Life will knock you between the eyes. It will catch you on the blind side, come out of nowhere, stuff you can't anticipate. That will knock the wind out of you, you wanna give up. It's gonna be very challenging, whenever you decide that you wanna grow, whenever you decide that you wanna go to another level, all hell will break loose. It's hard. It's not easy. It's hard changing your life. And here's what I wanna say to you, for those of you that have experienced some hardships, don't give up on your dream. There are moments when you're going to doubt yourself. The rough times are gonna come but they have not come to stay, they have come to pass. We all go through problems, they don't have to overwhelm you though. Problems don't have to take you out though. Problems don't have to make you miserable though. And your problem is you go back and run in your safety net, "I can't do it, help." And you're gonna be running into it fo...

Life can throw you some curves. And it's not just the things that you see coming, but sometimes it's the things you didn't see coming that hits you out of nowhere that sets you back in such a way that it seems like you can't get over it. And you've reached your limit. And your bandwidth is full. You already said, I can't take another thing, and then out of nowhere, here comes something you didn't see coming, and you're in it. And in your homes, somewhere in your heart, these words are echoing: Am I gonna make it? When you get into a tight spot, and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then. For that is just the space in time that the tide will turn. There are times when your energy feels so depleted, that you wanna give up, that it looks just totally impossible, and I can tell you from my own personal experience, don't give up then. That's when you've got to fall forward, when l...

I wanna encourage somebody out there who's thinking about quitting, you're thinking about giving up, this is for you. You're going through a tough time. Maybe you're walking through real depression, maybe you are in a valley today that you've experienced the worst failure of your life and you are on the verge of giving up. Maybe you're here today and your marriage is on the rocks, maybe you're here today and you're dealing with anxiety on a daily basis. You know what it's like to be in a lonely, dark place, you know what it's like to wanna quit, you know what it's like when the pressure's overwhelming, when people expect your best but you're at your worst. That is a moment of choice. That is a moment of decision. What will your response be? Are you gonna sit back or are you gonna step up? Don't give up. Don't give up. Stay in it. Stay focused. Adversity creates the perfect moment for audacity. It's in your adversity, the t...

We all get knocked down in every aspect of life. You're gonna fall flat on your face, you're gonna be criticized when you come out into the arena called life. You're gonna feel awkward and stupid and dumb sometimes. But it's okay. It goes with the territory. You got to get messed up sometimes. You gotta get dirty, you gotta get your feelings hurt, you gotta get disappointed, you gotta get told no, you gonna ask somebody for some money, he gonna tell you no. That's just dirt. See, you get tripped out 'cause you got dirt on you. But you need dirt on you to develop. Because dirt ain't just dirt. Dirt is fertilizer. Dirt is nutrients. Dirt gives you the strength for your seed to push through. See, you gotta have dirt on you to push through something. Everything you see that's beautiful starts out as a seed, but that seed got to get dirt on it. See, you get mad when haters come your way, you get mad 'cause you get a setback, you get mad 'cause you get...

Most of the time we don't have someone there to keep us in line, to make us do push-ups, and give us a good swift kick in the ass when we slack off. What we have to do is we have to be our own sergeant. To hold the highest standards and allow no slack. Your problem is you start something, you stop it, you start something, you stop it, you feel good, you do it, you don't feel good, you quit. People who do stuff consistently and on time, they surpass people who talented and gifted. All men are created equal. Some just work harder. And the problem with some of y'all, is you want somebody else to support your dream. It's yours. I don't owe you a dime. It's your dream. If you're going to have it, get your butt up and make it happen. If you're going to have it, rise and grind. If you're going to have it, you're gonna have to do what I do and that's get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, and you're gonna have to act like you got all the energy ...

No one said that the path is gonna be easy. And it's not. We know life is rough and we know there will be pain, and whether that pain is at the hands of an enemy or at the hands of nature or time or disease, there will be pain. That's the way life is. you have been disappointed over and over and over again. And every time you try nobody notices. And every time you try you come up short. Sickness is cyclical. It comes around, it goes around. You're well for a little while, and then it's the same thing all over again but this time it's only worse. Because now, not only are you back where you started, but you have less hope that it is ever going to be different because you've cycled through it one more time just to realize, well I guess I'm just a cynical person. Well I guess I'm just a negative person. I guess nobody in my family was meant to go to college. Sickness becomes normal to you. And it starts to be easier for you to just accept the condition then...

