covers every morning and you sit on the
edge of the bed you have a choice before
you we’re wired differently we have to
set a goal that if we hit that goal
we’re guaranteed to make sure all that
other stuff in the middle is going on
why three o’clock in the morning
why don’t you sleep my appetite my
appetite I said itchy I want more I can
do more if I accomplish this without a
father what I’ve accomplished is with my
mom being a teenage mom if I accomplish
if I can accomplish these things from
this start now that I’m at this place
knowing what I know now what can I count
and I want you to think about that I
want you to think about more than jets
what you’re going to do financially more
than what you’re going to do in this
industry in the next three years right
more than that
what’s your appetite what do you what
are you going to do that will ensure
that when the alarm clock goes off that
you’re already up ten twenty minutes
before your alarm clock blows up why do
the word do the fucking work you’ve
heard me say it before no alarm clock
needed my passion wakes me up listen to
sometimes the only way to go about doing
the work is get fucking raw and get
fucking intense get angry and aggressive
and make it fucking happen for yourself
you start today I don’t care when your
life clock started ticking you can start
fucking right now today if it’s 4:15
a.m. in my world you’re on the East
Coast and it’s 6:15 a.m. and you’re
already up and you’re already dragging
ass by six sixteen you can change your
fucking perspective of the world up your
fucking do it did fuck dig deep and get
it done dude no long I’ve been using a
long clock and over 20 years
what is it internally here I want to be
successful I want to execute I wanna
make all my dreams become a reality I
want to do everything I said I’m going
to do so my appetite increases and gets
stronger every year I want more every I
want to do more every I want to help
more every I want to be bolder I wanna
be better
I want to be stronger every single year
every single year
you’re an appetite to go up you should
never get saddled you should never get
settled you should never get content
every single year when you get content
when you settle somebody
somebody’s coming from me ah and
somebody time take your spot and so
every single day you wake up you gotta
set new goals new benchmarks you got
raise them higher and higher and higher
to make your dream become a yahoo dr.
Watson Watson
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wired differently
and same makeup mr. Dubey what makes a
gazelle a gazelle it’s hot these wires
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explain to you when a lion sees a
gazelle and the gazelle sees the lion
won’t be seen to at the exact same time
when the gazelle sees the line because
of high wire he automatically fear takes
over
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it’s show time the hunt is on this is
what I was made for do the work do the
an extraordinary lie don’t settle on
ordinary
it’s easy to be ordinary anybody can do
that
find your magnificent obsession whatever
it is and let nothing or no one tell you
that you can’t do time to sit back and
find you obsession go after that I can
tell this from anybody else’s don’t make
anything
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it was my destiny to be king to be the
best it was in me I was Hey
with nobody to get more wasted a rude my
domain
doctors told before my last competition
if you go out fear you could die
chose chose gladly I looked in my doctor
like he was crazy you think I’m not
gonna compete after all the work this is
what I live for
I am obsessed with this
so if it cost my life if I died in the
pursuit obsession my magnificent
obsession then so big today and firm the
largest crowd I ever performed in front
of if I die in pursuit of my magnificent
obsession so big good anyway I went out
doing what I love
but today is the last dick today I will
show you my first life I will show you
that I am still alive
and that I am still Kate I’m still the
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I can’t fight for you I put on my shoes
I put on my clothes like everyone in
here I have good days I have bad days
and go on and gone and this last 2 or 3
or 4 repetitions that’s what makes
actually the muscle to grow and it
divides them one from a champion and one
from not being a champion if you can’t
go through this pain period you make it
to be a champion if you can’t go through
forget it
and that’s what most people like isn’t
this having the guts to guts to go in
and just say I go through and I don’t
care what happens you know it aches and
if I fall down I have no fear of
fainting in a gym because I know it’s it
could happen I threw up many times while
I was working out but it doesn’t matter
because they want to become legends it
was written in the history books for all
but if you want to begin to move into
your own personal greatness if you want
to begin to really enjoy a happy
successful healthy life you’ve got to be
willing to go against the tide you’ve
got to be willing to harness your will
and say in spite of this I’m in control
here
you don’t truly appreciate relaxation
unless you’ve worked hard and that is
the yin and the yang of life I think
what you should try to do is try to earn
uncomfortable and if you if you can get
a day off where you you you’ve worked
hard and you accomplish goals that day
off would be so sweet I think you have
to feel quite compelled to do it and
have a fairly high pain threshold the
actual path is going to be some sort of
zigzagging thing in that direction and
try not to deviate too far from the path
that you want to be on but you’re gonna
have to do that some degree that
difficulty is an opportunity to get
stronger to develop character to gain
new confidence anybody can give up
anybody can let it overwhelm you but you
know what that’s doing wasting your pain
that pain is not there to stop you it’s
there to prepare you to increase you to
develop you
what we do in our times of pain pain
will change us heartache loss
disappointment defeated giving up on
your dreams or you can come out with a
new passion a new fire excited about the
new opportunities in front of you all of
us experience pain my challenge don’t
just go through it grow through it get
through it but you will be different now
how the pain changes you is up to you 4
o’clock in the morning I wake up 4:30
4:45 I’m doing some sort of cardio open
these garage doors it’s still dark
outside I do this and then I’ll have
breakfast and then I will go do all my
strength and conditioning training at a
gym for about an hour and then I’ll go
to said we all have it’s probably about
5 hours of sleep it’s 4:45 a.m. it’s
still dark outside look at that lights
just went out and I’m getting ready to
kill this AM cardio you can’t even see
you do anything you never want to do
anything half-ass especially when it
comes to your training get in the
for a lot of guys out there and I was
certainly one of those guys in my 20s I
thought I had all the answers didn’t
know shit by the way in my 30s I’m still
trying to find myself and a lot of guys
are out there hopefully when you hit the
40’s you’re hitting a nice stride if I’m
gonna do it
I need to do this job right I need to
stay focused on it I need to give the
best offer that possibly can we live
down here in South Florida it’s
hurricane season but it’s time to go to
the gym we got to get to the gym and
there ain’t no stopping us like I’m
gonna be the baddest motherfucker
walking all right empty gym the way we’d
like it it’s Sunday just finished my
warmup this pain ought to be fun
I worked out twice before everyone wakes
up
all right workout number two I’m out
working all my competition
all right Saturday afternoon empty gym
the way we like it it’s late day which
means it’s gonna be sweaty painful and
fun the question isn’t can you handle
the situation
can you manage the thoughts and the
emotions that are trying to poison your
progress
forget managing the situation
manage your mind no matter whose fault
it is that something is broken if it’s
it’s not somebody’s fault if their
father was an abusive alcoholic but it’s
for damn short their responsibility to
figure out how they’re gonna do with
those traumas and try to make a life out
of it
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it’s not your fault if your partner
cheated and ruined your marriage but it
is for damn sure your responsibility to
figure out how to take that pain and how
to overcome that and build a happy life
for yourself
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fault and responsibility do not go
together kneesocks but they don’t when
something is somebody’s fault we want
them to suffer we want them punished we
want them to pay we want it to be their
responsibility to fix it but that’s
that’s not how it works especially when
it’s your heart your heart your life
your happiness your responsibility
fear
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the only place that fear can exist is in
a product of our imagination causing us
to fear things that do not at present
and may not ever exist as long as we’re
pointing a finger and and stuck in whose
fault
something is we’re jammed and trapped
into victim mode when you’re in victim
mode you are stuck in suffering the road
