begin each day as if it were on purpose
it was a young man who you know he
wanted to make a lot of money and so he
went to this guru right come to guru you
know I want to be on the same level you
are and so the Guru said if you want to
be on the same level I’m all I’ll meet
you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m.
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everybody wants to be a beast and true
it’s time to do what real bees do
everybody gets excited he teed a guru
story but nobody wants to get up in
three o’clock
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he liked the beach I said I wanna make
money I don’t want to swim who said if
you want to make money I’ll meet you
tomorrow
4:00 a.m. so the young man got there
4:00 a.m. he all ready to rock and roll
got on the suit he should have wore
shorts the old man grabs his hand said
how bad you want to be successful he
said real bad he said walk on out in the
water
everybody wants to be a beast and – it’s
time to do it real beast do
so he walks out into the water watch
this when he walks out to the ward it
goes waist-deep so he said come on a
little farther walked I looked further
and he had it right around this area
just over the area so this old man crazy
making money but he crazy said come on
now to look farther he can’t my little
brother was right at his mouth my man
like I’m about to go back either this
got his mind so the old man’s I thought
you said you wanted to be successful he
said I do he said walk a little further
he can’t drop his head in held him down
hold him down
my man getting scratching hold him down
he had him held down just before my man
was about to pass out he raised him up
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you can’t you can’t just say you want it
you can’t watch the video and say I want
it as bad as I want to breathe is to
just say it but when is Showtime
when the Sun comes out when the Sun
comes out you’ve got all the books
you’ve got all the tapes you got all the
access now it’s time to hunt and what
separates you from everybody else is
that when it’s time to hunt your radar
hunts you may be watching this right now
and you have these incredible ideas and
what you think is missing is motivation
and that’s not true because the way that
our minds are wired and the fact about
human beings is that we are not designed
to do things that are uncomfortable or
scary or difficult our brains are
designed to protect us from those things
because our brains are trying to keep us
alive and in order to change in order to
build a business in order to be the best
parent the best spouse to do all those
things that you know you want to do with
your life with your work with your
dreams you’re gonna have to do things
that are difficult uncertain or scary
which sets up this problem for all of us
you’re not gonna feel like it
motivations garbage you only feel
motivated
to do the things that are easy
whether it’s hard or easy doesn’t matter
you’re doing this
he said when you were underwater what
did you want to do the only thing you
trying to do is get some air you don’t
care about no basketball game you don’t
care what’s on TV you don’t care about
nobody calling you you don’t care about
a party the only thing you care about
when you trying to breathe is to get
some fresh air
that’s it and when you get to the point
where all you want to do is be
successful as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful
and now you feel which bed last night
and all these ideas by your going up
this morning slightly different things
going to be different they were started
start taking steps some of those
projects you know get you closer to
living that dream like you keep playing
over and over in your head
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everybody wants to be a beast to his
time to do real please do
if you say you want to be successful but
you don’t want it bad you just kind of
want it you don’t want it badder than
you want a party you don’t want it as
much as you want to be cool you most of
you don’t want success as much as you
want to sleep
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train hard when no one’s in the room
when you’re having a bad day through
death through hardship through anything
that can go wrong
therapy days I would train by myself or
with my fiance Cherie and I would be in
there dying
I’ve been there dying looking at those
pictures in the gym of Schwarzenegger
with Coleman Haney of torreón yourself
in the best position to win and that’s
all we can do in life people sometimes
life is gonna serve it up some
curveballs might challenge each and
every one of you to step in that
batter’s box and take a damn swing just
take a swing I’ve had one trainer one I
did my first pro show in 2006 that the
Colorado Pro we did the New York Pro
after that and we won both of them and a
lot of people thought you know what this
guy is gonna be something and on the
always told me Phil you have to
understand something it’s a marathon not
a sprint and the measurement of a man is
when he gets knocked down not when he’s
winning so I lost a few times
and he always reminded me of just to
keep on going and be the hardest worker
in the room just like what you say and
when people tell you you can’t you don’t
look at them you don’t need to look at
them you look in the mirror and you ask
yourself do you even in your all you
look at the mirror you ask yourself do
you have another rep you ask yourself
can I go to work when I’m pissed off
because I admire something happen or
lost my girlfriend or whatever it is you
ask yourself do you have the guts to go
after it when no one is watching no is
pat you on the back and no one is liking
your stuff on freaking social media if
you got the guts to go after it you can
put yourself best position to win and
that’s what I did for this entire prep
it was not easy a lot of people say oh
he’s got genetics this man I put that
god-given talent to work each every damn
day
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and I’m so thankful I’m so thankful for
the Olympia I’m so thankful to be a
bodybuilder because it wasn’t meant for
me to play basketball I mean look at me
on the short as hell you know it doesn’t
work out like that God had a different
plan obviously and I’m glad that I
listen and I’m glad that I never gave up
and I know there’s a lot of incredible
athletes wanting to kick my ass next
year but I know this winning has
habitual if you care about your success
more than anyone else in the room I
promise you this you will be successful
at some point in time but the goal is is
that when you are successful that you
don’t just hide it for yourself you
don’t just hold it for you so you share
those experiences and perspectives with
everybody else so they can feel the
confidence to go after their dreams and
I’m just proud to be a seven-time Miss
Olympia and like this and like the great
oak said next year I’ll be back and I’m
here to tell you number one that most of
you say you want to be successful but
you don’t want it bad you just kind of
want it you don’t want it better than
you want a party you don’t want it as
much as you want to be cool you most of
you don’t want success as much as you
want to sleep something you love sleep
more than you love success and I’m here
to tell you today if you’re going to be
successful you’ve got to be willing to
give up sleep
you got to be willing to work off for
three hours of sleep two hours if you
really want to be successful some days
you will have to stay up three days in a
row because if you go to sleep you might
miss the opportunity to be successful
that’s how bad you got a warning you got
to go do not listen to me you got to
want to be successful so bad that you
forget to eat be honest I said once she
was on the set doing her thing three
days had gone by she forgot she didn’t
eat because she was engaged fifty said
that when he wasn’t doing the movie he
was doing the soundtrack and they said
when do you sleep fifty sleep he said
sleep sleep is for those people who are
broke I’ll sleep there is something
better for you to do with your time than
even being here right now I am mr.
