(basketball swooshing through a net)
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoying that process.
– And enjoying my journey.
– Love the process.
– Enjoy the process.
– Journey.
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoy my life.
– Hello, Believe Nation.
My name is Evan Carmichael.
My one word is believe,
and I believe that entrepreneurs will solve all
of the world’s major problems.
So to help you on your journey today,
we’re going to learn how you can enjoy the journey.
And also, guys, as you’re watching,
if you hear something that really resonates with you,
please leave it down in the comments below,
and put quotes around it.
You might win a prize, but also, when you write it down,
it’s much more likely to stick with yourself as well.
Enjoy.
(upbeat music)
– Enjoy the journey, not the destination.
A lot of us delay our happiness.
“When I get to this level, when I get my degree,
“when I get the kids, when I get married,
“I’m going to be happy.”
Enjoy the journey.
Enjoy the whole step, the whole process,
every day that you get up to strive
for whatever it is you’re after.
You know I’m a goal-oriented guy.
– Yeah, absolutely.
– But you don’t celebrate when you get to the finish line.
Celebrate all along the way.
– [Steve] Yeah.
– Celebrate all along the way. (audience applauding)
– Talking about past and future and excessive emphasis
on past and future in your life,
yes, of course, you need to have,
there’s nothing wrong with having a certain intention
of what you want to achieve.
Take steps towards it.
It’s part of living here in this dimension.
You can’t just say,
“I’m never going to plan anything anymore,
“just take life as it comes.”
Well, some people try to do that,
but they’re not that happy either after a while.
(audience laughing)
So then your life will get very diffused,
and so, to have an intention, to make a plan,
perfectly fine,
either a short-term plan, like,
“I’m going to meet you tomorrow at 4:00.”
How would you ever meet anybody if we didn’t have time?
And future, at a practical level, of course it’s needed.
The question is whether future takes over your mind.
Being able to use it for practical purposes is,
of course, great, but I call that clock time is fine,
but psychological time is
when the future takes over your mind,
and your entire thought patterns are geared
only towards future, and you treat the present moment
as either just a means to an end,
because it enables you to get to the next one.
You’re always reaching out, so to speak,
internally, to the next,
yet never quite here,
always looking for some fulfillment there,
so you can never embrace the fullness of now,
or you make the now into even an enemy.
Some people are always unhappy.
Perhaps we all know one or two people like that.
– Three.
(laughing)
– Wherever they are, they’re complaining.
It’s never quite right.
Wherever they are or whoever, they always,
after a little while, they’re very uncomfortable again.
They’re, “I should be somewhere else.”
You know the bumper sticker that you see on some cars,
and there are various versions of it,
says, “I’d rather be golfing.”
And then another one says, “I’d rather be fishing.”
“I’d rather be this, I’d rather be there.”
When I visited the spiritual teacher Ram Dass,
who lives in Hawaii, he has a bumper sticker on,
oh, Ram Dass was the person who, in the ’70s,
wrote the book Be Here Now.
Anyway, he has a bumper sticker on his car
that says, “I’d rather be here now.”
(audience laughing)
Then you realize you can actually,
you can still pursue whatever, an intention,
where you want to get to, a plan.
I call that, it’s a bit like a journey.
Your life is a journey.
You’re going, you know you want to go from here to there.
Whether you’re going to get there, we don’t know.
Maybe on the way you’ll branch out to somewhere else,
but at least you have a certain direction.
It’s good to have some direction in your life,
but while you are traveling,
if your destination takes up most of your attention,
and you’re continuously focusing on there,
you miss all the journey, really.
You can’t enjoy the journey anymore.
And most of your life is the journey.
The arriving is relatively rare.
The wedding, ah!
(audience laughing)
And your funeral, graduation, ah!
(audience laughing)
So those moments are far and few between,
so the rest is the journey,
and if you can’t enjoy the journey,
which means the step you are taking at this moment
is really the most important thing.
Yes, of course, you know you’re going that way,
but this step is still to be enjoyed
because that’s where, ultimately, your whole life consists
of the step you are taking at this moment.
There is never anything else.
– Look, the actual making of a film,
the day-to-day going to work, the construction of a film,
has always been my favorite thing.
