should people make news resolutions
people should make new year’s
resolutions if they’re actually watching
this video on January 1st if they’re
watching it on December 23rd
they should make December 23rd
resolutions waiting miraculously to win
the calendar flips to start making your
life better is silly at best and pisses
me off at worst and so whenever you’re
watching this because it lives on the
internet and thus that means you could
watch this on June 17th make a
resolution every day of your life
because you only get one at-bat the
reason people struggle with having a new
year’s resolution and sticking to it is
because it was a tactic to do a new
year’s resolution hence why my first
answer was right which is when you
actually decide to make a change in your
life whether about weight or job or
going out with somebody or relationships
that’s when you actually pull it off
it’s religion not tactics
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statistics show that 95% of the people
that actually made a new year’s
resolution have already broken it by
today and that’s if you even made a
resolution I mean think about it most
people don’t even make a resolution
anymore why because they’ve made them
from years and years and years and they
know they’re not gonna follow through so
after a while who wants to disappoint
yourself who wants to be upset with
yourself why even bother to set a new
standard for this year you know it’s
gonna be the same as last year so the
question is you know what is it that
makes us even want to make a resolution
misting question why is it at the
beginning of the year we have this
tradition but it goes beyond tradition
it’s something inside of us that makes
us want to make things better and I
think part of it is the calendar gives
us this idea that we can have a fresh
start that we can start from fresh and
have this great victory let’s use the
calendar to serve you today let’s just
see what does it really take to make
this thing happen because there’s no
denying that inside of you the only
thing that’s gonna make you happy and
the your head and the decades ahead it’s
gonna be having you have an experience
where on a regular basis you feel like
your life is making progress so the
secret to real happiness is progress
progress equals happiness and if we can
make progress on a regular basis we feel
alive and that’s why at the beginning of
the year we get this thing like okay I
can have this fresh start I could really
do what my soul desires I could expand I
could grow I can improve I could change
or maybe better than change I could
progress so if you want to make real
progress then you really got to look at
your life in a different way you gotta
say I gotta take control of this process
and not just hope that’s gonna work out
like people do who make a resolution cuz
really isn’t that what they’re really
doing at the beginning of the year
they’re saying well here’s my
resolutions for the year and they really
basically tell you their wishes it’s
their wish list it’s what they hope it
all comes together and then they call it
a resolution but they don’t know what a
resolution is
when you resolve something to have a
resolution is to resolve it when you’ve
resolved this is how it’s gonna be
that’s when you cut off any possibility
except the thing you’ve committed to
make a resolution every day of your life
because you only get one app back
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most people they’re stating what they
hope will come together and if it
doesn’t happen then they’re disappointed
but they’re not too disappointed cuz
they’re not too vested what does it take
to successfully create a lasting change
in your life to not only have a new
year’s resolution you follow through on
but really have a lasting change well
the first step for lasting change is
very much like making a new year’s
resolution fundamentally it’s the same
the first step is you got to have a
vision a vision for what it is you
really truly want
I mean what are most people’s new year’s
resolutions I’m gonna stop eating sugar
you know I’m gonna stop smoking I’m
gonna lose 10 pounds table that is it’s
not very inspiring for most people you
know it’s not telling you what you’re
gonna get it’s only what you’re not
gonna do and it’s kind of hard to have
you move forward with that a vision is
about what you’re here to create a
vision that really works is one that
excites you if you say well mine you
know my resolution my goal my outcome
for this month this week this year is to
lose X number of pounds that’s okay but
it’s not very compelling it has to be a
compelling vision it’s gotta have
something as the power to pull you not
something you have to push yourself to
do those are two different kinds of
motivation push requires willpower and
willpower never last what will last is
pulled having something so exciting so
attractive so some of you desire so much
that you have a hard time going to sleep
at night and get so up early in the
morning to rock it and take it to the
next level that’s what you’re looking at
grey and that wasn’t easy to get
and the bottom line of our
follow-through comes down to our
emotional intensity you gotta have
strong enough reasons that you’re gonna
follow through when the going gets tough
they don’t have strong enough reasons to
push themselves through what’s gonna be
necessary to get that dream to get that
goal when the inevitable challenges come
up when you’re starving hungry and
you’re trying to go on a diet right when
you got no time you’re stressed out you
haven’t worked out still that’s what
you’re supposed to do when the economy
gets tight and what you thought you’re
gonna do doesn’t work and so you give up
on the goal instead of finding another
way to get there you don’t let the fear
take you over if you’ve got strong
enough reasons reasons come first
answers come second if you’ve got a
compelling vision and you’ve got strong
enough reasons that will push you
through the tough times you’re gonna do
things other people don’t do instead of
collapsing even if you get off target
you won’t go I blew it you’ll get right
back on target make the change make
things happen if we do our best when our
destinations are beyond the measurement
when our reach continually exceeds our
grasp and when we have a more Toole
finish lines now when we do this the
race is never over
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 score it let
them run up and tap you on the show and
say Minnie you want
let them come tell you you go home now
let them say I love you too let them say
thank you take the lid off the man-made
roofs that we put above ourselves and
always play like an underdog
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when you really get clear and it’s
compelling and you’re reviewing it every
day got strong reasons you’re viewing it
every day and you’re feeling it the
brain becomes incredibly acute at
noticing anything to get you to move
forward you know what do people do with
New Year’s resolution they come up with
something they kind of want it’s not a
compelling vision they don’t really have
strong enough reasons and they never
review it again until to notice that
they broke what they said they really
want to have make happen because they
didn’t really resolve if you resolve you
got the vision it’s compelling you
review it daily and you feel it you
envision it and you experience it simple
as it sounds now ultimately what is this
really about ultimately if you’re gonna
have lasting change in anything you’re
really talking about just raising your
standards raise your standards what does
that mean corny as it sounds raise your
standards I’ll thank you for the
breakthrough thought Tony lasting change
is different than a goal you don’t
always get your goals but you always get
your standards but when you decide
something as a must for you and an
absolute must when you cut up any
possible you say I’m gonna find the way
I’m gonna make the way human beings when
they resolve things and they have make a
real resolution inside themselves which
is they raise the standard they make it
a must they find the way
if you say said to me well I’m really
gonna work hard to stop smoking but you
know I’ve been a smoker my whole life
and I’m you know I am a smoker I know
your days are numbered you’re gonna be
back smoking cigarettes again because we
all act consistent with who we believe
we are
I tell people the strongest force in the
whole human personality is this need to
stay consistent with how we define
ourselves
if you define yourself as somebody who
is really conservative you’re not gonna
be crazy and act nuts unless you’re
really drunk or something and then you
can say it’s the alcohol when it really
does you finally getting permission to
be yourself the alcohol is your excuse
if you’re a really crazy person you act
crazy outrageous playful you don’t have
conservative because that’s not who you
are
very often people say well I can’t do
that I’m not that kind of person and I
always say to people really when did you
define yourself I mean very often we
made decisions in our youth or very
young about what to believe about what
we were capable of about who we are as a
person and that becomes the glass
ceiling if you will that controls us
willpower doesn’t last
but rituals can last a lifetime I bet
you have some rituals in your life right
now you’ve been doing for years even
though some of them don’t serve you I’m
just saying wake yourself up make if you
want a new year and a new life you don’t
need to start in January first start
today start with this little video
then how’s your new your coming out so
far when did you define yourself I mean
really how many years ago did you come
up with what you could and couldn’t do
in your life how many years ago most
people if they really look at how
they’re living their life today it’s
based on a set of standards a set of
beliefs that they made choices about 10
20 30 or more years ago
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this is it
there you’ve been waiting for
I know you’re nervous it’s all mine my
first game too now it’s time to go out
there and put it on the scoreboard now
it’s time to see who has a heart now is
the time to prove to yourselves and
prove to everyone out there that even
though you’re locked up with somebody
you are worthy of something and you’re
able to do something special that no one
else in the world can do I need to go
out there and take what’s yours what
you’ve worked hard for but one thing
that a lot of people don’t know that I
want to share with you guys is when I
was 22 years old I came to this city for
the first time I was playing in the
Canadian Football League
playing my first pro football game I was
playing for the Calgary Stampeders we
were playing the BC Lions I was so
excited
two days later I got cut dreams
shattered sent home with seven bucks in
my pocket I was like wait no I gotta
play in the NFL eventually those are my
big goals that’s my dream you realize
that that playing in the NFL was the
best thing that never happened because
it got me here so my point is look
you’re gonna get your ass kicked we’re
gonna get this kicked out of us you got
to get up you got to have faith that the
one thing you want it to happen
oftentimes is the best thing that never
so have faith just keep that in mind and
keep plugging away