to power is in taking responsibility
your heart your life your happiness is
your responsibility and your
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a big challenge a big pressure is like a
fire it’s like a raging fire either you
can allow this fire to consume you and
just take you off completely or you can
gain control of this fire and harness
thing I try to get my emotions under
control and use this adrenaline to my
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you fall will you give it
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and unleash your visions and ideas who
all you can do
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see you gotta prepare to win the first
few plays are critical
you gotta eat hard and show him who’s
boss
to see somebody’s gonna quit you were
here and you got to look for every
weakness see when he starts sweating
hard you know you got him on the run
we chop him up any stars please you know
you bad guys eat hard notch man here we
charm him up
can do is everything that’s the absolute
nothing more than all you can do that is
the absolute maximum
you can’t do no more than all you can do
you understand in any time that you give
your best effort that you give
everything that you possibly can get
that is back sir you know that is
when I was in high school I early on
about 16 years old as I would become
president I states cuz I how can I
contribute most of society and I went to
a seminar my man named Jim real he stole
some of our speaker I took a week’s pay
as working forty dollars a week as a
janitor and it was 35 dollars to the
evening seminar so his big decision I
listened to him speak
I came him so inspired it’s mostly said
I already believed now was an authority
figure saying you really could be this
way well I paid the price
why work this hard why go this far why
try to learn this much why try to do it
all why try to see it all why try to
have it all why do it I learn it why
study why put yourself out why try to
why develop yourself to the full quite
try to become all that you can possibly
become why try to earn as much as you
can earn share as much as you can share
develop every skill you possibly can see
every human you possibly can go to every
class you possibly can touch everybody
you possibly can do I do that much why
go that far
why share that much why give that much
away why try to see everything why try
to do everything why try to become
everything that’s a good question why
and you’re the only one personally that
can answer that question for yourself
if the Y is powerful the how is easy if
you want to think that enough to go out
and fight for it to work day and night
for it to give up your time your peace
than your sleep if all that your dream
and scheme is about it and life seems
useless and worthless without it and if
you’re going to sweat for it and fret
board and a plan for and lose all your
terror of the opposition for that if you
simply go after that thing that you want
with all of your capacity strengthens of
gastly Faith Hope and confidence and
stern pertinacity if neither cold
poverty family sure got sickness a pain
of body and brain can keep you away from
the thing that you want dogged and grim
you beseech and the Senate the hope of
God but if the why isn’t strong if your
goals aren’t powerful
if the vision isn’t clear the old
prophet said without a vision we die
without a vision we perish without a
dream or nothing and because he spoke
how people in their lives as a result of
the story they believed about themselves
he interrupted the story that I believed
make no small plans or they have no
magic to stir men’s blood make large
plans for they do have magic determined
blood impossible is not a fact it’s an
opinion it’s your opinion they’ll say no
science shows and I see yeah how many
times the scientist shows something’s
impossible now science shows it’s
possible things are impossible till
somebody does it divorce the story of
your limitation and marry the truth of
your unlimited capacity than the whole
game changes success is born out of luck
its awareness of mind that takes
you will all be confronted with
opportunity you must take advantage of
it
so you don’t take advantage of your
opportunity you’ll never realize your
whether you want them or not is the
relevance you don’t know that until you
achieve it but 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 doesn’t work and the story
is I’ve tried everything if you tried
everything you’d be fit you try
everything you’d be profitable if you
tried everything you’d be there but
people say
I was born to a council estate
getting a job at the hotels in George
was my passport to escape the world that
do I have what it takes
I said to myself yes so I started
pushing and push you push you push ease
without self-belief
you can do more than this if I had to
walk ahead and walk it just became just
a process of grinding and grinding and
grinding letting the good word for it
it’s not even a good word for it and
just just going further and further and
then when I got through running I’d go
through the bike I go to the pool if I
got tired somewhere Malaysia tired I go
to the gym I develop this crazy workout
where I was doing volume things don’t
happen overnight you have to make the
you never throw in the towel if I threw
in the towel pick it up
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and when you’re young it’s very easy to
give in to walk away
it really is so whatever you want to do
in your life don’t ever work it don’t
ever think it do you realize your dream
roll the dice if you’re gonna try go all
the way otherwise don’t even start if
you’re gonna try go all the way this
could mean losing girlfriends wives
relatives jobs maybe your mind go all
the way could mean not eating for three
or four days it could mean freezing on a
park bench think I mean jail could mean
duration it could mean mockery isolation
isolation it’s a gift all the others are
a test of your endurance of how much you
really want to do it and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds and
it will be better than anything else you
can imagine if you’re gonna try go all
the way there’s no other feeling like
you’ll be alone with the gods and the
nights will flame with fire do it do it
do it all the way all the way you will
ride life it’s perfect laughter it’s the
only good fight there is pick up your
damn suffering to bear it to try to be a
well that’s a truth pain a damage
donor in the world or despair or fucking
beatings the world ends when you’re dead
until then you got more punishment in
store standing like a minute I’d give
some bag these God there’s reasons to be
resentful about your existence everyone
you know is gonna die
you know you – there’s gonna be a fair
bit of pain along the way and lots of
it’s gonna be unfair it’s like yeah no
wonder you’re resentful
it’s like act it out to see what happens
you make everything you’re complaining
about infinitely worse there’s this idea
that hell is a bottomless pit and that’s
because no matter how bad is some stupid
son of a bitch like you could figure out
a way to make it a lot worse so you
think well what do you do about that
well you accept it I I did not feel that
pain I did not care if I was bleeding on
my knees because I know that pain is
temporary but the film is permanent and
I explained that to the director so this
is why I try to tell you always discover
never ever think small
if you’re going to accomplish anything
you have to think big you have to go and
shoot for the stars
the biggest challenge most people have
is because they think small and the
reason why people think small and why
did you choose small little goals is
because they are afraid to fail they
know that if you shoot for a big goal
then the chances of failing are very
high and they’re afraid of failing is
one of the most common things why people
are frozen it by the kid not make a move
in life because they’re scared of
failing I say to myself hey I’m not
worried about failing because that’s
part of life
you’re not gonna be going to win
everything and how far can you fall look
at this this is the ground that’s as far
as I can fall and you know something
that the only time you really consider
the failure is if you fall and you don’t
get up but if you get up you’re never
considered a failure so I never
considered myself a failure I always
consider myself a winner
even though AFL every so often but I
always got up and I always move forward
this is the important thing I never had
any patience of course for Smita
thinking small
because in German we ever saying ven
Chung den Shawn and that means that if
it was something then go all out and do
it well this is not just the case in
bodybuilding I didn’t just want to be a
bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the
greatest bodybuilder four times I wanted
F the most muscle the the most most of
all times the most definition I wanted
to win the most trophies the most world
championship titles I just wanted to be
the best and the same as all same movies
I didn’t you think about being in movies
no I wanted to be a movie star I wanted
to have above the title building I
wanted to become the highest paid
entertainer I basically wanted to be
another John Wayne what’s wrong with
that
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and I was talking it’s staying true to
