[Music]
we’ve all got two wolves in a suit a
good one and a bad they both want to eat
the best I can tell we just got to feed
that good one a little more than the
happiness is an emotional response to an
outcome if I win I will be happy if I
don’t I won’t
it’s an if-then cause-and-effect quid
pro quo
standard that we cannot sustain because
we immediately raise it every time we
attain it see happiness happiness
demands a certain outcome
it is result reliant and I say if
happiness is what you’re after then
you’re gonna be let down frequently and
you’re gonna be unhappy much of your
time joy though Joy’s a different thing
it’s something else
Joey is not a choice it’s not a response
to some result it’s a constant joy is
the feeling that we have from doing what
we are fashioned to do no matter the
outcome now personally as an actor I
started enjoying my work living and
literally being more happy when I
stopped trying to make the daily labor a
means to ascertain in for example I need
this film to be a box-office success you
know I need my performance to be
acknowledged I need the respect of my
peers are all those are reasonable
aspirations but the truth is as soon as
the work the daily making of the movie
the doing of the deed became the reward
in itself for me I got more box-office
more accolades and respect than I ever
had before see joy is always in process
it’s under construction it is in
constant approach alive and well in the
doing of what we’re fashion to do and
enjoying the easiest way to dissect
success
it’s through gratitude you mean thanks
for that which we do have for what is
working appreciating the simple things
we sometimes take for granted we give
thanks for these things and that
gratitude reciprocate creating more to
be thankful for it’s really simple and
it works
I’m not saying being denial of your
failures no we can learn from them too
but only if we look at them
constructively as a means to reveal what
we are good at but we can’t get better
at what we do succeed that my life’s a
verb we try our best we don’t always do
our best and since we are the architects
of our own lives let’s study the habits
the practices the routines that we have
that lead to and feed our success our
joy our honest pain our laughter our own
tears let’s dissect that and give thanks
for those things and when we do that
guess what happens we get better at them
and we have more to dissect it’s a
get-rich-quick on the Internet riches 15
minutes of fame world that we live in
and we see it every day but we all want
to succeed right so the question that
we’ve got to ask ourselves is what
success is to us what success is to you
is it more money that’s fine I got
nothing against money maybe it’s a
healthy family maybe it’s a happy
marriage maybe it’s to help others to be
famous to be spiritually sound to leave
the world a little bit better place than
you found it
continue to ask yourself that question
now your answer may change over time and
that’s fine but do yourself this favor
whatever your answer is don’t choose
anything that will jeopardize your soul
[Music]
prioritize who you are who you want to
be and don’t spend time with anything
that antagonizes your character don’t
drink the kool-aid and it tastes sweet
but you will get cavities tomorrow
all right life is not a popularity
contest be brave take
the hill but first answer that question
what’s my Hill well for me it’s a
measurement of five things we got
fatherhood
we got being a good husband we got my
health mind body and spirit we got
career and we got friendships these are
what’s important to me in my life right
now because I want to keep all five in
healthy shape and I know that if I don’t
take care of them if I don’t keep up
maintenance on them one of them is gonna
get weak man it’s gonna dip too deep
into the debit section it’s gonna go
bankrupt it’s gonna get sick die so
first we have to define success for
ourselves and then we have to put in the
work to maintain it take that daily
tally tend our guard keep the things
that are important to us in good shape
defining ourselves by what we are not is
the first step that leads us to really
knowing who we are you know that group
of friends that you hang out with that
really might not bring out the best in
you you know they gossip too much or
they’re kind of shady you really aren’t
gonna be there for you in a pinch or how
about that bar that we keep going to
that we always seem to have the worst
hangover from over that computer screen
right the computer screen that keeps
giving us an excuse not to get out of
the house and engage with the world and
get some real human interaction
I bet that food that would keep eating
and stuff to taste so good going down
makes us feel like crap the next week we
feel lethargic and we keep putting on
weight well those people those places
those things stop giving them your time
and energy just don’t go there I mean
