I believe desire and will to win is
everything I don’t know why I’m like I
am but my butt’s always burning there’s
always something say art dadgummit
you’re supposed to go far alright dad
gummit you’re supposed to be somebody
you’re supposed to make a difference
with you lie what does the $500,000 your
person do the $50,000 your person
doesn’t do you’re looking outside and
study those two individuals everything
seems to be the same they both are the
same sex they both are the same age have
the same training the same positions the
same contract the same fringe benefits
they both are successful they work hard
they’re good family people make tough
commitments but what’s the difference
what does the $500,000 your person do
the $50,000 your person doesn’t do he
pays the price a little bit more he
works hard and a little bit more he’s
loyal to the company a little bit more
he believes in a little bit more he
makes Maine a little bit more he saves
money a little bit more leadership is
everything you show me anything in these
United States that win I’ll show you a
leader at work you show me a successful
church Boy Scout troop club football
team business I’ll show you some a run
by leader sissy I thought at one time in
my life you had to be smart to win I
used to have these smart people that
dress so pretty and talk so pretty and
use these big words they just
intimidated me I said aren’t you can’t
ever be that good why don’t you just
throw in the towel and go back coach
football for living and I found two
things out about smart people I think
it’s almost impossible for a smart
person to win in Fitness in America
today because I find smart people spend
their whole lifetime figuring things out
they always trying to figure out an
easier way in a quicker way
and another thing I found out about
smart people’s they just don’t get
around to doing nothing they see
somebody like art Williams everybody
said well he can’t do it next time I
like that can’t do it but he does it see
folks I want you to know almost
everybody in America almost does enough
to win they almost get there they almost
struggle the huh they almost have it
going
they almost in everything they do almost
as a way of life to almost everybody in
America but the winners do it what do
they do they do whatever it takes to get
the job done they do it and do it and do
it and do it and do it until the job
gets done and then they talk about how
great it is to be somebody they’re proud
of we need leaders in America who can do
it if you want to become somebody do it
if you want to go in business for
yourself do it if you want to become
financially independent do it I hear too
much talk in these United States
everybody can talk a good game we need
people in America who can do it I go all
over this country with Al weeds and I
have people say aren’t you you count on
me wonderful just do it
I guarantee this is my light last stop
I’m gonna win now
SuperDuper just do it alright if I could
just have one good month and get the
ball go and I know I could make it big
super just do it all right if I could
just pay off this debt I could really go
great just do it if I could just sell
the house do it but house they selling
do it anyway I’m not making any money
what can I do you just do it let’s do
what are you do it and do it and do it
alright I get you have a win this
contest
super duper just do it over the hump now
watch my smoke greens just do it hard I
want to make it so bad I’m tasting what
I do you just do it alright I’m a vice
president now can I quit doing it no all
right I don’t know if I keep on keeping
on I really hurt what I do you just do
it do what are you do it and do it and
do it hard all my life I want to be
somebody important
well what do it then alright I’m gonna
save money so I don’t have to go through
this again gray hey just do it Oh
I’ve had enough training what I do you
just do it alright my manager don’t give
me no help what I do you just do it
alright you don’t understand I was mr.
everything in my former company you
don’t mean I I have to start off down to
the bottom and do it do you
yep you really got to do it
[Music]
Bart was the primary difference between
winners and losers the one at the
winners do it they do it and do it and
do it and do it until the job gets done
we’re wired differently we have to set a
goal and if we hit that goal we’re
guaranteed to make sure all that other
stuff in the middle is going to happen
all right so I need you do me a huge
favor
III need you your appetite so egy three
o’clock in the morning
why don’t you sleep my appetite my
appetite I say et I want more I can do
more if I accomplish this without a
father when I accomplish this with my
mom being a teenage mom if I accomplish
this as a high school dropout now that I
have people like Glenn in my life now
that I had people like Bob Proctor in my
life now that I have people like John
Maxwell in my life what can I accomplish
now if I can accomplish these things
from this start now that I’m at this
place knowing what I know now what can I
count and I want you to think about that
I want you to think about more than just
what you’re going to do financially more
than what you’re going to do in this
industry in the next three years right
more than that I ask you to question
what’s your appetite what do you what
are you going to do that will ensure
that when the alarm clock goes off that
you are already up 10 20 minutes before
your alarm clock blows up why you’ve
heard me say it before no alarm clock
needed my passion wakes me up listen to
me no alarm clock needed when Glenn said
6 o’clock I don’t know how it happened
jet lag and all with the sleep about
3:00 and the body just boom 5:40 woke me
up hey guys time to get up we got to go
to lobby at 6 o’clock 9 o’clock a.m.
call he left on the clock our time I
don’t know what happened but
five minutes before 11:00 the body woke
me up no alarm I have been using alarm
clock and over 20 years
what is it internally Eric I want to be
successful I want to execute I want to
make all my dreams become a reality I
want to do everything I said I’m going
to do so my appetite increases it gets
stronger every year I want more every I
want to do more every I want to help
more every I want to be bolder I want to
be better I want to be stronger every
single year every single year your
appetite should go up you should never
get settled you should never get settled
you should never get content every
single year I told you I’ve been married
for 24 years
so you think after 24 years et could
just go to Australia right and just
chill no I’m asking my wife what do you
wear before I leave cuz I’m gonna iron
your clothes for the 11 days when I
leave what are you wearing I called my
son I need you to make sure the meal
prep I didn’t make sure the bed is clean
I didn’t everything I do something I
need you to do it then I’d be a couple I
wired you a couple of dollars so I won’t
just take a picture of it and I wire you
why because when you get content when
you settle somebody was chasing you
somebody’s coming from the eye and
somebody’s trying to take your spot and
so every single day when you wake up you
got to set new goals new benchmarks you
got to raise the higher and higher and
higher so you can make your dreams
become a reality all right I’m gonna
show you I’m gonna show you listen to me
a true hunter watching watching a true
hunter
it’s like he’s wired differently that
had the same makeup listen to me what
makes a gazelle a gazelle it’s how he’s
wired what makes a lion a lot ok let me
explain to you when a lion sees a
gazelle and the gazelle sees the lion
they see each other at the exact same
time when the gazelle sees the lion
because of how he’s wired he
automatically fear takes over when the
lion sees a gazelle he lights up It’s
Showtime
the hunt is on this is what I was made
for and if you’ve ever studied a lion
and his natural and find lessons as if
an animal is wounded relying on the dirt
on tap
the lion will only attack if it’s some
real because it’s healthy and his runs
all right back here we go now right here
but uh the line line let it go it’s no
fun in that he’s already dead right
through that some of you there are
opportunities that you’re like it’s too
difficult it’s too hard
nobody can do it you’re not wired
