GET BACK UP. FIND THAT REASON.
I CAN MAKE IT. YES, I CAN. DOESN'T
MATTER HOW MANY FAILURES I'VE MADE.
DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY MISTAKES I'VE
ENDURED. DOESN'T MATTER ABOUT MY
DEFEATS. DOESN'T MATTER ABOUT WHAT I'VE
DONE. I'VE GOT TO DO THIS. I'm the one
that's GOING TO TURN THIS AROUND. These
roadblocks, THESE OBSTACLES, THIS
OPPOSITION WON'T stop me from doing what
I want to do. IT CAN TEMPORARILY [ __ ]
ME, BUT IT WON'T stop me. IT WILL NOT
determine my reality. Oh, you're being
unrealistic. YOU'RE DREAMING. YES, I AM
DREAMING. A lot of people, stop
dreaming. Don't you stop dreaming. You
got greatness in you. Don't you
underestimate yourself. Don't you give
more power to what you've gone through
and let it define you. It really doesn't
matter what has happened to us in the
past. No, that doesn't have to be your
reality. YOU WANT THINGS TO GO GOOD FOR
YOU FROM NOW ON. YOU can make that
happen. YOU GOT THE POWER TO DO THAT.
YOU CAN CHANGE THINGS [music] for you.
The power to succeed or fail is yours.
And no one can take that away from you.
And you are the determining factor. [music]
You aren't given any breaks in life.
you make them for yourself. We are all
being tested in life and how you face
that test determines the rest of your
life. And there's a lot of times where I
don't know how I'm going to move
forward, but I ask myself one question.
Can you take another step and that
answer is always yes. Those
circumstances will make using stronger.
And those [ __ ] demons are coming at
you and they're attacking you. If you
feel you can't handle them, you have to
invent someone that can. We all have the
ability to transform ourselves to bring
more out. Regardless of what's in front
of you, you still must grind. I fail at
most things I do, but still I grind. I
don't want to do half the [ __ ] I do, but
still I grind. And that one day you see
me on a dark alley run at 1:00 in the
morning. know one thing. I was lying.
>> It happens in [music] solitude where I
try and I try and I try again with
everything [music]
I have to be the best that I can
possibly be. Better than I was
yesterday. Better [music] than people
thought I could be. Better than I
thought I could be. Because I will not
stop. I want what all other men want.
But when the pressure hits, when the
opposition hits, when the challenge
hits, when the pain creeps in, when the
uncertainty creeps in, when the cuts,
when the [music] scars, when the bruises
come, I just wanted a little bit more
than they wanted. And if you ain't got
more heart than me, if you ain't been
working harder than me, if you ain't
sacrificed more than [music] me, I'mma
destroy you. And I'm not retreating. I'm
not running. I don't care what they say
on paper. [music] I don't care if you
say we outnumbered. We live by this and
we die by this. We don't run. We don't
retreat. YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORKED TO
GET HERE? AND YOU THINK I'M ABOUT TO GET
THIS UP? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? I PUT
IN TOO MANY HOURS. I SWEAT TOO MUCH
BLOOD, TOO MUCH TEARS. I WORKED HARD TO
GET HERE. DIDN'T NOBODY GIVE ME THIS. I
DIDN'T GROW UP WITH WEALTH. DIDN'T
NOBODY PAY ME. I WORK FOR THIS. SWEAT,
BLOOD, TEARS. I EARN EVERY dime I get. I
work FOR THIS. I PUT IN TIME. YOU GOT TO
LEARN HOW NOT TO GIVE UP OR HOW NOT TO
GIVE IN. YOU GOT TO TRY. YOU GOT TO DO
WHATEVER YOU DO. YOU CANNOT GIVE UP. YOU
CANNOT GIVE IN. You're the only person
that can stop you. So, stop talking
[music] like a victim. Stop thinking
like a victim. Stop acting like a
victim. And walk into your destiny. Walk
into it. Once you start questioning
yourself, you're already lost. Even if
you don't believe, believe. I got to
believe in me before anybody else
believe in me. If you're going to be
SUCCESSFUL IN THIS GAME, YOU GOT TO HAVE
A DOG WITHIN YOU. YOU GOT TO KNOW IT'S A
DOG FIGHT. And you got to go GET THAT
FIGHT. LIFE AIN'T GOING TO BE EASY.
AIN'T NOBODY going to hand YOU NOTHING.
AND SO BY BEING COMMITTED TO EVERYTHING
that I started, I finished it. IT BUILT
A CERTAIN TYPE OF SPIRIT. IT BUILT A
CERTAIN type of mentality. AND SO NOW I
COULDN'T QUIT EVEN IF I WANTED TO. I
COULDN'T STOP EVEN IF I WANTED TO. I HAD
TOO MUCH SWEAT EQUITY IN MY LIFE AND
EVERYTHING THAT I WAS DOING. When you
have a madeup mind, you don't care ABOUT
[music] THE FACTS. YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT
THE odds because you are creating your
own production. You are the star of your
show. You are the director. You're
writing the script and you will
determine whether your life is a smash
office hit or flop. You determine that.
Working on yourself, talking to
yourself. That's so very important. You
have got to make a decision in your
life. You have got to make a decision
about your fitness. You have got to make
decisions about your business. You have
got to make decisions about your
marriage. You have got to make decisions
about your kids. Because you know what
your only other option is? To crouch in
stagnant fear like a coward AND
POTENTIALLY DIE AND POTENTIALLY put the
lives of everyone who depends on you in
jeopardy. And the reason that Chad
Wright is sitting here right now talking
to you is because Chad Wright mustered
whatever strength that he had left to
claw his way back onto his freaking feet
and pony up. that no matter how many
times I [music] was knocked down, that I
would muster enough strength to get back
How you handle rejection
determines whether you will be successful
successful
in life. Do you know what rejection does
to self-esteem? Do you understand how
personal this is? I'm talking about what
happens in your stomach. I'm talking
about the taste of bowel in your mouth
that comes out of your liver because
it's not just that the door is closed.
The closing of the door says you ain't
no man. You ain't no man. You ain't
nothing. And this is a crisis. And it
brings up every negative thing that has
ever been said about you in your whole life.
life.
>> You're thinking about quitting. You're
thinking [music] about giving up. You
are caving in. Don't give up. Stay in
it. Stay focused.
>> Maybe you need to rename your storm.
Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it's hard. But
somehow [music] healing's coming out of this.
this.
>> You get to make a choice. Is failure
going to break you or is failure going
to make you? You get to decide. Failure
doesn't. It's not in falling that makes
us failures. It's in not getting up that
makes us failures. And you get to decide
if you get up or you don't get up.
