if you don’t know now you know it’s true
your friends family and loved ones will
be the first ones to try and talk you
out of greatness
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 walking to the room but your head
held up high and if they don’t get it
laugh about it don’t disown your ideas
because their 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 it deep inside of you to do
you know my history of being sort of on
all sides of my journey you know I
didn’t I didn’t have success very early
and I went through some very dark times
and you know the main one thing I kept
doing is you know inspiring myself
looking for inspiration and growing and
and it hasn’t stopped and I want to keep
doing that and I also want to inspire
others you know there were millions of
me sitting at home right now and they
don’t know it and it’s just good to be
able to get this sort of platform to
sort of to say come on man go for it so
listen man knows yes I don’t do things
for money and I’ve been broke most of my
life so because of that I can’t sort of
suddenly go I need to do a job just to
get some cash you know I mean I know
that’s a lot of times it is people’s
motivations because people need to eat
but in my position I’ve been poor most
of my life so now
I think I think my imaginations always
kept me going in there Lin
you know just imagine myself collecting
awards just imagine myself you know I
mean getting big parts imagine myself
working with the greatest actors my
imagination was the one I know I mean
like I’ve known you’re not overthinking
but you just kind of like yeah man I see
myself driving that car one day but I
get down
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actually if I can see myself doing it I
could probably do it she can’t bottled
up it sell it to someone you can do it
well you can’t but everybody can imagine
themselves you know there
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I mean it’s important not to give
yourself boundaries which we can do
quite easily okay
people talk about aiming for the skies
sometimes even aiming for the skies is
intimidating just dull give yourself
boundaries your sky and my sky might be
different do they mean but neither of us
have touched the sky if we give
ourselves boundaries and I mean whatever
your sky is whatever your biggest dream
is I might have already touched that you
know so in other words what sky where
does the sky end I’d rather people go
you know what I’m not gonna restrict
myself to go and I can only do this so I
can only do that oh I have to do it this
way or I have to do it that way
the first step before anybody else in
the world believes it is you have to
believe it there’s no reason to have a
plan because it distracts from plan a I
was 16 contemplated being an actor I was
in sound systems DJ and I mean and you
know it was like that or this so I was
going back to do you know I always have
a studio I would have turntables always
been doing that a long time in animating
there was a there was a drive to be
famous to be you know that that pinnacle
to be that guy and I’m not not that not
it’s not it’s not my ambition isn’t that
as much you know I mean good work keep
working so it’s very hard for me to sort
of glide me be like you know home lifted
up by this wonderful life that I have I
love it but you know I’m I feel you’re
on the ground you know I so you know
it’s work it’s a job
achievement achievement is inspirational
to me you know people 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’m not afraid to fail I’m not afraid to
fall over make a mistake that often time
cripples people on the onset of getting
too into anything the first time ever
Peter the DJed eggs was horrible
horrible now but I’m not afraid of that
I’m not afraid of that feeling it
actually propels me works quite the
opposite
but I really loved to do it so I just
said I want to do what I love you know I
mean like I can do 18 22 hours a day
easily
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it’s definitely one of those components
to me as a human being my makeup my
genetics that allows me to actually keep
moving
I’m a veteran at being able to look at
an opportunity and go is that gonna take
me further or not you know some people
don’t have that you won’t is something
you develop you know that’s why most
times out of 10 any head of a company
has been doing it for a long time
because they inherently can make a
decision and the blink of an eye but you
have to learn that
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the other thing that’s important I think
is to keep your head down you know keep
your head down like when I swim 25 laps
guaranteed if I look up and start
counting those laps and pick it out by
15 if I put my head down and keep
working away and work a technique work
it internal rhythm work it ooh
I hit that from length I don’t even know
what length or mine guarantee you I’ll
look up it’ll be 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
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mountain climbers would probably tell
you the same thing you know there’s no
point looking the difference between
climbing a hundred feet and climbing
five hundred free it’s a point of view
you don’t know you’re at the top until
you get there about and that’s what you
need to remember
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you know just getting there just don’t
look down
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the more I grow you know in 43 at this
point you know considered middle-aged
man and happiness is without a doubt the
best thing that I am I strive for health
and happiness kid you know I couldn’t
any of it means nothing if I’m not happy
about it my breakthrough was actually
decided I wanted to be an actor and go
into a drama college not a drama college
I did a performing arts course they
changed my life it turned my dreams into
a reality
it gave me an actual tangible target to
go oh actually I could do this
that was my break room because it was a
breakthrough of my mind
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that was my biggest break from of course
they’ve been numerous breakthroughs over
my career in my life which I’m all proud
of but none so much is that realization
that I want to be an actor to thrive in
whatever you do please understand your
terrain know what your target is don’t
guess it be as Crudup as the next man
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’re never gonna get
there period
work hard sleepless
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I spent so many years trying to figure
out how I wasted 14 years see once you
commit yourself the how will come the
way will come you have the ability to
more than you can ever begin to imagine
the most difficult thing I’ve ever done
was to believe that I can do what I’m
now doing but imagine if you will being
on your deathbed and standing around
your bed the dreams given to you by life
the ideas that you never acted on the
talents the gifts the abilities that you
never used and there they are standing
around your bed looking at you with
large angry eyes saying we came to you
and only you could have given us life
and now we must die with you forever if
you died this very moment what will die
with you what dreams what ideas what
talents what leadership potential what
greatness that you showed up to bred
that you’ll out fear of procrastination
to hold you back I refuse to die and
unlived like don’t worry about the art
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you want to raise the bar on yourself
most people won’t do that see most
people engage in low life living
low-risk living if you’re not willing to
risk you cannot grow and if you cannot
grow you cannot become your best and if
you cannot become your best you can’t be
happy and if you can’t be happy then
what else is there no I thought I didn’t
have my emergency lights on I didn’t
want to show up on the radar I plugged
