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Eric Thomas: Be Phenomenal or Be Forgotten | Eric Thomas Motivation


listen to me surround themselves with
people who are on the same mission
alright need you to do this just write
this down we don’t have time to go over
it right now but I need you to write
down the people in your life that don’t
reflect this and then I need you to
write down the people who do reflect
this I just want you to look at your I
want you to look at that document I want
you to ask yourself this question how
many people in your immediate
environment those people were in your
sacred circle represent people who are
on the same mission as you or do you
have a bunch of people on your list who
are not on the same mission as you and
those individuals are pulling you down I
just want you to ask that this is
important this is one of our last slide
this is important ét how do you do what
you do I have cut off the people who are
not on the same mission with me and yes
they are very upset and yes they said
some nasty things about me but guess
what I cut them off anyway and I’ve
surrounded myself with people who have
the same values who have the same
mindset and people who want to
accomplish what I want to accomplish all
right so you’ve all heard this story in
with this story you always heard the
story all right so it says every day in
Africa and the safari a lion wakes up
every single day and a safari a lion
wakes up all right and and every single
day in the safari a gazelle wakes up I
love it I love it it says though here’s
here’s what’s funny it says that if you
wake up and you’re a gazelle you realize
if you’re going to survive as a gazelle
if you’re going to survive you must
outrun the slowest gazelle all right in
your mind you’re thinking you got to
outrun the fastest line that’s not the
truth you just got to stay ahead of the
slogan sale that’s it let’s see you go
catch that gazelle cuz you’re all the
way up front alright so every single day
when you wake up whatever it is that you
do professionally you better make sure
you’re not in the back of the pack
you’ve got to be as close to the front
if not up front as possible because
every single day when the lion wakes up
it’s only one thing on that Lions mind
and that is catching the gazelle that
couldn’t keep up now this is critical
this is not just a story this is
critical because what the gazelle
realizes is that the way it operates
that the way it performs
that the way it goes about its daily
business is contingent upon life and
death that if that gazelle does not do
what he or she is supposed to do it will
be eaten by lion but I love it
the story says that even if you are a
lion even if you are a lion and you have
the advantage that when the Sun comes up
if you were gazelle or lion you better
get to running because if you are a lion
a gazelle is still not going to come to
you and say just eat me know you better
hear what I’m saying because there are
those of you in this room you’re past
the mark that Glen is talking about
because somewhere in your mind you’re
thinking they’re not talking to me
they’re talking to somebody else and no
you have to understand I don’t care how
deep you are as a lion when you wake up
nothing is going to come to you nobody
is going to give you anything they’re
still not giving stuff to eat eat I
still have to work I still have to fly
20 hours to get to Australia I still
have to go to London I still have to do
free stuff in Detroit I still have to
drive I’m a lion and when the Sun comes
up I still have to get to running here’s
the challenge though I asked myself when
I read that story that’s what’s on the
surface I read it and I started asking
myself et what’s the difference between
a gazelle and what’s the difference
between the lion what’s the difference I
know that they’re wired different but
what’s the difference and what I
discovered is that the gazelle is
running from something
the Gazelle was running from something
so as long as the lion is chasing the
gazelle the gazelle is running but as
soon as the lion stops chasing the
gazelle it stops and that’s a lot of you
in this room that’s a lot of you in this
room you will run you’ll do what you’re
supposed to do
as long as you’re getting pushed as long
as you’re getting motivated as long as
somebody is encouraging you as long as
somebody’s coaching you as long as
somebody’s pushing you
as long as somebody’s spotting you
you’re doing what you’re supposed to do
as long as somebody’s calling you as
long as someone is enticing you as long
as somebody’s giving you rewards you’re
moving but as soon as that stops you
stop ask myself the question about the
lion and I said the lion is not running
to be
the lion is running to eat every single
day the lion is running to eat because
the lion realizes when he kills the
gazelle not only does he eat stick is
there but he brings it back home so
you’ve got to ask yourself I leave you
you’ve got to ask yourself what’s your
why what motivates you what pushes you
what drives you and if that thing is
internal if nobody has to call you if
nobody has to prod you if nobody has to
reward you if nobody has to give you
anything if you are self-motivated and
self regulated you can have it you can
be it you can do it you guys do me a
huge favor is nothing average about the
lion nothing good about the lion the
lion is phenomenal so do me a favor guys be phenomenal will be forgotten
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