>> We're going to take stepbacks. We're
going to take some some [music] defeats
from time to time in our lives. And when
that happens, what that actually does,
what that actually should do is make
[music] your vision clear, make your
mission clear.
>> It's easy to have faith and feel good
when you're feeling good and you have no
pain and your bills are [music] paid.
It's easy to be motivated then, but when
that's not the situation, it's hard. But
it's worth fighting. It's worth
mustering yourself up, standing up
inside yourself. It's worth being
uptempo. It's [music] worth fighting
relentlessly, never giving up.
>> There's going to be things that go on
that are out of your control. The worst
thing you can do is let something that's
out of your control you. Get control of
yourself. Get control of your emotions.
Don't get angry. Don't get frustrated. [music]
[music]
Instead, stay calm and figure out how to
move forward. Most of you are not under
covenant. Covenant means look, me and
you, if the company go down, we go down
with it. We do not retreat. WE DO NOT
GIVE UP. WE DO NOT SURRENDER. When you
come to an engagement and you speak as
if you're making the most you've ever
made when you're not. When you get up at
6 when you DON'T HAVE TO COVEN IT. You
[music] got to stand up inside yourself
SOMETIMES AND SAY, "SHUT UP. I'M IN
CONTROL HERE. You've got to do this." I
WAS GOING TO GIVE A PRESENTATION and
this voice inside of me saying, "You
can't do this. You don't have EVERYTHING
IT TAKES." I SHUT UP. I HAVE GOT TO DO
IT. 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. THIS IS A
winner's quality. You have that quality
within you. IT'S THE MINDSET. AND IF YOU
CHANGE YOUR MINDSET, MINDSET IS
IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE CANNOT SOLVE OUR
PROBLEMS WITH THE SAME THINKING WE use
to CREATE THEM. YOU BETTER CHANGE THE
WAY YOU THINK. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS
CHANGE YOUR THINKING AND YOU CHANGE YOUR
WORLD. YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING
ELSE. THERE ARE THOSE OF YOU IN THIS
ROOM, YOU DON'T NEED ANOTHER BOOK. THERE
ARE THOSE OF YOU IN THIS ROOM, YOU NEED
ANOTHER COURSE. AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU
NOT TO TAKE ONE. YOU DON'T NEED TO DO
ANYTHING ELSE. YOU ARE ENOUGH AS YOU
ARE. YOU JUST DON'T BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
AND THE WAY YOU SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN
YOURSELF AND IT COMES OUT WHEN YOU
TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE. THEY SENSE THAT
you don't believe it. And people feel
weakness. They feel it. YOU CAN FEEL
WHEN SOMEBODY'S NOT COMMITTED, when
they're not dedicated. And there's
another level you get to when you go all
in. No one believed in me. I believed in
myself. belief came for me was going
through those hell weeks, taping those
legs up, getting up early in the morning
by myself, no coach, motivating myself
[music] every single day. I'm forming
belief. So when those hard times come, I
know exactly how to get through them.
The harder the battle, the sweeter the
victory. It's good for you. WHY? SEE,
WHEN IT'S HARD AND THERE'S a struggle,
what you become in the process is more
important than the grief. That's far
more important. the kind of person you
become, the character that you build,
the courage that you develop, the faith
that you're manifesting. Oh, it's
something that 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
When you decide to make a change,
[music] you're going to be going and
things LOOKING GREAT. YOU'RE EXCITED.
YOU'RE GOING TO TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT IT.
AND then after a while, you're going to
hit a wall. AND THAT WALL SHOCKED some
people. THAT WALL KNOCKED THE LIFE OUT
OF SOME PEOPLE. That wall discouraged
some people. It's one thing to believe
when you got money in your pocket. It's
one thing to believe when your marriage
is working out and you got your health.
It's easy to believe then. Oh, BUT WHEN
YOU GET THAT DIAGNOSIS, SAY YOU AIN'T
GOING TO BE HERE LONG. When you lose
your job,
WHEN SOMEONE YOU THOUGHT YOU'LL BE WITH
for the rest of your life say, "No, we
can't do this no more." It's hard to
keep your spirits together. Oh, in those
moments in the middle of the night when
when doubts start keeping in your mind
and you wonder whether or not you have
what it takes and sometimes you wonder
if you're going crazy, trapped by
economic necessity, things you wanted to
do and the clock is still ticking AND
AND YOU DON'T KNOW IF THE clock is going
to run out before you can live up to
your dream. sometimes feeling lonely and
crying and feel like your back is
pressed up against the wall. You got to believe
believe
the first step for me was seeing
something I was not before I was. Before
anything can take place, you've got to
believe in your heart of hearts that
it's possible that you can be this.
You've got to mobilize your mind and
your spirit. It's necessary that I do
this. This kind of person refuses to be
denied. This person doesn't care [music]
about the pain BECAUSE THIS PERSON KNOWS
SOMETHING. THERE'S NO GAIN without pain.
This person comes back anyhow again and
again and again. And if you keep on
hitting that wall, here's what happens
to you that you will have an incredible
breakthrough. You get a breakthrough
WHEN YOU FIGHT. THE BREAKTHROUGH IS THE
HARDEST PART. The breakthrough, that
last 10% is all mental toughness. Skill
can't get you past certain things.
Quickness, agility can't get you got to
have mental toughness. Do not allow this
to break you. But may [music] this be
your breakthrough. I don't care how hard
you fall, fall on your back. Cuz if you
can fall on your back, you can look up.
BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING TIMES WITH TEARS
FALLING DOWN YOUR face and you'll look
back on the times AND YOU WILL CHERISH
THOSE TIMES. How many of you had some
situations that you were in that you're
overwhelmed with fear? YOU DIDN'T KNOW
HOW YOU GOING TO COME OUT, HOW YOU GOING
TO SURVIVE AND YOU DID. YOU SURVIVED AND
YOU DIDN'T DIE. SO, WHAT YOU GOT TO DO,
WHATEVER THAT WAS, whatever that state
of consciousness, WHATEVER THAT
SELF-CONFIDENCE that you had, however
you stood up within yourself, here's
what we know. YOU SURVIVED. HERE'S WHAT
WE KNOW. YOU'RE still here. You didn't
die. You did not die. [music] You got
it. And you handled that fear. You
kicked it out of there. And so, as you
begin to look at the fears in back of
you, you came through those fears and
you're still here. See, [music] that's a
testament about how powerful you are.
Now, listen to me. I don't care if you
sick. I don't care what you're going
through. IF YOU NOT DEAD, YOU STILL IN
THE GAME. AS LONG AS YOU ALIVE, you can
still make it happen. As long as YOU
WAKING UP, AS LONG AS THAT breath in
your nostrils move, you still in the
game. YOU STILL CAN WIN. NOW, get your
butt off. Oh, stuff's going to happen to
you, [music] but you're still here.
