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“FIND Your INNER DRIVE!” – Eric Thomas (@Ericthomasbtc) – Top 10 Rules


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 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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