this not because I’m comparing myself to
them but ain’t nobody like me I am and
your problem is you hadn’t got to the I
am yet when I left home and said I don’t
want to be controlled no more like I
meant that like I don’t know nothing to
control me but me and so I gotta put
myself under extreme discipline to make
sure I’m free find out who you are what
your gift is what you love like eat what
you like to eat go or you like to go
like be you need motivation watch atop
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today’s lessons from a man who went from
dropping out of high school and being
homeless on the streets of Detroit to
being one of the best and most well
known motivational speakers on the
planet he’s Eric Thomas and here’s my
take on his top ten Rose a success vol 4
alright let’s kick things off with rule
number one my personal favorite believe
I am come on I am I am an entrepreneur I
will never search for wealth
I will be cured for I am I am an
entrepreneur listen to me listen and
open another them I am well therefore I
will not search for what I already am I
will not search for what’s already
inside of me I am success I can I will I
must break all barriers on my way Shh on
my journey to wealth and success I must
break all barriers not most not most all
barriers everything that’s before my
mama my daddy all barriers my past I am
I am the greatest that has ever done
this not because I’m comparing myself to
them but ain’t nobody like me I am and
your problem is you hadn’t got to the I
am yes you hadn’t even bought into it
and what I want to do before you leave
is buying to 120% that’s why you follow
me that’s why you watch me because when
I get up and talk it’s 120 percent when
I talk you don’t feel like he might not
believe what he’s saying you know you
don’t listen to me in the morning when
you on that treadmill because you think
I kind of think I know what I’m talking
about you are a hundred percent clear
like yo e he got some confidence like he
walking with another spirit like he owns
some different what is he are I woke up
one day when America said I can’t wear a
hat and shoes and I just had to say I am
you trying to get information first you
reading books you hadn’t convinced you
that you should be doing this you
haven’t convinced you that you need to
put the money here so you could get
where you trying to get to you don’t
believe that you are and the very first
thing that creators said was tell them I
am rule number two surround yourself
with the Greeks I gotta take y’all back
somebody showing real quick lion gazelle
right y’all know I’m on that line a
gazelle boy the line is the king of the
jungle but I gotta be honest with you
guys I gotta tell you the truth right in
actuality the Tigers should be tough the
Tigers should be they’re gonna juggle
dog then I’m just gonna break down how I
got to where I am and how I’m about to
get to where I want to go so the tiger
Ichi what do you mean by that
or do your homework in terms of pound
for pound a mono e mono the tiger is
ferocious the tiger can take out the
lion now go back and look at the tiger
I’m talking about it structurally
massive well you look at a tiger you
don’t see nothing but I’m talking about
muscle that’s all you see I’m talking
about muscle but guess what even though
a tiger probably could eat a lion
one-on-one mano a mano you know what the
problem is the reason why the lion is a
king of the jungle is not because I’m
stronger please the king of the jungle
if there’s some problem Y says Tigers
run a loan and even though they’re
ferocious they don’t run in a pride
they’re by themselves right and that’s
some of you right now you sweet I’m not
gonna lie you sweet but you will be your
same sweet for the rest of your life
because you’re by yourself you are alone
you not with a pride that’s the problem
with some of you you a tiger you a tiger
all day we we not debate not sweet you
are
we’re not debating how skilled you are
we’re not debating you won but the
problem is you run a loan right you do
everything by yourself you do everything
alone and you you’re only as strong as
you can be by yourself look I’m on that
vote trying boy I’m on that vote on
board that when we come together we can
do more together than I can do along all
right boy easy
come on say it ain’t gonna be easy to do
it until you do but you have what it
takes to surround yourself with other
greats to get in a community where
you’re not the best of the best but they
get in a community where
people can stretch you save you and
support you I lift you up rule number
three discipline yourself so I was like
yo you got to discipline yourself I
started looking at mother Teresa of
Gandhi and I was like yo bro Gandhi
would go fast from sex and he was
married he were fast from talkin you
know I just started watching these great
peoples like these people fast and not
about fast and like that’s not the peace
but they were very disciplined people
and they would not allow their exterior
world to dominate or destroy their
internal world I just like you I want to
get to a place where I can control me my
family members have grown a loss too
uncle cirrhosis of the liver brilliant
man but just drinking drinking drinking
and I was like yo I do not want to my
father was a substance abuser for years