You're going to have setbacks. You're
going to lose money. People are going to
betray you. Things are going to happen
that you won't see coming. But each
morning [music]
that you wake up, you got a chance to
work on it. You got another shot. You
got some more time that you've been
given to begin to straighten things up
in your life. Every day you should be
[music] excited cuz you're a
billionaire. You're a trillionaire cuz
you got life. Stay on your [music]
course. You got your gifts. You've got
your talents. Stay focused ON WHAT
YOU'RE DOING. FOCUS your energy. Listen
to [music] your guts. And as you start
just trying to find your way, doing what
you can with what you have, you will
start [music] seeing things opening up
for you. You'll start attracting people.
Things will start coming together,
clicking for you. [music] YOU START
BRAINSTORMING. IDEAS WILL COME out of
nowhere as you focus on it. The key to
it [music] is to begin to focus on what
it is you want to do. Why is that
important? Because that which we focus
on, that which we give our energy to, it
will begin to multiply. It will begin to
expand. It will begin to develop your
consciousness. [music]
And out of that comes your greatness.
Out of that comes a commitment. Out of
that comes a passion for life. Out of
that comes a special power that you have
in you that you haven't even called on
yet. You've [music] got some stuff in
you that you don't even know right now.
There are things that you feel that you
know in your [music] heart of hearts
that's not logical. It's not practical.
It's not realistic. But there's
something in you that says, [music] "I
can do this." Even if no one else sees
it for me, I must see it for myself.
Hold a vision of being whole and
healthy. Hold a vision of being
financially independent. Hold a vision
of your relationships WORKING OUT. HOLD
A VISION of things getting better
[music] for you. And holding that vision
will give you power. It will empower
you. It will strengthen you. It will
give you perseverance. It will give you
patience. It will give you faith to hold
your ground. We have that kind of power,
that kind of genius, that kind of
[music] fortune, that kind of wealth,
that kind of happiness, that kind of
sense of fulfillment in our hands. We
have that. We can decide, hey, wait.
[music] This is the only life that I
have and I'm going to take the leap of
faith. I'm going to jump in it and I'm
going to handle it because I know the
universe will never give me anything I
don't have the capacity [music] to
handle. Trust yourself. Take the leap of
faith and believe and don't doubt and
know within yourself in everything in
you that everything is going to be all right.
If I can take it, I can make it. If you
can take it, you can make it. If you can
just keep believing when nothing in you
is working, when all your external
forces have given way, if you can just
manage to somehow keep hoping,
you have a chance.
You just can't become hopeless. [music]
If you can just keep hope alive, you can
make it. Because if you keep hoping, it
is really faith.
You just got to transpose it into I hope
this happened to I believe this can happen.
happen.
>> Life is like a grindstone. It can polish
you or it can pulverize you depending on
how you position yourself. There's one
side of pain that's the suffering and
the discomfort side of pain. But then
there's another side of pain that's
called effort. It's called glory. It's
called if you can find a way to push
through pain, there's something greater
on the other side of it.
Every time you find yourself saying that
you can't do something, putting yourself
down, being negative about you and the
possibilities for you, you've got to
literally catch yourself. And you've got
to affirm to yourself, hey, hey, no, no,
no. I can make it. There's some way this
can happen for me. You've got to say
yes. Yes to my dreams. Yes to me. YES, I
CAN. DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY FAILURES
I'VE MADE. DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY
MISTAKES I'VE ENDURED. DOESN'T MATTER
ABOUT WHAT I'VE DONE. I can make it. I'M
PUTTING IT OUT HERE. I'M NOT GOING TO
REST UNTIL I HAVE IT. IT'S NECESSARY.
I'M GOING TO DO IT. How do you stand the
race less WHEN YOU LOST YOUR MONEY, LOST
YOUR CAR, HAD NO PLACE TO STAY, SLEEPING
AT PEOPLE HOUSES, ON THEIR FLOOR, ON
THEIR COUCH? HOW DO YOU HANDLE THE TIMES
WHEN YOU'RE BORROWING MONEY AND COULDN'T
PAY IT BACK? YOU FELT HUMILIATED. WHEN
PEOPLE YOU LOVE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN
YOU TOLD YOU YOU AIN'T NOTHING? HOW DO
YOU KEEP ON COMING BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN?
WELL, YOU'VE LOST YOUR BUSINESS OR LOST
YOUR JOB OR LOST YOUR HOME AND YOU'VE
BEEN COMPLETELY DEVASTATED. HOW DO YOU
COME BACK?
>> OH, let me tell you something. It's
possible. The greatest achievement is
Marty comes right after their worst
defeat. [music] When they've hit rock
bottom, hit the bottom of the barrel.
You got nothing left. Everyone's given
up on them. The bed broke [music] on
their back. They're just now left with
the intestinal fortitude, the pride
within. Do I want to stay on the bottom
of this barrel or do I climb the out of
this [music] hole? It's at that point
when everything's lost that everything
can be gained. You've got to remind
yourself, I [music] know I got what it
takes to do this. And it's necessary
that you GO AT IT WITH EVERYTHING in
you, PULLING DEEP DOWN WITHIN,
CHALLENGING YOURSELF. Once you have a
belief that's so strong [music]
that overrides the crowdsman's fleet,
the adversities, anything, you welcome
that [ __ ] cuz that right there is
supposed toing happen [music] because
without that kind of abuse on you, you
will not become the battle tested proven
champion that holds a title that has the
value of the title. You must go through
those ends, hit rock bottom. Your worst
hour to spare becomes your best as you
get back up. You learn from that
>> and you continue to put one foot in
front of the other
>> because what you're [music] going for is
>> Most of us go through life running scared.
scared.
>> Fear is the most subtle and destructive
of all human disease.
>> Hundreds of exclusive videos.
>> Fear kills dreams. Fear kills hope. Fear
put people in the hospital. Fear can age you.
you.
Fear, 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 of giving up on yourself,
OF NOT STEPPING out on life and taking
life on? What is the benefit for you?
What's the plus in that? It's one of the
things I had to ask myself. So, I didn't
want to make any mistakes. [music] I
wanted everybody to like me. I wanted to
be perfect the first time I did
something. It's not going to happen.
You're going to make some mistakes.
You're going to hurt some folks
feelings. You're going to create some
enemies. Whenever you decide that you
want to begin to take life on, you got
to ask yourself, how long am I going to
allow this to hold me back? Haven't you
been AFRAID TO DO SOMETHING AND THEN
after you did it, you say, whoa, IF I
KNOWN IT WAS THIS EASY, I WOULD HAVE
DONE IT BEFORE. HAVEN'T YOU EVER HAD
THAT EXPERIENCE? ABSOLUTELY. So we
created this in our minds. False
evidence appearing real. We made it real
in our minds. Fear ain't real. THAT'S
WHY CHURCHILL SAID THERE'S nothing to
fear but fear itself. That's the
destructive [music] monster. When you
have fear, fear makes you count. When
you have fear, fear makes [music] you
think in ways you shouldn't be thinking.