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can’t play football forever I played for
ten years you can’t be in the ring
forever you can’t be in the Octagon
forever you can’t be the boxing ring
forever football but you can always
train and get better push yourself
just bring it that’s it
just bring it I’d say that my everyday
life and in terms of my challenges and
things like that
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okay in between sets as I’m working out
and as I often do in between sets I
slide into your comments section nice
ins I read your comments just so we
could stay connected and I always know
what’s on your mind and I can address it
so somebody just asked me a cool
question said DJ you’re on top where
could you possibly go from here and you
always talk about out working your
competition who’s your competition it’s
a great question thank you for the
compliment by the way I’m fortunate
enough to be on top but anytime you
reach the top you always want to make
sure that you have the desire to raise
the bar and take the brass ring to
places it’s never been that sticky with
being on top just because it’s never
been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done
and in terms of competition great
question everyone’s my competition but
the fundamental key that I’ve learned
over the years is I’ll share with you my
number one competition is me it’s always
you versus you you’ve got to be the one
to get up every morning be disciplined
put in the consistent daily hard work
because that gains success no coach no
trainer no mentor no boss can do it you
versus you
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no I wanted to be something and it was
important to me to do something of it it
was important to me that I didn’t fail
but by the way and if I did fail at
least that what was also important was a
lesson and I didn’t realize that until I
got older because you know when you’re
in it you’re in the grind you don’t
really recognize those things when
you’re younger but I could recognize him
now and the importance of them now and
just in terms of the drive and the
determination a lot of it was experience
to get your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
on and you swing away
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all right Saturday afternoon empty gym
the way we like it tripping over here
it’s late day which means it’s going to
be sweaty painful and fun
and say that nothing good happens in the
four am out well I can guaran-damn-tee
you this it’s 4:45 a.m. it’s still dark
outside look at that the lights just
went out and I’m getting ready to kill
this AM cardio train twice I’ll get my
cardio in and breakfast and I’ll go hit
the weights clanging and banging we call
it
you know the masters make the hardest
things in the world look easiest and in
the moments where you push yourself when
no one else is around those moments have
a tendency to lead to success oftentimes
when I see kids and they have been
labeled all their punk kids true
but there’s good in him and we got to
see that potential and I enjoy that
today seeing potential and kids just
like he did especially kids who are kind
of wayward and I’ve been going through
it I know what it’s like you are most
powerful most important is when we just
embrace who we are is just believing in
yourself and embracing who you were born
to be
whether it’s 3 o’clock in the morning by
the way when we were talking in London I
was hitting up at 3:00 because I had to
be on set by 4:00 so whatever time my
call time is those in directors and not
producers whatever time I call some so
my call time is at 7 then you back your
clock up for hours and then that’s when
I get up and train twice
just wrap that for a and cardio there’s
no substitute for hard work get up super
early general I have this thing where I
like beating the Sun up not just in
terms of what Sun comes I have to get up
and how do I do it it’s just important
to find balance and I try and do things
really that I really enjoyed doing and a
lot of times you know it’s like in life
right life brings like drama and you got
to deal with this person and if your
relationship here you know this thing
work 12 hours a day 14 hours a day get
up at 3 o’clock in the morning
I don’t know if there’s a golden rule I
can tell you this that I believe
anything is possible
right I live in the world a possibility
and I also believe that anything we can
accomplish anything with our two hands
and just putting in the work without
your hands and also you hear this often
but it’s really really true you got to
find something if you love what you do
and find and be passionate about what
you do and find something that you could
be passionate like it really helps you
know it gives you that motivation when
you wake up in the morning
consistently being told that whatever it
is that you want to do
you’ve gotta get after you you’ve got a
good after there’s no substitute for
hard work hard work always pays you know
those type of mantras over time and
those are your examples of you know what
it’s like to get beat down what it’s
like to get just in terms of just in
terms of the struggle what it’s like to
be evicted out of your apartment what
it’s like to have your car repossessed
and watch your parents go through that
is is I think is defining as as a kid
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you know I grew up there was a period of
time where I was making a lot of
mistakes David I was I was getting
arrested multiple times by the time I
was 16 I was arrested maybe seven or
eight times
fighting theft doing a lot of things
that I shouldn’t have been doing I was
really lucky that I had a couple of
people who along with my parents who saw
the potential in me even when I didn’t
see the potential in me and it was until
I got older had a little bit of luck a
little bit of success that I started to
understand the value and the power of
someone giving back
but some people call you the best pure
athlete in wrestling today let’s start
off with a bit of your history when you
broke in you were packaged as a part of
a wrestling legacy your father is rocky
Johnson or sweet ebony diamond as
Canadian fans know him Tony Atlas was a
family friend all kinds of family roots
were you ever concerned that you
wouldn’t get your chance to prove
yourself on your own terms no no I was
never ever concerned about that because
nor was I ever concerned about trying to
fill their shoes because of my dad’s
they were just too big you know my
grandfather as well but at the same time
I always knew that one time what one day
whenever I got the opportunity I was
just gonna make it happen
persistence and hard work I knew one day
it was gonna happen when I made up my
mind to get involved in the business
that I have a passion for that I grew up
in I knew and that there’s gonna be
there’s gonna be a time where the
success the success will come and that’s
through hard work and in consistency
it’s you know the same old story things
like that so it’s it’s surprising to a
degree but I was well aware that it was
going to happen we live in a world of
illusion
most people never pick up the phone and
call most people never ask and that’s
what separates sometimes the people that
do things from the people that just
dream about them got it you got to act
and you’ve got to be willing to fail
you’ve got to be willing to crash and
burn you know with people on the phone
with starting a company with whatever if
you’re afraid of failing
you always better to show something as
opposed to talking about it did did
Leonardo have a guy off to the side that
was thinking five years out in the
future what he would paint or the
technology he would use to paint it of
course not Leonardo was the artist but
he also mixed all his own paints I think
you should go get a job as a busboy or
something until you find something
you’re really passionate about because
it’s a lot of work and I’m convinced
that about half of what separates the
successful entrepreneurs from the non
successful ones is pure perseverance it
is so hard you pour so much your life
into this thing there are such rough
moments in time that most people give up
we live in a world of illusion where you
see things that you think are real
sometimes they are and sometimes they’re
not
but what is really real that we’re going
to talk about now is to imagine your own
power
the majority of people wait for the
masses to do something when the masses
do something they join in and they join
on board but they forget that the masses
are made up of individuals those
individuals each in a zone is extremely
powerful
it’s all about imagining and doing
believing in yourself but know how it
works
know exactly what something costs to the
second so in business a lot of things or
I call it folklore they’re done because
they were done yesterday and the day
before a lot of times you know when you
have to walk a thousand miles and you
take the first step it looks like a long
ways and it really helps if there’s
someone there saying well we’re one step
closer you know that the goal definitely
exists it’s not just a mirage out there
if people if humans can’t imagine doing
what you have to do when nobody is
watching you you’re doing as if someone
is right there watching you and in your
free time you’re not trying to elongate
something you’re doing what you should
do without people watching you do it
as you look toward the future if you
decided I’m not going to allow my fears
to stop me what would your life be like
what would your future be like if you
decided to to want that which you desire
so strongly that it prepares you past
your fears that you experience the fear
as the one book says feel the fear and
do it anyway
what would your life be like and I’m
saying to you that all of us who have
been entombed by fear have a capacity to
resurrect ourselves
I always tell people who are you know
who think they want to be entrepreneurs
it’s you need a combination of stubborn
relentlessness and flexibility and you
have to know when to be which basically
you need to be stubborn on your vision
because otherwise it would be too easy
to give up but you need to be very
flexible on the details because as you
go along pursuing their vision you’ll
find that some of your preconceptions
were wrong and you’re going to need to
be able to change those things you
define greatness in yourself you’re not
going to find it by looking in a book or
by even hearing me I may give you the
spark but you’ve got to go inside
yourself to find it and that means you
gotta be quiet
shut the fuck up go on a room stop
talking search your soul insert your
mind search your abilities and you’ll
find it but if you’re not looking
forward you won’t find it so you got to
go start the journey and the journey
starts to be finding why the hell in my
field is playing why am I here if you
don’t know that you live the rest your
life searching always asking the
question why
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when you get up in the morning you do
what you normally do I would eventually
say a lot of you here probably turn on
your cell phones your computers and
what’s the latest email what’s the
latest text that comes in you start your
day off like that that’s your mindset
try this get up in the morning do
whatever you have to do don’t turn the