I like making a film much more than I like watching them.
I do, and even the ones I’m in.
I really love the coming together
with a whole bunch of people.
Having an idea on paper, and everyone’s got,
everyone’s an expert at what they do,
and you’re off on this journey, you got ideas,
but then you just let it go and see what it can become.
I love the making.
That’s when I’m happiest, is when I’m making a film
or telling a story, the day-to-day.
And more so than watching them, really.
Look, I kind of defined that for myself about four years ago.
Process, stay in process, head down, in process,
stay in your bubble (exhaling),
and when it’s over,
be that fulfillment.
Notice when I started and I said that fulfillment of it,
I just finished, well, that’s enough.
That’s it.
I don’t know if it’s even coming out.
I don’t know what it’s going to turn in,
man, I hope we got it,
and I hope the director put something good together,
but I don’t know.
Nothing I can do about that.
All I know is this experience that I just had.
Go have the experience, McConaughey.
And if I can love this experience and at the end of it,
I’m like, may never even hear of that film again,
may never even know that story again.
It may be gone.
May find out that all the negatives got fried
in the X-ray machine, there is no film.
But I’ve got to be,
(audience laughing)
“That’s okay, I had an experience there.”
When I got selfish for that,
for that experience,
when I got that process, enjoying that process,
the day-to-day architecture of making a movie
and creating a role, that’s when I’ve been the happiest.
And more results have come that way, in an odd way.
– [Audience Member] Yes.
– You know?
When I started really approaching them as
this is a finite thing, and this is just that experience,
other than that, I’m not producing this thing.
I’m not the one editing me.
I don’t know what it’s going to be.
Psht, that’s it.
And then all of a sudden they come out,
and you go, “Oh, think we got a good one.”
– A lot of time I bring a friend of mine to the gym,
and let’s say it’s a girl I’ll bring out to the gym,
and she already feels really hot about herself.
But as she goes to the gym,
she begins to see her weak spots.
She begins to actually realize how far she has to go,
and paradoxically, the very act of actually improving
herself makes her feel even more insecure.
You see the same thing when guys
actually try to get a little bit of money going.
Or let’s say that they try to learn
to be good with girls, right?
Let’s say you actually thought your money was okay,
and then you start improving your cash situation,
and all of a sudden you realize,
“Damn, if I want to get a good business going,
“or I want to get my career going with some good momentum,
“I have a lot further to go than I realized.”
Likewise as far as girls go.
Most guys actually walk around thinking, like,
you know they could win any fight,
they could pick up any girl.
When you actually go and try to do it,
and you realize how much you suck,
it winds up making you feel even more insecure.
So just remember that the fact that you are trying
to improve yourself, it’s a paradox
between self-improvement and self-acceptance,
because the very act of improving yourself
sometimes can make you feel a little bit bad.
What’s the frame that I come from, then?
How do I do all this self-improvement stuff
and not feel terrible?
Well, what I do is, I come from a basic frame,
and the basic frame is I’m already awesome,
and I’m just enjoying my journey
of becoming even more awesome.
So I remember back when I was first teaching boot camps,
one of the first ones I ever taught
was here in New York City.
I didn’t really have a lot of students,
we didn’t charge a lot of money,
and I probably wasn’t the best teacher,
so you might not have wanted to have been at that boot camp.
But the point being was
I was teaching boot camp in a Starbucks.
You know, I’d sneak into like a, you know, an HIV clinic,
and say that I had HIV,
or we’d break into a school building
and do it on milk crates.
I’d be doing seminars in those environments.
And if you would have asked me if I thought what I was doing
was cool, I’d say, “Yeah, it’s cool.”
Right now, I might teach, like you know,
a four or 500-person seminar at a hotel.
You ask me if I think it’s cool, I’d say,
“I think it’s cool.”
Someday I could be teaching a 5,000-person audience
in a big auditorium somewhere,
like some kind of, you know, a convention center,
and if you ask me if I think it’s cool,
I’d think that’s cool.
And if I was running the whole damn planet,
I’d think that’s cool too.
Wherever I am on my journey, I’m loving it, okay?
