success is not determined by luck chance
race creed color or religion but it’s
dependent upon hard work creativity
follow-through and persistence I want to
talk to you today about success alright
I want to I want to tell me if you’d
like to have success in your life okay
what does that mean to you that I want
you to talk to me okay I’m only going to
be here 30 minutes and I’m getting on a
plane to flying to Los Angeles what does
success mean to you in a work money
that’s what I like what else
winning winning that’s what it means to
coach what else again recognition people
recognize somebody okay what else come
on man talk to me power oh I like some
power dawg okay what else huh
respect okay what else happiness okay
what else how about a hot chick could it
mean that could it mean that could it
mean that to a guy okay exactly alright
so I look look today I want to talk to
you about something that was never
taught to me in school success what is
it man what is it to win somebody said
this to win somebody said it’s the girl
somebody said it’s money somebody said
it’s power and respect and admiration
and people recognized me look everybody
in this room should have some of that
would you agree you’re going to either
go get it or somebody else is going to
go get it this is how this thing plays
out okay it will have nothing to do with
your grades it’s going to have something
to do with whether you decide and stay
focused on what you want in your life
okay everybody’s going to have a choice
to get it there’s two types of people in
this room right now and that’s it
there’s two types of people people that
are going to get what they want and the
life they want and people that don’t two
types of people folks people that get
the life they want
and everybody else okay what group you
want to be in okay two types of groups
what are they get the life they want and
everybody else my little girl she’s
three years old she wanted a piece of
gum this morning on my way to work she’s
like pop I want some gum I’m like baby
you don’t get gum until you eat your
breakfast now you know that she’s like
that’s not fair I said life is not fair
life is bad for too many people good for
a bunch of people and great for this
minute which one you want because it’s
not fair how many agree life is not fair
how many see see bad things happen to
good people
happens all the time okay so I want to
talk to you about what is success for me
success is defined because all of you
said money to girl the house the career
respect admiration for me money is to
find it’s the gap it’s the gap the
difference between where I am right now
and where I want to be it’s the
potential not potential this to get to
the next level okay how many believe you
have a greater potential than what
you’re using right now so I don’t know
how old I look to you as curious to me I
wonder how would HDL think I Amity okay
what else
the help from what you laughing at me
huh
okay how you think I am what do you
think twenty five thirty thirty six what
else keep guessing man I got gifts if
anybody can get it
forty-two okay okay you know what you
know what it don’t matter okay y’all
already made me feel good
so look check it out alright I was 15
years old
okay just just let me let me explain to
you I was fifteen years old and the
biggest problem I had when I was fifteen
was I was bored too much
I was bored all the time man I was
constantly bored I didn’t have enough to
do I was I didn’t know anything about
potential I knew I had potential but the
biggest reason I was bored is because I
wasn’t going after my potential all the
time it’s why I didn’t study I didn’t
pay attention in class okay when I got
out of class I didn’t know what to do I
didn’t think my grades matter but they
didn’t matter you know why because until
I until I actually learned how to read a
book until I decided hey I got a read
man I got to learn how to read I
couldn’t fulfill my potential everything
you want folks everything you want is in
a book everything you want to learn in
life is in a book somewhere you can
resist it the average American reads one
book a year okay the average American
reads one book a year some of your
you’re like damn that’s more books than
I read last year okay I’ve written five
books in the last four years because I
when I look at America today I’m like oh
my god America is in trouble right now
you know why because average is an
epidemic average people average athletes
250,000 kids every year come out of high
schools playing basketball 250,000 kids
every year are playing playing
basketball scholastic basketball in
order to try to play in the NBA you know
many out of 250,000 play in the NBA
five out of 250,000 life ain’t fair life
is bad for a bunch of people good for a
lot of people and great for a few you
guys got to decide where it’s going to
be okay like your potential is where
you’ll determine your greatness I
challenge you this summer to only be
focused on hey man what’s my potential
because if I’m operating in my potential
the next place no matter how good you
are
I may agree there’s another potential no
matter how good you play your video game
no matter how good you are in school no
matter how you good you are on the field
there’s another place where coaches
trying to push you to that next level
and that’s where it gets exciting that’s
what people get excited LeBron could
retire right now to wring money he can’t
spend right why does he stay in the game
what keeps him excited it’s not
yesterday’s success
it’s his potential it’s this right here
and everybody in the room has got
another potential okay
failure is defined falling short of your
of your potential there’s two types of
people in the world people that get
whatever they want when they want how
they want it how much they want of it
they get their cake there eat it too
they can toot their own horn they get to
play wherever they want to play go where
they want to go they never run out of
money they never run out of women they
never run out of whatever they want in
their life okay and then there’s
everybody else I got one woman in my
life I just had hey one woman is good
for me
when you get the right one you just
settle on one okay when I fail I don’t
get what I want I don’t fulfill my
potential 10x this book that I’m going
to give you the Jay Jay by the way give
Jay Jay a big hand for donating this
book
if you hate reading if you hate reading
okay you will love this book if you hate