you know how long I thought I’d park for
ten years
unless you attempt to do something
beyond that which you’ve already
mastered you will never grow and so you
want to begin to take some chances you
want to begin to challenge yourself and
make it okay to fail and learn from your
failures don’t allow fear of failure and
the allure the attractiveness of playing
it safe in life to draw you in you’ll
discover some things about yourself that
you don’t know right now you can’t get
out of life alive you’ve got to die to
leave here see most people stop short of
their dreams in park and get off the
highway of life because of the
rejections of life you will always be
rejected you must be willing to do the
things that a others won’t do in order
to have the things tomorrow others won’t
have see once you commit yourself the
how will come the way will come
ever tried ever failed no matter
try again fail again fail better
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I had so many dreams of where I wanted
to go who I wanted to be and what I
wanted to do
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you have your own story to tell
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theater companies I wanted to start with
classmates movies I wanted to be in
directors I wanted to work with stories
I needed to tell
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you
I pack the life that I knew with socks
and a toothbrush into my backpack and I
slept on couch after couch after couch
after couch at friends apartments in New
York until I wore out their rent paying
maids well
I didn’t want a day job I was an actor I
was a writer I had to get a day job I
dusted pianos at a piano store on Ludlow
Street for five months I worked on the
property of a Shakespeare scholar for a
year pulling weeds and removing bees
nests I went on unemployment once but
for not for long and couldn’t handle the
guilt eventually I was able to pay rent
for a spot on the floor of an apartment
on the Lower East Side but my roommate
had a breakdown and disappeared
I helped hang paintings at galleries
paintings that inspired inspire you to
think I could do that
and then finally after two years of job
and couchsurfing I got a job
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an application process
as a data engineer at a place called
professional examination services and I
stayed for six years six years from the
age of 23 to 29 well they loved me there
I was funny I smoked in the loading
docks with the guys from the mailroom
and we shared how hungover we all were I
called in sick almost every Friday
because I was out late the night before
I hated that job and I clung to that job
because of that job I could afford my
own place
my dream of running a theater company
with my friend and fellow Bennington
graduate Ian Bell had died
I had only the one window I myself could
not look out the window it was it was
quite high no acting agent
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when I was 29
I told myself the next acting job I get
no matter what it is I will from now on
for better or worse be a working actor
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but something good happened
I got a low-paying theater job in a play
called imperfect love which led to a
film called 13 moons with the same
writer which led to other roles which
led to other roles and I’ve worked as an
actor ever since I didn’t know that
would happen at 29 walking away from
data processing I was terrified 10 years
in a place without heat six years at a
job I felt stuck in maybe I was afraid
of change
are you
but this made me very hungry literally
I couldn’t be lazy
I couldn’t be and so at 29 and a very
long last I was in the company of the
actors and writers and directors I’d
sought out that first year that first
day
after school i was i am by their sides
raise the rest of your life
to meet you
don’t search for defining moments
because they will never come
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the moments that define you have already
happened
and they will already happen again
in the passes so quickly so please bring
each other along with you
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you you just get a bit derailed but soon
something starts to happen trust me a
rhythm sets in
just try not to wait until like me
you’re 29 before you find it
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and if you are that’s fine too some of
us never find it
but you will I promise you
you are already here
you’ll find your rhythm or
– you the one you have already
don’t wait until they tell you you are
ready
get in there say
the world might say you are not allowed
to yet I waited a long time out in the
world before I gave myself permission to
fail
please don’t even bother asking
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don’t bother telling the world you are
ready
show it do it
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what did that kid say
ever tried
ever failed
no matter try again
fail again
fail better
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we burn very brightly please don’t ever
stop
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the world is yours treat everyone kindly
and light up the night
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maybe I was afraid of change
are you
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seize the day winning isn’t everything
it’s the only thing do not wait for your
ship to come in swim out to it when the
going gets tough the tough get going you
miss on our percent of the shots you
don’t take if you can dream it you can
do it wherever you go go with all your
heart if man has done its best what else
is there success is going from failure
to fare without losing your enthusiam
for you don’t succeed try try again
genius is 1% inspiration 99%
perspiration I think I can’t I think I
can I think I can there’s no substitute
for hard work willing is not enough we
must do live the life you imagine do or
do not there is no try
action is foundational key to all
success discouragement fair the two of
the share of stepping-stone success that
yours not to dream less but your dream
or to dream it all the time
you don’t know where to go and you will
wind up somewhere else just do it I
heard those quotes growing up all the
time when I first heard something I
memorized them others I wrote down but
not one of them motivated me for more
than a day or two it was a much less
inspirational quote that inspired me
from a much less famous person it was a
doctor at UCLA he said Steve you’ve got
inoperable tumors all over your liver
worst-case scenario you have five years
to live and I can’t control the cards
I’m dealt just how I play the hands
if you need inspiring words don’t do it
today’s talk is not about death it’s
about life and how to live specifically
about childhood dreams and about how you
can try to achieve them
dreams will come to you if you live
properly the dreams will come
and I was dreaming always dreaming it
was an easy time it’s the dream when you
turn on your television set and men are
landing on the moon anything is possible
and we should never lose that spirit
okay bad news I cancer I was dying but I
got more bad news
you are all dying too
and what are you dying to do don’t skate
forward any further in your life without
answering that question
you
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but I basically just given you all the
same diagnosis I was given your time is
limited and that’s a real diagnosis so
what now
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okay like most people when they’re told
they’re dying you’re probably going
through the five stages of grief the
first stage is denial I’m not dying I’m
healthy stage 2 is anger stage 3 is
bargaining okay we’re all dying stage 4
is depression stage 5 the final stage is
acceptance
okay I’m not immortal