resistance I’m distracting you from
doing the work you need to do
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begin each day as if it were on purpose
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there is suffering and I was waiting
like 297 pounds and I had to make a
change in my life
you know I was at all-time low and I
wasn’t going anywhere and I was exactly
what everybody said I was going to be
which was nothing so I had to make a
change
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you’re scared kid and the only way I
could find myself was to put myself
through the worst thing possible I’m
gonna say the exact opposite of what the
world today’s world is saying in the end
like what would your advice be to that
16 year old kid who’s staring in the
mirror does not like what he sees but is
still running from adversity well my
biggest advice to him is that first of
all he won’t like what I say to him and
I’m gonna say the exact opposite of what
the world today’s world is saying so we
read a bunch of books nowadays as humans
we we want to find out how to be someone
else what we don’t do is we don’t go
inside so literally turn yourself inside
out read the book that says like we
write in a book every day for lives but
we never read that book so what I would
challenge this young man or young woman
to do is you have to look inside of
yourself and see what you really want
where are you passionate about we use
these words and these little phrases of
only the strong survive and also the
crap they’re all just fucking words I
get so tired of hearing people just
talking that right now someone may think
God is just talking you don’t know me so
when I speak I speak from Pasha I speak
from experience I speak from suffering I
want to tell this young man and woman
that the only way I believe this is just
my experience in life the only way
you’re ever going to get to the other
side of this journey is you have got to
suffer to grow to grow you must suffer
some people get it so he won’t
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so long story short what I realized was
no one was here to help me and the
feeling I had every morning I started
saving my heaven on 16 years old and the
feeling I had every morning I looked in
the mirror was horrible and I don’t
wanna feel like that anymore and how I
felt was a kid going nowhere a kid that
was scared and most kids will accept
that and look for help but the best
thing that happened to me
no one helped me no one felt sorry for
me no one looked at me and said like
this day and age they’ll they’ll take
you in and it’ll tell you bye stop
picking on this person back then any
care we’re all we are all great no
matter if if you think you’re dumb and
maybe think you’re fat no matter you are
fat you’re have you been bullied or no
matter if you just got back from Iraq or
Afghanistan and you have no legs or your
arms or whatever man
we all have greatness it just you got to
find the courage you got to find the
courage to put your Bose headphones on
and silence the noise out of this world
and to find it and the final cut is out
there but it’s going to take hard work
courage self-discipline it’s gonna take
all the non-cognitive skills all the
non-cognitive skills to be great you
know smart is good all the stuff is good
that’s all cognitive it’s the
non-cognitive skills that sets you apart
from everybody else and
and that’s what it’s all about I I lied
for people to accept me because I did
accept myself so I would make up stories
so that you would accept me into your
world I would uh everything I did was
for someone else to like me
it was until I started reading my own
book about how pathetic I was as human
being I could blame my dad I can blame
kids at school I could blame having
health issues
ATD my mom not being around great mom
but she was doing her thing I could
blame a lot of people and that’s the
book I was reading and I put it off on
everybody else it was until I said you
know what for me to fix this I get a
read what the hell what the fuck is
wrong with David God wasn’t going to be
a punk kid all my life so in a way I
could turn around was to suffer
I had to build calluses in my brain the
same way I built calluses on my hands so
I brought the against but the world’s
records for pulse
a long time ago but I felt at it twice
and I did 67,000 pull-ups in trying to
break this record so to do four thousand
thirty pull-ups I had to do 67,000 for
training for that Wow
and so what I realized is for me to
become the man I want to become I saw
myself as the weakest person God ever
created
but I never blamed God for anything he
did to me so I wanted to change that to
be the hardest man ever created in my
that I don’t know but he had to have a
goal and my goal when I was sitting
there not going to school being bullied
being having no self-esteem my goal was
the only person that’s gonna turn this
person around
it’s me you know I can turned around has
put myself through the worst things
possible a human being can ever endure
it and I’d be the only way that I can
build this brain to handle anything that
comes in front of it
callus in my mind through pain and
suffering
but they have to see what their journey
is to start their journey several people
live to be a hundred years old and they
have great lives and they have great
kids the kids go to college long sort of
stuff but somewhere in their life there
was a point where they had a decision to
make they can go left or right on this
path left was the easy route right was a
hard route a lot of people take the easy
route and they had a good life that way
but the better life was going to the
right side a human being is not so human
anymore we have the ability to go in
such a space if you’re willing to suffer
and I mean suffer your brain and your
body once connected together can do
anything
motivation comes and goes when you’re
driven whatever’s in front of you will
get destroyed and you may have 20 years
of pain and suffering to get past it but
a lot of us die never truly starting our
journey and I would tell this young
person you got to start your journey it
may suck but it will it will come out
the other side where you’re coasting
I stopped listening to people who are
calling you fat gay transsexual nigger
everything that is makes no sense
all these insecure people put their
insecurities on you you got to flush it
out you got to just be whoever the hell
God or whatever the hell you believe in
if you believe in nothing but yourself I
don’t care what it is you got to take
everything and throw it away you have to
believe in one thing and that is
yourself
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my biggest advice to give everybody in
the world is like I say we live in an
external world everything is is you got
to see it touch its external if you can
for the rest of your life live inside of
yourself
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and people may listen to this and say
this guy is sadistic he’s crazy
no if you know how I came up you realize
I was just a scared kid that found drive
and passion to be something much better
than what he thought ago that’s all it
is even the hardest men in times of
suffering what we do is we forget how
hard we really are that’s what suffering
is suffering is a test that’s all it is
suffering is a true test of life
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self-talk and visualization are two keys
to my success
the very bestest did I leave everything
inside of me out there so attacking is
not like all when I win this your win
matter do the best the best is I’m
running to get himself
Tec I attacked myself I’m always
questioning myself
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so the things that we run from we run it
from the truth we’re running from the
truth man so the only way I became
successful was going towards the truth
as painful and as brutal as it is it
changed me it allowed me to become in my
own right Who I am today
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when you look in the mirror that’s the
one person you can’t live so every
morning I would shave my head thank God
I reflect back on some of the lies I may
have told somebody or some of the ways I
acted I ain’t feel comfortable doing and
I did it to impress other normal people
the key word there is normal everyday
people I was trying to make other people
like me how pathetic is that
your skin become more of a human being
don’t be afraid of the reflection in the
mirror because that’s all you can be
afraid of once you overcome the
reflection in the mirror you’ve done it
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but if you can get through to doing
things that you hate to do on the other
side is greatness that’s what people are
saying by me running I am Callas in my
mind on that training for a race I’m
training for life I’m training for the
time and I get that two o’clock in the
morning call that my mom is dead or
something happens tragic in life I don’t
fall apart I’m training my mind and my
body my spirit so it’s all one so I can
handle with life is gonna throw that
because the life I’ve lived it throws a
whole bunch at you and if you’re not
physically immensely prepared for that
there’s been a coma and you’re good for
nobody
but the mentality of a warrior is very
differently no new talent you must be
that person on that door Oh get ready to
open it thinking to yourself if I die so
be the only way you can go in that door
because know there’s a great chance
you’re gonna die hopefully your
mother-fucking going home
because they’re gonna remember you by
slowly opening and peeking in so if
you’re gonna open it and you made them
on to open it don’t crack it open open
the fucking door go in that’s with life
if you choose to do if you choose to do
something attack it because they’re
gonna remember you as not attacking it
so I want to be remembered you can hate
me but one thing you can’t say about me
I didn’t attack it so that’s them attire
you have if you’re gonna do something
you might as well take it hopefully I