to read I guarantee you can read this
book in two nights if you if you have
never been able to read a paragraph in a
book I guarantee you can finish this
book because I write the book exactly
the way I talk about the exactly way I’m
talking to you right now okay in this
book it talks about competition
competitions for sissies is one of the
chapters I think it’s chapter ten
competition is for sissies
little baby little girl okay
competition is for losers you don’t want
to compete folks you want to dominate
your space
I want to dominate space I want to walk
into a space and own it not compete with
somebody else
I don’t want Rocco’s game to determine
how good my game is right because that’s
a little reactive if his game is good my
game gets better sounds like it’s good
right oh that’s good man he pushes you
competition pushes you but what if his
games no good today then what does that
do is that caused me to back off good
right well so this game gets better and
I get better
I’m waiting it’s reactive okay I want to
dominate I want to make a decision when
I’m walking into a space to always go
for my potential no matter what two
types of people those that give what
they want in life and everybody else
this book is going to show you exactly
how to be that first type of people to
get what you want in life when you want
it how much you want of it whether it’s
money how many like to have money money
is a good thing it’s not a bad thing
people going to tell you it’s a bad
thing okay you want your own money or
your dad’s money I want my own money man
I don’t want to check with him hey can
you give me a little bit okay
right can you give me a Kimmy can I have
some money it doesn’t have to be like
that
okay but there’s people walking out of
high schools right now saying hey I’m
going to go get my piece and you guys
have an opportunity right now to learn
it in the auditorium to learn it on the
playing field every day to build that
discipline and say hey I’m going to get
what I want
don’t wait until you’re 25 or 35 or 45
years old start building that discipline
right now to get what you want because
there’s seven other seven billion other
people on this planet trying to get it
trying to get this thing called success
see most people think success is a
straight line I’m going to get out of
high school I’m going to get a job and
everything’s going to be fine that’s not
how it plays out folks okay this how it
plays out guy decides he wants something
and the line gets all squiggly see
that’s really what success looks like
what this guy did over here was he
persisted this guy is in a fantasy
there’s a fantasy it’s not how it works
okay see right now a guy decides over
the summer
hey man I’m going to I’m going to get
this job this summer and I’m gonna make
some money this summer and then he gets
distracted by the first squiggly I don’t
know what he’s doing he’s squiggling off
because he’s not focused on his success
he’s squiggles you ever used this term
squiggle yeah man I’m doing a squiggle
you know I’m going to go out and hang
out with the guys this weekend it’s a
squiggle it’s all path off purpose off
potential and so he ends up in a bunch
of loops over here most people get stuck
in loops I did it when I got out of high
school I was in a lot of trouble didn’t
have any focus wasn’t fulfilling my
potential was distracted didn’t have a
coach didn’t have an older brother
didn’t have a father lost what am i
doing okay don’t know where I’m going I
know I got this potential it’s sitting
there inside of me it’s a little candle
burning I know it’s there I hadn’t quite
put it out when I was 20 years old but
it was it was low any of you ever been
there
what am I doing every day man why am I
getting up every day why am I going to
school I didn’t know why I was going to
school I was just going to school I was
just doing school I didn’t even want to
go to school
see I’m squiggling around okay if you
persist and stay focus and surround
yourself with other people that persist
is they focused who knows maybe you’ll
come out the other end two types of
people what are they able to get what
they want have the life they want and
everybody else okay so look here’s the
four degrees of action this is what I’m
going to challenge you to do this summer
number one do nothing everybody in the
room has done that before how many room
have done nothing before okay
you think you have actually number one
doesn’t exist
number two is to retreat okay I’ll
explain all these these are the four
actions you’re going to take this summer
to do nothing sit around and do nothing
number two to retreat to backup okay you
ever retreat you ever retreat anybody
remember retreat no retreat back up I’m
going back up
hey man I need to study right now and
then you decide not to study what is
that let’s back it up
that’s retreating okay you do that all
the time okay hey man I’m going to go
I’m going to help my mom out I’m gonna
help my mom out man oh no I ain’t I’m
gonna help my little brother out no I’m
not you’re going to retreat that’s an
action backing up as an action number
three is normal normal levels of
activity people just do what is ever
expected of them normal I’m going to
show up for class I’m going to sit in
class for 15 minutes I’m going to act
like I’m paying attention but hey come
on let’s keep it real on squiggling I’m
squiggling in the classroom I’m over
here I’m over there I’m over there I’m
not learning I’m not reading I’m not
studying I’m not preparing I’m on a
squiggle serious squiggle how many been
on a serious squiggle doing normal the
whole world is doing number three and
number four is massive massive levels of
activity massive tremendous amounts of
activity is where successful is okay
which one of those four do you think is
the most dangerous
huh number four he thinks number four is
dangerous I like that dude now he’s
gonna pick number one let’s go for
number one now
okay okay number one is impossible you
actually don’t do number one unless
you’re in a coma you passed out on the
sidewalk you’re doing number one okay
most of the time you do a number two
number three or number four okay the
most dangerous of all those is number
three normal normal levels of activity
you showed up for practice and you just
did the practice okay number two people
do constantly particularly in schools
they back up from an activity they wait
for the teacher to do something or the
coach to do something
Reza’s been jumping in say hey I’m here