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so what now but let me tell you what I
did when I was told I might only have
five years first of all I got a lot of
advice a lot of friends want to help
Brenda my wife told me that maybe this
this news would give me a whole new
perspective someone else told me that I
should live every day like it was my
last
so what were my childhood dreams being
in the national football news this is
one of the childhood dreams I didn’t
achieve all right and it’s very
important to know that if you don’t
achieve your dreams you can still get a
lot by trying for there’s an expression
I love experience is what you get when
you don’t get what you want but most
wonderfully my parents did was they let
me paint my bedroom I said one day I
want to paint stuff on the walls and
they said okay try it a rocket ship and
we lived in a ranch so I wanted an
elevator I wasn’t sure where it would go
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but the great thing is that they let me
do it and they felt that letting me
express my creativity with more
important than the pristine nature of
the walls the brick walls that are in
our way are there for a reason they are
not there to keep us out they are there
to give us a way to show how much we
want it
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but what I kept coming back to when I
had time by myself and no one was giving
me advice was my dreams the dreams I had
put aside the ones that I thought I had
plenty of time to reach but now that I
realized I had a finite amount of time I
had asked myself what did I want to
accomplish I’m not a worst-case scenario
value but if I really only had five
years to live what was it that I wanted
to make sure happen for me as a comedian
it was a dream I had since I was 12
years old it was from for my comedy on
The Late Show with David Letterman so
let me be clear before I move on I was a
comedian already okay I was making a
living in no day job full-time comedian
making a good living in comedy clubs
colleges corporate events around the
world that was a pretty big feat in
itself but six years into my comedy
career I kind of stopped chasing the
Letterman dream I was waiting for it to
come to me I was waiting for some day
not chasing it anyway that’s a very
important lesson for all of us mortals
here today some day isn’t on the
calendar
Friday Saturday Sunday that’s on there
about four times a month no someday but
when it comes to our dreams it’s
probably the busiest day of the week cuz
someday right so learning that lesson I
just try it decided that I was gonna
refocus my attention back on that tree I
was going to pull out all the stops and
I gave myself a goal of getting on
Letterman within one year I was gonna
make someday happen I started yelling my
dream to anyone who would listen started
calling in every favor I was over I
found out everyone who worked on the
show and begged them to help me get an
audition I even started asking people at
comedy clubs after they see me to email
the show and beg Dave to book
and guess what I didn’t make it
my ironically name deadline came and
went but I was so renewed about my dream
and my newfound passion for it I decided
to get myself in an extension one more
year to get on letter didn’t happen and
then another nope sounds like bad news
right well it was I would have loved to
get on the show in that first year but
something great happened over there
those years those three years weren’t
spent dying
they were spent living living a dream
and let me tell you there is something
if you’ve ever chased a dream you know
that it lights a fire in your heart that
whether you reach it or not it warms
everyone around you and everything
around you so I decided you know what
I’m gonna keep going
cuz that dream is so important you can’t
wait can’t wait for some day to happen
you need to make things you need to make
things go out wouldn’t the world be a
better place if if we’re all inspired if
the world wasn’t full of uninspired
people I know I felt better when I was
inspired why do people stop chasing
their dreams I don’t think people choose
to be uninspired
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why do you think people stop chasing
their dreams everyone wants to achieve
them why do people leave them behind it
was a tough question answer I wanted to
give her an honest answer had some
cliche response or a motivational line
so I thought about it for a long time
I knew that cancer it motivated me to
pick my dream up again but why did I
stop chasing it in the first place why
does anyone stop well when the answer
came to me was hard to swallow a little
don’t spit out and say it loud but I
told her we’re all taught that life is
tough life’s a bitch life is hard but
it’s not pretty easy right pretty easy
to skate by and go through life right we
wake up every day most of us in the
world but the roof over our heads a big
comfy bed under our butts fridge full of
food most of us in the world especially
here in America never have to worry
about starvation or homelessness we have
friends and family that will help us out
when those things come those are the
things that made life dangerous 100
years ago now we complain hips life
isn’t convenient this isn’t a statement
on modern society this is a statement
about motivation light and easy easy to
skate by
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it’s pretty easy to grow up put your
dreams aside leave your passions behind
take a job that you read you don’t even
really mind raise some kids who will
most likely be inspired to do the exact
same thing go from point A to point B to
Point C until you end up at point Z
where you pass away and there’s a line
of people waiting to get up and tell
everyone else who knew you what a good
life get nothing bad about that nothing
wrong with that but nothing great about
it nothing inspiring about that it’s
easy to look at a dream as something way
off in the distance something that might
or might not be accomplished a thing an
object of goal thought that runs through
our mind every now and then a noun a
dream is also a verb
has to be lived it has to be done has to
be further – has to be acted about it
needs to be chased it’s not just a idea
or a result to dream encompasses every
step that it takes to get there so I’m
going to give you all a challenge here
figure out the answer to that question
what are you dying to do don’t stay
forward any further in your life without
answering that question but if you don’t
know the answer don’t go to sleep
tonight without answering that question
don’t wait till someday to answer that
question there’s nothing more important
in your life than figuring that out when
you do figure it out then when you go to
sleep you sleep like a kid again because
then you’ll be going to sleep not to
dream
but with the dream and
waking up with
thank you
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I told you about my dream I didn’t reach
my I Letterman tree and by my deadline
or my extended deadline nope
it took me five years ladies gentlemen
please welcome Steve Maison five years
of living
five of the years of living for that
dream and I was very lucky
by tumors here in that time they didn’t
grow I stayed healthy but I had that
wake-up call and I’m giving you all the
same wake-up call we’re all dying but if
you’re not chasing your dream you’re
already dead every man and himself is
iris the Kratt ik that he is his own
king he takes us adjourn into the
material world has to climb up all the
different runs on the ladder and
ultimately has to return to himself
the significance of the extraction from
the soil from a stone is the stone is
the material world the material world
which seems all solid because it
controls you whilst you’re projecting
your sense of identity upon it the
extraction of the stone is taking back
your own authority your own power
you’re no longer looking for a sense of
self outside of yourself
and then you have to face the demons