put them down and when you do this when
you do put them down when you quit go in
there and you couldn’t given them your
time you inadvertently find yourself
spending more time and in more places
that are healthy for you that bring you
more joy why because you just eliminated
the who’s the where the what’s in the
winds that were keeping you from your
identity look trust me too many options
I promise you this too many options will
make a tyrant of us all I some get rid
of the excess the wasted time decrease
your options if you do this you will
have accidentally almost innocently put
it in front of you what is important to
you my process of elimination no one who
we are is hard it’s hard so give
yourself a break
eliminate who you are not first and
you’re gonna find yourself where you
need to be make voluntary obligations
I’m talking about the ones that we make
with ourselves with our God with our own
consciousness I’m talking about the you
versus you obligations we have to have
now again these are not societal laws
expectations that we acknowledge and
endow for anyone other than ourselves
these are faith-based obligations that
we make on our own these are not the
lowered insurance rates for a good
driving record you will not be fine to
put in jail if you do not gratify these
obligations I speak of no one else
covers these but you they are your
secrets with yourself your own private
counsel personal protocols and while
nobody throws you a party when you abide
by them no one’s going to arrest you
when you break them either except
yourself an honest man’s pillow is his
peace of mind and when you lay down on
that pillow at night no matter who’s in
your bed we all sleep alone these are
your personal jiminy crickets and there
are not enough cops in the entire world
to police them it’s on you
it’s all on you we do our best when our
destinations are beyond the measurement
when our reach continually exceeds our
grasp and when we have a more tool
finish lines and when we do this the
race is never over the journey has no
port the adventure never ends because we
are always on the way so do this do this
and let them let somebody else come up
and tap you on the shoulder and say hey
you scored let them run up and tap you
on the show and say man you won let them
come tell you you can go home now let
them say I love you too
let them say thank you take the lid off
the man-made routes that we put above
ourselves and always play like an underdog
we’ve all got two wolves in a suit a
good one and a bad they both want to eat
the best I can tell we just got to feed
that good one a little more than the
happiness is an emotional response to an
outcome if I win I will be happy if I
don’t I won’t
it’s an if-then cause-and-effect quid
pro quo
standard that we cannot sustain because
we immediately raise it every time we
attain it see happiness happiness
demands a certain outcome
it is result reliant and I say if
happiness is what you’re after then
you’re gonna be let down frequently and
you’re gonna be unhappy much of your
time joy though Joy’s a different thing
it’s something else
Joey is not a choice it’s not a response
to some result it’s a constant joy is
the feeling that we have from doing what
we are fashioned to do no matter the
outcome now personally as an actor I
started enjoying my work living and
literally being more happy when I
stopped trying to make the daily labor a
means to ascertain in for example I need
this film to be a box-office success you
know I need my performance to be
acknowledged I need the respect of my
peers are all those are reasonable
aspirations but the truth is as soon as
the work the daily making of the movie
the doing of the deed became the reward
in itself for me I got more box-office
more accolades and respect than I ever
had before see joy is always in process
it’s under construction it is in
constant approach alive and well in the
doing of what we’re fashion to do and
enjoying the easiest way to dissect
success
it’s through gratitude you mean thanks
for that which we do have for what is
working appreciating the simple things
we sometimes take for granted we give
thanks for these things and that
gratitude reciprocate creating more to
be thankful for it’s really simple and
it works
I’m not saying being denial of your
failures no we can learn from them too
but only if we look at them
constructively as a means to reveal what
we are good at but we can’t get better
at what we do succeed that my life’s a
verb we try our best we don’t always do
our best and since we are the architects
of our own lives let’s study the habits
the practices the routines that we have
that lead to and feed our success our
joy our honest pain our laughter our own
tears let’s dissect that and give thanks
for those things and when we do that
guess what happens we get better at them
and we have more to dissect it’s a
get-rich-quick on the Internet riches 15
minutes of fame world that we live in