I was like yo I don’t want a life where
something else is controlling me
you know like for real when I left home
and said I don’t want to be controlled
no more like I meant that like I don’t
know nothing to control me but me and so
I gotta put myself under extreme
discipline to make sure I’m free so when
people see me you get up at 3:00 you
don’t drink you don’t smoke I’m not
doing that because I think I’m better no
BIOS oh I think you can go to hell
because you had a drink I just want I
want to control I want freedom and for
me disciplining myself means more
freedom and unless I you discipline
yourself people who I told my son other
dads like your son I do not want you to
have fun I’ve just seen a history of
people who just have fun Christmas
Thanksgiving Halloween know there are
the people that night every night the
other people who wind up in a 20s having
a great deal of fun but in a 40s and 50s
they working for somebody and I’m not
saying nothing wrong with cleaning
toilets but they doing something they
don’t want to do for the rest of their
life and they can’t retire because they
played so much you know so for me I just
look at Venus in Serina Michael Jackson
when he used to like five and six just
dancing all night I just think the more
man discipline himself the greater you
don’t mean it’s going to happen but the
greater the probability
he has this sense of freedom rule number
four find your inner drive
what makes Brady want to win a fifth
what makes joy 3939 what makes Jordan
say okay I got four like it’s not even a
new season he said we’re gonna but we
got to get the fifth one what makes
Sarina get 23 and still going like what
makes Venus who was sick and should have
been gone and now she’s 36 years old
what makes her fight to get to the
Australian Open and I’m telling you it’s
it’s not the money the network it’s not
you know the vision board it’s I believe
for those of us who are where we are
it’s something within you know and and
you can’t go by that you know something
I can’t give it to you Lewis care like
you’ve got to go within and find that
and pull that stuff out rule number five
have wild thoughts that’s what I want
y’all to do tonight tonight I want to go
I want to go somewhere because I told
you you know like I don’t know if you
maybe because you’re a human and you’ve
gotten so accustomed to human that maybe
you don’t know what you’re capable of
doing as a human right
anybody get a new phone when you get a
new phone but the iPhone 7 8 right the
iPhone or you went to the galaxy when
you get that a Christmas or you get that
gadget when you first open up that
gadget what are you what are you happy
about what it can do all the stuff it
can do right if you like a geek I’m not
a geek right but I imagine if you a geek
you’re going through life I only use the
stuff I need like I’ll not have a bitch
to stick and the other stuff right but
the geeks know everything you can do
let’s do me very closely I believe that
some of us have gotten so caught up with
school and work you forgot what you can
do as a human like Bria you just forgot
like you so caught up on life and
problems you’re so caught up on paying
bills
you forgot you human you forgot you – I
made up the phone you made up the TV it
made up cars you made
why like that human with a hundred years
ago they would have told me I could like
we could fly to Australia and watch TV
you watching TV oh we watching TV on the
way to Australia this is this is what
happens when you add wild thoughts and
that’s why what’s all about tonight like
wild thoughts like wild thoughts like
like I don’t want you to be in school
for grades because I told you are we
past that and that’s why school is so
hard for some of you that’s why I like
it so hard for some of you because
that’s all you doing his life
are you having a wild thoughts no more
you don’t dream crazy no more you kind
of settled into like whatever little
life they gave you whatever paycheck
they gave you whatever they told you to
do for 40 hours like you like getting on
that and I just want you to do yourself
a favor
maybe the weekend when you’re not busy I
just want you to start touching the
buttons to see what you came up was I
want you to get out of the average
thinking and look okay I’m gonna give
you a secret I want you to start having
wild thoughts because here’s the deal
if you have wild thoughts and they don’t
work out you can always go back to
average thought the whole bunch of
people waiting for you and you come back
I promise you they wait you good average
is gonna be there so just do me a favor
just started thinking crazy and wild
I want to own multiple homes and
multiple cars I want to have that
nonprofit and I’m gonna have that profit
and I want to be able to travel the
world I’m gonna whatever okay raise your
hands I’m telling the truth
you are crazy stupid talented you know
you are but you get stuck on average not
using your for particular yeah just some
stuff you know you could be doing this
you ain’t doing them it’s the air you
know you could be doing the hands down
listen to me real quick Eric Thomas I
don’t really know who I am but you here
tonight right so I’m telling you I’m
giving you full permission to start to
have a wildest dream to be yourself I’m