computer on don’t turn the TV on stay
together you got to be hungry he said
people that are hungry are willing to do
the things a day of us won’t do in order
to have to think tomorrow others won’t
have
to people that are hungry are relentless
people that are hungry unstoppable
people that are hungry refused to give
up people that are hungry no excuse is
acceptable for not making their dream
become a reality is that I’m hungry sir
and that’s when I realized that there’s
two ways to see the world some people
see the thing that they want and some
people see the thing that prevents them
from getting the thing that they want
there’s time there’s performance there’s
financial I mean they’re you know
there’s deadlines my pressures are not
unique the situation’s may be different
or you know but but everybody has the
same kinds of pressures but what I found
or what I find fascinating is the
interpretation of the stimuli
you have to be just as enthusiastic on
door number 101 as you were on door
number 100
just as the yessing so you have to
imagine yourself in this frame of mine
what can we do collectively to create
that change in that imagination
immediately it’s all in the mindset
in order to be successful you got to be
hungry you’ve got to be willing to do
the things today others won’t do are you
willing to do that to be successful
imagine what you could do but imagine
that you can do it right now and how do
you do these things right now what are
some of the lessons that we go through
to do things right now many times an
entrepreneurship people say what are the
secrets to success whether you’re
working at a job that you just love and
you don’t want to be the boss or you
want to start something on you know
where the secrets I share two things
imagine these because they’re gonna
happen one be prepared for a lot of
rejection whether people close the door
in your face or tell you it’s never
going to happen you can’t do it you’re
too old you don’t have the education you
don’t have what it takes somebody else
did it don’t listen to them don’t let it
affect you if you’re prepared for
rejection when it happens it’s not going
to affect you that much it really won’t
because you’re prepared for it of course
I was prepared for it
interpretation of what’s happening in
their bodies I mean what it what happens
when you’re nervous right your heart
rate starts to go you’re you know you
sort of get a little tense you get a
little sweaty right
you have expectation of what’s coming
and we interpreted that is I’m nervous
now what’s the interpretation of excited
your heart rate starts to go you become
you’re anticipating what’s coming right
you get a little sort of like tense it’s
all the same thing it’s the same stimuli
except these athletes these these
Olympic quality athletes have learned to
interpret the stimuli that the rest of
us would say is nervous as excited they
also the same thing no I’m not nervous
I’m excited and so I’ve actually
practiced it just to tell myself when I
start to get nervous that this is
excitement you know and so where when
you I used to be speaking for the large
audience and somebody’d say how do you
feel it’s a little nervous now when
somebody says how do you feel like
really excited actually and it it came
from just sort of telling myself no no
this is excitement and it becomes a
little bit automatic later on that if
you’re doing what no one has done before
stuff goes wrong and in fact it’s
nothing ever goes wrong in what you’re
doing if you make no mistakes in your
job and you’re in whatever task you’ve
brought upon yourself then you are not
on the frontier simple
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you’ve got some goals that you want to
cheat listen things that you want to do
and you’ve said to yourself I’m willing
to face the nose
you said yourself I’m willing for people
laugh at me you said yourself I’m
willing to get this out
you said yourself I’m willing to make
this happen you said yourself I’m gonna
do whatever it takes to build this
business I can do it if anybody’s ever
done at any point in time in history
then what’s possible for run it’s
possible for me
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and I’m gonna do it
it’s my time it’s possible it’s
necessary it’s me it’s par it’s worth
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when the tough times come and they’re
going to come when you feel like you
can’t see the light at the end of the
tunnel and that’s a part of the process
your reasons will be your rod and staff
to comfort you to take you through the
storms of life the most important
investment you can make is in yourself
who are your most treasured asset
sometimes you’re the problem
he said you gotta be hungry
go back again
if you do what is easy your life would
be hard but if you do what is hard your
life would be easy people that are
hungry believe what Zig said when he
said you give enough people what they
want they will give you what you want
people that are hungry believe always
strive to get on top of life because
it’s the bottom until the crowded people
that are hungry are uncommon people they
are saying yes to their dreams there’s a
yes to an opportunity where they can
develop their entrepreneurial skills
where they can develop their mind and
their leadership skills where they can
become versatile and flexible and create
and build a business they can be proud
of people that are hungry have a vision
of themselves when they leave him
leaving a legacy and not liabilities
people that are hungry understand that
most people died aged 25 and don’t get
there till they’re 65 because they’re
not willing to take a chance on
themselves people that are hungry a rare
breed they’re risk takers
I don’t know what you want to do
seemed like yesterday when I was the new
kid on the block you want the future to
change for you you’ve got to change if
you don’t change the next six years of
your life is gonna be just like the last
six can’t explain why I shine and no one
knows son I think everybody shines and
different things you can’t be alone to
really succeed no man really is in
Ireland see everybody was born for
purpose times of stress there are also
times that our signals for growth and if
we use adversity properly we can grow
through words that the purpose of my
life had always been to free people from
concern and after that I was fearless I
just can’t live my life based upon what
other people think about them where I
accept is sickening work out the one
thing they all have in common I think is
the hungry I believe that’s the single
most important element that separates
the body be precise what do you desire
what makes you itch what sort of a
situation would you like let’s suppose I
do this often in vocational guidance of
students they come to me and say well
we’re getting out of college and we have
the faintest idea what we want to do so
I always ask the question what would you
like to do if money were no object what
would how would you really enjoy
spending your life well it’s so amazing
as a result of our kind of educational
system crowds of students say well we’d
like to be painters we’d like to be
poets we’d like to be writers but as
everybody knows we can’t earn any money
that way or another person says well I’d
like to live in out of doors life and
ride horses I said you want to teach in
a riding school let’s go through with it
what do you want to do when we finally
got down to something which the
individual says he really wants to do I
will say to him you do that and forget
the money because if you say that
getting the money is the most
importantly you will spend your life
completely wasting your time you’ll be
doing things you don’t like doing in
order to go on living that is to go on
doing things you don’t like doing which
is stupid better to have a short life
that is full of what you like doing than
a long life spent in a miserable way
greatness is not this
wonderful esoteric illusive godlike
feature that only the special among us
will ever taste you know it’s something
that truly exists and all of us very
simple this is what I believe and I’m
willing to die for Pierre it’s not just
the ability have hunger but to sustain
and hunger means that you want more you
want more of yourself you want to make a
bigger difference you want to be a
better parent you want to you want to do
something more than there is today and
that you don’t get satisfied most people
start out with hunger and early stage of
life and they lose it but the people
that come to me are hungry either
because something’s happen they’ve had a
birthday with a zero on it they’ve gone
through a divorce they’re starting a
business and they know I’ve got to have
a different level or they’re the best in
the world and they’re always looking for
that edge that makes the difference that
is absolutely stupid to spend your time
doing things you don’t like in order to
go on spending things you don’t like
doing things you don’t like and to teach
our children to follow in the same track
my father could have been a great
comedian but he didn’t believe that that
was possible for him and so he made a
conservative choice instead he got a
safe job as an accountant and when I was
12 years old he was let go from that
safe job and our family had to do
whatever we could to survive
I learned many great lessons from my
father not the least of which was that
you can fail at what you don’t want so
you might as well take a chance on doing
what you love we didn’t grow up with the
sense that where we were was where we
were going to be you know we grew up
with the sense that where we were almost
didn’t matter because we were becoming
something greater the decisions we make
control us much more than the conditions
we need it’s not the conditions at your
decisions decisions what to believe
what to do this isn’t what to give that
if you would have made a different
decision you have a totally different
life today life goes on with or without
you how do you use your time is really
important because your life matters it’s
not for nothing that matters for a lot
it matters to a lot of people and you
know we spend so much time giving
attention to the silly stupid and
superficial stuff and take for granted
so much that everyday we’re just going
to wake up and we’re going to go through
the same routines and get to see the
same people that are going to be there
when we come home at night and every
day’s just going to be like the other
but right now even as I’m recording this
video there are hundreds if not
thousands of people all over the world
who are just now getting noticed that
you know somebody that they care about
or somebody that they knew because their
life has been taken by surprise
unexpectedly awesome accent
or detect or something like that none of
us know how long we’re going to be here
so it’s a moment to take pause and think
about your life and what you do with
your time and to not only make the to
concentrate on making the best of your
life but to also make your life
meaningful in the most important ways
I think everybody is born with hunger
right there’s there’s there’s a desire
to grow to expand to learn and then
disappointment sets in early in life for
those people and then we look to blame
something outside of ourselves and there
are many events and the lights that can
affect us all we’ve all had pain and
