hard I work to achieve my mastery it
wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all and
that’s the thing about getting great
that’s the thing about being an artist
of such caliber that you’re remembered
for hundreds of years after your death
it is back-breaking work
it is a blinding amount of effort it
isn’t about natural talent that myth
that some people are born with something
that we celebrate so much is just that a
myth you’re born a lump of flesh you
can’t hold your own head of you may have
predispositions but that is a long way
from actually crafting your ability and
to the point where it looks like magic
and that’s the beauty of artistry isn’t
it
that it’s so unbelievable that you’re
more willing to believe that it was God
given that they were anointed with it
and that they just worked their ass off
but the truth is every one of the greats
no matter how much natural talent they
were born with they’re remembered
because they worked they are remembered
because they did so much work because in
that
is hardship in that work is difficulty
in that work is unbearable adversity but
it’s in that adversity that the magic
happens and as Victor Hugo said
adversity makes men prosperity makes
monsters so I know right now you wish
you’d been born with some talent you
wish that all those dreams that you had
they were yours for the taking that you
didn’t have to put blood sweat and tears
into it that somebody would hand you at
least something in the beginning that
they would give you some start since
spark that’s where the monsters created
if you really want to get hard if you
really want to get tough if you want to
get great if you want to be untouchable
because no one can bend or break your
vision of yourself then you have to
suffer that’s the way of the world and
as Florence Nightingale said I attribute
my success to this I never gave or took
any excuse
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and that’s the secret at the end of the
day if you know what you want it’s only
a question of whether you’re willing to
pay the price to get there so ask
yourself are you willing to pay the
price
if you want it you gotta go get it it’s
time to stay focus I hope this video
makes you uncomfortable
as I look at this I look at this as a
mirror you get to look yourself in the
mirror and acts hard and tough questions
what am i doing every single day with my
life creating obstacles challenges and
people look at politicians and
celebrities on the TV and the newspapers
glossy magazines what do they see I’m
just like them that’s what they say come
on man come on I’m special I’m different
I could be any one of them well guess
what you can’t you know why because in
reality mediocrity is where most people
live mediocrity is the elephant in the
room it’s ubiquitous mediocrity in your
schools it’s in your dreams it’s in your
family I’m giving you my hand and I’m
saying take my hand and let’s fly you
changed you stopped being you you let
people stick a finger in your face and
tell you you’re no good and when things
got hard you started looking for
something to blame like a big shadow you
me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as
life but it ain’t about how hard you hit
it’s about how hard you can get hit and
keep moving forward how much you can
take and keep moving forward
that’s how weird it is done most of you
say you want to be successful but you
don’t want it bad you just kind of
warnings your habits determine what
direction
you don’t want it badder than you want a
party you don’t want it as much as you
want to be cool you most of you don’t
want success as much as you want to
sleep you’re better than that
today’s your day you are the only reason
why all of your ancestors before you
ever live make a choice but you just
decide what it’s gonna be who you’re
gonna be how you’re going to do it just
decide we have this this habit of
getting comfortable in our routines and
patterns and then it gets difficult to
get out of that there’s got to be those
days you push through there probably
gonna be more numerous than the days you
don’t and I think that’s something to be
mindful of as well try to imagine your
life when you’d make that easy choice
next time what is that gonna do is that
gonna keep you away from your dreams are
you gonna regret that later
you know a lot of opportunities appear
only once in life and you skip that
taking the easy choice they’re probably
gone forever you can dream of the kind
of life you want you can dream of the
kind of change you want you can
three for the kind of future you want
but until you wake up and begin to plan
to get there it will only be a dream if
you don’t get up and actually do
something to anything those a new
positive emotions will never have the
opportunity to follow those actions
you’ll just be stuck in a lazy
demotivated hole for as long as you
and so the benefit of discipline in my
eyes has always been that through
discipline I get things done you told us
to juice about to start working out you
told us that you can start a business