what you said you would do long after
the move that you said it in his left
because we say things when the mood is
right right but when the environment in
the mood changes we back off of it how
can I work hard for something and my
performance is not based upon the
outcome how can I work in my effort and
my motivation in my drive is not based
upon what the product will be but more
so based upon me taking pride in what I
do and so I came up with this thing
called process / product and I firmly
believe the process saved my life and
what I mean by the process I’m talking
about the way I handle my business on a
daily basis and the way I go about every
single aspect of my life I live by this
thing called empty the bucket and when
people hear it they think is a cute
slogan empty the bucket but what they
don’t understand it’s the unspoken law
empty the boat bucket it’s an unspoken
law of accountability and responsibility
to me on this earth from my existence
and everybody is connected to me I may
be crazy but I don’t know I just believe
that I supposed to give everybody that
is connected to me the best version of
me I just believe I deserve to give my
wife and my children the best version of
me I just believe the people that I was
doing this hurt I deserve to give them
the best version of me
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I may be crazy I don’t know but I just
believed my five-year-old son of my
six-year-old daughter they deserved the
best version I may be crazy I don’t know
but I just believe my wife and I’ve been
with ever since we’re in a fifth grade
she deserves the best version to me I
may be crazy I don’t know but my three
little sisters I just believed they
deserved the best version of their big
brother I may be crazy I don’t know but
the people I’m a service to on his face
of this planet they deserve the best
version of me I’m not gonna give them
I live by this thing called the harder
you work the harder it is to surrender
you see the reason people quit
they don’t take pride in what they do
the harder you work the harder it is to
surrender
nothing not just talking about business
I’m talking about winning simultaneously
in every aspect of life I’m not
concerned with a person that does well
with one aspect of their life and they
can hang their hat and say man I’ve made
a lot of money you made a lot of money
you’re a public success with your
private area
what good is it to make a lot of money
you don’t want to go home to your family
what good is it to make a lot of money
you don’t take care you can’t what good
is your public success with your private
value and so how can we win
simultaneously and take pride in
I have come to learn that if you don’t
take it by force you won’t take it at
all you sit in the cut and wait for good
things to happen spend years and life
passes them by because they are not
aggressive enough I’m not talking about
physical fighting but I’m talking about
that aggressive nature that causes you
to not allow the enemy to take over your
stuff you are a part of something that
transcends all the details of your
business
you prove it every day that it works and
you prove it by overcoming the obstacles
that you have to do
there are all sorts of people who want
to break your faith don’t find during
your own family and some time they’re
just so-called good friends who think
you’re crazy for doing what you’re doing
but you see you have decided to take
charge of your life you have decided
that you are going to change you’re not
gonna wait for the government you’re
gonna wait for some school or something
else to happen you are going to change
your situation
I spent my life has been pretty good but
it was no easy business isn’t life isn’t
but to those who can overcome the
obstacles rise up when difficulties
arise are the ones who win the prize
everybody starts at the bottom and there
is no advantage to starting ten years
ago as a boat starting today in fact
it’s better today than it was then so
stick with it find our way through it
just find out an answer
it works folks this business works for
those who work it
well the dress
if you’re gonna try go all the way truth
truth is if you work hard you can
achieve your goal it’s not a question
anymore man you know I mean a moment
like this proves it when you have the
question man I’m doing this cardio in
the morning is it worth it man I’m doing
these deadlifts today I feel tired
is it gonna be worth it man you know
what I gotta go to the gym and training
today after how to entire difficult
workday man I’ve got these other
challenges that are pulling on me
pulling on my concentration
you know what is this extra effort worth
it that’s for you
forget everything else forget everything
else forget that that was any sunlight
left what would you spend today thinking
about
yourself
for the mayonnaise massage
but the man until you get everything in
your heart for we get one opportunity
life one chance in life to do it ever
you gonna do to lay your foundation to
make whatever hongmen whatever legacy
you complete leap the lens and it’s
found to death where the losses come a
dime a dozen
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nobody knows so until the bacteria to
these are futures because every day is a
new day every moment is a new moment
so now you got the guan is so little
what they preach now
take ownership take extreme ownership
don’t make excuses don’t blame any other
person or any other thing get control of
your ego don’t hide your delicate pride
from the truth take ownership of
everything in your world so good and the
back take ownership of your mistakes
take ownership of your shortfalls take
ownership of your problems and then take
ownership of the solutions that will get
take ownership of your mission take
ownership of your job of your team of
your future and take ownership of your
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and lead lead lead yourself and your
team and the people in your life lead
the beat is a game this is real this is
real life champ work on there get what
you gotta get you don’t work hard you
get not there get nothing you got to
work hard work off you work hard to get
what you gotta get you don’t work hard
you don’t get nothing you don’t get
nothing
nothing zero nothing zero nuts treat
Damo cry I’m going to fight I’m going to
work I’m going to press toward I’m going
to learn I’m going to do everything in
my power every single day I’m going to
do everything in my power to become a
Victor and not a victim of let’s go
chair let’s go pain let’s kiss temporary
it may last for a minute or an hour or a
day or even a year but eventually it
will subside and something else will
take its place if I quit however it will
last forever and so every time something
get hard you quit you call mama I dare
you to take a little pain I dare you I
dare you not to go home
so my said I don’t go home I feel bad go
throw it you ain’t gonna die at the end
of pain and success you’re not gonna die
big Kemetic beyond circumstance and be
committed beyond compartmentalization
meaning my greatness of my excellence
can’t leave compartmentalize to an
individual to an environment to a
circumstance meaning it is my essence I
show up and I want to impact because
this is Who I am as an in the butt it’s
my absence we know when adversity and an
opposition hit like the only thing I’ve
been training you were to think positive
the only thing I need is breath in my
body and I’m gonna flat-out going get it
I know you feel go to bed last night and
all these ideas about how you’re gonna
get up this morning there’s gonna be
different things are gonna be different
today you’re gonna start start taking
steps towards doing some of those
projects and you know we get you closer
to live in that dream life you keep
playing over and over in your head
different from the practical life that
you’ve got to get up and mean every day
to go to the cubicle infested world we
work a job just to pay the bills but gas
in the gas tank to take you places where
you don’t really want to go to be around
people you don’t enjoy being around put
groceries in a refrigerator groceries
that keep you fat and lazy keep you away
from being healthy and fit in your life
pay the mortgage on a house that doesn’t
inspire you is just a nuisance and you
ain’t coming home dude what the fuck are
you doing
anyone makes it even worse as it’s your
before you got from the bedroom to the
kitchen mr. ugly
is that mr. resistance right in your ass
telling you what you were going to do
different than what you want to do what
the inner voice inside of you tells you
you need to do with your life telling
you that those things that you believe
matter and have a purpose in your life
really don’t that facili the superficial
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watching some mind-numbing TV making
that list you need to go to the store
next time making those phone calls to
those people and just chit-chatting and
gossiping about dumbass day mister
resistance will be there every morning
morning noon and night and while you
were sleeping
riding your ass kicking your ass unless
you turn around you start throwing
punches you know what my bottom line
goal if one more your nation is is to
have everybody out there realize that
there is something better for you to do
with your time right now I am mr.