challenges but I think if you can find
within yourself the part of you that
wants to constantly give something more
than yourself if you can find a mission
larger than yourself then you’re more
pulled to do something than trying to
push yourself and pull has much more
power than push I always say motive does
matter that if you if your motive is to
serve something greater there’s an
energy that comes up inside of you the
wise man is he who knows his life
purpose Tinh people with the knowledge
of the purpose are more powerful than a
thousand without the purpose of courage
courage is the key to life itself
a lot of people who were born in
situation of us survived just I’ll never
get out of this so they won’t I say to
people say well I would like to have
done so and so himself so you could have
done it some but I couldn’t get out of
here man the bus runs every day what the
hell is success it’s hitting an
expectation can I always tell people man
trade your expectations for appreciation
it’s a whole new world instantly if you
can appreciate this moment if you can’t
find ecstasy in this moment in a
conversation with a friend and looking
in your wife’s eyes being with your
children going on a run a fuck if you
can’t find XA now I’m here to tell you
more money more people more love more
business more anything is not going to
give you more executors if you can’t do
it here now you’re not gonna do it there
when you got more so why not do it now
and have a rich life right now
money that’s one thing like having
financial abundance through skills
that’s a science but wealth it’s a
decision it’s like you gonna be wealthy
right now I live in Fiji a good portion
of time there are these villagers there
they’re the richest people I know
they’re happy they laugh they love they
don’t give a damn about the economics
other people say they’re poor when I
first went there I was trying to do
things for them like what are you
talking about I’m so happy
wealthy people come over from the United
States they travel around and try to
figure out what to do and they’re gonna
spend nine million oh here’s to do this
and this and this so they can finally
sit down and be happy and then the
jean-guy goes why don’t you sit on the
beach right now dude it hurts it why
spend the nine years what happened now
that’s my invitation see what we’re
doing is we’re bringing up children and
educating to live the same sort of lives
we underneath in order that they may
justify themselves and find satisfaction
in life by bringing up their children to
bring up their children to do the same
thing so it’s all retching no vomit it
never gets there
and so therefore it’s so important to
consider this question what do I desire
well when we answer that question in a
naive way we figure out that we want a
desire or what we want is to control it
with to create girls that don’t grow old
apples that don’t rot clothes that never
wear out conveyance is that get from one
place to another instantly so we don’t
have to wait power available to do
anything that you could conceive and do
it just instantly like that to get this
funny technological omnipotence but if
you take time out to think about that
and really go into it with your full
strength of imagination and find out
whether that’s where you want to be you
will soon see that’s not what you want
because the moment you have a situation
where you are really in control of
things that is to say in which the
future is almost completely predictable
you will see a set last night that a
completely predictable future is already
the past you’ve had it that’s not what
you want you want a surprise
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an insurgent had seen where they were
firing had snuck up next to the side of
that building pulled out a hand grenade
pull it and threw it up and that thing
came right up boom and hit Mike on the
chest
Mike scream grenade out and jumped on it
and so
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you
what do they teach us about a life
well-lived I’ve noticed that the highest
achievers aren’t just driven they’re
doing jobs so aligned with their
passions that they have energy and
inspiration to burn keep that in mind as
you set your courses once you think to
yourself what would you do
Petty Officer Mike Monsour took the
entirety of that blast in his face in
his chest now because Mike was such a
hard individual he lasted for another 35
minutes before he passed away on the
medevac we’re out now the kicker to this
story ladies and gentlemen okay please
listen the kicker this story is there
was a stairwell right next to mine right
next to them what we do determine
completely is the way we treat the
people in our lives and in my experience
that also has immeasurably greater
bearing on how we feel at the close of
each day and at the curtain of each year
within most of us there’s a conscience
that’s only at peace when we’ve behaved
honorably and compassionately oh he had
to do is jump down that stairwell to
save his own life but he didn’t he
turned and jumped on a grenade
sacrificing himself so his two brothers
could both go home and hug their wives
kiss their children and fight another
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and I ask you does that change your
death and of commitment look it has to
be right
you can’t not hear that story and not
start thinking about well maybe I’m not
defining commitment and the way I need
to maybe I’m not applying the right
energy
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what are your values because a lot of
people who tell you what they think
success is but you have to define that
for yourself and once you define that
for yourself you can then begin your
true vocation your god-given purpose the
tightest knots in my stomach come from
the realization that I’ve been unkind
and the highest swells of my spirit come
from the conviction that I’ve been
tender and true
for the past 20 years I have been
exploring the human condition around the
world so but in that time I spent 15
months bridges waters of the Pacific
Ocean to the mountains of Afghanistan on
seven different occasions and to the
shores of Haiti doing missionary work
with my church and what I’ve learned in
this incredible journey are a few
undeniable truths about what enables us
to succeed
now truth number one is you got fear in
your heart always and you can’t defeat
it the problem is ladies and gentlemen
is you’re wired for fear right
you’ve got fear that’s built into your
little gray matter right up there like
that okay in your gray matter you’ve got
this thing called the amygdala and this
amygdala is your flight or flight so if
you unless you remove that you’re gonna
have fear in your life period
and we need it for survival it’s a good
thing the other challenges you’ve been
taught for your whole life as well – we
have that it’s part of our lives we have
it in what we do for a living right
you guys get on your conference huddle
cause and you talk about fear and
dealing with clients you talk about fear
and meeting numbers you talk about fear
in your lives and your personalized with
your family folks we’ve got fear period
so what you have to learn to do is
embrace it truth one the second one is
self-confidence is really important
self-confidence is huge it’s important
and you gotta Forge it every single day
the third one is you got to live with
purpose if you don’t have purpose in
your life you don’t have momentum you
don’t have anything driving you forward
anything pulling you out of bed every
single day you got to understand Who am
I why am I here and what is my reasons
for living
my mom my dad with the biggest influence
in my life no one supported my athletic
career more than he did I got drafted to
play baseball on June 8th 2010 and the
next night my dad passed away before I
walk through the door I can see the EKG
moving just fine I take one step into
the door and I say dad I’m here line
goes flat
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I miss my dad every single day people
have asked me if I had five more minutes
with them or what I say to him but I
wouldn’t say anything at all
I just hug them that’s what I do because
that’s the kind of relationship my dad
and I had he gave me so much and maybe
maybe most of all he gave me the gift of
perspective losing him was hard but but
thinking about him now I don’t feel sad
I feel blessed I feel blessed for all
the days we got together I feel blessed
because I know he’s in a better place
and I feel blessed knowing that if he
were here today the thing that he must
be proud of isn’t a Super Bowl ring or
new contract or a big speech at Camp
Randall he’d be proud of my family what
a strong woman my mom is but my brother
how well he’s doing about the amazing
amazing young young woman my sister has
become that’s what he’d be proud of
that’s my third charge to the graduates
and maybe maybe
it’s the hardest one of them all when
life tells you no find a way to keep
things in perspective that doesn’t make
the painful moments any less painful but
it does mean you don’t have to live
forever in the pain you don’t have to
live forever in that no because if you
know what you’re capable of if you’re
always prepared and you keep things in
perspective the life has a way of
turning a no into yes we all bleed red
what I care about is there something
that gets you out of bed every morning
there’s something that you have faith in
that’s bigger than yourself there’s
something that you’re willing to
sacrifice for another human being that’s
powerful are you working on are you
working on it right now
don’t you work on it today are you gonna
go work on it tonight the question isn’t
whether you have something to offer to
the world you definitely have something
to offer to the world the question is
how and whether you’ll do it
when life tells you no stay ready always
be ready
the fact is we’ve been quitting for a
long time folks the problem is I hope
nobody has these grand quits in their
life that they regret but the reality is
we all quit every bit a little bit every
day what you have to start doing is
pulling those back a little bit trimming
them away and get rid of them whether
you want a teammate need your help or
you’re gonna be more positive when you
interact with them or they’re looking
for help and you don’t tell them well I
I’m just too busy I’ll get back to you
tomorrow
those are forms of quitting and that’s
not commitment to your team when you
think about what’s actually important in
the world when you’re going out to
pursue your vocation
it’s who are you
who do you want to be and who can you
help along the way
asking yourself these questions will
only help you to understand what you
want to do
now if my dad were here with us this is
the point where he’d remind us that
potential just means we haven’t done it
yet you know he’d be right
but if we need but if we do what we need
to when life tells us now if we know
what we’re capable of if we stay
prepared no matter what if we keep our
sense of perspective even when times are
tough
then I know that together we’re going to
do amazing things with our potential and
achieve our greatest gene dreams I would
say good luck but I don’t believe in
good luck go make it happen this is my
story now it’s time to write your own
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you