I’m going to dominate this space well
where do you like better compete or
dominate do you want to dominate you
don’t want to compete in a space you
want to own a space so the way to do
that is number four massive levels of
activity some people think number four
is actually dangerous but I’m going to
suggest for you to be dangerous find
something you love man and do it own it
control it take massive levels of
activity with it people people tell me
dude man you got you got you’ve got some
problems man constantly I had a guy tell
me three days ago
do you got problems man I said really
what what are my problems you’re
obsessive-compulsive a DD any any of you
to remember and label those things you
got attention deficit disorder you got
you got what is it OCD what does it call
obsessive-compulsive disorder I’m like
bro I ain’t got a problem
yeah man you got compulsive obsessive
disorder I’m like dude that’s a gift I
got gifts my brother I have been blessed
by the great God to the universe with
obsessive
I am obsessed with my success with my
family success that’s not a disease let
me tell you the disease right there is
number three number three is the disease
number three is an epidemic in this
country you’re going to school with kids
that are just average rather than saying
– I demand greatness in my life I want
success massive action when you decide
this summer to take massive action for
the next how many months how long with
summer okay you’ve got three weeks guys
if you take three weeks and say hey I
want new problems for the next three
weeks new problems you know what a new
problem is big juicy problems
most people want want nothing to do with
a problem right they like leave problems
alone look you want big new problems
juicy problems for the next three weeks
if your body hurt more than it hurt
yesterday that would be a new problem
would that be a good problem or a bad
problem means you’re working right okay
you want new problems I want I want I
want to experience bigger problems
number two criticized by your peers the
moment I take massive action I’m going
to be criticized by the people I’m
showing up early I’m staying late what
are the average people going to say
you’re a freak
please call me a super freak okay number
three I’d actually be promoted into the
cycle if I was taking massive action
it’s a guaranteed I’m just showing you
guaranteed ways to be that first group
of people what’s the first group they
get whatever they want you want to get
whatever you want in your life go get
you massive action get new problems get
promoted you’ll be more inspired you
want to have goals so big you want to
have goals so big that your your
problems pale in comparison how many of
you got problems in your life everybody
in the room I’m going to suggest to you
that you get you get you get your focus
on where you’re going your potential
where you want to go get that focus so
big that your problems are smaller
here’s the deal if you have a tension on
your problems your goals aren’t big
enough if you have a tension on any
problem you have in your life it is
because your goals aren’t big enough how
many how many of you wrote your goals
down this morning anybody in the room
how about yesterday good how about this
week
I’ll write my goal is down every morning
and every night
okay every morning when I wake up pull
out a legal pad hey where am I going in
my life where am I going what do I want
to do what kind of life do I want for my
family what kind of life and how much
money do I want
do I want to own a private jet would I
like to have a helicopter what I like to
have a big boat okay what do I want for
my kids every morning I wake up and the
first thing I do is I write down my
goals before I go to sleep at night I
write down my goals every time I lose in
life every time I lose every time I’m
defeated I write my goals down why do I
want to do that why would that be
beneficial to me it motivates me it puts
my attention on where I’m going not
where I’m at let’s say let’s say I’m
working a deal
I just finished working a deal and I was
defeated in the deal do I want my
attention on the defeat or do I want my
attention on where I’m going
I want my attention on where I’m going
so I pulled my legal pad out I don’t
look at the defeat I look at hey where
am I going where do I want to go in life
when is my destination if you’ve ever
been in a car a windchill in a car is
that big right
how BIG’s a rear-view mirror it’s about
that big why you think that is because
you want your attention on the future on
the potential on where I’m going
oh my goals so a couple things I’d like
you to do when you leave here number one
how many of you like the idea of writing
your goals down every day
this isn’t homework your teachers going
to give you okay
hey I wake up in the morning where am I
going I don’t care how big it is man
I want a billion dollars okay I want the
hottest chick in the universe
I want Maxim top five whatever you want
I don’t care what it is I want a little
boy I don’t know whatever you want there
your goals okay
you want goals that are giant folks you
want goals that are so big so big that
every day you wake up and you’re excited
and the reason I wasn’t excited when I
was your age was because nobody was
telling me man have some goals man
because if you don’t have your own goals
this is what you’re going to do you’re
going to spend your whole life making
somebody else’s dreams come true two
types of people people to get what they
want and have the life they want and
everyone else okay so again we gave you
some gifts here okay first of all you’re
going to see some wristbands it’s a red
wristband and there’s a blue wristband
how many of you have both good okay this
is a little post card called success the
success is your duty obligation and
responsibility this card was written
because we I see most people going after
success like it doesn’t matter you know
you got friends that say whatever you
use this term whatever you know I like
like I don’t care let me tell you
something if you don’t care if you think
success doesn’t matter you will not
happen if success matters to you if
success becomes something like I have to
have that I am obsessed with the idea of
success in my life whether it’s in the
classroom on the playing field or out
there in the real world because folks
the truth is the playing field in the
classroom I’m going to last a little
while okay it’s going to be the next 50
or 60 years of your life that you get to