When you have fear, fear makes you speak
[music] in a certain way. when you have fear.
fear.
But when you have faith, you don't need
to count. When you have faith, you don't
need to go outside. When you have faith,
you don't need to see how many horses.
When [music] you have faith, you don't
need to see how many armies. When you
have faith, you don't need to see how
many swords. When you have faith, you
don't need to count no shields. [music]
When you have faith, you don't need to
look at the parameter and see how many.
When you have faith, you just believe
and it'll happen. Fear, you are not
going to stop me. I've come too far to
give up. You [music] got fear and you
got faith. And I've decided not to walk
in fear, but to walk in faith. Turn off
things that can contribute to your fear.
Turn a deaf [music] ear to people that
all they can do is talk about how
negative things are [music] because they
have bought into the consciousness of
the world. Start attending workshops,
seminars, listening to tapes on a daily
basis to begin [music] to recondition
your mind to retrain your thinking.
Faith comes by what? Hearing and hearing
and hearing. Listen to things that can
empower you, that can enable you to
create a new reality for yourself and a
new life for yourself. Most people
[music] won't do that. Most people won't
take that kind of effort and invest that
kind of energy in themselves because
they will fall prey to that conversation
within. Oh, don't do that. You don't
have time. [music] You're too busy.
YOU'RE TOO CAUGHT UP IN the rat race.
Most people won't do that. They won't
take time to go to lectures. They won't
take time to go to seminars. [music]
They won't take time to go to classes to
improve themselves. And as you continue
to work on yourself, you will begin to
expand your vision of yourself. You will
begin to work towards selfmastery. [music]
[music]
When you go THROUGH THESE STEPS, YOU
MIGHT APPEAR to be strange around most
people. You ignore all those voices [music]
[music]
and you prioritize you, taking care of
you, focusing on you. You [music] got to
focus on your strengths. You want to
make your dream come true, you got to
stay focused. Some people rather get
even than get ahead. Stay focused on
where you want to go. When you're hungry
to win, you spend your [music] time and
your energy being a warrior, not a worrier.
worrier.
[music] No, you don't spend time
worrying because you want to get in a
fight mode. There's going to be a
[music] fight if you would be willing to
fight your way through it. If you would
be willing to fight your way [music]
through this battle, fight your way
through cancer, fight your way through
[music] that academic struggle, fight
your way through divorce, fight your way
through it. If you are willing to fight
your way through that singing career,
fight your way [music] through boxing,
fight your way through football, and if
you willing to put up the fight, I'm
telling you, at the end of the fight is
going to come victory. Go into action
with your dream. And don't avoid where
the fights are. Get in the midst OF THE
FIGHT. GET KNOCKED DOWN SO YOU CAN LEARN
HOW TO FIGHT. SO YOU CAN HOLD YOUR
POSITION. SEE, most people don't get out
in the arena of life because they don't
want to fight. Most people [music] don't
get out there because they don't want to
GET KNOCKED DOWN. THEY DON'T WANT TO BE
DROPPED to their knees. But see, YOU'RE
GOING TO BE DROPPED WHETHER YOU'RE ON
the field or whether or not YOU'RE
SITTING ON THE SIDELINES. YOU'RE GOING
TO BE DROPPED. So at least get dropped
for something. DON'T GET KNOCKED DOWN
while you're sitting down. Most people
are spectators in life. You don't want
to be A SPECTATOR. YOU WANT TO GET OUT
in the field where the action is and you
will be amazed after the struggle. There
will be a calm period and things will
begin to click for you. Come out here
with WHAT YOU GOT. YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
MONEY. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. YOU GOT THE
DREAM. You don't have ENOUGH RESOURCES.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. YOU GOT THE IDEA.
YOU GET OUT here in the arena, someone
will look at YOU AND BECOME INSPIRED AND
SAY, "HEY, can I help you?" But if you
send UP ON THE BLEACHES, NOBODY'S GOING
TO ASK YOU ANYTHING. [music] Cowards die
many times before their deaths. The
valiant never taste of death but once.
What [music] does that mean? The valiant
people aren't afraid. No, no, no. It
means that they experience that fear
[music] and they move forward. It's
going to take everything in you that
your life deserves the concentrated
effort [music] to begin to look at how
is it THAT I CAN EXPRESS MORE OF ME?
How is it that I can bring my ideas out
here now and start living with a sense
of urgency? BECAUSE YOU'RE HERE TODAY,
YOU'RE GONE TODAY. [music]
LIFE IS UNPREDICTABLE. IT'S UNCERTAIN.
There are no guarantees out here at all.
SO HOLDING BACK, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING
ON? ASK YOURSELF, [music] WHAT'S THE
BENEFIT OF YOUR WAITING? WHAT'S THE
BENEFIT of you're not living your dream?
WHAT'S THE BENEFIT OF NOT LISTENING to
yourself? Oh, please listen to yourself. [music]
[music]
Look at your game plan. Look at your
strategy. How is it that you have been?
See, you're the director. You are the
producer. You're writing the script.
You're the star of your life. And as you
begin to look at your life, you can
[music] decide whether or not it's a
smash or whether or not it's a flop.
That's in your hands. Look at your life.
[music] Look at where you want to go.
Don't worry about your circumstances.
Don't worry about your age. You've got
to start saying yes [music] to your
life. You've got to start saying yes to
your dreams. Yes to your unfolding
future. [music] YES TO YOUR POTENTIAL.
WHY NOT? WHY NOT ME? DON'T SPEND time
like most people going through life
complaining. Doesn't matter what happens
to you. The only thing matters what are
you going to do about it? Use that
energy to get up from there and move on
and get on with your life. Whatever
you've done in the past, that's not a
reflection of [music] your
possibilities. That's just a reflection
of your consciousness. That's just a
reflection of your development and your
growth. The future is unfolding [music]
for you right now. The future's
unlimited for you right now. No one
knows where you can go. No one knows
what you're capable of or what's
possible for you. You don't even know
that. Take the lead. See, it's out here
in the universe. TAKE THE PLUNGE. GO
INTO ACTION. And ladies and gentlemen,
you will be surprised how things will
come together. Because the only [music]
way that you can grow, you've got to
risk. The only way that you can become
your best, you have got to risk. You got
to challenge yourself. You've got to
[music] venture into the unknown. You
got to take some chances. got to put you
on the line. So in order to have that
sense of fulfillment [music] getting out
of your comfort zone, as you get out of
your comfort zone, you expand your whole
life. The more you do, the more you
realize you can do. You [music] expand
your capacity. You expand your
potential. You expand your horizons. You
expand your vision of yourself and
[music] of life. You expand your
participation in life. You're involved
in life more. [music] You'll get more
out of life because you're putting more
into life than most people. So, as we
look at the future, we can decide that
[music] from this day forward, I'm going
to do all I can do to develop me, to
bring my talent out here, to [music]
Most people think they're disqualified
from becoming mega successful. They
think their past disqualifies them.