people should make new year’s
resolutions if they’re actually watching
this video on January 1st if they’re
watching it on December 23rd
they should make December 23rd
resolutions waiting miraculously to win
the calendar flips to start making your
life better is silly at best and pisses
me off at worst and so whenever you’re
watching this because it lives on the
internet and thus that means you could
watch this on June 17th make a
resolution every day of your life
because you only get one at-bat the
reason people struggle with having a new
year’s resolution and sticking to it is
because it was a tactic to do a new
year’s resolution hence why my first
answer was right which is when you
actually decide to make a change in your
life whether about weight or job or
going out with somebody or relationships
that’s when you actually pull it off
it’s religion not tactics
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statistics show that 95% of the people
that actually made a new year’s
resolution have already broken it by
today and that’s if you even made a
resolution I mean think about it most
people don’t even make a resolution
anymore why because they’ve made them
from years and years and years and they
know they’re not gonna follow through so
after a while who wants to disappoint
yourself who wants to be upset with
yourself why even bother to set a new
standard for this year you know it’s
gonna be the same as last year so the
question is you know what is it that
makes us even want to make a resolution
misting question why is it at the
beginning of the year we have this
tradition but it goes beyond tradition
it’s something inside of us that makes
us want to make things better and I
think part of it is the calendar gives
us this idea that we can have a fresh
start that we can start from fresh and
have this great victory let’s use the
calendar to serve you today let’s just
see what does it really take to make
this thing happen because there’s no
denying that inside of you the only
thing that’s gonna make you happy and
the your head and the decades ahead it’s
gonna be having you have an experience
where on a regular basis you feel like
your life is making progress so the
secret to real happiness is progress
progress equals happiness and if we can
make progress on a regular basis we feel
alive and that’s why at the beginning of
the year we get this thing like okay I
can have this fresh start I could really
do what my soul desires I could expand I
could grow I can improve I could change
or maybe better than change I could
progress so if you want to make real
progress then you really got to look at
your life in a different way you gotta
say I gotta take control of this process
and not just hope that’s gonna work out
like people do who make a resolution cuz
really isn’t that what they’re really
doing at the beginning of the year
they’re saying well here’s my
resolutions for the year and they really
basically tell you their wishes it’s
their wish list it’s what they hope it
all comes together and then they call it
a resolution but they don’t know what a
resolution is
when you resolve something to have a
resolution is to resolve it when you’ve
resolved this is how it’s gonna be
that’s when you cut off any possibility
except the thing you’ve committed to
make a resolution every day of your life
because you only get one app back
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most people they’re stating what they
hope will come together and if it
doesn’t happen then they’re disappointed
but they’re not too disappointed cuz
they’re not too vested what does it take
to successfully create a lasting change
in your life to not only have a new
year’s resolution you follow through on
but really have a lasting change well
the first step for lasting change is
very much like making a new year’s
resolution fundamentally it’s the same
the first step is you got to have a
vision a vision for what it is you
really truly want
I mean what are most people’s new year’s
resolutions I’m gonna stop eating sugar
you know I’m gonna stop smoking I’m
gonna lose 10 pounds table that is it’s
not very inspiring for most people you
know it’s not telling you what you’re
gonna get it’s only what you’re not
gonna do and it’s kind of hard to have
you move forward with that a vision is
about what you’re here to create a
vision that really works is one that
excites you if you say well mine you
know my resolution my goal my outcome
for this month this week this year is to
lose X number of pounds that’s okay but
it’s not very compelling it has to be a
compelling vision it’s gotta have
something as the power to pull you not
something you have to push yourself to
do those are two different kinds of
motivation push requires willpower and
willpower never last what will last is
pulled having something so exciting so
attractive so some of you desire so much
that you have a hard time going to sleep
at night and get so up early in the
morning to rock it and take it to the
next level that’s what you’re looking at
grey and that wasn’t easy to get
and the bottom line of our
follow-through comes down to our
emotional intensity you gotta have
strong enough reasons that you’re gonna
follow through when the going gets tough
they don’t have strong enough reasons to
push themselves through what’s gonna be
necessary to get that dream to get that
goal when the inevitable challenges come
up when you’re starving hungry and
you’re trying to go on a diet right when
you got no time you’re stressed out you
haven’t worked out still that’s what
you’re supposed to do when the economy
gets tight and what you thought you’re
gonna do doesn’t work and so you give up
on the goal instead of finding another
way to get there you don’t let the fear
take you over if you’ve got strong
enough reasons reasons come first
answers come second if you’ve got a
compelling vision and you’ve got strong
enough reasons that will push you
through the tough times you’re gonna do
things other people don’t do instead of
collapsing even if you get off target
you won’t go I blew it you’ll get right
back on target make the change make
things happen if we do our best when our
destinations are beyond the measurement
when our reach continually exceeds our
grasp and when we have a more Toole
finish lines now when we do this the
race is never over
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 score it let
them run up and tap you on the show and
say Minnie you want
let them come tell you you go home now
let them say I love you too let them say
thank you take the lid off the man-made
roofs that we put above ourselves and
always play like an underdog
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when you really get clear and it’s
compelling and you’re reviewing it every
day got strong reasons you’re viewing it
every day and you’re feeling it the
brain becomes incredibly acute at
noticing anything to get you to move
forward you know what do people do with
New Year’s resolution they come up with
something they kind of want it’s not a
compelling vision they don’t really have
strong enough reasons and they never
review it again until to notice that
they broke what they said they really
want to have make happen because they
didn’t really resolve if you resolve you
got the vision it’s compelling you
review it daily and you feel it you
envision it and you experience it simple
as it sounds now ultimately what is this
really about ultimately if you’re gonna
have lasting change in anything you’re
really talking about just raising your
standards raise your standards what does
that mean corny as it sounds raise your
standards I’ll thank you for the
breakthrough thought Tony lasting change
is different than a goal you don’t
always get your goals but you always get
your standards but when you decide
something as a must for you and an
absolute must when you cut up any
possible you say I’m gonna find the way
I’m gonna make the way human beings when
they resolve things and they have make a
real resolution inside themselves which
is they raise the standard they make it
a must they find the way
if you say said to me well I’m really
gonna work hard to stop smoking but you
know I’ve been a smoker my whole life
and I’m you know I am a smoker I know
your days are numbered you’re gonna be
back smoking cigarettes again because we
all act consistent with who we believe
we are
I tell people the strongest force in the
whole human personality is this need to
stay consistent with how we define
ourselves
if you define yourself as somebody who
is really conservative you’re not gonna
be crazy and act nuts unless you’re
really drunk or something and then you
can say it’s the alcohol when it really
does you finally getting permission to
be yourself the alcohol is your excuse
if you’re a really crazy person you act
crazy outrageous playful you don’t have
conservative because that’s not who you
are
very often people say well I can’t do
that I’m not that kind of person and I
always say to people really when did you
define yourself I mean very often we
made decisions in our youth or very
young about what to believe about what
we were capable of about who we are as a
person and that becomes the glass
ceiling if you will that controls us
willpower doesn’t last
but rituals can last a lifetime I bet
you have some rituals in your life right
now you’ve been doing for years even
though some of them don’t serve you I’m
just saying wake yourself up make if you
want a new year and a new life you don’t
need to start in January first start
today start with this little video
then how’s your new your coming out so
far when did you define yourself I mean
really how many years ago did you come
up with what you could and couldn’t do
in your life how many years ago most
people if they really look at how
they’re living their life today it’s
based on a set of standards a set of
beliefs that they made choices about 10
20 30 or more years ago
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this is it
there you’ve been waiting for
I know you’re nervous it’s all mine my
first game too now it’s time to go out
there and put it on the scoreboard now
it’s time to see who has a heart now is
the time to prove to yourselves and
prove to everyone out there that even
though you’re locked up with somebody
you are worthy of something and you’re
able to do something special that no one
else in the world can do I need to go
out there and take what’s yours what
you’ve worked hard for but one thing
that a lot of people don’t know that I
want to share with you guys is when I
was 22 years old I came to this city for
the first time I was playing in the
Canadian Football League
playing my first pro football game I was
playing for the Calgary Stampeders we
were playing the BC Lions I was so
excited
two days later I got cut dreams
shattered sent home with seven bucks in
my pocket I was like wait no I gotta
play in the NFL eventually those are my
big goals that’s my dream you realize
that that playing in the NFL was the
best thing that never happened because
it got me here so my point is look
you’re gonna get your ass kicked we’re
gonna get this kicked out of us you got
to get up you got to have faith that the
one thing you want it to happen
oftentimes is the best thing that never
so have faith just keep that in mind and
keep plugging away