I love the journey, because as far as I’m concerned,
the golden era is now.
The golden era is the present moment.
And wherever I am, right, like if you’re asking me now,
like, “Oh, did it suck
“when you taught the programs back at Starbucks?”
No, it was awesome.
I was already awesome and enjoying my journey
to become even more awesome, right?
So someday, if I’m teaching 5,000 people, or you say,
or teaching 500 people,
“Oh, is that too small of a crowd for you?”
I’d say, “No, I was just enjoying my journey.
“I was awesome and just enjoying being on the path
“to becoming even more awesome.”
– The best description of writing a novel
that I ever heard,
it’s actually in Thomas Williams’s book
The Hair of Harold Roux, which is about a novelist
trying to write a novel, and it just covers,
like, one or two days in this process,
and a lot of things happen to him.
It’s a fabulous book.
But he says that writing a novel
is like building a little campfire on an empty, dark plain,
and one by one, these characters come out of the dark,
and each one has a little pile of wood,
and they put it on the fire.
And if you’re very lucky, before the fire goes out,
it’s this big bonfire,
and all the characters stand around it and warm themselves.
And that’s the way it’s always been for me.
I have a good friend over in Vermont, John Irving,
and John says that he always begins a novel
by writing the last line.
And to me, that’s like eating your dessert
before you eat the meal, and…
I don’t…
everybody works a different way.
And God bless John,
and he’s done some wonderful work in his lifetime,
and he’ll probably do some more,
but I could never write a book that way.
The way that I think of it, you know, is that fire.
I love that particular image,
but I’ve also always thought of it in terms of,
there’s a little red thread that goes into a hole
in the baseboard, and you just start to pull it out,
and you see what’s on the other end of it,
and sooner or later you get there.
For me, the fun of writing novels isn’t
in the finished product,
which I don’t care about that much.
There’s a guy who was looking at my shelf over there,
all the books are on the shelf,
and to me, those are like dead skin.
They’re things that are done.
But I love the process.
– This is where trainers mess people up.
I’ve had trainers who totally just want to prove
that you could never do what they do.
– Yeah.
– And they have you paying!
– You’re right. – I know what you mean.
– Just to say like, “Oh, this poor guy.”
– “You’re not as good as me.” – Right.
– And they go to blast you, like, they want you,
unless you’re in pain, and you feel like you’re sick,
and you’re throwing up, they’re like,
“Yeah, that’s a workout now.
“Yeah, yeah, look at you.
“Yeah, are you hurt?
“You can’t walk?
“Great.”
– Yeah.
– And the whole point is, what I tell people is,
treat the gym like a spa.
The first time you ever go,
just go in there and walk around.
– Yeah.
– Touch the weights, get a drink of water,
walk around, and then leave.
– Right.
– And I mean, literally, do that for like a week,
two weeks, until you just get to the habit
of getting in that door.
‘Cause what’s going to happen is, eventually,
you’re going to start lifting because you’re there.
– Yeah.
– And you’re going to do something.
And then you stop.
Don’t ever get to the point where you’re like,
“I can’t feel my arm!”
(woman laughing)
It doesn’t work.
People want, they say they want my body,
and all this stuff, but I’ve been working out consistently
since I was 14 years old.
– Right.
– And I’m 44.
I’ve been, 30 years!
– 30 years.
– Of hard-core, two-hour workouts.
30 years!
– Yeah.
– So it doesn’t happen overnight.
– Nope.
– You just have to enjoy the process.
– Totally.
– Learn to enjoy it, ’cause I’m sure there was a point
where you started to enjoy losing 113 pounds.
– Yep, yep, yep.
– And that’s the only way you’re going to keep going.
– For me, inspiration is a journey.
It is not a destination, okay?
It is a self-motivated,
internally motivated process.
It’s not this glamorous thing.
It is mundane.
It is not something that, just because you
arrive at the gates of success,
that somehow is a new experience,
it’s different than when you were not successful.
It is exactly the same.
I find inspiration on blank pages.
I find inspiration, you know, in my habits, okay?
The moments of quiet, the intimacy on a heavy bag,
alone, sweating.