There are mistakes. There are seven. YOU
DON'T KNOW, MAN. I'VE HAD A DIVORCE. YOU
DON'T KNOW I FAILED IN THIS OTHER
BUSINESS. YOU DON'T KNOW. IN THE LAST
DOWN REAL ESTATE MARKET, I LOST IT ALL.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M ADDICTED TO. YOU
DON'T KNOW MY MISTAKES. YOU DON'T KNOW
MY WEAKNESSES. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M
NOT GOOD AT. YOU DON'T KNOW. I'VE ALWAYS
BEEN average and ordinary. I've always
been invisible. And so, that
disqualifies me from being successful.
So, what you do regularly is you
disqualify yourself. And what I'm
[music] saying to you, what if the truth
was that your greatest mistakes are the
very things that do qualify you? What if
that's the case? What you will realize
is that you have greatness within you.
What you'll realize is that you're more
powerful than you can ever begin to
imagine. What you will realize is that
you are greater than your circumstances.
That you don't have to go through life
being a victim. If you can survive
temporary pain on the other side of
temporary pain, you will meet another
version of you. Which by the way, all
pain is temporary. The only thing
permanent is our soul. Even our bodies
are temporary. So all pain, no matter
what it is, it is temporary. And if you
can [music] survive it, on the other
side of it, you will meet personality
traits, emotions, thoughts, people,
circumstances, versions of you that you
didn't know existed before. If you want
to MAKE YOUR DREAM BECOME REALITY, THE
PEOPLE THAT ARE RUNNING AT THEIR DREAMS
[music] KNOW THAT IT'S POSSIBLE, THAT
YOU CAN LIVE YOUR DREAM, THAT IT'S
NECESSARY, THAT YOU'RE RELENTLESS, THAT
YOU HAVE A PLAN OF ACTION, THAT YOU ARE
CREATIVE, THAT KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN, IT'S UP TO THEM, AND THEY'RE
RESOLVING WITHIN THEMSELVES, IT'S NOT
OVER UNTIL I WIN. THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
RUNNING AFTER THEIR DREAM, KNOW THEY'RE
GOING TO HAVE HARD TIMES. TO KEEP ON
RUNNING BECAUSE THEY'RE SAYING WITHIN
THEMSELVES, NO MATTER HOW BAD IT is or
how bad it gets, I'm going to make it.
Every time I wanted to quit this
business, I didn't make a decision to
not quit the rest of my life. I made a
decision not to quit for one more day.
ONE MORE DAY JUST so [music] quit. One
more day. Hang on. What if the truth is
that changing your life is one away? One
decision, one meeting, one [music]
conversation, one extra phone call, one
extra rep in the gym. You start stacking
up those one more. That's the separator.
You are one decision [music] away from
changing your life. You're one new
meeting, one new relationship, one new
contact, one new action, one new
decision away from shifting your life
from where it is right now to a totally
[music] different place. There's
something you've been hesitating on.
There's a contact you need to make.
There's a job you [music] need to quit.
I don't know what it is, but I know
there's a decision that you need to make
to take you to the next level. Because
decisions shape our destiny when they're
backed up by some massive ass action.
But you can't take [music] the action if
you don't decide. It's you. You got to
take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. YOU GOT TO
MAKE IT YOUR PERSONAL BUSINESS to make
it happen. AND YOU'VE GOT TO RESOLVE
WITHIN YOURSELF THAT I CAN DO THIS. I'm
the one. I'm the one. I'm the ONE TO
MAKE THIS HAPPEN. I'M THE ONE TO BECOME
SUCCESSFUL IN THIS BUSINESS. IT'S
POSSIBLE. I CAN live my dream. It's
necessary. I work on myself. IT'S
[music] ME. I GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. In
a matter of one moment, one decision,
one day, your life can change in a
moment. And if you don't know that, you
will miss them when they show up. But
what if you believe that and you live
anticipation of finding them? Now your
reticular activating sees [music] things
it wasn't seeing before, hears things
that wasn't hearing before, feels things
that didn't feel before, and it [music]
tries to prove you right. If you put
your head down, if you get focused, if
you stop worrying about what everybody
thinks, if you start pursuing that
person you were capable of, if you start
competing with the efforts you make
every single day, your [music] life changes.
Life
changes every day. Sometimes things will
be going your way. Sometimes things work
well for you. Sometimes it won't work
[music] so well. Sometimes you have your
health, you're feeling good and
energetic, have a yes, I can attitude
and and there's some things that can
happen to you in life that can take all
of that from you. All of that can go.
Sometime you might be financially secure
AND A SICKNESS, ONE SICKNESS CAN WIPE
OUT AN ILLNESS. Life always change. But
you can choose in the midst of all of
this that's going on to be happy
in spite of it. in the good times and in
the bad times.
You know, weeds don't have to have any
encouragement to grow. You don't have to
water them. They don't have to get
sunshine. They don't have to have
furough ground. They will grow THROUGH
THE CRACKS OF A SIDEWALK. BUT IF YOU
WANT TO grow orchids or roses or any
kind of exotic flowers, there are
SPECIAL PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES YOU
MUST go through. Well, BY THE SAME
TOKEN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF
or motivate yourself to think
negatively, to hate somebody, to want
revenge, to want to get back at
somebody, TO BEAT YOURSELF UP OVER THE
HEAD, TO FEEL LOADED WITH GUILT. YOU
DON'T HAVE TO MAKE ANY EFFORT TO DO
THAT. YOUR MIND IS ON AUTOMATIC. IT WILL
DO THAT by itself. When the challenges
OF LIFE COME YOUR WAY, STOP BEATING up
on yourself. You do DO IT. I KNOW YOU DO
IT. I'VE DONE IT. IT'S A NATURAL
inclination for us to put ourselves
down. See, we are born negative, I
think, in a negative consciousness
because we live in a negative world.
There's a great deal of negativity out
here in this world. But you have got to
begin to insulate yourself mentally and
spiritually. And don't allow it to
penetrate your shield. Don't let this
negative world get to you. Don't let it win.
win.
>> Stand guard at the door of your mind.
Don't let anybody [music] just dump
anything they want to in your mental factory
factory
>> because you cannot have a positive life
with a negative mindset.
