I know right now you’re listening to
this because you want motivation you
want to be inspired but my greatest
fear is that you’ll get
motivated you’ll get inspired and
that’ll just be a declining art for a
few minutes after you listen to this
video that ends with you doing nothing
and what I want what I really hope for
and the reason that I give myself over
to making these so completely is I know
some percentage of you on the other side
of this will ultimately be prepared to
take that first step you will realize
that the only thing that matters is
action and you will take that action and
it’s in that action that your potential
greatness waits and as Martin Luther
King said take the first step in faith
you don’t have to see the whole
staircase just take the first step
you’ve just got to believe that you can
learn you don’t have to believe that
you’re already capable of doing what you
want you don’t have to believe that you
can already build that thing that you
dream you don’t have to believe that you
already are extraordinary you simply
have to believe that if you take that
first step you put yourself on a journey
not of execution you put yourself on a
journey of learning so that you can
execute and that when you understand
that difference that’s when you really
will be on that path to greatness and
that is the thing that I want for
everybody listening to this please
understand the only thing you need to
know is that you have to take the first
step
whatever the vision is that you have for
your life you absolutely can make it
come true and the process is very simple
the process is about learning the
process is about growing and getting
better it’s about recognizing what
you’re not good at it’s about
recognizing what you have to learn it’s
about taking that first step on faith on
faith that you can get better not on
faith to your grade on faith that you
can be
come the greatest of all time once you
have that faith once you know that
simply being a human being
puts you in this rare category of
creature that can get better through
pressure through pain through difficulty
through failure those are the things
that are going to be the building blocks
of your success but in order to begin on
that road in order to have your first
glorious failure you must first take
that first step so please don’t waste
your time being motivated or inspired
spend every second of your time moving
forward you all willing to hear me what
your biggest problem is you think you
shouldn’t have them
problems are what make us growth
problems are what sculpt our soul
problems are what make us become more if
we can realize that life is always
happening for us not to us game over all
the pain of suffering disappears your
problem is your gift people want to find
an ending there isn’t an ending you’re
never gonna be truly happy you’re never
gonna be truly sad if you just continue
that’s just like you get a journey you
get one ride at this thing and then when
it’s over it’s over it’s the moment you
think you have security the moment you
get complacent is the moment you die I
think it’s important people write down
their goals because otherwise they’ll
just find themself from the rat race
continue entertaining how to achieve
success in every area of your life you
have to develop the habits of highly
successful and hardworking people
successful people understand that they
must work in a straight line to get from
where they are to where they want to go
without diversion or distraction if you
want to accomplish your goals you must
be sure that everything you do is taking
you in that direction and then they
develop good habits to get you there
[Music]
we all have a habit of hesitating we
have an idea if you’re sitting in a
meeting you have this incredible idea
and instead of just you know saying it
you stop and you hesitate now what none
of us realize is that when you hesitate
just that moment that micro moment
that’s small hesitation it sends a
stress signal to your brain it is easy
to be motivated to succeed in the
beginning of an endeavor and when you
are close to the end the most difficult
part and the part where people quit is
when they are in the thick of it and it
is unclear whether they have the
strength and stamina to make it the rest
of the way like doing the things that
are tough for difficult or in certain or
scary or no so I need to stop weaving
until I feel like it whatever you focus
on you’ll feel even if it’s not true
it’s a decisions shaped destiny it’s not
our conditions it’s our decisions about
what the focus on what what the meaning
is and what will they do but we books in
a very small font of life so whatever we
focus on each year you don’t just get a
result without some kind of action
without some form of ritual ritual
meaning actions you do consistently now
do you think you knows people that are
out there working out five days a week
do they have more time than you do or I
have for anybody else of course no is
that a wife less busy of course not
it’s just a must for them they must work
out that way and they’ve made that turn
their life change
but take these huge challenges you got
break them down into little bite-sized
steps little things you do each day that
after you do them you get so much
momentum that it’s easy to succeed
you’re not overwhelmed you have these
victory day after day after day on
little fix he literally just condition
your body and emotion with a couple
little rituals so it doesn’t matter
what’s going on in your world you feel
that strength and it’s not fake it’s not
something pump up it’s coming from
inside you and it works rituals define
us see all the results in your life are
coming from your rituals they start with
a standard and then at rituals that
follow it up success and failure are not
giant events they don’t just show up you
don’t just suddenly become successful or
suddenly have this cataclysmic event
that makes you fail they look that way
but failure comes from all the little
things
it’s failure to make the call it’s
failure to check the books
it’s failure to say I’m sorry if failure
to push yourself to do things physically
that you don’t want to do and all those
little failures day after day come
together into one day some cataclysmic
event happens you blame that that event
happened because you missed all the
little stuff and success by the way is
not some overnight event it’s all these
little things success is having a vision