You know, if it’s me and a kettlebell,
or me taking a walk and just breathing in,
okay, literally, breathing in,
I’m able to harvest inspiration.
– A lot of people adapt to pressure differently.
You know, Peyton Manning, who just retired,
I heard him speak one time, and a great quote he had was,
“Pressure is a privilege.”
I mean, you know, I’m sure he’s going to miss it now, okay?
Pressure is a privilege.
Lighten up, enjoy, enjoy the journey.
It goes by very fast.
– I think the fact that that injury occurred to me
has just given me more of appreciation
for this journey that I’m on, and I have had fun.
This entire playoff run, I have tried to soak it up.
I haven’t just been so laser-focused,
where I haven’t enjoyed anything, you know?
We’ve had two good post-playoff win celebrations.
Give it a good run after San Diego,
and a really good run after New England.
And so, I think that’s some advice that some players
in their older years gave to me,
and I’ve really tried to follow that.
And I plan to enjoy this week as well.
We had a great week of preparation last week.
That’s important this week, but I do think it’s important
to soak it up,
and as they say,
“Enjoy the journey, not just the destination.”
– Because this is an uncertain world.
Every day is uncertain.
The only certain day was yesterday.
I’m not sure about that, in the future,
I think I would dictate, I would be stupid.
That’s why I should retire early, when I’m young.
That is why I have a lot of things
that I dream I want to do.
I want to do philanthropy, I want to be a teacher,
I want to go back to school, I want to do the environment.
“But what you do is so wonderful,
“why you should be the CEO of Alibaba all the time?”
How did I come into this world, not to work.
I want to come to this work to enjoy my life.
I don’t want to die in my office.
I want to die on the beaches.
(audience laughing)
– It’s a wonderful message.
(whooshing)
– Thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed.
I’d love to know, what did you take from this video
that you’re going to immediately apply somehow
to your life or to your business?
Leave it down in the comments below.
I’m really excited to see what you have to say.
So thank you guys again for watching.
I believe in you.
I hope you continue to believe in yourself
and whatever your one word is, much love.
I’ll see you soon.
(basketball swooshing into net)
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoying that process.
– And enjoying my journey.
– Love the process.
– Enjoy the process.
– Journey.
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoy the journey.
– Enjoy my life.
– Hello, Believe Nation.
My name is Evan Carmichael.
My one word is believe,
and I believe that entrepreneurs will solve all
of the world’s major problems.
So to help you on your journey today,
we’re going to learn how you can enjoy the journey.
And also, guys, as you’re watching,
if you hear something that really resonates with you,
please leave it down in the comments below,
and put quotes around it.
You might win a prize, but also, when you write it down,
it’s much more likely to stick with yourself as well.
Enjoy.
(upbeat music)
– Enjoy the journey, not the destination.
A lot of us delay our happiness.
“When I get to this level, when I get my degree,
“when I get the kids, when I get married,
“I’m going to be happy.”
Enjoy the journey.
Enjoy the whole step, the whole process,
every day that you get up to strive
for whatever it is you’re after.
You know I’m a goal-oriented guy.
– Yeah, absolutely.
– But you don’t celebrate when you get to the finish line.
Celebrate all along the way.
– [Steve] Yeah.
– Celebrate all along the way. (audience applauding)
– Talking about past and future and excessive emphasis
on past and future in your life,
yes, of course, you need to have,
there’s nothing wrong with having a certain intention
of what you want to achieve.
Take steps towards it.
It’s part of living here in this dimension.
You can’t just say,
“I’m never going to plan anything anymore,
“just take life as it comes.”
Well, some people try to do that,
but they’re not that happy either after a while.
(audience laughing)
So then your life will get very diffused,
and so, to have an intention, to make a plan,
perfectly fine,
either a short-term plan, like,
“I’m going to meet you tomorrow at 4:00.”
How would you ever meet anybody if we didn’t have time?
And future, at a practical level, of course it’s needed.
The question is whether future takes over your mind.
Being able to use it for practical purposes is,
of course, great, but I call that clock time is fine,
but psychological time is
when the future takes over your mind,
and your entire thought patterns are geared
only towards future, and you treat the present moment
as either just a means to an end,
because it enables you to get to the next one.