decide hey what are you going to really
do and what you’re doing right now is
going to determine where you’re going to
be in a year two years three years five
years so I’m going to ask you a question
here I want you to think about what you
would like not to do in your life what
would you like not to do
okay but like like what would be a job
that you would hate to do in your life
what garbage man he would hate to be a
garbage man okay yes sir do against
again working for somebody else period
cutting grass he doesn’t want to cut
grass okay what else working at
McDonald’s janitor okay so we got five
people I’m going to howl to you he’s
going to be a janitor for the next 60
years what is it you didn’t want to do
McDonald’s he’s going to work in
McDonald’s and package McNuggets for the
next fifty four years and then die
okay who else you wanted you didn’t want
to what he he’s going to be he’s going
to work for other people his whole life
okay his entire life he will be stuck
and every one of his bosses is going to
be an ass okay would you someone to do
dude this guy’s going to be cutting
grass he’s allergic to grass and he’s
going to be cutting it every day bagging
it putting it in bags he doesn’t want to
be a stripper nobody else wants you to
be a stripper either bro
okay touch me please please don’t do
that to any of its okay I guess
you’re one guy but I don’t want to take
massive action okay please okay my man’s
gonna be a stripper okay he learned the
game pretty quick there that I didn’t
he’s like okay I’m a Pixum I don’t want
to be he’s going to give it to me then
boom that’s what I’m gonna do for the
rest of my life you’re a very
intelligent man sir okay
probably a genius sitting with us right
there you don’t know what a genius looks
like y’all know what a genius looks like
you don’t know let me tell you something
every most of them look like freaks okay
every geniuses has ever walked this
planet
what’s criticized because what happen
every genius every one of them had new
problems they were criticized by their
peers they were later promoted and they
became inspiration to other people you
don’t know what they look like they come
in all different packages and there’s
some brilliant people in this room right
here the question is will you take
enough action because if you don’t take
enough action if you don’t take enough
focused action that it’s positive to
your potential consistent with who you
are and where you want to go if you
don’t do that you’re going to end up
being everybody else my goals I’m right
my right my ghost and everyone I don’t
want to work for anybody else I want to
work for my goals I don’t want to work
for a person I want to work for my goals
I want to work for my dreams man
everything I’m doing every day like I’m
driving I’m flying to Los Angeles today
okay I’m not flying to Los Angeles
because I want to go to Los Angeles I’m
going I don’t even want to do what I’m
doing in Los Angeles but I’m doing it to
invest in my future the things I’m not
talking about money now I’m talking
about my potential this is what you
should walk away with today the gap the
gap is the difference between where you
are where you sit right now and what and
where you want to be and everybody’s got
a potential right everybody your rooms
got a potential on a scale from one to
ten what are you right now what would
you give yourself
your potentials attend but – okay what
else maybe he’s being honest see you
don’t know what my potential is people
have told me my whole life man you’re
doing great man
you’re doing great you did this TV show
you did this radio show you got this
thing going on you but you know you’re
doing well in life I’m like how do you
know how do you know if I’m doing well
and they’re like what do you mean man I
can tell you’re doing well I said you
don’t know man you don’t know what my
potential is I was speaking to a group
at Google and uh up in New York and they
were like man you’re so confident you
don’t know that yeah man you look
confident I look confident but you don’t
know if I am or not right do you know
what’s inside of me you don’t know on a
scale from one to ten what are you right
now
good man you don’t know you need to put
a number on it man
you should be putting the nut you should
be calibrating all the time I’m a four
right now I’m a five right now I’m a
three right now I’m a seven right now
okay and I don’t care what you are I did
all you want to do is focus on the gap
the gap is where your motivation is if
you have any motivation it’s by staying
focused on the gap the difference
between where you are and where you want
to be okay
this says success is your duty it should
say success is my duty okay it’s going
to go in your locker or wherever you
want it to go in your life on the back
of it you can turn it around there’s a
pledge okay look at it can you guys read
on a scale from one to ten what kind of
reader are you maybe an eighth okay
eight point five uses an eight point
five and he wants to be a stripper okay
wow wow wow wow wow wow wow okay let me
go ahead and give you this right now –
okay this says your greatness don’t
fight it all right on the back of it it
says do you haven’t read this one it
says it says I am obsessed I am not like
others I do what others refuse to do I
must control my destiny
I am never satisfied I cannot settle I
rise well to sleep I refused to quit I’m
driven to succeed and I’m a role model
for others okay we’re going to give
everybody a copy of this one it says I
am greatness don’t fight it everybody in
the room has greatness in it okay quit
fighting it man don’t be a stripper
either all right
this one says success pledge just says I
pledge a commitment to my success I try
that
I pledged a commitment to my success
i’ma doing than you do it okay I pledge
a commitment to my success my family
success and to the successful survival
of the company I represent success is
not an option for me but something I
insist upon achieving success is not
something others can give me nor is it
something the government or the economy
can provide me success is not determined
by luck chance race creed color or
religion but it’s dependent upon hard
work creativity follow-through and
persistence I refuse not to have my
success I refuse to quit prior to
achieving my success and I will do
everything epic ‘el in claiming my right
– my success my success is my duty my
obligation and my responsibility