that you’ve created your history by
facing them and fighting them and owning
them
you put them in the face of who you are
and that’s a wrestling match you’d have
to take away all these crutches and
that’s all that we struggle from in life
is taking away our crutches you got to
take away all these crutches and stand
as the man that you are and you’re
liberated from your whole thing
what is the vision because the only
reason I’m here the only reason we’re
here today is because of our yesterday
everything I’ve been through has defined
Who I am right now
so what’s the goal what’s the vision
so no matter what you say to me no
matter what you say I cannot do no
matter what you say I will not do I must
do I have to do I am King I live as King
I woke his King
every man in himself is eros the Kratt
ik that he is his own king
if you don’t own something you’re not
the boss you have to take full
responsibility for everything that you
do why be subservient you must be the
master of your own Kingdom around that
you can’t just walk into things with
your eyes half open you’ll walk into
things with your eyes fully open you got
to know what you’re getting into you
have to take possession of your life
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that there’s a world out there trying to
tell you who you are and there’s a world
in here that’s trying to tell you who
you are now where’d you want to put your
X because the world outside is very
noisy and very tempting and as all the
razzamatazz has all the tints an
enormous litter it’s called the toys but
that’s because you don’t think you’re
enough in the first place
so the world will trying to be
and you have to tell yourself who you
and there’s this ongoing battle and
somehow there needs to be a
reconciliation between the two but in
the end you’ve gotta have all the eggs
in your basket
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the external world is I’m asking you to
tell me who I am that’s what we’re all
playing it and as soon as you start play
that game we run into a source of
trouble call it the ego call it whatever
you want to call it but that’s the
dynamic that we’re in and somehow we
have to give ourselves enough confidence
to reassure ourselves that we are enough
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we were kings from day one we will dive
how much time will you really wait
I looked at my car but the joke on time
never stops don’t work so one thing God
don’t give us your time
so time now the question is
shoes
New Times ready for you ready
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that’s what I do man that’s all what I
do
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my wicked
the sky we all go down
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what we look into change we must sense
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and hold a way to change this make sure
you are you’re doing the same thing
every day of your life
if an alarm clock is waking you up every
morning we might find out that continues
every man then himself is our Socratic
that he is his own king I always always
tried to figure out what’s the
difference between good and great good
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it’s time to figure out whatever
majority is doing imma find myself doing
the opposite
oh man you guys got an opportunity to do
something right now you wake up in an
artist
don’t let your long cock be the only
thing that wakes you up
how do you step into bravery
step
take the step
step aggressively towards your fear and
that that step towards your fear is the
step into bravery
we’re scared of what we don’t know and
there is only one way to learn and to
know and that is to confront that fear
you have to step
with small things that makes greatness
so it’s someone finally sees you they
represent you as a king because you
always a king and until you set your
mindset to think like the king then you
stay away everybody else is safe and
that’s the place I don’t want state I
wanted to go way beyond that and that’s
what I’m still chasing to this thing
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any because I got no special only thing
I got spit on me my mind at the be
special
greatest is a lot of small things that
will stack on top of each other
I was born in Memphis Tennessee had a
long haul from where I came from to here
but here we are
courage courage is the key to life
itself a lot of people who are born in
situation of a survive just I’ll never
get out of this so they won’t when
you’re finally ready to go home
make sure your footsteps
I say to people who say well I would
like to have done so and so and so so
you could have done it so when I
couldn’t get out of here man the bus
runs every day
if you can think of it you can do that’s
the human condition and we can imagine
if we can do it
don’t ever let a day go by that you
waste that’s the day you can never get
back these are moments we talk
the awful truth is is that life is easy
living truly living chasing a dream and
truly living is hard living is a bitch
living it’s tough especially when you
switch it and you ask yourself what am i
dying to do what is it that puts that
fire in my heart answering that question
is at the end though that’s really just
the spark once you get that fire burning
you need to feed it you need to keep
reminding yourself putting new poles in
there and remind yourself every day
about that goal because we’ve all taken
up a hobby or a goal or a workout that
we stopped for just a couple days and
then we never pick it up again you need
to constantly remind yourself that
you’re dying and that you’re dying to do
something
because the minute you forget life
creeps right back in and life is easy
we’re all dying but if you’re not
chasing your dream you’re already dead
unlike a team where no one takes
ownership of the problems and therefore
the problems never get solved with us
everyone took ownership of their
mistakes everyone took ownership of the
problems and when a team takes ownership
of its problems the problems get solved
and that is true on the battlefield it
is true in business and it is true in
life
so I say
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
those problems solved
take on the ship
of your mission
take ownership of your job of your team
of your future and take ownership of
your life
and lead
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read yourself
and your team and the people in your
life lead them all
to victory
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every man in himself is eros the critic
that he is his own king 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 long run
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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
itself
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
patient
he said when life can no longer threaten
you with death so what else is there
what else is
and the majority of the fears that we
have are not life or death fears but not
those kind of feeders
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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
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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
off you can take a knee
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
I want to give you an out
place to run to
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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
about where they’re at
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
your
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and they’ll tell you it’s okay to stop
it’s okay to settle it’s okay to give up
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and that is the instinct you need to
fight you need to polish back to smash
into the ground do 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 Andrea tack
so
but make that decision based on logic