and we see it every day but we all want
to succeed right so the question that
we’ve got to ask ourselves is what
success is to us what success is to you
is it more money that’s fine I got
nothing against money maybe it’s a
healthy family maybe it’s a happy
marriage maybe it’s to help others to be
famous to be spiritually sound to leave
the world a little bit better place than
you found it
continue to ask yourself that question
now your answer may change over time and
that’s fine but do yourself this favor
whatever your answer is don’t choose
anything that will jeopardize your soul
[Music]
prioritize who you are who you want to
be and don’t spend time with anything
that antagonizes your character don’t
drink the kool-aid and it tastes sweet
but you will get cavities tomorrow
all right life is not a popularity
contest be brave take
the hill but first answer that question
what’s my Hill well for me it’s a
measurement of five things we got
fatherhood
we got being a good husband we got my
health mind body and spirit we got
career and we got friendships these are
what’s important to me in my life right
now because I want to keep all five in
healthy shape and I know that if I don’t
take care of them if I don’t keep up
maintenance on them one of them is gonna
get weak man it’s gonna dip too deep
into the debit section it’s gonna go
bankrupt it’s gonna get sick die so
first we have to define success for
ourselves and then we have to put in the
work to maintain it take that daily
tally tend our guard keep the things
that are important to us in good shape
defining ourselves by what we are not is
the first step that leads us to really
knowing who we are you know that group
of friends that you hang out with that
really might not bring out the best in
you you know they gossip too much or
they’re kind of shady you really aren’t
gonna be there for you in a pinch or how
about that bar that we keep going to
that we always seem to have the worst
hangover from over that computer screen
right the computer screen that keeps
giving us an excuse not to get out of
the house and engage with the world and
get some real human interaction
I bet that food that would keep eating
and stuff to taste so good going down
makes us feel like crap the next week we
feel lethargic and we keep putting on
weight well those people those places
those things stop giving them your time
and energy just don’t go there I mean
put them down and when you do this when
you do put them down when you quit go in
there and you couldn’t given them your
time you inadvertently find yourself
spending more time and in more places
that are healthy for you that bring you
more joy why because you just eliminated
the who’s the where the what’s in the
winds that were keeping you from your
identity look trust me too many options
I promise you this too many options will
make a tyrant of us all I some get rid
of the excess the wasted time decrease
your options if you do this you will
have accidentally almost innocently put
it in front of you what is important to
you my process of elimination no one who
we are is hard it’s hard so give
yourself a break
eliminate who you are not first and
you’re gonna find yourself where you
need to be make voluntary obligations
I’m talking about the ones that we make
with ourselves with our God with our own
consciousness I’m talking about the you
versus you obligations we have to have
now again these are not societal laws
expectations that we acknowledge and
endow for anyone other than ourselves
these are faith-based obligations that
we make on our own these are not the
lowered insurance rates for a good
driving record you will not be fine to
put in jail if you do not gratify these
obligations I speak of no one else
covers these but you they are your
secrets with yourself your own private
counsel personal protocols and while
nobody throws you a party when you abide
by them no one’s going to arrest you
when you break them either except
yourself an honest man’s pillow is his
peace of mind and when you lay down on
that pillow at night no matter who’s in
your bed we all sleep alone these are
your personal jiminy crickets and there
are not enough cops in the entire world
to police them it’s on you
it’s all on you we do our best when our
destinations are beyond the measurement
when our reach continually exceeds our
grasp and when we have a more tool
finish lines and when we do this the
race is never over the journey has no
port the adventure never ends because we
are always on the way so do this do this
and let them let somebody else come up
and tap you on the shoulder and say hey
you scored let them run up and tap you
on the show and say man you won let them
come tell you you can go home now let
them say I love you too
let them say thank you take the lid off
the man-made routes that we put above
ourselves and always play like an underdog
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