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can’t play football forever I played for
ten years you can’t be in the ring
forever you can’t be in the Octagon
forever you can’t be the boxing ring
forever football but you can always
train and get better push yourself
just bring it that’s it
just bring it I’d say that my everyday
life and in terms of my challenges and
things like that
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okay in between sets as I’m working out
and as I often do in between sets I
slide into your comments section nice
ins I read your comments just so we
could stay connected and I always know
what’s on your mind and I can address it
so somebody just asked me a cool
question said DJ you’re on top where
could you possibly go from here and you
always talk about out working your
competition who’s your competition it’s
a great question thank you for the
compliment by the way I’m fortunate
enough to be on top but anytime you
reach the top you always want to make
sure that you have the desire to raise
the bar and take the brass ring to
places it’s never been that sticky with
being on top just because it’s never
been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done
and in terms of competition great
question everyone’s my competition but
the fundamental key that I’ve learned
over the years is I’ll share with you my
number one competition is me it’s always
you versus you you’ve got to be the one
to get up every morning be disciplined
put in the consistent daily hard work
because that gains success no coach no
trainer no mentor no boss can do it you
versus you
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no I wanted to be something and it was
important to me to do something of it it
was important to me that I didn’t fail
but by the way and if I did fail at
least that what was also important was a
lesson and I didn’t realize that until I
got older because you know when you’re
in it you’re in the grind you don’t
really recognize those things when
you’re younger but I could recognize him
now and the importance of them now and
just in terms of the drive and the
determination a lot of it was experience
to get your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
on and you swing away
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all right Saturday afternoon empty gym
the way we like it tripping over here
it’s late day which means it’s going to
be sweaty painful and fun
and say that nothing good happens in the
four am out well I can guaran-damn-tee
you this it’s 4:45 a.m. it’s still dark
outside look at that the lights just
went out and I’m getting ready to kill
this AM cardio train twice I’ll get my
cardio in and breakfast and I’ll go hit
the weights clanging and banging we call
it
you know the masters make the hardest
things in the world look easiest and in
the moments where you push yourself when
no one else is around those moments have
a tendency to lead to success oftentimes
when I see kids and they have been
labeled all their punk kids true
but there’s good in him and we got to
see that potential and I enjoy that
today seeing potential and kids just
like he did especially kids who are kind
of wayward and I’ve been going through
it I know what it’s like you are most
powerful most important is when we just
embrace who we are is just believing in
yourself and embracing who you were born
to be
whether it’s 3 o’clock in the morning by
the way when we were talking in London I
was hitting up at 3:00 because I had to
be on set by 4:00 so whatever time my
call time is those in directors and not
producers whatever time I call some so
my call time is at 7 then you back your
clock up for hours and then that’s when
I get up and train twice
just wrap that for a and cardio there’s
no substitute for hard work get up super
early general I have this thing where I
like beating the Sun up not just in
terms of what Sun comes I have to get up
and how do I do it it’s just important
to find balance and I try and do things
really that I really enjoyed doing and a
lot of times you know it’s like in life
right life brings like drama and you got
to deal with this person and if your
relationship here you know this thing
work 12 hours a day 14 hours a day get
up at 3 o’clock in the morning
I don’t know if there’s a golden rule I
can tell you this that I believe
anything is possible
right I live in the world a possibility
and I also believe that anything we can
accomplish anything with our two hands
and just putting in the work without
your hands and also you hear this often
but it’s really really true you got to
find something if you love what you do
and find and be passionate about what
you do and find something that you could
be passionate like it really helps you
know it gives you that motivation when
you wake up in the morning
consistently being told that whatever it
is that you want to do
you’ve gotta get after you you’ve got a
good after there’s no substitute for
hard work hard work always pays you know
those type of mantras over time and
those are your examples of you know what
it’s like to get beat down what it’s
like to get just in terms of just in
terms of the struggle what it’s like to
be evicted out of your apartment what
it’s like to have your car repossessed
and watch your parents go through that
is is I think is defining as as a kid
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you know I grew up there was a period of
time where I was making a lot of
mistakes David I was I was getting
arrested multiple times by the time I
was 16 I was arrested maybe seven or
eight times
fighting theft doing a lot of things
that I shouldn’t have been doing I was
really lucky that I had a couple of
people who along with my parents who saw
the potential in me even when I didn’t
see the potential in me and it was until
I got older had a little bit of luck a
little bit of success that I started to
understand the value and the power of
someone giving back
but some people call you the best pure
athlete in wrestling today let’s start
off with a bit of your history when you
broke in you were packaged as a part of
a wrestling legacy your father is rocky
Johnson or sweet ebony diamond as
Canadian fans know him Tony Atlas was a
family friend all kinds of family roots
were you ever concerned that you
wouldn’t get your chance to prove
yourself on your own terms no no I was
never ever concerned about that because
nor was I ever concerned about trying to
fill their shoes because of my dad’s
they were just too big you know my
grandfather as well but at the same time
I always knew that one time what one day
whenever I got the opportunity I was
just gonna make it happen
persistence and hard work I knew one day
it was gonna happen when I made up my
mind to get involved in the business
that I have a passion for that I grew up
in I knew and that there’s gonna be
there’s gonna be a time where the
success the success will come and that’s
through hard work and in consistency
it’s you know the same old story things
like that so it’s it’s surprising to a
degree but I was well aware that it was
going to happen we live in a world of
illusion
most people never pick up the phone and
call most people never ask and that’s
what separates sometimes the people that
do things from the people that just
dream about them got it you got to act
and you’ve got to be willing to fail
you’ve got to be willing to crash and
burn you know with people on the phone
with starting a company with whatever if
you’re afraid of failing
you always better to show something as
opposed to talking about it did did
Leonardo have a guy off to the side that
was thinking five years out in the
future what he would paint or the
technology he would use to paint it of
course not Leonardo was the artist but
he also mixed all his own paints I think
you should go get a job as a busboy or
something until you find something
you’re really passionate about because
it’s a lot of work and I’m convinced
that about half of what separates the
successful entrepreneurs from the non
successful ones is pure perseverance it
is so hard you pour so much your life
into this thing there are such rough
moments in time that most people give up
we live in a world of illusion where you
see things that you think are real
sometimes they are and sometimes they’re
not
but what is really real that we’re going
to talk about now is to imagine your own
power
the majority of people wait for the
masses to do something when the masses
do something they join in and they join
on board but they forget that the masses
are made up of individuals those
individuals each in a zone is extremely
powerful
it’s all about imagining and doing
believing in yourself but know how it
works
know exactly what something costs to the
second so in business a lot of things or
I call it folklore they’re done because
they were done yesterday and the day
before a lot of times you know when you
have to walk a thousand miles and you
take the first step it looks like a long
ways and it really helps if there’s
someone there saying well we’re one step
closer you know that the goal definitely
exists it’s not just a mirage out there
if people if humans can’t imagine doing
what you have to do when nobody is
watching you you’re doing as if someone
is right there watching you and in your
free time you’re not trying to elongate
something you’re doing what you should
do without people watching you do it
as you look toward the future if you
decided I’m not going to allow my fears
to stop me what would your life be like
what would your future be like if you
decided to to want that which you desire
so strongly that it prepares you past
your fears that you experience the fear
as the one book says feel the fear and
do it anyway
what would your life be like and I’m
saying to you that all of us who have
been entombed by fear have a capacity to
resurrect ourselves
I always tell people who are you know
who think they want to be entrepreneurs
it’s you need a combination of stubborn
relentlessness and flexibility and you
have to know when to be which basically
you need to be stubborn on your vision
because otherwise it would be too easy
to give up but you need to be very
flexible on the details because as you
go along pursuing their vision you’ll
find that some of your preconceptions
were wrong and you’re going to need to
be able to change those things you
define greatness in yourself you’re not
going to find it by looking in a book or
by even hearing me I may give you the
spark but you’ve got to go inside
yourself to find it and that means you
gotta be quiet
shut the fuck up go on a room stop
talking search your soul insert your
mind search your abilities and you’ll
find it but if you’re not looking
forward you won’t find it so you got to
go start the journey and the journey
starts to be finding why the hell in my
field is playing why am I here if you
don’t know that you live the rest your
life searching always asking the
question why
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when you get up in the morning you do
what you normally do I would eventually
say a lot of you here probably turn on
your cell phones your computers and
what’s the latest email what’s the
latest text that comes in you start your
day off like that that’s your mindset
try this get up in the morning do
whatever you have to do don’t turn the
computer on don’t turn the TV on stay
