People have this reoccurring nightmare, that there's some thing, some force that's got a hold of them and it's holding them down, and they can't break free, no matter what they do, they can't break free from that force. Well I'm here to tell you that that thing in your nightmare, that thing that is holding you back, that thing that is dragging you down, that thing is you. There are two fundamental attitudes toward life and its sorrows. Those with the first attitude, blame the world. Those with the second, ask what they could do differently. It's much easier and much more gratifying to your basis desires to blame someone else for your misery. You know what's so funny? We want people to make guarantees to us, But we not willing to make guarantees to ourselves. And that's the problem with some of you, you always want to blame other people. You owe you an explanation. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say, "Why are you only giving 50%? ...

Every day in Africa in the Safari a lion wakes up. And every single day in the Safari a gazelle wakes up. Now, this is critical, what's the difference between a gazelle and what's the difference between a lion? What I discovered is the gazelle is running from something. So as long as the lion is chasing the gazelle, the gazelle is running. But as soon as the lion stops chasing the gazelle, it stops. And that's a lot of you in this room. You'll run, you'll do what you're supposed to do, as long as you're getting pushed, as long as you're getting motivated, as long as somebody is encouraging you, as long as somebody's coaching you, as long as somebody's pushing you, as long as somebody's prodding you, you're doing what you're supposed to do. As long as somebody's calling you, as long as someone's enticing you, as long as somebody's giving you rewards, you're moving. But as soon as that stops, you stop. And I ask myself t...

Those days that you don't wanna do anything, where you're too tired, too sore, you just don't feel like it, those days, those are the days that count. When you have those feelings, it's even more important to step up and get some. If you got something to do, don't put it off until tomorrow. Don't do that. Don't voluntarily do anything tomorrow that you should be getting done today, get it done today. Don't wait. Attack it, destroy it, and move on. Stop waiting for something to move you and move yourself. You're your biggest problem.  Everything is external that moves you. Now I want you to start moving yourself internally. I want you to be able to push your buttons, and not let anything else push your buttons. You gotta move you. Every single day. If you get to a point in your day and you're down and out, if you get to a point in your day and you're exhausted, you get to a point in your day and you're not feeling it, you can stop right th...

Some of you are in the darkest of darkest valleys. I don't know what you're going through, but I know what you need. Hope. I want you to know that beautiful things can come from your broken pieces when you give your broken pieces a chance. It is okay to be scared, it is okay to cry, but giving up is not. I just want you to know that it's not the end. It matters how you're gonna finish. I don't care how dark it look for you, I don't care what they said to you, I don't care what the verdict is, I don't care what the haters say. It ain't over. No matter what happens to you, it ain't over. Ain't no such a thing as over. Do you know man that you can actually mess your life completely up, you can jack it all the way up, and you can turn around and get it right? Do you know that you can be divorced multiple times and still be okay?  Do you understand that you can not have a degree and still be just fine? Now whatever you've been through, whateve...

In any area of your life that you wanna change, there's one fact that you need to know: You're never gonna feel like it. There's those of you in this room, you're average, you have no business being average, but now you've justified it. You've come up with these great reasons of why you can't wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning. You've come up with these great reasons why you can't get up at 5. You have these great reasons of why you half do everything, why you don't execute, why you don't finish, why you don't follow through, why you say you'll exercise and you do it for about 10 days and you quit. You've got an excuse for why you're average. Think about the things that you tell yourself, the lies you use to rationalize taking the easy road. You don't have time. You don't have support. You don't know the best way.  You're too busy. And you're too tired or you're too sore or you're just plain no...

It isn't in a war, it isn't in a battle, it isn't in a melee of fire and destruction that most of us circum to weakness. We are taken apart slowly. Convinced to take an easier path. Enticed by comfort. Most of us aren't defeated in one decisive battle, we are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be. It isn't that you wake up one day and decide that's it, I'm going to be weak. No. It is a slow incremental process. It chips away at our will, it chips away at our discipline. We sleep in a little later. We miss a workout, then another. We start to each what we shouldn't eat and drink what we shouldn't drink. And without realizing it, one day you wake up and you've become something that you never would have allowed. So you have to be vigilant. You have to be on guard.  You have to hold the line on the seemingly insignificant little things, things that shouldn't matter, but things th...

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but you will not outwork me. This top spot, this number one, that's mine. Because not one of you can outwill me. You may have been born with more genetic prowess than I have, but you cannot outdetermine me. You can't outwill me. You can't outwant me. You can't outwork me. You can't outdesire me. The bigger your dream is, the harder the grind. Some of you in this room, you might have small beginnings. You might not have a lot of money, you might not have a lot of resources, but there's no excuse. And I need you to understand that the bigger your dream is, the earlier you're gonna have to get up, the longer you're gonna have to stay up, the more effort you're gonna have to put in. You know how hard I work to get here? I put in too many hours.  I sweat too much blood, too much tears, I worked hard to get here. Didn't nobody give me this. I didn't grow up...