properly a lion welcomes to challenge as
a matter of fact they don’t get excited
unless it is a challenging wired
differently because then immediately
when the gazelle immediately sees alive
the first thing it thinks about is let’s
go first thing the lion does like Lisi
so you got the message favor you don’t
get you a certain level you got a
welcome it so everybody’s like et man
you’re so positive everything in your
life man you just you just got it going
on I’m a real lion with real lion you’ll
never know you’ll never know what’s
going on in my life because I’m a lion
and under every single circumstance I’m
a lion so I lost five ounce to cancer in
the last six years I lost to last year
lie and still TGIM scale you never said
you never saw this is a special service
announcement from Eric Thomas and ETA my
heart to die therefore we’ll be taking
it six-month hiatus
no Ashley my ice death made me go and do
TGIM like I never did most of you heard
the mixtape not over not even a year ago
I went to the doctor’s office with my
wife look guys you always know
something’s wrong when the doctor when
it takes you’re the physician like 45
minutes to 50 to come here like
something’s then take that load position
comes in puts up the x-ray shows my wife
points to the brain
he said we found seven lesions on your
brain I’m a lying
my wife lifted the doctor the doctor
looked at my wife my wife looked at me
I’m like I don’t have seven liters on my
brain why is my wife looking at me cuz
she like you a lying you’re gonna be
able to tell me if I can get through
this enough so my wife looks at me I’ll
be honest with you guys when they first
told her she had seven leaves on the
brain she didn’t break her she didn’t
break a sweat but then I said you have
to start working until we find out what
it is cuz she said how long I said three
months six months you thought it’s not
working but she’s a she’s a beast
so the disease didn’t bother her but the
fact that you can’t hunt anymore that
bothered her so my wife looks at me and
says we’ve got no words but she kind of
looks at me like okay this is terrible
we’ve been together since we were 16
you’ve helped me to get out of
everything what now I said we can we
will we must we got a son graduating
from college you need to be there we got
a daughter that’s gonna finish high
school in two years you need to be there
you can get through this oh I’m wired
differently I start crying I didn’t say
why me why my wife I’m doing good to the
world I’m not hurting anybody why me I
wired differently we a t-shirt came from
it a video came from it that has over a
million hits that inspired people called
what I can I will I must turn it into a
t-shirt we turn tragedy into triumph we
turn dry that’s what Lions do Lions
don’t cry Lions don’t give up Lions
don’t quit lions hearts that’s what we
do for a living and if you want a true
lion it does not make a difference what
the circumstances is so what we’re in a
recession we made more money in the
recession than we’ve ever made before as
a matter of fact it was the recession
that birthed us we welcome the recession
y’all need a motivator knob
what do you ever need anyone before it’s
a recession that’s what is Showtime
this is where my gift is needed the most
in the world is in a fix I got it
there’s gonna be very closely if you’re
gonna walk three years Glenn said in
three years that dream that you have
that money that you want if you’re gonna
make it happen you’re gonna have to be
wired differently it’s only one other
cat from Detroit that made it out we
both went to college at Huntsville
Alabama he still lived it but out of the
20 guys that used to run together only
two of us made it out of the city and
only one of us to doing big things now
listen to me a lot of people you meet
like we’re talking lot people talk about
what they want to do and how they want
to get four points and I laugh because
when we do a LP when we do open house
and the students come from Detroit Flint
Saginaw and we say you know what kind of
grades everybody named mama right a 4.0
I never see their student right I’m
gonna get a 2.0 in math everybody
through the three five 4.0
at the end of the first semester when we
get the grades back very few kids get
4.0 they do get 3.5 I never see anybody
right I’m going to get in math 103 at
one point zero but yet at the end of the
semester midterm when I’m doing midterm
eval I’m seeing like 1.01 fives zeroes I
gotta go people come in 84 CEOs
I’m like so you need to understand
before I talk about this you need to
understand that what I’m about to tell
you to do I did it I lived it so if you
want to make six figures you can’t just
be talking about you wanna make six
figures
you tonight if you do the three things I
tell you to do tonight
I guarantee whatever it is you want to
do in life you’ll be able to do now
let’s get away from money I got to get
deep with you let’s get away from money
nobody in my family has ever really been
married they don’t do the married thing
all right
you can’t you hear what I’m saying
somebody can attest to that raise your
hand if your family don’t do the marry
thing raise your hand people in your
family they don’t do the married thing
now watch this
I’ve been married happily for 14 years
and I’ve been married for 16 all right
so I only had to work years
but in order to get to 60 let me tell
you something my marriage is so me I’m
telling you it’s so butter tight I was
see I might not they might not be mature
for this tonight but last night I was me
and my wife with slow dancing about
eight o’clock at night – Luther that’s
what my relationship is it’s the middle
of the day people don’t do that during
the middle of the week they might do it
on the weekend we slow dancing on one
honey watching my night football
I don’t need care none about Monday
Night Football cuz I’m with Luke dance
with my father my family they don’t do
the marriage thing but I bow when I was
a teenager but not only am I gonna get
married I’m only marrying one person for
the rest of my life but I’m telling you
in order to do that you got to go deep
you just can’t live a normal life and
get to that level so three things real
quick on my share with you now DeAndre
told you last week that you should be
writing stuff down don’t come here if
you’re not gonna write it down because
it don’t make sense you get some free
stuff from the book of us that people
pay thousands of dollars for see will
tell you I’ve gone to LA this summer and
for two days they gave me 15 grand that
was only for consulting that wasn’t for
speaking when I walked away from LA I
walked away with 20 grand how many
people you know make 20 G’s in two days
that’s like ten thousand dollars a day
and Chuck was i working hard no I went
working hard
why because I got the secret right here
I found out the speed I shouldn’t be
giving it to you tonight for free
he was working hard he write but I gave
him a little check he got a little check
all right he’ll get a bigger one next
year all right but three things I’m
about to change three things this is not
about Eric Thomas listen to me these are
principles that have stood the test of
time principles that have stood the test
of time and if you do what I’m about to
tell you right now you won’t be able to
accomplish whatever you want to
academically financially relationally
whatever so three things all right I’m
gonna tell you the story I gotta get out
of here
the first one is when I first said I
wanted to make six figures my boy Marcus
flowers who’s five making seven figures
right now he came to led2 eaters with a
said that like you see all the videos
with all the stars
those are his cars they’re driving
around in you see the houses that the
rappers knows that his house is in
Atlanta that he owns and they come in
and play on so he’s making seven he
taught me how to make money it’s the
first thing he came he told me a story
and the story is about you guys have
probably heard about this before it was
a it was a young man who you know he
wanted to make a lot of money and so he
went to this guru right he told the Guru
you know I want to be on the same level
you are and so the Guru said if you want
to be on the same level I’m or I’ll meet
you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00 a.m.