can help people that believe that
they’re much less than what they truly
are help them find greatness in
themselves and greatness isn’t running
towards it miles at a time or do 4,000
Pope’s for being a seal
greatness is whatever the hell you’ve
dreamed up in your own mind you got to
first see it you gotta first create this
vision in your mind and then that’s not
come into play once you create this
vision in your mind it’s how am I gonna
get there now and that’s we’re not
coming to play but first you got to
create your own vision and it’s not
externally it’s the the busines creating
is inside of you so until you create
that I’m nobody to you
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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 I ever
picked up the DJ decks was horrible
horrible now but I’m not afraid of that
I’m not afraid of that feeling it
actually propels me it works quite the
opposite I can do 18 22 hours a day
easily with veteran at being able to
look at an opportunity and go is that
going to take me forever or not 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 my breakthrough was
actually deciding I wanted to be an
actor the other thing that’s important I
think is to keep your head down you know
keep your head down like when I swim in
25 laps come into if I look up and start
counting those laps and pick it out by
15 if I put my head down I keep walking
away and work a technique work it
internal rhythm and work it mmm I hit
that length I don’t even know what
length come on guarantee you I’ve looked
happy to 20 and to more free more to go
I think people find themselves
incremental each eating how far
now you know when you compare to anybody
else or whatever it’s just a it’s a
recipe for disaster just keep banging on
you know that’s the most important
mountain climbers would probably tell
you the same thing
there’s no point looking the difference
between climbing a hundred feet and
climbing silently is a point of you
don’t know you’re at the top until you
get there pal and that’s what you need
to remember just don’t look down
they changed my life it turns my dreams
into a reality
it gave me an actual tangible target to
go oh actually I could do this that was
my that was my biggest breakthrough of
course have been numerous breakthroughs
over my career in my life which I’m all
proud of but none so much as that
realization that I am want to be an
actor
know what your target is don’t guess it
be as Crudup as the next man because
that’s that’s that cheap 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 there
are these two young fish swimming along
and they happen to meet an older fish
swimming the other way who nods at them
and says morning boys how’s the water
and the two young fish swim on for a bit
and that eventually one of them looks
over at the other and goes what the hell
is water
most people suffer from Arrested
Development they stop developing
themselves they stop growing they stop
reaching and they literally settle in
and excitement accept life as it comes
out but if you’re worried that I plan to
present myself here as the wise older
fish explaining what water is to you
younger fish please don’t be I am NOT
the wise old fish the point of the fish
story is merely that the most obvious
important realities are often the ones
that are hardest to see and talk about
last thing that we want to do in life is
like is become subject to the rules we
place ourselves in you know we’re also
much everyone in in the world is bigger
than the role that they think they need
to play you’re not just a dad you’re not
just a banker you’re not just a brother
or a son or a convict
it doesn’t matter like everyone is is
bigger much bigger infinitely bigger
than the roles they place themselves in
and is capable of reaching potential
greater than anything they could imagine
I think that you know everyone in the
world is pasta is capable of living
outside the role or beyond the roles
that they place themselves in no matter
what it is we think we have a ceiling
and when it comes to our potential and
the and the real and the truth is that
there is no ceiling
just fit in with everybody else go where
they go think like they they do what
they do and once you neutralize your
uniqueness
you don’t need courage it takes courage
to be different it takes courage to go
where you’ve never gone before
it takes courage to be successful it
takes courage to win
people that don’t win if you’ve never
the stands deep reason
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but the fact is that in the day-to-day
trenches of adult existence then all
platitudes can have a life-or-death
importance or so I wish to suggest to
you on this dry and lovely morning the
judge a man not by what he has
accomplished but what did he had to
overcome for his accomplishment
you get to consciously decide what has
meaning and what doesn’t you get to
decide what to worship
when you get outside of what’s familiar
what’s comfortable what feels right and
put yourself in a position beyond your
comfort zone yeah that will give birth
to a part of yourself that you don’t
know right now because in order to do
something you have never done you’ve got
to become someone you’ve never been we
all have greatness within us but
greatness is not our destiny it is a
choice that we have to make consciously
to put ourselves outside of our comfort
zones to stretch into develop ourselves
and have in our environment people we
can learn from and grow from that will
hold us to a higher standard and that
will always challenge us to go higher do
you have the courage do you have the
courage to act outwardly on what you see
in wordly or will you bad dreamer
will you die on the verge and on the
edge and in the land of Cora water and
sugar it’s the automatic way that I
experience the boring frustrating
crowded parts of adult life when I’m
operating on the automatic unconscious
belief that I am the center of the world
and that my immediate needs and feelings
are what should determine the world’s
priorities how many of us I wonder can
recall that childhood moment when we
experienced happiness as a state of
being that single moment of untarnished
joy that moment when everything in our
world inside
was alright
and we become a colony of adults and
everything is all wrong
oh the time it’s as if we were on a
quest to get it back and yet the more we
focus on our own personal happiness the
more it eludes us in fact it’s the only
one we are otherwise engaged
you
oh no we should concern ourselves not so
much with the pursuit of happiness with
the happiness of pursuit
the most powerful incentive by now is
autonomy and growth the sense that I’ve
become more that I can give more that
can create more I always say people you
know if you want to know where happiness
comes and give to you one word progress
progress equals happiness we’re not
supposed to sit at the table of success
and just feel good about ourselves
forever what makes us feel life is
growing and we grow we have something to
give
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I feel fair about this and therefore I
shouldn’t do it
it’s normal to be to feel fair see if
you’re sitting on what you have what
you’ve been given I think everybody has
been given something to bring to the
planet part of the process is seeing
yourself being worthy the
having what you need
you’re wild person and that you deserve
to be listened to or you deserve to have
that dream in that passion and whatever
it is that you see and envision there
you’ve got to see it in your mind’s eye
and know that you’ve got what it takes
I’m a C and my mind’s eye see myself
confronting my fears handling my fears
I’m more than able
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if they don’t know what they’re born to
do that there’s somehow broken and I
think that it needs to be looked at
differently which is that it means if
you don’t know that thing it means that
every door is there’s the possibility
I would still go home from whatever that
day job is and I would try to do it
because I love it not because I really
want to make a certain amount of money
if you can figure out the thing that
makes you tick find that thing to try
and figure out the thing that actually
makes you want to get up in the morning
the thing that you actually love I have
only just a minute only 60 seconds in
forced upon me I can’t refuse it I
didn’t seek it I didn’t choose it but
it’s up to me to use it I must suffer if
I lose it give a count if I abuse it
it’s only a tiny low a minute but
eternity isn’t it she think I think I
feel feel fair quite strongly so it’s
not as though I just have the absence of
fear I’ve I feel it quite strongly but
there are times when something is
important enough you believe in it
enough that you do you do it in spite of
the fear and deal with the pressure of
maybe not making the amount of money
that you would like to yet we’re not
getting to the company you’d like to get
or not having success with your startup
yet
these are all things that I think you
can swallow if the thing you’re doing
speaks to you and if you don’t do that
if you’re not filling in your life with
your life work or your mission then
there are gaps in your life and what we
do when we’re not living out our true
identity we begin to fill the gaps we
fill the holes with garbage if you know
you get rid of fear than use fear use
fear or it uses you it’s that simple so
you gotta say okay what’s the price if I
just stay doing this what’s the price
turn fear in itself
notice what I said that we must give our
permission to fear to immobilizes
because whatever discomfort you
experience whatever challenges of
difficulty that it is you got to handle
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got to go up in that wrastlin will it be
easy no will it be challenging yes so
when you begin to look at your life and
you know that that you’re not doing what
you can do because you have allowed
yourself to be held captive by your
fears I’m 85 years old looking back on
my life and I say I didn’t do this
or I did then nobody warned you that it