not on the instinct of surrender and
defeat get up go fight on
you
your friends family and loved ones will
be the first ones to try and talk you
out of greatness
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 walking to the room but your head
held up high and if they don’t get it
laugh about it don’t disown your ideas
because their 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 it deep inside of you to do
you know my history of being sort of on
all sides of my journey you know I
didn’t I didn’t have success very early
and I went through some very dark times
and you know the main one thing I kept
doing is you know inspiring myself
looking for inspiration and growing and
and it hasn’t stopped and I want to keep
doing that and I also want to inspire
others you know there were millions of
me sitting at home right now and they
don’t know it and it’s just good to be
able to get this sort of platform to
sort of to say come on man go for it so
listen man knows yes I don’t do things
for money and I’ve been broke most of my
life so because of that I can’t sort of
suddenly go I need to do a job just to
get some cash you know I mean I know
that’s a lot of times it is people’s
motivations because people need to eat
but in my position I’ve been poor most
of my life so now
I think I think my imaginations always
kept me going in there Lin
you know just imagine myself collecting
awards just imagine myself you know I
mean getting big parts imagine myself
working with the greatest actors my
imagination was the one I know I mean
like I’ve known you’re not overthinking
but you just kind of like yeah man I see
myself driving that car one day but I
get down
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actually if I can see myself doing it I
could probably do it she can’t bottled
up it sell it to someone you can do it
well you can’t but everybody can imagine
themselves you know there
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I mean it’s important not to give
yourself boundaries which we can do
quite easily okay
people talk about aiming for the skies
sometimes even aiming for the skies is
intimidating just dull give yourself
boundaries your sky and my sky might be
different do they mean but neither of us
have touched the sky if we give
ourselves boundaries and I mean whatever
your sky is whatever your biggest dream
is I might have already touched that you
know so in other words what sky where
does the sky end I’d rather people go
you know what I’m not gonna restrict
myself to go and I can only do this so I
can only do that oh I have to do it this
way or I have to do it that way
the first step before anybody else in
the world believes it is you have to
believe it there’s no reason to have a
plan because it distracts from plan a I
was 16 contemplated being an actor I was
in sound systems DJ and I mean and you
know it was like that or this so I was
going back to do you know I always have
a studio I would have turntables always
been doing that a long time in animating
there was a there was a drive to be
famous to be you know that that pinnacle
to be that guy and I’m not not that not
it’s not it’s not my ambition isn’t that
as much you know I mean good work keep
working so it’s very hard for me to sort
of glide me be like you know home lifted
up by this wonderful life that I have I
love it but you know I’m I feel you’re
on the ground you know I so you know
it’s work it’s a job
achievement achievement is inspirational
to me you know people 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’m not afraid to fail I’m not afraid to
fall over make a mistake that often time
cripples people on the onset of getting
too into anything the first time ever
Peter the DJed eggs was horrible
horrible now but I’m not afraid of that
I’m not afraid of that feeling it
actually propels me works quite the
opposite
but I really loved to do it so I just
said I want to do what I love you know I
mean like I can do 18 22 hours a day
easily
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it’s definitely one of those components
to me as a human being my makeup my
genetics that allows me to actually keep
moving
I’m a veteran at being able to look at
an opportunity and go is that gonna take
me further or not you know some people
don’t have that you won’t is something
you develop you know that’s why most
times out of 10 any head of a company
has been doing it for a long time
because they inherently can make a
decision and the blink of an eye but you
have to learn that
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the other thing that’s important I think
is to keep your head down you know keep
your head down like when I swim 25 laps
guaranteed if I look up and start
counting those laps and pick it out by
15 if I put my head down and keep
working away and work a technique work
it internal rhythm work it ooh
I hit that from length I don’t even know
what length or mine guarantee you I’ll
look up it’ll be 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
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mountain climbers would probably tell
you the same thing you know there’s no
point looking the difference between
climbing a hundred feet and climbing
five hundred free it’s a point of view
you don’t know you’re at the top until
you get there about and that’s what you
need to remember
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you know just getting there just don’t
look down
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the more I grow you know in 43 at this
point you know considered middle-aged
man and happiness is without a doubt the
best thing that I am I strive for health
and happiness kid you know I couldn’t
any of it means nothing if I’m not happy
about it my breakthrough was actually
decided I wanted to be an actor and go
into a drama college not a drama college
I did a performing arts course they
changed my life it turned my dreams into
a reality
it gave me an actual tangible target to
go oh actually I could do this
that was my break room because it was a
breakthrough of my mind
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that was my biggest break from of course
they’ve been numerous breakthroughs over
my career in my life which I’m all proud
of but none so much is that realization
that I want to be an actor to thrive in
whatever you do please understand your
terrain know what your target is don’t
guess it be as Crudup as the next man
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’re never gonna get
there period
work hard sleepless
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I spent so many years trying to figure
out how I wasted 14 years see once you
commit yourself the how will come the
way will come you have the ability to
more than you can ever begin to imagine
the most difficult thing I’ve ever done
was to believe that I can do what I’m
now doing but imagine if you will being
on your deathbed and standing around
your bed the dreams given to you by life
the ideas that you never acted on the
talents the gifts the abilities that you
never used and there they are standing
around your bed looking at you with
large angry eyes saying we came to you
and only you could have given us life
and now we must die with you forever if
you died this very moment what will die
with you what dreams what ideas what
talents what leadership potential what
greatness that you showed up to bred
that you’ll out fear of procrastination
to hold you back I refuse to die and
unlived like don’t worry about the art
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you want to raise the bar on yourself
most people won’t do that see most
people engage in low life living
low-risk living if you’re not willing to
risk you cannot grow and if you cannot
grow you cannot become your best and if
you cannot become your best you can’t be
happy and if you can’t be happy then
what else is there no I thought I didn’t
have my emergency lights on I didn’t