giving you permission stop waiting on
people it’s the weirdest thing I mean
some of the most talented
smartest people in the world who stuff
because they wait for it I gave
permission I give you permission to be
yourself like I’m give me my why do I
have the authority because I myself I
feel I’m in full Eric Thomas permission
I ask no other motivational speaker was
it alright to go hip-hop I’m just doing
what I know I’ve been calling
unapologetically I wanna make sure I say
that I ain’t even know if I can say it I
just tried to see if I could say it I
was in my head I was like if I say that
word I just said it it came out you
don’t have to apologize to anybody to be
great you don’t owe it to anybody else
to play little no more come on don’t
play little no more like you don’t want
your brother to feel bad or you don’t
want your cousin to look you have full
permission you don’t want your parents
to think you would know it all you have
full permission to be your greatness
right now you have full permission to be
your greatness whoever you whatever your
greatness is you have full permission to
be that like a second rule number six
focus on your losses so I need y’all do
me a favor for real listen to me very
closely I’m gonna show you how to be
successful you have to understand that
your losses and that’s why I want you to
look at them every day because your
losses fuel you in a way the way that
you’re winning can never feel you well
you take an L you take it you take the
right air you like I’m gonna be very
cautious on that next move I make if
you’re smart so number one every single
day I want you to go to bed at night
stop playing games and be honest about
the wins and the losses so I always
remember where I came from I remember
all the arrows I took because when you
forget the ails that’s when you like you
big and bad I remember those are the
ones man those are the ones that humble
me those are the ones that when I get on
stage and it’s ten thousand people and I
think about what I did to my mom and my
father who raised me I think about the
how disappointed myself I think about
disappointing my wife I think about
disappointing my kids like I had a story
with my daughter where you know I’m
saying I discipline my daughter about
three years ago and I don’t know that I
wish I could get it back but I wish I
could get the experience back cuz it
because it was one of those things where
for years so you could tell she was like
you know I can’t believe you I was just
like man I was a loss for me and it took
us a while to repair our relationship
I took a pause so when I think about
those losses it humbles me and I can’t
be like floating with the smoke at the
event he upset smoke at the event the
music is playing and
miss coming from Lansing Michigan
dr. Aric number one motivation speaker
in the world I don’t run out like I run
out like man I hope me and my daughter
could get out and I hope pedal kill us
hope she’ll take that detail
relationship with her husband and me and
my son man I should’ve time okay you let
yourself out not one of those days I’m
running on stage with the losses I’m
trying to help somebody out you wonder
why you can’t get to the next level
you’re not helpful enough to get to the
next level you focus on your win and not
your losses I need you to switch that
rule number seven take small steps small
steps great distances you heard what I
said I’m going to say it slower because
I need you to embrace it and fill it and
this is about to take us to a whole
other level y’all look I’m gonna say it
again I will say it slow this year ah
this year we’re gonna take small steps
but we will eventually get great
distances small steps great distances
are you hear what I’m telling you small
steps great distances so I’m gonna give
you four principles for the next 90 days
that’s what we own for the next 90 days
listen to me principle number one we’re
gonna start with the miniscule are you
hear me put my steps up there Carl put
my steps up I need him sit we’re gonna
literally do small steps together right
so every day get your Fitbit get your
phone and we’re literally going to take
steps together small steps not big steps
and then I’m gonna keep my phone with me
and as I travel to the world
I’m gonna give you principles throughout
the week so we can make it happen
minuscule first all right that that’s
that’s the stuff you do it’s all small
steps steps that we’re going to do
together that you not even though
nobody’s going you go do some stuff with
your boy et nobody’s even gonna know
you’re doing it right but that’s what
we’re gonna start that’s like the GED
miniscule no I didn’t have a graduation
I’ll even march across the stage a whole
lot of people didn’t come and see your
boy when I got the GED the GD was
something they put in the mail and it
came to my crib right we didn’t do no
celebration but it was that miniscule it
was that small thing that I did that
eventually kept your boy et in the game
all right
then mediocre right that’s like below
average that didn’t even D me getting to
college took me 12 years to get a
four-year degree mediocre guys that
wouldn’t even average like 12 years that
ain’t even average but that 12 years
getting that getting that degree in 12
here still kept me in the game yeah yep