success is making it compelling success
is really seeing it feeling it emanating
strong enough reasons success is feeling
the sense that I’m here to grow I’m here
to give something to the world more than
just myself success he is caring about
other people success is calling and
saying I love you in the middle of day
for no damn reason you need to have some
rituals and cool things you do that
nobody else does they give you a better
life than anybody else house all the
little stuff that’s where success comes
from
you just have a vision and you don’t
have the rituals stop lying to yourself
here’s the hard truth about getting
great it takes time and dedication it
takes a willingness to accept that
you’re not yet good enough it takes the
ability to stare at the places that you
know that you’re weak to really look at
those things and not let it affect your
sense of self-esteem and not let it
affect your sense of self-worth so that
you can still get the momentum going but
you have to understand that in the
beginning we’re all terrible and as
Henri cartier-bresson said your first
10,000 photographs are your worst and so
the thing that really makes great art
are the people that continue to push and
the people that continue to work and
face how inadequate they are and really
understand that at the end of the day
greatness is a craft greatness is a
process greatness is a habit greatness
is the little things that you do every
day
overtime going out every day unafraid of
whether or not this is one of the 10,000
terrible things that you’re going to do
it’s being unafraid to make those
mistakes as being unafraid that you’re
not yet
great and as Marianne rad maker said
courage doesn’t always war sometimes
courage is the quiet voice at the end of
the day saying I will try again tomorrow
and that’s it if you want to be great
that’s what you have to do you’ve got to
get up again tomorrow you’ve got to be
willing to face another day you’ve got
to be willing to accept that you’ve got
to get through the bad ideas before you
can get to the good you’ve got to
understand that you have to start as an
apprentice you have to start as a person
going and getting tea and you have to
accept that that’s the job that you
should be playing that you should be
working for some
so you should be looking up to somebody
else’s seeing what they can teach you
because what you know is that you’re
there to learn what you notice that
you’re there to get through the 10,000
bad photographs that you need to get
through to ultimately achieve greatness
and if you make the catastrophic error
that’s so many make to try to tell the
world your extraordinary today to try to
get the world to follow you and look up
to you and think you’re something today
because the people that living with are
the ones that are best today the ones
that listen today the ones that spend
every ounce of their energy amassing
mastery getting better every day working
their asses off to improve their skill
set to relentlessly look at the things
that they’re not doing well to
understand that they have to break
themselves down and get rid of all of
their ego before they can really find
greatness those are the people that we
remember
this because you want motivation you
want to be inspired but my greatest
fear is that you’ll get
motivated you’ll get inspired and
that’ll just be a declining art for a
few minutes after you listen to this
video that ends with you doing nothing
and what I want what I really hope for
and the reason that I give myself over
to making these so completely is I know
some percentage of you on the other side
of this will ultimately be prepared to
take that first step you will realize
that the only thing that matters is
action and you will take that action and
it’s in that action that your potential
greatness waits and as Martin Luther
King said take the first step in faith
you don’t have to see the whole
staircase just take the first step
you’ve just got to believe that you can
learn you don’t have to believe that
you’re already capable of doing what you
want you don’t have to believe that you
can already build that thing that you
dream you don’t have to believe that you
already are extraordinary you simply
have to believe that if you take that
first step you put yourself on a journey
not of execution you put yourself on a
journey of learning so that you can
execute and that when you understand
that difference that’s when you really
will be on that path to greatness and
that is the thing that I want for
everybody listening to this please
understand the only thing you need to
know is that you have to take the first
step
whatever the vision is that you have for
your life you absolutely can make it
come true and the process is very simple
the process is about learning the
process is about growing and getting
better it’s about recognizing what
you’re not good at it’s about
recognizing what you have to learn it’s
about taking that first step on faith on
faith that you can get better not on
faith to your grade on faith that you
can be
come the greatest of all time once you
have that faith once you know that
simply being a human being
puts you in this rare category of
creature that can get better through
pressure through pain through difficulty
through failure those are the things
that are going to be the building blocks
of your success but in order to begin on
that road in order to have your first
glorious failure you must first take
that first step so please don’t waste
your time being motivated or inspired
spend every second of your time moving
forward you all willing to hear me what
your biggest problem is you think you
shouldn’t have them
problems are what make us growth
problems are what sculpt our soul
problems are what make us become more if
we can realize that life is always
happening for us not to us game over all
the pain of suffering disappears your
problem is your gift people want to find
an ending there isn’t an ending you’re
never gonna be truly happy you’re never
gonna be truly sad if you just continue
that’s just like you get a journey you
get one ride at this thing and then when
it’s over it’s over it’s the moment you
think you have security the moment you
get complacent is the moment you die I
think it’s important people write down
their goals because otherwise they’ll
just find themself from the rat race
continue entertaining how to achieve
success in every area of your life you