but when are you gonna do that your
number one job is to become more of
yourself and sometimes all a big part of
success is just not being lazy and just
doing it yeah just care that’s like 90%
of is just showing up get there and
start working like you’re not gonna feel
perfect every day effort effort man I
see so many people talking about hustle
hard word determination grind work out
they at the end of the day when I look
at the body of people the men and women
I’ve worked with around the world at the
end of the day it’s effort do I not have
and lazy comes in two different flavors
lazy comes in two distinct flavors lazy
comes in one flavor which means not
working you might be saying hey I’m
constantly working I’m constantly
learning that’s an easy that’s an easy
rebuttal but the second flavor of lazy
is not doing what needs to be done it
means holding out on doing what you know
is necessary but hard to do if you want
success is something you attract by the
person you’ve become so for things to
change you’ve got to change for things
to get better you’ve got to get better
and when you improve everything and all
we overestimate what we can do in a day
and we underestimate what we could do in
several things doing a little bit every
day is a lot more important than doing a
lot some day
get started
getting started is absolutely the key to
it takes courage to be successful it is
far easier not to be successful misery
will always have company success breeds
contempt if you don’t want to make waves
be mediocre be long and fit in it takes
courage to be different it takes courage
to go it takes courage to get you
it takes courage to be successful it
takes courage to win 30 40 50 60 70
there’s something bound inside me that’s
and Worcester
the shuttle give you that needs to be
sad that needs to be started that needs
to be electrified
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I like something less Browns at once
he said there are losers and there are
people who haven’t learned how to win my
question to you is this which one are
you are you a loser or are you still
learning how to win if you’re not a
loser it doesn’t mean that you’re less
than it could mean that you’ve got
really good at quitting it could mean
that you’ve gotten really comfortable
ending your race before the finish line
you have your reasons for not finishing
and I’ve had mine too but right here
right now the question is do you want to
win self-discipline
separates people from success and not
being successful I’ve never met a person
who was not successful that didn’t have
a great amount of self-discipline within
their life self-discipline and being
able to perform and being able to keep
your life on schedule and being able to
keep commitments and promises and meet
deadlines is essential to success
look if you want to get rich you want to
be really successful when I say rich I’m
not talking about money I’m talking
about a rich life freedom time with
family choices get to do what you want
see this is what people did they set a
target remember when you were a kid and
you set targets or a big giant had
nothing to do with reason they were
giant right and then you had some
difficulty getting to it and somebody
said what did your goals are unrealistic
you need to drop your goals down and add
40 years and end up with nothing
certainly not congruent with your
potential none of us can afford to have
a life that is controlled by someone
else or a life that is basically
controlled by our emotions I learned
many years ago that there are two kinds
of people there’s the type of person who
says I’m gonna wait till I feel like it
before I do it and then there’s a person
who says I’ve got to do it so that I
feel like it one will never get anything
done because they’re sterile waiting to
feel the moment to move and the other
person says no I need to move and then I
will begin to feel the moment
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most people have strategies available or
they could get them or you could create
them but the problem is you got a story
and your story is why it isn’t working
and the story is I’ve tried everything
if you tried everything you’d be fit you
try everything you’d be profitable
there’s always a story and what I tell
people’s you know if you can just
divorce the story of your limitation and
marry the truth of your unlimited
capacity than the whole game changes
most of us in our life are trying to
make a 10% improvement and we know this
this is I’m trying to increase my
revenues by 10% I’m trying to increase
my sales by 10% save 10% more the lands
out there whatever it truly is we all
have this sort of beaten into us by life
and by the rest of the universe that you
can make these small incremental
improvements but the fact the matter is
that there are those in the world that
go ten times bigger and you every one of
us can be that I would say to you that
it’s your duty your obligation and your
responsibility to fulfill your potential
and that that’s actually what success is