was gonna come down on you like this
it’s called life that’s one of the
things you find out that when you face
your fears it’s not as bad as you think
it is but that’s just what you must go
through in order to get where you want
to go and guess what you are strong
enough to do it you’re strong enough and
your life is worth whatever you have to
go through so deciding as you look at
your life that you look into the future
and say what fears am i holding on to
it takes courage to be exceptional it
takes courage to be wise it takes
courage to be rich it takes courage to
be educated it takes courage to be
knowledgeable it takes courage to be
successful it is far easier not to be
successful misery will always have
company success breeds contempt if you
don’t want to make waves be mediocre be
normal and fit in this dream you got
whatever you want to do will it be easy
to just run out then do it know what’ll
happen overnight now will it be a
struggle yes
will there be times when you can make
ends meet yes at the bottom with many
times you won’t know what to do yes
that’s a part of it will you have some
opposition will things go wrong
sometimes
so when you accept yourself and you
accept fear as a fact that means that
it’s something that happens it’s
something that you’re going to
experience but it is not a force to hold
you back it doesn’t have any special
power other than that that you give it
now when you don’t have a true
appreciation in acceptance for who you
are and you allow yourself to be
immobilized by fear what happens in the
process is that you begin to abuse
yourself you begin to sabotage your life
you begin to sabotage your dreams you
begin to unconsciously work against
yourself you become your own worst enemy
so you accept the fact that you are
afraid and then you move on anyhow you
move on past it and you do whatever
you’ve got to do a people who have the
mental resiliency and the courage to
face failure if you will fail your way
to greatness that most people allow
their fear of failure 80 percent allow
their fear of failure talk–we their
desire to succeed when you’re willing to
fail again and again and again when you
make up your mind to become unstoppable
when you make up your mind to become a
no matter what person then that will
then give birth to a part of yourself
that you don’t know right now and
maintaining a spirit of optimism and
challenging yourself and learning from
your mistakes
understand that the setback is a setup
for a comeback
I focus on what is it I want to
accomplish and I see myself achieving
the victory I see myself living from the
dream living from that place that I’m
reaching for what fears that I’m aligned
to imprison me it’s keeping me from
breaking out that’s keeping me from
living up to my true potential that’s
keeping me from really being and happy
that’s keeping me from having a sense of
adventure and excitement in my life
what’s what’s keeping me from
controlling my destiny what fears and
I’m giving that permission to sometimes
life will force you to become courageous
and so it’s there that most of us don’t
develop our courage muscles what do you
want me to tell you that it’s going to
be a picnic no it’s not it’s gonna kick
your button yes it is all of us get in
life what we are not what we want all of
us are self-made but only the successful
will admit it
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janay ssin is their preview of what’s to
come
but most of most people rather moan
about this situation show up in their
lives as volunteer victim rather than
become actively engaged in doing the
work necessary to change the
circumstances it’s been said there are
two types of people those who work and
those who watch them
are you going to give this the power to
take advantage of you are you going to
turn yourself over to this we always
have that choice that’s the greatest
choice yeah that human beings have am I
going to give myself a path to surrender
or am I going to stand up
two types of people those who work and
those who watch them most people settle
in and accept things in life as it has
been given to them as opposed to rising
above that working to create something
that they can feel good about
why are you here what’s your reason for
being why do you get up in the morning
most people don’t have a clue
and yeah the bills keep a roof over your
head I think we have to reflect on Who
am I why am I here what drives if I died
today what three words would I want said
about me if I died today what is it that
defines how how do i define myself most
people allow their circumstances to
define as opposed to defining themselves
and how they’re going to show up in life
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through growth experiences through
challenges if you go to the gym to
workout and you don’t feel any
discomfort the next day here’s what we
know you haven’t done anything hmm until
you’ve got it to challenge yourself and
you’re gonna get hurt and one of the
things I emphasize that changing is not
easy but changing your life changing
habits reinventing yourself yeah picking
yourself up after life has not being
flat on your back the fact is that in
the day-to-day trenches of adult
existence the novel platitudes can have
a life-or-death importance or so I wish
to suggest to you on this dry and lovely
morning
truth the truth is if you work hard you
can achieve your goal truth 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 got to go to the gym and training
today after how to entirely difficult
work day 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 fast failure forget everything else
forget everything else forget that that
was any sunlight left what would you
spend today thinking about
yourself for the man that society for
the man until you get everything in your
heart for we get one out but soon their
life one chance in life to do it ever
you gonna do to lay your foundation to
make whatever hongmen whatever legacy
you complete leave the legs and it’s
found to death where the losses come a
dime a dozen but effort
nobody is between
so that team to bake their bread to see
you
Thanks
there’s a new day
every mother in the world
so now we got to go on a solo at
different reach now
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– a pistol
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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 the good and
the bad 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 ownership of your mission take
ownership of your job of your team of
your future and take ownership of your
life
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and lead lead lead yourself and your
team and the people in your life lead
them all
to victory
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 just get nothing you got to work
hard work off you work hard to get what
you got a kid you don’t work hard you
don’t get nothing you don’t get enough
nothing zero nothing zero nothing
keep working work on here what you gotta
get
the McGraw 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 because you feel them to
look
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 innovative since
we know when the adversity and the
opposition it like the only thing I’ve
been training you were to think positive
and the positive i reverse-engineered it
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 you’re going to
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 meet 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 shower
before you got from the bedroom to the
kitchen mr. ugly is there 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 in
society you tell 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
necessarily the superficial the stupid
does
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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 and 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 worse 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
doesn’t mean anything to a man do
I have invested more than 20 years of my
life in the belief and the idea of being
able to come to the Olympia and to be an
absolute best despite whatever the
opposition whatever said whatever the
beliefs are on stage off stage whatever
the opposition area for something my
resolve of things man responds a
champion and just aim to represent the
better thought of what that means for me
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you don’t get this far you don’t get to
this point and just stop
doesn’t happen like that
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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
if it is
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but you have to expand your vision then
you climb higher and you do that and you
don’t be afraid to
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
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truths truth is if you work hard you can
achieve your bowl
truth it’s not a question anymore 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
trainer they have to have how to entire
difficult workday man I’ve got these
other challenges that are pulling on me
put one on my concentration
you know what is this extra effort worth
it fast forward stand here in this
airman what does it feel like it feels
like yes before the game I was nervous
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come back you come back dig what is this
feeling
what’s feeling I’m like am I scared
Oh
have once today somewhere
mr. Cain and nobody with true Thank You
queen it’s blank game around the world
is somehow they bless best
he’s here don’t nobody but the pig
disgust me you got a bucket in the bus
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you
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it was a young man who you know he
wanted to make a lot of money and so he
went to this guru right come to guru you
know I want to be on the same level you
are and so the Guru said if you want to
be on the same level I’m all I’ll meet
you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m.