and didn’t immeasurable yep that’s the
stuff you should be doing right then yep
then I got the master’s degree yup the
measurable we’re gonna work on the
measurable we take it on top minuscule
mediocre we some of y’all trying to go
straight
to measurable straight off the cup and
then we go in the miracle we’re gonna
get the miracle territory baby that’s
the PhD that’s the book that’s via
number one of the number one
motivational speakers in the world and
where did it start it started with the
miniscule so you doing too much you’re
doing absolutely too much and we’re
gonna take our time small steps small
steps great distances rule number eight
hold your own weight I need you to be
honest do an honest assessment I want
you to write down what it is you trying
to do and I need you to be very honest
about where you are in terms of what
you’re trying to do like where are you
so for those of you who like I want to
be a millionaire I just need you to
really be like think through where are
you financially like in terms of
financial literacy where are you in
terms of financial discipline where are
you and in your past where are you do
you spend money you don’t have
so I heard somebody said he said today I
thought it was fun right somebody was
talking about and at this time time I’m
in Thailand you try to hear me can you
can you lift your own weight right can
you lift your own weight so somebody was
saying like yo I don’t know why you’re
all on the phone all proud of the fact
that you could change your own oil like
why would you want to change your oil
anyway that’s not your job
right and somebody was like well I saved
one hundred and forty dollars he like
saved one hundred and forty dollars
but what have you make 250 dollars an
hour no hear what I’m saying
why would you change your own oil to
save 140 dollars when it took you three
hours to do it
and somebody like yo so you said you
always and I said look let me jump in
like I ain’t trying to be disrespectful
but first of all I didn’t go to school
to change oil that ain’t my job that’s
somebody’s job let my man do his job
somebody else said that when he changed
your oil because he went to school
there’s some other stuff other the
engine that he’s see that you don’t see
when you change the oil so y-you saved
140 dollars you missed something else
that he would’ve helped you catch so
that the life of your car so you changed
your oil but you didn’t notice the three
or four the things that was missing I
said look let’s not talk about you
saving 140 here’s the challenge you
can’t pull your own weight the challenge
is you shouldn’t have a car that costs
you a hundred and forty dollars to
change the oil when you ain’t got a
husband four thousand change the oil you
should have that car in the first place
why do you have a vehicle that the oil
costs 140 and you can’t afford it why
would you buy something that you got to
change the oil that’s not your job and
you know why you’re doing it because
it’s no longer a car to you myocin
status symbol and so we dealing with
something deeper you can’t hold your own
way you bought something you can’t
afford why the deeper issues because you
got a self-esteem problem and so you got
shortcuts so you drive a car to make it
look like you somewhere you are but when
you actually there you ain’t gotta have
a car that look like you there cuz
you’re there no hear what I just said
when you’re there you don’t have to look
like you there cuz
there but when you’re not there you
can’t pick your own weight up you have
to do stuff and now you didn’t messed up
your whole credit because you bought a
car so that people can think you
somewhere that you not and you’ve
destroyed your whole future that if you
could hold your own way you could drive
around the Ford Fusion and be some
tombow come like like a ranger you
you getting out the Ford Fusion like
what like you in a 7:45 a lot like what
Wow because you ready are you here are
you ready rule number nine be you be
true to yourself you know you know
especially being in LA you know it’s so
superficial you know some people can be
so superficial you know there’s no debt
you know it’s so dense you know and so I
would say you know to your own self be
true find out who you are what your gift
is what you love like eat what you like
to eat go or you like to go like be you
you’ll find out that when you’re you you
will attract you you know you will
attract all the happiness the wealth
that you can buy being you but if you’re
fake you know you can’t do it and rule
number ten the last time before some
very special bonus clips is push your
way to success let’s go to this last one
real quick I got a message from a kid
today I want you to read it
AET is what he texted me how do you have
you balance pooling and stay with a
routine you came to my school
ivory listen to your speech but I’m
struggling in school and working at the
same time I have to stay working to pay
bills
I go to tutoring I hold a lot of
scholarships that I have to maintain
therefore it’s usually it means meetings
and extra curriculum stuff I’m
struggling there so he asked me et what
should I do
I said what year are you you tell me
junior I got a year and a half to go I
said keep struggling
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what you want me to tell you what you