success is not money simplest thing is
get crazily hungry for something we all
know when you get so hungry so desirous
your brain starts coming up with answers
and then it’s massive action but
effective execution which is all
modeling which is assume what this is
about find the best example compress the
time let someone else take 20 years to
figure it out
you do it in two weeks or two months
even if you have no idea how to solve it
no idea how to get there you’ll be
amazed at what you come up with and
what’s interesting is our legacy our
past anchors us to where we are today
and you have to let go of that you truly
have to let go of all the stuff in your
past what you thought you’ve done the
infrastructure that you’ve built to let
yourself go
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we are not our feelings we are not our
patterns those are things we might
identify with we’re not taught and so
when I see a pattern it doesn’t work I
don’t think the person’s broken I don’t
think anybody’s broken I’m not here to
fix people but I am here to break up the
patterns that don’t work I might be
wrong in what I say okay I might be
wrong in the things I do in my life and
the business that I started my families
told me not to start every business that
I’ve been involved in every one of them
every one of them was a risk everyone on
my handed shake take a chance I remember
my mom used to tell me I wouldn’t do
that if I were you I wouldn’t do that if
I were you I wouldn’t do that if I were
you I’m like mommy you wouldn’t do
anything well you wouldn’t do anything
except be the mother a great mother to
five children
my mother was an entrepreneur she didn’t
have my dreams just because she’s my mom
doesn’t mean she dreams like me would
you agree okay my mom was wrong about
everything she told me not today love my
mom to death okay
unbelievable friend of mine she was
wrong I needed to do those things okay
Steve Jobs needed to build this fountain
would you agree did he help a lot of
people did he make some money while he
was doing 119 billion dollars in five
years have the conversation with the
person that’s holding you back the
reason most people who are listening
right now we’re not doing that thing is
they’re worried about the opinion of
somebody usually their mother usually
their father and the reality is is that
your spouse may be the person holding
you back and you have to have that
conversation we have to get to a place
where you’re doing you because the
number one thing that scares them out of
me is regret and you’re gonna sit there
at 72 and you say I wish I wish I wish
it’s it’s it’s looking yourself in the
mirror and saying like am I doing this
right so to me there’s so many people
there talking about how big of an
entrepreneur they’re gonna be and how
much they’re gonna achieve and they
don’t work on weekends you know I worked
every Saturday of my twenties like can I
talk to 20 year old entrepreneurs every
single day lately I’ve been saying to
them this Saturday you’re gonna have
more time off than I’ve had in my entire
20s on a Saturday so like before you
tell me how you’re gonna be bigger than
me start thinking about what you’re
ask yourself am i practicing
self-discipline in my life am i doing
the things that I should do because I
need to do them or am i kinda waiting to
feel the moment make a damn schedule and
stick to it
it’s not a bloody prison that’s the
first thing that people do wrong is say
well I don’t like to have follow the
schedule it’s like well what kind of
schedule are you setting up well I
should I have to do this then I have to
do this then I have to do this you know
and then I just go play video games
because who wants to do all these things
that I have to do
it’s like wrong set the damn schedule up
so that you have the day you want you
are what you consistently do if you look
at your calendar you look if you’re
doing on a daily regular basis that is
what’s gonna determine your future path
so if you eat one chocolate bar but the
rest of your day is pretty healthy
you’re gonna be a healthy person but if
you’re eating junk and more junk and
then Peet’s and then Burger King and
more burgers and more jug afterwards and
then you can one piece of broccoli
listen you’re gonna be healthy working
out once won’t make a big difference for
you working out three times a week and
working out every day you’ll see changes
in your life you are what you
consistently do want to be in the game
read the average American reads one book
a year the top CEOs in America read five
books a month 60 plus books here but
immerse yourself with books audio video
daily okay you hit all three of those
well I’m reading something listening to
something and watching something these
are completely different ways to learn
find YouTube channels that are good for
you if you work your ass off
you’re totally focused you’re trying to
serve something larger than yourself and
you really are executing what works you
need a little grace might want to call
it luck if you prefer God the universe
