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Gary Davis – The key is to Keep Moving | INSPIRATIONAL STORY | ONE OF THE BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES


I don’t know of anything much more
fulfilling than to see a possibility or
an opportunity when nobody else sees it
maybe or see a piece of it that’s
already existent and say wow I could do
that it’s not always about how good you
are how talented you are you have to
work ten times as hard to cut through
some of this
when I see things getting tougher when I
see things that seem insurmountable to
other people I know we just have to stay
the course we have to stay focused and
we keep putting one foot in front of the
other the key is to keep moving
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when we lost our home and we had to go
live with my grandparents I understood
that these are just material things that
that doesn’t define you it’s not it
doesn’t make you so when you get these
challenges when you have these things
that come up in your life continue to
move forward now how do you get to that
place where you come back and move
forward and that you become very
intentional about it I just did one of
our footnotes that’s sort of a daily
motivational inspirational thing about
baby steps baby steps become intentional
about what it is that you’re going to do
nobody in your family may have done that
nobody in your community your city your
country may have done that but if that’s
what’s been put here for you take it in
baby steps begin to see how that you’re
going to move forward it’s exactly what
I did once I came and I understood my
purpose I understood what it is that I
was supposed to be doing like I’ve sat
down and created a plan as to how I was
going to go about deploying that and I
think that’s what you really have to do
and take it in baby steps don’t try to
do the whole thing at once sit it down
look at it break it down rebuild it put
it back together and then assign
timeframes to everything that you want
to accomplish and break it down in
phases and then focus everything you
have on that phase we only know what we
know right now about what we want to do
right I mean it could be there could be
things out there that will be so much
more awesome but we just we don’t know
what we don’t know and to the best of
our ability what we can say is here’s
where I am right now I can put a
waypoint right there I can mark that and
I know that I want to do X and this is
that thing so if I’m going to step back
now what I’ve got to do is go to work
I’ve got to study every single bit of
that and understand every iteration I
think every successful person always
looks at other successful people as
especially in their field or a field
they’re endeavoring to get into why why
fix it if it’s not broke you just have
to find your piece of it that you bring
to make it you but if they’re doing it
and they’re doing it incredibly well sit
back and look at it and find all the
ways that you can take that great model
fix it where you feel like it needs to
be fixed
make it you and
then can you add to it can you put
something on top of it and then you take
that and and really that’s when you
start to really do the work and sit down
and study each piece of it and then you
assign the timeframes I think the
timeframes the timelines are the
critical piece to it because that’s
where so many people go from just having
a hobby or a a dream and I’m sure many
people understand that dreams are tough
because without a timeframe a timeline
they may just stay dreams when you
assign a time frame and a plan of action
to it it can become a goal and then it
can become attainable and I think that’s
what you have to do is in brings it
makes it very present then you have your
work cut out for you you know what you
need to do and now it’s just about doing
it just whatever you do don’t stop
because more than the 99% assuredness
nobody’s gonna know it was a screw-up
unless you stop if you keep moving
everybody’s gonna think that’s just you
know own it if you were supposed to go
right and you go left then the minute
that you realize oh my god I just went
left what am I gonna do go to the crowd
and start going you know dancing to the
crowd or do they’re never gonna know
that it was a mess-up so yes you have to
improvise you have to adapt you have to
overcome you have to be like water the
great Bruce Lee I’m saying that you know
you have to be able to conform yourself
to those situations so that you ever
don’t do yourself a disservice by not
growing and not becoming better you have
to be able to be malleable and I think
that’s the greatest thing about being
shaped and having been to that place you
know it may cause you to go through some
growing pains but there’s there’s that’s
that’s awesome and in it first when you
go through that you’re just it’s hurt so
I don’t want to be here at her is it
complaint complaint complaint but if you
start to look at it once you’ve got
through it a couple times you’re like oh
here we go this is probably gonna be
pretty good oh yeah oh this is gonna be
awesome
I know that man this really hurts so if
it’s really hurt and I know it’s really
gonna be good on the other side of it
and you just see yourself grow and you
grow and you grow and you grow and I
what does it mean to you you’ve got a
really powerful saying we are the people
we’ve been waiting
or right what does that mean what do you
hope people do with that I think that
everything that has been done before us
as a part of us and so it’s equally as
important that we do everything that we
possibly can with our life for
everything that they did for us before
we were even born and I think that makes
it even more powerful when you think of
we can’t depend on other people that
that’s sort of been my through-line
is I’ve never understood how you can be
independently codependent you you either
can be independent and stand on your own
two feet and know who you are and what
you’re here for and in the tough times
