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If you don’t do these 3 things – You Will Fail | Eric Thomas


if you do the three things I tell you to
do tonight I guarantee whatever it is
you want to do in life you’ll be able to
do you will be able to accomplish
whatever you want to academically
financially relationally whatever so
three things all right I’m gonna tell
you the story and the stories about you
guys have probably heard about this
before it was a it was a young man who
you know he wanted to make a lot of
money and so he went to this guru right
he told the Guru you know I want to be
on the same level you are and so the
Guru said if you want to be on the same
level I’m all I’ll meet you tomorrow at
the beach at 4:00 a.m. so the other man
got there 4:00 a.m. the old man grabs
his hand said how bad do you want to be
successful he said real bad he said walk
on out in the water so he walks out into
the water watch this when he walks onto
the world it goes waist-deep so he said
come on look further what look further
then he had it right around at this area
said come on out a little party can’t my
little brother was right at his mouth my
man like I’m about to go back in here
this god is mine so the old man said I
thought you said you wanted to be
successful he said I do he said walk a
little further he can’t drop his head
and held him down hold him down my man
didn’t scratch it holding him down just
before my man was about to pass out he
raised him up he said I got a question
for you somebody answered the question
for me he said when you were under water
what did you want to do said I wanted to
breathe he told the guy he said when you
want to succeed as bad as you want to
breathe then you’ll be successful I
don’t know how many y’all got asthma
here today but if you ever had an asthma
attack before you sure the breath that
so be shortness of breath you wheezing
the only thing you trying to do is get
some air you don’t care about no
basketball game you don’t care what’s on
TV you don’t care about nobody calling
you you don’t care about a party the
only thing you care about when you’re
trying to breathe is to get some fresh
air that’s it and when you get to the
point where all you want to do is be
successful as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful and I’m here
to tell you number one that most of you
say you want to be successful but you
don’t want it bad
just kind of wanted you don’t want it
badder than you want a party you don’t
want it as much as you want to be cool
you most of you don’t want success as
much as you want to sleep you got to be
willing to work off for three hours of
sleep two hours if you really want to be
successful some days you will have to
stay up three days in a row because if
you go to sleep you might miss the
opportunity to be successful that’s how
bad you gotta want it 50 cent was doing
this movie I did it look research on 50
and 50 cent that when he wasn’t doing
the movie he was doing the soundtrack
and they said when do you sleep 50 sleep
he said sleep sleep is for those people
who are broke I don’t sleep and I’m here
to tell you today if you got it somebody
care my office the other day crying I
said look don’t cry to give up cry to
keep going don’t cry to quit you already
in pain you already hurt get a reward
from it don’t go to sleep until you
succeed the most important thing is this
to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what you are for what you will become
that’s the number two thing you got to
catch that one
some of you focus into the phone ring
and you like I got an answer if I don’t
answer the phone I’m gonna die I’m
saying to you today that there’s some of
you if you give up your cell phone you
would be successful but your cell phone
is more important to you than your
success because the time you spend on
your cell phone could be used for your
success the time you can be using to be
successful you’re using on the cell and
the cell phone is not bringing you
nothing but a bill to be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for what
we could be I don’t do well in math
you’re right
I’m not good at writing cuz you have
never written before but I dare you to
fail in writing for a whole year to see
who can get to the end I dare you to
fail I always want to give up I’m
dropping why are you dropping I’m so
grateful that the slaves didn’t drop and
quit say I’m just gonna stop I’m a slave
I’m just gonna be a slave imma quit
listen to me the slave said we will live
because one day we will become and one
day our children will be free if the
slaves were they just saying we quit we
give up we would have died in the Middle
Passage but some slave said I don’t care
what we go through we’re gonna survive
this 400 years of slavery we’re gonna
get through this and you can’t get
through an 1825 the problem is you ain’t
never felt no pain before you’re soft
it’s a soft generation you quit on
everything our people did not quit you
quittin you ain’t even tried yet last
one I’m sorry last one listen to me pain
is temporary it may last for a minute or
an hour or a day or even a year but
eventually it will subside and something
else will take his place if I quit
however it will last forever but I was
homeless for two and a half years and
the problem with most of you you never
felt no pain before y’all spoil y’all
spoil some of y’all spoil just
bottom-line your parents have done
everything for you you never had to do
nothin for yourself your spoil we’re
gonna keep it real tonight some of your
spoiled brats every time you ever got in
trouble somebody in your house got you
out of and someone you have never
learned to grow up and so every time
something get hard you quit you call
mama I dare you to take a little pain I
dare you I dare you not to go home
so my said I don’t go home I feel bad go
throw it you ain’t gonna die at the end
of pain and success you’re not gonna die
because you’re feeling the look you have
to give it everything you got
no more TV no more parties no more
playing if you have a 4.0 but you need
to be doing is studying get off the
phone
I’m sorry I’m not available went to the
end of this year I’m about to get busy
not
but I’m exactly where I wanted to be
because I realized I got to commit my
very being to this thing I got a boot I
gotta breathe it I gotta eat it I gotta
sleep it and until you get there you’ll
never be a successful in life but once
you get there i guarantee you the world
is yours [Music]
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