he liked the beach I said I wanna make
money I don’t want to swim guru said if
you want to make money I’ll meet you
tomorrow 4:00 a.m. so the young man got
there 4 a.m. here all ready to rock and
roll
got on the suit he should have wore
shorts the old man grabs his hand said
how bad do you want to be successful he
said real bad he said walked on out in
the water so he walks out into the water
watch this when he walks onto the world
it goes way steep so you like this guy
crazy up a dream like I wanna make money
he got now you’re swimming I didn’t ask
to be a lifeguard
I don’t want to make money he’s got me
thick so he said come on a little
farther once I looked further then he
had it right around in this area it’s
Duncan area so it’s own man crazy he’s
making money but he crazy said come on
out a little further can’t my little
father was right at his mouth my man
like I’m bout to go back in here this
God is mine
for the Ole Miss I thought you said you
wanted to be successful he said I do he
said walk a little brother he can’t drop
his head and held him down hold him down
my man getting scratching holding him
down I got you I know you brushed it out
but I got you you having held down I
need you for illustration you had him
held down just before my man was about
to pass out he raised him up he said I
got a question for you somebody answer
the question for me he said when you
were under water what did you want to do
leave I’m looking for a different word
doesn’t look what’s that word said I
wanted to breathe he told the guy he
said when you want to succeed as bad as
you want to breathe then you’ll be
successful I know how many I got asthma
here today but if you ever had an asthma
attack before you sure to breath and so
be shortness of breath you wheezing the
only thing you trying to do is get some
air you don’t care about no basketball
game you don’t care what’s on TV you
don’t care about nobody calling you you
don’t care about a party the only thing
you care about when you’re trying to
breathe is to get some fresh air
that’s it and when you get to the point
where all you want to do is be
successful as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful and I’m here
to tell you number one that most of you
say you want to be successful but you
don’t want it bad you just kind of want
it you don’t want it badder than you
want a party you don’t want it as much
as you want to be cool you most of you
don’t want success as much as you want
to sleep somebody’s lost sleep more than
you love success and I’m here to tell
you today if you’re going to be
successful you’ve got to be willing to
give up sleep you got to be willing to
work off for three hours of sleep two
hours it didn’t really want to be
successful some days you will have to
stay up three days in a row because if
you go to sleep you might miss the
opportunity to be successful that’s how
bad you got a warning
you gotta go day doc listen to me you
gotta want to be successful so bad that
you forget to eat be honest I said once
she was on the set doing her thing
three days had gone by she forgot she
didn’t eat cuz she was engaged I never
forget when 50 cent was doing his movie
I didn’t look research on 50 and 50 cent
that when he wasn’t doing the movie he
was doing the soundtrack and they said
when do you sleep fifty sleep he said
sleep sleep is for those people who are
broke
I don’t sleep she said I got an
opportunity to make a dream become a
reality
football players how many football
players not anybody likes football in
here raise your hand here I like
football Emmitt Smith I used to be a
cowboy fan before they did my boy Tom
Landry wrong I used to be a cowboy fan
but watch this there was a commercial
Emmitt Smith had won his first Super
Bowl and he had this commercial when he
was lifting weights I love you started
commercial when he was blimp there and
he said he said image said you know what
I won the Super Bowl so I can rest now
here on his bench press so he said I won
the Super Bowl last night so he
throws about 325 boom and he wears for
about 2 seconds and he
boom just see that he had already wanted
Superboy he said I think I’m gonna take
a rest and here s my how long one second
most of you won’t be successful because
when you’re studying and you get tired
you quit I’m here to tell you today if
you got it somebody carry my office the
other day crying I said look don’t cry
to give up cry to keep going don’t cry
to quit you’re already in pain you
already hurt get a reward from it don’t
go to sleep until you succeed listen to
me I’m here to tell you the day that you
can come here you can jump up you can do
flips you can be excited when we give
away money but listen to me you’ll never
be successful I’ll have to give you a
dime and do what you do you won’t be
successful until you say I need that
money cuz I got it in here but listen to
me Emma Smith said this at the end of
the commercial if it’s Mitch saying all
men are created equal some work harder
and 3-season I’m gonna say it again
because you might have missed it all men
are created equal some work harder and
pre-seasoned so that means that there
are some people who are going to see the
professor going to see the TA and even
when the professor says I don’t meet
with you my ta meet with you and say I
want to talk to your TA I don’t pay the
TA I bet you to teach me so you will
have to find some time to meet me if I
got to meet you at the mall if I got to
meet you at your house you are going to
see me listen to me all men are created
equal some work hard in pre-season when
I went to college guys were waiting
smarter than me for point OS 3.0 they
went to the Ivy League high schools came
the output from these great high schools
most of them are not doing what I’m
doing why cuz it’s not about
come from it’s about heart you come to a
place where you know being smarting
enough you gotta have heart that’s
number one watch number two number two
test number two I wrote it down I want
to make sure you got it it says to be
watch this watch this
we’re talking about sacrifice now the
important thing is this
you’re writing why I’m saying cuz I only
have about three more minutes listen to
me the most important thing is this to
be able at any moment to sacrifice what
you are for what you will become
that’s the number two thing you got to
catch that one to be able to listen to
me at any moment some of you you can
make sacrifices
we’re Monday Night Football is not on
you can make a sacrifice but when the
game come on for some reason you just
attached to it for something you when
your favorite show come on you can be
you can make sacrifices on Sunday when
they not going on but when your favorite
show comes on money bad some of you
focus into the phone ring and you like I
gotta answer it if I don’t answer the
phone I’m gonna die I’m saying to you
today that there are some of you if you
give up your cell phone you would be
successful but your cell phone is more
important to you than your success
I’m gonna say it again I’m gonna hurt
somebody I’m gonna hurt somebody some of
you need to give up your cell phone
because the time you spend on your cell
phone could be news for your success the
time you could be using to be successful
you’re using on the cell and the cell
phone is not bringing you nothing but a
bill and somebody has told you you
couldn’t live without it how about going
deep now giving up stuff watch what it
says to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for where we could
be I don’t do well in math you
you might never studied I’m not good in
writing because you have never written
before but I dare you to fail in writing
for a whole year to see if you can get
to the end I dare you to fail
I dare you take that same class over and
over guys I dare you stop dropping
classes like you saw always want to give
up I’m dropping why you dropping I’m so
grateful that the sliding’s didn’t drop
and quit say I’m just gonna stop I’m a
slave I’m just gonna be late imma quit
listen to me the slave said we will live
because one day we will become we will
always be slaves
so today although with slaves we’re
gonna act like we free one day our
children will be free
it displays what it just said we quit we
give up we would have died in the Middle
Passage but some slave said I don’t care
what we go through who’s gonna survive
this 400 years of slavery we’re gonna
get through this and you can’t get
through in 1825 you can’t get through a
writing class and you got to them after
tutor resource after resource the
problem is you ain’t never felt no pain
before your song it’s a song generation
you quit on everything our people did
not quit Harriet Tubman not only made it
she went back and got some more she said
you know what I made it but I’m gonna