>> You decide [music] what to listen to,
what not to listen to, how much time to
give to what. You have to begin to
fortify yourself. You have to begin to
consciously monitor your inner
conversation and start talking to
yourself. Start building yourself up.
Sometimes the only good things you will
hear about you are the things that you
say to you. So, I'm saying learn to be
your own booster. START BUILDING
YOURSELF UP. START ENCOURAGING YOURSELF.
Start saying, "I can do this. I can make
this happen." Always strive to get on
top in life because it's the bottom
that's overcrowding. YOU DON'T WANT TO
BE ON THE BOTTOM. IT'S EASY TO BE ON THE
BOTTOM. IT DOESN'T take any effort to be
a loser. Doesn't take any motivation,
any drive in order to stay down there at
a low level. But it calls on everything
in you. YOU HAVE TO HARNESS YOUR WILL TO
SAY, "I'M GOING TO CHALLENGE MYSELF."
SOMETIMES I HAVE TO PULL MYSELF OUT OF
BED, COME ON, LESS. I found that the
biggest enemy YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IS
YOURSELF that there's no enemy within.
The enemy outside can [music] do us no
harm. Everybody's like, "ET, man, you're
so positive. Everything in your life,
man, you just got it going on. I'm a
real lion. And with a real lion, you'll
never know. You'll never know what's
going on in my life cuz I'm a lion. And
under every [music] single circumstance,
I'm a lion. When you got a negative
attitude, it only destroys you. MJ had
the flu and scored what was it? 45 55
with the flu. That's showing you that he
showed up and the thing that was
bothering him, he did not let it bother
him. You show up and you show up with a
positive attitude every time. Because
when you have a negative attitude,
you're just messing up what you said you
wanted to do. and I love me too [music]
much to let me mess me up. Begin to
guard your mind against negative
programming like turn off the
television. Don't watch the news. If you
look at the news, you cannot feel good
looking at the news. I mean, IT TURNS
YOUR POWER DOWN. YOU GOT TO BE CONSCIOUS
OF THAT. NOW, IF YOUR JOB DEPENDS upon
you knowing certain things, let somebody
tell you just about those things. But
stop filtering the stuff you allow to
come in your mind.
YOU GOT TO find ways to increase your
sense of self APPRECIATION BECAUSE IF
YOU DON'T, you're bombarded WITH
NEGATIVE STUFF EVERY DAY THAT beats you
down and you will find yourself
unconsciously engage in self-destructive
behavior. IF YOU DON'T PROGRAM YOURSELF,
LIFE WILL program you. You got to learn
how to exist in the world and not allow
the world to exist in you. IF YOU WANT
TO begin to move into [music] your own
personal greatness, if you want to begin
to really enjoy a happy, successful, [music]
[music]
healthy life, you've got to be willing
to go against the tide. You've got to be
willing TO HARNESS YOUR WILL AND SAY,
"IN SPITE [music] OF THIS, I'm in
control here. I'm not going to let this
get me down. I'm not going to let this
destroy me. I'm going to do something
[music] about this situation." When I
started thinking about becoming a
speaker, I said, "Yes, I can do this. I
can make this happen." When I stopped
trying to convince myself I can be a
businessman after flopping and failing
and losing thousands of dollars and
feeling stupid and dumb and having
people take advantage of me because of
what I DIDN'T KNOW, I HAD TO TALK TO
myself because people were saying to me
that I was dumb. And somewhere in the
back of my mind, I was saying, "You're
right. Look at what I've done." I
[music] had to say, "No, no, no, no, no,
no, no less. Hey, hey, come on, man. Get
yourself together. You can handle this.
You just haven't figured it out yet.
It's all right. THIS IS YOUR TRAINING
PERIOD. THIS IS A tuition you have to
pay for what you don't know. You can do
this. Other people have done it. Doesn't
take an Einstein. Get you some people
that can teach you some stuff that YOU
DON'T KNOW. GET YOU SOME PEOPLE THAT
HAVE DONE IT successfully and learn from
them. TAKE SOME SEMINARS, WORKSHOP, READ
SOME BOOKS ON how to manage a business.
Change the way you see yourself. You can
decide, I'm going to work on myself and
develop [music] myself. I'm going to
empower me. The people that get along in
this life look around for the
circumstances that they want. And if
they can't find them, [music] pick
creator. I'm not saying that you won't
have any challenging times. You will
have challenging times. But when you
read, when you work, when you're
involved, you might have some lows, but
you'll have high lows. You might get
knocked down, but you won't be leveled
to the ground. When you begin to portify
yourself, you'll be on the ropes, but
you won't be knocked out. You'll have
quicker recovery rate because you'll
have that feeling within. Yes, it's
okay. Sometimes I might have to cry.
Yeah, sometimes I might fall short of my
dream, BUT IN SPITE OF THAT, I just got
a feeling everything going to be all right.
The real challenge of growth mentally,
emotionally, and spiritually comes when
you get knocked down.
How you handle it, that's where the
growth takes place. Life's going to
punch you right in the face. Life's
going to fire you over and over again.
You're going to be told you're not good
enough. Your faith is going to be
tested. Your family is going to look you
in the eye and say, "How do we get
health insurance the next month?" I
don't know. But I know we're going to
make it. Life is hard, man. That's what
it's about. Life is a challenge. If you
don't work as hard as you can, if you
don't sacrifice everything, if you don't
get rejected and keep coming back for
more, if you don't get your loyalty
tested and your faith tested, you don't
love that thing if you bail out.
So if you fought through all that,
that's love. Your greatest moment, your
greatest hour will be right after your
worst hour of spare. Because in that
worst hour to spare, who are you? Who's
talking inside? Drinking lack. You hear
the bottom of the barrel. No place to go
but up. That's the voice that carries
your weak ass. Everyone said goodbye to
and lack to get the up on the fort to
stand back up in a cloudy day until the
sun comes out. That is your finest hour.
I had no advantages. But I woke up one
day and realized all men are created
equal. I don't need none. I'm my
advantage. YOU YOUR ADVANTAGE. WHY YOU
WAITING FOR SOMEBODY TO CALL YOU? WHY
YOU WAITING FOR SOMEBODY TO affirm you?
Why you wait for somebody tell you got a
DREAM OR GOAL? WHY YOU WAIT FOR SOMEBODY
take you by your hand and give you
what's rightfully yours? However much
money you make, whatever kind of life
you have, that's yours. And so when I
speak to you, I speak from the pain of
taking 12 years to get a four-year
degree. I speak to you as a failure who
HAD TO GET BACK UP EVERY SINGLE DOG ON
TIME AND SAY BRUSH IT OFF AND keep
going. And so I've been through what
you've been through. AND I GOT UP and I
kept going. It was the SIZE OF THE FIGHT
IN THE DOOR. I AIN'T SMART. I AIN'T
NEVER GOT ALL A'S. I AIN'T NEVER
GRADUATED TOP OF MY CLASS. I AIN'T NEVER
been the man. But I got hearts. I GOT
WILL. AND I GO TAKE EVERYTHING I WANT.