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everybody wants to be a beast and true
it’s time to do what real bees do
everybody gets excited he teed a guru
story but nobody wants to get up in
three o’clock
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he liked the beach I said I wanna make
money I don’t want to swim who said if
you want to make money I’ll meet you
tomorrow
4:00 a.m. so the young man got there
4:00 a.m. he all ready to rock and roll
got on the suit he should have wore
shorts the old man grabs his hand said
how bad you want to be successful he
said real bad he said walk on out in the
water
everybody wants to be a beast and – it’s
time to do it real beast do
so he walks out into the water watch
this when he walks out to the ward it
goes waist-deep so he said come on a
little farther walked I looked further
and he had it right around this area
just over the area so this old man crazy
making money but he crazy said come on
now to look farther he can’t my little
brother was right at his mouth my man
like I’m about to go back either this
got his mind so the old man’s I thought
you said you wanted to be successful he
said I do he said walk a little further
he can’t drop his head in held him down
hold him down
my man getting scratching hold him down
he had him held down just before my man
was about to pass out he raised him up
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you can’t you can’t just say you want it
you can’t watch the video and say I want
it as bad as I want to breathe is to
just say it but when is Showtime
when the Sun comes out when the Sun
comes out you’ve got all the books
you’ve got all the tapes you got all the
access now it’s time to hunt and what
separates you from everybody else is
that when it’s time to hunt your radar
hunts you may be watching this right now
and you have these incredible ideas and
what you think is missing is motivation
and that’s not true because the way that
our minds are wired and the fact about
human beings is that we are not designed
to do things that are uncomfortable or
scary or difficult our brains are
designed to protect us from those things
because our brains are trying to keep us
alive and in order to change in order to
build a business in order to be the best
parent the best spouse to do all those
things that you know you want to do with
your life with your work with your
dreams you’re gonna have to do things
that are difficult uncertain or scary
which sets up this problem for all of us
you’re not gonna feel like it
motivations garbage you only feel
motivated
to do the things that are easy
whether it’s hard or easy doesn’t matter
you’re doing this
he said when you were underwater what
did you want to do the only thing you
trying to do is get some air you don’t
care about no basketball game you don’t
care what’s on TV you don’t care about
nobody calling you you don’t care about
a party the only thing you care about
when you trying to breathe is to get
some fresh air
that’s it and when you get to the point
where all you want to do is be
successful as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful
and now you feel which bed last night
and all these ideas by your going up
this morning slightly different things
going to be different they were started
start taking steps some of those
projects you know get you closer to
living that dream like you keep playing
over and over in your head
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everybody wants to be a beast to his
time to do real please do
if you say you want to be successful but
you don’t want it bad you just kind of
want it you don’t want it badder than
you want a party you don’t want it as
much as you want to be cool you most of
you don’t want success as much as you
want to sleep
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train hard when no one’s in the room
when you’re having a bad day through
death through hardship through anything
that can go wrong
therapy days I would train by myself or
with my fiance Cherie and I would be in
there dying
I’ve been there dying looking at those
pictures in the gym of Schwarzenegger
with Coleman Haney of torreón yourself
in the best position to win and that’s
all we can do in life people sometimes
life is gonna serve it up some
curveballs might challenge each and
every one of you to step in that
batter’s box and take a damn swing just
take a swing I’ve had one trainer one I
did my first pro show in 2006 that the
Colorado Pro we did the New York Pro
after that and we won both of them and a
lot of people thought you know what this
guy is gonna be something and on the
always told me Phil you have to
understand something it’s a marathon not
a sprint and the measurement of a man is
when he gets knocked down not when he’s
winning so I lost a few times
and he always reminded me of just to
keep on going and be the hardest worker
in the room just like what you say and
when people tell you you can’t you don’t
look at them you don’t need to look at
them you look in the mirror and you ask
yourself do you even in your all you
look at the mirror you ask yourself do
you have another rep you ask yourself
can I go to work when I’m pissed off
because I admire something happen or
lost my girlfriend or whatever it is you
ask yourself do you have the guts to go
after it when no one is watching no is
pat you on the back and no one is liking
your stuff on freaking social media if
you got the guts to go after it you can
put yourself best position to win and
that’s what I did for this entire prep
it was not easy a lot of people say oh
he’s got genetics this man I put that
god-given talent to work each every damn
day
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and I’m so thankful I’m so thankful for
the Olympia I’m so thankful to be a
bodybuilder because it wasn’t meant for
me to play basketball I mean look at me
on the short as hell you know it doesn’t
work out like that God had a different
plan obviously and I’m glad that I
listen and I’m glad that I never gave up
and I know there’s a lot of incredible
athletes wanting to kick my ass next
year but I know this winning has
habitual if you care about your success
more than anyone else in the room I
promise you this you will be successful
at some point in time but the goal is is
that when you are successful that you
don’t just hide it for yourself you
don’t just hold it for you so you share
those experiences and perspectives with
everybody else so they can feel the
confidence to go after their dreams and
I’m just proud to be a seven-time Miss
Olympia and like this and like the great
oak said next year I’ll be back and I’m
here to tell you number one that most of
you say you want to be successful but
you don’t want it bad you just kind of
want it you don’t want it better than
you want a party you don’t want it as
much as you want to be cool you most of
you don’t want success as much as you
want to sleep something you love sleep
more than you love success and I’m here
to tell you today if you’re going to be
successful you’ve got to be willing to
give up sleep
you got to be willing to work off for
three hours of sleep two hours if you
really want to be successful some days
you will have to stay up three days in a
row because if you go to sleep you might
miss the opportunity to be successful
that’s how bad you got a warning you got
to go do not listen to me you got to
want to be successful so bad that you
forget to eat be honest I said once she
was on the set doing her thing three
days had gone by she forgot she didn’t
eat because she was engaged fifty said
that when he wasn’t doing the movie he
was doing the soundtrack and they said
when do you sleep fifty sleep he said
sleep sleep is for those people who are
broke I’ll sleep there is something
better for you to do with your time than
even being here right now I am mr.