You’re always reaching out, so to speak,
internally, to the next,
yet never quite here,
always looking for some fulfillment there,
so you can never embrace the fullness of now,
or you make the now into even an enemy.
Some people are always unhappy.
Perhaps we all know one or two people like that.
– Three.
(laughing)
– Wherever they are, they’re complaining.
It’s never quite right.
Wherever they are or whoever, they always,
after a little while, they’re very uncomfortable again.
They’re, “I should be somewhere else.”
You know the bumper sticker that you see on some cars,
and there are various versions of it,
says, “I’d rather be golfing.”
And then another one says, “I’d rather be fishing.”
“I’d rather be this, I’d rather be there.”
When I visited the spiritual teacher Ram Dass,
who lives in Hawaii, he has a bumper sticker on,
oh, Ram Dass was the person who, in the ’70s,
wrote the book Be Here Now.
Anyway, he has a bumper sticker on his car
that says, “I’d rather be here now.”
(audience laughing)
Then you realize you can actually,
you can still pursue whatever, an intention,
where you want to get to, a plan.
I call that, it’s a bit like a journey.
Your life is a journey.
You’re going, you know you want to go from here to there.
Whether you’re going to get there, we don’t know.
Maybe on the way you’ll branch out to somewhere else,
but at least you have a certain direction.
It’s good to have some direction in your life,
but while you are traveling,
if your destination takes up most of your attention,
and you’re continuously focusing on there,
you miss all the journey, really.
You can’t enjoy the journey anymore.
And most of your life is the journey.
The arriving is relatively rare.
The wedding, ah!
(audience laughing)
And your funeral, graduation, ah!
(audience laughing)
So those moments are far and few between,
so the rest is the journey,
and if you can’t enjoy the journey,
which means the step you are taking at this moment
is really the most important thing.
Yes, of course, you know you’re going that way,
but this step is still to be enjoyed
because that’s where, ultimately, your whole life consists
of the step you are taking at this moment.
There is never anything else.
– Look, the actual making of a film,
the day-to-day going to work, the construction of a film,
has always been my favorite thing.
I like making a film much more than I like watching them.
I do, and even the ones I’m in.
I really love the coming together
with a whole bunch of people.
Having an idea on paper, and everyone’s got,
everyone’s an expert at what they do,
and you’re off on this journey, you got ideas,
but then you just let it go and see what it can become.
I love the making.
That’s when I’m happiest, is when I’m making a film
or telling a story, the day-to-day.
And more so than watching them, really.
Look, I kind of defined that for myself about four years ago.
Process, stay in process, head down, in process,
stay in your bubble (exhaling),
and when it’s over,
be that fulfillment.
Notice when I started and I said that fulfillment of it,
I just finished, well, that’s enough.
That’s it.
I don’t know if it’s even coming out.
I don’t know what it’s going to turn in,
man, I hope we got it,
and I hope the director put something good together,
but I don’t know.
Nothing I can do about that.
All I know is this experience that I just had.
Go have the experience, McConaughey.
And if I can love this experience and at the end of it,
I’m like, may never even hear of that film again,
may never even know that story again.
It may be gone.
May find out that all the negatives got fried
in the X-ray machine, there is no film.
But I’ve got to be,
(audience laughing)
“That’s okay, I had an experience there.”
When I got selfish for that,
for that experience,
when I got that process, enjoying that process,
the day-to-day architecture of making a movie
and creating a role, that’s when I’ve been the happiest.
And more results have come that way, in an odd way.
– [Audience Member] Yes.
– You know?
When I started really approaching them as
this is a finite thing, and this is just that experience,
other than that, I’m not producing this thing.
I’m not the one editing me.
I don’t know what it’s going to be.
Psht, that’s it.
And then all of a sudden they come out,
and you go, “Oh, think we got a good one.”
– A lot of time I bring a friend of mine to the gym,
and let’s say it’s a girl I’ll bring out to the gym,
and she already feels really hot about herself.
But as she goes to the gym,
she begins to see her weak spots.
She begins to actually realize how far she has to go,
and paradoxically, the very act of actually improving
herself makes her feel even more insecure.