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race creed color or religion but it’s
dependent upon hard work creativity
follow-through and persistence I want to
talk to you today about success alright
I want to I want to tell me if you’d
like to have success in your life okay
what does that mean to you that I want
you to talk to me okay I’m only going to
be here 30 minutes and I’m getting on a
plane to flying to Los Angeles what does
success mean to you in a work money
that’s what I like what else
winning winning that’s what it means to
coach what else again recognition people
recognize somebody okay what else come
on man talk to me power oh I like some
power dawg okay what else huh
respect okay what else happiness okay
what else how about a hot chick could it
mean that could it mean that could it
mean that to a guy okay exactly alright
so I look look today I want to talk to
you about something that was never
taught to me in school success what is
it man what is it to win somebody said
this to win somebody said it’s the girl
somebody said it’s money somebody said
it’s power and respect and admiration
and people recognized me look everybody
in this room should have some of that
would you agree you’re going to either
go get it or somebody else is going to
go get it this is how this thing plays
out okay it will have nothing to do with
your grades it’s going to have something
to do with whether you decide and stay
focused on what you want in your life
okay everybody’s going to have a choice
to get it there’s two types of people in
this room right now and that’s it
there’s two types of people people that
are going to get what they want and the
life they want and people that don’t two
types of people folks people that get
the life they want
and everybody else okay what group you
want to be in okay two types of groups
what are they get the life they want and
everybody else my little girl she’s
three years old she wanted a piece of
gum this morning on my way to work she’s
like pop I want some gum I’m like baby
you don’t get gum until you eat your
breakfast now you know that she’s like
that’s not fair I said life is not fair
life is bad for too many people good for
a bunch of people and great for this
minute which one you want because it’s
not fair how many agree life is not fair
how many see see bad things happen to
good people
happens all the time okay so I want to
talk to you about what is success for me
success is defined because all of you
said money to girl the house the career
respect admiration for me money is to
find it’s the gap it’s the gap the
difference between where I am right now
and where I want to be it’s the
potential not potential this to get to
the next level okay how many believe you
have a greater potential than what
you’re using right now so I don’t know
how old I look to you as curious to me I
wonder how would HDL think I Amity okay
what else
the help from what you laughing at me
huh
okay how you think I am what do you
think twenty five thirty thirty six what
else keep guessing man I got gifts if
anybody can get it
forty-two okay okay you know what you
know what it don’t matter okay y’all
already made me feel good
so look check it out alright I was 15
years old
okay just just let me let me explain to
you I was fifteen years old and the
biggest problem I had when I was fifteen
was I was bored too much
I was bored all the time man I was
constantly bored I didn’t have enough to
do I was I didn’t know anything about
potential I knew I had potential but the
biggest reason I was bored is because I
wasn’t going after my potential all the
time it’s why I didn’t study I didn’t
pay attention in class okay when I got
out of class I didn’t know what to do I
didn’t think my grades matter but they
didn’t matter you know why because until
I until I actually learned how to read a
book until I decided hey I got a read
man I got to learn how to read I
couldn’t fulfill my potential everything
you want folks everything you want is in
a book everything you want to learn in
life is in a book somewhere you can
resist it the average American reads one
book a year okay the average American
reads one book a year some of your
you’re like damn that’s more books than
I read last year okay I’ve written five
books in the last four years because I
when I look at America today I’m like oh
my god America is in trouble right now
you know why because average is an
epidemic average people average athletes
250,000 kids every year come out of high
schools playing basketball 250,000 kids
every year are playing playing
basketball scholastic basketball in
order to try to play in the NBA you know
many out of 250,000 play in the NBA
five out of 250,000 life ain’t fair life
is bad for a bunch of people good for a
lot of people and great for a few you
guys got to decide where it’s going to
be okay like your potential is where
you’ll determine your greatness I
challenge you this summer to only be
focused on hey man what’s my potential
because if I’m operating in my potential
the next place no matter how good you
are
I may agree there’s another potential no
matter how good you play your video game
no matter how good you are in school no
matter how you good you are on the field
there’s another place where coaches
trying to push you to that next level
and that’s where it gets exciting that’s
what people get excited LeBron could
retire right now to wring money he can’t
spend right why does he stay in the game
what keeps him excited it’s not
yesterday’s success
it’s his potential it’s this right here
and everybody in the room has got
another potential okay
failure is defined falling short of your
of your potential there’s two types of
people in the world people that get
whatever they want when they want how
they want it how much they want of it
they get their cake there eat it too
they can toot their own horn they get to
play wherever they want to play go where
they want to go they never run out of
money they never run out of women they
never run out of whatever they want in
their life okay and then there’s
everybody else I got one woman in my
life I just had hey one woman is good
for me
when you get the right one you just
settle on one okay when I fail I don’t
get what I want I don’t fulfill my
potential 10x this book that I’m going
to give you the Jay Jay by the way give
Jay Jay a big hand for donating this
book
if you hate reading if you hate reading
okay you will love this book if you hate
to read I guarantee you can read this