What is the common denominator of failure? Why are you failing? You never say because of me. "Oh it's the competition. It's the economy. It's the president. It's congress." If you wake up tomorrow morning and blame your failure on someone or something else, you have no reason to change, do you? But if woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror and said, I am failing because of me. The decisions that I make, the energy I put in. I'm not passing the blame. If you look in the mirror tomorrow and say that, you will change. 'Cause nobody likes thinking of themselves as a failure. Winners win and losers lose. And if you create a culture of losing, if you keep being a victim, if you keep letting losing happen to you, if you keep letting people do you and treat you any kind of way, it's gonna become a culture. Take ownership. Take ownership of everything in your world, the good and the bad. Don't make excuses, don't blame any other person or a...

Life is a war. And there are people out there, and there are things out there that are trying to take you down. Things are gonna go wrong. And when things go wrong, it's pretty easy just to say you know what? I'm gonna stand down, or I'm gonna give up. And you can do that. But I think no. I think no, I think keep fighting. And you keep fighting, and you keep fighting, and you keep fighting no matter what. And you never quit. You never never quit. And if you feel like your life is in a place where you can't get any lower, and you don't think you can find any way out, good. Cause that means the ultimate challenge is ahead of you, it means you can only go up. And it also means that things are gonna be tough. Things are gonna be tougher than anything you can imagine, but that storm that you're in, from your perspective, it seems like that storm is enveloping the whole world. But I am telling you it is not. The storm that you're in, it is hard to see out of that ...

Do you know how many people have had visions, ideas, and huge career moves that they were about to make, and they allowed the word "no" to stop them. When you make the decision to do what you wanna do with your life, just know this, because the family and the friends in your life do not share your vision, in most cases, they will be the first person to try and talk you out of what you wanna do with your life. But know this, only those that can see the invisible can do the impossible. People that don't have any dreams for themselves, they tend to be dream killers. They'll laugh at you, they'll call you names, because they have no dreams. They have no hunger for success. They don't have an appetite. They don't want it. Most people go through life holding back. If you get into the habit of just being mediocre, it will become a part of your consciousness. If you get in the habit of giving less than what you have within you to give, It will begin to reflect its...

If the lion is the king of the jungle, how can he be the king of the jungle? If he's not the biggest, the elephant is probably one of the biggest. He can't be the fastest 'cause that's the cheetah. He can't be the smartest. So he's not the biggest, the fastest or the smartest. So how does a lion become the king of the jungle? His mentality. That's the only difference of a lion and an elephant. When a lion walks up and sees a elephant he thinks lunch. A elephant thinks run. And it's all mentality. Because when a male lion walks up, he may be outnumbered by a pack of hyenas, but I'm king of my jungle because of my mentality. What happens when you're a gazelle and you're not being pushed, you're not being prodded, you're not given a reward, nobody's encouraging you, what happens when you're a gazelle and the lion's not chasing you anymore? You stop running. But what happens when you're a lion? When you're a lion it do...

You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but I will not be outworked. Period. It's such a simple, basic concept. It's the guy who is willing to hustle the most is gonna be the guy who just gets that loose ball. There's only one thing you cannot purchase, there's only one thing you cannot buy, and that's what real beasts do. That's something you're gonna have to do. You gotta put more energy and you gotta put more effort in your stuff than anybody. So you're getting up at 4 and it ain't working, get up at 3:30. So you read the book once and you didn't get it, read it twice, read it three times. If a person leaves at 6, you leave at 8. If a person makes 100 calls a day, you make 200 calls a day. If somebody practices 3 hours, you practice 5 hours. If somebody practices 6 hours, you practice 8 hours. If someone reads 2 books, you read 4 books. Just do a little bit more. Because there's somebody out there that wants your ...

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...