walk off listen to me Shh
not ride the bus I’m gonna walk all the
way back down to the south to get some
more and you quitting on 1825
[Music]
now watch this you quit after you listen
to me you get a stick them back and you
wait for you wait for the first WIA
instructor to coming in and come out
your sleeping bag I need help
you put it after you do that you quit
after you had listened to me us a wor a
party I’m having a party everybody come
over I got food everything and let them
get over there let it be all the best
riders all right pooja I won’t have a
riding part
I’m serious you quitting you ain’t even
tried yet last one I’m sorry last one
listen to me pain is temporary it may
last for a minute or an hour or a day or
even a year but eventually it will
subside and something else will take its
place if I quit however it will last
forever listen to me I’m telling y’all
as I leave telling you as I leave I was
homeless for two and a half years and
the problem most of you never felt no
pain before y’all spoil y’all spoil some
of y’all spoil just bottom-line your
parents have done everything for you
they never have to be none for yourself
your spoiler we don’t keep it real
tonight some of you are spoiled brats
every time you ever got in trouble
somebody your house not you out of it
every time you done something you’re not
supposed to do people say your mother’s
a tyrant you’re right she kicked me out
you’re right she’s mean but she
developed a man because she put me out
there and said you’re gonna have to grow
up and someone you have never learned to
grow up and so every time something get
hard you quit you call it mama I dare
you to take a little pain I dare you I
dare you not to go home so I said I can
go home I feel bad go through it you
ain’t gonna die at the end of pain and
success you’re not gonna die because
you’re feeling a little pain I’m not
eating like I eat at home
that’s why you about to go to the next
level because if you keep eating like
you had at home you’ll keep being a boy
or a girl it’s time to become man woman
so don’t don’t worry about a little pain
my greatest asset is I was homeless so I
can’t feel a whole lot of pain
I’ve already been alone
I got a whole lot it’s like not a whole
lot of hurt I can feel on a little paper
on a little tense so I leave you I leave
you listen to me we have gotten to a
point where it’s midterms and we’re
moving forward the days of you getting
money I’m not saying we quittin but I’m
saying a day it’s got to go from
external to internal you have to give it
everything you got
no more TV no more parties no more plan
if you’ll have a 4.0 what you need to be
doing is studying get off the phone I’m
sorry I’m not available in to the end of
this year I’m for it you reached the
right number but you call me at the
wrong time call me back January 1st I’m
about to get busy night huh I want you
to have a countdown of your own and say
when the countdown is over we’re the
real swatching me because when I was
homeless I knew something’s wrong I knew
that wasn’t the best in me and one day I
said with a real heir Thomas please
stand up
well the real Eric Thomas please stand
up stop being this high school dropout
stop giving up stop sleeping on the
streets stop walking up and down freako
Avenue like you ain’t got none and get
your GED stop being afraid to take a
chance stop being afraid to go to cops
cuz your daddy didn’t go and your mama
didn’t go stop being afraid and be the
best every time as you can be but listen
to me it’s gonna be hard it took me 12
years to get a four-year degree but I
got it
and guess what on a degree I don’t have
dates so if it took you four it took me
12 they don’t show up nowhere but I’m
exactly where I wanted to be because I
realized I got to commit my very being
to this thing I got a
leave it I gotta eat it I gotta sleep it
and until you get there you’ll never be
successful in life when once you get
there i guarantee you the world is yours
so work hard and you can have whatever
it is you want this disease will not
defeat us this disease will not break us
it would make us better
everybody knows that we took a chronic
illness
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destroy
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she says she has to do it everyday I
said okay she said every day for the
rest of her life
I said I will not accept that there are
things in your life if you are accepted
because of my HIV clinic accepted I
don’t care you adopted on : on each side
that they would not they will not shoot
Berwyn with we will not give her a shot
with that needle every single day for
the rest of our life three months later
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I feel that she can take me because I
think that’s what we need we need to be
appeal it’s the leaders on different one
to the dock but she said I would have
told you about it but um I don’t think
your insurance company’s gonna be
willing to pay for it $10,000 a month
house it’s $8,000 year sure it’s called
me tonight if I went back the second
time they denied something like stop
backing of 121 you do $10,000 a month
look like you do $120,000 Wow to get it
for a year will not I will not let my
wife whatever it takes I will not let
her take the how to move you 120 I would
spit more I get better I will get
degrees I will get training I’ll do
whatever it takes I will put your health
first and it will not be defeated you
will not be destroyed will not lose okay
will not be in a wheelchair we will beat
this some of you what is wrong you are
not able to activate your greatness
because every time the child which
revelation cause it solved
you give up everybody every time
somebody calls until you can’t do it you
take it personal
every time somebody tells you don’t have
what it takes
you embrace it and now that stand up to
it I never did one time with my wife I
never felt discouraged I never felt it
was impossible
my wife told me just a couple days ago
she says today I feel she had a weekend
was no break and I told her it’s for
began to gain to live the ones I would
say I will look and watch when you come
on
if you make up your mind you go live to
120 I went from being homeless he’s not
the trash cans traveling first class
hundred thousand dollars of engagement
back to home every star NBA NFL whatever
I consult them however being a high
school dropout because I said I want you
I need you to be my last one so most of
you may notice die Michael George this
is this is so important
all right because there are three types
of people to average they’re cool if
they’re great not the average they’d
have a anything happened and versus it
comes with the body when you’re born
average Tascosa part of the package by
everybody starts there an average then
you know the Packers have to be good and
the activate great and Michael Jordan
was considered one of the greatest
players ever played because because he
had more championship than anybody in
this particular air-crane great great is
Mike okay I’ll put this in perspective
for you because Michael to have six this
is critical Kobe Bryant has five there’s
another guy Duncan who has Magic Johnson
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this guy’s playing the game he does not
have 20 more than the next guy he does
not have more than X guy he only has one
more but that one more makes him great
it does not take a lot to be great it
just means that you do a little bit more
than the average person that you around
it doesn’t mean you have to be a guy and
you have to be a beast it just means
that you’re doing more than the average
person that’s in your circle so I love
20 Robbins rather less brown well I
realized was one thing they didn’t have
when I did my over another path advanced
degrees so I said if I get an advanced
degree I’ll put myself there are books
they are all on YouTube they are
traveling the world but they don’t have
advanced degrees and by getting one or
two advanced degree I can separate
myself with those guys why because even
if I lose my career I came here for
Australia become professor at University
remember life is over professor C go to
vex with this is deep six championship
just a couple more than the next versus
just it’s just one cool ones then he
have to talk we gotta couldn’t a great
now what’s so important this guy this
guy and the ones of the greatest game
like when the grand final is in the
grand final in India he’s in the grand
final and he’s sick he has the flu he’s
running the temperature of 102 degrees
and he’s dehydrated this is Michael
Jordan one of the great the last day
this guy is dehydrated has got a little
fever but yet they still plan today he
still shows up when the average player
is sick they don’t sure this guy is sick