book in two nights if you if you have
never been able to read a paragraph in a
book I guarantee you can finish this
book because I write the book exactly
the way I talk about the exactly way I’m
talking to you right now okay in this
book it talks about competition
competitions for sissies is one of the
chapters I think it’s chapter ten
competition is for sissies
little baby little girl okay
competition is for losers you don’t want
to compete folks you want to dominate
your space
I want to dominate space I want to walk
into a space and own it not compete with
somebody else
I don’t want Rocco’s game to determine
how good my game is right because that’s
a little reactive if his game is good my
game gets better sounds like it’s good
right oh that’s good man he pushes you
competition pushes you but what if his
games no good today then what does that
do is that caused me to back off good
right well so this game gets better and
I get better
I’m waiting it’s reactive okay I want to
dominate I want to make a decision when
I’m walking into a space to always go
for my potential no matter what two
types of people those that give what
they want in life and everybody else
this book is going to show you exactly
how to be that first type of people to
get what you want in life when you want
it how much you want of it whether it’s
money how many like to have money money
is a good thing it’s not a bad thing
people going to tell you it’s a bad
thing okay you want your own money or
your dad’s money I want my own money man
I don’t want to check with him hey can
you give me a little bit okay
right can you give me a Kimmy can I have
some money it doesn’t have to be like
that
okay but there’s people walking out of
high schools right now saying hey I’m
going to go get my piece and you guys
have an opportunity right now to learn
it in the auditorium to learn it on the
playing field every day to build that
discipline and say hey I’m going to get
what I want
don’t wait until you’re 25 or 35 or 45
years old start building that discipline
right now to get what you want because
there’s seven other seven billion other
people on this planet trying to get it
trying to get this thing called success
see most people think success is a
straight line I’m going to get out of
high school I’m going to get a job and
everything’s going to be fine that’s not
how it plays out folks okay this how it
plays out guy decides he wants something
and the line gets all squiggly see
that’s really what success looks like
what this guy did over here was he
persisted this guy is in a fantasy
there’s a fantasy it’s not how it works
okay see right now a guy decides over
the summer
hey man I’m going to I’m going to get
this job this summer and I’m gonna make
some money this summer and then he gets
distracted by the first squiggly I don’t
know what he’s doing he’s squiggling off
because he’s not focused on his success
he’s squiggles you ever used this term
squiggle yeah man I’m doing a squiggle
you know I’m going to go out and hang
out with the guys this weekend it’s a
squiggle it’s all path off purpose off
potential and so he ends up in a bunch
of loops over here most people get stuck
in loops I did it when I got out of high
school I was in a lot of trouble didn’t
have any focus wasn’t fulfilling my
potential was distracted didn’t have a
coach didn’t have an older brother
didn’t have a father lost what am i
doing okay don’t know where I’m going I
know I got this potential it’s sitting
there inside of me it’s a little candle
burning I know it’s there I hadn’t quite
put it out when I was 20 years old but
it was it was low any of you ever been
there
what am I doing every day man why am I
getting up every day why am I going to
school I didn’t know why I was going to
school I was just going to school I was
just doing school I didn’t even want to
go to school
see I’m squiggling around okay if you
persist and stay focus and surround
yourself with other people that persist
is they focused who knows maybe you’ll
come out the other end two types of
people what are they able to get what
they want have the life they want and
everybody else okay so look here’s the
four degrees of action this is what I’m
going to challenge you to do this summer
number one do nothing everybody in the
room has done that before how many room
have done nothing before okay
you think you have actually number one
doesn’t exist
number two is to retreat okay I’ll
explain all these these are the four
actions you’re going to take this summer
to do nothing sit around and do nothing
number two to retreat to backup okay you
ever retreat you ever retreat anybody
remember retreat no retreat back up I’m
going back up
hey man I need to study right now and
then you decide not to study what is
that let’s back it up
that’s retreating okay you do that all
the time okay hey man I’m going to go
I’m going to help my mom out I’m gonna
help my mom out man oh no I ain’t I’m
gonna help my little brother out no I’m
not you’re going to retreat that’s an
action backing up as an action number
three is normal normal levels of
activity people just do what is ever
expected of them normal I’m going to
show up for class I’m going to sit in
class for 15 minutes I’m going to act
like I’m paying attention but hey come
on let’s keep it real on squiggling I’m
squiggling in the classroom I’m over
here I’m over there I’m over there I’m
not learning I’m not reading I’m not
studying I’m not preparing I’m on a
squiggle serious squiggle how many been
on a serious squiggle doing normal the
whole world is doing number three and
number four is massive massive levels of
activity massive tremendous amounts of
activity is where successful is okay
which one of those four do you think is
the most dangerous
huh number four he thinks number four is
dangerous I like that dude now he’s
gonna pick number one let’s go for
number one now
okay okay number one is impossible you
actually don’t do number one unless
you’re in a coma you passed out on the
sidewalk you’re doing number one okay
most of the time you do a number two
number three or number four okay the
most dangerous of all those is number
three normal normal levels of activity
you showed up for practice and you just
did the practice okay number two people
do constantly particularly in schools
they back up from an activity they wait
for the teacher to do something or the
coach to do something
Reza’s been jumping in say hey I’m here
I’m going to dominate this space well