You see the same thing when guys
actually try to get a little bit of money going.
Or let’s say that they try to learn
to be good with girls, right?
Let’s say you actually thought your money was okay,
and then you start improving your cash situation,
and all of a sudden you realize,
“Damn, if I want to get a good business going,
“or I want to get my career going with some good momentum,
“I have a lot further to go than I realized.”
Likewise as far as girls go.
Most guys actually walk around thinking, like,
you know they could win any fight,
they could pick up any girl.
When you actually go and try to do it,
and you realize how much you suck,
it winds up making you feel even more insecure.
So just remember that the fact that you are trying
to improve yourself, it’s a paradox
between self-improvement and self-acceptance,
because the very act of improving yourself
sometimes can make you feel a little bit bad.
What’s the frame that I come from, then?
How do I do all this self-improvement stuff
and not feel terrible?
Well, what I do is, I come from a basic frame,
and the basic frame is I’m already awesome,
and I’m just enjoying my journey
of becoming even more awesome.
So I remember back when I was first teaching boot camps,
one of the first ones I ever taught
was here in New York City.
I didn’t really have a lot of students,
we didn’t charge a lot of money,
and I probably wasn’t the best teacher,
so you might not have wanted to have been at that boot camp.
But the point being was
I was teaching boot camp in a Starbucks.
You know, I’d sneak into like a, you know, an HIV clinic,
and say that I had HIV,
or we’d break into a school building
and do it on milk crates.
I’d be doing seminars in those environments.
And if you would have asked me if I thought what I was doing
was cool, I’d say, “Yeah, it’s cool.”
Right now, I might teach, like you know,
a four or 500-person seminar at a hotel.
You ask me if I think it’s cool, I’d say,
“I think it’s cool.”
Someday I could be teaching a 5,000-person audience
in a big auditorium somewhere,
like some kind of, you know, a convention center,
and if you ask me if I think it’s cool,
I’d think that’s cool.
And if I was running the whole damn planet,
I’d think that’s cool too.
Wherever I am on my journey, I’m loving it, okay?
I love the journey, because as far as I’m concerned,
the golden era is now.
The golden era is the present moment.
And wherever I am, right, like if you’re asking me now,
like, “Oh, did it suck
“when you taught the programs back at Starbucks?”
No, it was awesome.
I was already awesome and enjoying my journey
to become even more awesome, right?
So someday, if I’m teaching 5,000 people, or you say,
or teaching 500 people,
“Oh, is that too small of a crowd for you?”
I’d say, “No, I was just enjoying my journey.
“I was awesome and just enjoying being on the path
“to becoming even more awesome.”
– The best description of writing a novel
that I ever heard,
it’s actually in Thomas Williams’s book
The Hair of Harold Roux, which is about a novelist
trying to write a novel, and it just covers,
like, one or two days in this process,
and a lot of things happen to him.
It’s a fabulous book.
But he says that writing a novel
is like building a little campfire on an empty, dark plain,
and one by one, these characters come out of the dark,
and each one has a little pile of wood,
and they put it on the fire.
And if you’re very lucky, before the fire goes out,
it’s this big bonfire,
and all the characters stand around it and warm themselves.
And that’s the way it’s always been for me.
I have a good friend over in Vermont, John Irving,
and John says that he always begins a novel
by writing the last line.
And to me, that’s like eating your dessert
before you eat the meal, and…
I don’t…
everybody works a different way.
And God bless John,
and he’s done some wonderful work in his lifetime,
and he’ll probably do some more,
but I could never write a book that way.
The way that I think of it, you know, is that fire.
I love that particular image,
but I’ve also always thought of it in terms of,
there’s a little red thread that goes into a hole
in the baseboard, and you just start to pull it out,
and you see what’s on the other end of it,
and sooner or later you get there.
For me, the fun of writing novels isn’t
in the finished product,
which I don’t care about that much.
There’s a guy who was looking at my shelf over there,
all the books are on the shelf,
and to me, those are like dead skin.
They’re things that are done.
But I love the process.
– This is where trainers mess people up.
I’ve had trainers who totally just want to prove
that you could never do what they do.
– Yeah.