resistance I’m distracting you from
doing the work you need to do get the
fuck out of here
and do the work of your life how can a
person start something and be on fire
but the moment something doesn’t go the
way that they want it to go
they’re not the same individual I’ve
been on this quest to figure out how can
a person build fire and say man this is
what I’ve been put on this earth to do
but the moment a couple of things don’t
come back the way that they thought it
would come back they’re not the same
individual and the worst that they once
broke it means nothing to them I’ve been
on this quest to figure out how can a
person get on a journey to dreams goals
and aspirations and a moment ahead
opposition adversity or challenge it
I’ve invested more than twenty years of
my life in the belief and the idea of
being able to come to the Olivia and to
be an absolute best despite whatever the
opposition whatever said whatever the
beliefs are on stage off stage whatever
the opposition area forces have been my
resolve of things responds a champion
and just aim to represent the better
thought of what that means to me you
don’t get this far you don’t get to this
bleep
and just stop
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it’s always worth it to do your best and
to believe in something and to work
towards the attainment of the goal and
then you climb higher and you do that
it’s not possible to be training harder
or more consistently or more dedicated
than me because I couldn’t give a single
ounce more to any aspects of this thing
that I’m doing so that makes me feel
pretty powerful pretty confident
truths truth is if you work hard you can
achieve your goal truth it’s not a
question anymore yeah you know I mean a
moment like this proves it when you have
the question man I’m doing this cardio
in the morning is it worth it man I mean
when he’s dead this today I feel tired
is it gonna be worth it
man you know what I gotta go to the gym
training today I forgot how to entirely
difficult workday man I bet these other
challenges that are pulling on me put
one on my concentration
you know what is this extra effort work
fit fast forward stand here in this
ailment what does it feel like it feels
like yes twice before the game I was
nervous come back you come back deep
what is this feeling
it’s decayed and nobody could chew Thank
You queen it’s blinking around the world
and somehow they bless residency he’s
here
don’t nobody but the people disgust me
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you almost feel like an outsider the
coaches are sympathetic but they still
have to coach and you’re not there it’s
probably the darkest that’s ever been
you’re saddened down and out and you ask
it’s in this moment that you find out
who you really are
in which you’re really
most of us go through life without
not giving all that we have not sharing
all of ourselves most of us go to our
graves still home
rather than release
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because of past experience past defeats
past pain
we look back well it didn’t work out
there
you probably won’t work out now
but tonight we were exposed for what we
are right now it means that what I did
didn’t work tonight and I’ve got to
separate what I do from Who I am I feel
like we all have two battles or two
enemies going on one with the man across
from you the second is with the man
inside of you I think once you control
the one inside of you the one across
from you really doesn’t matter I think
that’s what we’re all trying to do you
aren’t handed anything you earn
everything every single day over and
even use off the ground it’s your hands
there you go it’s a good start a little
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you got morning the man
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the schemas down
there you go
keep your knees off the ground people
that’s it that’s it that’s it keep going
don’t quit on the heat oh yeah keep
driving keep your knees off the ground
that’s it your merriment no Mary cried
because they know they don’t
knees off the ground keep private don’t
wait till you got nothing left that’s it
that’s it that’s it I know I said I’m
fine you negotiate with your buddies a
far more sleepy don’t you give up on you
keep going hear me just keep going to do
is go you keep going
keep going north I know ever to keep
going keep going
it’s all hard from here starting or
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some of the greatest work comes from
paying or some great work comes from
from love from loss it’s like wanting to
be the best at whatever you do never
stop it to you the best like I don’t
believe in doing anything halfway I
believe in going all the way so be on
the stop
when you see hard times and you get
knocked down get back up and if you keep
putting everything you got into it and
you keep getting back up when you get
knocked down it’s almost impossible to
push until it hurts or you sort of you
want to be always pushing beyond what
you’re comfortable with and you’re
sweating just a little bit all the time
and when that happens when you’re when
you’re constantly pushing beyond what
you think what you know is possible
you’re always sweating a little bit and
you’re always a little bit nervous but
that is the drug and so when you’re
pushing like that and you’re never
really relaxed then it always feels
the most powerful supplement that you
will ever have all again no matter how
much money you have pay personal trainer
is the most powerful tool you will have
to succeed most powerful tools your
fucking mind
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you know science has come a long way yes
but there’s something science can’t
explain and this whole idea that you
need to have carrying cool around all
day and have bills every three hours you
gotta have seven eight nine hours sleep
you’ve gotta have this kind of rest
before you go to the gym you’ve got to
have this meal three hours before you go
to the gym you got to take this
supplement fifteen minutes before you go
to the gym at intervals during your
workout you got to take this you got to
do this you need to be caution to all
I didn’t want to just be a movie star
one of the beer great movie star this
the highest-paid movie star ever bought
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give me a guy who’s got the mindset
dining today sleep last night it’s time
to work out list well the gym let’s kick
ass
give me a guy like that who isn’t
thinking about those things but gets
through the gym and becomes one
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you think there’s much protein today
because my sleep is making sure they
have those types of things what does a
fucking matter what does it matter
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don’t fuckin step down to beat somebody
else’s silly ass fucking standard it is
not backed up by fucking any real-world
experience you will always be learning
and you always be starting over the
greatest fucking champions that have
ever been still I always wanted to be
very intense I always wanted to be
number one you never want to fail
because it didn’t grow Kahn enough
you’re thinking too much about the small
you have too much attention to the small
things that don’t really matter and
you’re not giving enough attention to
the big broader more basic things that
and ask yourselves who do you want to be
I’ve always figured out that there’s 24
hours a day you sleep six hours they
have 18 hours levels now I know that
some of you out there now says we’ll
wait a minute I sleep eight hours or
nine hours well then just sleep faster I
would recommend
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you never want to fail because he didn’t
work hard enough
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you can’t climb the ladder of success
with your hands in the pocket I was poor
because they didn’t have anything I had
no money I had no things we had the TV
Vietnam future with nothing as kids but
it was rich because I had a dream dream
of becoming the greatest bodybuilder and
had a dream to use bodybuilding as a
means to get into films
I didn’t want to just be a bodybuilding
champion I wanted to be the best body
build of all times
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and one of the most important things
that have learned along the way is the
value of time so it’s understanding what
your skill set is finding the right
place to use those skills and then going
for it what kind of a story you tell in
one that ability to get myself up in the
morning matter how tired I was to push
myself through those pain barriers you
know hard work pays you know I have the
same work like someone’s trying to take
it all away from you you can’t actually
save time you can just find different
ways to spend it so when you say you
don’t have the time to do something
you’re really saying that you’re using
your time for other things one cool
thing about time is that it continues on
don’t know who you are I don’t know what