where do you like better compete or
dominate do you want to dominate you
don’t want to compete in a space you
want to own a space so the way to do
that is number four massive levels of
activity some people think number four
is actually dangerous but I’m going to
suggest for you to be dangerous find
something you love man and do it own it
control it take massive levels of
activity with it people people tell me
dude man you got you got you’ve got some
problems man constantly I had a guy tell
me three days ago
do you got problems man I said really
what what are my problems you’re
obsessive-compulsive a DD any any of you
to remember and label those things you
got attention deficit disorder you got
you got what is it OCD what does it call
obsessive-compulsive disorder I’m like
bro I ain’t got a problem
yeah man you got compulsive obsessive
disorder I’m like dude that’s a gift I
got gifts my brother I have been blessed
by the great God to the universe with
obsessive
I am obsessed with my success with my
family success that’s not a disease let
me tell you the disease right there is
number three number three is the disease
number three is an epidemic in this
country you’re going to school with kids
that are just average rather than saying
– I demand greatness in my life I want
success massive action when you decide
this summer to take massive action for
the next how many months how long with
summer okay you’ve got three weeks guys
if you take three weeks and say hey I
want new problems for the next three
weeks new problems you know what a new
problem is big juicy problems
most people want want nothing to do with
a problem right they like leave problems
alone look you want big new problems
juicy problems for the next three weeks
if your body hurt more than it hurt
yesterday that would be a new problem
would that be a good problem or a bad
problem means you’re working right okay
you want new problems I want I want I
want to experience bigger problems
number two criticized by your peers the
moment I take massive action I’m going
to be criticized by the people I’m
showing up early I’m staying late what
are the average people going to say
you’re a freak
please call me a super freak okay number
three I’d actually be promoted into the
cycle if I was taking massive action
it’s a guaranteed I’m just showing you
guaranteed ways to be that first group
of people what’s the first group they
get whatever they want you want to get
whatever you want in your life go get
you massive action get new problems get
promoted you’ll be more inspired you
want to have goals so big you want to
have goals so big that your your
problems pale in comparison how many of
you got problems in your life everybody
in the room I’m going to suggest to you
that you get you get you get your focus
on where you’re going your potential
where you want to go get that focus so
big that your problems are smaller
here’s the deal if you have a tension on
your problems your goals aren’t big
enough if you have a tension on any
problem you have in your life it is
because your goals aren’t big enough how
many how many of you wrote your goals
down this morning anybody in the room
how about yesterday good how about this
week
I’ll write my goal is down every morning
and every night
okay every morning when I wake up pull
out a legal pad hey where am I going in
my life where am I going what do I want
to do what kind of life do I want for my
family what kind of life and how much
money do I want
do I want to own a private jet would I
like to have a helicopter what I like to
have a big boat okay what do I want for
my kids every morning I wake up and the
first thing I do is I write down my
goals before I go to sleep at night I
write down my goals every time I lose in
life every time I lose every time I’m
defeated I write my goals down why do I
want to do that why would that be
beneficial to me it motivates me it puts
my attention on where I’m going not
where I’m at let’s say let’s say I’m
working a deal
I just finished working a deal and I was
defeated in the deal do I want my
attention on the defeat or do I want my
attention on where I’m going
I want my attention on where I’m going
so I pulled my legal pad out I don’t
look at the defeat I look at hey where
am I going where do I want to go in life
when is my destination if you’ve ever
been in a car a windchill in a car is
that big right
how BIG’s a rear-view mirror it’s about
that big why you think that is because
you want your attention on the future on
the potential on where I’m going
oh my goals so a couple things I’d like
you to do when you leave here number one
how many of you like the idea of writing
your goals down every day
this isn’t homework your teachers going
to give you okay
hey I wake up in the morning where am I
going I don’t care how big it is man
I want a billion dollars okay I want the
hottest chick in the universe
I want Maxim top five whatever you want
I don’t care what it is I want a little
boy I don’t know whatever you want there
your goals okay
you want goals that are giant folks you
want goals that are so big so big that
every day you wake up and you’re excited
and the reason I wasn’t excited when I
was your age was because nobody was
telling me man have some goals man
because if you don’t have your own goals
this is what you’re going to do you’re
going to spend your whole life making
somebody else’s dreams come true two
types of people people to get what they
want and have the life they want and
everyone else okay so again we gave you
some gifts here okay first of all you’re
going to see some wristbands it’s a red
wristband and there’s a blue wristband
how many of you have both good okay this
is a little post card called success the
success is your duty obligation and
responsibility this card was written
because we I see most people going after
success like it doesn’t matter you know
you got friends that say whatever you
use this term whatever you know I like
like I don’t care let me tell you
something if you don’t care if you think
success doesn’t matter you will not
happen if success matters to you if
success becomes something like I have to
have that I am obsessed with the idea of
success in my life whether it’s in the
classroom on the playing field or out
there in the real world because folks
the truth is the playing field in the
classroom I’m going to last a little
while okay it’s going to be the next 50
or 60 years of your life that you get to