and he shows up and in the end back at
home the average score 16 points this
pass course 38 dehydrated have time
before and dragged him to the sidelines
and their different influence and he
comes back in and score 38 points to win
a state championship and so I started
doing my homework and I have 21 you said
how do you get 120 with the flu and
you’re playing against the great team on
the other side not like a regular game
this is you play the best of the best
and you still put a 38 plates this is
what I for a lot of guys it’s called
muscle memory you do something every
single day every single day all day no
days off no planes off when you’re the
first one here and the last one to leave
even when your sake your body reproduces
but you do drag her lady even though
Michael Jordan will say because he was
never an average his body didn’t even
know how to produce average even when he
was sick his body dagger back brightness
everything I don’t know why I’m like I
am but my butt’s always burning there’s
always something say art dadgummit
you’re supposed to go far alright dad
gummit you’re supposed to be somebody
you’re supposed to make a difference
with you lie what does the $500,000 your
person do the $50,000 your person
doesn’t do you’re looking outside and
study those two individuals everything
seems to be the same they both are the
same sex they both are the same age have
the same training the same positions the
same contract the same fringe benefits
they both are successful they work hard
they’re good family people make tough
commitments but what’s the difference
what does the $500,000 your person do
the $50,000 your person doesn’t do he
pays the price a little bit more he
works hard and a little bit more he’s
loyal to the company a little bit more
he believes in a little bit more he
makes Maine a little bit more he saves
money a little bit more leadership is
everything you show me anything in these
United States that win I’ll show you a
leader at work you show me a successful
church Boy Scout troop club football
team business I’ll show you some a run
by leader sissy I thought at one time in
my life you had to be smart to win I
used to have these smart people that
dress so pretty and talk so pretty and
use these big words they just
intimidated me I said aren’t you can’t
ever be that good why don’t you just
throw in the towel and go back coach
football for living and I found two
things out about smart people I think
it’s almost impossible for a smart
person to win in Fitness in America
today because I find smart people spend
their whole lifetime figuring things out
they always trying to figure out an
easier way in a quicker way
and another thing I found out about
smart people’s they just don’t get
around to doing nothing they see
somebody like art Williams everybody
said well he can’t do it next time I
like that can’t do it but he does it see
folks I want you to know almost
everybody in America almost does enough
to win they almost get there they almost
struggle the huh they almost have it
going
they almost in everything they do almost
as a way of life to almost everybody in
America but the winners do it what do
they do they do whatever it takes to get
the job done they do it and do it and do
it and do it and do it until the job
gets done and then they talk about how
great it is to be somebody they’re proud
of we need leaders in America who can do
it if you want to become somebody do it
if you want to go in business for
yourself do it if you want to become
financially independent do it I hear too
much talk in these United States
everybody can talk a good game we need
people in America who can do it I go all
over this country with Al weeds and I
have people say aren’t you you count on
me wonderful just do it
I guarantee this is my light last stop
I’m gonna win now
SuperDuper just do it alright if I could
just have one good month and get the
ball go and I know I could make it big
super just do it all right if I could
just pay off this debt I could really go
great just do it if I could just sell
the house do it but house they selling
do it anyway I’m not making any money
what can I do you just do it let’s do
what are you do it and do it and do it
alright I get you have a win this
contest
super duper just do it over the hump now
watch my smoke greens just do it hard I
want to make it so bad I’m tasting what
I do you just do it alright I’m a vice
president now can I quit doing it no all
right I don’t know if I keep on keeping
on I really hurt what I do you just do
it do what are you do it and do it and
do it hard all my life I want to be
somebody important
well what do it then alright I’m gonna
save money so I don’t have to go through
this again gray hey just do it Oh
I’ve had enough training what I do you
just do it alright my manager don’t give
me no help what I do you just do it
alright you don’t understand I was mr.
everything in my former company you
don’t mean I I have to start off down to
the bottom and do it do you
yep you really got to do it
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Bart was the primary difference between
winners and losers the one at the
winners do it they do it and do it and
do it and do it until the job gets done
we’re wired differently we have to set a
goal and if we hit that goal we’re
guaranteed to make sure all that other
stuff in the middle is going to happen
all right so I need you do me a huge
favor
III need you your appetite so egy three
o’clock in the morning
why don’t you sleep my appetite my
appetite I say et I want more I can do
more if I accomplish this without a
father when I accomplish this with my
mom being a teenage mom if I accomplish
this as a high school dropout now that I
have people like Glenn in my life now
that I had people like Bob Proctor in my
life now that I have people like John
Maxwell in my life what can I accomplish
now if I can accomplish these things
from this start now that I’m at this
place knowing what I know now what can I
count and I want you to think about that
I want you to think about more than just
what you’re going to do financially more
than what you’re going to do in this
industry in the next three years right
more than that I ask you to question
what’s your appetite what do you what
are you going to do that will ensure
that when the alarm clock goes off that
you are already up 10 20 minutes before
your alarm clock blows up why you’ve
heard me say it before no alarm clock
needed my passion wakes me up listen to
me no alarm clock needed when Glenn said
6 o’clock I don’t know how it happened
jet lag and all with the sleep about
3:00 and the body just boom 5:40 woke me
up hey guys time to get up we got to go
to lobby at 6 o’clock 9 o’clock a.m.
call he left on the clock our time I
don’t know what happened but
five minutes before 11:00 the body woke
me up no alarm I have been using alarm
clock and over 20 years
what is it internally Eric I want to be
successful I want to execute I want to
make all my dreams become a reality I
want to do everything I said I’m going
to do so my appetite increases it gets
stronger every year I want more every I
want to do more every I want to help
more every I want to be bolder I want to
be better I want to be stronger every
single year every single year your
appetite should go up you should never
get settled you should never get settled
you should never get content every
single year I told you I’ve been married
for 24 years
so you think after 24 years et could
just go to Australia right and just
chill no I’m asking my wife what do you
wear before I leave cuz I’m gonna iron
your clothes for the 11 days when I
leave what are you wearing I called my
son I need you to make sure the meal
prep I didn’t make sure the bed is clean
I didn’t everything I do something I
need you to do it then I’d be a couple I
wired you a couple of dollars so I won’t
just take a picture of it and I wire you
why because when you get content when
you settle somebody was chasing you
somebody’s coming from the eye and
somebody’s trying to take your spot and
so every single day when you wake up you
got to set new goals new benchmarks you
got to raise the higher and higher and
higher so you can make your dreams
become a reality all right I’m gonna
show you I’m gonna show you listen to me
a true hunter watching watching a true
hunter
it’s like he’s wired differently that
had the same makeup listen to me what
makes a gazelle a gazelle it’s how he’s
wired what makes a lion a lot ok let me
explain to you when a lion sees a
gazelle and the gazelle sees the lion
they see each other at the exact same
time when the gazelle sees the lion
because of how he’s wired he
automatically fear takes over when the
lion sees a gazelle he lights up It’s
Showtime