want to show up on the radar I plugged
you know how long I thought I’d park for
ten years
unless you attempt to do something
beyond that which you’ve already
mastered you will never grow and so you
want to begin to take some chances you
want to begin to challenge yourself and
make it okay to fail and learn from your
failures don’t allow fear of failure and
the allure the attractiveness of playing
it safe in life to draw you in you’ll
discover some things about yourself that
you don’t know right now you can’t get
out of life alive you’ve got to die to
leave here see most people stop short of
their dreams in park and get off the
highway of life because of the
rejections of life you will always be
rejected you must be willing to do the
things that a others won’t do in order
to have the things tomorrow others won’t
have see once you commit yourself the
how will come the way will come
ever tried ever failed no matter
try again fail again fail better
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I had so many dreams of where I wanted
to go who I wanted to be and what I
wanted to do
[Music]
you have your own story to tell
[Music]
theater companies I wanted to start with
classmates movies I wanted to be in
directors I wanted to work with stories
I needed to tell
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you
I pack the life that I knew with socks
and a toothbrush into my backpack and I
slept on couch after couch after couch
after couch at friends apartments in New
York until I wore out their rent paying
maids well
I didn’t want a day job I was an actor I
was a writer I had to get a day job I
dusted pianos at a piano store on Ludlow
Street for five months I worked on the
property of a Shakespeare scholar for a
year pulling weeds and removing bees
nests I went on unemployment once but
for not for long and couldn’t handle the
guilt eventually I was able to pay rent
for a spot on the floor of an apartment
on the Lower East Side but my roommate
had a breakdown and disappeared
I helped hang paintings at galleries
paintings that inspired inspire you to
think I could do that
and then finally after two years of job
and couchsurfing I got a job
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an application process
as a data engineer at a place called
professional examination services and I
stayed for six years six years from the
age of 23 to 29 well they loved me there
I was funny I smoked in the loading
docks with the guys from the mailroom
and we shared how hungover we all were I
called in sick almost every Friday
because I was out late the night before
I hated that job and I clung to that job
because of that job I could afford my
own place
my dream of running a theater company
with my friend and fellow Bennington
graduate Ian Bell had died
I had only the one window I myself could
not look out the window it was it was
quite high no acting agent
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when I was 29
I told myself the next acting job I get
no matter what it is I will from now on
for better or worse be a working actor
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but something good happened
I got a low-paying theater job in a play
called imperfect love which led to a
film called 13 moons with the same
writer which led to other roles which
led to other roles and I’ve worked as an
actor ever since I didn’t know that
would happen at 29 walking away from
data processing I was terrified 10 years
in a place without heat six years at a
job I felt stuck in maybe I was afraid
of change
are you
but this made me very hungry literally
I couldn’t be lazy
I couldn’t be and so at 29 and a very
long last I was in the company of the
actors and writers and directors I’d
sought out that first year that first
day
after school i was i am by their sides
raise the rest of your life
to meet you
don’t search for defining moments
because they will never come
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the moments that define you have already
happened
and they will already happen again
in the passes so quickly so please bring
each other along with you
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you you just get a bit derailed but soon
something starts to happen trust me a
rhythm sets in
just try not to wait until like me
you’re 29 before you find it
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and if you are that’s fine too some of
us never find it
but you will I promise you
you are already here
you’ll find your rhythm or
– you the one you have already
don’t wait until they tell you you are
ready
get in there say
the world might say you are not allowed
to yet I waited a long time out in the
world before I gave myself permission to
fail
please don’t even bother asking
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don’t bother telling the world you are
ready
show it do it
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what did that kid say
ever tried
ever failed
no matter try again
fail again
fail better
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we burn very brightly please don’t ever
stop
[Music]
the world is yours treat everyone kindly
and light up the night
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maybe I was afraid of change
are you
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seize the day winning isn’t everything
it’s the only thing do not wait for your
ship to come in swim out to it when the
going gets tough the tough get going you
miss on our percent of the shots you
don’t take if you can dream it you can
do it wherever you go go with all your
heart if man has done its best what else
is there success is going from failure
to fare without losing your enthusiam
for you don’t succeed try try again
genius is 1% inspiration 99%
perspiration I think I can’t I think I
can I think I can there’s no substitute
for hard work willing is not enough we
must do live the life you imagine do or
do not there is no try
action is foundational key to all
success discouragement fair the two of
the share of stepping-stone success that
yours not to dream less but your dream
or to dream it all the time
you don’t know where to go and you will
wind up somewhere else just do it I
heard those quotes growing up all the
time when I first heard something I
memorized them others I wrote down but
not one of them motivated me for more
than a day or two it was a much less
inspirational quote that inspired me
from a much less famous person it was a
doctor at UCLA he said Steve you’ve got
inoperable tumors all over your liver
worst-case scenario you have five years
to live and I can’t control the cards
I’m dealt just how I play the hands
if you need inspiring words don’t do it
today’s talk is not about death it’s
about life and how to live specifically
about childhood dreams and about how you
can try to achieve them
dreams will come to you if you live
properly the dreams will come
and I was dreaming always dreaming it
was an easy time it’s the dream when you
turn on your television set and men are
landing on the moon anything is possible
and we should never lose that spirit
okay bad news I cancer I was dying but I
got more bad news
you are all dying too
and what are you dying to do don’t skate
forward any further in your life without
answering that question
you
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but I basically just given you all the
same diagnosis I was given your time is
limited and that’s a real diagnosis so
what now
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okay like most people when they’re told
they’re dying you’re probably going
through the five stages of grief the
first stage is denial I’m not dying I’m
healthy stage 2 is anger stage 3 is
bargaining okay we’re all dying stage 4
is depression stage 5 the final stage is
acceptance
okay I’m not immortal
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so what now but let me tell you what I
did when I was told I might only have
five years first of all I got a lot of