There's 86,400 seconds in a day. The separator between me and you and people that win and lose is what we do with those seconds. You wanna win? You wanna be a millionaire? You gotta quit being so casual. You walk slow, you talk slow, you implement things slow, you talk a good game like you're gonna be somebody. Wake up. You're gonna get your ass kicked dude. You gotta get focussed and get in a hurry. The separator is gonna be who takes massive action quickly. And that's why most people never realize their personal greatness, because they're casual about life. And when you're casual about life, you will end up a casualty. You've got to develop a sense of urgency.  Start working and developing yourself now and prepare yourself for what it is that you want, because you expect to get it. You meet somebody wealthy, their family at one point was not wealthy. And then the one shows up. The one. One person changes the family tree forever, in my family I'm the on...

You're gonna have sometimes low moments when you won't wanna get out of bed. You just wanna stay there. At times you won't wanna come out of the house. It's hard living. Life is hard. It's hard handling just the tragedies of life. It's hard. When you're working on something and you put everything you have in it and it doesn't work out, you lose your money and other people's money. It's hard. You will go through things, and while you're going through them, you can't understand why it's happening to you. And it's in these moments right now that so often we feel like backing down. What is it that will make it worth it for you to face the rejections? What is it that will make it worth it for you to brainstorm and not be intimidated and say, I can do this?  What is it that will make it worth it for you to raise the bar on yourself and say, I got some more stuff in me? What is it that will make it for you when you wanna give up and thin...

What are you gonna do to get better today? Today, not tomorrow, not next week, not next year when you think you're gonna have plenty of time to do what you want, get your priorities straight. That's not gonna happen. And it's definitely not gonna happen if you don't start putting in the work today. Nobody's gonna lift the weights for you, nobody's gonna do the pull ups for you, nobody's gonna go out and put in the road work for you. You gotta do all that yourself.  Quit waiting for the perfect time, Quit waiting for the perfect situation to occur, it's not gonna happen. You wanna know when the time is right? The time is right now. So what are you doing with your time? Are you doing something productive? Are you moving towards your goal? Making yourself better? Or are you letting time slip by wasted? Stop wasting time and get after it. You cannot stop. Rest if you must, but you cannot stop and question your circumstance and situation so much so, that whil...

What do you do when it seems like suffering won't stop? What do you do when it feels like your pain doesn't have a point? What does it do when it feels like your weakness continue to worsen? Maybe you've taken a knockdown concerning your finances lately, maybe it's with your kids, maybe with your marriage, maybe with your health, maybe some other arena of life. You're laying on the mat gasping and you don't know what you're gonna do. People ask you how you are and you say fine but you're not fine, and they'll never know that. We're people. We're people, and we struggle, and we suffer, and we bleed, and we cry, and if you think that true strength means never showing any weakness, then I'm here to tell you you're wrong. You're wrong because it's the opposite. You're gonna get depressed sometimes. You're gonna have weeks where you don't feel like eating. Or gravity is working overtime like it's afraid of getting l...

Let me tell you something you already know, the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. At some point, everything is gonna go south on you. Everything's gonna go south and you're gonna say this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That's all it is.  You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem, then you solve the next one. Whatever drama you may be dealing with, this is not the end of you. No matter what it is, it is not the end. You can't quit now. And the only way out is through. I hope you know that our world wants to put some labels on you. Our world wants to try and tell you who you are. But you can't listen to the world. You can't have a faith that's dictated by the world, you gotta have a faith that dictates this world. The enemy's gonna ...

At some point if you live in this life, you're gonna face disappointment, you're gonna face defeat, you're gonna face devastation. Some bad things are gonna happen to you. That's life. You're gonna get some setbacks. You're gonna lose some loved ones. I don't care who you are, I don't care what you do, at some time you are going to get tired. At some time you are going to get in a rut, seem like nothing you do works out right. At some times it just seems like you just don't have the wherewithal or the will to do anything. And depressed. Feeling powerless. Feeling useless. What do you do? How do you get yourself out of a rut? When you know you can do more than what you've been doing and you're not doing it, and you're discontent with where you are, you get angry at yourself. We have all these new thoughts that come about, you start saying to yourself, I'm so alone. Nobody understands me. nobody gets me. I'm the only one to ever go ...

It's very, very simple to get what you want, but it's not easy. It's your job to make yourself do the crap you don't wanna do, so you can be everything that you're supposed to be. And you're so damn busy waiting to feel like it. And you're never going to. Ever. No one's coming. No one. No one's coming to push you, no one's coming to tell you to turn the TV off, no one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise, nobody's coming to tell you to apply for that job that you've always dreamt about. Nobody's coming to write the business plan for you. It's up to you. And because you're only ever gonna do the things that you feel like doing right now or that feel good right now, unless you understand that you've got to parent yourself, you gotta push yourself, you're not gonna make your dreams come true.  If you wanna live your best life, your absolutely best life, you gotta do me a huge favor, you gotta watch th...