resistance I’m distracting you from
doing the work you need to do
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begin each day as if it were on purpose
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there is suffering and I was waiting
like 297 pounds and I had to make a
change in my life
you know I was at all-time low and I
wasn’t going anywhere and I was exactly
what everybody said I was going to be
which was nothing so I had to make a
change
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you’re scared kid and the only way I
could find myself was to put myself
through the worst thing possible I’m
gonna say the exact opposite of what the
world today’s world is saying in the end
like what would your advice be to that
16 year old kid who’s staring in the
mirror does not like what he sees but is
still running from adversity well my
biggest advice to him is that first of
all he won’t like what I say to him and
I’m gonna say the exact opposite of what
the world today’s world is saying so we
read a bunch of books nowadays as humans
we we want to find out how to be someone
else what we don’t do is we don’t go
inside so literally turn yourself inside
out read the book that says like we
write in a book every day for lives but
we never read that book so what I would
challenge this young man or young woman
to do is you have to look inside of
yourself and see what you really want
where are you passionate about we use
these words and these little phrases of
only the strong survive and also the
crap they’re all just fucking words I
get so tired of hearing people just
talking that right now someone may think
God is just talking you don’t know me so
when I speak I speak from Pasha I speak
from experience I speak from suffering I
want to tell this young man and woman
that the only way I believe this is just
my experience in life the only way
you’re ever going to get to the other
side of this journey is you have got to
suffer to grow to grow you must suffer
some people get it so he won’t
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so long story short what I realized was
no one was here to help me and the
feeling I had every morning I started
saving my heaven on 16 years old and the
feeling I had every morning I looked in
the mirror was horrible and I don’t
wanna feel like that anymore and how I
felt was a kid going nowhere a kid that
was scared and most kids will accept
that and look for help but the best
thing that happened to me
no one helped me no one felt sorry for
me no one looked at me and said like
this day and age they’ll they’ll take
you in and it’ll tell you bye stop
picking on this person back then any
care we’re all we are all great no
matter if if you think you’re dumb and
maybe think you’re fat no matter you are
fat you’re have you been bullied or no
matter if you just got back from Iraq or
Afghanistan and you have no legs or your
arms or whatever man
we all have greatness it just you got to
find the courage you got to find the
courage to put your Bose headphones on
and silence the noise out of this world
and to find it and the final cut is out
there but it’s going to take hard work
courage self-discipline it’s gonna take
all the non-cognitive skills all the
non-cognitive skills to be great you
know smart is good all the stuff is good
that’s all cognitive it’s the
non-cognitive skills that sets you apart
from everybody else and
and that’s what it’s all about I I lied
for people to accept me because I did
accept myself so I would make up stories
so that you would accept me into your
world I would uh everything I did was
for someone else to like me
it was until I started reading my own
book about how pathetic I was as human
being I could blame my dad I can blame
kids at school I could blame having
health issues
ATD my mom not being around great mom
but she was doing her thing I could
blame a lot of people and that’s the
book I was reading and I put it off on
everybody else it was until I said you
know what for me to fix this I get a
read what the hell what the fuck is
wrong with David God wasn’t going to be
a punk kid all my life so in a way I
could turn around was to suffer
I had to build calluses in my brain the
same way I built calluses on my hands so
I brought the against but the world’s
records for pulse
a long time ago but I felt at it twice
and I did 67,000 pull-ups in trying to
break this record so to do four thousand
thirty pull-ups I had to do 67,000 for
training for that Wow
and so what I realized is for me to
become the man I want to become I saw
myself as the weakest person God ever
created
but I never blamed God for anything he
did to me so I wanted to change that to
be the hardest man ever created in my
that I don’t know but he had to have a
goal and my goal when I was sitting
there not going to school being bullied
being having no self-esteem my goal was
the only person that’s gonna turn this
person around
it’s me you know I can turned around has
put myself through the worst things
possible a human being can ever endure
it and I’d be the only way that I can
build this brain to handle anything that
comes in front of it
callus in my mind through pain and
suffering
but they have to see what their journey
is to start their journey several people
live to be a hundred years old and they
have great lives and they have great
kids the kids go to college long sort of
stuff but somewhere in their life there
was a point where they had a decision to
make they can go left or right on this
path left was the easy route right was a
hard route a lot of people take the easy
route and they had a good life that way
but the better life was going to the
right side a human being is not so human
anymore we have the ability to go in
such a space if you’re willing to suffer
and I mean suffer your brain and your
body once connected together can do
anything
motivation comes and goes when you’re
driven whatever’s in front of you will
get destroyed and you may have 20 years
of pain and suffering to get past it but
a lot of us die never truly starting our
journey and I would tell this young
person you got to start your journey it
may suck but it will it will come out
the other side where you’re coasting
I stopped listening to people who are
calling you fat gay transsexual nigger
everything that is makes no sense
all these insecure people put their
insecurities on you you got to flush it
out you got to just be whoever the hell
God or whatever the hell you believe in
if you believe in nothing but yourself I
don’t care what it is you got to take
everything and throw it away you have to
believe in one thing and that is
yourself
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my biggest advice to give everybody in
the world is like I say we live in an
external world everything is is you got
to see it touch its external if you can
for the rest of your life live inside of
yourself
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and people may listen to this and say
this guy is sadistic he’s crazy
no if you know how I came up you realize
I was just a scared kid that found drive
and passion to be something much better
than what he thought ago that’s all it
is even the hardest men in times of
suffering what we do is we forget how
hard we really are that’s what suffering
is suffering is a test that’s all it is
suffering is a true test of life
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self-talk and visualization are two keys
to my success
the very bestest did I leave everything
inside of me out there so attacking is
not like all when I win this your win
matter do the best the best is I’m
running to get himself
Tec I attacked myself I’m always
questioning myself
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so the things that we run from we run it
from the truth we’re running from the
truth man so the only way I became
successful was going towards the truth
as painful and as brutal as it is it
changed me it allowed me to become in my
own right Who I am today
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when you look in the mirror that’s the
one person you can’t live so every
morning I would shave my head thank God
I reflect back on some of the lies I may
have told somebody or some of the ways I
acted I ain’t feel comfortable doing and
I did it to impress other normal people
the key word there is normal everyday
people I was trying to make other people
like me how pathetic is that
your skin become more of a human being
don’t be afraid of the reflection in the
mirror because that’s all you can be
afraid of once you overcome the
reflection in the mirror you’ve done it
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but if you can get through to doing
things that you hate to do on the other
side is greatness that’s what people are
saying by me running I am Callas in my
mind on that training for a race I’m
training for life I’m training for the
time and I get that two o’clock in the
morning call that my mom is dead or
something happens tragic in life I don’t
fall apart I’m training my mind and my
body my spirit so it’s all one so I can
handle with life is gonna throw that
because the life I’ve lived it throws a
whole bunch at you and if you’re not
physically immensely prepared for that
there’s been a coma and you’re good for
nobody
but the mentality of a warrior is very
differently no new talent you must be
that person on that door Oh get ready to
open it thinking to yourself if I die so
be the only way you can go in that door
because know there’s a great chance
you’re gonna die hopefully your
mother-fucking going home
because they’re gonna remember you by
slowly opening and peeking in so if
you’re gonna open it and you made them
on to open it don’t crack it open open
the fucking door go in that’s with life
if you choose to do if you choose to do
something attack it because they’re
gonna remember you as not attacking it
so I want to be remembered you can hate
me but one thing you can’t say about me
I didn’t attack it so that’s them attire