the hunt is on this is what I was made
for and if you’ve ever studied a lion
and his natural and find lessons as if
an animal is wounded relying on the dirt
on tap
the lion will only attack if it’s some
real because it’s healthy and his runs
all right back here we go now right here
but uh the line line let it go it’s no
fun in that he’s already dead right
through that some of you there are
opportunities that you’re like it’s too
difficult it’s too hard
nobody can do it you’re not wired
properly a lion welcomes to challenge as
a matter of fact they don’t get excited
unless it is a challenging wired
differently because then immediately
when the gazelle immediately sees alive
the first thing it thinks about is let’s
go first thing the lion does like Lisi
so you got the message favor you don’t
get you a certain level you got a
welcome it so everybody’s like et man
you’re so positive everything in your
life man you just you just got it going
on I’m a real lion with real lion you’ll
never know you’ll never know what’s
going on in my life because I’m a lion
and under every single circumstance I’m
a lion so I lost five ounce to cancer in
the last six years I lost to last year
lie and still TGIM scale you never said
you never saw this is a special service
announcement from Eric Thomas and ETA my
heart to die therefore we’ll be taking
it six-month hiatus
no Ashley my ice death made me go and do
TGIM like I never did most of you heard
the mixtape not over not even a year ago
I went to the doctor’s office with my
wife look guys you always know
something’s wrong when the doctor when
it takes you’re the physician like 45
minutes to 50 to come here like
something’s then take that load position
comes in puts up the x-ray shows my wife
points to the brain
he said we found seven lesions on your
brain I’m a lying
my wife lifted the doctor the doctor
looked at my wife my wife looked at me
I’m like I don’t have seven liters on my
brain why is my wife looking at me cuz
she like you a lying you’re gonna be
able to tell me if I can get through
this enough so my wife looks at me I’ll
be honest with you guys when they first
told her she had seven leaves on the
brain she didn’t break her she didn’t
break a sweat but then I said you have
to start working until we find out what
it is cuz she said how long I said three
months six months you thought it’s not
working but she’s a she’s a beast
so the disease didn’t bother her but the
fact that you can’t hunt anymore that
bothered her so my wife looks at me and
says we’ve got no words but she kind of
looks at me like okay this is terrible
we’ve been together since we were 16
you’ve helped me to get out of
everything what now I said we can we
will we must we got a son graduating
from college you need to be there we got
a daughter that’s gonna finish high
school in two years you need to be there
you can get through this oh I’m wired
differently I start crying I didn’t say
why me why my wife I’m doing good to the
world I’m not hurting anybody why me I
wired differently we a t-shirt came from
it a video came from it that has over a
million hits that inspired people called
what I can I will I must turn it into a
t-shirt we turn tragedy into triumph we
turn dry that’s what Lions do Lions
don’t cry Lions don’t give up Lions
don’t quit lions hearts that’s what we
do for a living and if you want a true
lion it does not make a difference what
the circumstances is so what we’re in a
recession we made more money in the
recession than we’ve ever made before as
a matter of fact it was the recession
that birthed us we welcome the recession
y’all need a motivator knob
what do you ever need anyone before it’s
a recession that’s what is Showtime
this is where my gift is needed the most
in the world is in a fix I got it
there’s gonna be very closely if you’re
gonna walk three years Glenn said in
three years that dream that you have
that money that you want if you’re gonna
make it happen you’re gonna have to be
wired differently it’s only one other
cat from Detroit that made it out we
both went to college at Huntsville
Alabama he still lived it but out of the
20 guys that used to run together only
two of us made it out of the city and
only one of us to doing big things now
listen to me a lot of people you meet
like we’re talking lot people talk about
what they want to do and how they want
to get four points and I laugh because
when we do a LP when we do open house
and the students come from Detroit Flint
Saginaw and we say you know what kind of
grades everybody named mama right a 4.0
I never see their student right I’m
gonna get a 2.0 in math everybody
through the three five 4.0
at the end of the first semester when we
get the grades back very few kids get
4.0 they do get 3.5 I never see anybody
right I’m going to get in math 103 at
one point zero but yet at the end of the
semester midterm when I’m doing midterm
eval I’m seeing like 1.01 fives zeroes I
gotta go people come in 84 CEOs
I’m like so you need to understand
before I talk about this you need to
understand that what I’m about to tell
you to do I did it I lived it so if you
want to make six figures you can’t just
be talking about you wanna make six
figures
you tonight if you do the three things I
tell you to do tonight
I guarantee whatever it is you want to
do in life you’ll be able to do now
let’s get away from money I got to get
deep with you let’s get away from money
nobody in my family has ever really been
married they don’t do the married thing
all right
you can’t you hear what I’m saying
somebody can attest to that raise your
hand if your family don’t do the marry
thing raise your hand people in your
family they don’t do the married thing
now watch this
I’ve been married happily for 14 years
and I’ve been married for 16 all right
so I only had to work years
but in order to get to 60 let me tell
you something my marriage is so me I’m
telling you it’s so butter tight I was
see I might not they might not be mature
for this tonight but last night I was me
and my wife with slow dancing about
eight o’clock at night – Luther that’s
what my relationship is it’s the middle
of the day people don’t do that during
the middle of the week they might do it
on the weekend we slow dancing on one
honey watching my night football
I don’t need care none about Monday
Night Football cuz I’m with Luke dance
with my father my family they don’t do
the marriage thing but I bow when I was
a teenager but not only am I gonna get
married I’m only marrying one person for
the rest of my life but I’m telling you
in order to do that you got to go deep
you just can’t live a normal life and
get to that level so three things real
quick on my share with you now DeAndre
told you last week that you should be
writing stuff down don’t come here if
you’re not gonna write it down because
it don’t make sense you get some free
stuff from the book of us that people
pay thousands of dollars for see will
tell you I’ve gone to LA this summer and
for two days they gave me 15 grand that
was only for consulting that wasn’t for
speaking when I walked away from LA I
walked away with 20 grand how many
people you know make 20 G’s in two days
that’s like ten thousand dollars a day
and Chuck was i working hard no I went
working hard
why because I got the secret right here
I found out the speed I shouldn’t be
giving it to you tonight for free
he was working hard he write but I gave
him a little check he got a little check
all right he’ll get a bigger one next
year all right but three things I’m
about to change three things this is not
about Eric Thomas listen to me these are
principles that have stood the test of
time principles that have stood the test
of time and if you do what I’m about to
tell you right now you won’t be able to
accomplish whatever you want to
academically financially relationally
whatever so three things all right I’m
gonna tell you the story I gotta get out
of here
the first one is when I first said I
wanted to make six figures my boy Marcus
flowers who’s five making seven figures
right now he came to led2 eaters with a
said that like you see all the videos
with all the stars
those are his cars they’re driving
around in you see the houses that the
rappers knows that his house is in
Atlanta that he owns and they come in
and play on so he’s making seven he
taught me how to make money it’s the
first thing he came he told me a story
and the story is about you guys have
probably heard about this before it was
a it was a young man who you know he
wanted to make a lot of money and so he
went to this guru right he told the Guru
you know I want to be on the same level
you are and so the Guru said if you want
to be on the same level I’m or I’ll meet
you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00 a.m.