advice a lot of friends want to help
Brenda my wife told me that maybe this
this news would give me a whole new
perspective someone else told me that I
should live every day like it was my
last
so what were my childhood dreams being
in the national football news this is
one of the childhood dreams I didn’t
achieve all right and it’s very
important to know that if you don’t
achieve your dreams you can still get a
lot by trying for there’s an expression
I love experience is what you get when
you don’t get what you want but most
wonderfully my parents did was they let
me paint my bedroom I said one day I
want to paint stuff on the walls and
they said okay try it a rocket ship and
we lived in a ranch so I wanted an
elevator I wasn’t sure where it would go
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but the great thing is that they let me
do it and they felt that letting me
express my creativity with more
important than the pristine nature of
the walls the brick walls that are in
our way are there for a reason they are
not there to keep us out they are there
to give us a way to show how much we
want it
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but what I kept coming back to when I
had time by myself and no one was giving
me advice was my dreams the dreams I had
put aside the ones that I thought I had
plenty of time to reach but now that I
realized I had a finite amount of time I
had asked myself what did I want to
accomplish I’m not a worst-case scenario
value but if I really only had five
years to live what was it that I wanted
to make sure happen for me as a comedian
it was a dream I had since I was 12
years old it was from for my comedy on
The Late Show with David Letterman so
let me be clear before I move on I was a
comedian already okay I was making a
living in no day job full-time comedian
making a good living in comedy clubs
colleges corporate events around the
world that was a pretty big feat in
itself but six years into my comedy
career I kind of stopped chasing the
Letterman dream I was waiting for it to
come to me I was waiting for some day
not chasing it anyway that’s a very
important lesson for all of us mortals
here today some day isn’t on the
calendar
Friday Saturday Sunday that’s on there
about four times a month no someday but
when it comes to our dreams it’s
probably the busiest day of the week cuz
someday right so learning that lesson I
just try it decided that I was gonna
refocus my attention back on that tree I
was going to pull out all the stops and
I gave myself a goal of getting on
Letterman within one year I was gonna
make someday happen I started yelling my
dream to anyone who would listen started
calling in every favor I was over I
found out everyone who worked on the
show and begged them to help me get an
audition I even started asking people at
comedy clubs after they see me to email
the show and beg Dave to book
and guess what I didn’t make it
my ironically name deadline came and
went but I was so renewed about my dream
and my newfound passion for it I decided
to get myself in an extension one more
year to get on letter didn’t happen and
then another nope sounds like bad news
right well it was I would have loved to
get on the show in that first year but
something great happened over there
those years those three years weren’t
spent dying
they were spent living living a dream
and let me tell you there is something
if you’ve ever chased a dream you know
that it lights a fire in your heart that
whether you reach it or not it warms
everyone around you and everything
around you so I decided you know what
I’m gonna keep going
cuz that dream is so important you can’t
wait can’t wait for some day to happen
you need to make things you need to make
things go out wouldn’t the world be a
better place if if we’re all inspired if
the world wasn’t full of uninspired
people I know I felt better when I was
inspired why do people stop chasing
their dreams I don’t think people choose
to be uninspired
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why do you think people stop chasing
their dreams everyone wants to achieve
them why do people leave them behind it
was a tough question answer I wanted to
give her an honest answer had some
cliche response or a motivational line
so I thought about it for a long time
I knew that cancer it motivated me to
pick my dream up again but why did I
stop chasing it in the first place why
does anyone stop well when the answer
came to me was hard to swallow a little
don’t spit out and say it loud but I
told her we’re all taught that life is
tough life’s a bitch life is hard but
it’s not pretty easy right pretty easy
to skate by and go through life right we
wake up every day most of us in the
world but the roof over our heads a big
comfy bed under our butts fridge full of
food most of us in the world especially
here in America never have to worry
about starvation or homelessness we have
friends and family that will help us out
when those things come those are the
things that made life dangerous 100
years ago now we complain hips life
isn’t convenient this isn’t a statement
on modern society this is a statement
about motivation light and easy easy to
skate by
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it’s pretty easy to grow up put your
dreams aside leave your passions behind
take a job that you read you don’t even
really mind raise some kids who will
most likely be inspired to do the exact
same thing go from point A to point B to
Point C until you end up at point Z
where you pass away and there’s a line
of people waiting to get up and tell
everyone else who knew you what a good
life get nothing bad about that nothing
wrong with that but nothing great about
it nothing inspiring about that it’s
easy to look at a dream as something way
off in the distance something that might
or might not be accomplished a thing an
object of goal thought that runs through
our mind every now and then a noun a
dream is also a verb
has to be lived it has to be done has to
be further – has to be acted about it
needs to be chased it’s not just a idea
or a result to dream encompasses every
step that it takes to get there so I’m
going to give you all a challenge here
figure out the answer to that question
what are you dying to do don’t stay
forward any further in your life without
answering that question but if you don’t
know the answer don’t go to sleep
tonight without answering that question
don’t wait till someday to answer that
question there’s nothing more important
in your life than figuring that out when
you do figure it out then when you go to
sleep you sleep like a kid again because
then you’ll be going to sleep not to
dream
but with the dream and
waking up with
thank you
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I told you about my dream I didn’t reach
my I Letterman tree and by my deadline
or my extended deadline nope
it took me five years ladies gentlemen
please welcome Steve Maison five years
of living
five of the years of living for that
dream and I was very lucky
by tumors here in that time they didn’t
grow I stayed healthy but I had that
wake-up call and I’m giving you all the
same wake-up call we’re all dying but if
you’re not chasing your dream you’re
already dead every man and himself is
iris the Kratt ik that he is his own
king he takes us adjourn into the
material world has to climb up all the
different runs on the ladder and
ultimately has to return to himself
the significance of the extraction from
the soil from a stone is the stone is
the material world the material world
which seems all solid because it
controls you whilst you’re projecting
your sense of identity upon it the
extraction of the stone is taking back
your own authority your own power
you’re no longer looking for a sense of
self outside of yourself
and then you have to face the demons
that you’ve created your history by
facing them and fighting them and owning
them
you put them in the face of who you are