have to develop the habits of highly
successful and hardworking people
successful people understand that they
must work in a straight line to get from
where they are to where they want to go
without diversion or distraction if you
want to accomplish your goals you must
be sure that everything you do is taking
you in that direction and then they
develop good habits to get you there
[Music]
we all have a habit of hesitating we
have an idea if you’re sitting in a
meeting you have this incredible idea
and instead of just you know saying it
you stop and you hesitate now what none
of us realize is that when you hesitate
just that moment that micro moment
that’s small hesitation it sends a
stress signal to your brain it is easy
to be motivated to succeed in the
beginning of an endeavor and when you
are close to the end the most difficult
part and the part where people quit is
when they are in the thick of it and it
is unclear whether they have the
strength and stamina to make it the rest
of the way like doing the things that
are tough for difficult or in certain or
scary or no so I need to stop weaving
until I feel like it whatever you focus
on you’ll feel even if it’s not true
it’s a decisions shaped destiny it’s not
our conditions it’s our decisions about
what the focus on what what the meaning
is and what will they do but we books in
a very small font of life so whatever we
focus on each year you don’t just get a
result without some kind of action
without some form of ritual ritual
meaning actions you do consistently now
do you think you knows people that are
out there working out five days a week
do they have more time than you do or I
have for anybody else of course no is
that a wife less busy of course not
it’s just a must for them they must work
out that way and they’ve made that turn
their life change
but take these huge challenges you got
break them down into little bite-sized
steps little things you do each day that
after you do them you get so much
momentum that it’s easy to succeed
you’re not overwhelmed you have these
victory day after day after day on
little fix he literally just condition
your body and emotion with a couple
little rituals so it doesn’t matter
what’s going on in your world you feel
that strength and it’s not fake it’s not
something pump up it’s coming from
inside you and it works rituals define
us see all the results in your life are
coming from your rituals they start with
a standard and then at rituals that
follow it up success and failure are not
giant events they don’t just show up you
don’t just suddenly become successful or
suddenly have this cataclysmic event
that makes you fail they look that way
but failure comes from all the little
things
it’s failure to make the call it’s
failure to check the books
it’s failure to say I’m sorry if failure
to push yourself to do things physically
that you don’t want to do and all those
little failures day after day come
together into one day some cataclysmic
event happens you blame that that event
happened because you missed all the
little stuff and success by the way is
not some overnight event it’s all these
little things success is having a vision
success is making it compelling success
is really seeing it feeling it emanating
strong enough reasons success is feeling
the sense that I’m here to grow I’m here
to give something to the world more than
just myself success he is caring about
other people success is calling and
saying I love you in the middle of day
for no damn reason you need to have some
rituals and cool things you do that
nobody else does they give you a better
life than anybody else house all the
little stuff that’s where success comes
from
you just have a vision and you don’t
have the rituals stop lying to yourself
here’s the hard truth about getting
great it takes time and dedication it
takes a willingness to accept that
you’re not yet good enough it takes the
ability to stare at the places that you
know that you’re weak to really look at
those things and not let it affect your
sense of self-esteem and not let it
affect your sense of self-worth so that
you can still get the momentum going but
you have to understand that in the
beginning we’re all terrible and as
Henri cartier-bresson said your first
10,000 photographs are your worst and so
the thing that really makes great art
are the people that continue to push and
the people that continue to work and
face how inadequate they are and really
understand that at the end of the day
greatness is a craft greatness is a
process greatness is a habit greatness
is the little things that you do every
day
overtime going out every day unafraid of
whether or not this is one of the 10,000
terrible things that you’re going to do
it’s being unafraid to make those
mistakes as being unafraid that you’re
not yet
great and as Marianne rad maker said
courage doesn’t always war sometimes
courage is the quiet voice at the end of
the day saying I will try again tomorrow
and that’s it if you want to be great
that’s what you have to do you’ve got to
get up again tomorrow you’ve got to be
willing to face another day you’ve got
to be willing to accept that you’ve got
to get through the bad ideas before you
can get to the good you’ve got to
understand that you have to start as an
apprentice you have to start as a person
going and getting tea and you have to
accept that that’s the job that you
should be playing that you should be
working for some
so you should be looking up to somebody
else’s seeing what they can teach you
because what you know is that you’re
there to learn what you notice that
you’re there to get through the 10,000
bad photographs that you need to get
through to ultimately achieve greatness
and if you make the catastrophic error
that’s so many make to try to tell the
world your extraordinary today to try to
get the world to follow you and look up
to you and think you’re something today
because the people that living with are
the ones that are best today the ones
that listen today the ones that spend
every ounce of their energy amassing
mastery getting better every day working
their asses off to improve their skill
set to relentlessly look at the things
that they’re not doing well to
understand that they have to break
themselves down and get rid of all of
their ego before they can really find
greatness those are the people that we
remember
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