decide hey what are you going to really
do and what you’re doing right now is
going to determine where you’re going to
be in a year two years three years five
years so I’m going to ask you a question
here I want you to think about what you
would like not to do in your life what
would you like not to do
okay but like like what would be a job
that you would hate to do in your life
what garbage man he would hate to be a
garbage man okay yes sir do against
again working for somebody else period
cutting grass he doesn’t want to cut
grass okay what else working at
McDonald’s janitor okay so we got five
people I’m going to howl to you he’s
going to be a janitor for the next 60
years what is it you didn’t want to do
McDonald’s he’s going to work in
McDonald’s and package McNuggets for the
next fifty four years and then die
okay who else you wanted you didn’t want
to what he he’s going to be he’s going
to work for other people his whole life
okay his entire life he will be stuck
and every one of his bosses is going to
be an ass okay would you someone to do
dude this guy’s going to be cutting
grass he’s allergic to grass and he’s
going to be cutting it every day bagging
it putting it in bags he doesn’t want to
be a stripper nobody else wants you to
be a stripper either bro
okay touch me please please don’t do
that to any of its okay I guess
you’re one guy but I don’t want to take
massive action okay please okay my man’s
gonna be a stripper okay he learned the
game pretty quick there that I didn’t
he’s like okay I’m a Pixum I don’t want
to be he’s going to give it to me then
boom that’s what I’m gonna do for the
rest of my life you’re a very
intelligent man sir okay
probably a genius sitting with us right
there you don’t know what a genius looks
like y’all know what a genius looks like
you don’t know let me tell you something
every most of them look like freaks okay
every geniuses has ever walked this
planet
what’s criticized because what happen
every genius every one of them had new
problems they were criticized by their
peers they were later promoted and they
became inspiration to other people you
don’t know what they look like they come
in all different packages and there’s
some brilliant people in this room right
here the question is will you take
enough action because if you don’t take
enough action if you don’t take enough
focused action that it’s positive to
your potential consistent with who you
are and where you want to go if you
don’t do that you’re going to end up
being everybody else my goals I’m right
my right my ghost and everyone I don’t
want to work for anybody else I want to
work for my goals I don’t want to work
for a person I want to work for my goals
I want to work for my dreams man
everything I’m doing every day like I’m
driving I’m flying to Los Angeles today
okay I’m not flying to Los Angeles
because I want to go to Los Angeles I’m
going I don’t even want to do what I’m
doing in Los Angeles but I’m doing it to
invest in my future the things I’m not
talking about money now I’m talking
about my potential this is what you
should walk away with today the gap the
gap is the difference between where you
are where you sit right now and what and
where you want to be and everybody’s got
a potential right everybody your rooms
got a potential on a scale from one to
ten what are you right now what would
you give yourself
your potentials attend but – okay what
else maybe he’s being honest see you
don’t know what my potential is people
have told me my whole life man you’re
doing great man
you’re doing great you did this TV show
you did this radio show you got this
thing going on you but you know you’re
doing well in life I’m like how do you
know how do you know if I’m doing well
and they’re like what do you mean man I
can tell you’re doing well I said you
don’t know man you don’t know what my
potential is I was speaking to a group
at Google and uh up in New York and they
were like man you’re so confident you
don’t know that yeah man you look
confident I look confident but you don’t
know if I am or not right do you know
what’s inside of me you don’t know on a
scale from one to ten what are you right
now
good man you don’t know you need to put
a number on it man
you should be putting the nut you should
be calibrating all the time I’m a four
right now I’m a five right now I’m a
three right now I’m a seven right now
okay and I don’t care what you are I did
all you want to do is focus on the gap
the gap is where your motivation is if
you have any motivation it’s by staying
focused on the gap the difference
between where you are and where you want
to be okay
this says success is your duty it should
say success is my duty okay it’s going
to go in your locker or wherever you
want it to go in your life on the back
of it you can turn it around there’s a
pledge okay look at it can you guys read
on a scale from one to ten what kind of
reader are you maybe an eighth okay
eight point five uses an eight point
five and he wants to be a stripper okay
wow wow wow wow wow wow wow okay let me
go ahead and give you this right now –
okay this says your greatness don’t
fight it all right on the back of it it
says do you haven’t read this one it
says it says I am obsessed I am not like
others I do what others refuse to do I
must control my destiny
I am never satisfied I cannot settle I
rise well to sleep I refused to quit I’m
driven to succeed and I’m a role model
for others okay we’re going to give
everybody a copy of this one it says I
am greatness don’t fight it everybody in
the room has greatness in it okay quit
fighting it man don’t be a stripper
either all right
this one says success pledge just says I
pledge a commitment to my success I try
that
I pledged a commitment to my success
i’ma doing than you do it okay I pledge
a commitment to my success my family
success and to the successful survival
of the company I represent success is
not an option for me but something I
insist upon achieving success is not
something others can give me nor is it
something the government or the economy
can provide me success is not determined
by luck chance race creed color or
religion but it’s dependent upon hard
work creativity follow-through and
persistence I refuse not to have my
success I refuse to quit prior to
achieving my success and I will do
everything epic ‘el in claiming my right
– my success my success is my duty my
obligation and my responsibility
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