together you got to be hungry he said
people that are hungry are willing to do
the things a day of us won’t do in order
to have to think tomorrow others won’t
have
to people that are hungry are relentless
people that are hungry unstoppable
people that are hungry refused to give
up people that are hungry no excuse is
acceptable for not making their dream
become a reality is that I’m hungry sir
and that’s when I realized that there’s
two ways to see the world some people
see the thing that they want and some
people see the thing that prevents them
from getting the thing that they want
there’s time there’s performance there’s
financial I mean they’re you know
there’s deadlines my pressures are not
unique the situation’s may be different
or you know but but everybody has the
same kinds of pressures but what I found
or what I find fascinating is the
interpretation of the stimuli
you have to be just as enthusiastic on
door number 101 as you were on door
number 100
just as the yessing so you have to
imagine yourself in this frame of mine
what can we do collectively to create
that change in that imagination
immediately it’s all in the mindset
in order to be successful you got to be
hungry you’ve got to be willing to do
the things today others won’t do are you
willing to do that to be successful
imagine what you could do but imagine
that you can do it right now and how do
you do these things right now what are
some of the lessons that we go through
to do things right now many times an
entrepreneurship people say what are the
secrets to success whether you’re
working at a job that you just love and
you don’t want to be the boss or you
want to start something on you know
where the secrets I share two things
imagine these because they’re gonna
happen one be prepared for a lot of
rejection whether people close the door
in your face or tell you it’s never
going to happen you can’t do it you’re
too old you don’t have the education you
don’t have what it takes somebody else
did it don’t listen to them don’t let it
affect you if you’re prepared for
rejection when it happens it’s not going
to affect you that much it really won’t
because you’re prepared for it of course
I was prepared for it
interpretation of what’s happening in
their bodies I mean what it what happens
when you’re nervous right your heart
rate starts to go you’re you know you
sort of get a little tense you get a
little sweaty right
you have expectation of what’s coming
and we interpreted that is I’m nervous
now what’s the interpretation of excited
your heart rate starts to go you become
you’re anticipating what’s coming right
you get a little sort of like tense it’s
all the same thing it’s the same stimuli
except these athletes these these
Olympic quality athletes have learned to
interpret the stimuli that the rest of
us would say is nervous as excited they
also the same thing no I’m not nervous
I’m excited and so I’ve actually
practiced it just to tell myself when I
start to get nervous that this is
excitement you know and so where when
you I used to be speaking for the large
audience and somebody’d say how do you
feel it’s a little nervous now when
somebody says how do you feel like
really excited actually and it it came
from just sort of telling myself no no
this is excitement and it becomes a
little bit automatic later on that if
you’re doing what no one has done before
stuff goes wrong and in fact it’s
nothing ever goes wrong in what you’re
doing if you make no mistakes in your
job and you’re in whatever task you’ve
brought upon yourself then you are not
on the frontier simple
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you’ve got some goals that you want to
cheat listen things that you want to do
and you’ve said to yourself I’m willing
to face the nose
you said yourself I’m willing for people
laugh at me you said yourself I’m
willing to get this out
you said yourself I’m willing to make
this happen you said yourself I’m gonna
do whatever it takes to build this
business I can do it if anybody’s ever
done at any point in time in history
then what’s possible for run it’s
possible for me
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and I’m gonna do it
it’s my time it’s possible it’s
necessary it’s me it’s par it’s worth
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when the tough times come and they’re
going to come when you feel like you
can’t see the light at the end of the
tunnel and that’s a part of the process
your reasons will be your rod and staff
to comfort you to take you through the
storms of life the most important
investment you can make is in yourself
who are your most treasured asset
sometimes you’re the problem
he said you gotta be hungry
go back again
if you do what is easy your life would
be hard but if you do what is hard your
life would be easy people that are
hungry believe what Zig said when he
said you give enough people what they
want they will give you what you want
people that are hungry believe always
strive to get on top of life because
it’s the bottom until the crowded people
that are hungry are uncommon people they
are saying yes to their dreams there’s a
yes to an opportunity where they can
develop their entrepreneurial skills
where they can develop their mind and
their leadership skills where they can
become versatile and flexible and create
and build a business they can be proud
of people that are hungry have a vision
of themselves when they leave him
leaving a legacy and not liabilities
people that are hungry understand that
most people died aged 25 and don’t get
there till they’re 65 because they’re
not willing to take a chance on
themselves people that are hungry a rare
breed they’re risk takers
I don’t know what you want to do
seemed like yesterday when I was the new
kid on the block you want the future to
change for you you’ve got to change if
you don’t change the next six years of
your life is gonna be just like the last
six can’t explain why I shine and no one
knows son I think everybody shines and
different things you can’t be alone to
really succeed no man really is in
Ireland see everybody was born for
purpose times of stress there are also
times that our signals for growth and if
we use adversity properly we can grow
through words that the purpose of my
life had always been to free people from
concern and after that I was fearless I
just can’t live my life based upon what
other people think about them where I
accept is sickening work out the one
thing they all have in common I think is
the hungry I believe that’s the single
most important element that separates
the body be precise what do you desire
what makes you itch what sort of a
situation would you like let’s suppose I
do this often in vocational guidance of
students they come to me and say well
we’re getting out of college and we have
the faintest idea what we want to do so
I always ask the question what would you
like to do if money were no object what
would how would you really enjoy
spending your life well it’s so amazing
as a result of our kind of educational
system crowds of students say well we’d
like to be painters we’d like to be
poets we’d like to be writers but as
everybody knows we can’t earn any money
that way or another person says well I’d
like to live in out of doors life and
ride horses I said you want to teach in
a riding school let’s go through with it
what do you want to do when we finally
got down to something which the
individual says he really wants to do I
will say to him you do that and forget
the money because if you say that
getting the money is the most
importantly you will spend your life
completely wasting your time you’ll be
doing things you don’t like doing in
order to go on living that is to go on
doing things you don’t like doing which
is stupid better to have a short life
that is full of what you like doing than
a long life spent in a miserable way
greatness is not this
wonderful esoteric illusive godlike
feature that only the special among us
will ever taste you know it’s something
that truly exists and all of us very
simple this is what I believe and I’m
willing to die for Pierre it’s not just
the ability have hunger but to sustain
and hunger means that you want more you
want more of yourself you want to make a
bigger difference you want to be a
better parent you want to you want to do
something more than there is today and
that you don’t get satisfied most people
start out with hunger and early stage of
life and they lose it but the people
that come to me are hungry either
because something’s happen they’ve had a
birthday with a zero on it they’ve gone
through a divorce they’re starting a
business and they know I’ve got to have
a different level or they’re the best in
the world and they’re always looking for
that edge that makes the difference that
is absolutely stupid to spend your time
doing things you don’t like in order to
go on spending things you don’t like
doing things you don’t like and to teach
our children to follow in the same track
my father could have been a great
comedian but he didn’t believe that that
was possible for him and so he made a
conservative choice instead he got a
safe job as an accountant and when I was
12 years old he was let go from that
safe job and our family had to do
whatever we could to survive
I learned many great lessons from my
father not the least of which was that
you can fail at what you don’t want so
you might as well take a chance on doing
what you love we didn’t grow up with the
sense that where we were was where we
were going to be you know we grew up
with the sense that where we were almost
didn’t matter because we were becoming
something greater the decisions we make
control us much more than the conditions
we need it’s not the conditions at your
decisions decisions what to believe
what to do this isn’t what to give that
if you would have made a different
decision you have a totally different
life today life goes on with or without
you how do you use your time is really
important because your life matters it’s
not for nothing that matters for a lot
it matters to a lot of people and you
know we spend so much time giving
attention to the silly stupid and
superficial stuff and take for granted
so much that everyday we’re just going
to wake up and we’re going to go through
the same routines and get to see the
same people that are going to be there
when we come home at night and every
day’s just going to be like the other
but right now even as I’m recording this
video there are hundreds if not
thousands of people all over the world
who are just now getting noticed that
you know somebody that they care about
or somebody that they knew because their
life has been taken by surprise
unexpectedly awesome accent
or detect or something like that none of
us know how long we’re going to be here
so it’s a moment to take pause and think
about your life and what you do with
your time and to not only make the to
concentrate on making the best of your
life but to also make your life
meaningful in the most important ways
I think everybody is born with hunger
right there’s there’s there’s a desire
to grow to expand to learn and then
disappointment sets in early in life for
those people and then we look to blame
something outside of ourselves and there
are many events and the lights that can
affect us all we’ve all had pain and
challenges but I think if you can find