want me to tell you stop quit give up
okay well the next thing he said he I
had a meltdown in class my teacher for
me to the side I say you might have a
couple more before success it’s the part
of the game you can’t be successful
without some meltdown struggled for
another year and a half and be free for
the rest of your life
or you can say I’m tired of struggling
and stop struggle and struggle for the
next 20 30 years press past it come on
Press Pass stop whining and crying –
give it up press past it it’s going to
hurt yes ask any mother has had a child
it’s probably feel like they gonna die
but guess what they get through it and
on the other side when that child comes
out they forget all about the bank your
dream counting on you push enter my body
no cookies an ice cream push it’s a lie
it’s inside how do you know you feel it
you dream about it you eat and sleep and
every day when people talk to you tell
them just what I’m gonna do so push just
push faster fight push don’t quit don’t
get push can you push your way to
success you push yourself to that 4.0
you push yourself to that scholarship
now I’ve got two very special ET bonus
clips around working while you wait and
going and getting it but before that I
want to know what did you learn
eric has so many pearls of wisdom
hopefully you learned something that
you’re going to apply to your life or to
your business share it down in the
comments below I’m really curious to
find out thank you guys so much for
watching I believe in you I hope you
continue to believe in yourself and
whatever your one word is much love see
work while you wait yeah I said it for
real for real you don’t know how long
it’s gonna take right but but what if
you stop now if you quit now but one
thing I can tell you is for certain is
never gonna happen so the first thing I
need you to do is like you cannot stop
like you you you you you okay all right
rest if you must but you cannot stop and
questions life like you cannot stop and
question your circumstance and
situations so much so that while you
could be working while you could be
further along the road let’s travel you
sitting there contemplating like you
sitting there moaning about it you’re
sitting there complaining about it and I
get it I’m not minimizing your struggle
I get it I understand but you gotta you
gotta work you gotta work Wow
what happens if you wake up three days
later in you there what happens if you
wake up 60 days later and the change is
coming you know what’s gonna happen
you’re gonna wake up 60 days later 90
days later and everything is gonna
change but you and you’re gonna get the
same results you got before it happened
because you’re the exact same person so
work work while you wait when I was
growing up his long long time ago but we
used to fight used to get in a circle
forgetting a circle and then two people
were getting the middle and then you’d
fight right and I got smart cuz I really
liked to fight so I got smart and I
started telling guys who said they
wanted to fight me I’d say look let’s do
this let’s not fight in front of nobody
if you really want to fight let’s go in
the back just meet you I don’t know why
you clowned in front everybody why you
got try to be the big man let’s just
mean you go to the back and let’s just
fight and don’t nobody go if you really
want to fight and I learn et if you want
to get out of fights in the deep the
more you run the more they don’t want to
fight you but the more you step up and
say you know you want you so I’m telling
you in life you start running from a
class you start running from a subject
that you don’t like it will haunt you
for the rest of your natural life it
ain’t going nowhere but if you go after
the fight if you approach the challenge
there those of you who are you you are
you’re like those dogs you have the
potential you could possibly take him
down you kind of kind of you know like I
think I could give him I think I’m not
sure I think I can and then you watch
the pit bull from the pit bull can
notice it was no deferred the dogs hit
in the back they get the tail they going
on the side they don’t come in the front
when the pit bull can’t even just came
right Oh boom came right to the face oh
and so I’m challenging you before you
leave it’s gonna be a fight you can’t
keep doing this but maybe your freshman
here
maybe your sophomore year but at some
point you got to go take the life out of
it at some point you just gotta I was
owner took me 12 years to get the
four-year degree and the masters I was
like and somebody said get the PhD and
I’ll I know there’s like come on it gets
busy and when I just start going after
light and take anybody’s throat not
getting to the summon y’all get to the
line they got to the done the dogs got
to the wild boar they got to you gay you
get real close the pit bulls was like in
game they started with in game there
wasn’t no going back and forth they came
in boom and all that time he was
standing up all I tell him to chase but
when the pit bull came and boom lockdown
you got to take that thing out like you
got to take the breath out so some of
y’all I pray the math go after it go get
it not run from it no more
don’t get it Oh see wise was long
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