AND CAN'T NOBODY STOP ME. BRING ON THE
fight and I'll match your intensity. I
will match YOUR FIGHT AND YOU WILL NOT
outlast me. The harder the challenge,
the greater the growth. Your problem, it
might not make any sense and your pain
might not make any sense and your
circumstance might be illogical. But
listen to me. If your life at times
feels like looks like labor, you are
doing it right. Keep [music] on pushing.
There is breakthrough coming. And when
you're holding your prize, the pain and
THE SUFFERING WILL PALE IN COMPARISON.
DON'T GIVE UP. IT WILL BE worth it. Life
is 10% what happens to you. 90% how you react.
react.
>> And I'm telling you, the way to ignite
the dream is you got to shut out every
single thing. And you got to believe I
am the greatest. And so life normally
breaks you. Because when it hits you,
you weren't ready. But if you stay ready
AND YOU STAY PLUGGED UP WHEN YOU HEAR
BAD NEWS, IT DON'T BREAK YOU CUZ YOU
ALREADY ENERGIZED. TODAY MIGHT NOT BE
THE DAY, but soon it will be my day and
When everybody is against you or don't
believe in you no more, it's a lonely
feeling. Oh, it it hurts very badly.
have people that you love close to you
that look at you with that look and say,
"Why don't you try something else? Why
don't you give up?
>> You're going to be called crazy as you
take this [music] ride to the next level.
level.
>> YOU DON'T HAVE NOTHING BUT LINT IN THE
CORNER OF YOUR POCKET. YOU'RE OUT HERE
TALKING about living your dream and
people laughing at you and they're
doubting you. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK
YOU'RE CRAZY AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE going
to think you're crazy. YOU'RE GOING TO
QUESTION YOURSELF.
You can lose your job. You can make
mistake after mistake after mistake. You
can lose your money. They can laugh at
you. THEY CAN SAY YOU CAN'T COME BACK,
LOSE YOUR HOME, lose your car,
everything. But you won't lose one
truth, and that is [music]
that there's something in you that's
greater than what you are now going
through. Will some people make fun of
you? Might a person you love doubt you
[music] or leave you? Yes. But which is
nobler? Falling dutifully in line with
what everyone wants
or speaking up for what's right [music]
for you? You must ask which your life is
about. Fear or freedom? The cage or
courage? What do victims do? They give
away their power to external
circumstances. [music]
It's because of my mother, my father, my
sister, my industry. [music]
It's because I was heartbroken. It's
because of a divorce. It's because of
[music] an illness. It's because I'm
poor. It's because of the way I look.
It's because of the color of my skin.
It's because I'm not smart enough.
>> It's my journey. Nobody decides what I
make. Nobody decides how I live. Nobody
decides my life. I'm not a victim. I'm a
victor. The only thing stands between
your success, the only thing stands from
you doing what you know you've been
called to do. [music] The only THING IS
YOU. NOBODY CAN'T STOP YOU. I need you
every single day for every minute that
you think you can't do it, I need you to
offset it with dreaming about the fact
that you can. [clears throat] If you
have a 30-minute pity party, I need you
to have an hour success party. I need us
to look at all the possibilities, all of
the potential, and [music] I need us to
go for it every single day. When you
stand for [music] mastery, the world
will not understand you. When you say,
"I want to scale the next [music]
startup and I want to be the next
Picasso and I want to be the next craft
master and you start to dial into the
little details and [music] stand for the
best and read the best and do the best
and live in a rare air way, you will be
so [music] different from the chattering
voices of most people." And that's why
every visionary was initially ridiculed
before they were revered. It's lonely.
You're [music] going to feel like giving
up. You will be laughed at. People will
call you crazy. You will be
misunderstood. Why are you reading so
much? Why is it important to you to be
world class? Why do you sweat the
details? Why is the user experience so
important? Why? [music] Why can't you be
satisfied? Why do you always got to get
things so perfect? Why do you spend so
much time here? When you're obsessed,
people think you're nuts.
>> There's some people that won't like you.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU'RE [music]
ARROGANT. WHAT DO you think you can do?
>> When people don't understand you
anymore, you're in that spot of
obsession and drive. Get [music] strong
enough in your own skin that when people
laugh at you or when they throw stones
at you, you keep on going.
What reason can [music] you remember
that you can call on that you can reach
on that can make you get back up? I have
that reason cuz life would knock me
down. I said, "Life, [music] I'm doing
this because I want to make my mama
proud. I'm doing this because I want my
children to have a better life than what
I have. I'm doing this because all my
[music] life I've been told I'd be a
loser, that I wouldn't make it. I'm
doing this to make them alive." I
believe like Frank Sinatra, he said,
"The best revenge in life is massive
success. I'm doing this so I can become
massively [music] successful." I'm going
for me because I made a different kind
of commitment with my life. This is
something I have got to do. [music] I
dare you to bet against me. I dare you
to tell me it's not going to happen. I
love it cuz I [music] know maybe not
today, maybe not tomorrow, but at some
point I'm going to prove you wrong. I
want to be thoroughly used up when I
die. For the harder I work, the more I
live. And you've got to know that you
are worth all of your effort. And that
the key to your motivation [music] as
you get a larger vision of yourself is
to know that you have something to give.
Is to know that you have a reason for
being in the universe at this point in
time. You've got to learn to make a
conscious, [music] deliberate,
determined effort to stand up inside
yourself. You're standing up for your
dreams. You're standing up for peace of
mind. You're standing up FOR HEALTH. YOU
WANT IT AND YOU'RE going to go all out
to have it. [music] YOU GOT TO CHANGE
THE WAY YOU THINK. All you NEED TO DO IS
CHANGE YOUR THINKING AND YOU CHANGE YOUR
WORLD. YOU DIDN'T change anything else. [music]
[music]
What would your life feel like as you
look toward the future if you decided,
"I'm not going to allow [music] my fears
to stop me." If you decided to want that
which you desire so strongly that it
prepares you [music] past your fears,
that you experience the fear and do it
anyway. What would your life be like?
And you discover [music]
if you don't panic and you don't run,
you are stronger than you give yourself
credit for me. [music]
And as you go through that experience,
what you become in the process and the
goal itself will be antilimatic. [music]
You will discover a part of you that you
did not know was fair. [music]
There's joy in saying yes to you, yes to
your life, [music] and betting on you to
say yes to your dream, yes to your
unfolding future, yes to the
possibilities that you can have your own
[music] business. Yes to a new life for
yourself. Yes,
you thought for one minute that you
broke me. You got me twisted. I'm not
the liar. [music] I'm not the gazelle. I
don't need something external to
motivate me. I find something within. I
WILL NOT GIVE UP. I WILL NOT SURRENDER.