you’re going through I’m not here to
pretend that you know I understand what
you’re going through or how you feel in
your life I think the biggest disability
everything starts with a vision and the
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hate the idea of potential being wasted
in this world you know how it is if you
didn’t go what you’ve gone through you
is it as I kept trying new things new
doors kept opening because you don’t
know what your future is
you just don’t you’ll never know what’s
gonna happen you never know what what
the future holds for you go for it try
it because another thing I am no
different than anyone else out there I
am NOT here to say I have a superpower
and it was all this it was just try the
patience let’s say don’t complain when
you’re waiting in a line you ain’t going
to growing patience until you put in a
there is some times where you’re going
to wish that you could rewind and and do
things all over again there are times
where you just wish you could forget
memories and you try to drown those
memories in alcohol or different
pleasures and maybe get distracted by
the goals and ambitions of your life and
try to put the past behind and move
a closed mindedness that amounts to an
imprisonment so total that the prisoner
the most powerful tool that you have
right now in your life in your body is
give me a new perspective give me a new
way of looking at my situation give me a
new way of looking at my circumstances
you can’t please everybody but they’re
people who have the fear of rocking the
boat oh yes it’s going to be some
struggles it’s gonna be some challenges
it’s gonna be some tests but even the
struggles are an opportunity for me to
show off the victory if my mind can
handle the change the life is too sharp
for that too short and unpredictable
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not trying to disturb anything not
trying to shake anything up not trying
to make any waves unless yogurt I’m
never going to be I can’t get any
younger I can’t roll the clock back
you are wasting time you have to let the
when you set goals when you have an
intention on something that you want to
change about your life your brain helps
you what it does is it opens up a
checklist and then your brain goes to
work trying to remind you it was cold it
was winter in Boston and for the first
time in three months I had beaten my
and it’s really important to develop the
skill before you are boxed and buried
decide that you’re going to boxing bear
your fears decide that you’re going to
begin to live life on a new level
seeking out new horizons that you’re
gonna find more love and more joy and
more ways to give I wanted to change my
life and I think most people that are
miserable or that are that are really
like dying to be great and dying to have
more we want to change we want to live a
better life we want to create more for
our families we want to be happier
the designer is there again it’s about
so the first thing in the story that’s
important is realizing that the answer
was in me and my mind was telling me pay
attention
so when you begin to say what is it that
I want to leave what contribution that I
want to begin to make what difference do
I want to make in life what is it that I
want to do with the rest of the life
that I have left what what chances I
need to take what risks do I need to
begin to embrace what fears do I need to
step on what areas of my life of my dad
right now what dream you can even live
your dreams or live your fears you have
got to get to a point where you say I’m
sick and tired of living like this
there’s gotta be more
let’s see that’s when people go out and
strike out on their dreams how you going
to make it I don’t know but I will I’m
gonna keep on kicking I’m gonna cock
them off is people want to know how to
stop the laziness and they will know how
to stop the procrastination and you know
they have some idea in their head you
know some kind of a vision what they
want to do
but they don’t know where to start in
order to start it you know they don’t
know where to start and say they say hey
where do I start
and and when’s the best time to start
and I have a very simple answer for that
here and now that’s it you want to
improve you want to get better you want
to get on a workout program or a clean
diet you want to start a business you
want to write a book or make a movie or
build a house or a computer or put
together some mobile application where
we start right here and when do you
start you start right now I had beaten
my habit of hitting the snooze button
I couldn’t believe it and I thought wait
a minute counting backward citizen
dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my
entire life
well the next morning I used it again in
the work the next morning I used it
again an appointment the next morning I
used it again and it worked and then I
started to notice something really
interesting there were moments all day
long all day long just like that
five-second moment in bed where I knew
knowledge what I should do and if I
didn’t move within 5 seconds my brain
would step in and talk me out of it
every human being has a five-second
window might even be shorter for you you
have about a five-second window in which
you can move from idea to action before
your brain kicks into full gear and
sabotages any change in behavior because
remember your brain is wired to stop you
from doing things that are uncomfortable
or uncertain or scary it’s your job to
learn how to move from those ideas that
could change everything into acting on
it’s true your friends family and loved
ones will be the first ones to try and
when you’re ready to do something and
try something new
that’s out of your comfort zone that’s
out of your norm it’s always the one
you’re dating the one you’re married to
the one that’s in your family your
friends in your immediate circle that
will always try and talk you out of
doing something special and significant
without having fear and rejection
without having fear of the word know do
you know how many people have had
visions ideas and huge career moves that
they were about to make and they allowed
the word no to stop them from changing
the landscape of their life and their
family lives so many people are afraid
of rejection and the word no it is the
saddest shit up of a witnessed in my
life
boldly walk into the room
but your head held up high and if they
don’t get it laugh about it don’t disown
your ideas because they’re disowning
your ideas don’t lose confidence in your
ideas because they don’t have confidence
in your ideas keep the faith
don’t be afraid to walk into the
unfamiliar don’t be afraid to do what’s
deep inside of you to do I can do 18 22
hours a day easily just keep banging on
to thrive in whatever you do
please understand your terrain know what
your target is don’t guess it be as
Crudup is the next one because that’s
that’s that’s your petrol that’s your
fuel to get you moving if you don’t know
where you’re going what your targets are
you never any other I’m not afraid to
fail I’m not afraid to fall over make a
mistake that often done cripples
only one set of getting too into
anything I’m not afraid of that feeling
it actually propels me works by the
opposite work hard sleepless just
imagine myself collecting awards just
imagine myself yeah I mean getting big
parts imagine myself working with the
greatest actors my imagination is the
one that yeah man I see myself driving
that car one day I mean that’s as part
of my inner magic is that actually if I
could see myself doing keep your head
down like when I swim 25 laps guaranteed
if I look up and start counting those
laps
I’m petered out by 15 if I put my head
down and keep working away and work a
technique work it internal rhythm work
it oh I hit that length I don’t even
know what length from one guarantee of
look up in every twenty and two more
three more to go
and that’s a very simple device but I
think people find themselves incremental
checking how far they’ve gone and that
you know when you compare to anybody
else or whatever it’s just a it’s a
recipe for disaster just keep banging on
achievement achievement is inspirational
to know people are doing it someone that
on Monday didn’t know how to do this by
Friday can do it that is an inspiration
to me I’ve always worked hard you know I
mean like I said I’m not I’m not afraid
of failing Eva you know I’m saying I got
I I’ve thought that so many times that
this is it I’m never gonna work again
and it just kept going I’ve just never
stopped working you know I mean even
when you know I had four years of not
actually booking jobs I was out on the
streets trying to good
work hard sleepless people talk about
aiming for the skies
sometimes even aiming for the skies
isn’t urban air just dull give yourself
boundaries lose the boundaries lose the
nice toss for these streets thinking
about you know one day I’m going to be
on in New York and New York was that you
know sort of big pinnacle mountain and
Here I am and if you can’t enjoy the
journey which means the step you’re