you have if you’re gonna do something
you might as well take it hopefully I
can help people that believe that
they’re much less than what they truly
are help them find greatness in
themselves and greatness isn’t running
towards it miles at a time or do 4,000
Pope’s for being a seal
greatness is whatever the hell you’ve
dreamed up in your own mind you got to
first see it you gotta first create this
vision in your mind and then that’s not
come into play once you create this
vision in your mind it’s how am I gonna
get there now and that’s we’re not
coming to play but first you got to
create your own vision and it’s not
externally it’s the the busines creating
is inside of you so until you create
that I’m nobody to you
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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 I ever
picked up the DJ decks was horrible
horrible now but I’m not afraid of that
I’m not afraid of that feeling it
actually propels me it works quite the
opposite I can do 18 22 hours a day
easily with veteran at being able to
look at an opportunity and go is that
going to take me forever or not 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 my breakthrough was
actually deciding I wanted to be an
actor the other thing that’s important I
think is to keep your head down you know
keep your head down like when I swim in
25 laps come into if I look up and start
counting those laps and pick it out by
15 if I put my head down I keep walking
away and work a technique work it
internal rhythm and work it mmm I hit
that length I don’t even know what
length come on guarantee you I’ve looked
happy to 20 and to more free more to go
I think people find themselves
incremental each eating how far
now you know when you compare to anybody
else or whatever it’s just a it’s a
recipe for disaster just keep banging on
you know that’s the most important
mountain climbers would probably tell
you the same thing
there’s no point looking the difference
between climbing a hundred feet and
climbing silently is a point of you
don’t know you’re at the top until you
get there pal and that’s what you need
to remember just don’t look down
they changed my life it turns my dreams
into a reality
it gave me an actual tangible target to
go oh actually I could do this that was
my that was my biggest breakthrough of
course have been numerous breakthroughs
over my career in my life which I’m all
proud of but none so much as that
realization that I am want to be an
actor
know what your target is don’t guess it
be as Crudup as the next man because
that’s that’s that cheap 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 there
are these two young fish swimming along
and they happen to meet an older fish
swimming the other way who nods at them
and says morning boys how’s the water
and the two young fish swim on for a bit
and that eventually one of them looks
over at the other and goes what the hell
is water
most people suffer from Arrested
Development they stop developing
themselves they stop growing they stop
reaching and they literally settle in
and excitement accept life as it comes
out but if you’re worried that I plan to
present myself here as the wise older
fish explaining what water is to you
younger fish please don’t be I am NOT
the wise old fish the point of the fish
story is merely that the most obvious
important realities are often the ones
that are hardest to see and talk about
last thing that we want to do in life is
like is become subject to the rules we
place ourselves in you know we’re also
much everyone in in the world is bigger
than the role that they think they need
to play you’re not just a dad you’re not
just a banker you’re not just a brother
or a son or a convict
it doesn’t matter like everyone is is
bigger much bigger infinitely bigger
than the roles they place themselves in
and is capable of reaching potential
greater than anything they could imagine
I think that you know everyone in the
world is pasta is capable of living
outside the role or beyond the roles
that they place themselves in no matter
what it is we think we have a ceiling
and when it comes to our potential and
the and the real and the truth is that
there is no ceiling
just fit in with everybody else go where
they go think like they they do what
they do and once you neutralize your
uniqueness
you don’t need courage it takes courage
to be different it takes courage to go
where you’ve never gone before
it takes courage to be successful it
takes courage to win
people that don’t win if you’ve never
the stands deep reason
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but the fact is that in the day-to-day
trenches of adult existence then all
platitudes can have a life-or-death
importance or so I wish to suggest to
you on this dry and lovely morning the
judge a man not by what he has
accomplished but what did he had to
overcome for his accomplishment
you get to consciously decide what has
meaning and what doesn’t you get to
decide what to worship
when you get outside of what’s familiar
what’s comfortable what feels right and
put yourself in a position beyond your
comfort zone yeah that will give birth
to a part of yourself that you don’t
know right now because in order to do
something you have never done you’ve got
to become someone you’ve never been we
all have greatness within us but
greatness is not our destiny it is a
choice that we have to make consciously
to put ourselves outside of our comfort
zones to stretch into develop ourselves
and have in our environment people we
can learn from and grow from that will
hold us to a higher standard and that
will always challenge us to go higher do
you have the courage do you have the
courage to act outwardly on what you see
in wordly or will you bad dreamer
will you die on the verge and on the
edge and in the land of Cora water and
sugar it’s the automatic way that I
experience the boring frustrating
crowded parts of adult life when I’m
operating on the automatic unconscious
belief that I am the center of the world
and that my immediate needs and feelings
are what should determine the world’s
priorities how many of us I wonder can
recall that childhood moment when we
experienced happiness as a state of
being that single moment of untarnished
joy that moment when everything in our
world inside
was alright
and we become a colony of adults and
everything is all wrong
oh the time it’s as if we were on a
quest to get it back and yet the more we
focus on our own personal happiness the
more it eludes us in fact it’s the only
one we are otherwise engaged
you
oh no we should concern ourselves not so
much with the pursuit of happiness with
the happiness of pursuit
the most powerful incentive by now is
autonomy and growth the sense that I’ve
become more that I can give more that
can create more I always say people you
know if you want to know where happiness
comes and give to you one word progress
progress equals happiness we’re not
supposed to sit at the table of success
and just feel good about ourselves
forever what makes us feel life is
growing and we grow we have something to
give
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I feel fair about this and therefore I
shouldn’t do it
it’s normal to be to feel fair see if
you’re sitting on what you have what
you’ve been given I think everybody has
been given something to bring to the
planet part of the process is seeing
yourself being worthy the
having what you need
you’re wild person and that you deserve
to be listened to or you deserve to have
that dream in that passion and whatever
it is that you see and envision there
you’ve got to see it in your mind’s eye
and know that you’ve got what it takes
I’m a C and my mind’s eye see myself
confronting my fears handling my fears
I’m more than able
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if they don’t know what they’re born to
do that there’s somehow broken and I
think that it needs to be looked at
differently which is that it means if
you don’t know that thing it means that
every door is there’s the possibility
I would still go home from whatever that
day job is and I would try to do it
because I love it not because I really
want to make a certain amount of money
if you can figure out the thing that
makes you tick find that thing to try
and figure out the thing that actually
makes you want to get up in the morning
the thing that you actually love I have
only just a minute only 60 seconds in
forced upon me I can’t refuse it I
didn’t seek it I didn’t choose it but
it’s up to me to use it I must suffer if
I lose it give a count if I abuse it
it’s only a tiny low a minute but
eternity isn’t it she think I think I
feel feel fair quite strongly so it’s
not as though I just have the absence of
fear I’ve I feel it quite strongly but
there are times when something is
important enough you believe in it
enough that you do you do it in spite of
the fear and deal with the pressure of
maybe not making the amount of money
that you would like to yet we’re not
getting to the company you’d like to get
or not having success with your startup
yet
these are all things that I think you
can swallow if the thing you’re doing
speaks to you and if you don’t do that
if you’re not filling in your life with
your life work or your mission then
there are gaps in your life and what we
do when we’re not living out our true
identity we begin to fill the gaps we
fill the holes with garbage if you know
you get rid of fear than use fear use
fear or it uses you it’s that simple so
you gotta say okay what’s the price if I
just stay doing this what’s the price
turn fear in itself
notice what I said that we must give our
permission to fear to immobilizes
because whatever discomfort you
experience whatever challenges of
difficulty that it is you got to handle
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got to go up in that wrastlin will it be
easy no will it be challenging yes so
when you begin to look at your life and
you know that that you’re not doing what