There's nobody, nobody in the world has lied to me more than me. How many times do you tell yourself, it's gonna be different this year? How many times have you started the diet saying, oh this is my year, I'm gonna start this year strong, I'm going to the gym, I'm gonna eat right. Two weeks later, what did you do? You lied to yourself. Real talk, most of y'all aren't gonna do a f*cking thing. And you're gonna be mad at me 'cause I f*cking said it, when in reality you should be mad at yourself because 2 years ago you said sh*t, last year you said sh*t, this year you're saying sh*t, and next year you're gonna be saying the same sh*t. How 'bout this for 2021, we look ourselves in the mirror and we tell ourselves the truth. We look at our lives and we tell ourselves the truth. The truth is this, it's very simple, you're either doing it or you're not doing it. You either been executing or you haven't been executing. You either...

You got the little voices in your head, and you know what they're saying? They're saying, it's okay. You've done enough. Take a little rest. That's fine. You can take the day off. You don't need to go hard. That what those little voices are saying. But you got another voice in your head that's asking you a question, it's asking you what could you be? What could you be? What could you be if you worked as hard as you could? What could you be if you imposed real discipline in your life? What could you be? I say you crank up the volume on that voice, crank up the volume on that question, max it out. So easy to put things off, so easy to say you're gonna do it tomorrow.  Well I want you to reprogram your brain and tell yourself that tomorrow is not a viable option. Tomorrow doesn't work. You do it today, you get it done today. That's what you do. Too tired, too hungry, too sore, too hot, too cold, too whatever. Stop rationalizing, stop making excu...

Everybody wants the prize, but nobody loves the process. Everybody wants to be a champion, but nobody's willing to put in the work that it takes to be a champion. Everybody wants to hold up the trophy and say, man I did it, but nobody's willing to put in the work that it takes to do it. I love the process. I love the thought of working for what I want. And I firmly believe you're never supposed to wish for it more than you're willing to work for it.  Your expectations are never supposed to exceed your effort. But a lot of people, they wish and they're not willing to work. And the great thing about life, life has a funny way of testing all of us and seeing how bad we really want what it is that we say we want. What if you get weak along the way? And you throw in the towel on yourself, you surrender to your emotions, what then? A lot of people become discouraged, they become frustrated, and they say oh, what the heck. And they go back to doing what they were doing bef...

Every decision that you make has consequences. Are you making yourself better or are you making yourself worse? Are you moving forward or are you moving back? Are you making progress or are you stagnating? Every little decision you make counts. There are no shortcuts, there are no hacks. If you wanna take the easy road, I promise you it's longer and more painful than the hard road. If you set out and you say you gonna do something, do yourself a favor and don't lie to yourself. Because that is the worst thing that a individual can ever do.  You think you're lying to your peers, you think you're lying to your mother, you think you're lying to your teacher, you think you're lying to your coach, at the end of the day when you look in the mirror, you lying to you. In 10 years from now, nobody can do anything for you, that's gonna be the life that you created, not anybody else. You make your bed, you gotta lay in it. Let other people blame their parents, their bo...

The following are true stories. May 26, 2003, Aron Ralston was hiking, a boulder fell on his right hand. He waited four days, then he amputated his own arm with a pocket knife. On New Year's Eve, a woman was bungee jumping in Zimbabwe, the cord broke, she then fell into a river and had to swim back to land in crocodile infested waters with a broken collarbone. The most amazing part of these stories is when asked about the experience, they all smiled, shrugged and said, I guess things could've been worse.  When your day is a museum of disappointments hanging from events that were outside of your control, when you find yourself flailing in an ocean of why is this happening to me, when it feels like your guardian angel put in his 2 week notice 2 months ago and just decided not to tell you, when it feels like God is a babysitter that's always on the phone, when you get punched in the esophagus by a fist full of life, remember, that you will survive, remember, things could be wo...

I wanna introduce y'all to this very simple concept. It's a very simple concept. If you want it, you gotta go get it. It's time to stay focused. It's time to decide f*ck clubs, f*ck partying, f*ck trying to fit in and socialize, rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. "Why are you so anti-social?" Because I'm trying to get it. "Why are you staying on the basketball court so much?" Because I'm trying to get it. "Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun when ain't nobody else out there?" Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing, like every time I text you and invite you to go do something fun and cool, you're always studying?" Because I'm trying to get it. The more weird you are, is a reflection of how committed you are to focussing on your sh*t, molding, and shaping, and developing your ideas and your craft, so that when it's time for you to make your rounds, you...