I WILL NOT QUIT. You going to get
[music] up. You going to get dressed.
You going to get out. And you going to
do what you've been called to do. And
you going to prove to [music] everybody
that tried to break you, everybody
trying TO STOP YOU, EVERYBODY TRYING TO
KILL your dream, you going to prove all
of them wrong.
Michael Jordan said in one of his
[music] interviews when they said,
"You're unbelievable. You're the
greatest basketball player of all
times." Tell me about [music] that. And
he says, "Well, you're just mentioning
the successes."
But he says, "For me to become the
greatest basketball player, I missed
[music] 9,000 shots
when I was playing basketball at the NBA games."
games." [music]
[music]
Does it make him a failure? No.
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. I can accept failure. Everyone
fails at some point. I cannot accept not
trying. IT IS YOUR LOSSES that will
humble you. It is your losses that will
give you a drive. It is your losses that WILL ALLOW YOU NOT TO MAKE THE SAME
WILL ALLOW YOU NOT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. YOU ARE NOT
MISTAKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAST.
YOUR PAST. YOU CAN'T BE MAD WHEN SOMEBODY'S
YOU CAN'T BE MAD WHEN SOMEBODY'S PURSUING THE CRISIS THAT YOU RUNNING
PURSUING THE CRISIS THAT YOU RUNNING FROM. YOU AIN'T MAD ABOUT THAT, BUT YOU
FROM. YOU AIN'T MAD ABOUT THAT, BUT YOU MAD ABOUT THE REWARD BECAUSE YOU KNEW IT
MAD ABOUT THE REWARD BECAUSE YOU KNEW IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOURS. THAT WAS YOUR
SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOURS. THAT WAS YOUR REWARD FOR BECAUSE [music] YOU WAS
REWARD FOR BECAUSE [music] YOU WAS AFRAID TO DO THE WORK BECAUSE YOU WERE
AFRAID TO DO THE WORK BECAUSE YOU WERE AFRAID OF THE CRISIS. Now somebody else
AFRAID OF THE CRISIS. Now somebody else got YOUR REWARD. STOP RUNNING FROM IT
got YOUR REWARD. STOP RUNNING FROM IT AND RUN TO IT. STOP TELLING ME WHAT YOU
AND RUN TO IT. STOP TELLING ME WHAT YOU GOING THROUGH. THE GREAT THEY GET TO IT,
GOING THROUGH. THE GREAT THEY GET TO IT, THEY go through it. AND THE HARDER IT
THEY go through it. AND THE HARDER IT IS, THE BETTER. [music] If you lose your
IS, THE BETTER. [music] If you lose your job, if you go through a divorce, if
job, if you go through a divorce, if you're coming back from addiction, IF
you're coming back from addiction, IF YOU'RE COMING BACK FROM FAILURE AFTER
YOU'RE COMING BACK FROM FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE and disappointment
FAILURE AFTER FAILURE and disappointment after disappointment after
after disappointment after disappointment, you must know within
disappointment, you must know within yourself. There must be a deep inner
yourself. There must be a deep inner knowing of your true identity. [music]
knowing of your true identity. [music] You've got to know you are a winner. You
You've got to know you are a winner. You were born to win. It is your right to
were born to win. It is your right to win. It is your right TO HAVE YOUR
win. It is your right TO HAVE YOUR DREAM. YOU DON'T GET THESE IDEAS [music]
DREAM. YOU DON'T GET THESE IDEAS [music] UNLESS YOU ALSO HAVE THE CAPACITY TO
UNLESS YOU ALSO HAVE THE CAPACITY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. GIVE YOURSELF [music] A
MAKE IT HAPPEN. GIVE YOURSELF [music] A FIGHTING CHANCE. WHATEVER YOU GO AFTER,
FIGHTING CHANCE. WHATEVER YOU GO AFTER, WHATEVER YOU SAY, IF THIS IS YOUR STUFF,
WHATEVER YOU SAY, IF THIS IS YOUR STUFF, PURSUE IT PASSIONATELY. LET THERE BE A
PURSUE IT PASSIONATELY. LET THERE BE A DEEP HUNGER IN YOU THAT YOU WON'T BE
DEEP HUNGER IN YOU THAT YOU WON'T BE DENIED AND THAT WHEN THINGS HAPPEN THAT
DENIED AND THAT WHEN THINGS HAPPEN THAT THEY WON'T IMMOBILIZE YOU, THEY WON'T
THEY WON'T IMMOBILIZE YOU, THEY WON'T DEPLETE YOUR ENERGY. SOMETHING AS
DEPLETE YOUR ENERGY. SOMETHING AS POWERFUL AS YOU CANNOT BE contained and
POWERFUL AS YOU CANNOT BE contained and stop. TEMPORARILY DELETE. YES. STOP.
stop. TEMPORARILY DELETE. YES. STOP. [music] NO. YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW TO take
[music] NO. YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW TO take your pain AND LET YOUR PAIN PUSH YOU TO
your pain AND LET YOUR PAIN PUSH YOU TO GREATNESS. YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW NOT TO
GREATNESS. YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW NOT TO GIVE UP OR HOW NOT TO GIVE IN. AND YOU
GIVE UP OR HOW NOT TO GIVE IN. AND YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT GREATNESS IS
GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT GREATNESS IS WITHIN YOU. AND YOU GOT TO PULL IT OUT.
WITHIN YOU. AND YOU GOT TO PULL IT OUT. YOU GOT TO CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN. YOU GOT
YOU GOT TO CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN. YOU GOT TO PICK UP ALL THE WAY. YOU GOT TO CRY
TO PICK UP ALL THE WAY. YOU GOT TO CRY IF YOU GOT TO. BUT WHATEVER YOU DO, YOU
IF YOU GOT TO. BUT WHATEVER YOU DO, YOU CANNOT GIVE UP. YOU CANNOT GIVE IN. AND
CANNOT GIVE UP. YOU CANNOT GIVE IN. AND IF YOU GIVE UP AND GIVE IN, YOU WILL
IF YOU GIVE UP AND GIVE IN, YOU WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE GREATNESS. SO KEEP
NEVER EXPERIENCE GREATNESS. SO KEEP GOING. NOBODY EVER SAID IT WOULD BE
GOING. NOBODY EVER SAID IT WOULD BE EASY, but I know greatness is within
EASY, but I know greatness is within you, and you [music] got what it takes.
you, and you [music] got what it takes. So get up and let's make it happen.
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