taking at this moment it’s really the
most important thing yes of course you
know you’re going that way but this step
is still to be enjoyed because that’s
ultimately your whole life consists of
the step you are taking at this moment
that is never anything else be that
fulfillment notice when I start noticing
that fulfillment of it I just finished
well that’s enough that’s it I don’t
know if this thing I don’t know if it’s
even coming out enjoy the journey not
the destination a lot of us delay our
happiness when I get to this level when
I get my degree when I get the kids when
I get married I’m gonna be happy enjoy
the journey enjoy the whole step the
whole process every day that you get up
to strive for whatever it is you’re
after you know I’m a goal-oriented guy
yeah I think you don’t celebrate when
you get to the finish line celebrate all
I’m not gonna let this get me down I’m
not gonna let this destroy me I’m coming
back and I’ll be stronger and better
because of it you have got to make a
declaration but I’ve been working out
consistently since I was 14 years old
and I’m 44 I’m 33 years apart or to our
workout 30 years yeah so it doesn’t
happen overnight you just have to enjoy
the process learn to enjoy it cuz I’m
sure there was a point where you started
to enjoy using a hundred thirty a pound
yep and that’s only way you’re gonna
keep going for me inspiration is a is a
journey it is not a destination
okay it is a self you know motivated
internally motivated process it’s not
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find inspiration on blank pages
I found inspiration you know in my
habits okay
the moments of quiet that intimacy on a
you know if it’s me and a kettlebell or
me taking a walk and just breathing in
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something that just because you arrived
at the gates of success that somehow is
a new experience it’s different than
when you were not not successful it is
exactly the same people say you you have
to have a lot of passion for what you’re
doing and it’s totally true and the
reason is is because it’s so hard that
if you don’t any rational person would
give up it’s really hard and you have to
do it over a sustained period of time so
if you don’t love it if you’re not
having fun doing it you don’t really
love it you’re gonna give up and that’s
what happens to most people actually if
you really look at that the ones that
ended up you know being successful
unquote the eyes of society and the ones
that didn’t oftentimes it’s the ones
that are successful loved what they did
so they could persevere well you know
when it got really tough and and the
ones that didn’t love it quit because
they’re saying right who would want to
put up with this stuff if you don’t love
it so it’s a lot of hard work and and
it’s a lot of worrying constantly and if
you don’t love it you’re gonna fail so
you got to love it you got to have
passion and I think that’s the
high-order bit the second thing is
you’ve got to be you’ve got to be a
really good talent scout because no
matter how smart you are you need a team
of great people and you’ve got to figure
out how to add a size people up fairly
quickly make decisions without knowing
people too well and hire them and you
know see how you do and refine your
intuition and be able to to help you
know build an organization that can
eventually just you know build itself
you want to get better you want a
self-improve stop looking for a shortcut
and go find your alarm clock and find
your discipline and fling your guts and
your passion and your drive and find it
you will and then and then you will find
if you’re afraid of heights work on some
rock climbing climbing if you’re afraid
of the water time to swim it’s time to
surf it’s trying to get out there if
you’re afraid of pull-ups if if you’re
prey to pulp do pose if you’re in squats
do squats if you’re afraid of public
speaking go speak in public if you’re
afraid to start a business start a
and eventually you will overcome that
fear but the hard part is you got to
take that first step you’ve got to take
got to take that first step against the
if you die today what dreams what ideas
what books what leadership what voice
of the dreams the ideas the abilities
the talents given to you by life but you
for whatever reason you never pursued
those dreams you never use those talents
you never use those gifts you never use
those abilities and there they are
standing around your bed looking at you
but large angry eyes saying we came to
you only you could have given us life
and now we must die with you forever and
the question is if you died today what
dreams what ideas what books what
leadership what voice what story will
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anything you want good you can have
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so claim it work hard to get it when you
get it reach back pull someone else up
aspire to make a difference I found that
nothing in life is worthwhile unless you
Nelson Mandela said there is no passion
to be found playing small and settling
for a life that’s less than the one
you’re capable of living
to get something you never had you have
to do something you never did
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les Browns a motivational speaker he
made an analogy about this says imagine
you’re on your deathbed and standing
around your deathbed are the ghosts
representing your unfulfilled attention
the ghosts of the ideas are never acted
on the ghosts of the talents you didn’t
use and they’re standing around your bed
angry disappointed and upset they say we
came to you because you could have
brought us to life they said and now we
have to go to the grave together so I
ask you today how many ghosts are going
to be around your bed when your time
comes can’t live my life based upon what
other people think about me so I can’t
concern myself too much or what other
people think you know it’s just not
healthy I don’t think I could continue
to do what I do if I was constantly
worrying about what somebody thought
about it if you could it’d be good at
something it does take a while just
enjoy the game man you’re gonna get fed
up
you’re gonna get disheartened when
people gotta tell you you’re useless
and all that but what I can say after
about 15 or 20 years I’d learn
something well and I enjoyed that
now I’m sure in your experiences in
school and applying to college and
picking your major and deciding what you
want to do with life I’m sure people
that told you to make sure you have
something to fall back on make sure you
got something to fall back on honey but
I never understood that concept having
something to fall back on if I’m going
to fall I don’t want to fall back on
anything except my faith I want to fall
forward I figure at least this way I’ll
see what I’m going to hit fall forward
this is what I mean
Reggie Jackson struck out 26 hundred
times in his career the most in the
history of baseball but you don’t hear
about the strikeouts people remember the
homeruns
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catching skills get better and better
that hitter needs to be able to adapt
and adjust
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the best thing that ever happened to me
the best thing that ever happened to me
is I hit rock bottom
by far the best thing that ever happened
to me is hitting rock bottom I think I
think for men I have two boys and I’m
gonna be in pain when I witness these
guys go through this but I think the
best thing that can happen to a man is a
heartbreak a very strong heartbreak and
a very big failure early on in business
and it happened to me early on a life
both heartbreak and business that happen
early on because I thought I knew it all
and it was a slap in the face to save
Socrates says the only thing I know is
that I know nothing if the greatest
minds on their deathbed are saying
things like that what makes you and I
if I’m going to fall
I don’t want to fall back on you
except my feet I want to fall forward
he said but imagine if you will be on
your deathbed and standing around your
bed the ghost of the ideas the dreams
the abilities the talents given to you
by life and that you for whatever reason
you never acted on those ideas you never
pursued that dream you never use those
talents we never saw your leadership you
never use your voice you never wrote
that book and there they are standing
around your bed looking at you with
large angry eyes and we came to you and
only you could have given us life now we
must die with you
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so it’s not how much you have it’s what
you do with what you have and we all
have different yes some money some love
some patience some ability to touch
people but we all have it use it share
it that’s what counts
and the question is if you died today
what idea is what dreams what abilities
what talents what gifts will die with
that’s the question when you’re thinking
big why not you and answer it I’m not
just doing this motivational video why