he liked the beach I said I wanna make
money I don’t want to swim guru said if
you want to make money I’ll meet you
tomorrow 4:00 a.m. so the young man got
there 4 a.m. here all ready to rock and
roll
got on the suit he should have wore
shorts the old man grabs his hand said
how bad do you want to be successful he
said real bad he said walked on out in
the water so he walks out into the water
watch this when he walks onto the world
it goes way steep so you like this guy
crazy up a dream like I wanna make money
he got now you’re swimming I didn’t ask
to be a lifeguard
I don’t want to make money he’s got me
thick so he said come on a little
farther once I looked further then he
had it right around in this area it’s
Duncan area so it’s own man crazy he’s
making money but he crazy said come on
out a little further can’t my little
father was right at his mouth my man
like I’m bout to go back in here this
God is mine
for the Ole Miss I thought you said you
wanted to be successful he said I do he
said walk a little brother he can’t drop
his head and held him down hold him down
my man getting scratching holding him
down I got you I know you brushed it out
but I got you you having held down I
need you for illustration you had him
held down just before my man was about
to pass out he raised him up he said I
got a question for you somebody answer
the question for me he said when you
were under water what did you want to do
leave I’m looking for a different word
doesn’t look what’s that word said I
wanted to breathe he told the guy he
said when you want to succeed as bad as
you want to breathe then you’ll be
successful I know how many I got asthma
here today but if you ever had an asthma
attack before you sure to breath and so
be shortness of breath you wheezing the
only thing you trying to do is get some
air you don’t care about no basketball
game you don’t care what’s on TV you
don’t care about nobody calling you you
don’t care about a party the only thing
you care about when you’re trying to
breathe is to get some fresh air
that’s it and when you get to the point
where all you want to do is be
successful as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful and I’m here
to tell you number one that most of you
say you want to be successful but you
don’t want it bad you just kind of want
it you don’t want it badder than you
want a party you don’t want it as much
as you want to be cool you most of you
don’t want success as much as you want
to sleep somebody’s lost sleep more than
you love success and I’m here to tell
you today if you’re going to be
successful you’ve got to be willing to
give up sleep you got to be willing to
work off for three hours of sleep two
hours it didn’t really want to be
successful some days you will have to
stay up three days in a row because if
you go to sleep you might miss the
opportunity to be successful that’s how
bad you got a warning
you gotta go day doc listen to me you
gotta want to be successful so bad that
you forget to eat be honest I said once
she was on the set doing her thing
three days had gone by she forgot she
didn’t eat cuz she was engaged I never
forget when 50 cent was doing his movie
I didn’t look research on 50 and 50 cent
that when he wasn’t doing the movie he
was doing the soundtrack and they said
when do you sleep fifty sleep he said
sleep sleep is for those people who are
broke
I don’t sleep she said I got an
opportunity to make a dream become a
reality
football players how many football
players not anybody likes football in
here raise your hand here I like
football Emmitt Smith I used to be a
cowboy fan before they did my boy Tom
Landry wrong I used to be a cowboy fan
but watch this there was a commercial
Emmitt Smith had won his first Super
Bowl and he had this commercial when he
was lifting weights I love you started
commercial when he was blimp there and
he said he said image said you know what
I won the Super Bowl so I can rest now
here on his bench press so he said I won
the Super Bowl last night so he
throws about 325 boom and he wears for
about 2 seconds and he
boom just see that he had already wanted
Superboy he said I think I’m gonna take
a rest and here s my how long one second
most of you won’t be successful because
when you’re studying and you get tired
you quit I’m here to tell you today if
you got it somebody carry my office the
other day crying I said look don’t cry
to give up cry to keep going don’t cry
to quit you’re already in pain you
already hurt get a reward from it don’t
go to sleep until you succeed listen to
me I’m here to tell you the day that you
can come here you can jump up you can do
flips you can be excited when we give
away money but listen to me you’ll never
be successful I’ll have to give you a
dime and do what you do you won’t be
successful until you say I need that
money cuz I got it in here but listen to
me Emma Smith said this at the end of
the commercial if it’s Mitch saying all
men are created equal some work harder
and 3-season I’m gonna say it again
because you might have missed it all men
are created equal some work harder and
pre-seasoned so that means that there
are some people who are going to see the
professor going to see the TA and even
when the professor says I don’t meet
with you my ta meet with you and say I
want to talk to your TA I don’t pay the
TA I bet you to teach me so you will
have to find some time to meet me if I
got to meet you at the mall if I got to
meet you at your house you are going to
see me listen to me all men are created
equal some work hard in pre-season when
I went to college guys were waiting
smarter than me for point OS 3.0 they
went to the Ivy League high schools came
the output from these great high schools
most of them are not doing what I’m
doing why cuz it’s not about
come from it’s about heart you come to a
place where you know being smarting
enough you gotta have heart that’s
number one watch number two number two
test number two I wrote it down I want
to make sure you got it it says to be
watch this watch this
we’re talking about sacrifice now the
important thing is this
you’re writing why I’m saying cuz I only
have about three more minutes listen to
me the most important thing is this to
be able at any moment to sacrifice what
you are for what you will become
that’s the number two thing you got to
catch that one to be able to listen to
me at any moment some of you you can
make sacrifices
we’re Monday Night Football is not on
you can make a sacrifice but when the
game come on for some reason you just
attached to it for something you when
your favorite show come on you can be
you can make sacrifices on Sunday when
they not going on but when your favorite
show comes on money bad some of you
focus into the phone ring and you like I
gotta answer it if I don’t answer the
phone I’m gonna die I’m saying to you
today that there are some of you if you
give up your cell phone you would be
successful but your cell phone is more
important to you than your success
I’m gonna say it again I’m gonna hurt
somebody I’m gonna hurt somebody some of
you need to give up your cell phone
because the time you spend on your cell
phone could be news for your success the
time you could be using to be successful
you’re using on the cell and the cell
phone is not bringing you nothing but a
bill and somebody has told you you
couldn’t live without it how about going
deep now giving up stuff watch what it
says to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for where we could
be I don’t do well in math you
you might never studied I’m not good in
writing because you have never written
before but I dare you to fail in writing
for a whole year to see if you can get
to the end I dare you to fail
I dare you take that same class over and
over guys I dare you stop dropping
classes like you saw always want to give
up I’m dropping why you dropping I’m so
grateful that the sliding’s didn’t drop
and quit say I’m just gonna stop I’m a
slave I’m just gonna be late imma quit
listen to me the slave said we will live
because one day we will become we will
always be slaves
so today although with slaves we’re
gonna act like we free one day our
children will be free
it displays what it just said we quit we
give up we would have died in the Middle
Passage but some slave said I don’t care
what we go through who’s gonna survive
this 400 years of slavery we’re gonna
get through this and you can’t get
through in 1825 you can’t get through a
writing class and you got to them after
tutor resource after resource the
problem is you ain’t never felt no pain
before your song it’s a song generation
you quit on everything our people did
not quit Harriet Tubman not only made it
she went back and got some more she said
you know what I made it but I’m gonna
walk off listen to me Shh
not ride the bus I’m gonna walk all the
way back down to the south to get some
more and you quitting on 1825
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now watch this you quit after you listen
to me you get a stick them back and you
wait for you wait for the first WIA
instructor to coming in and come out
your sleeping bag I need help
you put it after you do that you quit
after you had listened to me us a wor a
party I’m having a party everybody come
over I got food everything and let them