but it’s there and we got ahold chief
but I think the more important skill if
you ask me is to have an extraordinary
life as the art of fulfillment and it’s
an art it’s not a science because
there’s a science to making money I
don’t care who you are if you do certain
things you’re gonna have too much
financial stress you do other things
you’re gonna have an abundance there’s a
science there’s a science to your body
everyone hears biochemically different
different genome but there’s certain
fundamental patterns that if you and I
follow them you’re gonna have tons of
energy gonna feel good if you break them
you’re gonna pay the price and have low
energy or disease but fulfillment is an
art what’s going to fulfill you is
differently at first and actually you’re
not gonna learn that from anybody else
and you got to find it because success
without fulfillment is the ultimate
failure I don’t care if you’re a born
entrepreneur I don’t care if you’ve been
to jail I don’t care if you dropped out
of high school what do you want to
become and what price are you willing to
pay to get there what now well I’m
always trying to outdo myself so I posed
the question for everyone else
what now with you I know what I’m doing
I know the direction I’m going in but I
love to inspire and to motivate
so that question should be a question
that everybody gets after school after
work after any and everything you do
what now have you ever struggled to be
more disciplined you know you got that
paper due next week but you don’t do
anything all week even though you know
it’s coming or are you set up a brand
new
have it you’re so excited about that you
know can improve your life your
relationships or your work but you don’t
stick to it or you started that workout
routine and you got really pumped up
fired up into it you’ve lost a couple
pounds but then you know three weeks
later it was gone and what did you blame
you blame your discipline I teach people
but daily you have to prime yourself you
have to do something for ten minutes
minimum if you don’t have ten minutes
your other wife every day selling myself
selling myself I’m gonna write in New
York Times best-selling book okay
I’m gonna speak to tens of thousands of
people I’m gonna help millions of people
on planet Earth I’m literally reminding
myself every day when I wake up in the
morning I write my goals down when I go
to bed at night I write my goals down
it’s the first thing and the last thing
I do every day I’ve been doing that for
25 years if you don’t do that if you get
up and you just have no discipline
whatsoever you get no value of anything
your diets don’t work when you don’t do
them exercise doesn’t work when you
don’t do them but most people have some
experiences that they want to shift and
once you shift those things your whole
life changes but life is constant growth
my life isn’t here because I went to one
seminar one time and thought my life is
fit for life I I workout I train my mind
and train my body there becomes a
lifestyle discipline is one of the most
important things we can develop in our
lives because without that ability to be
sort of self-reliant and willful to get
things done on a continual basis we
never get that great amount of momentum
and progress towards what we really want
first time I wake up in the morning i
prime myself that’s what I’ve done for
years it’s like I changed my body this
radical breeze
movement but then I do through ten
minutes three and a half minutes of pure
gratitude about three things and the
reason for gratitude is the two motions
that mess us up the most are fear and
anger and you can’t be grateful and
fearful simultaneously don’t go together
and then I do three minutes of my three
to thrive what are three outcomes and
results I’m really committed to you and
I see them as done and fulfillment the
first idea is to emotionally engage with
that dream each morning of your life see
a lot of people don’t actually struggle
with the discipline part in terms of the
doing the thing it’s that they’re not
getting revved up to do the thing in
other words we got a problem with
motivation not necessarily just
disappointment where does motivation
stop and start everybody’s got a
different answer but here’s what I can
tell you it’s really easy to be
motivated either you’ve got it or you
can watch it it’s really hard to execute
it is the variable that separates people
people are always gonna tell me every
day every day I roll up on people
they’re like yo I’m gonna buy the
Seahawks and you’re gonna buy the Jets
and I’m like great
can’t wait to see you people are always
telling me that they’re gonna do this
and that and this and that and you know
what I do I ask lots of them to email me
in 60 days in 90 days in a year and you
know how many do do you sick people talk
and I don’t know where it stops or
starts but I know that most of you 99%
of you aren’t going to do anything about
it and that sucks
we have a problem with that once in a
while you hit it you do it you
the work but a lot of times you fall off
because you’re not emotionally engaged