and that’s a wrestling match you’d have
to take away all these crutches and
that’s all that we struggle from in life
is taking away our crutches you got to
take away all these crutches and stand
as the man that you are and you’re
liberated from your whole thing
what is the vision because the only
reason I’m here the only reason we’re
here today is because of our yesterday
everything I’ve been through has defined
Who I am right now
so what’s the goal what’s the vision
so no matter what you say to me no
matter what you say I cannot do no
matter what you say I will not do I must
do I have to do I am King I live as King
I woke his King
every man in himself is eros the Kratt
ik that he is his own king
if you don’t own something you’re not
the boss you have to take full
responsibility for everything that you
do why be subservient you must be the
master of your own Kingdom around that
you can’t just walk into things with
your eyes half open you’ll walk into
things with your eyes fully open you got
to know what you’re getting into you
have to take possession of your life
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that there’s a world out there trying to
tell you who you are and there’s a world
in here that’s trying to tell you who
you are now where’d you want to put your
X because the world outside is very
noisy and very tempting and as all the
razzamatazz has all the tints an
enormous litter it’s called the toys but
that’s because you don’t think you’re
enough in the first place
so the world will trying to be
and you have to tell yourself who you
and there’s this ongoing battle and
somehow there needs to be a
reconciliation between the two but in
the end you’ve gotta have all the eggs
in your basket
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the external world is I’m asking you to
tell me who I am that’s what we’re all
playing it and as soon as you start play
that game we run into a source of
trouble call it the ego call it whatever
you want to call it but that’s the
dynamic that we’re in and somehow we
have to give ourselves enough confidence
to reassure ourselves that we are enough
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we were kings from day one we will dive
how much time will you really wait
I looked at my car but the joke on time
never stops don’t work so one thing God
don’t give us your time
so time now the question is
shoes
New Times ready for you ready
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that’s what I do man that’s all what I
do
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my wicked
the sky we all go down
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what we look into change we must sense
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and hold a way to change this make sure
you are you’re doing the same thing
every day of your life
if an alarm clock is waking you up every
morning we might find out that continues
every man then himself is our Socratic
that he is his own king I always always
tried to figure out what’s the
difference between good and great good
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it’s time to figure out whatever
majority is doing imma find myself doing
the opposite
oh man you guys got an opportunity to do
something right now you wake up in an
artist
don’t let your long cock be the only
thing that wakes you up
how do you step into bravery
step
take the step
step aggressively towards your fear and
that that step towards your fear is the
step into bravery
we’re scared of what we don’t know and
there is only one way to learn and to
know and that is to confront that fear
you have to step
with small things that makes greatness
so it’s someone finally sees you they
represent you as a king because you
always a king and until you set your
mindset to think like the king then you
stay away everybody else is safe and
that’s the place I don’t want state I
wanted to go way beyond that and that’s
what I’m still chasing to this thing
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any because I got no special only thing
I got spit on me my mind at the be
special
greatest is a lot of small things that
will stack on top of each other
I was born in Memphis Tennessee had a
long haul from where I came from to here
but here we are
courage courage is the key to life
itself a lot of people who are born in
situation of a survive just I’ll never
get out of this so they won’t when
you’re finally ready to go home
make sure your footsteps
I say to people who say well I would
like to have done so and so and so so
you could have done it so when I
couldn’t get out of here man the bus
runs every day
if you can think of it you can do that’s
the human condition and we can imagine
if we can do it
don’t ever let a day go by that you
waste that’s the day you can never get
back these are moments we talk
the awful truth is is that life is easy
living truly living chasing a dream and
truly living is hard living is a bitch
living it’s tough especially when you
switch it and you ask yourself what am i
dying to do what is it that puts that
fire in my heart answering that question
is at the end though that’s really just
the spark once you get that fire burning
you need to feed it you need to keep
reminding yourself putting new poles in
there and remind yourself every day
about that goal because we’ve all taken
up a hobby or a goal or a workout that
we stopped for just a couple days and
then we never pick it up again you need
to constantly remind yourself that
you’re dying and that you’re dying to do
something
because the minute you forget life
creeps right back in and life is easy
we’re all dying but if you’re not
chasing your dream you’re already dead
unlike a team where no one takes
ownership of the problems and therefore
the problems never get solved with us
everyone took ownership of their
mistakes everyone took ownership of the
problems and when a team takes ownership
of its problems the problems get solved
and that is true on the battlefield it
is true in business and it is true in
life
so I say
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
those problems solved
take on the ship
of your mission
take ownership of your job of your team
of your future and take ownership of
your life
and lead
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read yourself
and your team and the people in your
life lead them all
to victory
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every man in himself is eros the critic
that he is his own king 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 long run
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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
itself
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
patient
he said when life can no longer threaten
you with death so what else is there
what else is
and the majority of the fears that we
have are not life or death fears but not
those kind of feeders
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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
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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
off you can take a knee
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
I want to give you an out
place to run to
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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
about where they’re at
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
your
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and they’ll tell you it’s okay to stop
it’s okay to settle it’s okay to give up
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and that is the instinct you need to
fight you need to polish back to smash
into the ground do 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 Andrea tack
so
but make that decision based on logic
not on the instinct of surrender and
defeat get up go fight on
you
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