not you
why shouldn’t you win no no forget
motivation let’s get logical why don’t
you actually answer that
why can’t you be somebody that can do
something in your business that’s never
been done before why don’t you answer it
so give the argument logically here’s
why not me because I don’t work hard
enough you can fix that stop being lazy
well whatever but because I’m not that
good of self you can learn sales so okay
because I don’t know much about the
product you kill horn the product but
why not you because no one in my
family’s been raped so what no one was
in rich in Zuckerberg family before he
became who he is today and nobody was in
jobs jobs mom even gave them up or
so many things go wrong when you’re
starting a company and often I think
people ask you know what mistakes should
you avoid making and you know my answer
the question is don’t even bother trying
to avoid mistakes because you’re gonna
make tons of mistakes right and the the
important thing is actually learning
quickly from whatever mistakes you make
and not giving up sometimes life’s gonna
hit you in the head with a brick don’t
lose faith I’m convinced that the only
thing that kept me going was that I
loved what I did you’ve got to find what
you love I mean there are things every
single year of Facebook’s existence that
could have killed us are made it so that
it just seemed like moving forward and
making a lot of progress just seemed
intractable but you just kind of bounce
back and you learn and nothing is
impossible you just have to kind of keep
running through the walls so why don’t
you make the argument why don’t you
truly get into it then give the other
arguments why not you actually doing
this
why shouldn’t you be why why shouldn’t
you be the person and say I’m a very
smart person I love people I actually
like to make money to make a difference
in the world and you know what I care
for people and I have some things I want
to do if I get money in my pocket would
be good I’ll do good with it and I’ve
got a big car and I am talented and I
thought that that then I know the right
people
oh that’s why that’s you
four years after starting SpaceX rolled
out its first rocket an unmanned booster
called the Falcon one cleared the tower
but the first three test flights failed
to reach orbit when you had that third
failure in a row did you think I need to
pack this in Devin why not
I don’t ever give up I mean I’d have to
be dead or completely incapacitated
Hookah miss you can’t do it who
convinced you can be part of a group of
people I want so many guys on the
youtubes that you know are even some of
these guys are considered experts by big
magazines and they’ve written New York
Times bestsellers and they say some shit
like all you know entrepreneurs are born
give me a damn break entrepreneurship
can be taught entrepreneurship is an
inspiration that comes from here for
some people that want to solve a bigger
problem
what do you mean entrepreneurship is
something you’re born but I completely
disagree with that statement fully
disagree with that stage
if you want to do anything worthwhile in
and so I started working to develop
myself he said I want you to practice
every day being a disc jockey I said but
I don’t have any job now he said it
doesn’t matter he said that it’s better
to be prepared for an opportunity and
not have one than to have an opportunity
and not be prepared so every day I was
working to develop myself
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entrepreneurship it is a formula if you
hang around other people that think like
this and you watch this video and you
watch all our value taemin or some of
the people that are feeding the right
type of content to you and the right
books you read your imagination one stop
orchid because the entrepreneur is
numbers solving problems how can I do it
better faster why can’t you learn those
skill sets why can’t you you can so why
not you and don’t let anybody convince
you that people who solve some big
problems you know our big thinkers that
have to be born being big thing I’m here
to tell you you can figure out the
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 in
all of us it’s very simple this is what
I believe and I’m willing to die for
I feel so strongly that the reason I’m
here is I dreamed big dreams I dream the
kind of dreams that other people said
would not be possible I’m also living
proof disease in a Hollywood movie I
come literally from the other side of
the tracks if you saw where I grew up
and took a picture of it the
neighborhood the setting you say it’s
not it’s impossible that someone can
come from there and you get here you can
but there will be people along the way
who will say to you you know you’re
dreaming too big it’s not possible those
things just can’t happen don’t allow
anyone friend family acquaintances
teachers whoever it is don’t allow
anyone to tell you that what you are
dreaming for yourself and your family is
not possible it is possible don’t be one
of those people twenty years from now
are going to be walking around a
nine-to-five job
miserable and angry and bitter because
you let your dreams get away from you
because we did not believe stronger
enough in yourself and what was possible
don’t allow that to happen this is an
unbelievable time and I can’t encourage
you enough to continue to think that
things are possible and that your dreams
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at least I feel like I failed when I
didn’t put everything I had into into a
problem so really it goes back to the
analogy I made at the beginning is if
you don’t put it all out there if you
don’t put everything you got into
so you have to learn from the mistakes
that you made and you’ve got to create
an environment where people are not
afraid to take a risk and not afraid to
do things that are beyond what the
expectations are
fear is the disease hustle as the
antidote
you can’t count on sales you can’t count
on anything but just crazy hustle and
just grit your teeth claw your way to
success there was just no easy way to do
in order to be this disruptive to what’s
going on you have to have you have to be
willing to to fight and you have to not
be it you can’t be shy
if you never stop it to you the best
like I don’t believe in doing anything
halfway
I believe in going all the way you never
I keep my eyes on the prize you want to
be a loop always pushing beyond what
you’re comfortable with don’t wait to be
announced because nobody’s going to ask
you and don’t wait for the perfect
conditions because they’ll never be
perfect
did nobody get in there and put the
gloves on for me nobody go out there on
that road and run miles and miles for me
nobody took the broken ribs nobody took
the bloody nose I did it on I dedicated
myself to my class and I bust my ass
it’s never personal for me
and you just have to take the plunge
I never overlook normal I trained for
I believe in my skills and I believe in
my child there’s always a way if you’re
you got fighters that maybe faster than
me you got fighters in a tower
but you don’t have no party that can
you know when fires they could be on my
level Mitchell
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this never personal for me
this always business
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you get zip where you’re trying to get
to by staying focused stand on a
parallel path
one thing is this I keep my eyes on the
prize I never focus on things outside
early thoughtful this is the guy that’s
I’ll always have a dream and my dream
when it comes down to boxing
and the best at this
right now do you believe you’re the best
are born from great opportunity and
that’s what you have here
that’s what you’ve earned here tonight
one game
if we play them ten times they might win
but not this game not tonight tonight we
stay with it and we shut them down
the separation of talent and skill is
one of the the the greatest
misunderstood concepts for people who
are trying to excel who have dreams that
want to do things talent you have
naturally skill is only developed by
hours and hours and hours of beating on
your craft
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people that are hungry are unstoppable
mr. Brown people that are hungry no
excuse is acceptable go out and face to
music young man and don’t forget stay
hungry are you willing to keep working
when are you willing are you willing to
realize that you have not done your best
stuff yet that you get better your best
only thing that I see that is distinctly
different about me is I’m not afraid to
die on a trip you might have more talent
than me you might be smarter than me
there’s two things you’re getting off
first
yeah or I’m going to die it’s really
it’s about winning one-on-one backers
I don’t think complaining and whining
really solves the problem this is Jackie
Robinson first black major leaguer had
it in his contract not to complain if
people spit on him now I don’t care if
you’re Jackie Robinson or if you’re a
guy like me who’s only got a couple of
months to live