in it it’s like if you want a lot of
discipline you need a high level of
emotional connection and focus on that
thing that you want to work towards so
every morning what I want you to do is
just start a new visualization balance
when you wake up in the morning close
your eyes think about the dream the
aspiration the thing that you’re really
after in life and just visualize it and
really get yourself emotionally attached
emotionally engage with it think about
how great it will feel for you to have
that thing or be that thing or
contribute that thing to make that
difference just think about it allow it
to well up and your heart a little bit
get excited about it remember the dream
that’s why we get away from discipline
because we’re so busy with the chaos in
the world that we emotionally are no
longer attached in the way that our
brain says hey man focus on this it’s
nobody shit if you want something go out
there and get it in life you’re gonna
have highs and you’re gonna have lows
keep standing you’re gonna have
victories you’re gonna have defeats
you’re gonna have valleys as well as
mountaintops keep standing the most
poignant in seven words ever uttered in
any speech anyway don’t give up don’t
ever give up those great people didn’t I
now have a responsibility to also not
ever give up life is not easy it will
never be easy anything you want in this
life you get the bust your ass to get
you’re gonna have to roll the dice
sometimes you have to take that chance
you’re gonna have to be afraid you have
to look at it like this you truly want
to succeed in life your dreams and goals
are your enemies they want nothing to do
with you they refuse to be conquered
unless you are willing to get out there
and put in the work and invest in with
your dedication your time you’re paying
your effort your blood your sweat your
tears that is how to achieve something
base your days on your values because
when you have complete clarity about
what you want to achieve in life then
you can have complete clarity about what
you need to do every day but when you
don’t know your values and when you
don’t live your values that’s when you
end up allowing other people to steal
great people do things that other people
don’t
great people are always asking
themselves what can I do to grow how can
I improve how can I make sure that my
team is benefiting from my contribution
great people rarely think about
themselves rarely think about their
comfort level rarely think about their
feelings or their emotion the true mark
of a champion is even though some dirt
gets thrown on your dream instead of
letting it get buried you keep shaking
it off you keep moving forward you keep
looking for new opportunities don’t
worry about what needs to be done think
about who you have to be in order to get
it done if you care about your success
more than anyone else in the room I
promise you this you will be successful
at some point in time right now you can
change your circumstances you can change
your life by changing the definition of
yourself by redefining who you are who
you are right now today is not who you
you can literally change your life in
under one second no one else feels sorry
for you only you do nobody goes shit if
you want something go out there and get
it Glenn third fucking take it that’s
all there is to it if you have anything
in life that you’re trying to accomplish
big small whatever get comfortable with
the uncomfortable get comfortable with
pain you can’t go your entire life being
afraid afraid of the consequences afraid
of what you might lose on your journey
you’re chasing stability all your life
in an unstable environment reach out and
achieve everything that you were born to
achieve every minute of the day you can
change yourself it takes nothing more
than a decision if there is any part of
you or your life that you are not happy
with or not please do it then it’s up to
you to change it because there’s no one
else out there who want you to succeed
badly enough to push you and help you in
the right direction it’s all going to
fall on you it is your responsibility
you are what you repeatedly do there for
excellence I’ll be a habit not an act
how do you do anything is how you’ll do
everything just give it everything
you’ve got so you can put yourself in
the best position to win
and that’s all we can do in life people
sometimes life is good to serve you up
some curveballs by challenge each and
every one of you to step in that
batter’s box and take a damn swing just
they can’t they can’t hold you back
you’re holding yourself back and you’re
letting that fear define your a it’s
keeping you from achieving these great
things in your life and you can do so
much more if you could be so much
happier yes you are gonna hit failures
in life but the thing is you can’t let
that dictate define who you are your
failures are what ultimately push you
harder when you make a decision to serve
all kind of doors open up to you all
don’t quit don’t give up you keep
standing tough times don’t last keep going on