get over there let it be all the best
riders all right pooja I won’t have a
riding part
I’m serious you quitting you ain’t even
tried yet last one I’m sorry last one
listen to me pain is temporary it may
last for a minute or an hour or a day or
even a year but eventually it will
subside and something else will take its
place if I quit however it will last
forever listen to me I’m telling y’all
as I leave telling you as I leave I was
homeless for two and a half years and
the problem most of you never felt no
pain before y’all spoil y’all spoil some
of y’all spoil just bottom-line your
parents have done everything for you
they never have to be none for yourself
your spoiler we don’t keep it real
tonight some of you are spoiled brats
every time you ever got in trouble
somebody your house not you out of it
every time you done something you’re not
supposed to do people say your mother’s
a tyrant you’re right she kicked me out
you’re right she’s mean but she
developed a man because she put me out
there and said you’re gonna have to grow
up and someone you have never learned to
grow up and so every time something get
hard you quit you call it mama I dare
you to take a little pain I dare you I
dare you not to go home so I said I can
go home I feel bad go through it you
ain’t gonna die at the end of pain and
success you’re not gonna die because
you’re feeling a little pain I’m not
eating like I eat at home
that’s why you about to go to the next
level because if you keep eating like
you had at home you’ll keep being a boy
or a girl it’s time to become man woman
so don’t don’t worry about a little pain
my greatest asset is I was homeless so I
can’t feel a whole lot of pain
I’ve already been alone
I got a whole lot it’s like not a whole
lot of hurt I can feel on a little paper
on a little tense so I leave you I leave
you listen to me we have gotten to a
point where it’s midterms and we’re
moving forward the days of you getting
money I’m not saying we quittin but I’m
saying a day it’s got to go from
external to internal you have to give it
everything you got
no more TV no more parties no more plan
if you’ll have a 4.0 what you need to be
doing is studying get off the phone I’m
sorry I’m not available in to the end of
this year I’m for it you reached the
right number but you call me at the
wrong time call me back January 1st I’m
about to get busy night huh I want you
to have a countdown of your own and say
when the countdown is over we’re the
real swatching me because when I was
homeless I knew something’s wrong I knew
that wasn’t the best in me and one day I
said with a real heir Thomas please
stand up
well the real Eric Thomas please stand
up stop being this high school dropout
stop giving up stop sleeping on the
streets stop walking up and down freako
Avenue like you ain’t got none and get
your GED stop being afraid to take a
chance stop being afraid to go to cops
cuz your daddy didn’t go and your mama
didn’t go stop being afraid and be the
best every time as you can be but listen
to me it’s gonna be hard it took me 12
years to get a four-year degree but I
got it
and guess what on a degree I don’t have
dates so if it took you four it took me
12 they don’t show up nowhere but I’m
exactly where I wanted to be because I
realized I got to commit my very being
to this thing I got a
leave it I gotta eat it I gotta sleep it
and until you get there you’ll never be
successful in life when once you get
there i guarantee you the world is yours
so work hard and you can have whatever
it is you want this disease will not
defeat us this disease will not break us
it would make us better
everybody knows that we took a chronic
illness
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destroy
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she says she has to do it everyday I
said okay she said every day for the
rest of her life
I said I will not accept that there are
things in your life if you are accepted
because of my HIV clinic accepted I
don’t care you adopted on : on each side
that they would not they will not shoot
Berwyn with we will not give her a shot
with that needle every single day for
the rest of our life three months later
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I feel that she can take me because I
think that’s what we need we need to be
appeal it’s the leaders on different one
to the dock but she said I would have
told you about it but um I don’t think
your insurance company’s gonna be
willing to pay for it $10,000 a month
house it’s $8,000 year sure it’s called
me tonight if I went back the second
time they denied something like stop
backing of 121 you do $10,000 a month
look like you do $120,000 Wow to get it
for a year will not I will not let my
wife whatever it takes I will not let
her take the how to move you 120 I would
spit more I get better I will get
degrees I will get training I’ll do
whatever it takes I will put your health
first and it will not be defeated you
will not be destroyed will not lose okay
will not be in a wheelchair we will beat
this some of you what is wrong you are
not able to activate your greatness
because every time the child which
revelation cause it solved
you give up everybody every time
somebody calls until you can’t do it you
take it personal
every time somebody tells you don’t have
what it takes
you embrace it and now that stand up to
it I never did one time with my wife I
never felt discouraged I never felt it
was impossible
my wife told me just a couple days ago
she says today I feel she had a weekend
was no break and I told her it’s for
began to gain to live the ones I would
say I will look and watch when you come
on
if you make up your mind you go live to
120 I went from being homeless he’s not
the trash cans traveling first class
hundred thousand dollars of engagement
back to home every star NBA NFL whatever
I consult them however being a high
school dropout because I said I want you
I need you to be my last one so most of
you may notice die Michael George this
is this is so important
all right because there are three types
of people to average they’re cool if
they’re great not the average they’d
have a anything happened and versus it
comes with the body when you’re born
average Tascosa part of the package by
everybody starts there an average then
you know the Packers have to be good and
the activate great and Michael Jordan
was considered one of the greatest
players ever played because because he
had more championship than anybody in
this particular air-crane great great is
Mike okay I’ll put this in perspective
for you because Michael to have six this
is critical Kobe Bryant has five there’s
another guy Duncan who has Magic Johnson
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this guy’s playing the game he does not
have 20 more than the next guy he does
not have more than X guy he only has one
more but that one more makes him great
it does not take a lot to be great it
just means that you do a little bit more
than the average person that you around
it doesn’t mean you have to be a guy and
you have to be a beast it just means
that you’re doing more than the average
person that’s in your circle so I love
20 Robbins rather less brown well I
realized was one thing they didn’t have
when I did my over another path advanced
degrees so I said if I get an advanced
degree I’ll put myself there are books
they are all on YouTube they are
traveling the world but they don’t have
advanced degrees and by getting one or
two advanced degree I can separate
myself with those guys why because even
if I lose my career I came here for
Australia become professor at University
remember life is over professor C go to
vex with this is deep six championship
just a couple more than the next versus
just it’s just one cool ones then he
have to talk we gotta couldn’t a great
now what’s so important this guy this
guy and the ones of the greatest game
like when the grand final is in the
grand final in India he’s in the grand
final and he’s sick he has the flu he’s
running the temperature of 102 degrees
and he’s dehydrated this is Michael
Jordan one of the great the last day
this guy is dehydrated has got a little
fever but yet they still plan today he
still shows up when the average player
is sick they don’t sure this guy is sick
and he shows up and in the end back at
home the average score 16 points this
pass course 38 dehydrated have time
before and dragged him to the sidelines
and their different influence and he
comes back in and score 38 points to win
a state championship and so I started
doing my homework and I have 21 you said
how do you get 120 with the flu and
you’re playing against the great team on
the other side not like a regular game
this is you play the best of the best
and you still put a 38 plates this is
what I for a lot of guys it’s called
muscle memory you do something every
single day every single day all day no
days off no planes off when you’re the
first one here and the last one to leave
even when your sake your body reproduces
but you do drag her lady even though
Michael Jordan will say because he was
never an average his body didn’t even
know how to produce average even when he
was sick his body dagger back brightness
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