when when everything is pulling you to
do something you know that maybe just go
with the flow that’s the moment you have
to be the flow and it may run in the
opposite direction of the current that’s
asking you to jump in you have to lead
you have to be willing to lead and if
you’re not nobody will follow that and
in the moments where it’s most stressful
if you don’t know where you’re headed if
you don’t know what you’re supposed to
be doing nobody else will either and you
have to be able to stay that course and
be willing to do what you need to do so
if you know a couple their family can go
out and garner enough support to be able
to execute and deploy and logistically
do this whole effort what is our bigger
excuse to not do this if if a few people
can make this happen collectively what
could we do and it was to really say
that as well and in order to say that
you have to be willing to do more you
have to be willing to take a stand and
make a difference almost on an epic
scale just sometimes to get people’s
attention you talk a lot about self
belief how can people cultivate that if
you don’t love you you can’t love
anybody else if you don’t appreciate you
it’s impossible to appreciate anybody
you don’t respect yourself it’s
impossible to respect somebody else but
how do you think about failure what do
you teach your kids about failure do you
see it is a teaching mechanism something
to be afraid of like how do you
conceptualize of that in your life
failures are our greatest teachers I
don’t think anybody this have endeavored
to ever do
anything didn’t fail at some point in
some aspect of what they were trying to
do we learn from it and we move forward
we’re people and we feel how people feel
meaning it hurts when people say bad
things about us it doesn’t feel good
when people don’t believe in you my dad
always told me if something ever doesn’t
go the way that you’ve planned and you
find yourself in that situation don’t
panic the most important thing you can
do is stay calm stay present and I think
that presence of mind and that being
able to be calm that you’ve laid a plan
out you’ve done what you’ve done that
got you to this point if something comes
up that you didn’t expect or that you
didn’t know was gonna come your plans
not bad it got you to where you are
right now you have to deal with what’s
in front of you that doesn’t mean run
away he doesn’t mean stop and don’t do
anything
it means deal with it deal with what’s
in front of you move through it move
around it move over it move under it but
keep moving forward rectify the
situation regroup and go there’s always
gonna be hard times and you just have to
have belief in that where you are is
where you’re supposed to be and by
moving forward the strength of your
faith will unleash the power of the
Creator in your life so being aware
being aware of whatever it is that
you’re going to get into or whatever is
passionate about you
but I think that you really have to
understand that if it’s your dream and
that you’re moving forward to accomplish
your dream don’t let anyone ever take
that from you don’t let anyone kill your
passion about what it is that you feel
innately is what you’re supposed to do
what your journey is that’s yours that
that that that’s almost been ordained to
you specifically uniquely that you may
be the one person that is able to move
that forward
don’t let anybody rob you of that and
it’s gonna happen people are going to
doubt you people are going to and as you
had mentioned you know there’s going to
be people that just don’t see it they
just don’t get it and and it sucks I
mean it’s it’s hard to maintain that
excitement I think the the other thing
right there and that
window is you know absolutely be about
it if you expect other people to be
about it if you if you want people to be
a hundred percent excited understand you
got to be 150 percent excited about it
nobody is ever gonna be more excited
about what you’re doing then you so you
better be on fire about it if you walk
in with your head down or you don’t feel
that this is something that you really
the core of your being believe in then
you’re not ready to walk in there yet
don’t go until you know it better than
one no then no one else that you know it
better than anybody else on this earth
that’s vital you have to know what
you’re doing you have to know every bit
of it to the best of your ability so
that you can talk about it because the
minute they see you flinch the minute
they see you not know or you start to
make it up as you go I think that’s
where people start to lose lose
confidence so who you are what you’re
about what you’re talking about
you have to be able to to walk in and
and and and I think that all comes with
knowing your service or product what it
is that you’re doing your story better
than anybody else could ever tell it and
being on fire about it and you don’t
have to if it’s really your passion it’s
really that it’s just gonna come out of
you but a lot of people maybe have to
work on that skill more than other
people right and I think that you know
get in the mirror get your wife get your
uncle get anybody to let you listen
that’ll let you talk to them and listen
and and maybe help tell you hey look I
really believe that too much
you know maybe well where did where did
you stop believing me what did I not
communicate on and just go through the
iterations do the work practice whatever
it is that you’ve got that that you want
to communicate to folks and I think
that’s that’s a communication I you know
I think back about montón what my dad
said I said it earlier be able to speak
be able to know what you’re trying to
say and if you can communicate to people
if you can speak and talk about your
idea you know that’s the key to it all
you’ve got to be able to express him and
I think there’s so many things people
will find as they begin that journey
that they didn’t even know they had
but you got to take one step and I think
that’s where people fail as they don’t
start
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