you can choose to take your finite time
and energy and effort and you can spend
it complaining or you can spend it
playing the game hard which is probably
going to be more helpful to you in the
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the talk isn’t just about how to achieve
your childhood dreams it’s much broader
than that it’s about how to live your
life because if you lead your life the
right way the Karma will take care of
that we all have people that we don’t
like that have done things we don’t like
and what I have found is no one is pure
evil if you wait long enough they will
show you their good side you can’t make
them do it in a hurry but you can be
he said when life can no longer threaten
what else is
and the majority of the fears that we
have are not life or death fears but not
those kind of fear
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if you want to begin to move you’ve got
to clear your mind of all the
unnecessary luggage and baggage that’s
weighing us down I couldn’t move I
couldn’t think about what am I going to
do to get out of this situation because
I was so concerned about what happened
and what he did to me and how bad it was
I was sold stuck in that I couldn’t even
focus on what I should have done
so what’s the worst thing that they can
do to you kill you and he just decided
hey this is what I came here to do I
know that there’s some risk involved and
I’m gonna do it
come what may he said I’m not going to
be afraid anymore feeling sorry for
myself and angry none of that was taking
me anywhere
so pretty soon ah I learned through
effort made it conscious deliberate
determined effort I had to let it go I
had to forgive it let it go and begin to
focus on developing myself and I say to
you you’re gonna have people to do
things to you things are going to happen
to you and the most important thing to
do is to harness your will and let it go
move so you can grow so you can get on
with your life
it doesn’t matter about what happens to
you what matters is what are you going
to do about it
what are you going to do now less this
is the instinct that says you’ve had
enough this is the instinct that says
you’ve you’ve given it your best shot
you can you can stand down you can back
this is the instinct that says you can
rest now do not listen to that instinct
do not listen that instinct is a liar
and wants to bring you down that that’s
the instinct that’s a defense mechanism
a lot of people never get to where they
want to be because they’ll never stop
complaining about where they’re at I
must say it again a lot of people will
never get to where they want to be
because they will never stop complaining
the word complain means to remain or to
stay overnight so if you want to stay
right where you’re at
just keep complaining about it and I can
pretty much guarantee you that you’ll
still be there and they’ll tell you you
did the best you could now they’ll say
the DAC the deck the deck was stacked
against you and they’ll say it’s not
and they’ll tell you it’s okay to stop
it’s okay to settle it’s okay to give up
and that is the instinct you need to
fight you need to push back to smash
into the ground
not take the easy way out
do not give up based on instinct if you
are forced to stand down to retreat so
that you can build and we attack
so cool
but make that decision based on logic
not on the instinct of surrender and
now in life you go baby you go home
try to climb and it didn’t get to the
summit today but it doesn’t mean I’m
going to give up that doesn’t mean I’m
going to stop listen life’s about you
know falling down and getting up it
doesn’t matter how many times you get
knocked down it’s about getting back up
and it doesn’t matter how you get
knocked down in life
because that’s gonna happen all the
managers that you got to get so if
there’s any kid out there that’s told by
a parent or a coach or a teacher or
somebody that they look up to somebody
that’s supposed to push them and believe
in them and they’re told no don’t listen
to them believe in yourself
sometimes the outcome isn’t always what
you desire it to be but the true failure
in life is not trying at all then nobody
wants to rock the boat nobody wants to
and at that moment her voice came over
me and they said no calm
get up and don’t ever give up
the world ain’t all sunshine and
rainbows it’s a very mean and nasty
place and I don’t care how tough you are
it will beat you to your knees and keep
you me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as
but I listen with Jim Valvano said 21
the most poignant seven words ever
don’t give up don’t ever give up don’t
give up don’t ever give up
it should be impossible for me to get
once dream is constantly evolving rising
and falling changing course so you’ve
got to have some reasons that when life
knocks you down that’s going to tell
when you want to throw in the towel and
give up yourself and that’s going to
happen what reason can you remember that
you can call on that you can reach on
that can make you get back up find that
reason I’m doing this because I want to
make my mama proud
I’m doing this because I want my
children to have a better life do what I
I’m doing this because all my life I’ve
been told I’d be a loser that I wouldn’t
make it there are a few things more
liberating in this life than having your
worst fear realized but I just want you
to know that it’s not the end it matters
how you’re gonna finish I started with
nothing and I was dealt a bit of a
dysfunctional card because I shouldn’t
have made it this far
holding on to a dream and staying
focused is really important and also
striving for perfection is is healthy
and so if I could come from a council
estate in the middle of strap-on Aven
and live in 17 houses before a 16 and
win flemish and stars beyond the real
deal best revenge in life is massive
but the point is this it is our failure
to become our perceived ideal that
ultimately defines us and makes us
unique it’s not easy but if you accept
your misfortune and handle it right your
perceived failure can become a catalyst
for profound reinvention so find out the
reasons that you do what you do find out
the reasons that will make you strong
that will make you walk by faith and not
by sight that will make you pursue your
dream and everybody is against you or
if you know the why validity you can
endure almost any how
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when life gets you on the blind side
when the messenger of misery visits you
what are you going to do what will keep
you in the game with life not you to the
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you know that when life knocks you down
because if you can look up you can get
up but I tell you there is some times in
life where you fall down and feel like
you don’t have the strength to get back
up
pretend that everything’s okay when it’s
not maybe you have doubt in your life
maybe you don’t know if for sure what’s
going to be happening in the future and
it scares you you see I will try 100
times to get up any 5 fail 100 times if
I fail and I give up do you think that
I’m ever gonna get up no and it’s not
the end until you’ve given up and just
the fact that you’re here should
persuade you do you have another chance
to get back up let’s see if what Douglas
so the Buster Douglas that got knocked
down while fighting Mike Tyson had got
down an alcohol Recovery Center his
mother had died his wife was ill with a
terminal illness he was considered a
nothing a bum so when he got knocked
down Buster Douglas had a reason to get
back up because he said I’m dedicating
this fight to the memory of my mama but
if I fail I try again and again and
again for as long as I try this ways
that chance of getting up
but today I tell you that whether you
fear it or not disappointment will come
the beauty is that through
disappointment you can gain clarity and
with clarity comes conviction and true
originality
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but how that journey ends is up to you
today
see when you fall down you feel like
giving up when times get tough it’s not
what are the reasons that you can think
of that can keep this strong that can
keep you in the game that will be your
rod and staff to comfort you that can be
but it ain’t about how hard you hit it’s
about how hard you can get hit they keep
moving forward how much you can take and
keep moving forward that’s how winning
is done
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now if you know what you’re worth then
go out and get what you’re worth but you
gotta be willing to take the hits and
not pointing fingers saying you ain’t
where you wanna be because of him or her
or anybody why did it happen James
because I wanted why why did you win
this fight that nobody on the planet
gave up his mother what are the reasons
that you can think up
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cowards do that and that ain’t you
you’re better than that
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true failure life is not to look up get up and don’t ever give up