you can do because you have allowed
yourself to be held captive by your
fears I’m 85 years old looking back on
my life and I say I didn’t do this
or I did then nobody warned you that it
was gonna come down on you like this
it’s called life that’s one of the
things you find out that when you face
your fears it’s not as bad as you think
it is but that’s just what you must go
through in order to get where you want
to go and guess what you are strong
enough to do it you’re strong enough and
your life is worth whatever you have to
go through so deciding as you look at
your life that you look into the future
and say what fears am i holding on to
it takes courage to be exceptional it
takes courage to be wise it takes
courage to be rich it takes courage to
be educated it takes courage to be
knowledgeable it takes courage to be
successful it is far easier not to be
successful misery will always have
company success breeds contempt if you
don’t want to make waves be mediocre be
normal and fit in this dream you got
whatever you want to do will it be easy
to just run out then do it know what’ll
happen overnight now will it be a
struggle yes
will there be times when you can make
ends meet yes at the bottom with many
times you won’t know what to do yes
that’s a part of it will you have some
opposition will things go wrong
sometimes
so when you accept yourself and you
accept fear as a fact that means that
it’s something that happens it’s
something that you’re going to
experience but it is not a force to hold
you back it doesn’t have any special
power other than that that you give it
now when you don’t have a true
appreciation in acceptance for who you
are and you allow yourself to be
immobilized by fear what happens in the
process is that you begin to abuse
yourself you begin to sabotage your life
you begin to sabotage your dreams you
begin to unconsciously work against
yourself you become your own worst enemy
so you accept the fact that you are
afraid and then you move on anyhow you
move on past it and you do whatever
you’ve got to do a people who have the
mental resiliency and the courage to
face failure if you will fail your way
to greatness that most people allow
their fear of failure 80 percent allow
their fear of failure talk–we their
desire to succeed when you’re willing to
fail again and again and again when you
make up your mind to become unstoppable
when you make up your mind to become a
no matter what person then that will
then give birth to a part of yourself
that you don’t know right now and
maintaining a spirit of optimism and
challenging yourself and learning from
your mistakes
understand that the setback is a setup
for a comeback
I focus on what is it I want to
accomplish and I see myself achieving
the victory I see myself living from the
dream living from that place that I’m
reaching for what fears that I’m aligned
to imprison me it’s keeping me from
breaking out that’s keeping me from
living up to my true potential that’s
keeping me from really being and happy
that’s keeping me from having a sense of
adventure and excitement in my life
what’s what’s keeping me from
controlling my destiny what fears and
I’m giving that permission to sometimes
life will force you to become courageous
and so it’s there that most of us don’t
develop our courage muscles what do you
want me to tell you that it’s going to
be a picnic no it’s not it’s gonna kick
your button yes it is all of us get in
life what we are not what we want all of
us are self-made but only the successful
will admit it
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janay ssin is their preview of what’s to
come
but most of most people rather moan
about this situation show up in their
lives as volunteer victim rather than
become actively engaged in doing the
work necessary to change the
circumstances it’s been said there are
two types of people those who work and
those who watch them
are you going to give this the power to
take advantage of you are you going to
turn yourself over to this we always
have that choice that’s the greatest
choice yeah that human beings have am I
going to give myself a path to surrender
or am I going to stand up
two types of people those who work and
those who watch them most people settle
in and accept things in life as it has
been given to them as opposed to rising
above that working to create something
that they can feel good about
why are you here what’s your reason for
being why do you get up in the morning
most people don’t have a clue
and yeah the bills keep a roof over your
head I think we have to reflect on Who
am I why am I here what drives if I died
today what three words would I want said
about me if I died today what is it that
defines how how do i define myself most
people allow their circumstances to
define as opposed to defining themselves
and how they’re going to show up in life
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through growth experiences through
challenges if you go to the gym to
workout and you don’t feel any
discomfort the next day here’s what we
know you haven’t done anything hmm until
you’ve got it to challenge yourself and
you’re gonna get hurt and one of the
things I emphasize that changing is not
easy but changing your life changing
habits reinventing yourself yeah picking
yourself up after life has not being
flat on your back the fact is that in
the day-to-day trenches of adult
existence the novel platitudes can have
a life-or-death importance or so I wish
to suggest to you on this dry and lovely
morning
truth the truth is if you work hard you
can achieve your goal truth 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 got to go to the gym and training
today after how to entirely difficult
work day 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 fast failure forget everything else
forget everything else forget that that
was any sunlight left what would you
spend today thinking about
yourself for the man that society for
the man until you get everything in your
heart for we get one out but soon their
life one chance in life to do it ever
you gonna do to lay your foundation to
make whatever hongmen whatever legacy
you complete leave the legs and it’s
found to death where the losses come a
dime a dozen but effort
nobody is between
so that team to bake their bread to see
you
Thanks
there’s a new day
every mother in the world
so now we got to go on a solo at
different reach now
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– a pistol
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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 the good and
the bad 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 ownership of your mission take
ownership of your job of your team of
your future and take ownership of your
life
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and lead lead lead yourself and your
team and the people in your life lead
them all
to victory
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 just get nothing you got to work
hard work off you work hard to get what
you got a kid you don’t work hard you
don’t get nothing you don’t get enough
nothing zero nothing zero nothing
keep working work on here what you gotta
get
the McGraw 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 because you feel them to
look
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 innovative since
we know when the adversity and the
opposition it like the only thing I’ve
been training you were to think positive
and the positive i reverse-engineered it
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 you’re going to
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 meet 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 shower
before you got from the bedroom to the
kitchen mr. ugly is there 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 in
society you tell 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
necessarily the superficial the stupid
does
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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 and 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 worse 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
doesn’t mean anything to a man do
I have invested more than 20 years of my
life in the belief and the idea of being
able to come to the Olympia and to be an
absolute best despite whatever the
opposition whatever said whatever the
beliefs are on stage off stage whatever
the opposition area for something my
resolve of things man responds a
champion and just aim to represent the
better thought of what that means for me
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you don’t get this far you don’t get to
this point and just stop
doesn’t happen like that
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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
if it is
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but you have to expand your vision then
you climb higher and you do that and you
don’t be afraid to
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
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truths truth is if you work hard you can
achieve your bowl
truth it’s not a question anymore 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
trainer they have to have how to entire
difficult workday man I’ve got these
other challenges that are pulling on me
put one on my concentration
you know what is this extra effort worth
it fast forward stand here in this
airman what does it feel like it feels
like yes before the game I was nervous
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come back you come back dig what is this
feeling
what’s feeling I’m like am I scared
Oh
have once today somewhere
mr. Cain and nobody with true Thank You
queen it’s blank game around the world
is somehow they bless best
he’s here don’t nobody but the pig
disgust me you got a bucket in the bus
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you
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