within yourself the part of you that
wants to constantly give something more
than yourself if you can find a mission
larger than yourself then you’re more
pulled to do something than trying to
push yourself and pull has much more
power than push I always say motive does
matter that if you if your motive is to
serve something greater there’s an
energy that comes up inside of you the
wise man is he who knows his life
purpose Tinh people with the knowledge
of the purpose are more powerful than a
thousand without the purpose of courage
courage is the key to life itself
a lot of people who were born in
situation of us survived just I’ll never
get out of this so they won’t I say to
people say well I would like to have
done so and so himself so you could have
done it some but I couldn’t get out of
here man the bus runs every day what the
hell is success it’s hitting an
expectation can I always tell people man
trade your expectations for appreciation
it’s a whole new world instantly if you
can appreciate this moment if you can’t
find ecstasy in this moment in a
conversation with a friend and looking
in your wife’s eyes being with your
children going on a run a fuck if you
can’t find XA now I’m here to tell you
more money more people more love more
business more anything is not going to
give you more executors if you can’t do
it here now you’re not gonna do it there
when you got more so why not do it now
and have a rich life right now
money that’s one thing like having
financial abundance through skills
that’s a science but wealth it’s a
decision it’s like you gonna be wealthy
right now I live in Fiji a good portion
of time there are these villagers there
they’re the richest people I know
they’re happy they laugh they love they
don’t give a damn about the economics
other people say they’re poor when I
first went there I was trying to do
things for them like what are you
talking about I’m so happy
wealthy people come over from the United
States they travel around and try to
figure out what to do and they’re gonna
spend nine million oh here’s to do this
and this and this so they can finally
sit down and be happy and then the
jean-guy goes why don’t you sit on the
beach right now dude it hurts it why
spend the nine years what happened now
that’s my invitation see what we’re
doing is we’re bringing up children and
educating to live the same sort of lives
we underneath in order that they may
justify themselves and find satisfaction
in life by bringing up their children to
bring up their children to do the same
thing so it’s all retching no vomit it
never gets there
and so therefore it’s so important to
consider this question what do I desire
well when we answer that question in a
naive way we figure out that we want a
desire or what we want is to control it
with to create girls that don’t grow old
apples that don’t rot clothes that never
wear out conveyance is that get from one
place to another instantly so we don’t
have to wait power available to do
anything that you could conceive and do
it just instantly like that to get this
funny technological omnipotence but if
you take time out to think about that
and really go into it with your full
strength of imagination and find out
whether that’s where you want to be you
will soon see that’s not what you want
because the moment you have a situation
where you are really in control of
things that is to say in which the
future is almost completely predictable
you will see a set last night that a
completely predictable future is already
the past you’ve had it that’s not what
you want you want a surprise
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an insurgent had seen where they were
firing had snuck up next to the side of
that building pulled out a hand grenade
pull it and threw it up and that thing
came right up boom and hit Mike on the
chest
Mike scream grenade out and jumped on it
and so
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you
what do they teach us about a life
well-lived I’ve noticed that the highest
achievers aren’t just driven they’re
doing jobs so aligned with their
passions that they have energy and
inspiration to burn keep that in mind as
you set your courses once you think to
yourself what would you do
Petty Officer Mike Monsour took the
entirety of that blast in his face in
his chest now because Mike was such a
hard individual he lasted for another 35
minutes before he passed away on the
medevac we’re out now the kicker to this
story ladies and gentlemen okay please
listen the kicker this story is there
was a stairwell right next to mine right
next to them what we do determine
completely is the way we treat the
people in our lives and in my experience
that also has immeasurably greater
bearing on how we feel at the close of
each day and at the curtain of each year
within most of us there’s a conscience
that’s only at peace when we’ve behaved
honorably and compassionately oh he had
to do is jump down that stairwell to
save his own life but he didn’t he
turned and jumped on a grenade
sacrificing himself so his two brothers
could both go home and hug their wives
kiss their children and fight another
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and I ask you does that change your
death and of commitment look it has to
be right
you can’t not hear that story and not
start thinking about well maybe I’m not
defining commitment and the way I need
to maybe I’m not applying the right
energy
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what are your values because a lot of
people who tell you what they think
success is but you have to define that
for yourself and once you define that
for yourself you can then begin your
true vocation your god-given purpose the
tightest knots in my stomach come from
the realization that I’ve been unkind
and the highest swells of my spirit come
from the conviction that I’ve been
tender and true
for the past 20 years I have been
exploring the human condition around the
world so but in that time I spent 15
months bridges waters of the Pacific
Ocean to the mountains of Afghanistan on
seven different occasions and to the
shores of Haiti doing missionary work
with my church and what I’ve learned in
this incredible journey are a few
undeniable truths about what enables us
to succeed
now truth number one is you got fear in
your heart always and you can’t defeat
it the problem is ladies and gentlemen
is you’re wired for fear right
you’ve got fear that’s built into your
little gray matter right up there like
that okay in your gray matter you’ve got
this thing called the amygdala and this
amygdala is your flight or flight so if
you unless you remove that you’re gonna
have fear in your life period
and we need it for survival it’s a good
thing the other challenges you’ve been
taught for your whole life as well – we
have that it’s part of our lives we have
it in what we do for a living right
you guys get on your conference huddle
cause and you talk about fear and
dealing with clients you talk about fear
and meeting numbers you talk about fear
in your lives and your personalized with
your family folks we’ve got fear period
so what you have to learn to do is
embrace it truth one the second one is
self-confidence is really important
self-confidence is huge it’s important
and you gotta Forge it every single day
the third one is you got to live with
purpose if you don’t have purpose in
your life you don’t have momentum you
don’t have anything driving you forward
anything pulling you out of bed every
single day you got to understand Who am
I why am I here and what is my reasons
for living
my mom my dad with the biggest influence
in my life no one supported my athletic
career more than he did I got drafted to
play baseball on June 8th 2010 and the
next night my dad passed away before I
walk through the door I can see the EKG
moving just fine I take one step into
the door and I say dad I’m here line
goes flat
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I miss my dad every single day people
have asked me if I had five more minutes
with them or what I say to him but I
wouldn’t say anything at all
I just hug them that’s what I do because
that’s the kind of relationship my dad
and I had he gave me so much and maybe
maybe most of all he gave me the gift of
perspective losing him was hard but but
thinking about him now I don’t feel sad
I feel blessed I feel blessed for all
the days we got together I feel blessed
because I know he’s in a better place
and I feel blessed knowing that if he
were here today the thing that he must
be proud of isn’t a Super Bowl ring or
new contract or a big speech at Camp
Randall he’d be proud of my family what
a strong woman my mom is but my brother
how well he’s doing about the amazing
amazing young young woman my sister has
become that’s what he’d be proud of
that’s my third charge to the graduates
and maybe maybe
it’s the hardest one of them all when
life tells you no find a way to keep
things in perspective that doesn’t make
the painful moments any less painful but
it does mean you don’t have to live
forever in the pain you don’t have to
live forever in that no because if you
know what you’re capable of if you’re
always prepared and you keep things in
perspective the life has a way of
turning a no into yes we all bleed red
what I care about is there something
that gets you out of bed every morning
there’s something that you have faith in
that’s bigger than yourself there’s
something that you’re willing to
sacrifice for another human being that’s
powerful are you working on are you
working on it right now
don’t you work on it today are you gonna
go work on it tonight the question isn’t
whether you have something to offer to
the world you definitely have something
to offer to the world the question is
how and whether you’ll do it
when life tells you no stay ready always
be ready
the fact is we’ve been quitting for a
long time folks the problem is I hope
nobody has these grand quits in their
life that they regret but the reality is
we all quit every bit a little bit every
day what you have to start doing is
pulling those back a little bit trimming
them away and get rid of them whether
you want a teammate need your help or
you’re gonna be more positive when you
interact with them or they’re looking
for help and you don’t tell them well I
I’m just too busy I’ll get back to you
tomorrow
those are forms of quitting and that’s
not commitment to your team when you
think about what’s actually important in
the world when you’re going out to
pursue your vocation
it’s who are you
who do you want to be and who can you
help along the way
asking yourself these questions will
only help you to understand what you
want to do
now if my dad were here with us this is
the point where he’d remind us that
potential just means we haven’t done it
yet you know he’d be right
but if we need but if we do what we need
to when life tells us now if we know
what we’re capable of if we stay
prepared no matter what if we keep our
sense of perspective even when times are
tough
then I know that together we’re going to
do amazing things with our potential and
achieve our greatest gene dreams I would
say good luck but I don’t believe in
good luck go make it happen this is my
story now it’s time to write your own
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you
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