– And they have you paying!
– You’re right. – I know what you mean.
– Just to say like, “Oh, this poor guy.”
– “You’re not as good as me.” – Right.
– And they go to blast you, like, they want you,
unless you’re in pain, and you feel like you’re sick,
and you’re throwing up, they’re like,
“Yeah, that’s a workout now.
“Yeah, yeah, look at you.
“Yeah, are you hurt?
“You can’t walk?
“Great.”
– Yeah.
– And the whole point is, what I tell people is,
treat the gym like a spa.
The first time you ever go,
just go in there and walk around.
– Yeah.
– Touch the weights, get a drink of water,
walk around, and then leave.
– Right.
– And I mean, literally, do that for like a week,
two weeks, until you just get to the habit
of getting in that door.
‘Cause what’s going to happen is, eventually,
you’re going to start lifting because you’re there.
– Yeah.
– And you’re going to do something.
And then you stop.
Don’t ever get to the point where you’re like,
“I can’t feel my arm!”
(woman laughing)
It doesn’t work.
People want, they say they want my body,
and all this stuff, but I’ve been working out consistently
since I was 14 years old.
– Right.
– And I’m 44.
I’ve been, 30 years!
– 30 years.
– Of hard-core, two-hour workouts.
30 years!
– Yeah.
– So it doesn’t happen overnight.
– Nope.
– You just have to enjoy the process.
– Totally.
– Learn to enjoy it, ’cause I’m sure there was a point
where you started to enjoy losing 113 pounds.
– Yep, yep, yep.
– And that’s the only way you’re going to keep going.
– For me, inspiration is a journey.
It is not a destination, okay?
It is a self-motivated,
internally motivated process.
It’s not this glamorous thing.
It is mundane.
It is not something that, just because you
arrive at the gates of success,
that somehow is a new experience,
it’s different than when you were not successful.
It is exactly the same.
I find inspiration on blank pages.
I find inspiration, you know, in my habits, okay?
The moments of quiet, the intimacy on a heavy bag,
alone, sweating.
You know, if it’s me and a kettlebell,
or me taking a walk and just breathing in,
okay, literally, breathing in,
I’m able to harvest inspiration.
– A lot of people adapt to pressure differently.
You know, Peyton Manning, who just retired,
I heard him speak one time, and a great quote he had was,
“Pressure is a privilege.”
I mean, you know, I’m sure he’s going to miss it now, okay?
Pressure is a privilege.
Lighten up, enjoy, enjoy the journey.
It goes by very fast.
– I think the fact that that injury occurred to me
has just given me more of appreciation
for this journey that I’m on, and I have had fun.
This entire playoff run, I have tried to soak it up.
I haven’t just been so laser-focused,
where I haven’t enjoyed anything, you know?
We’ve had two good post-playoff win celebrations.
Give it a good run after San Diego,
and a really good run after New England.
And so, I think that’s some advice that some players
in their older years gave to me,
and I’ve really tried to follow that.
And I plan to enjoy this week as well.
We had a great week of preparation last week.
That’s important this week, but I do think it’s important
to soak it up,
and as they say,
“Enjoy the journey, not just the destination.”
– Because this is an uncertain world.
Every day is uncertain.
The only certain day was yesterday.
I’m not sure about that, in the future,
I think I would dictate, I would be stupid.
That’s why I should retire early, when I’m young.
That is why I have a lot of things
that I dream I want to do.
I want to do philanthropy, I want to be a teacher,
I want to go back to school, I want to do the environment.
“But what you do is so wonderful,
“why you should be the CEO of Alibaba all the time?”
How did I come into this world, not to work.
I want to come to this work to enjoy my life.
I don’t want to die in my office.
I want to die on the beaches.
(audience laughing)
– It’s a wonderful message.
(whooshing)
– Thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed.
I’d love to know, what did you take from this video
that you’re going to immediately apply somehow
to your life or to your business?
Leave it down in the comments below.
I’m really excited to see what you have to say.
So thank you guys again for watching.
I believe in you.
I hope you continue to believe in yourself
and whatever your one word is, much love.
I’ll see you soon.
(basketball swooshing into net)
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